Course Overview

This course teaches IT Professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches IT Professionals how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor.

Course Objectives

  • Secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid infrastructures
  • Implement Windows Server high availability
  • Implement disaster recovery in Windows Server on-premises and hybrid environments
  • Migrate servers and workloads in on-premises and hybrid environments
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments

Course Content

Secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid infrastructures

  • Implement Windows Server IaaS VM network security
  • Audit the security of Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines
  • Manage Azure updates
  • Create and implement application allowlists with adaptive application control
  • Configure BitLocker disk encryption for Windows IaaS Virtual Machines
  • Implement change tracking and file integrity monitoring for Windows IaaS VMs
  • Secure Windows Server DNS
  • Secure Windows Server user accounts
  • Hardening Windows Server
  • Windows Server update management

Implement Windows Server high availability

  • Introduction to Cluster Shared Volumes
  • Implement Windows Server failover clustering
  • Implement high availability of Windows Server VMs
  • Implement Windows Server File Server high availability
  • Implement scale and high availability with Windows Server VM

Implement disaster recovery in Windows Server on-premises and hybrid environments

  • Implement Hyper-V Replica
  • Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS
  • Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
  • Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
  • Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup

Migrate servers and workloads in on-premises and hybrid environments

  • Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
  • Upgrade and migrate Windows Server IaaS virtual machines
  • Active Directory Domain Services migration
  • Migrate file server workloads using Storage Migration Service
  • Migrate Windows Server roles
  • Containerize and migrate ASP.NET applications to Azure App Service

Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments

  • Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and hybrid instances
  • Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
  • Monitor Windows Server performance
  • Manage and monitor Windows Server event logs
  • Implement Windows Server auditing and diagnostics
  • Troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking
  • Troubleshoot Windows Server Virtual Machines in Azure
  • Troubleshoot Active Directory

Course Overview

The Event Manager component of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps is a carrier-class service assurance system. It collects and consolidates events and alarms from a wide variety of IT environments in real time. These include servers, mainframes, Windows systems, applications, circuit switches, voice switches, IP routers, SNMP devices, network management applications, existing management systems and frameworks, among many others.

IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager also adds intelligence to your events, allowing you to cast a wide net to ingest relevant data from any source, process it in an intelligent, automated way, analyze the data, see which applications or parts of the infrastructure are impacted, share it and even suggest guided steps to mitigate or resolve issues automatically.

One key benefit of Event Manager’s machine learning features is a reduction in the number of events. By detecting, correlating, grouping, and suppressing the “noise” that IT systems generate, your operators can focus their attention on key events that represent actual problems.

This 2-day course teaches you how to configure IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager for productive use. Through hands-on lab activities, you learn how to configure a new installation of Event Manager to:

  • Connect to event sources and enrich incoming events
  • Apply machine learning to find relationships among events
  • Add topology data to identify groups of connected resources and calculate root cause
  • Create automated fixes for known problems and match them to incoming problem events

You also get hands-on practice with other common configuration tasks, such as user management and database customization. This course focuses on IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager running on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Describe the event management capabilities of the IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
  • Connect Event Manager to incoming data sources
  • Work with Temporal and seasonal event analytics
  • Configure the Event Manager topology service
  • Create scope-based groups
  • Create runbooks and map them to incoming events
  • Work with triggers
  • Manage users

Course Content

  • Course introduction
  • Unit 1. IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps overview
  • Exercise 1. About your lab environment
  • Unit 2. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps AI Manager
  • Exercise 2. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps AI Manager
  • Unit 3. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager
  • Exercise 3. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager
  • Unit 4. Installing the Event Manager Gateway
  • Exercise 4. Installing the Event Manager Gateway
  • Course summary

Course Overview

Exclusive – This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure.

Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.

