Networking with Server 2025

Network gaps create operational risk when Server 2025 admins can’t explain addressing, DHCP/DNS behavior, ports, remote access, load balancing, or performance symptoms consistently. IT Directors can assign this 8.4-hour beginner course to help desk, junior admin, and infrastructure team members who support Windows Server environments and need a shared networking foundation before taking on higher-risk server work.

The course is a practical fit for teams standardizing onboarding into systems administration: learners move from IPv4/IPv6 and subnet masks into network models, DHCP, DNS/IPAM, NPS/VPN, network load balancing, failover concepts, and monitoring. Change management should be light for experienced support staff, but Team Leads should plan time for follow-up practice around local addressing standards, server roles, and internal troubleshooting procedures. CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence the nine skills for role-based onboarding, and Team Reporting helps Training Managers track completion across the team.

IT teams complete this training to reduce avoidable network escalations around Server 2025 services and give junior staff a clearer troubleshooting path.

• Faster issue triage: Staff learn to use OSI and TCP/IP models to reason through web, email, Remote Desktop, routing, ports, and protocol-related symptoms.
• Cleaner network configuration: Teams build shared understanding of IPv4, IPv6, public/private addressing, classful subnet masks, DHCP, DNS, and IPAM before changing server settings.
• More resilient file access planning: Learners see how clustered file services use production networks, private heartbeat traffic, administrative cluster names, client-facing names, IPs, UNC paths, and SMB shares.
• Better performance conversations: Teams learn to baseline normal traffic, review counters like bytes total per second, calculate utilization, and distinguish short spikes from sustained network issues.

Knowledge

• IPv4 addressing basics, private vs. public addresses, IPv6 purpose, and classful subnet mask concepts.
• How OSI and TCP/IP models help explain network communication across applications, sessions, routing, and physical connectivity.
• The role of common ports and protocols in Server 2025 network configuration and troubleshooting.
• How DHCP, advanced DHCP settings, DNS, and IPAM support reliable client and server connectivity.
• How NPS/VPN, network load balancing, failover clustering, and monitoring fit into Server 2025 networking operations.

Ability

• Identify addressing and subnet-related configuration issues before they create downstream troubleshooting work.
• Apply network models to isolate whether a problem is likely application, transport, network, data link, or physical.
• Configure and reason through core Server 2025 network services including DHCP, DNS/IPAM, NPS/VPN, and load balancing topics covered in the course.
• Interpret cluster networking concepts such as production traffic, private heartbeat networks, client-facing resources, and administrative names.
• Establish performance baselines, review network counters, and use captures or logs to investigate abnormal traffic patterns.