Windows Server 2025 Administration
About this Waypoint Ventures course: This 5-day course examines the services and features of Microsoft Windows Server versions from 2019 to 2025, including lessons and lab exercises about key attributes you might need on the job. It’s a comprehensive guide to key areas of administrating contemporary Windows Server editions, and it’s designed for IT professionals seeking one course in which they can learn all Windows Server knowledge and skills with respect to configuring, using, and maintaining it.
The course begins with an overview of administration techniques and continues with topics about identity services, networking, virtualization, high availability, and disaster recovery. This is a comprehensive course that has extensive content and labs, and you’ll find it helpful for exam preparation and as a guide for administering a Windows Server environment.
There are instructor materials available for this course.
Audience profile: This course is for IT professionals who have some experience working with Windows Server and want a course that details the administration of core Windows Server 2025 components and technologies. It also should help server administrators of previous Windows Server versions to update their knowledge and skills with respect to Windows Server 2025.
Why choose this course?
Meticulous content relevance, tailored to Windows Server 2025, sets it apart from competitive courses based on previous versions.
Content on obsolete technology, which is present in competitive versions of the course, has been removed.
All content follows Microsoft best practices for Windows Server administration.
Offers an array of demonstrations that bolster the learning material.
Expert instructional design ensures a superior learning experience.
Labs are developed by Waypoint in parallel with courseware, so they are 100% aligned.
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Students and instructors receive the following:
> The Windows Server 2025 Administration e-Book, which includes:
Lectures and lessons (refer to the Course outline).
An in-depth and fully illustrated eBook.
High-level demonstrations and lab guidance.
Knowledge-check questions at the end of each module.
> The Windows Server 2025 Administration virtual lab, which includes:
16+ hours of digital hands-on labs.
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A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with slides for every topic and knowledge-check questions and answers.
An instructor Get ready guide to support an instructor-led training (ILT) schedule, with lesson planning and lab information.
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Describe Windows Server 2025, its versions, requirements, and deployment techniques.
Describe the concepts and main tools for administering Windows Server.
Deploy domain controllers (DCs) and use the Group Policy mechanism to manage the AD DS environment.
Describe the core networking services in Windows Server, including DHCP, DNS, and IP Address Management (IPAM).
Explain data deduplication, sharing, iSCSI, and Distributed File System (DFS) services.
Describe Hyper-V, options to help secure a virtualization environment, containers, and Kubernetes.
Explain the high availability in Windows Server and the Failover Clustering feature.
Describe the technologies to implement disaster recovery in a Windows Server environment.
Explain the security technologies that address various critical components in a Windows Server environment.
Describe RDS in Windows Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementations.
Describe remote-access technologies for Windows Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) deployment and usage
List the monitoring tools and technologies available in Windows Server.
List the available tools in Windows Server for upgrading and migrating servers, and describe AD DS migration and the upgrade process.
Course number: WS011WV-2025
Course name: Windows Server 2025 Administration
Course technology: Windows Server
Release date: July, 2025
Hours of training: 40 hours
Lab hours: 16+ hours
Lab hoster: XtremeLabs, Skillable, GoDeploy
Content providers: XtremeLabs, Webucator, Logical Operations