Course Overview
This intermediate-level course provides IT professionals with the knowledge and skills to configure and administer advanced Windows Server services across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. It focuses on extending existing Windows Server infrastructure by using the hybrid capabilities of Microsoft Azure.
The course covers securing Windows Server infrastructure, implementing high availability and disaster recovery, migrating virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server environments. It also introduces 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 Azure IaaS virtual machine administration.
Course Objective
- Understand how to secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid infrastructures.
- Implement security measures for Windows Server environments and Azure virtual machines.
- Apply hybrid administration capabilities using Azure services and Windows Server technologies.
- Implement high availability for Windows Server environments.
- Implement disaster recovery for on-premises and hybrid Windows Server environments.
- Configure migration of virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS.
- Apply Windows Server workload migration techniques in on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Use Windows Server and Azure administrative tools to manage hybrid infrastructure.
- Monitor Windows Server environments using supported monitoring technologies.
- Identify and troubleshoot issues in Windows Server environments.
Pre-requisites
Experience working with Windows Server and implementing and managing on-premises core Windows Server technologies is recommended for the intended audience. No additional mandatory prerequisites are specified in the source.
Course Curriculum
- Understand Windows Server security across on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Implement security controls using Microsoft Defender for Identity.
- Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to strengthen security posture.
- Apply Azure Policy for security governance and compliance.
- Explore Azure hybrid capabilities for securing Windows Server environments.
- Monitor and manage security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
- Apply best practices for protecting hybrid Windows Server infrastructure.
- Understand high availability and redundancy concepts in Windows Server.
- Explore Windows Server high-availability technologies.
- Implement failover clustering for critical workloads.
- Configure highly available services and applications.
- Plan for infrastructure redundancy and fault tolerance.
- Monitor and maintain high-availability environments.
- Troubleshoot availability and clustering issues.
- Understand disaster recovery concepts and strategies for Windows Server.
- Plan disaster recovery for on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Implement backup and recovery solutions for Windows Server workloads.
- Configure Azure-based disaster recovery capabilities.
- Protect critical applications, data, and infrastructure.
- Test and validate disaster recovery plans and procedures.
- Monitor and troubleshoot disaster recovery solutions.
- Understand workload migration concepts and strategies.
- Assess virtual and physical servers for migration readiness.
- Plan workload migrations to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Prepare source environments and Azure infrastructure for migration.
- Migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure.
- Validate workload functionality and performance after migration.
- Monitor and troubleshoot migration-related issues.
