Hey @Matthew-Dudek great question! You can accomplish this through a local lab setup, or in the Practice Labs infrastructure as well. It is easier in the PLABS environment for a couple of reasons:

1 - The virtual machines and the infrastructure are setup for you. 2 - The environment can be completely reset, should you make a configuration error, with the click of a button

With PLABS, you can use any of the titles that contains a DC and or a DM (which is most course titles). You can promote the ACI-DM01 or PLAB-DM01 to a DC and integrate DNS with the ADDS. When you are done you can click the Reset button or log out. When you are ready to try again, log in and repeat. This is what I recommend, as a member who has access to our Practice Labs environment.

Alternatively
I also recommend setting up your own local lab environment. You are going to need a few components:

Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition Trial: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022 (Optional) Windows 11 Enterprise Edition Trial: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-11-enterprise A virtualization platform such as Hyper-V: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/ or VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ to run the virtual machines. A 64-bit Windows 11 Client OS (on the host machine, that will provide the lab environment) A Intel or AMD processor with hypervisor capabilities enabled in (BIOS/UEFI)

These are the components needed to run the virtual machines environment on your own PC!

How could the lastLogon and lastLogonTimestamp be a week off?

I have user who has the following:
lastLogon: 9-21-23
lastLogonTimestamp: 9-15-23

Hey @Omar! Great question, we cover the objectives for MD-102 in a skills-based manner. This means that we cover the exam objectives and demonstrate the skills needed to implement the technologies. You can certainly watch MD-100 if you would like to strengthen your knowledge on the skills required to implement Windows in a more traditional on-premises environment. The MD-102 not only covers the objectives on the exam, but also the skills needed to implement the technologies, for a more modern endpoint administrative focus, in a more streamlined approached. If you need help with any of the topics, please reach out to me! Thank you for choosing ACI Learning!

We do not have any specific training on such a specific case. If you're running a Microsoft IIS server, then you may want to check out: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy

Thank you so much Brian! We had a blast on that one!

Hey @Rashard-Adams-0
I think a great start for getting into cybersecurity is the tried-and-true Security+
It has just about all the basics about cybersecurity and you get a nifty industry-standard certification to add to the old resume.

If you're looking to learn more about CVEs then, I would say to follow Wes' advice and check out mitre.

All the best,
Daniel

We do not plan to have anything on the 2012 Configuration Manager as we never had any demand for that product. Today, we probably wouldn't be focused on this product has reached Microsoft's end of support as of 12 July 2022.

I really don't know at this point...it would take some research.

I do not think it would be October as we've got through approximately half of the content...and it is priority. So even if we finished recording it this week. It must still go through post-production and QA and then posted on to the site...I do not have, at this point in time an approximation. I can say August but I cannot guarantee it...as I'm not sure what the backlog is for post-production is in terms of time.

Hey @ziv-baranes, great question. In my opinion, I would recommend AZ-104 as the next logical step and take it before AZ-500. The 104 exam focuses on administering to Azure technologies, the 500 series focuses on securing Azure technologies.

Hi Simon! We certainly did try and hit everything...with that said - pay attention to the ADDITIONAL RESOURCES sections of the Learner Notes for each episode. Here we link to critical documentation that Microsoft likes to generate their exams from! This can always be a big benefit before cert testing with Microsoft.

Thanks so much for the question and enjoy the course! We are standing by to help with anything that is not clear!

We do not have this on our roadmap. We do not have any course that matches up with an architect path so I can't recommend one a course right now that would cover the concepts from that perspective. But, you can do a course request through the chat bubble on our site. This will make sure the request is logged and directed to the right team for consideration.

@Anthony-Sequeira-0 noted and thanks

Matthew, The change was intentional. We have decided to take a more modular approach to recording the content. All 3 shows do cover the exam content together. IF it's not completed yet, it should be soon, that if you were to search for SC-200, that it would bring up all 3 courses.

It looks like it doesn't recognize the name of your virtual switch. See if this cmdletGet-VMSwitch will help you get a name then verify that it matches up with what you've typed.

With offline i mean connect the Disk to another PC. Unfortunately we don't have the Administrator Account Password, so probably the better way is to hack the system to reset the enable the default administrator Account.

Glad you figured it out! hooray for you.

thanks Ronnie... i might just practice the active dir stuff on the sandboxed server labs you offer
congrats on your promotion btw ...you totally deserve it you Rock!

@Beno-Tsintsadze,

So, sometimes this works out exactly as you say. Where labs and lecture line up. We are trying to do better under one company umbrella.

Sometimes, the development of the labs by one team do not get done at the same or the even the same subject matter as who delivered the lecture. The reason for this one because the lab development happen when Practice-Labs were separate company from ITProTV. 2 distinct companies. Today, they are united under the parent company of ACI Learning. So moving forward, our hope and goal is to get these better aligned.

Having said that, these labs especially the older ones may not align that are mapped to our courses because of other business issues. For example, if that it was licensed and provision as it stands now.

Another point you may discover, especially from Microsoft exams, they update their exams and objectives much more frequently than any other vendor in the certification business, which means we cannot iterate as quickly as we only have a limited amount of resources at a given time.

But our goal is to do what you have said.
Thanks for being a member!

What a timely question! Yesterday, we released the first two parts of the AZ-800 instruction. The first course is entitled "Deploy Active Directory for Hybrid Environments", and you need the material in the Hybrid Identities module (Module 5).

What you need is the Azure AD Connect tool. We have several lessons on Azure AD Connect in the Hybrid Identities Module. I suggest watching that entire Module. But we specifically discuss Azure AD Connect starting in the "Examine Azure AD Connect" episode. It is a several step process and will require that you watch multiple episodes. You will need to test your environment to ensure that your accounts will work in Azure, then implement Azure AD Connect, and set up the synchronization (first through a test run and then through a full run).

~Robin Abernathy, Edutainer