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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

Creating an Azure AD DS managed domain

This section will cover some planning aspects and information needed for creating Azure AD DS managed domains, and we will finish this chapter with a hands-on exercise section.

The installation of Azure AD DS is carried out in the Azure portal and requires an Azure AD tenant and an Azure subscription. The objects can be cloud-only or synchronized from AD for a hybrid identity scenario.

Two enterprise applications are created in the Azure AD tenant to support the operation of the domain; these should not be removed or edited and consist of the following:

  • Domain Controller Services
  • Azure AD Domain Controller Service

The managed domain instance is created by Microsoft, which will automatically configure the distribution of the managed DCs across the zones.

The following section will examine the planning aspects required before creating an Azure AD DS managed domain.

Azure AD tenant and subscription

To create Azure...