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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801

By : Chris Gill
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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801

By: Chris Gill

Overview of this book

Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801 helps you master various cloud and data center management concepts in detail, helping you grow your expertise in configuring and managing Windows Server in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based workloads. Throughout the book, you'll cover all the topics needed to pass the AZ-801 exam and use the skills you acquire to advance in your career. With this book, you’ll learn how to secure your on-premises Windows Server resources and Azure IaaS workloads. First, you’ll explore the potential vulnerabilities of your resources and learn how to fix or mitigate them. Next, you'll implement high availability Windows Server virtual machine workloads with Hyper-V Replica, Windows Server Failover Clustering, and Windows File Server. You’ll implement disaster recovery and server migration of Windows Server in on-premises and hybrid environments. You’ll also learn how to monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills required to ace the AZ-801 exam, and you'll have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Exam Overview and the Current State of On-Premises, Hybrid, and Cloud Workflows
3
Part 2: Secure Windows Server On-Premises and Hybrid Infrastructures
9
Part 3: Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability
13
Part 4: Implement Disaster Recovery
17
Part 5: Migrate Servers and Workloads
23
Part 6: Monitor and Troubleshoot Windows Server Environments

Configuring Azure Site Recovery policies

While policies can be created for any of the ASR infrastructure types individually and manually, this doesn’t help in managing workloads and virtual machines at scale. As such, it is recommended to utilize Azure Policy to apply your disaster recovery policies directly to all resources within subscriptions or resource groups and ensure compliance and remediation so that all virtual machines are protected based on the business requirements and recovery objectives.

Let’s walk through how to utilize Azure Policy to complete this configuration, basing the steps on the full quick start located at https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-how-to-enable-policy:

  1. Starting with Azure Policy assignments, we will assign a new policy and apply that to the scope of a subscription. Then, we will select the existing policy definition of Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure...