Professional Training

Audience Profile

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.

Skills gained

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.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Experience with managing Windows Server operating system and Windows Server workloads in on-premises scenarios, including AD DS, DNS, DFS, Hyper-V, and File and Storage Services
Experience with common Windows Server management tools (implied in the first prerequisite).
Basic knowledge of core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies (implied in the first prerequisite).
Experience and an understanding of core networking technologies such as IP addressing, name resolution, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Experience working with and an understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V and basic server virtualization concepts
An awareness of basic security best practices
Basic understanding of security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication, SIEM/SOAR).
Basic knowledge of on-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies (Failover Clustering, Storage Spaces).
Basic experience with implementing and managing IaaS services in Microsoft Azure
Basic knowledge of Azure Active Directory
Experience working hands-on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11
Basic experience with Windows PowerShell
An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies:
High availability and disaster recovery
Automation
Monitoring
Troubleshooting

Windows Server security

Secure Windows Sever user accounts
Hardening Windows Server
Windows Server Update Management
Secure Windows Server DNS
Lab : Configuring security in Windows Server
Configuring Windows Defender Credential Guard
Locating problematic accounts
Implementing LAPS

Implementing security solutions in hybrid scenarios

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 Server IaaS VMs
Lab : Using Azure Security Center in hybrid scenarios

Implementing 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 VMs.
Lab : Implementing failover clustering

Disaster recovery in Windows Server

Implement Hyper-V Replica
Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
Lab : Implementing Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup

Implementing recovery services in hybrid scenarios

Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
Lab : Implementing Azure-based recovery services

Upgrade and migrate in Windows Server

Active Directory Domain Services migration
Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
Migrate Windows Server roles
Lab : Migrating Windows Server workloads to IaaS VMs

Implementing migration in hybrid scenarios

Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service
Lab : Migrating on-premises VMs servers to IaaS VMs

Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server

Monitor Windows Server performance
Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
Troubleshoot Active Directory
Lab : Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server

Implementing operational monitoring in hybrid scenarios

Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machines by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure
Lab : Monitoring and troubleshooting of IaaS VMs running Windows Server