[MUSIC] Hello, I want to welcome you to this course. This is the Azure fundamentals. My name is Michael Krout. I live in Northeast, Florida. Been in the IT industry for 35 years, and I started my career in the Air Force, started with IBM 36-38. But working with Windows for about 22 years. Exchange, for 20 years. SharePoint, for about 15 years. SQL server, for about 20 years. So I'm just showing you I've rounded up about experience. Been working with Azure for six years. What you're going to learn is, managing Azure subscriptions. We'll look at managing resource groups and Azure identity management. Storage and virtual networks and virtual machines. Now when you break it down, we got Module 1 is managing Azure subscriptions. And so, we're looking at Azure subscriptions and resource groups. Look at assigning administrative permissions. What does Azure monitor? We'll look at creating and analyzing metrics and alerts. What are the action groups? What is Azure log analytics? And how do you use log analytics? We'll get into managing resource groups and look at RBAC, Role-based Access Control. Configuring access to Azure resources using roles. Configuring management access to Azure custom roles. What are the Azure policies? And working with Azure policies. Then we'll get into Azure identity management. We'll talk about Azure AD. We'll look at creating and managing users and groups. Adding and managing user accounts or guest accounts. Performing bulk user updates. Configuring self-service password reset. Look at Azure AD Join. Managing device settings. We'll talk about adding custom domains. And using Azure AD Connect. We'll look at Azure MFA. Configuring accounts with MFA. Configuring verification methods. Configuring fraud alerts. Configuring bypass options. And configuring trusted IPs. Then we'll get into Azure storage accounts with storage. Then we'll be creating and configuring a storage account. Installing and using storage explorer. Configuring network access. And generating and managing SAS keys. Implementing Azure storage replication. Configuring and using Azure blob storage. Using import/export jobs. Azure CDN. Configuring Azure CDN endpoints. And Azure data box. And also Azure backup. Azure site recovery. Performing backup and restore operations. Look at creating and recovery services vault. Creating and configuring a backup policy. Then we'll get into virtual networks. Look at as your VNets. IP addressing. Configuring subnets and VNets. Configuring private and public addresses. Creating and configuring VNet peering. NSGS, network security groups. Creating and managing a NSG. Associating an NSG with a subnet. Creating and evaluating security rules. Look at Azure DNS. Configuring private and public DNS zones. Azure load balancer. Creating health probes. Creating load balancing rules. Configuring a public load balancer. And network watcher. Also, we'll be looking at VMs. Deploying Windows and Linux VMs. And configuring high availability. Deploying and configuring scale sets. Modifying and deploying ARMtemplates. Managing VM sizes. Deploying VMs. And adding data disks and NICs. Automating configuration management. And configuring VM backup and restore, and so much more. So you can see this is jam-packed with information. So, who should actually take this course? If you're a administrator of different hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Windows and Linux administrators. If you're new to the cloud, and you just want to get your feet wet. You've already taken the AZ-900, though. Interested in moving to IaaS, which is Infrastructure as a Service, where we're doing a lift and shift, and we'll talk about that later on. Looking to extend your data center. You're looking to find a low cost DR alternative. And also, backing up to the cloud. And there's so much more. More and more companies are moving up into the cloud, and Azure is one of the options that we have. If you have Microsoft 365 or Office 365, you probably already moved to Exchange Online. So you have a lot of resources that are right there within your own environment that you need to move up. And so, you have the ability of doing this low cost is through IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, because you don't have the upfront fees, we'll talk more about that later on. So what do you need? Well, you need it as your subscription. Now, you can get one of these by going and doing a trial. You may have an MSDN if you're with your own company. You can also do a Sandbox. We used to have Microsoft passes, but they're now stopping those. So we'll show you how you can get some additional places where you can get the ability of be able to use the environment. But the trial gives you ability of using it for 30 days and $200. A lot of us are coming from companies, and we're just trying to expand our knowledge. Just talk to your company and they'll probably give you a Sandbox so that you can play in. Need to have some patience though, because the cloud is not as like you're on your own hypervisor, which is in a private cloud. Because things take a little bit longer for things to go on. Have an open mind because there's so many different areas that you can go from after you've done this course. And also, persistence. This is going to take a little bit of time for you to understand and switch over. But once you've switched over, then you won't be looking back. So that's enough about that. Let's go ahead and get started with the course.
