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

4 days
Windows ServerMicrosoftAzure

Learn to configure secure, highly available Windows Server hybrid services, migrate workloads to Azure IaaS, and monitor, troubleshoot, and recover environments

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Course Overview

This four-day course teaches IT professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments. Learn to secure Windows Server and Azure IaaS virtual machines, migrate physical and virtual workloads to Azure, implement high availability and disaster recovery, and monitor and troubleshoot hybrid infrastructure.

The course covers 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, Azure Migrate, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. It is intended for experienced Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who want to extend, secure, protect, and manage their on-premises environments with Azure services.

Course Benefits

  • Secure Windows Server, DNS, user accounts, and Azure IaaS virtual machines.
  • Apply network controls, disk encryption, application allowlists, security policies, auditing, and file integrity monitoring.
  • Manage updates for Windows Server and Azure virtual machines.
  • Implement failover clustering, Hyper-V availability, Scale-Out File Server, Storage Replica, and virtual machine scaling.
  • Plan and implement backup, replication, failover, disaster recovery, and workload restoration.
  • Assess and migrate physical servers, virtual machines, Active Directory Domain Services, file servers, and Windows Server roles.
  • Monitor hybrid infrastructure, virtual machines, performance, and event logs with Windows Server and Azure tools.
  • Troubleshoot networking, Azure virtual machines, Active Directory, and hybrid authentication.

Delivery Methods

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Delivered for your team at your site or online.

