Introduction To System Administrator And It Infrastructure

Choosing hardware, vendors, and services for your organization , most common infrastructure services that keep an org

What you'll learn

utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for your organization

understand how the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization running work, and how to manage infrastructure servers

manage an organization’s computers and users using the directory services, Active Directory, and OpenLDAP

choose and manage the tools that your organization will use

backup your organization’s data and know how to recover your IT infrastructure in the case of a disaster

utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments

understand how to make the most of the cloud for your organization

Requirements

no programing experience need , you can learn what you needed

Description

This course will transition you from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, you’ll learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We’ll deep dive on cloud so that you’ll understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. You'll also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, you’ll learn how to recover your organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. By the end of this course you’ll be able to: ● utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for your organization ● understand how the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization running work, and how to manage infrastructure servers ● understand how to make the most of the cloud for your organization ● manage an organization’s computers and users using the directory services, Active Directory, and OpenLDAP ● choose and manage the tools that your organization will use ● backup your organization’s data and know how to recover your IT infrastructure in the case of a disaster ● utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Lecture 2 Meet and Greet

Section 2: What is system administration?

Lecture 3 What is system administration?

Lecture 4 Server Revisited

Lecture 5 The Cloud

Section 3: System administration Tasks

Lecture 6 Organizational polices

Lecture 7 IT Infrastructure Services

Lecture 8 User and Hardware Provisioning

Lecture 9 Routine Maintenance

Lecture 10 Vendors

Lecture 11 Vendor Life-Cycle for Custom Services and Products

Lecture 12 Vendor Life-Cycle for Support of Commercial Products

Lecture 13 Troubleshooting and Managing Issues

Lecture 14 In Case of Fire, Break Glass

Lecture 15 Dion: My Michelle Obama story

Section 4: Applying Changes

Lecture 16 with Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Lecture 17 Change Management

Lecture 18 Recording Your Actions

Lecture 19 Never Test in Production

Lecture 20 Assigning Risk

Lecture 21 Fixing Things the Right Way

Lecture 22 Module 1 Glossary

Section 5: Intro to IT infrastructure Services

Lecture 23 What are IT Infrastructure Services?

Lecture 24 The Role of IT Infrastructure Services in SysAdmin

Lecture 25 Types of IT Infrastructure Services

Lecture 26 Supplemental Reading for IT Infrastructure Services

Lecture 27 Heather: My first job in tech

Section 6: Physical Infrastructure Services

Lecture 28 Server Operating Systems

Lecture 29 Supplemental Reading for Server Operating Systems

Lecture 30 Virtualization

Lecture 31 Remote Access Revisited

Lecture 32 Remote Connections

Lecture 33 Supplemental Reading for Remote Access and SSH

Section 7: Network Services

Lecture 34 FTP, SFTP, and TFTP

Lecture 35 Supplemental Reading for FTP Clients

Lecture 36 NTP

Lecture 37 Network Support Services Revisited

Lecture 38 DNS

Lecture 39 DNS for Web Servers

Lecture 40 DNS for Internal Networks

Lecture 41 Supplemental Reading for BIND/PowerDNS

Lecture 42 DHCP

Section 8: Troubleshooting network services

Lecture 43 Unable to Resolve a Hostname or Domain Name

Section 9: Managing system services

Lecture 44 What do Services Look Like in Action

Lecture 45 Managing Services in Linux

Lecture 46 Managing Services in Windows

Lecture 47 Configuring Services in Linux

Lecture 48 Configuring Services in Windows

Lecture 49 Qwiklabs Introduction

Section 10: Configuring Network Services

Lecture 50 Configuring DNS with Dnsmasq

Lecture 51 Configuring DHCP with Dnsmasq

Lecture 52 Module 2 Glossary

Section 11: Software Services

Lecture 53 Module Introduction

Lecture 54 Communication Services

Lecture 55 Supplemental Reading for Chat Communication Services

Lecture 56 Email Protocols

Lecture 57 Spam Management/Mitigation

Lecture 58 User Productivity Services: Agreements and Licenses

Lecture 59 Web Server Security Protocols

Section 12: File Services

Lecture 60 What are file services?

