Pre-requisites

Before attending this course, students must have: • Experience with managing Windows Server operating systems and Window Server workloads in onpremises scenarios, including AD DS, DNS, DFS, Hyper-V and File and Storage Services. • Experience with common Windows Server management tools (implied in the first prerequisites). • Basic knowledge of core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies (implied in the first prerequisite). • Experience and a understanding of core network 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 virtualization. An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies. • High availability and disaster recovery • Automation • Monitoring • Troubleshooting Concepts • An awareness of basic security best practices. • Basic understanding of security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication SIEM/SOAR). • Basic knowledge of on-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies (Failover Clustering, Storage Spaces). • 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. • Besic experience with Windows PowerShell 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, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting.