BlackBelt – Advanced Troubleshooting the Windows OS
Let a true blackbelter and internationally acclaimed speaker, Sami Laiho, teach you his coolest troubleshooting stunts in this BlackBelt Advanced course.
We offer two courses for troubleshooting of anything that related or runs on the Windows OS. If you’re thinking about which course to take first, take the other one: BlackBelt – Troubleshooting the Windows OS. If you are totally familiar with the stuff on the other course you are very welcome to join this BlackBelt Advanced Troubleshooting the Windows OS. It’s just the trainers professional opinion that the best troubleshooters can be taught by taking these two courses and it’s better to take the more Tools-oriented BlackBelt Troubleshooting course first and then join this Content-oriented BlackBelt Advanced Troubleshooting course next.
Training duration: 32 academic hours, all of which are theoretical and practical work (4 days).
Target audience:This training is meant for all administrators who want to deepen their knowledge about Windows. It is also suitable for people who think they know everything about the Windows OS… It’s a very deep dive course and surely in no way suitable for beginners but seasoned administrators. If someone has gone through the BlackBelt OS Troubleshooting course then this course will deepen that knowledge even further. This course applies to all Windows version from NT 4 to Windows 10, both servers and clients.
Prerequisites: Experience with Windows Administration, Experience with Active Directory, Experience with networking infrastructure.
Contents of this training
This four day course teaches you how the operating system actually works under the hood. Windows Internals was previously taught globally by two of the best known teachers David Solomon and Mark Russinovich. David is now retired from training and Mark is working for Microsoft. This training is based on their Windows Internals book which is considered mandatory knowledge for all top Microsoft professionals including Microsoft’a own PFE’s (Premier Field Engineer). That book might be a bit too deep for most so this is an easy way to learn the important parts of the book in an effective pace.
This course teaches you what you see with the tools that are used for troubleshooting. If you’re not that familiar with the tools we recommend you take the BlackBelt – Troubleshooting the Windows OS first – I can assure you want to take both when you get started.
Sami Laiho– instructor and industry expert.
Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995. He has been auditing and implementing security solutions, specializing in Principle of Least Privilege, Application Control and Privileged Access Workstations, since 2002 and has deployed solutions for companies with between 1-550000 endpoints.
Since 2019 Sami has been chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is in the TOP10 most followed people in his field in Finland. At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes” sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.
Before that, at Ignite 2017, the world’s biggest Microsoft event, Sami was evaluated as the Best External Speaker! Also, Sami’s sessions were evaluated as the Best session in TechEd North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The training is conducted in collaboration with Adminize.com 
Specific course content
Day 1
- Concepts and Tools
- System Architecture
- System Mechanisms
Day 2
- (Management Mechanisms)
- Processes, Threads, and Jobs
- Security
Day 3
- Networking
- I/O System
- Storage Management
- Memory Management
Day 4
- Cache Manager
- (File Systems)
- Startup and Shutdown
- Crash Dump Analysis
Training objective
The objective of this training course is to teach you how the operating system actually works under the hood and teach you what you see when using the troubleshooting tools.
Intended outcome
Learning objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this training course, you:
- knows how the operating system actually works under the hood;
- knows what is seen when using the troubleshooting tools.
The price includes:
- the training center provides a prepared workstation with the necessary hardware and software in the classroom. For participants attending the training in the online environment, remote access to the required software is provided if needed;
- the training is delivered by an instructor who holds at least level 5 of an adult educator qualification and has relevant work experience in the respective field;
We also offer:
- hot beverages with cookies;
- lunch on each training day;
- free parking (please register your parking with our office manager upon arrival for the training on each training day).
Continuing Education Curriculum Group: Database and Network Design and Management (0612 ISCED)
Trainer
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Sami LaihoTrainer and one of the World’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and SecuritySami Laiho is one of the world’s leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995.
Sami has been auditing and implementing security solutions, specializing in Principle of Least Privilege, Application Control and Privileged Access Workstations, since 2002. Sami has deployed solutions for companies with between 1-550000 endpoints.
Since 2019 Sami has been chosen by TiVi-magazine as one of the top 100 influencers in IT in Finland. He is in the TOP10 most followed people in his field in Finland.
At Ignite 2018, Sami’s “Behind the Scenes: How to build a conference winning session” and “Sami Laiho: 45 Life Hacks of Windows OS in 45 minutes” sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this.
Before that, at Ignite 2017, the world’s biggest Microsoft event, Sami was evaluated as the Best External Speaker! Also, Sami’s sessions were evaluated as the Best session in TechEd North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
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