Learn how to protect, back up, recover, and monitor your data and infrastructure in the cloud with Microsoft's Operations Management Suite (OMS), Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. Implementing Operations Management Suite starts with an overview of the Operations Management Suite, followed by an introduction to Azure virtual machines and virtual networks. Chapters cover Azure Backup and how to configure it, followed by deep dives into aspects of Azure Site Recovery (ASR): how it works, how to configure it, how to streamline your disaster recovery failover from on-premises to Azure, and so on. Learn about protection groups, how to perform planned and unplanned failover, and more. Windows IT pro consultant, trainer and MVP Peter De Tender takes you through the necessary theory and background on each topic along with hands-on step-by-step lab guides to help you implement and configure each feature for yourself. You’ll also find out how to estimate your platform costs when using Azure infrastructure components, making this book your one-stop guide to the latest disaster recovery services in Microsoft Azure. What You'll Learn
<ul>
<li>Understand current concepts and challenges in IT disaster recovery 
</li>
<li>Get introduced to Microsoft Azure, Azure virtual networks and Azure virtual machines 
</li>
<li>Protect your data in the cloud with Azure Backup, and the configuration options available 
</li>
<li>Understand how to protect, recover, and monitor your environment with Azure Site Recovery Manager, and the configuration options available</li>
<li>Extend Azure Site Recovery Manager to non-Hyper-V workloads</li>
</ul>
Who This Book Is For IT professionals and IT decision makers who are interested in learning about Azure backup and Azure Site Recovery Manager in order to build and/or optimize their IT disaster recovery scenarios.

Implementing Operations Management Suite: A Practical Guide to OMS, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Backup

Business & Money

De Tender, Peter

Management & Leadership

Apress

Any IT professional can tell you that managing security is a top priority and even more so when working in the cloud. Access to accurate and timely security information is critical, but governance and control must first be enabled. This guide shows you how to take advantage of Azure's vast and powerful built-in security tools and capabilities for your application workloads.
Pro Azure Governance and Security offers a comprehensive look at the governance features available with Microsoft Azure and demonstrates how to integrate them with your hybrid and Azure environments, drawing on the author's experiences from years in the field. Learn about the array of controls implemented within Microsoft Azure from two valuable perspectives: the customer and Microsoft operations. Beginning with the top-level subscription hierarchy, learn about the most important built-in Azure security services and features, as well as how to use Azure Policies and Blueprints as a means for security and governance. A series of hands-on exercises teaches you the concepts of Azure Governance: how to enable and deploy Azure Security Center, integrate RBAC (role-based access control), and set up Azure Operations and Monitoring. Get introduced to the new Azure Sentinel solution that offers SIEM as a service for security incident management and proactive hunting.
 What You'll Learn <ul>
<li>Understand different architectural designs for implementing Azure Security 
</li>
<li>Operate and monitor an Azure environment</li>
<li>Deploy Azure Governance, Policies, and Blueprints</li>
<li>Discover key Azure features that enhance security</li>
<li>Implement and confidently access Azure Security Center</li>
<li>Get to know Azure Sentinel</li>
</ul> Who This Book Is For
Technical engineers, consultants, solution and cloud architects, IT managers, and SecOps teams who need to understand how to integrate governance, security, and compliance in hybrid and Azure environments. A basic understanding of Azure or other public cloud platforms is beneficial, but not required.

Pro Azure Governance and Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Policy, Blueprints, Security Center, and Sentinel

Computers & Technology

Erskine, Samuel

Rendón, David

Web Development & Design

Understand and build a proof of concept by migrating a multi-tiered .NET Core web application to the Azure public cloud, leveraging different Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Azure Container offerings. These include Azure Container Instance (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and CI/CD pipeline deployments using Azure DevOps. After a first chapter in which you set up the baseline for the lab scenarios, you will start with the basics of automating Azure resource deployments using Visual Studio and powerful Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Next, you'll learn about the importance of performing proper assessments and the tools Microsoft offers to help in this migration preparation phase. After that, you will validate the virtual machine deployment and learn about SQL Server database migration to SQL Azure PaaS, as well as deploying and migrating web applications to Azure Web Apps. After covering these foundational platform components, the next chapters focus on the core concepts and advantages of using containers for running business workloads. These labs are based on Docker, Azure Container Registry (ACR), ACI, and Web App for Containers, and show you how to enable container orchestration and cloud-scale using AKS. In the last part of the book, you will work with Azure DevOps, the Microsoft application lifecycle environment, building a CI/CD pipeline to publish workloads using the DevOps principles and concepts. You'll see the integration with the rest of the Azure services, closing with a module on overall Azure monitoring and operations and what tools Azure has available to assist your IT teams in this challenge. <div> What You Will Learn <ul> <li>Use Azure to enable digital transformation</li> <li>Carry out Azure automated deployments using ARM templates and Azure DevOps</li> <li>Run VM-based workloads on Azure</li> <li>Migrate VM-based workloads to Azure platform services</li> <li>Monitor Azure running workloads with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics</li> </ul> Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to learn about different Azure architectures by going through hands-on exercises. </div>

