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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to secure Windows Server networking on workloads, adding security to the communications layer for shared workloads. We also learned how to configure and manage Windows Defender Firewall, how to plan for and configure domain isolation, and how to implement connection security and authentication request rules for your Windows servers in a hybrid environment.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to properly secure our Windows Server storage to help mitigate data theft, data exposure, and ransomware. We will work through exercises that reinforce skills surrounding the management and configuration of Windows BitLocker drive encryption for storage volumes, enable storage encryption on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) VMs using Azure Disk Encryption, and how to manage and monitor disk encryption keys using Azure Key Vault (AKV) for IaaS VM and VM scale sets.