MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course teaches IT staff how to plan, design, deploy, configure, and administer a Microsoft Lync Server solution. The course emphasizes Lync Server Enterprise Unified Communications features focussing particularly on coexisting with and migrating from legacy communication services. The labs in this course create a solution that includes IM and Presence, Conferencing, and Persistent Chat. This course helps prepare for Exam 70-336. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the Lync Server architecture. * Install and deploy Lync Server. * Use Lync Server management interfaces. * Deploy and manage clients. * Manage and administer dial-in conferencing. * Design audio and video for web conferencing. * Plan for instant message and presence Federation. * Deploy and configure persistent chat in Lync. * Configure archiving and monitoring services. * Troubleshoot Lync Server. * Describe the required daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks. * Use SIP commands and analyze SIP logs. * Configure high availability features in Lync. * Design load balancing in Lync Server. * Backup and restore Lync Server data. MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Microsoft Lync. * Prerequisites: Supporting Windows 2008 or 2012. * Duration 5 days MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Microsoft Lync Server architecture Lync Server architecture, Lync core capabilities, Lync design process, assessing infrastructure requirements and updating the design, planning for all Microsoft solutions framework phases. * Designing a Lync Server topology Infrastructure requirements for Lync Server, using the planning tool, using topology builder, server infrastructure, documentation. Hands on Environment preparation and Lync Server pools. * Users and rights in Microsoft Lync Server Managing Lync Server, role based access control. Hands on Using the management shell, configuring role-based access control. * Client/device deployment and management Deploy and manage clients, prepare for device deployment, IP phones. Hands on Clients. * Conferencing in Lync Server Introduction to conferencing in Lync Server, designing for audio\video and web conferencing, dial-in conferencing in Lync Server, managing and administering conferencing. Hands on Conferencing in Microsoft Lync. * Designing and deploying external access Conferencing and external capabilities of Lync Server, planning for IM and presence federation, designing edge services. Hands on Deploying Edge Server and Configuring Remote Access, Validating the Edge Server. * Deploying Lync Server persistent chat Overview of persistent chat architecture in Lync Server, designing persistent chat, deploying and persistent chat. Hands on persistent chat server. * Monitoring and archiving The archiving service, the monitoring service, configuring archiving and monitoring. Hands on Archiving and monitoring in Lync Server. * Administration and maintenance of Lync Lync Server troubleshooting tools, Lync Server operational tasks, Lync Server troubleshooting techniques. Hands on Lync administration tools, centralized logging service, analysing Lync Server logs and traces. * High Availability in Lync Server High availability in Lync Server, configuring high availability in Lync Server, planning for load balancing, designing load balancing. Hands on Configuring database mirroring, experiencing a scheduled SQL Server outage, experiencing an unscheduled SQL Server outage. * Disaster recovery in Lync Server Disaster recovery in Lync Server, tools for backing up and restoring Lync Server, critical Lync Server data to back up and restore, critical data to export and import, designing branch site resiliency. Hands on Configure pool pairing, experiencing a pool failure or outage. * Planning a migration to Lync Server Coexistence and migration, migration steps, planning for clients and devices. Designing a client migration and device migration strategy. Hands on Creating a migration plan, documenting the migration phases.
