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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

Configuring connections to VMs

Once an Azure VM has been created, we must consider how to allow administrative access. We will look at the access methods of Windows Remote Management (WinRM) and Remote Desktop Services Protocol (RDP) in the following sections.

WinRM access

We can connect via PowerShell Remoting to run PowerShell commands on remote computers such as Azure IaaS VMs; this uses the WinRM protocol and allows us to establish a remote connection to the computer.

To enable PowerShell Remoting, we need to use the following PowerShell cmdlet: Enable-PSRemoting. The WinRM service will be started so that commands can be operated on the remote computer. The ports used are HTTP:5985 and HTTPS:5986; all PowerShell remote communications are always encrypted by WinRM regardless of the protocol used (whether HTTP or HTTPS).

The outline of the process for setting up WinRM access to an Azure VM is as follows:

  1. An Azure key vault is created.
  2. A self-signed certificate...