Hey, in this demonstration, I want to show you some good online resources,
all of which are recorded in your exercise files. First, as promised, I
wanted to do a quick bird's‑eye scan here between AZ‑800: Administering
Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure and AZ‑801: Configuring
Windows Server Hybrid Advanced. Best way for us to do that is scroll
down under Skills measured.
So the core exam,
as I mentioned, is covering Active Directory both on‑prem and
in Azure. We're managing and maintaining Windows Servers. We're
working with Hyper‑V, containers,
virtual machines. We're doing quite a bit of hybrid networking.
And then we're doing file server and storage.
So really, it's core compute for Windows Server. 801,
the advanced services, security, high availability, and disaster recovery,
migration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
So it's more of a specialty skillset.
Now as far as building out that lab environment, like I said before,
you can head out to the Microsoft Evaluation Center, and if you scroll
down here, we've got Windows Server, and you'll also want to grab Windows
Admin Center. We're going to be using all of the Microsoft management
tools, principally WAC as we go along.
In fact, that's specifically called out on the exam blueprint.
But then here we have Windows Server 2022. You'll want to make sure you have
to be signed in with your Microsoft account. You can grab an ISO image,
180‑day eval, and you're off and running. Lastly, for Microsoft Azure,
because the Hybrid Administrator certification is Azure as well, you can
only redeem the free account once,
but as you can see on azure.com you can try Azure for free, and this is
going to give you, as this tells you, $200 USD or your currency equivalent
of Azure credit that you can spend on any service. It will expire after 30
days, or if you run out of credit,
it expires. There are some services and service tiers that are free
for 12 months and others that are free always. Main thing I want you
to see here is that when you redeem this,
you can only do it once.
You do have to provide a payment method, but that's
just for identity verification.
The main thing I want you to know is that once you're
rolling with your free account,
let me come into the Azure portal here, portal.azure.com, and let me go to
the Subscriptions blade and zoom in a little bit, your account will not
roll over to a paid account. So you would come in here to your
Subscriptions blade for your trial, and there'll be a button right here on
the Overview blade where you would have to click that to convert your trial
account to pay as you go.
So there's not that worry and that threat that if you forget to turn a service
off then Microsoft is just going to magically charge you. That's not going to happen, so that's not a concern.