Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services

Secure Windows Server user accounts

Protect your Active Directory environment by securing user accounts to least privilege and placing them in the Protected Users group. Learn how to limit authentication scope and remediate potentially insecure accounts.

• Configure user account rights
• Protect user accounts with the Protected Users group
• Describe Windows Defender Credential Guard
• Block NTLM authentication
• Locate problematic accounts

Windows Server update management

Learn how to use Windows Server Update Services to deploy operating system updates to computers on your network. Select the appropriate deployment option and combine WSUS with Microsoft Azure Update Management to manage server updates.

• Explore Windows Update
• Outline Windows Server Update Services server deployment options
• Define Windows Server Update Services update management process
• Describe the process of Update Management

Secure Windows Server DNS

Secure Windows Server DNS

• Implement split-horizon DNS
• Create DNS policies
• Implement DNS policies
• Secure Windows Server DNS
• Implement DNSSEC

Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security

Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security

• Implement network security groups and Windows IaaS VMs
• Implement adaptive network hardening
• Implement Azure Firewall and Windows IaaS VMs
• Implement Windows firewall with Windows Server IaaS VMs
• Choose the appropriate filtering solution
• Deploy and configure Azure firewall using the Azure portal
• Capture network traffic with network watcher
• Log network traffic to and from a VM using the Azure portal

Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines

You'll learn about Azure Security Center and how to onboard Windows Server computers to Security Center. You'll also learn about Azure Sentinel, security information and event management (SIEM), and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR).

• Describe Azure Security Center
• Enable Azure Security Center in hybrid environments
• Implement and assess security policies
• Protect your resources with Azure Security Center
• Implement Azure Sentinel

Manage Azure updates

You'll be able to enable Azure Update Management, deploy updates, review an update assessment, and manage updates for your Azure VMs.

• Describe update management
• Enable update management
• Deploy updates
• View update assessments
• Manage updates for your Azure Virtual Machines

Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control

You'll be able to implement Adaptive application controls within your organization to protect your Windows Server IaaS VMs.

• Describe adaptive application control
• Implement adaptive application control policies

Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines

Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines

• Describe Azure Disk Encryption and server-side encryption
• Configure Key Vault for Azure Disk Encryption
• Encrypt Azure IaaS Virtual Machine hard disks
• Back up and recover data from encrypted disks
• Create and encrypt a Windows Virtual Machine

Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs

Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs

• Implement Change Tracking and Inventory
• Manage Change Tracking and Inventory
• Manage tracked files
• Implement File Integrity Monitoring
• Select and monitor entities
• Use File Integrity Monitoring

Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes

Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes

• Determine the functionality of Cluster Shared Volumes
• Explore the architecture and components of Cluster Shared Volumes
• Implement Cluster Shared Volumes

Implement Windows Server failover clustering

Implement Windows Server failover clustering

• Define Windows Server failover clustering
• Plan Windows Server failover clustering
• Implement Windows Server failover clustering
• Manage Windows Server failover clustering
• Implement stretch clusters
• Define cluster sets

Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs

Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs

• Select high-availability options for Hyper-V
• Consider network load balancing for Hyper-V VMs
• Implement Hyper-V VM live migration
• Implement Hyper-V VMs storage migration

Implement Windows Server File Server high availability

Implement Windows Server File Server high availability

• Explore the Windows Server File Server high-availability options
• Define Cluster Shared Volumes
• Implement Scale-Out File Server
• Implement Storage Replica

Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VM

You'll learn how to implement scaling for virtual machine scale sets and load-balanced VMs. You'll also learn how to implement Azure Site Recovery.

• Describe virtual machine scale sets
• Implement scaling
• Implement load-balancing VMs
• Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal
• Describe Azure Site Recovery
• Implement Azure Site Recovery

Implement Hyper-V Replica

Implement Hyper-V Replica

• Define Hyper-V Replica
• Plan for Hyper-V Replica
• Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica
• Define extended replication
• Define Azure Site Recovery
• Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to Azure
• Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to on-premises site

Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery

Learn how to provide disaster recovery for your on-premises infrastructure by using Azure Site Recovery to manage and orchestrate replication. Use Site Recovery to perform failover and failback of VMware virtual machines, Hyper-V virtual machines, and physical servers.

• Azure Site Recovery overview
• Workloads supported for protection with Azure Site Recovery
• Run a disaster recovery drill
• Failover and failback

Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS

You'll learn about Azure Backup before learning to implement Recovery Vaults and Azure Backup Policies. You’ll learn to implement Windows IaaS VM recovery, perform backup and restore of on-premises workloads, and manage Azure VM backups.

• Describe Azure Backup
• Implement recovery vaults
• Implement Azure Backup policies
• Recover Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
• Perform file and folder recovery
• Perform backup and restore of on-premises workloads
• Manage Azure Virtual Machine backups with Azure Backup service

Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery

Provide disaster recovery for your Azure infrastructure by customizing replication, failover, and failback of Azure virtual machines with Azure Site Recovery.

• What is Azure Site Recovery
• Prepare for disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
• Exercise - Set up disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
• Run a disaster recovery drill
• Exercise - Run a disaster recovery drill
• Failover and failback using Azure Site Recovery
• Exercise - Failover and failback using Azure Site Recovery

Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup

Use Azure Backup to help protect the data for on-premises servers, virtual machines, virtualized workloads, SQL Server, Azure Files, and more.

