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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801

By : Chris Gill
Book Image

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

Managing Windows Server event logs

We have covered a wide range of topics so far. Now, it’s finally time to cover Windows Server event logs as the topic fits so perfectly with troubleshooting and monitoring. Event logs have proven to give insights into events for Windows OSs in general, including information and warning and error messages covering not only the Windows OS components but any installed applications on the systems.

Event Viewer is typically used to review and filter for events across multiple event logs (including both Windows logs and Application and Services logs) and allows us to customize views to narrow the scope of how we can review and investigate logs during troubleshooting.

Within Event Viewer, scheduled and automated tasks can be created based on individual entries within event logs (using Attach Task To This Event…) or attached to custom views (using Attach Task To This Custom View…) under the Actions > Administrative Events menu...