The course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid 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 implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use administrative techniques and tools in Windows Server.

• Identify tools used to implement hybrid solutions, including Windows Admin Center and PowerShell.

• Implement identity services in Windows Server.

Identity services in Windows Server

• Introduction to AD DS

• Manage AD DS domain controllers and FSMO roles

• Implement Group Policy Objects

• Manage advanced features of AD DS

• Implementing identity services and Group Policy

• Deploying a new domain controller on Server Core

• Configuring Group Policy

Implementing identity in hybrid scenarios

• Implement hybrid identity with Windows Server

• Deploy and manage Azure IaaS Active Directory domain controllers in Azure

• Implementing integration between AD DS and Azure AD

• Preparing Azure AD for AD DS integration

• Preparing on-premises AD DS for Azure AD integration

• Downloading, installing, and configuring Azure AD Connect

• Verifying integration between AD DS and Azure AD

• Implementing Azure AD integration features in AD DS

Windows Server administration

• Perform Windows Server secure administration

• Describe Windows Server administration tools

• Perform post-installation configuration of Windows Server

• Just Enough Administration in Windows Server

• Managing Windows Server

• Implementing and using remote server administration

Facilitating hybrid management

• Administer and manage Windows Server IaaS virtual machines remotely

• Manage hybrid workloads with Azure Arc

• Using Windows Admin Center in hybrid scenarios

• Provisioning Azure VMs running Windows Server

• Implementing hybrid connectivity by using the Azure Network Adapter

• Deploying Windows Admin Center gateway in Azure

• Verifying functionality of the Windows Admin Center gateway in Azure

Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server

• Configure and manage Hyper-V

• Configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines

• Secure Hyper-V workloads

• Run containers on Windows Server

• Orchestrate containers on Windows Server using Kubernetes

• Implementing and configuring virtualization in Windows Server

• Creating and configuring VMs

• Installing and configuring containers

Deploying and configuring Azure VMs

• Plan and deploy Windows Server IaaS virtual machines

• Customize Windows Server IaaS virtual machine images

• Automate the configuration of Windows Server IaaS virtual machines

• Deploying and configuring Windows Server on Azure VMs

• Authoring Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for Azure VM deployment

• Modifying ARM templates to include VM extension-based configuration

• Deploying Azure VMs running Windows Server by using ARM templates

• Configuring administrative access to Azure VMs running Windows Server

• Configuring Windows Server security in Azure VMs

Network infrastructure services in Windows Server

• Deploy and manage DHCP

• Implement Windows Server DNS

• Implement IP address management

• Implement remote access

• Implementing and configuring network infrastructure services in Windows Server

• Deploying and configuring DHCP

• Deploying and configuring DNS

Implementing hybrid networking infrastructure

• Implement hybrid network infrastructure

• Implement DNS for Windows Server IaaS VMs

• Implement Windows Server IaaS VM IP addressing and routing

• Implementing Windows Server IaaS VM networking

• Implementing virtual network routing in Azure

• Implementing DNS name resolution in Azure

File servers and storage management in Windows Server

• Manage Windows Server file servers

• Implement Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct

• Implement Windows Server Data Deduplication

• Implement Windows Server iSCSI

• Implement Windows Server Storage Replica

• Implementing storage solutions in Windows Server

• Implementing Data Deduplication

• Configuring iSCSI storage

• Configuring redundant Storage Spaces

• Implementing Storage Spaces Direct

Implementing a hybrid file server infrastructure

• Overview of Azure file services

• Implementing Azure File Sync

• Implementing Azure File Sync

• Implementing DFS Replication in your on-premises environment

• Creating and configuring a sync group

• Replacing DFS Replication with File Sync-based replication

• Verifying replication and enabling cloud tiering

• Troubleshooting replication issues