Course Objectives

Students will learn to:

  • Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
  • Implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
  • Manage access and security for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Manage user environments and apps for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

Course Content

Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation

  • Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
  • Design the Azure Virtual Desktop architecture
  • Design for user identities and profiles

Implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

  • Implement and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Implement and manage storage for Azure Virtual Desktop.
  • Create and configure host pools and session hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Create and manage session host image for Azure Virtual Desktop

Manage access and security for Azure Virtual Desktop

  • Manage access for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Manage security for Azure Virtual Desktop

Manage user environments and apps for Azure Virtual Desktop

  • Implement and manage FSLogix
  • Configure user experience settings
  • Install and configure apps on a session host

Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

  • Monitor and manage performance and health
  • Plan and implement updates, backups, and disaster recovery

Course Overview

This course teaches Azure administrators and Azure Stack Hub operators how to plan, deploy, package, update, and maintain the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure. Lessons cover deploying Azure Stack Hub, managing the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace, offering App Services and Event Hub resource providers, managing Azure Stack Hub registration, and maintaining system health.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will

know how to:

• Prepare for Azure Stack Hub deployment

• Manage infrastructure certificates for Azure

Stack Hub

• Manage Azure Stack Hub registration

• Configure an Azure Stack Hub home directory

• Provision a service principal for Azure Stack

Hub

• Recommend a business continuity disaster

recovery (BCDR) strategy

• Manage Azure Stack Hub by using privileged

endpoints

• Manage Azure Stack Hub Marketplace

• Offer App Services and Event Hub resource

providers

• Manage usage and billing

Course Content

HQ7A0S (hpe.com)


Course Overview


Get started with Microsoft Sentinel security operations by configuring the Microsoft Sentinel workspace, connecting Microsoft services and Windows security events to Microsoft Sentinel, configuring Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, and responding to threats with automated responses.

Course Content

Module 1 : Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces

Learn about the architecture of Microsoft Sentinel workspaces to ensure you configure your system to meet your organization’s security operations requirements.

  • Introduction
  • Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
  • Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
  • Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
  • Configure logs
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources

Module 2: Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Learn how to connect Microsoft 365 and Azure service logs to Microsoft Sentinel.
  • Introduction
  • Plan for Microsoft services connectors
  • Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector
  • Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
  • Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
  • Connect the Azure Activity connector
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources

Module 3: Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel

One of the most common logs to collect is Windows security events. Learn how Microsoft Sentinel makes this easy with the Security Events connector.

  • Introduction
  • Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
  • Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
  • Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
  • Collect Sysmon event logs
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources

Module 4: Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics

In this module, you learned how Microsoft Sentinel Analytics can help the SecOps team identify and stop cyber attacks.

  • Introduction
  • Exercise – Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
  • What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
  • Types of analytics rules
  • Create an analytics rule from templates
  • Create an analytics rule from wizard
  • Manage analytics rules
  • Exercise – Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
  • Summary

Module 5: Automation in Microsoft Sentinel

By the end of this module, you’ll be able to use automation rules in Microsoft Sentinel to automated incident management.

  • Introduction
  • Understand automation options
  • Create automation rules
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources

Module 6: Configure SIEM security operations using Microsoft Sentinel

In this module, you learned how to configure SIEM security operations using Microsoft Sentinel.

  • Introduction
  • Exercise – Configure SIEM operations using Microsoft Sentinel
  • Exercise – Install Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub solutions and data connectors
  • Exercise – Configure a data connector Data Collection Rule
  • Exercise – Perform a simulated attack to validate the Analytic and Automation rules
  • Summary


Course Overview

This course is designed for students who are planning to take the Configure Secure Access to your Workloads using Azure Virtual Networking Assessment (APL-1002) and provides a bridge between fundamental level skills and entry-level associate skills. This course helps learners progress in multiple IT roles, including infrastructure and security administrators and architects.

Course Objectives

In this course, the student will have many opportunities to practice configuring and securing network resources through lab based scenarios. Skills developed will include creating and configuring virtual networks, network routing, DNS Zones, DNS Settings, network security groups, and Azure Firewall.

Course Content

This course will cover;

  • Configure virtual networks
  • Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
  • Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
  • Host your domain on Azure DNS
  • Configure network security groups
  • Configure Azure Firewall

Course Overview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a Platform as a Service database service in the Microsoft cloud. It bases itself on the PostgreSQL open-source relational database and includes built-in high availability, automatic backup and restore, as well as comprehensive security features. The pay-as-you-go pricing model provides predictable performance and near-instant scaling. In this learning path, you learn the main features of PostgreSQL and how they work in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. You learn about the different Azure Database for PostgreSQL implementation options, and how to configure a server for your needs.

