Course Overview
This intermediate-level course provides IT professionals with the knowledge and skills to manage core Windows Server workloads and services across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. It focuses on implementing and managing Windows Server solutions that integrate traditional infrastructure with hybrid technologies.
The course covers key administrative areas including identity infrastructure, Windows Server and workload management, virtualization and containers, networking infrastructure, and storage and file services. It 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 using hybrid technologies.
The course is related to the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification.
Course Objective
- Understand the implementation and management of identity infrastructure in a Windows Server environment.
- Implement identity infrastructure for on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment.
- Apply hybrid technologies to the management of Windows Server workloads.
- Manage virtualization in a hybrid Windows Server environment.
- Manage containers in a hybrid environment.
- Implement and operate on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure.
- Configure networking infrastructure for on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Configure storage services in Windows Server.
- Manage storage and file services within a Windows Server environment.
Pre-requisites
Experience working with Windows Server is expected.
Course Curriculum
- Understand Windows Server identity infrastructure concepts and components.
- Plan and implement an identity infrastructure for Windows Server environments.
- Deploy and configure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
- Manage users, groups, computers, and organizational units (OUs).
- Configure and manage authentication and authorization.
- Implement and manage Group Policy.
- Monitor and maintain identity services and domain controllers.
- Troubleshoot common identity and access management issues.
- Understand Windows Server hybrid management concepts.
- Manage Windows Server instances across on-premises and Azure environments.
- Configure and administer Windows Server workloads in hybrid environments.
- Integrate Windows Servers with Azure hybrid services.
- Manage server configuration, connectivity, and resources.
- Monitor server health, performance, and availability.
- Maintain and troubleshoot hybrid Windows Server workloads.
- Apply best practices for secure and efficient hybrid management.
- Understand virtualization and container concepts in Windows Server.
- Configure and manage Hyper-V virtualization.
- Create and manage virtual machines and virtual networks.
- Configure virtual machine storage and resources.
- Deploy and manage Windows Server containers.
- Explore container networking and storage options.
- Integrate virtualization and containers with Azure hybrid services.
- Monitor and troubleshoot virtualized and containerized workloads.
- Understand on-premises and hybrid networking concepts.
- Configure and manage network infrastructure across Windows Server environments.
- Implement IP addressing, DNS, and DHCP services.
- Configure routing and remote access solutions.
- Integrate on-premises networks with Azure networking services.
- Implement secure hybrid network connectivity.
- Monitor network performance, availability, and connectivity.
- Troubleshoot common network infrastructure issues.
- Understand Windows Server storage and file services concepts.
- Configure and manage disks, volumes, and file systems.
- Create and manage file shares and shared folders.
- Configure file and folder permissions.
- Implement and manage Storage Spaces and storage pools.
- Configure data deduplication and storage optimization.
- Monitor storage capacity, performance, and availability.
- Troubleshoot common storage and file service issues.
