Microsoft Cloud Enterprise Solutions

Course Description

Develop the knowledge and skills to install and configure Microsoft enterprise cloud infrastructure solutions. In this four-day, instructor-led course, you will focus on terminology, user interfaces, and common configuration scenarios for the primary cloud infrastructure designs. You will learn to design cloud-based environments and supporting technology, and you will learn to modify the design of existing environments for security and high availability when migrating to cloud-based environments.

This course incorporates materials from the Official Microsoft Learning Product: 50374 Microsoft Virtualization and Management for the Experienced VMware IT Pro.

Skills Gained

• Key concepts and terminology relating to Microsoft cloud infrastructure environments
• Install and configure Windows prerequisites for Microsoft cloud infrastructure environments
• Install and configure Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Microsoft cloud infrastructure environments
• Deploy orchestration to provide on-premise and cloud integration for a single organization
• Design and deploy advanced Microsoft cloud infrastructure environments, including providing for high availability and rich integration

Who Can Benefit

Windows IT professionals who want to become cloud-based enterprise architects and move into the role of designing Microsoft cloud-based infrastructure environments

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of networking
• Intermediate understanding of network operating systems
• Awareness of security best practices
• Basic knowledge of server hardware and Active Directory
• Some experience with existing virtualization solutions from Microsoft (Hyper-V)
• Two years of enterprise-level Windows-based administration

Syllabus

1. Evolution of the Cloud Architecture

• Traditional Data Center Designs
  • IaaS
  • PaaS
  • SaaS
• Components of Cloud
  • BPOS/Live 365
  • Windows Azure
  • Hyper-V Cloud
  • SQL Azure

2. Office 365

• Overview of Office 365
• Using Office 365
• Configuring and Administering Office 365 in the Cloud
• Integrating Office 365 with On-Premise Designs

3. Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud

• Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
• Differentiating Microsoft and VMware Terminology and Solutions
• Microsoft Server Virtualization Deployment Options
• Microsoft Server Virtualization Architecture Solutions
• System Center Suite
• Licensing

4. Managing the Virtualized Server Infrastructure

• Managing Physical and Virtual Infrastructures using the System Center Suite
• Monitoring and Managing a Heterogeneous Virtualization Infrastructure
• Designing a Business Continuity Solution
• Designing a Backup and Recovery Solution with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
• Performing Host and Offline Virtual Machine Updates

5. Implementing the Service Manager

• IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)/Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) Overview
• Incident, Change, and Configuration Management
• Organizational Analysis
• Planning and Architecture Design
• Deploying Service Manager
• Configuration Management
• Service Manager Management Packs
• Data Warehouse and Reporting
• Self-Service Portal

6. Microsoft Server Consolidation

• Envisioning and Planning
• Assessment
• Architecture and Design
• Network and Storage Configuration
• Security
• High Availability
• Business Continuity

7. Automating Processes for Virtualization Management

• System Center Opalis
• System Center Service Manager Architecture

8. Building the Foundation for a Private Cloud

• Private Cloud Fundamentals
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP 2.0)

9. SCVMM SSP 2.0

• Dynamic Data Center
• Planning and Installing the SCVMM SSP 2.0
• Configuring and Administering the SCVMM SSP 2.0

10. Integrating Private Clouds with Public Clouds

• Overview of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0
• Planning and Installing AD FS 2.0
• Configuring and Administering AD FS 2.0