About Education
This course teaches IT professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using hybrid and cloud technologies. It covers leveraging Azure’s hybrid capabilities, migrating virtual and physical server loads to Azure IaaS, and securing Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course emphasizes management tools and technologies such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor.
Prerequisites
- Experience working with Windows Server technologies in IT infrastructures.
- Having basic knowledge about Azure and hybrid technologies.
Duration of Training
- Face-to-face training: 4 days of hands-on laboratory work
- Virtual education: 4 days of hands-on lab work in web-based classes
Who Should Participate?
This four-day course is designed for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who want to expand the capabilities of their on-premises infrastructure by combining Windows Server and hybrid technologies. It is suitable for admins who manage and implement existing core technologies; and for those who want to migrate virtual and physical loads to Azure IaaS, create a highly available and fully redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting.
Educational Content
- Securing Windows Server in On-Premise and Hybrid Infrastructures
- Implementing Windows Server IaaS VM network security
- Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
- Managing Azure updates
- Creating and enforcing application permission lists with adaptive application control
- Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
- Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs
- Securing Windows Server DNS
- Securing Windows Server user accounts
- Windows Server hardening
- Manage Windows Server updates
- Implementing Windows Server High Availability
- Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes
- Applying Windows Server failover clustering
- Ensuring high availability of Windows Server Virtual Machines
- Ensuring Windows Server File Server high availability
- Implementing scale and high availability with Windows Server VM
- Implementing Disaster Recovery in Windows Server Environments
- Implementing Hyper-V Replica
- Implementing hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
- Protecting on-site infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
- Protecting Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
- Protecting virtual machines using Azure Backup
- Server and Payload Migration in On-Premises and Hybrid Environments
- Migrate on-premises Windows Server loads to Azure IaaS virtual machines
- Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
- Active Directory Domain Services migration
- Migrate file server loads with Storage Migration Service
- Migrate Windows Server roles
- Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Windows Server Environments
- Monitoring Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
- Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor
- Monitor Windows Server performance
- Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
- Apply Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
- On-premises and hybrid network troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure
- Active Directory troubleshooting
What You Will Gain at the End of Training
- Securing Windows Server in on-premises and hybrid infrastructures
- Ensure Windows Server high availability
- Implementing disaster recovery in on-premises and hybrid environments
- Server and payload migration in on-premises and hybrid environments
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server environments