Course Objectives

Students will learn to,

  • Explore PostgreSQL architecture
  • Understand client-server communication in PostgreSQL
  • Understand PostgreSQL query processing
  • Secure Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Procedures and functions in PostgreSQL
  • Understand write-ahead logging
  • Configure and manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Understand concurrency in PostgreSQL
  • Tune queries in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

Course Content

Explore PostgreSQL architecture

  • Describe the architecture of PostgreSQL.
  • Describe the options for creating an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server.
  • Understand PostgreSQL shared memory.

Understand client-server communication in PostgreSQL

  • Understand connection handling.
  • Understand the PostgreSQL client tools.

Understand PostgreSQL query processing

  • Identify the query processing components.
  • Understand EXPLAIN.

Secure Azure Database for PostgreSQL

  • Describe the security features of Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Create database users and grant permissions.
  • Understand encryption in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Procedures and functions in PostgreSQL

  • Create a stored procedure in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Call a stored procedure in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Create and use a function in Azure Database for PostrgreSQL.

Understand write-ahead logging

  • Describe write-ahead logging.
  • Describe replication and logical decoding.

Configure and manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL

  • Describe system catalogs and system views in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Investigate metadata in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Explain the purpose of the vacuum process.
  • Configure vacuum server parameters.

Understand concurrency in PostgreSQL

  • Describe Multi-Version Content Control and snapshots in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Describe isolation levels in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Describe locking in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Tune queries in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

  • Describe statistics in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  • Assess query performance with the Query Store.

Migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

  • Understand the different online and offline migration options.
  • Identify the different migration tools available.
  • Select the appropriate migration tool for your specific scenario.

Course Overview

Use Microsoft Entra to manage access by using entitlements, access reviews, privileged access tools, and monitor access events.

Course Content

1- Plan and implement entitlement management

When new users or external users join your site, quickly assigning them access to Azure solutions is a must. Explore how to entitle users to access your site and resources.

  • Define catalogs.
  • Define access packages.
  • Plan, implement and manage entitlements.
  • Implement and manage terms of use.
  • Manage the lifecycle of external users in Microsoft Entra Identity Governance settings.

2- Plan, implement, and manage access review

Once identity is deployed, proper governance using access reviews is necessary for a secure solution. Explore how to plan for and implement access reviews.

  • Plan for access reviews
  • Create access reviews for groups and apps
  • Monitor the access review findings
  • Manage licenses for access reviews
  • Automate management tasks for access review
  • Configure recurring access reviews

3- Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID

Audit and diagnostic logs within Microsoft Entra ID provide a rich view into how users are accessing your Azure solution. Learn to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze sign-in data.

  • Analyze and investigate sign in logs to troubleshoot access issues
  • Review and monitor Microsoft Entra audit logs
  • Enable and integrate Microsoft Entra diagnostic logs with Log Analytics / Azure Sentinel
  • Export sign in and audit logs to a third-party SIEM (security information and event management)
  • Review Microsoft Entra activity by using Log Analytics / Azure Sentinel, excluding KQL (Kusto Query Language) use
  • Analyze Microsoft Entra workbooks / reporting
  • Configure notifications

4- Plan and implement privileged access

Ensuring that administrative roles are protected and managed to increase your Azure solution security is a must. Explore how to use PIM to protect your data and resources.

  • Define a privileged access strategy for administrative users (resources, roles, approvals, and thresholds)
  • Configure Privileged Identity Management for Microsoft Entra roles
  • Configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources
  • Assign roles
  • Manage PIM requests
  • Analyze PIM audit history and reports
  • Create and manage emergency access accounts

5- Explore the many features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

While diving deeper into the features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, we use the framework of discover, remediate, monitor as a guide to help walkthrough how the Permissions Management features set can benefit your organization.

  • Understand the features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
  • Learn more specifics about how Permissions Management allows you to discover, remediate, and monitor identities, permissions, and resources
  • Get real-world views of the data and analytics Permissions Management provides

Course Overview

CompTIA is a not-for-profit trade association with the purpose of advancing the interests of IT professionals and IT channel organizations; its industry-leading IT certifications are an important part of that mission. CompTIA’s Cloud+ Certification is an upper-level certification designed for professionals with 2–3 years of hands-on work experience in a systems administrator job role.

This course can benefit you in two ways. If you intend to pass the CompTIA Cloud+ (Exam CV0-003) certification examination, this course can be a significant part of your preparation. But certification is not the only key to professional success in the field of cloud management. Today’s job market demands individuals with demonstrable skills, and the information and activities in this course can help you build your cloud sysadmin skill set so that you can confidently perform your duties in any cloud administrator role.