Migrating a Two-Tier Application to Azure: A Hands-on Walkthrough of Azure Infrastructure, Platform, and Container Services

Networking & Cloud Computing

Get the most out of Microsoft Exchange with this comprehensive guide. Structured around a series of clear, step-by-step exercises it will help you deploy and configure both basic and advanced features for your enterprise. Overview <ul>
<li>Deploy Microsoft Exchange 2013 in the real world</li> <li>Understand the key changes with regards to previous versions</li> <li>Design and plan an implementation or migration towards Exchange 2013</li> </ul>
In Detail Exchange 2013 is much more than just a messaging platform. Because of the multitude of features both targeted at the end user as well as the platform’s administrator, deploying, migrating to or managing it might take just that little extra. Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook is a practical, hands-on guide that will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises that help you to understand how the product works and how you should go about it in your own deployment. Throughout the book, you will be taken on a journey through the different aspects of Exchange 2013. We will look at the differences with previous versions and highlight how to configure and work with the product’s different features in a practical way. You will learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain Exchange 2013 from scratch or in an existing environment. We will walk you through different scenarios you’ll encounter in your day-to-day administration and explain how Exchange 2013 works. You will fundamentally understand what Exchange 2013 is all about and how to actually do things. You will learn all you need to know to successfully deploy (or migrate to) Exchange 2013 and maintain it once it’s been deployed. What you will learn from this book <ul>
<li>Configure and work with the common features of Microsoft Exchange 2013</li> <li>Identify and configure some of the new security features of Microsoft Exchange 2013</li> <li>Configure the new Client Access Server role</li> <li>Plan a deployment of Exchange 2013</li> <li>Configure and work with the new Mailbox Server role</li> <li>Design and configure High Availability</li> <li>Configure secure external access</li> <li>Migrate to Exchange 2013 from Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010</li> <li>Configure security and compliance features</li> </ul>
Approach This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides the reader with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises. Who this book is written for "Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook" is targeted at network administrators who deal with the Exchange server in their day-to-day jobs. It assumes you have some practical experience wsith previous versions of Exchange (although this is not a requirement), without being a subject matter expert.

Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook

Van Horenbeeck, Michael

Packt Pub Ltd

Learn to design, build, and manage a virtualized data center using Microsoft Hyper-V About This BookImplement and use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 to manage your virtualized platformConfigure and work with the most common features of Hyper-VUsing the book's effective step-by-step approach, build a highly available Hyper-V clusterWho This Book Is ForThis book is mainly targeted at the common network and system administrator who has to deal with server virtualization in their day to day job, primarily using Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center. It assumes you have some practical experience with previous versions of Hyper-V, although this is not a requirement; you don't need to be a subject matter expert.What You Will Learn Build and manage Hyper-V platforms using System Center Virtual Machine Manager Adopt the cloud by upscaling Hyper-V with Microsoft Azure Optimize your Microsoft Hyper-V and data center licensing Extend VMM with other System Center components to allow private clouds Migrate VMware ESX machines to Microsoft Hyper-V machines Manage and operate your VMware platform from within VMM Integrate non-Microsoft hypervisors into your System Center Virtual Machine Manager solution In DetailHyper-V is essentially a hypervisor technology, enabling a single physical machine to operate multiple operating systems simultaneously.Mastering Hyper-V is a practical, hands-on guide that will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises that help you understand how the products work and how you should go about them in your own deployment. More significantly, you will learn how to build your own high available Hyper-V cluster, while managing and troubleshooting your Hyper-V cluster environment.By the end of the book, you will integrate System Center Virtual Machine Manager in your VMware environment, build blocks to create a true private cloud, operate your private cloud by using App Controller, and understand the features of Microsoft's public cloud offering, known as Microsoft Azure.

Mastering Hyper-v

Games & Strategy Guides