About This Course
<p><span>We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!</span></p><p><span>Have access to the following:</span></p><ul><li><p>Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer</p></li><li><p>Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material</p></li><li><p>Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience</p></li></ul><p><span>TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:</span></p><p><span>Introduction</span></p><ul><li><p>Welcome to the course</p></li><li><p>Understanding the Microsoft Environment</p></li><li><p>Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains</p></li><li><p>Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization</p></li><li><p>Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services</p></li><li><p>Questions for John Christopher</p></li></ul><p><span>Setting up for hands on</span></p><ul><li><p>IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course</p></li><li><p>Creating a free Azure Account</p></li><li><p>Activating an Entra ID P2 license</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure Subscriptions, Costs and Resources</span></p><ul><li><p>The Azure Shared responsibility model</p></li><li><p>Subscriptions in Azure</p></li><li><p>Using management groups in Azure</p></li><li><p>Learning to manage costs with alerts and budgets in Azure</p></li><li><p>Use cases for IaaS, PaaS, and SAAS</p></li><li><p>Using resource groups in Azure</p></li><li><p>Tagging resources in Azure</p></li><li><p>Adding locks to resources in Azure</p></li><li><p>Using Azure Policies to control Azure Resources</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) management and access control</span></p><ul><li><p>User identity creation in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)</p></li><li><p>Group creation and management in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Properties involved in Users and Groups</p></li><li><p>Device settings in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Using administrative units in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>License management in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Implementing self-service password reset (SSPR) in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Assigning Roles in Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Using role-based access control (RBAC) to create custom roles</p></li><li><p>Assigning roles at different scopes</p></li><li><p>Understanding access assignments</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure PowerShell and Cloudshell</span></p><ul><li><p>Foundational concepts of PowerShell</p></li><li><p>Connecting PowerShell to Azure</p></li><li><p>Using PowerShell with Azure AD</p></li><li><p>Azure Cloudshell</p></li><li><p>Azure CLI / Bash</p></li><li><p>Azure CLI installed locally</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Virtual Networks (vNets) and Virtual Subnets in Azure</span></p><ul><li><p>Concepts of using virtual networks and subnets in Azure</p></li><li><p>Azure virtual network and subnet creation</p></li><li><p>Using PowerShell to create vNets</p></li><li><p>Peering virtual networks in Azure</p></li><li><p>Private and public IP addresses in Azure</p></li><li><p>Azure DNS management</p></li><li><p>Using network security groups (NSGs) and ASGs in Azure</p></li><li><p>Using User Defined Routes (UDRs) in Azure</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding the concepts of service endpoints and private endpoints</span></p><ul><li><p>Using service endpoints in Azure</p></li><li><p>Effective rules in an NSG</p></li><li><p>Azure Bastion creation in Azure</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure Load Balancers</span></p><ul><li><p>Azure load balancing concepts</p></li><li><p>Internal vs public load balancing</p></li><li><p>Azure Application Gateway load balancing</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding the Azure Firewall</span></p><ul><li><p>Using a router table to direct traffice to the Azure Firewall</p></li><li><p>Setting up an Azure Firewall</p></li><li><p>Azure Firewall Manager</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding virtual networking monitoring and troubleshooting</span></p><ul><li><p>Using Azure Monitor for monitoring networks</p></li><li><p>Azure Network Watcher</p></li><li><p>Virtual network connectivity troubleshooting</p></li><li><p>External network troubleshooting</p></li><li><p>Azure DDoS Protection</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding storage in Azure</span></p><ul><li><p>Concepts of working with storage accounts</p></li><li><p>Storage account creation in Azure</p></li><li><p>Implementing network access to storage accounts</p></li><li><p>Configuring a storage account to use Azure AD authentication</p></li><li><p>Storage account access keys in Azure</p></li><li><p>Creating shared access signature (SAS) tokens</p></li><li><p>Using stored access policies</p></li><li><p>Import and export jobs</p></li><li><p>Concepts of using storage redundancy in Azure</p></li><li><p>Using storage redundancy in Azure</p></li><li><p>Object replication</p></li><li><p>Azure file share and Configuring storage tiers configuration</p></li><li><p>Azure Blob storage management</p></li><li><p>Working with blob lifecycle management</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Virtual Machines (VMs) creation and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates</span></p><ul><li><p>Creating a Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure</p></li><li><p>Using PowerShell to create a virtual machine in Azure</p></li><li><p>Managing disk encryption</p></li><li><p>Moving virtual machines between resource groups</p></li><li><p>Resizing virtual machines in Azure</p></li><li><p>Adding data disks</p></li><li><p>Implementing network settings with virtual machines</p></li><li><p>Options for virtual machine availability</p></li><li><p>Using virtual machine scale sets in Azure</p></li><li><p>Managing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates</p></li><li><p>Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template deployment</p></li><li><p>How to save an existing deployment as an ARM template</p></li><li><p>Virtual machine (VM) extensions</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure App Services</span></p><ul><li><p>Concepts of using App Service Plans</p></li><li><p>App Service plan deployment</p></li><li><p>App Service plan scaling configuration</p></li><li><p>App Service creation</p></li><li><p>Networking settings in App Services</p></li><li><p>Deployment settings with App Services</p></li><li><p>Custom domain names</p></li><li><p>Backups for App Services</p></li><li><p>App Service Security</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Container and Kubernetes Services</span></p><ul><li><p>Concepts of working with Azure Containers</p></li><li><p>Azure Container Instance sizing and scaling</p></li><li><p>Concepts of container groups</p></li><li><p>AKS Scaling</p></li><li><p>Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) storage</p></li><li><p>Upgrading an AKS cluster</p></li><li><p>AKS network connectivity</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding basic database management in Azure</span></p><ul><li><p>Setting up SQL Database/Server and using SSMS to connect</p></li><li><p>SQL firewall settings for client connections</p></li><li><p>Using database authentication with Azure AD</p></li><li><p>SQL database auditing</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding backup and recovery in Azure</span></p><ul><li><p>Azure Recovery Services vault deployment</p></li><li><p>Backup policies</p></li><li><p>Azure backup and restoration</p></li><li><p>Using backup reports</p></li><li><p>Azure Site Recovery</p></li></ul><p><span>Understanding Azure Monitor</span></p><ul><li><p>Using metrics in Azure Monitor</p></li><li><p>Azure Monitor logs</p></li><li><p>Azure Monitor alerts and actions</p></li><li><p>VM, storage accounts, and network monitoring</p></li><li><p>Using the Azure Advisor</p></li></ul><p><span>Finishing Up</span></p><ul><li><p>Where do I go from here?</p></li></ul>
What you'll learn:
- Learn the concepts and perform hands on activities needed to master Microsoft Azure IT Administration
- Gain a tremendous amount of knowledge involving Microsoft Azure IT Administration
- Learn using hands on simulations on how Microsoft Azure IT Administration
- Learn how to set up your own test lab for practicing the concepts!