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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

Azure AD Connect

Azure AD Connect is a free download tool enabling hybrid identities and seamlessly connecting and integrating AD with Azure AD.

Azure AD Connect is implemented by deploying the service to Windows Server, usually to a dedicated server. However, depending on your needs, it could also be run on a domain controller.

The following are the operations of AD Connect when installed on the chosen Windows server:

  • Users, groups, and contact objects that exist or are added to AD configured for directory synchronization are copied to Azure AD through a synchronization process using Azure AD Connect. Note that users have no automatic license assignment, such as M365.
  • Any changes to an object’s attributes in AD will be updated to the synchronized object in Azure AD. The Synchronization Service Manager (the miisclient.exe process) of Azure AD Connect allows you to be selective about what attributes are synchronized, so not all are copied if required.
  • Any...