The CIFSAD course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Explain the CIFS and SMB protocol
• Demonstrate the Windows PowerShell CLI
• Configure SMB features using ONTAP 9 software
• Create and manage SMB shares and sessions
• Secure SMB sessions
• Configure ONTAP for multiprotocol data access
• Discuss SMB advanced topics, such as opportunistic locks (oplocks), BranchCache, auditing, group policy, automatic home shares, symbolic links (symlinks), and wide links

Module 1: CIFS Overview

• Define the CIFS and SMB protocol
• Discuss NTLM and Kerberos authentication
• Explain Active Directory and Workgroup environments
• Describe PowerShell
• Describe Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit

Module 2: SMB Setup

• Set up a storage system with ONTAP 9 for domain authentication

Module 3: Shares and Sessions

• List the default shares
• Display all shares that are available on the storage system
• Configure a client machine to access a share
• Identify the CIFS sessions
• Add, modify, and delete shares

Module 4: Access Control

• Module Objectives
• Configure share permissions
• Describe how to map UNIX users to Windows users
• Configure multiprotocol in ONTAP 9
• Describe authentication and authorization for CIFS
• Describe file blocking policies

Module 5: CIFS Advanced Topics

• Module Objectives
• Describe group policy objects in Data ONTAP 9
• Setup preferred Domain Controllers
• Discuss NetBIOS aliases
• Configure workgroup membership
• Explain CIFS oplocks
• Discuss BranchCache support in Data ONTAP

• ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory