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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

Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to establish both a Windows Server 2022 domain controller and a Windows 2022 file server. While there are a few ways for administrators to configure Windows Server 2022 as a domain controller, I believe it is beneficial to utilize PowerShell to complete this configuration simply for ease and speed of deployment. Let’s begin with the following set of steps to configure your Windows Server 2022 domain controller.

Installing a new Windows Server 2022 domain controller

In Chapter 1, we successfully created a virtual machine named AZ801PacktLab-DC-01 and installed the Windows Server 2022 operating system onto the virtual machine. We followed our first best practice, which is naming the domain controller appropriately so that it can be properly identified. A second prerequisite for a successful domain...