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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

Implementing Azure Automation for hybrid Windows servers

Process automation is the automation of frequent management tasks that can be error-prone, risk configuration drift, and consume an unequal amount of time to the value the task delivers. In this next section, we will introduce this topic.

Introduction

Automation can be provided through the Azure Automation service and is available to hybrid workloads.

To implement Azure Automation in this manner for non-Azure hybrid workloads, an Azure Automation account is required. Azure Automation is an Azure cloud service responsible for automating the configuration and management of Azure and non-Azure platforms.

The foundation of Azure Automation is runbooks, a set of tasks that execute on the target machine; these runbooks are executed as jobs. A process called a worker is responsible for running the jobs when the runbook is executed.

Azure Automation relies on a Hybrid Runbook Worker feature that allows runbooks to be executed...