Planning a Microsoft Cloud Solution

Learn how to plan your cloud-based solutions with Microsoft Azure.

Introduction

• Moving your infrastructure to Azure
• What you should know

1. What Is the Cloud?

• Understanding the cloud
• Considerations for cloud computing

2. Why Azure?

• What is Azure?
• What are the possibilities with Azure?

3. Laying the Foundation

• Understanding the Azure layers
• Understanding Azure Resource Manager
• Resource organization
• Azure Portal overview
• Creating a management structure
• Assigning policies
• Creating a budget
• Creating a resource group
• Understanding virtual networks
• Creating a virtual network

4. Virtual Machines

• Understanding virtual machines
• Hybrid infrastructure
• High availability options
• Service level agreements
• Creating a virtual machine
• Connecting to a virtual machine

5. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

• What is Microsoft Entra ID?
• Entra ID licensing
• Creating users and groups
• Entra ID Connect overview
• Setting up Entra ID Connect

6. Azure SQL

• What is Azure SQL?
• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure SQL Database

7. Azure Migrate

• What is Azure Migrate?
• Creating a migration appliance
• Discovering your resources
• Creating an assessment
• Replicating your resources
• Migrating your resources

8. Backup and Disaster Recovery

• Understanding backup and disaster recovery
• Azure Backup

Conclusion

• The next step