AZ-801T00 Configure Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services
This course teaches IT Professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches IT Professionals how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Secure Hybrid Environments
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Harden on-premises and hybrid Windows Server infrastructures
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Secure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and network resources
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Apply security policies to on-premises and cloud resources
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Implement advanced tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel
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Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery
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Configure Windows Server Failover Clustering for VMs and file servers
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Deploy Hyper-V Replica and Azure Site Recovery
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Implement backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup and Windows Server IaaS
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Migrate Workloads to Azure
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Plan and perform server and workload migrations using Azure Migrate
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Migrate file server workloads with the Storage Migration Service
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Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service
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Manage and Monitor Hybrid Infrastructures
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Deploy and manage Windows Server Update Management
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Monitor hybrid environments using Windows Admin Center, Azure Arc, and Azure Monitor
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Implement service and performance monitoring for Windows Server workloads
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Troubleshoot Active Directory, networking, and hybrid integration issues
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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 who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure Iaas, enable a highly available, fully redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting.
An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies: High availability and disaster recovery Automation Monitoring Troubleshooting
- Implement network security groups, Azure Firewall, and Windows Firewall
- Adaptive network hardening and filtering solutions
- Capture and log network traffic with Network Watcher
- Audit VM security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Security Center)
- Implement and assess security policies
- Protect resources with Microsoft Sentinel
- Create allowlists with Adaptive Application Control
- Configure BitLocker and Azure Disk Encryption with Key Vault
- Azure Update Management: enable, deploy, and assess updates
- Configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- Implement Change Tracking and Inventory
- File Integrity Monitoring: entities and tracked files
- Manage and monitor event logs, auditing, and diagnostics
- Secure Windows Server DNS with split-horizon, DNS policies, and DNSSEC
- Secure user accounts: account rights, Protected Users group, Credential Guard, NTLM blocking
- Cluster Shared Volumes: functionality, architecture, and implementation
- Windows Server Failover Clustering: plan, implement, manage, stretch clusters, and cluster sets
- High availability for Hyper-V: load balancing, live migration, and storage migration
- File server HA: Scale-Out File Server, Storage Replica
- VM scale sets and load balancing in Azure
- Hyper-V Replica and extended replication
- Azure Backup: vaults, policies, recovery scenarios, VM and file restore
- Hybrid backup for on-premises workloads and IaaS VMs
- Azure Site Recovery for on-premises and Azure workloads
- Disaster recovery drills, failover, and failback
- Azure Migrate: planning, assessments, and workload migrations
- File server migration using Storage Migration Service
- Migrating Windows Server roles with Migration Tools
- Active Directory DS upgrade and migration with ADMT
- Containerize and migrate workloads
- Azure Monitor and VM Insights: metrics, logs, alerts
- Hybrid monitoring with Operations Manager
- Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Reliability Monitor
- System Insights and capacity planning
- Optimizing performance of servers and infrastructure
- Networking: DHCP, DNS, IP configuration, routing, Packet Monitor, Azure Network Watcher
- Troubleshoot Azure VMs: deployment, startup, extensions, connectivity, performance, storage
- Active Directory: object recovery, SYSVOL, replication, and hybrid authentication