Windows Server 2025: Advanced Management Features

Course details

In this course, Seema Rahman—a principal architect focused on enterprise cloud solutions—explores the advanced management features of Windows Server 2025. Learn how to leverage Azure Arc integration for seamless onboarding and update management. Discover the benefits of the pay-as-you-go licensing model, reducing costs while maintaining flexibility in your server management. Explore the enhanced tools of Windows Admin Center and its integration with Azure services. Gain proficiency in using PowerShell for effective server management and learn how to apply updates without downtime through hotpatching. This course is designed for intermediate-level IT professionals, systems administrators, and network engineers who want to enhance their hybrid cloud management capabilities. By the end of this course, you'll be adept at managing Windows Server environments in complex, hybrid infrastructures.

Learning objectives
Articulate new management features of windows server 2025.
Discuss new features of Server Manager.
Discuss new features of Windows Admin Center.
Configure steps to enroll windows server 2025 to Azure Arc and configure hotpatching
Apply updates using Windows Update Service and Group Policy.
Implement new PowerShell commands related to managing Windows Server.
Describe new features of Windows Server Performance Monitor.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Securing Windows Server 2025 new features and tools

1. Managing Windows Server

02 - Overcoming hybrid server management challenges
03 - Windows Server management interfaces
04 - Windows Server 2025 new management features
05 - Overview of Server Manager interface for Windows Server 2025
06 - Windows Admin Center installation
07 - Overview of Windows Server 2025 Windows Admin Center

2. Managing with Hybrid Cloud Integration Features

08 - Overview of Azure Arc
09 - Onboarding a Windows Server 2025 to Azure Arc
10 - Management features in Azure portal with Azure Arc

3. New Management features with Pay-as-You-Go Licensing

11 - Overview of pay-as-you-go licensing
12 - Configure pay-as-you-go features
13 - Management features with pay-as-you-go

4. Managing Windows Updates and Hotpatching

14 - Overview of managing updates and hotpatching
15 - Managing updates with Group Policies
16 - Managing updates with Azure Update Manager
17 - Configuring hotpatching in Azure Arc

5. Monitoring Features and Tools

18 - Overview of monitoring in Windows Server 2025
19 - Configuring Azure monitoring insights
20 - Configuring process and dependencies mapping
21 - Configuring monitoring alert rules

Conclusion

22 - Summary and resources