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Internet Services Deployment
for Mac OS X Server v10.4

Provide DNS, Web, Mail and VPN services using Mac OS X Server

Course Description

Apple removed coverage of these topics altogether when the 10.4 version of the classes were written. This course is meant as a supplemnt to what is left out of MacOS 200 - Mac OS X Server Essentials. Although DNS is covered briefly in Apple's course there is little detail on the workings of BIND and the DNS service in general. VPN services are added here in case the course is taken without MacOS 200

This one day Client/Server course is designed for system administrators and IT professionals who need to setup DNS, Web, Mail and VPN services under Mac OS X Server v10.4. This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on case study exercises that provide practical real-world experience. Each student will be equipped with two Mac OS X capable computers and a private network for setting up and testing.

Who should attend?

This class is for administrators who are tasked with configuring and maintaining servers that will provide web, mail, DNS or VPN services for their organization.

Prerequisites

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending this course:

Completion of Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4 and Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.4, or equivalent knowledge
Understanding of basic IP networking, including IP adresses, subnet masks, ports, and protocols
Working familiarity with the command line interface

What You Will Learn:
•	Basic network troubleshooting tools: ping, arp, ifconfig, ipconfig
•	How to get DNS up and running for your organization
•	How to use Web services with Realms, WebDAV and WebLogs (Blojsom)
•	How to setup Mail delivery and authentication methods.
•	How to configure WebMail (SquirrelMail) under SSL

Course Outline

Topic	Description
Chapter 1 Network Foundations	Networking concepts that are vital to understanding troubleshooting of network services including DNS.

Chapter 2 DNS	Coverage of how DNS works and how to configure DNS for a forward and reverse zone that support aliases and mail exchangers.

Chapter 3 Web Services	Brief description of related standards - HTML, MIME and server-side programming. Configure a simple site using Server Admin, use of realm authentication and WebDAV and server side technologies like PHP.

Chapter 4 Mail Services	Set up Mac OS X Server to deliver mail from the Internet. Enable filtering and authentication polices. Manage quotas and learn maintenance tools.

Chapter 5 Virtual Private Networking	Understand how to configure VPN and use a client to connect to it.