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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Hands-on exercise

To support your learning with some practical skills, we will utilize the concepts and understanding we gained from this chapter and put them to practical use.

We will look at an exercise that covers implementing Data Deduplication.

Getting started

To get started with this section, you will need access to a Windows Server; this can be physical, virtual, or an Azure IaaS VM. This exercise applies to the following Windows server OS types: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, and Azure Stack HCI, versions 20H2 and 21H2.

It is recommended that you ensure hotfix KB4025334 is installed using Windows Server 2016.

Let’s move on to the exercise for this chapter.

Exercise – Implementing Data Deduplication

In this exercise, we will learn how to enable Data Deduplication in Windows Server.

We have broken down this exercise into individual tasks for ease of understanding.

Task 1 – installing the deduplication...