• Azure Backup features and scenarios
• Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
• Exercise - Back up an Azure virtual machine
• Restore virtual machine data
• Exercise - Restore Azure virtual machine data

Active Directory Domain Services migration

Determine the best approach to moving domain controllers to Windows Server 2022. Learn how the Active Directory Migration Tool can consolidate domains within a forest or migrate domains to a new AD DS forest.

• Examine upgrade vs. migration
• Upgrade a previous version of Active Directory Domain Services to Windows Server 2022
• Migrate to Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2022 from a previous version
• Explore the Active Directory Migration Tool

Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service

Learn to use Storage Migration Service to migrate files and files shares from existing file server to new servers running Windows Server 2022. Configure storage migration for optimum performance of data migration.

• Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios
• Storage migration requirements
• Migrate a server with Storage migration
• Evaluate storage migration considerations

Migrate Windows Server roles

Learn how to install and use the Windows Server Migration Tools cmdlets to migrate commonly used server roles from earlier versions of Windows Server.

• Describe the Windows Server Migration Tools
• Install the Migration Tools
• Migrate roles using the Migration Tools

Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines

You'll be able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You will also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers.

• Plan your migration
• Describe Azure Migrate
• Perform server assessment
• Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate
• Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate

Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines

Learn to migrate a workload running in Windows Server to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machine (VM) and to Windows Server 2019 by using Windows Server migration tools or the Storage Migration Service.

• Describe Azure Migrate
• Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
• Describe storage migration
• Migrate file servers by using Storage Migration Service

Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service

Microsoft Learn module to learn Azure Migrate App Containerization with a hands-on lab using Azure App Service

• Azure Migrate App Containerization overview
• Exercise - Set up host environment
• Exercise - Discover your ASP.NET web application
• Exercise - Build container image for your ASP.NET app
• Exercise - Deploy app container to App Service

Monitor Windows Server performance

Learn to use a range of Windows Server tools to monitor the operating system and applications on a server computer. You'll also learn to configure your system to optimize efficiency and to troubleshoot problems.

• Use Performance Monitor to identify performance problems
• Use Resource Monitor to review current resource usage
• Review reliability with Reliability Monitor
• Implement a performance monitoring methodology
• Use Data Collector Sets to analyze server performance
• Monitor network infrastructure services
• Monitor virtual machines running Windows Server
• Monitor performance with Windows Admin Center
• Use System Insights to help predict future capacity issues
• Optimize the performance of Windows Server
• Summary and resources

Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs

Learn how Event Viewer provides a convenient and accessible location for you to observe events that occur. Access event information quickly and conveniently. Learn how to interpret the data in the event log.

• Describe Windows Server event logs
• Use Windows Admin Center to review logs
• Use Server Manager to review logs
• Use custom views
• Implement event log subscriptions

Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics

Learn to audit and diagnose your Windows Server environment for regulatory compliance, user activity, and troubleshooting. Implement security best practices through regular audits of your network environment to gain early warning of potential malicious activity.

• Describe basic auditing categories
• Describe advanced categories
• Log user access
• Enable setup and boot event collection

Troubleshoot Active Directory

Learn how to troubleshoot AD DS service failures or degraded performance. Learn how to recover deleted security objects and the AD DS database, and how to troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues.

• Recover objects from the AD recycle bin
• Recover the AD DS database
• Recover SYSVOL
• Troubleshoot AD DS replication
• Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues

Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances

Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances

• Enable Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines
• Monitor an Azure Virtual Machine with Azure Monitor
• Enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios
• Collect data from a Windows computer in a hybrid environment
• Integrate Azure Monitor with Microsoft Operations Manager

Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts

Learn how to monitor the health of your Azure VMs by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts.

• Monitor the health of the virtual machine
• Exercise - Set up a VM with boot diagnostics
• View VM metrics
• Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
• Exercise - Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
• Diagnostic data case studies
• Exercise - Use diagnostic data

Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights

Learn how to use Azure Monitor VM Insights to monitor your organization's Azure virtual machines.

• What are Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights?
• Exercise - Set up a Log Analytics workspace and Azure Monitor VM Insights
• Build log queries by using the Kusto Query Language
• Exercise - Build log queries

Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking

Learn to troubleshoot on-premises connectivity and hybrid network connectivity. Diagnose common issues with DHCP, name resolution, IP configuration, and routing that can cause reliability and connectivity problems in an on-premises and a hybrid environment.

• Diagnose DHCP problems
• Diagnose DNS problems
• Diagnose IP configuration issues
• Diagnose routing problems
• Use Packet Monitor to help diagnose network problems
• Use Azure Network Watcher to help diagnose network problems

Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure

Learn to troubleshoot configuration issues that impact connectivity to your Azure-hosted Windows Server virtual machines (VMs). Explore approaches to resolve issues with VM startup, extensions, performance, storage, and encryption.

• Troubleshoot VM deployment
• Troubleshoot VM startup
• Troubleshoot VM extensions
• Troubleshoot VM connectivity
• Troubleshoot VM performance
• Troubleshoot VM storage