Simplify Hybrid Management with Azure Arc-Enabled Servers.

Learn to deploy and manage Azure Arc-enabled servers in hybrid and multi-cloud environments with this comprehensive Microsoft Applied Skills course. Designed for IT professionals, this training teaches you how to extend Azure’s management capabilities to your on-premises and multi-cloud resources.

Master key skills like server onboarding, policy implementation, and secure resource management. Gain the expertise to create a unified infrastructure that streamlines operations and enhances scalability.

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Overview

In this learning path, you’re introduced to Azure Arc-enabled servers. You’ll cover Arc-enabled server deployment, updates to Arc-enabled servers using Azure Update Manager and configuring Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers.

Skills Covered

  • Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled servers
  • Plan and deploy Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale
  • Govern your hybrid and multicloud machines through Azure Arc-enabled servers
  • Configure updates of Azure Arc-enabled servers by using Azure Update Manager
  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers
  • Manage Azure Arc-enabled servers by using scripting
  • Guided exercise – Manage on-premises Windows servers by using Azure Arc

Prerequisites

  • Experience using the Azure portal to create resources.
  • Basic knowledge of security concepts like identities, permissions, and encryption.
  • Basic knowledge of networking concepts like virtual networks, subnetting, and hybrid scenarios.
  • Basic knowledge of Azure Policy and Azure Arc concepts.

Target Audience

  • Administrator

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled servers

This module introduces you to Azure Arc-enabled servers and describes its characteristics, capabilities, and use cases.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you’ll be able to answer:

  • What are the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
  • What are the core capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
  • How can you simplify management and maintenance of Azure Arc-enabled servers?

Prerequisites

-Basic experience with Azure services

Module 2: Plan and deploy Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale

Azure Arc promises to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments. Azure Arc-enabled servers extends the consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform to non-Azure machines. In this module, you’ll learn about planning and securely deploying Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand Azure Arc’s built-in and supplemental security functions.
  • Evaluate different deployment and testing channels for Azure Arc-enabled servers.
  • Apply best practices for Azure Arc-enabled servers architecture and management.

Prerequisites

For the best learning experience from this module, you should have knowledge of, and experience with, the following:

  • Basic characteristics of Azure services and Azure Arc
  • Core compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies
  • Basic Windows Server and Linux administration tasks

Module 3: Govern your hybrid and multicloud machines through Azure Arc-enabled servers

Azure Arc promises to bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud environments. Azure Arc extends the consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform to non-Azure machines. In this module, you learn about governance of Azure Arc-enabled servers.

Learning objectives

After you complete this module, you’re able to:

  • Understand the usage of Azure Policy and Guest Configuration with Azure Arc-enabled servers
  • Evaluate different Azure Automation offerings across inventory management, change tracking, and update management
  • Understand the onboarding process for and benefits of using Azure Automanage with Azure Arc-enabled servers

Prerequisites

  • Basic characteristics of Azure services and Azure Arc
  • Compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies
  • Basic Windows Server and Linux administration tasks

Module 4: Configure updates of Azure Arc-enabled servers by using Azure Update Manager

Update Manager is a unified service that helps manage and govern updates for all your machines. It allows you to monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across Azure and on-premises from a single dashboard.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

  • Explain Azure Update Manager key features.
  • Understand how to manage updates for Azure Arc-enabled servers.
  • Create a maintenance configuration schedule.
  • Associate a VM with a schedule.

Prerequisites

None

Module 5: Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers

By the end of this module, you’ll understand how Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers can help you protect your cloud-based applications from various cyber threats.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

  • Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  • Secure cloud applications with Defender for Cloud.
  • Protect cloud workloads with Defender for Cloud.
  • Connect your non-Azure machines to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  • Connect on-premises machines by using Azure Arc.
  • Connect on-premises machines by using the Azure portal.
  • Onboard a Windows server.
  • Onboard a Linux server.

Prerequisites

None

Module 6: Manage Azure Arc-enabled servers by using scripting

This module covers the topic of enabling Azure Arc for Windows or Linux machines in your environment. Enabling Arc-enabled servers is done either manually or by using an automated method with a provided template script.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

  • Connect hybrid machines to Azure using a deployment script
  • Connect hybrid machines to Azure by using PowerShell
  • Connect machines at scale by running PowerShell scripts with Configuration Manager

Prerequisites

None

Module 7: Guided exercise – Manage on-premises Windows servers by using Azure Arc

In this guided exercise, you practice onboarding, securing, monitoring, and updating on-premises Windows servers by using Azure Arc. The guided exercise combines both learning and hands-on practice.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll have practical experience with:

  • Onboarding Windows servers to Azure Arc
  • Managing Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Policy
  • Enhancing security of Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Monitoring Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Monitor
  • Managing updates of Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Update Manager
  • Configuring on-premises Windows servers by using Azure VM extensions and CLI

Prerequisites

None

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Exam & Certification

Candidates for this top Microsoft Applied Skills credential should have experience creating resources by using the Azure portal, working with cloud and on-premises management platforms, and managing virtual machines (VMs) and databases as if the VMs and databases are running in Azure. They should also know how to automate tasks by using PowerShell and the Azure CLI and should be able to implement Azure Arc governance by using Azure Policy.

For this credential, candidates should have an understanding of security concepts, like identities, permissions, and encryption, in addition to networking concepts, like virtual networks and subnetting.

Tasks performed

  • Onboard servers to Azure Arc
  • Configure monitoring of Azure Arc–enabled Windows Server instances by using Azure Policy
  • Configure updates of Azure Arc–enabled servers by using Azure Update Manager
  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc–enabled servers
  • Manage Azure Arc–enabled servers by using scripting

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