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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure

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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure

Course code: AZ800

Duration: 4 Days

Prerequisite:

Before attending this course, students must have:

•    Experience with managing Windows Server operating system and Windows Server workloads in on-premises scenarios, including AD DS, DNS, DFS, Hyper-V, and File and Storage Services
•    Experience with common Windows Server management tools (implied in the first prerequisite).
•    Basic knowledge of core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies (implied in the first prerequisite).
•    Experience and an understanding of core networking technologies such as IP addressing, name resolution, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
•    Experience working with and an understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V and basic server virtualization concepts
•    Basic experience with implementing and managing IaaS services in Microsoft Azure
•    Basic knowledge of Azure Active Directory
•    Experience working hands-on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11
•    Basic experience with Windows PowerShell 

Course Description:

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage core Windows Server workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.

Course Objective:

•    Use administrative techniques and tools in Windows Server.
•    Identify tools used to implement hybrid solutions, including Windows Admin Center and PowerShell.
•    Implement identity services in Windows Server.
•    Implement identity in hybrid scenarios, including Azure AD DS on Azure IaaS and managed AD DS.
•    Integrate Azure AD DS with Azure AD.
•    Manage network infrastructure services.
•    Deploy Azure VMs running Windows Server, and configure networking and storage.
•    Administer and manage Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machine remotely.
•    Manage and maintain Azure VMs running Windows Server.
•    Configure file servers and storage.
•    Implement File Services in hybrid scenarios, using Azure Files and Azure File Sync.  

Intended Audience:

This four-day course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies. Windows Server Hybrid Administrators implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.    

Course Outlines:

Module 1: Identity services in Windows Server 
•    Introduction to AD DS
•    Manage AD DS domain controllers and FSMO roles
•    Implement Group Policy Objects
•    Manage advanced features of AD DS 

Module 2: Implementing identity in hybrid scenarios
•    Implement hybrid identity with Windows Server
•    Deploy and manage Azure IaaS Active Directory domain controllers in Azure

Module 3: Windows Server administration
•    Perform Windows Server secure administration
•    Describe Windows Server administration tools
•    Perform post-installation configuration of Windows Server
•    Just Enough Administration in Windows Server

Module 4: Facilitating hybrid management
•    Administer and manage Windows Server IaaS virtual machines remotely
•    Manage hybrid workloads with Azure Arc

Module 5: Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server
•    Configure and manage Hyper-V
•    Configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines
•    Secure Hyper-V workloads
•    Run containers on Windows Server
•    Orchestrate containers on Windows Server using Kubernetes

Module 6: Deploying and configuring Azure VMs
•    Plan and deploy Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
•    Customize Windows Server IaaS virtual machine images
•    Automate the configuration of Windows Server IaaS virtual machines

Module 7: Network infrastructure services in Windows Server
•    Deploy and manage DHCP
•    Implement Windows Server DNS
•    Implement IP address management
•    Implement remote access

Module 8: Implementing hybrid networking infrastructure
•    Implement hybrid network infrastructure
•    Implement DNS for Windows Server IaaS VMs
•    Implement Windows Server IaaS VM IP addressing and routing

Module 9: File servers and storage management in Windows Server
•    Manage Windows Server file servers
•    Implement Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct
•    Implement Windows Server Data Deduplication
•    Implement Windows Server iSCSI
•    Implement Windows Server Storage Replica

Module 10: Implementing a hybrid file server infrastructure
•    Overview of Azure file services
•    Implementing Azure File Sync