ArchiTech IT

Course information

Microsoft Azure is a service created by Microsoft to provide cloud computing for creating and managing applications and services using a cloud environment. Azure provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).  The platform supports many programming languages and frameworks and can be used alone or in a multi-vendor cloud environment.

This course focuses on the Fundamentals of Azure Infrastructure including infrastructure as a service.

Azure is a huge collection of servers and networking hardware, which runs a complex set of distributed applications. These applications orchestrate the configuration and operation of virtualized hardware and software on those servers. The orchestration of these servers is what makes Azure so powerful.

Azure roles

• Owner – Full rights to change the resource and to change the access control to grant permissions to other users.
• Contributor – Full rights to change the resource, but not able to change the access control.
• Reader – Read-only access to the resource.

Introduction to Azure

• Cloud technology overview
• Overview of Azure
• Managing Azure with the Azure portal
• Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell
• Overview of Azure Resource Manager
• Azure management services

Managing Microsoft Azure

• Use the Azure portals
• Use Azure Resource Manager features via the Azure portal.
• Use Azure PowerShell

Implementing and managing Azure networking

• Overview of Azure networking
• Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity
• Overview of Azure classic networking

Using a deployment template to implement Azure virtual networks

• Creating an Azure virtual network by using a deployment template
• Creating a virtual network by using PowerShell
• Configure virtual networks

Configuring connectivity between classic and Azure Resource Manager virtual networks

• Using a PowerShell script to connect a classic VNet and an Azure Resource Manager VNet
• Configuring a point-to-site VPN
• Validating virtual network connectivity

Implementing virtual machines

• Overview of Azure Resource Manager virtual machines
• Planning for Azure virtual machines
• Deploying Azure Resource Manager virtual machines
• Authoring Azure Resource Manager templates
• Overview of classic virtual machines

Creating Azure Resource Manager virtual machines in Azure

• Creating virtual machines by using the Azure portal and Azure PowerShell
• Validating virtual machine creation

Deploying Azure Resource Manager virtual machines by using Azure Resource Manager templates

• Using Visual Studio and an Azure Resource Manager template to deploy virtual machines
• Using Azure PowerShell and an Azure Resource Manager template to deploy virtual machines

Managing Azure virtual machines

• Configuring virtual machines
• Configuring virtual machine disks
• Managing and monitoring Azure virtual machines
• Managing classic virtual machines
• Configuring availability
• Implementing desired state configuration (DSC)
• Implementing storage space–based volumes

Planning and implementing storage, backup, and recovery services

• Planning storage
• Implementing and managing storage
• Implementing Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Implementing Azure Backup
• Planning for and implementing Azure Site Recovery
• Creating and configuring Azure storage
• Using Azure file storage
• Protecting data with Microsoft Azure Backup

Azure Sql databases

• Introduction to Azure SQL databases
• Configuring SQL Database server
• Creating SQL databases
• Connecting to SQL Databases from Sql Server Management studio