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    Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

    This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage core Windows Server workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.

    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 implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.

    About this Course

    Duration

    4 Days

    Course Outline

    Skills at a glance

    • Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments (30–35%)

    • Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment (10–15%)

    • Manage virtual machines and containers (15–20%)

    • Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure (15–20%)

    • Manage storage and file services (15–20%)

    Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments (30–35%)

    Deploy and manage AD DS domain controllers

    • Deploy and manage domain controllers on-premises

    • Deploy and manage domain controllers in Azure

    • Deploy read-only domain controllers (RODCs)

    • Troubleshoot flexible single master operation (FSMO) roles

    Configure and manage multi-site, multi-domain, and multi-forest environments

    • Configure and manage forest and domain trusts

    • Configure and manage AD DS sites

    • Configure and manage AD DS replication

    Create and manage AD DS security principals

    • Create and manage AD DS users and groups

    • Manage users and groups in multi-domain and multi-forest scenarios

    • Implement Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs)

    • Join Windows Servers to AD DS, Microsoft Entra Domain Services, and Microsoft Entra

    Implement and manage hybrid identities

    • Integrate Microsoft Entra ID, AD DS and Microsoft Entra Domain Services

    • Implement Microsoft Entra Connect

    • Manage Microsoft Entra Connect synchronization

    • Implement Microsoft Entra Connect cloud sync

    • Manage Microsoft Entra Domain Services

    • Manage Microsoft Entra Connect Health

    • Manage authentication in on-premises and hybrid environments

    • Configure and manage AD DS passwords

    Manage Windows Server by using domain-based Group Policies

    • Implement Group Policy in AD DS

    • Implement Group Policy Preferences in AD DS

    • Implement Group Policy in Microsoft Entra Domain Services

    Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment (10–15%)

    Manage Windows Servers in a hybrid environment

    • Deploy a Windows Admin Center Gateway server

    • Configure a target machine for Windows Admin Center

    • Configure PowerShell remoting

    • Configure Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) or Kerberos Delegation for 2nd Hop Remoting

    • Configure Just Enough Administration (JEA) for PowerShell remoting

    Manage Windows Servers and workloads by using Azure services

    • Manage Windows Servers by using Azure Arc

    • Create and assign Azure Policy that uses guest configuration extension

    • Deploy Azure services using Azure VM extensions on non-Azure machines

    • Manage updates for Windows machines

    • Integrate Windows Servers with Log Analytics

    • Integrate Windows Servers with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

    • Manage IaaS VMs in Azure that run Windows Server

    • Implement Azure Automation for hybrid workloads

    • Create runbooks to automate tasks on target VMs

    • Implement Azure Automation State Configuration to prevent configuration drift in IaaS machines

    Manage virtual machines and containers (15–20%)

    Manage Hyper-V and guest virtual machines

    • Enable VM Enhanced session mode

    • Manage VM using PowerShell remoting, PowerShell Direct and Secure Shell (SSH) Direct for Linux VMs

    • Configure nested virtualization

    • Configure VM Memory

    • Configure integration services

    • Configure Discrete Device Assignment

    • Configure VM resource groups

    • Configure VM CPU groups

    • Configure hypervisor scheduling types

    • Manage VM checkpoints

    • Implementing high availability for virtual machines

    • Manage virtual hard disk (VHD) and virtual hard disk v2 (VHDX) files

    • Configure Hyper-V Network Adapter

    • Configure network interface card (NIC) Teaming

    • Configure Hyper-V Switch

    Create and manage containers

    • Create Windows Server container images

    • Manage Windows Server container images

    • Configure container networking

    • Manage container instances

    Manage Azure Virtual Machines that run Windows Server

    • Manage data disks

    • Resize Azure VM

    • Configure connections to VMs

    • Manage Azure VM network configuration

    Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure (15–20%)

    Implement on-premises and hybrid name resolution

    • Integrate DNS with AD DS

    • Create and manage DNS zones and records

    • Configure DNS forwarding/conditional forwarding

    • Integrate Windows Server DNS with Azure DNS private zones

    • Implement Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)

    Manage IP addressing in on-premises and hybrid scenarios

    • Implement and manage IP Address Management (IPAM)

    • Implement and configure the Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP) server role (on-premises only)

    • Resolve IP address issues in hybrid environments

    • Create and manage DHCP scopes

    • Create and manage IP reservations

    • Implement DHCP high availability

    Implement on-premises and hybrid network connectivity

    • Implement and manage the Remote Access role

    • Implement and manage Azure Network Adapter

    • Implement and manage Azure extended network

    • Implement and manage Network Policy and Access Services role

    • Implement Web Application Proxy

    • Implement Azure Relay

    • Implement site-to-site VPN

    • Implement Azure Virtual WAN

    • Implement Microsoft Entra Application Proxy

    Manage storage and file services (15–20%)

    Configure and manage Azure File Sync

    • Create Azure File Sync Service

    • Create sync groups

    • Create cloud endpoints

    • Register servers

    • Create server endpoints

    • Configure cloud tiering

    • Monitor File Sync

    • Migrate Distributed File System (DFS) to Azure File Sync

    Configure and manage Windows Server file shares

    • Configure Windows Server file share access

    • Configuring file screens

    • Configure file server resource manager (FSRM) quotas

    • Configure BranchCache

    • Implement and configure Distributed File System (DFS)

    Configure Windows Server storage

    • Configure disks and volumes

    • Configure and manage Storage Spaces

    • Configure and manage Storage Replica

    • Configure Data Deduplication

    • Configure Server Message Block (SMB) direct

    • Configure Storage QoS

    • Configure file systems

     

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