AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services

The course is intended for IT professionals and Windows Server administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies.

Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure IaaS, enable a highly available, fully redundant environment, create disaster recovery in hybrid environments and perform monitoring and troubleshooting. 

This course prepares you for the certification exam AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services which is one of the two required exams (the other exam is AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure) to obtain the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certificate.

The course provides intensive exercises, so you get valuable hands-on experience implementing hybrid solutions. 

• Experience with managing Windows Server operating system and Windows Server workloads in on-premises scenarios, including AD DS, DNS, DFS, Hyper-V, and File and Storage Services.
• Experience with common Windows Server management tools (Admin Center, command line tools, PowerShell).
• Basic knowledge of core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies.
• Experience and an understanding of core networking technologies such as IP addressing, name resolution, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Experience working with and an understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V and basic server virtualization concepts.
• Basic experience with implementing and managing IaaS services in Microsoft Azure.
• Basic knowledge of Azure Active Directory.
• Experience working hands-on with Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11.
• Basic experience with Windows PowerShell.

Windows Server security

• Secure Windows Server user accounts
• Hardening Windows Server
• Windows Server Update Management
• Secure Windows Server DNS  

Implementing security solutions in hybrid scenarios

• Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security
• Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
• Manage Azure updates
• Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control
• Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
• Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs  

Implementing Windows Server high availability

• Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes
• Implement Windows Server failover clustering
• Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs
• Implement Windows Server File Server high availability
• Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VM  

Disaster recovery in Windows Server

• Implement Hyper-V Replica
• Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery  

Implementing recovery services in hybrid scenarios

• Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
• Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
• Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup  

Upgrade and migrate in Windows Server

• Active Directory Domain Services migration
• Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
• Migrate Windows Server roles  

Implementing migration in hybrid scenarios  

• Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
• Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
• Containerize and migrate ASPNET applications to Azure App Service  

Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server  

• Monitor Windows Server performance
• Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
• Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
• Troubleshoot Active Directory  

Implementing operational monitoring in hybrid scenarios  

• Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
• Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
• Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
• Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
• Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure