Microsoft Exam
This course will help you prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exams:

Exam 70-281: Planning, Deploying, and Managing an Enterprise Management Solution

Course Overview
This course is for system administrators who will install and administer Project Server technical implementation for the company. The administrator will also learn how to administer security and implement QA testing. This course spends three days training you to install project server for a 5,000+ user environment. For user populations less than 5,000, Microsoft provides extensive installation guides and its recommended that you select the Project Server Boot Camp as a more comprehensive training.

Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:

	Completed Course (MOC 2279): Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.
	A working knowledge of basic project management concepts.

Audience
Candidates for this course are IT professionals who operate in medium to very large computing environments that use the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. Typical environments in which they work have these characteristics:

	Supported users ranging from 5,000 or more
	Multiple physical locations
	Typical products and technologies include Windows Server 2003, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft SQL Server, Project Server 2003, Microsoft Project Professional 2003, SQL Analysis Services, Office Web components and messaging and collaboration platforms, and network security products and technologies.

Next Steps
This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

Exam 70-281: Planning, Deploying, and Managing an Enterprise Management Solution

Benefits to You
After completing this course, students will be able to:

	Plan a Project Server infrastructure.
	Plan the deployment of Project Server.
	Install and configure Project system servers.
	Install Project Server 2003.
	Plan client software distribution.
	Deploy client software.
	Plan Project Server 2003 operations.
	Configure and manage resource and project data.
	Configure and manage views and security.
	Administer Project Server 2003.
	Migrate project data.
	Plan the testing of a Project Server 2003 deployment.
	Troubleshoot Project Server 2003.

Course Outline
Module 1: Overview to Project Server 2003 Deployment
During the deployment of a Project Server 2003 infrastructure, a systems engineer must know the terminology used in project management and in Project Server 2003. In this module, the students are introduced to these terms and how they are used. In addition, the students must analyze functional specifications as they are written by the business analyst and project manager. This module discusses the components of the functional specifications, and the relationships of other job roles in a Project Server 2003 solution.

Module 2: Planning the Project Server 2003 Infrastructure
This module covers the tasks, tools, and knowledge needed to plan the Project Server infrastructure. The module explains what the components are within the infrastructure and how to plan for optimum usage.

Module 3: Installing and Configuring Project System Servers
This module covers the tasks, tools, and knowledge needed for installing and configuring Project system servers.

Module 4: Implementing Project Server 2003
This module covers the tasks, tools, and knowledge needed to complete the installation and configuration of Project Server 2003, and to confirm that the connectivity to the Project system servers is complete.

Module 5: Planning the Deployment of Project Server 2003 Clients
This module covers the tasks, tools, and knowledge needed to plan deployment of Project Server. Students will learn how to plan for client software distribution.

Module 6: Deploying Client Software
This module describes how to determine the configuration and connectivity of client software used to access Project Server. The module will cover the two available client-end options: Project Professional and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Module 7: Planning Project Server 2003 Operations
This module covers the tools, tasks, and knowledge required to plan a Project Server 2003 operation, including planning the security structure, using Active Directory¨ to integrate Project Server 2003 resource pools and security groups, and importing or migrating existing project data.

Module 8: Configuring and Managing Resource and Project Data
This module describes how to determine the configuration and connectivity of client software used to access Project Server. Lessons presented in this module will cover the two client-end options that are available: Project Professional and Internet Explorer.

Module 9: Configuring and Managing Views and Security
This module describes how to configure views and security for Project Server.

Module 10: Administering an Enterprise Project Management Solution
This module describes how to administer an Enterprise Project Management solution.

Module 11: Migrating Project Data
This module describes how to migrate project data for use with Project Server 2003.

Module 12: Planning Testing
This module covers how to plan for the testing of Project Server 2003 deployment.

Module 13: Troubleshooting Project Server 2003
This module describes how to troubleshoot Project Server 2003.