As a candidate for this exam, you’re responsible for configuring and managing Windows Server on-premises, hybrid, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform workloads. As a Windows Server hybrid administrator, you’re tasked with:
- Integrating Windows Server environments with Azure services.
- Managing Windows Server in on-premises networks.
In this role, you manage and maintain Windows Server IaaS workloads in Azure as well as migrating and deploying workloads to Azure. You typically collaborate with:
- Azure administrators
- Enterprise architects
- Microsoft 365 administrators
- Network engineers
As a candidate for this exam, you deploy, package, secure, update, and configure Windows Server workloads using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. In this role, you implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions, such as identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery.
You use administrative tools and technologies such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and IaaS virtual machine (VM) administration.
As a candidate for this exam, you should have several years of experience with Windows Server operating systems.
- Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments
- Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment
- Manage virtual machines and containers
- Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure
- Manage storage and file services
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 implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.
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.
- Basic experience with implementing and managing IaaS services in Microsoft Azure.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Entra.
- Experience working hands-on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11.
- Basic experience with Windows PowerShell.
- Lesson: Introduction to AD DS
- Lesson: Manage AD DS domain controllers and FSMO roles
- Lesson: Implement Group Policy Objects
- Lesson: Manage advanced features of AD DS
- Lab 01 – Implement identity services and Group Policy
- Lesson: Implement hybrid identity in Windows Server
- Lesson: Deploy and manage Azure IaaS Active Directory domain controllers in Azure
- Lab 02 – Implementing integration between AD DS and Microsoft Entra ID
- Lesson: Perform Windows Server secure administration
- Lesson: Windows Server administration tools
- Lesson: Post-installation configuration of Windows Server
- Lesson: Just Enough Administration in Windows Server
- Lab 03 – Managing Windows Server
- Lesson: Administer and manage Windows Server IaaS virtual machines remotely
- Lesson: Manage hybrid workloads with Azure Arc
- Lab 04 – Using Windows Admin Center in Hybrid Scenarios
- Lesson: Configure and manage Hyper-V
- Lesson: Configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines
- Lesson: Securing virtualization in Windows Server
- Lesson: Run containers on Windows Server
- Lesson: Orchestrate containers on Windows Server using Kubernetes
- Lab 05 – Implementing and configuring virtualization in Windows Server
- Lesson: Plan and deploy Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
- Lesson: Customize Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machine images
- Lesson: Automate the configuration of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
- Lab 06 – Deploying and configuring Windows Server on Azure VMs
- Lesson: Deploy and manage DHCP
- Lesson: Implement Windows Server DNS
- Lesson: Implement IP address management
- Lesson: Implement remote access
- Lab 07 – Implementing and configuring network infrastructure services in Windows Server
- Lesson: Implement hybrid network infrastructure
- Lesson: Implement DNS for Windows Server IaaS VMs
- Lesson: Implement Windows Server IaaS VM IP addressing and routing
- Lab 08 – Implementing Hybrid Networking Infrastructure
- Lesson: Manage Windows Server file servers
- Lesson: Implement Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct
- Lesson: Implement Windows Server Data Deduplication
- Lesson: Implement Windows Server iSCSI
- Lesson: Implement Windows Server Storage Replica
- Lab 09 – Implementing Storage Solutions in Windows Server
- Lesson: Overview of Azure file services
- Lesson: Implementing Azure File Sync
- Lab 10 – Implementing Azure File Sync
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 implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.
Yes! This class helps attendees prepare for the Microsoft Certification Exam AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
Please reach out to info@industechservices.com after your course to obtain your exam voucher.
