Unlock the Power of Windows Server with 'Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services'
If you’re in the IT world, the term Windows Server holds a special place in your vocabulary. It’s the backbone of enterprise operations, a key player in keeping businesses running seamlessly. Now, imagine mastering this powerhouse with Info Trek’s ‘Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services’ course. It’s not just about learning; it’s about supercharging your IT career.
Elevate Your IT Game
This course is your golden ticket to configuring advanced Windows Server services like a pro. It’s all about making Windows Server work for you, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or as a hybrid solution. You’ll harness the capabilities of Azure, ensuring high availability, troubleshooting like a seasoned pro, and mastering disaster recovery. But this isn’t your typical tech lecture; it’s an immersive experience, combining interactive lectures, practical exercises, and real-world discussions. You’ll walk away with skills that can elevate your career to new heights.
Who Should Enroll?
Windows Server Hybrid Administrators with a passion for enhancing on-premises environments should not miss this opportunity. If you’re already adept at managing core Windows Server technologies, this course will help you secure and protect your environment, migrate to Azure IaaS, and handle high availability with ease. It’s the ultimate career booster for IT professionals seeking to upskill and stay ahead in the ever-evolving tech landscape.
‘Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services’ is your gateway to mastering Windows Server and redefining your IT career. Don’t just follow tech trends; set them. Join us on this journey, and let Windows Server become your playground, not your puzzle. It’s time to unlock your IT potential!
Course Details
Duration: 4 days; Instructor-led
This course teaches IT Professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches IT Professionals how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor.
Audience
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 who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure Iaas, enable a highly available, fully redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting.
Prerequisites
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
- An awareness of basic security best practices
- Basic understanding of security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication, SIEM/SOAR).
- Basic knowledge of on-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies (Failover Clustering, Storage Spaces).
- 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
An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies:
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
Methodology
This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and practical exercise.
Course Objectives
SKILLS GAINED
- Harden the security configuration of the Windows Server operating system environment.
- Enhance hybrid security using Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, and Windows Update Management.
- Apply security features to protect critical resources.
- Implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Implement recovery services in hybrid scenarios.
- Plan and implement hybrid and cloud-only migration, backup, and recovery scenarios.
- Perform upgrades and migration related to AD DS, and storage.
- Manage and monitor hybrid scenarios using WAC, Azure Arc, Azure Automation and Azure Monitor.
- Implement service monitoring and performance monitoring, and apply troubleshooting.
Outlines
Module 1 - Windows Server security
Windows Server DNS to help protect the network name resolution infrastructure.
 Lessons
- Secure Windows Sever user accounts
- Hardening Windows Server
- Windows Server Update Management
- Secure Windows Server DNS
Lab: Configuring security in Windows Server
- Configuring Windows Defender Credential Guard
- Locating problematic accounts
- Implementing LAPS
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Diagnose and remediate potential security vulnerabilities in Windows Server resources.
- Harden the security configuration of the Windows Server operating system environment.
- Deploy operating system updates to computers on a network by using Windows Server Update Services.
- Secure Windows Server DNS to help protect the network name resolution infrastructure.
- Implement DNS policies.
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Module 2 - Implementing security solutions in hybrid scenarios
Lessons
- Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security.
- Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
- Manage Azure updates
- Create and implement application allow lists with adaptive application control
- Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
- Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows Server IaaS VMs
Lab: Using Azure Security Center in hybrid scenarios
- Provisioning Azure VMs running Windows Server
- Configuring Azure Security Center
- Onboarding on-premises Windows Server into Azure Security Center
- Verifying the hybrid capabilities of Azure Security Center
- Configuring Windows Server security in Azure VMs
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Diagnose network security issues in Windows Server IaaS virtual machines.
- Onboard Windows Server computers to Azure Security Center.
- Deploy and manage updates for Azure VMs by enabling Azure Automation Update Management.
- Implement Adaptive application controls to protect Windows Server IaaS VMs.
- Configure Azure Disk Encryption for Windows IaaS VMs.
- Back up and recover encrypted data.
- Monitor Windows Server Azure IaaS VMs for changes in files and the registry.
Module 3 - Implementing high availability
Lessons
- Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes.
- Implement Windows Server failover clustering.
- Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs.
- Implement Windows Server File Server high availability.
- Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VMs.
Lab: Implementing failover clustering
- Configuring iSCSI storage
- Configuring a failover cluster
- Deploying and configuring a highly available file server
- Validating the deployment of the highly available file server
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Implement highly available storage volumes by using Clustered Share Volumes.
