Hello, and welcome to Pluralsight.
Welcome to our course,
Windows Server 2022: Implement and Manage On‑Premises and Hybrid Networking.
This is the first module in the course,
and its title is Implement On‑Premises and Hybrid Name Resolution.
My name is Tim Warner, and I'm your instructor.
Our learning goals for this lesson start with integrating DNS,
Domain Name System, with Active Directory Domain Services on‑premises.
We're going to review how to create and manage DNS zones and records,
particularly Active Directory integrated zone, and we'll also learn how to
digitally sign our zone with DNSSEC. We'll then integrate DNS with Azure
Virtual Networks, configuring DNS forwarding,
conditional forwarding, and then integrating Windows
Server DNS with Azure DNS private zones.
While in this course,
Implement and Manage On‑Premises and Hybrid Network Infrastructure,
we're covering the relevant objectives from Microsoft Exam AZ‑800 in
support of the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator certification.
We're doing name resolution in this module. We'll do IP addressing
in the next one.
The third module is on on‑premises network connectivity. And then
the fourth and final module takes us into Azure, so this part of the
exam blueprint, and this course does,
I think, a really nice job balancing Windows Server
capabilities in your local environment and then comparing them
and integrating them with Windows Server,
how it behaves in the Azure cloud on virtual machines
running on Azure. As I mentioned,
we're concerned with the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
role‑based certification. In order to earn that credential,
you need to clear two exams.
The one that we're covering now is part of AZ‑800.
This is Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure.
I also teach Pluralsight's path on AZ‑801, the other exam, that's
Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services.
Note that I do have a course in the Pluralsight library that gives
you an overview of each of those exams separately,
so make sure to look those up if you haven't already.
Now in order to earn your Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate badge,
you need to pass both 800 and 801.
It doesn't matter at all which order you do.
You could do 801 first and then 800, or the other way around.
It's just that you won't get your Associate badge until
you've passed the second of those two tests.
Lastly, just as a reminder,
the Associate Expert and Specialty Microsoft role‑based certifications
have a one year validity; however, you can renew for free online at
Microsoft Learn. You'll start getting email messages from Microsoft when
you're six months into your certification.
I always want to make sure that you know how to find the
exercise files. For this or any Pluralsight course,
you have to be on the full browser experience,
not on the mobile or TV app.
You'll want to go to the Exercise files tab and click Download exercise
files. Unpack the resulting ZIP archive. There'll be a folder for each
module, and in each module folder you'll find a PDF version of my slides,
as well as a subfolder with a links list and perhaps some script files,
just anything I think can help you in terms of supplemental materials for
that module. I think you'll find the links list to be particularly helpful
in terms of putting you where you need to be in the Microsoft Docs and the
Pluralsight website, and so on, to supplement your learning. Well let's get into the content, shall we?