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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By : Chiyo Odika
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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By: Chiyo Odika

Overview of this book

Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook begins with an overview of how to hit the ground running with OMS insights and analytics. Next, you will learn to search and analyze data to retrieve actionable insights, review alert generation from the analyzed data, and use basic and advanced Log search queries in Azure Log Analytics. Following this, you will explore some other management solutions that provide functionality related to workload assessment, application dependency mapping, automation and configuration management, and security and compliance. You will also become well versed with the data protection and recovery functionalities of OMS Protection and Recovery, and learn how to use Azure Automation components and features in OMS. Finally you will learn how to evaluate key considerations for using the Security and Audit solution, and working with Security and Compliance in OMS. By the end of the book, you will be able to configure and utilize solution offerings in OMS, understand OMS workflows, how to unlock insights, integrate capabilities into new or existing workflows, manage configurations, and automate tasks and processes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Working with Azure Backup

Azure backup is a secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud-based service that you can use to protect and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. For ease of use, Azure Backup has various components that you can deploy to facilitate data protection wherever your workloads may reside.

Getting ready

To get started with Azure Backup, you will need to set up a Recovery Services vault in the Azure portal. A Recovery Services vault is a storage entity in Azure that is used to hold protection and recovery data, such as backup copies, policies, and recovery points. Recovery Services vaults can be used to hold data for on-premises systems and for Azure services.

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