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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 monitoring and alerting for Windows Server

Over the years, Windows Server has increased the number of built-in tools that can be used for both monitoring and troubleshooting your Windows Server workloads. Monitoring and ease of troubleshooting are arguably just as important as implementing the environment itself.

Consider this: if you are unable to properly identify performance and reliability and are unable to continuously evaluate and optimize the overall performance of your Windows Server workloads both on-premises and in a hybrid architecture, your application and user experience will suffer thus reducing the success of your implementation. Let’s begin by learning about two variants of the Performance Monitor tool available to a Windows Server administrator.

Monitoring Windows Server using Performance Monitor

Performance Monitor has been the go-to tool for quite some time (since circa 1993) and is still a component on every Windows Server OS to date...