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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

GPO components

An AD domain GPO consists of the following two components:

  • GPO Container: This is an AD object and is a metadata store for the GPOs. The Directory Replication Agent (DRA) provides replication between DCs.
  • GPO Template: This is a store for a set of files for the GPO. Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) provides replication between DCs.

For a GPO to be applied to a user or a computer, it must be linked to a site, domain, or OU container that contains computer or user objects that require to be affected by the policy; a GPO cannot be applied directly to a group. GPOs provide two groups of configuration settings, one for computers and one for users; there are no configuration settings for groups. The configuration settings nodes in any policy are as follows:

  • Computer Configuration: The policies defined in this section will only affect computer objects. These settings are evaluated and applied at computer boot time.
  • User Configuration...