Course Objectives

After you complete this course you will be able to:

  • Understand cloud concepts
  • Plan and design a cloud environment
  • Administer cloud resources
  • Manage cloud storage
  • Manage networks in the cloud
  • Secure and troubleshoot networks in the cloud
  • Manage cloud migrations and troubleshoot cloud deployments
  • Manage cloud automation and orchestration
  • Understand cloud security concepts
  • Manage cloud security
  • Manage cloud performance
  • Manage cloud maintenance
  • Implement high availability and disaster recovery in the cloud

Course Content

Lesson 1: Understanding Cloud Concepts

  • Topic 1A: Recognize Cloud Concepts
  • Topic 1B: Recognize Cloud Terms
  • Topic 1C: Understand the Troubleshooting Methodology

Lesson 2: Planning and Designing a Cloud Environment

  • Topic 2A: Meet Cloud Business Requirements
  • Topic 2B: Design Capacity Planning and Requirements

Lesson 3: Administering Cloud Resources

  • Topic 3A: Manage Cloud Administration
  • Topic 3B: Manage Compute Resources in the Cloud
  • Topic 3C: Manage Memory Resources

Lesson 4: Managing Cloud Storage

  • Topic 4A: Understand Cloud Storage Types
  • Topic 4B: Configure Cloud Storage Solutions
  • Topic 4C: Configure Cloud Storage Protocols and RAID

Lesson 5: Managing Networks in the Cloud

  • Topic 5A: Deploying Cloud Network Services
  • Topic 5B: Identify Cloud Network Infrastructure Components

Lesson 6: Securing and Troubleshooting Networks in the Cloud

  • Topic 6A: Secure a Network in a Cloud Environment
  • Topic 6B: Troubleshooting Cloud Connectivity

Lesson 7: Managing Cloud Migrations and Troubleshooting Cloud Deployments

  • Topic 7A: Manage Cloud Migrations
  • Topic 7B: Troubleshoot Cloud Deployment and Migration Issues

Lesson 8: Managing Cloud Automation and Orchestration

  • Topic 8A: Understand Cloud Automation and Orchestration Techniques
  • Topic 8B: Troubleshoot Automation and Orchestration in the Cloud

Lesson 9: Understanding Cloud Security Concepts

  • Topic 9A: Administer Identity and Access Management in the Cloud
  • Topic 9B: Manage Cloud Operating System and Application Security
  • Topic 9C: Manage Data Security and Compliance in the Cloud

Lesson 10: Managing Cloud Security

  • Topic 10A: Implement Security Measures in the Cloud Domain
  • Topic 10B: Troubleshoot Cloud Security

Lesson 11: Managing Cloud Performance

  • Topic 11A: Operate Efficiently in the Cloud
  • Topic 11B: Accomplish Cloud Operations Tasks
  • Topic 11C: Optimize Cloud
  • Topic 11D: Troubleshoot Common Cloud Performance Problems

Lesson 12: Managing Maintenance in the Cloud

  • Topic 12A: Configure Logs, Monitoring, and Alerting for Cloud Services
  • Topic 12B: Manage Backup and Restore in the Cloud

Lesson 13: Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

  • Topic 13A: Understand High Availability and Scaling in the Cloud
  • Topic 13B: Manage Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
  • Topic 13C: Manage Backup and Restore in the Cloud

Course Overview

Learn fundamental cloud concepts and data-drivin cloud recommendation

CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ validates the candidate has the knowledge and skills required to make clear and conscious decisions about cloud technologies and their business impact by evaluating business use cases, financial impacts, cloud technologies and deployment models with knowledge of cloud computing.

Course Objectives

  • Explain cloud principles, identify cloud networking concepts and storage techniques, and understand cloud design aspects
  • Comprehend the financial aspects of engaging a cloud provider, as well as the business aspects of managing vendor relationships in cloud adoptions
  • Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management, availability, and monitoring
  • Understand how DevOps plays a role in cloud environments, such as with provisioning or API integration
  • Understand risk management concepts related to cloud services and
  • identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud

Course Content

  • Lesson 1: Understanding Cloud Computing Concepts
  • Lesson 2: Applying Cloud Business Principles
  • Lesson 3: Advising a Cloud Design and Migration
  • Lesson 4: Operating in the Cloud
  • Lesson 5: Managing Cloud Governance