- Implement highly available Windows Server workloads using failover clustering.
- Describe Hyper-V VMs load balancing.
- Implement Hyper-V VMs live migration and Hyper-V VMs storage migration.
- Describe Windows Server File Server high availability options.
- Implement scaling for virtual machine scale sets and load-balanced VMs.
- Implement Azure Site Recovery.
Module 4 - Disaster recovery in Windows Server
Lessons
- Implement Hyper-V Replica
- Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
Lab: Implementing Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup
- Implementing Hyper-V Replica
- Implementing backup and restore with Windows Server Backup
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe Hyper-V Replica, pre-requisites for its use, and its high-level architecture and components
- Describe Hyper-V Replica use cases and security considerations.
- Configure Hyper-V Replica settings, health monitoring, and failover options.
- Describe extended replication.
- Replicate, failover, and failback virtual machines and physical servers with Azure Site Recovery.
Module 5 - Implementing recovery services in hybrid scenarios
Lessons
- Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
- Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
- Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
Lab: Implementing Azure-based recovery services
- Implementing the lab environment
- Creating and configuring an Azure Site Recovery vault
- Implementing Hyper-V VM protection by using Azure Site Recovery vault
- Implementing Azure Backup
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Recover Windows Server IaaS virtual machines by using Azure Backup.
- Use Azure Backup to help protect the data for on-premises servers and virtualized workloads.
- Implement Recovery Vaults and Azure Backup policies.
- Protect Azure VMs with Azure Site Recovery.
- Run a disaster recovery drill to validate protection.
- Failover and failback Azure virtual machines.
Module 6 - Upgrade and migrate in Windows Server
Lessons
- Active Directory Domain Services migration
- Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
- Migrate Windows Server roles
 Lab: Migrating Windows Server workloads to IaaS VMs
- Deploying AD DS domain controllers in Azure
- Migrating file server shares by using Storage Migration Service
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Compare upgrading an AD DS forest and migrating to a new AD DS forest.
- Describe the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT).
- Identify the requirements and considerations for using Storage Migration Service.
- Describe how to migrate a server with storage migration.
- Use the Windows Server Migration Tools to migrate specific Windows Server roles.
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Module 7 - Implementing migration in hybrid scenarios
Lessons
- Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
- Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
- Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service
 Lab: Migrating on-premises VMs servers to IaaS VMs
- Implementing assessment and discovery of Hyper-V VMs using Azure Migrate
- Implementing migration of Hyper-V workloads using Azure Migrate
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Plan a migration strategy and choose the appropriate migration tools.
- Perform server assessment and discovery using Azure Migrate.
- Migrate Windows Server workloads to Azure VM workloads using Azure Migrate.
- Explain how to migrate workloads using Windows Server Migration tools.
- Migrate file servers by using the Storage Migration Service.
- Discover and containerize ASP.NET applications running on Windows.
- Migrate a containerized application to Azure App Service.
Module 8 - Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server
Lessons
- Monitor Windows Server performance
- Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
- Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
- Troubleshoot Active Directory
Lab: Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server
- Establishing a performance baseline
- Identifying the source of a performance problem
- Viewing and configuring centralized event logs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the fundamentals of server performance tuning.
- Use built-in tools in Windows Server to monitor server performance.
- Use Server Manager and Windows Admin Center to review event logs.
- Implement custom views.
- Configure an event subscription.
- Audit Windows Server events.
- Configure Windows Server to record diagnostic information.
- Recover the AD DS database and objects in AD DS.
- Troubleshoot AD DS replication.
- Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues.
Module 9 - Implementing operational monitoring in hybrid scenarios
Lessons
- Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
- Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machines by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
- Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
- Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
- Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure
 Lab: Monitoring and troubleshooting of IaaS VMs running Windows Server
- Enabling Azure Monitor for virtual machines
- Setting up a VM with boot diagnostics
- Setting up a Log Analytics workspace and Azure Monitor VM Insights
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Implement Azure Monitor for IaaS VMs in Azure and in on-premises environments.
- Implement Azure Monitor for IaaS VMs in Azure and in on-premises environments.
- View VM metrics in Azure Metrics Explorer.
- Use monitoring data to diagnose problems.
- Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and configure Azure Monitor VM Insights.
- Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
- Troubleshoot on-premises connectivity and hybrid network connectivity.
- Troubleshoot AD DS service failures or degraded performance.
- Recover deleted security objects and the AD DS database.
- Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues.
