AZ-800T00: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure

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.

Who Should Attend?

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.

Deploy and manage 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 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 RODCs
Troubleshoot 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, Azure AD DS, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra

Implement and manage hybrid identities

Integrate Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra, AD DS and Azure AD Domain Services
Implement Azure AD Connect
Manage Azure AD Connect synchronization
Implement Azure AD Connect cloud sync
Manage Azure AD Domain Services
Manage Azure AD 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 Azure AD DS

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

Manage Windows Servers in a hybrid environment

Deploy a WAC Gateway server
Configure a target machine for WAC
Configure PowerShell remoting
Configure CredSSP or Kerberos Delegation for 2nd Hop Remoting
Configure 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 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 VHD and VHDX files
Configure Hyper-V Network Adapter
Configure 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 continuous delivery for an 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 DNSSEC

Manage IP addressing in on-premises and hybrid scenarios

Implement and manage IPAM
Implement and configure the 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

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 DFS to Azure File Sync

Configure and manage Windows Server file shares

Configure Windows Server file share access
Configuring file screens
Configure 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 SMB direct
Configure Storage QoS
Configure file systems

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 Azure Active Directory
Experience working hands-on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11
Basic experience with Windows PowerShell

This will be a virtual event hosted on Microsoft Teams. In the Microsoft Teams platform and sessions, your name, email address, or title may be viewable by other participants. By joining this event, you agree to this experience. 