UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning
UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning · Microsoft

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

LevelIntermediate
Duration4 Days
Average Salary$86,971
LabsYes
Experience2 years: Windows Server​

Offered to the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community through UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning in partnership with Applied Technology Academy — live online or in person, taught by ATA's practitioner instructors.

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • 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.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.
Course Outline
  • 1 - Secure Windows Server user accounts
    • Configure user account rights
    • Protect user accounts with the Protected Users group
    • Describe Windows Defender Credential Guard
    • Block NTLM authentication
    • Locate problematic accounts
  • 2 - Windows Server update management
    • Explore Windows Update
    • Outline Windows Server Update Services server deployment options
    • Define Windows Server Update Services update management process
    • Describe the process of Update Management
  • 3 - Secure Windows Server DNS
    • Implement split-horizon DNS
    • Create DNS policies
    • Implement DNS policies
    • Secure Windows Server DNS
    • Implement DNSSEC
  • 4 - Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security
    • Implement network security groups and Windows IaaS VMs
    • Implement adaptive network hardening
    • Implement Azure Firewall and Windows IaaS VMs
    • Implement Windows firewall with Windows Server IaaS VMs
    • Choose the appropriate filtering solution
    • Deploy and configure Azure firewall using the Azure portal
    • Capture network traffic with network watcher
    • Log network traffic to and from a VM using the Azure portal
  • 5 - Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
    • Describe Azure Security Center
    • Enable Azure Security Center in hybrid environments
    • Implement and assess security policies
    • Protect your resources with Azure Security Center
    • Implement Azure Sentinel
  • 6 - Manage Azure updates
    • Describe update management
    • Enable update management
    • Deploy updates
    • View update assessments
    • Manage updates for your Azure Virtual Machines
  • 7 - Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control
    • Describe adaptive application control
    • Implement adaptive application control policies
  • 8 - Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
    • Describe Azure Disk Encryption and server-side encryption
    • Configure Key Vault for Azure Disk Encryption
    • Encrypt Azure IaaS Virtual Machine hard disks
    • Back up and recover data from encrypted disks
    • Create and encrypt a Windows Virtual Machine
  • 9 - Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs
    • Implement Change Tracking and Inventory
    • Manage Change Tracking and Inventory
    • Manage tracked files
    • Implement File Integrity Monitoring
    • Select and monitor entities
    • Use File Integrity Monitoring
  • 10 - Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes
    • Determine the functionality of Cluster Shared Volumes
    • Explore the architecture and components of Cluster Shared Volumes
    • Implement Cluster Shared Volumes
  • 11 - Implement Windows Server failover clustering
    • Define Windows Server failover clustering
    • Plan Windows Server failover clustering
    • Implement Windows Server failover clustering
    • Manage Windows Server failover clustering
    • Implement stretch clusters
    • Define cluster sets
  • 12 - Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs
    • Select high-availability options for Hyper-V
    • Consider network load balancing for Hyper-V VMs
    • Implement Hyper-V VM live migration
    • Implement Hyper-V VMs storage migration
  • 13 - Implement Windows Server File Server high availability
    • Explore the Windows Server File Server high-availability options
    • Define Cluster Shared Volumes
    • Implement Scale-Out File Server
    • Implement Storage Replica
  • 14 - Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VM
    • Describe virtual machine scale sets
    • Implement scaling
    • Implement load-balancing VMs
    • Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal
    • Describe Azure Site Recovery
    • Implement Azure Site Recovery
  • 15 - Implement Hyper-V Replica
    • Define Hyper-V Replica
    • Plan for Hyper-V Replica
    • Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica
    • Define extended replication
    • Define Azure Site Recovery
    • Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to Azure
    • Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to on-premises site
  • 16 - Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
    • Azure Site Recovery overview
    • Workloads supported for protection with Azure Site Recovery
    • Run a disaster recovery drill
    • Failover and failback
  • 17 - Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
    • Describe Azure Backup
    • Implement recovery vaults
    • Implement Azure Backup policies
    • Recover Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
    • Perform file and folder recovery
    • Perform backup and restore of on-premises workloads
    • Manage Azure Virtual Machine backups with Azure Backup service
  • 18 - Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
    • What is Azure Site Recovery
    • Prepare for disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
    • Run a disaster recovery drill
    • Failover and failback using Azure Site Recovery
  • 19 - Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
    • Azure Backup features and scenarios
    • Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
    • Restore virtual machine data
  • 20 - Active Directory Domain Services migration
    • Examine upgrade vs. migration
    • Upgrade a previous version of Active Directory Domain Services to Windows Server 2022
    • Migrate to Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2022 from a previous version
    • Explore the Active Directory Migration Tool
  • 21 - Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
    • Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios
    • Storage migration requirements
    • Migrate a server with Storage migration
    • Evaluate storage migration considerations
  • 22 - Migrate Windows Server roles
    • Describe the Windows Server Migration Tools
    • Install the Migration Tools
    • Migrate roles using the Migration Tools
  • 23 - Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
    • Plan your migration
    • Describe Azure Migrate
    • Perform server assessment
    • Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate
    • Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
  • 24 - Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
    • Describe Azure Migrate
    • Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
    • Describe storage migration
    • Migrate file servers by using Storage Migration Service
  • 25 - Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service
    • Azure Migrate App Containerization overview
  • 26 - Monitor Windows Server performance
    • Use Performance Monitor to identify performance problems
    • Use Resource Monitor to review current resource usage
    • Review reliability with Reliability Monitor
    • Implement a performance monitoring methodology
    • Use Data Collector Sets to analyze server performance
    • Monitor network infrastructure services
    • Monitor virtual machines running Windows Server
    • Monitor performance with Windows Admin Center
    • Use System Insights to help predict future capacity issues
    • Optimize the performance of Windows Server
  • 27 - Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
    • Describe Windows Server event logs
    • Use Windows Admin Center to review logs
    • Use Server Manager to review logs
    • Use custom views
    • Implement event log subscriptions
  • 28 - Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
    • Describe basic auditing categories
    • Describe advanced categories
    • Log user access
    • Enable setup and boot event collection
  • 29 - Troubleshoot Active Directory
    • Recover objects from the AD recycle bin
    • Recover the AD DS database
    • Recover SYSVOL
    • Troubleshoot AD DS replication
    • Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues
  • 30 - Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
    • Enable Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines
    • Monitor an Azure Virtual Machine with Azure Monitor
    • Enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios
    • Collect data from a Windows computer in a hybrid environment
    • Integrate Azure Monitor with Microsoft Operations Manager
  • 31 - Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
    • Monitor the health of the virtual machine
    • View VM metrics
    • Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
    • Diagnostic data case studies
  • 32 - Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
    • What are Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights?
    • Build log queries by using the Kusto Query Language
  • 33 - Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
    • Diagnose DHCP problems
    • Diagnose DNS problems
    • Diagnose IP configuration issues
    • Diagnose routing problems
    • Use Packet Monitor to help diagnose network problems
    • Use Azure Network Watcher to help diagnose network problems
  • 34 - Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure
    • Troubleshoot VM deployment
    • Troubleshoot VM startup
    • Troubleshoot VM extensions
    • Troubleshoot VM connectivity
    • Troubleshoot VM performance
    • Troubleshoot VM storage
Intended Audience

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

An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies:

  • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Automation
  • Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting