Description

Candidates for this exam configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. These professionals should have expertise in implementing and managing on-premises and hybrid solutions, including performing tasks related to security, migration, monitoring, high availability, Troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. They use administrative tools and technologies, such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor. 

A candidate for this exam should have extensive experience working with Windows Server operating systems. 

Note: Currently the exam is available in beta version 

Course Fee: £1,799+VAT

Objectives

• Secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid infrastructures  
• Implement and manage Windows Server high availability  
• Implement disaster recovery  
• Migrate servers and workloads  
• Monitor and Troubleshoot Windows Server environments  

Who Should Attend

Candidates for the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification should have subject matter expertise in configuring and managing Windows Server on-premises, hybrid, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform workload. Responsibilities for this role include integrating Windows Server environments with Azure services and managing Windows Server in on-premises networks. This role manages and maintains Windows Server IaaS workloads in Azure, in addition to migrating and deploying workloads to Azure. This role typically collaborates with Azure administrators, enterprise architects, Microsoft 365 administrators, and network engineers. Candidates for this exam configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. These professionals should have expertise in implementing and managing on-premises and hybrid solutions, including performing tasks related to security, migration, monitoring, high availability, Troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. They use administrative tools and technologies, such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor. A candidate for this exam should have extensive experience working with Windows Server operating systems.

Prerequisites

 Extensive experience in working with Windows Server Operating Systems 

Course Outline

Module 1: Secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid infrastructures  

Secure Windows Server operating system  

• Configureand manage exploit protection  
• Configureand manage Windows Defender Application Control  
• Configureand manage Windows Defender for Endpoint  
• Configureand manage Windows Defender Credential Guard  
• ConfigureSmartScreen  
• Implementoperating system security by using Group Policies  

Secure a hybrid Active Directory (AD) infrastructure  

• Configurepassword policies  
• Enablepassword block lists  
• Manageprotected users  
• Manageaccount security on a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC)  
• Hardendomain controllers 
• Configureauthentication policies silos  
• Restrictaccess to domain controllers  
• Configureaccount security  
• ManageAD built-in administrative groups  
• ManageAD delegation  
• Implementand manage Microsoft Defender for Identity  

Identify and remediate Windows Server security issues by using Azure services  

• Monitoron-premises servers and Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) by using Azure Sentinel  
• Identifyand remediate security issues on-premises servers and Azure IaaS VMs by using Azure Security Center  

Secure Windows Server networking  

• ManageWindows Defender Firewall  
• Implementdomain isolation  
• Implementconnection security rules  

Secure Windows Server storage  

• ManageWindows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker)  
• Manageand recover encrypted volumes  
• Enablestorage encryption by using Azure Disk Encryption  
• Managedisk encryption keys for IaaS virtual machines  

Module 2: Implement and manage Windows Server high availability  

Implement a Windows Server failover cluster  

• Implementa failover cluster on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-only  
• Createa Windows failover cluster  
• Stretchcluster across datacenter or Azure regions  
• Configurestorage for failover clustering  
• Modifyquorum options  
• Configurenetwork adapters for failover clustering  
• Configurecluster workload options  
• Configurecluster sets  
• ConfigureScale-Out File Servers  
• Createan Azure witness  
• Configurea floating IP address for the cluster  
• Implementload balancing for the failover cluster  

Manage failover clustering  

• Implementcluster-aware updating  
• Recovera failed cluster node  
• Upgradea node to Windows Server 2022  
• Failoverworkloads between nodes  
• InstallWindows updates on cluster nodes  
• Managefailover clusters using Windows Admin Center  

Implement and manage Storage Spaces Direct  

• Createa failover cluster using Storage Spaces Direct  
• Upgradea Storage Spaces Direct node  
• Implementnetworking for Storage Spaces Direct  
• ConfigureStorage Spaces Direct  

Module 3: Implement disaster recovery 

Manage backup and recovery for Windows Server  

• Backupand restore files and folders to Azure Recovery Services vault  
• Installand manage Azure Backup Server  
• Backup andrecover using Azure Backup Server  
• Managebackups in Azure Recovery Services vault  
• Createa backup policy  
• Configurebackup for Azure Virtual Machines using the built-in backup agent  
• Recovera VM using temporary snapshots  
• RecoverVMs to new Azure Virtual Machines  
• Restorea VM  

Implement disaster recovery by using Azure Site Recovery  

• ConfigureAzure Site Recovery networking  
• ConfigureSite Recovery for on-premises VMs  
• Configurea recovery plan  
• ConfigureSite Recovery for Azure Virtual Machines  
• ImplementVM replication to secondary datacenter or Azure region  
• ConfigureAzure Site Recovery policies  

Protect virtual machines by using Hyper-V replicas  

• ConfigureHyper-V hosts for replication  
• ManageHyper-V replica servers  
• ConfigureVM replication  
• Performa failover  

Module 4: Migrate servers and workloads 

Migrate on-premises storage to on-premises servers or Azure  

• Transferdata and share  
• Cutover to a new server by using Storage Migration Service  
• UseStorage Migration Service to migrate to Azure Virtual Machines  
• Migrateto Azure file shares  

Migrate on-premises servers to Azure  

• Deployand configure Azure Migrate appliance  
• MigrateVM workloads to Azure IaaS  
• Migratephysical workloads to Azure IaaS  
• Migrateby using Azure Migrate  

Migrate workloads from previous versions to Windows Server 2022  

• MigrateInternet Information Services (IIS)  
• MigrateHyper-V hosts  
• MigrateRemote Desktop Services (RDS) host servers  
• MigrateDynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)  
• Migrateprint servers  

Migrate IIS workloads to Azure  

• MigrateIIS workloads to Azure Web Apps  
• MigrateIIS workloads to containers  

Migrate an AD DS infrastructure to Windows Server 2022 AD DS  

• MigrateAD DS objects, including users, groups and Group Policies, using Active Directory Migration Tool  
• Migrateto a new Active Directory Forest  
• Upgradean existing forest  

Module 5: Monitor and Troubleshoot Windows Server environments 

Monitor Windows Server by using Windows Server tools and Azure services  

• MonitorWindows Server by using Performance Monitor  
• Createand configure Data Collector Sets  
• Monitorservers and configure alerts by using Windows Admin Center  
• Monitorby using System Insights  
• Manageevent logs  
• DeployLog Analytics agents  
• Collectperformance counters to Azure  
• Createalerts  
• MonitorAzure Virtual Machines by using Azure diagnostics extension  
• MonitorAzure Virtual Machines performance by using VM insights  

Troubleshoot Windows Server on-premises and hybrid networking  

• Troubleshoothybrid network connectivity  
• Troubleshooton-premises connectivity  

Troubleshoot Windows Server virtual machines in Azure  

• Troubleshootdeployment failures  
• Troubleshootbooting failures  
• TroubleshootVM performance issues  
• TroubleshootVM extension issues  
• Troubleshootdisk encryption issues  
• Troubleshootstorage  
• TroubleshootVM connection issues  

Troubleshoot Active Directory  

• Restoreobjects from AD recycle bin  
• RecoverActive Directory database using Directory Services Restore Mode  
• RecoverSYSVOL  
• TroubleshootActive Directory replication  
• Troubleshoothybrid authentication issues  
• Troubleshooton-premises Active Directory 

About the Trainer

A Certified Microsoft Azure Trainer

Course Fee

£1,799+VAT