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OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporate sales as word define mainly happens to take place during Business to Business sales process where a company sells their product and services to other businesses. It is a very complex sales and understanding and creating a strategic plan is really important during the process. Today corporate industries are working and planning new strategies, running many campaigns to promote business and use enhance marketing and sales plan to achieve their goals. In this competitive era, it has become a major necessity now. Attaining the desired skills, it requires continual development and training. Today every corporate sector wants to increase the business and losing big or even small deals is more than just a disappointment. It gives an edge to the competitors over their competitors. This course is specially designed to understand the depth of corporate sales and how to create appropriate strategies in the niche market. It will help attain the skills required for continual development to cope with the changing trends. This Course Corporate Sales will reduce the risk of losing and will increase success with key sales opportunities. This corporate sales programme will feed you with a trustable approach that reduces risks without fading chances of individual flair or innovation
NETWORK MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES COURSE DESCRIPTION A comprehensive tour of the available network management technologies available for todays networks. The course starts with basic tools such as syslog along with Python network automation. SNMP is then covered with the *flow technologies and streaming telemetry. Configuration management with ansible, Python, NETCONF and RESTCONF is then studied. The final part of the course looks at SDN. Hands on sessions are used throughout to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific manufacturer equipment. Note that sections are available as individual courses. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network management technologies. * Evaluate network management technologies. * Recognise the weaknesses of SNMP versus NETCONF and streaming telemetry. * Explain the role of NETCONF and RESTCONF. * Compare & contrast *flow and streaming telemetry. * Explain the role of SDN in network management. * Automate network configuration with ansible and Python. NETWORK MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to manage networks. (Previous Python experience is NOT needed) * Prerequisites: Intro to data comms * Duration 5 days NETWORK MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES COURSE CONTENT BASIC NETWORK MANAGEMENT * Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues. FCAPS model. Fault management, Configuration management, accounting, performance, security. What to manage, what not to manage. Managing network devices, managing servers. MONITORING NETWORKS * Traditional network tools Ping..., SSH, syslog, TFTP for configurations. nmap. Wireshark. CLI. Web based management. Splunk. Nessus, snort, Kali. Hands on syslog, network inventories. * Network automation using the CLI Programming and automating networks, netOps. Python, Git. Python network modules, SSH, paramiko, netmiko. EVE-NG. Hands onPython network modules. * Structured versus unstructured data Problems with automation and unstructured data. XML, JSON, YAML. The role of YANG. Hands on Parsing data. * SNMP SNMP architecture, SNMP MIBs, SMI, the SNMP protocol, polling security. Configuring SNMP. SNMPv1, v2, v3, SNMP security. Which version should you use? MIBs and MIB structure. mib-2, extra parts of mib-2, Private enterprise MIBs. Summary: What SNMP is good/bad at. Hands on Configuring agents and a NMS. MIB browsing. * Server management Microsoft, Linux, application polling. WMI vs SNMP. Hands on: Application polling. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT * *flow Polling, push vs pull, netflow, sflow, IPFIX, *flow. Flows. Where to monitor traffic. Comparing *flow with SNMP. Architecture: Generators and collectors. When flows are exported. NetFlow reporting products. SolarWinds. Hands on Netflow configuration. Collectors. * Streaming telemetry Model driven telemetry, periodic/on change. Structured data. Telemetry protocol stack. gRPC and gNMI. Protobuf. gNMI operations. Telemetry architecture. Telegraf, databases, Grafana. Hands on Telemetry example. