Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services

Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services (AZ-801T00)

Delivery methods

On-Site, Virtual

Duration

4 days

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 Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Update Manager, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and IaaS virtual machine administration.

Learning Objectives

Harden the security configuration of the Windows Server operating system environment
Enhance hybrid security using Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, and Windows Update Management
Apply security features to protect critical resources
Implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions
Implement recovery services in hybrid scenarios
Plan and implement hybrid and cloud-only migration, backup, and recovery scenarios
Perform upgrades and migration related to AD DS, and storage • Manage and monitor hybrid scenarios using WAC, Azure Arc, Azure Automation and Azure Monitor • Implement service monitoring and performance monitoring, and apply troubleshooting.

Who Should Attend

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.

Prerequisites

Windows Server Management: Experience managing Windows Server (2012 or later) environments, core workloads (AD DS, DNS, DFS, File & Storage Services), and common administrative tools.
Infrastructure & Resiliency: Familiarity with virtualization (Hyper-V, virtual machines), backup/restore concepts, high availability, autoscaling, and on-premises resiliency.
Azure & Cloud Services: Experience implementing and managing Azure IaaS services and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Networking, Security, & Automation: Fundamental knowledge of core networking, security technologies (firewalls, encryption, MFA, SIEM/SOAR), and basic PowerShell scripting.

1Secure Windows Server onpremises and hybrid infrastructures

Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security

Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines

Manage Azure updates

Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control

Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines

Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs

Secure Windows Server DNS

Secure Windows Server user accounts

Hardening Windows Server

Windows Server update management

2Implement Windows Server high availability

Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes

Implement Windows Server failover clustering

Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs

Implement Windows Server File Server high availability

Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VM

3 Implement disaster recovery in Windows Server onpremises and hybrid environments

Implement Hyper-V Replica

Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS

Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery

Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery

Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup

4Migrate servers and workloads in onpremises and hybrid environments

Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines

Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines

Active Directory Domain Services migration

Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service

Migrate Windows Server roles

5Course Labs

Configuring security in Windows Server

Implementing Security Solutions in Hybrid Scenarios

Implementing failover clustering

Implementing Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup

Implementing Azure-based recovery services

Upgrade and migrate in Windows Server

Migrating Hyper-V VMs to Azure by using Azure Migrate

Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server

Implementing operational monitoring in hybrid scenarios