Lecture 61 Network File Storage

Lecture 62 Mobile Synchronization

Lecture 63 Mobile Synchronization

Section 13: Print Services

Lecture 64 Configuring Print Services

Lecture 65 Print Services

Lecture 66 Supplemental Reading for Print Services

Section 14: Platform Services

Lecture 67 Web Servers Revisited

Lecture 68 Load Balancers

Lecture 69 What is a database server?

Lecture 70 Is the website down?

Section 15: Cloud Concepts

Lecture 71 Cloud Concepts

Lecture 72 Typical Cloud Infrastructure Setups

Lecture 73 Common Cloud Models

Lecture 74 When and How to Choose Cloud

Lecture 75 Managing Cloud Resources

Lecture 76 Module 3 Glossary

Section 16: Introduction to Directory Service

Lecture 77 Module Introduction

Lecture 78 What is a directory server?

Lecture 79 Implementing Directory Services

Section 17: Centralized Management

Lecture 80 What is centralized management?

Lecture 81 Supplemental Reading for Centralized Management

Section 18: LDAP

Lecture 82 What is LDAP?

Lecture 83 What is LDAP Authentication?

Lecture 84 Supplemental Reading for Kerberos

Lecture 85 Heather: Overcoming obstacles

Section 19: Active Directory

Lecture 86 What is Active Directory?

Lecture 87 Supplemental Reading for Active Directory

Lecture 88 Managing Active Directory

Lecture 89 Managing Active Directory Users and Groups

Lecture 90 User Accounts and Groups

Lecture 91 Supplemental Reading for Group Security Principles

Lecture 92 Managing Active Directory User Passwords

Lecture 93 Supplemental Reading for EFS Features

Lecture 94 Joining an Active Directory Domain

Lecture 95 Supplemental Reading for DFL & FFL

Lecture 96 Group Policy: Group Policy Object (GPO)

Lecture 97 Group Policy Creation and Editing

Lecture 98 Group Policy Inheritance and Precedence

Lecture 99 Group Policy Troubleshooting

Lecture 100 Group Policy Troubleshooting: Common Issues

Lecture 101 Supplemental Reading for Group Policy Troubleshooting

Lecture 102 Supplement Reading for Group Policy Troubleshooting Examples

Lecture 103 Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Lecture 104 Supplemental Readings for Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Section 20: OpenLDAP

Lecture 105 What is OpenLDAP?

Lecture 106 Supplemental Reading for OpenLDAP

Lecture 107 Managing OpenLDAP

Lecture 108 Supplemental Reading for Managing OpenLDAP

Lecture 109 Module 4 Glossary

Section 21: Planning Data Recovery

Lecture 110 Module Introduction

Lecture 111 What is Data Recovery?

Lecture 112 Backing Up Your Data

Lecture 113 Backup Solutions

Lecture 114 Supplemental Reading for Backup Solutions

Lecture 115 Job transition

Lecture 116 Backing Up Your Data

Lecture 117 Testing Backups

Lecture 118 Types of Backup

Lecture 119 User Backups

Lecture 120 Backing Up Your Data

Section 22: Disaster Recovery Plan

Lecture 121 What's a Disaster Recovery Plan?

Lecture 122 Designing a Disaster Recovery Plan

Section 23: Post-Mortems

Lecture 123 What's a post-mortem?

Lecture 124 Writing a Post-Mortem

Lecture 125 Interview Role Play: Sys Admin

Lecture 126 Module 5 Glossary

Section 24: Final Project Introduction

Lecture 127 Final Project Introduction

Lecture 128 Course 4 Glossary

This course will transition you from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, you’ll learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We’ll deep dive on cloud so that you’ll understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. You'll also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, you’ll learn how to recover your organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.