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Course Outline

  1. Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security
    1. Implement network security groups and Windows IaaS VMs
    2. Implement adaptive network hardening
    3. Implement Azure Firewall and Windows IaaS VMs
    4. Implement Windows Firewall with Windows Server IaaS VMs
    5. Choose the appropriate filtering solution
    6. Deploy and configure Azure Firewall using the Azure portal
    7. Capture network traffic with Network Watcher
    8. Log network traffic to and from a VM using the Azure portal
    9. Module assessment
  2. Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
    1. Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    2. Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud in hybrid environments
    3. Implement and assess security policies
    4. Protect resources with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    5. Implement Microsoft Sentinel
    6. Module assessment
  3. Manage Azure updates
    1. Describe update management
    2. Enable update management
    3. Deploy updates
    4. View update assessments
    5. Manage updates for Azure virtual machines
    6. Module assessment
  4. Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control
    1. Describe adaptive application control
    2. Implement adaptive application control policies
    3. Module assessment
  5. Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS virtual machines
    1. Describe Azure Disk Encryption and server-side encryption
    2. Configure Key Vault for Azure Disk Encryption
    3. Encrypt Azure IaaS virtual machine hard disks
    4. Back up and recover data from encrypted disks
    5. Create and encrypt a Windows virtual machine
    6. Module assessment
  6. Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs
    1. Implement Change Tracking and Inventory
    2. Manage Change Tracking and Inventory
    3. Manage tracked files
    4. Implement File Integrity Monitoring
    5. Select and monitor entities
    6. Use File Integrity Monitoring
    7. Module assessment
  7. Secure Windows Server DNS
    1. Implement split-horizon DNS
    2. Create DNS policies
    3. Implement DNS policies
    4. Secure Windows Server DNS
    5. Implement DNSSEC
    6. Module assessment
  8. Secure Windows Server user accounts
    1. Configure user account rights
    2. Protect user accounts with the Protected Users group
    3. Describe Windows Defender Credential Guard
    4. Block NTLM authentication
    5. Locate problematic accounts
    6. Module assessment
  9. Windows Server update management
    1. Explore Windows Update
    2. Outline Windows Server Update Services server deployment options
    3. Define the Windows Server Update Services update management process
    4. Describe the process of update management
    5. Module assessment
  10. Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes
    1. Determine the functionality of Cluster Shared Volumes
    2. Explore the architecture and components of Cluster Shared Volumes
    3. Implement Cluster Shared Volumes
    4. Module assessment
  11. Implement Windows Server failover clustering
    1. Define Windows Server failover clustering
    2. Plan Windows Server failover clustering
    3. Implement Windows Server failover clustering
    4. Manage Windows Server failover clustering
    5. Implement stretch clusters
    6. Define cluster sets
    7. Module assessment
  12. Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs
    1. Select high-availability options for Hyper-V
    2. Consider network load balancing for Hyper-V VMs
    3. Implement Hyper-V VM live migration
    4. Implement Hyper-V VM storage migration
    5. Module assessment
  13. Implement Windows Server File Server high availability
    1. Explore Windows Server File Server high-availability options
    2. Define Cluster Shared Volumes
    3. Implement Scale-Out File Server
    4. Implement Storage Replica
    5. Module assessment
  14. Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VMs
    1. Describe virtual machine scale sets
    2. Implement scaling
    3. Implement load balancing for VMs
    4. Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal
    5. Describe Azure Site Recovery
    6. Implement Azure Site Recovery
    7. Module assessment
  15. Implement Hyper-V Replica
    1. Define Hyper-V Replica
    2. Plan for Hyper-V Replica
    3. Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica
    4. Define extended replication
    5. Define Azure Site Recovery
    6. Implement Site Recovery from an on-premises site to Azure
    7. Implement Site Recovery from an on-premises site to another on-premises site
    8. Module assessment
  16. Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
    1. Describe Azure Backup
    2. Implement Recovery Services vaults
    3. Implement Azure Backup policies
    4. Recover Windows IaaS virtual machines
    5. Perform file and folder recovery
    6. Back up and restore on-premises workloads
    7. Manage Azure virtual machine backups with Azure Backup
    8. Module assessment
  17. Protect on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
    1. Azure Site Recovery overview
    2. Workloads supported for protection with Azure Site Recovery
    3. Run a disaster recovery drill
    4. Perform failover and failback
  18. Protect Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
    1. Describe Azure Site Recovery
    2. Prepare for disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
    3. Run a disaster recovery drill
    4. Perform failover and failback using Azure Site Recovery
  19. Protect virtual machines by using Azure Backup
    1. Azure Backup features and scenarios
    2. Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
    3. Restore virtual machine data
  20. Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
    1. Plan the migration
    2. Describe Azure Migrate
    3. Perform a server assessment
    4. Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate
    5. Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
    6. Module assessment
  21. Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
    1. Describe Azure Migrate
    2. Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
    3. Describe storage migration
    4. Migrate file servers by using Storage Migration Service
    5. Module assessment
  22. Active Directory Domain Services migration
    1. Examine upgrade versus migration
    2. Upgrade a previous version of Active Directory Domain Services to Windows Server 2025
    3. Migrate from a previous version to Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2025
    4. Explore the Active Directory Migration Tool
    5. Module assessment
  23. Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
    1. Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios
    2. Storage migration requirements
    3. Migrate a server with Storage Migration Service
    4. Evaluate storage migration considerations
    5. Module assessment
  24. Migrate Windows Server roles
    1. Describe Windows Server Migration Tools
    2. Install the migration tools
    3. Migrate roles using the migration tools
    4. Module assessment
  25. Monitor Windows Server IaaS virtual machines and hybrid instances
    1. Enable Azure Monitor for virtual machines
    2. Monitor an Azure virtual machine with Azure Monitor
    3. Enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios
    4. Collect data from a Windows computer in a hybrid environment
    5. Integrate Azure Monitor with Microsoft Operations Manager
    6. Module assessment
  26. Monitor Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
    1. Monitoring for Azure VMs
    2. Monitor VM host data
    3. Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
    4. Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
    5. Collect VM client event logs
  27. Monitor Windows Server performance
    1. Use Performance Monitor to identify performance problems
    2. Use Resource Monitor to review current resource usage
    3. Review reliability with Reliability Monitor
    4. Implement a performance monitoring methodology
    5. Use Data Collector Sets to analyze server performance
    6. Monitor network infrastructure services
    7. Monitor virtual machines running Windows Server
    8. Monitor performance with Windows Admin Center
    9. Use System Insights to help predict future capacity issues
    10. Optimize Windows Server performance
    11. Module assessment
  28. Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
    1. Describe Windows Server event logs
    2. Use Windows Admin Center to review logs
    3. Use Server Manager to review logs
    4. Use custom views
    5. Implement event log subscriptions
    6. Module assessment
  29. Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
    1. Describe basic auditing categories
    2. Describe advanced auditing categories
    3. Log user access
    4. Enable setup and boot event collection
    5. Module assessment
  30. Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
    1. Diagnose DHCP problems
    2. Diagnose DNS problems
    3. Diagnose IP configuration issues
    4. Diagnose routing problems
    5. Use Packet Monitor to help diagnose network problems
    6. Use Azure Network Watcher to help diagnose network problems
    7. Module assessment
  31. Troubleshoot Windows Server virtual machines in Azure
    1. Troubleshoot VM deployment
    2. Troubleshoot VM startup
    3. Troubleshoot VM extensions
    4. Troubleshoot VM connectivity
    5. Troubleshoot VM performance
    6. Troubleshoot VM storage
    7. Module assessment
  32. Troubleshoot Active Directory
    1. Recover objects from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
    2. Recover the AD DS database
    3. Recover SYSVOL
    4. Troubleshoot AD DS replication
    5. Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues
    6. Module assessment

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Windows Server class:

  • An understanding of high availability and disaster recovery concepts as they relate to Windows Server
  • An understanding of automation in Windows Server environments
  • An understanding of Windows Server monitoring
  • An understanding of Windows Server troubleshooting

Experience in the following would be useful for this Windows Server class:

  • Experience implementing and managing core Windows Server technologies
  • Experience administering Windows Server in on-premises environments

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