AZ-800T00-A: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure

Instructor-led Training

Course Description

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

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 Sync

  • Manage Microsoft Entra Connect Sync synchronization

  • Implement Microsoft Entra 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 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 Windows Server Azure VMs

  • 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

 

4 Days

Intermediate

Windows Server

Administrator

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