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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

Deploying a WAC gateway server

This section will look at managing multiple Azure VMs by manually deploying WAC to an Azure VM. Before we jump into the configuration, we should introduce how WAC works.

WAC uses an installed gateway component with a web server to manage servers through PowerShell remoting and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) over Windows Remote Management (WinRM). These components are outlined in the following diagram:

Figure 12.1 – WAC components

The WAC gateway can be deployed to a new or existing Azure VM using a script or manually via the Azure portal.

Script deployment

To deploy the WAG gateway to an Azure VM using the Azure portal, you will first need to download the Deploy-WACAzVM.ps1 script (https://aka.ms/deploy-wacazvm), which runs a Microsoft installer (MSI) to create all the resources required for the environment, such as a resource group, VM, and virtual network (VNet). Alternatively, you can deploy to an...