Planning a Microsoft Cloud Solution (2021)
2h 12mIntermediate2021-04-16
Authors

Sharon Bennett
Staff Author at LinkedIn focusing on Microsoft Azure and Office 365
Course details
If you're planning on moving your organization to the cloud, Azure—the popular cloud services platform from Microsoft—is worth a look. In this course, Sharon Bennett provides a thorough introduction to cloud computing, focusing on the various Azure technologies designed to help support and protect your company as it scales. Sharon explains how to build a base of operations with Azure resource groups, virtual networking, and storage—the foundations of your infrastructure—and ensure business continuity using out-of-the-box Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery services. She covers how to set up virtual machines and manage users and access with Azure Active Directory. This introduction is a perfect primer for IT pros who want to move clients to the cloud, and business owners who are looking for more efficient alternatives to a traditional IT infrastructure.
Skills covered
Cloud AdministrationAzureNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Move your IT cloud infrastructure to Azure
- 02 - What you should know
1. What Is the Cloud
- 03 - What the cloud really is
- 04 - Considerations for cloud computing
2. Why Azure
- 05 - What is Azure
- 06 - What can you do with Azure
3. Laying the Foundation
- 07 - Laying the foundation
- 08 - Azure portal overview
- 09 - Creating a resource group
- 10 - Creating a virtual network
- 11 - Creating virtual storage
- 12 - Create and connect to an Azure file share
4. Virtual Machines
- 13 - What are virtual machines
- 14 - Cloud-only infrastructure
- 15 - Hybrid infrastructure
- 16 - High availability
- 17 - Creating a virtual machine
- 18 - Add a data disk to a virtual machine
- 19 - Virtual machine best practices
- 20 - Azure virtual desktops
5. Azure Active Directory
- 21 - What is Azure Active Directory
- 22 - Benefits of Azure Active Directory
- 23 - Azure Active Directory users and groups
- 24 - Azure AD Connect
6. Data Platform
- 25 - Data platform overview
- 26 - SQL Server virtual machine
- 27 - Azure SQL Database
- 28 - SQL Managed Instance
7. Disaster Recovery in Azure
- 29 - What is disaster recovery
- 30 - Azure Protection overview
- 31 - Backing up files and folders in Azure
- 32 - Backing up Azure virtual machines
- 33 - Backing up an Azure file share
- 34 - Azure Site Recovery
Conclusion
- 35 - Next steps