Azure Administration: Tips and Tricks

Course details

Are you looking to get the most out of your Azure deployment? Join instructor David Elfassy in this course as he presents a series of best practice tips and tricks for successful administration of Azure services. Learn key administration tasks, including storage, networking, cost management, security, and management tools. Discover some lesser-known features of popular tools, as well as some tools you might not even know about. Azure administration can get tricky, so join David in this course to better secure, manage, and get the most out of your Azure environment.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Azure administration can get tricky
02 - Azure and continual improvements

1. Administration Tips and Tricks

03 - Basics of Microsoft Azure administration, resources, and services
04 - Azure tips - Configure your Azure portal settings
05 - Azure tips - Explore preview features and services in Azure
06 - Azure tips - Shortcut your way to Azure resources
07 - Azure tips - Hover cards for resources and services
08 - Azure tips - Use dashboards to organize your resources
09 - Azure tips - Use views to access your resources
10 - Azure tips - Use MY access to user resources

2. Resource Management Tips and Tricks

11 - Azure tips - Use resource locks to prevent errors in Azure
12 - Azure tips - Use Azure DevTest Labs to create a test environment
13 - Azure tips - Use Azure for free
14 - Azure tips - Visualize all of your resources with Resource Manager
15 - Azure tips - Use KQL to find your Azure resources
16 - Azure tips - Clean up your Azure subscription

3. Security Tips and Tricks

17 - Azure tips - Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to identify vulnerabilities
18 - Azure tips - Share data from Azure using Azure Data Share
19 - Azure tips - Security settings in Microsoft Entra ID

4. Cost Management Tips and Tricks

20 - Azure tips - Evaluate your current and future Azure costs
21 - Azure tips - Use Azure budgets to manage your costs
22 - Azure tips - Reduce costs for virtual machines

Conclusion

23 - Learning more about Azure administration