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT * Configuration management tools Chef, puppet, ansible, saltstack. Ansible architecture, controlling machines, nodes, agentless, SSH, modules. Inventories, playbooks, modules, network modules, jinja2 templates. Hands on Network configuration with ansible. * NETCONF What is NETCONF? Protocol stack, Data stores, traffic flows, validating configurations, rollback. YANG data models and how YANG is used by NETCONF. XML. Explorers and other tools. Hands on anx, Python and NETCONF. * RESTCONF The REST API, HTTP, What is RESTCONF? Tools including Postman. Comparison with NETCONF. Hands on Configuration with RESTCONF. * Python network automation: configuration SSH issues. Using structured data. Jinja2. ncclient, requests, NAPALM, Nornir. Automated testing. Hands on Python network device configuration with nornir. SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS AND ORCHESTRATION * Classic SDN What is SDN? benefits. SDN architecture. SDN applications, SDN switches, SDN controllers, Network Operating Systems. Control plane, data plane. Northbound interfaces. SDN components. Southbound interfaces. OpenFlow. ONF, OpenFlow ports, Flow tables. * Network virtualization Virtual networks, virtual switches, NfV. Service chaining. NfV and SDN. * SDN implementations Classic SDN, Hybrid SDN, SDN via APIs, SDN via overlays. Data centre SDN, VXLAN, Service Provider SDN, SD WAN, Enterprise SDN, WiFi. * SDN and open source OpenDaylight, OpenVSwitch, Open Networking Forum, Open Network Operating System. Hands onOpenStack. * SD-WAN What is SD-WAN? Architecture: Edge, gateway, orchestrator, controller. Overlay and underlay. Use of MPLS, 4G/5G. Benefits and features. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
TOTAL STP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dates from 1985. This course explores in depth how the protocol works and the implications this has on network performance. We also study STP variants including 802.1w (RSTP) and 802.1s (MSTP). WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how STP works. * Explain how RSTP works. * Explain how MSTP works. * Troubleshoot STP and variants. TOTAL STP TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical network staff. * Prerequisites: Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers * Duration 1 day TOTAL STP TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * STP What is 802.1D, what is STP, resilience, broadcast storms, forwarding and blocking, single path. Hands on Impact of broadcast storms, enabling disabling STP. * Operation STP frames, BPDUs, root bridge election, blocked ports, root ports, designated ports. STP path costs. Hands on Analysing STP, troubleshooting implications. * Topology changes Hello timer, Forward delay timer, max age timer, Topology Change Notification (TCN) BPDU. Hands on STP convergence. * STP enhancements and tuning Bridge ID, Bridge priority, port priority, 30 second delay, Edge ports, PortFast, root guard, loop guard, BPDU guard. Hands on Root bridge positioning, improving STP convergence. * RSTP 802.1w, Improvements, convergence times. RSTP bridge port roles, RSTP switch port states. Edge ports, link ports. Hands on RSTP configuration and convergence. * VLANs and STP Access/untagged ports, trunk/tagged ports, PVST, PVST+, RPVST, MISTP, MSTP and 802.1s. MSTP BPDUs. Instances, Load balancing, impact on CPU. Hands on MSTP load balancing. * Interoperability Regions, Virtual bridges, domains. Hands on STP, RSTP and MSTP interoperation.
STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dates from 1985. This course explores the technologies that can be used as an alternative to STP, including FabricPath, SPB and TRILL. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how STP and RSTP work. * Explain how TRILL works. * Explain how SPB works. * Explain how FabricPath works. STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical network staff. * Prerequisites: Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers * Duration 1 day STP ALTERNATIVES TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Layer 2 versus Layer 3, STP problems: One path, convergence, MAC explosion, STP alternatives. * STP 802.1D, how STP works, root bridge, convergence times, single path. * RSTP 802.1w, Improvements, convergence times. * Link aggregation 802.3ad, Multi system Link aggregation. * IS-IS Concepts, Discovery, topology exchange, flooding. Changes for TRILL, FabricPath and SPB. * FabricPath Overview, architecture, control plane protocols, DRAP, STP interactions, packet forwarding, configuration. * TRILL Concepts, RBridge, TRILL frames, control plane, data plane, learning MAC addresses. * SPB 802.1aq, Node ID, Backbone Edge Bridges, Backbone MAC address, customer MACs, I-SID, forwarding database.
