Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: SMB Overview
- Data fabric
- Data fabric layers
- CIFS and SMB protocols
- NT LAN manager
- Kerberos authentication
- Active Directory
- Workgroup environments
- NetApp PowerShell toolkit
Module 2: SMB Setup
- SMB implementation
- Licensing CIFS
- SVM for SMB access
- FlexVol volumes
- DNS entries for the SVM
- SMB share access
Module 3: SMB Shares and Sessions
- SMB share
- Creating a share
- Client access
- SMB automatic referrals
- SMB sessions
- Session administration
- SMB encryption
- Offline folders
- Offloaded data transfer
Module 4: Access Control
- Share permission administration
- Access-based enumeration
- Dynamic access control
- File blocking policies
- Local users
- Workgroup authentication
- Multiprotocol access
Module 5: Advanced Topics
- Microsoft opportunistic Lock (oplock) features
- Automatic home share
- Group policy object (GPO)
- Symlinks
- Widelinks
Appendix A: BranchCache
- Versions
- BranchCache environment configurations
- ONTAP 9 BranchCache
- BranchCache installation on Windows Servers
- BranchCache configuration on Windows clients
Appendix B: Auditing
- Auditing concepts
- Terminology
- ONTAP 9 auditing process
- Implemtent auditing
- Output file format
Labs:
- Install NetApp PowerShell Toolkit and configure for use
- Create a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) and configure it for SMB access
- Create an SMB share, connect to the share from your Windows client, and manage SMB sessions
- Create a domain user, restrict share-level permissions
- Create a local user group and give share-level permissions
- Create a multiprotocol configuration and enable a root Linux user to be mapped to the Windows domain administrator
- Configure home directories and symbolic links on the SVM