Azure IT Administration Microsoft Course with SIMULATIONS

We really hope you’ll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course

• Understanding the Microsoft Environment

• Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

• Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• Questions for John Christopher

Setting up for hands on

• IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

• Creating a free Azure Account

• Activating Azure AD P2 license

Understanding Azure Subscriptions, Costs and Resources

• The Azure Shared responsibility model

• Subscriptions in Azure

• Using management groups in Azure

• Learning to manage costs with alerts and budgets in Azure

• Use cases for IaaS, PaaS, and SAAS

• Using resource groups in Azure

• Tagging resources in Azure

• Adding locks to resources in Azure

• Using Azure Policies to control Azure Resources

Understanding Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) management and access control

• User identity creation in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

• Group creation and management in Azure AD

• Properties involved in Users and Groups

• Device settings in Azure AD

• Using administrative units in Azure AD

• License management in Azure AD

• Implementing self-service password reset (SSPR) in Azure AD

• Assigning Roles in Azure AD

• Using role-based access control (RBAC) to create custom roles

• Assigning roles at different scopes

• Understanding access assignments

Understanding Azure PowerShell and Cloudshell

• Foundational concepts of PowerShell

• Connecting PowerShell to Azure

• Using PowerShell with Azure AD

• Azure Cloudshell

• Azure CLI / Bash

• Azure CLI installed locally

Understanding Virtual Networks (vNets) and Virtual Subnets in Azure

• Concepts of using virtual networks and subnets in Azure

• Azure virtual network and subnet creation

• Using PowerShell to create vNets

• Peering virtual networks in Azure

• Private and public IP addresses in Azure

• Azure DNS management

• Using network security groups (NSGs) and ASGs in Azure

• Using User Defined Routes (UDRs) in Azure

Understanding the concepts of service endpoints and private endpoints

• Using service endpoints in Azure

• Effective rules in an NSG

• Azure Bastion creation in Azure

Understanding Azure Load Balancers

• Azure load balancing concepts

• Internal vs public load balancing

• Azure Application Gateway load balancing

Understanding the Azure Firewall

• Using a router table to direct traffice to the Azure Firewall

• Setting up an Azure Firewall

• Azure Firewall Manager

Understanding virtual networking monitoring and troubleshooting

• Using Azure Monitor for monitoring networks

• Azure Network Watcher

• Virtual network connectivity troubleshooting

• External network troubleshooting

• Azure DDoS Protection

Understanding storage in Azure

• Concepts of working with storage accounts

• Storage account creation in Azure

• Implementing network access to storage accounts

• Configuring a storage account to use Azure AD authentication

• Storage account access keys in Azure

• Creating shared access signature (SAS) tokens

• Using stored access policies

• Import and export jobs

• Concepts of using storage redundancy in Azure

• Using storage redundancy in Azure

• Object replication

• Azure file share and Configuring storage tiers configuration

• Azure Blob storage management

• Working with blob lifecycle management

Understanding Virtual Machines (VMs) creation and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

• Creating a Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure

• Using PowerShell to create a virtual machine in Azure

• Managing disk encryption

• Moving virtual machines between resource groups

• Resizing virtual machines in Azure

• Adding data disks

• Implementing network settings with virtual machines

• Options for virtual machine availability

• Using virtual machine scale sets in Azure

• Managing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template deployment

• How to save an existing deployment as an ARM template

• Virtual machine (VM) extensions

Understanding Azure App Services

• Concepts of using App Service Plans

• App Service plan deployment

• App Service plan scaling configuration

• App Service creation

• Networking settings in App Services

• Deployment settings with App Services

• Custom domain names

• Backups for App Services

• App Service Security

Understanding Container and Kubernetes Services

• Concepts of working with Azure Containers

• Azure Container Instance sizing and scaling

• Concepts of container groups

• AKS Scaling

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) storage

• Upgrading an AKS cluster

• AKS network connectivity

Understanding basic database management in Azure

• Setting up SQL Database/Server and using SSMS to connect

• SQL firewall settings for client connections

• Using database authentication with Azure AD

• SQL database auditing

Understanding backup and recovery in Azure

• Azure Recovery Services vault deployment

• Backup policies

• Azure backup and restoration

• Using backup reports

• Azure Site Recovery

Understanding Azure Monitor

• Using metrics in Azure Monitor

• Azure Monitor logs

• Azure Monitor alerts and actions

• VM, storage accounts, and network monitoring

• Using the Azure Advisor

Finishing Up

• Where do I go from here?

Who this course is for:

• IT people interested in learning a tremendous amount about Microsoft Azure administration