DATA CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a foundation in data centre infrastructure technologies. It begins with a tour of virtualisation and the impact of this on the network before moving on to the spine and leaf design, how it works and how to scale. Layer 2 technologies enabling this architecture are studied in terms of the impact on the data centre. The course then progresses onto how Layer 3 technologies such as BGP, EVPN and VXLAN are used in data centre networks. The course then studies interconnecting data centres finishing with a section on automation and orchestration of both underlay and overlay networks. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the spine and leaf architecture * Recognise the impact of virtualisation, containers and orchestration on the network * Describe how the following technologies are used in data centres: Multi port aggregation Overlay networks MBGP, VRFs, EVPN VXLAN COOP DATA CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Staff involved with Data centres. * Prerequisites: Network fundamentals for engineers * Duration 2 days DATA CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE COURSE CONTENTS What is Ethernet? Data centres versus enterprise networks. Servers, Blades, Racks, Clusters, Storage, Virtual Machines, Hosts, guests, containers, orchestration. Virtual switches. Distributed switches. Live migrations (e.g. vMotion). IP addressing and VM traffic. Data centre network architecture Spine leaf design. North south traffic, East West traffic, Scaling: Ports, bandwidth. N+1 redundancy, ratio East West optimisation, oversubscription. 2 tier versus 3 tier Leaf/Spine. Pods. Underlay, Overlay L2 technologies STP vs link aggregation vs multi link aggregation. LACP, LLDP, CDP. Scalability. VLANs and VLAN pruning. L2 design recommendations. Disabling STP on edge ports. L3 technologies Underlay, Overlay, VXLAN, VTEP, VXLAN overlay forwarding, EVPN, IS-IS, COOP, MP BGP, VRFs, EBGP, IBGP, AS numbers, route reflectors. Anycast gateways. MTU considerations-for data and control planes. BUM traffic. Data centre interconnects Pods, fabrics, multi pods, multi fabric, multi site. VXLAN with BGP/EVPN Data center interconnect. Cloud integration, Inter Site Networks. Automation Automation and orchestration, Zero touch provisioning, Devops, Netops, telemetry automated configuration for underlay and overlay, SDN.
ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become one of the industries most talked technologies. This training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for SDN along with looking at the impact it may have on your network. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how SDN works. * Describe the architecture of SDN. * Explain the relationship between SDN and OpenFlow. * Recognise the impact SDN will have on existing networks. ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about SDN. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is SDN? What is OpenFlow? SDN benefits. The SDN stack and architecture. * SDN architecture SDN applications, SDN switches, SDN controllers, Network Operating Systems. Control plane, data plane. Control to Data Plane Interface (CDPI), Northbound interfaces. SDN components, control and data plane abstractions. * Network Operating Systems Finding the topology, Global view, control program, configuration based on views, graph algorithm. * OpenFlow Just one part of SDN. Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow ports, Flow tables, OpenFlow Channels. The OpenFlow protocol, OpenFlow header, OpenFlow operations. OpenFlow versus OpFlex. * SDN and open source OpenDaylight, OpenVSwitch, Open Networking Forum, Open Network Operating System. OpenStack Neutron. * SDN implications Separation of control and data plane, NOS running on servers, Emphasis on edge complexity, core simplicity, OpenvSwitch, Incremental migration, importance of software. SDN vs NVF.
TOTAL FABRICPATH TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A comprehensive look at Cisco's FabricPath. This course starts with the problems in traditional switched networks then moves onto to how FabricPath solves these problems. As IS-IS is key to loop free topologies in FabricPath networks, this protocol is also studied. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the benefits of FabricPath. * Explain how FabricPath works * Explain the role of IS-IS in FabricPath. * Integrate FabricPath into existing networks. TOTAL FABRICPATH TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with FabricPath. * Prerequisites: Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers * Duration 1 day TOTAL FABRICPATH TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is FabricPath? Layer 2 versus Layer 3, STP problems: One path, convergence, MAC explosion. Frame routing. Shortest path. Comparison with TRILL. * FabricPath architecture Core and edge, VLANs, vPC+. * IS-IS Link layer IS-IS, SPF trees, traffic management. IS -IS extensions for FabricPath. ISIS TLV. * FabricPath forwarding Routing table, Switch IDs, multi destination trees, IGMP snooping. Roots. MAC versus switch tables. FabricPath Dynamic Resource Allocation Protocol (DRAP). * FabricPath frames Encapsulation, frame format, Switch ID, Forwarding tag. * Miscellaneous Basic configuration, interoperation with STP, TCN forwarding
