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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

What is Group Policy?

Group Policy is a Microsoft governance feature and configuration management framework built as part of the Windows OS; it provides a method for the centralized configuration and management of users’ and computers’ OS and applications.

It is used to force a baseline of standardized configuration settings on user and computer objects that are part of an AD domain. It is a powerful management capability and can manage nearly all configurable settings.

Group Policy can be used with Azure AD DS to manage user and computer object settings in much the same way as for AD DS, with some limitations. We will cover this in more detail in the GPOs in the Azure AD DS section.

There are two configuration settings nodes, as follows:

  • User Configuration: These apply to a user. These settings can restrict a user from accessing certain functionality of the OS, such as removing items from the Start Menu and Taskbar. These settings are applied to a user...