RICK RAINEY is Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT). MICHAEL WASHAM, Microsoft Azure MVP, Insider and Advisor, is CEO of the cloud readiness company Opsgility. Michael has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, developer, Evangelist, and Program Manager before turning to his passion of enabling companies of all sizes make the digital transformation to the cloud. Michael is an avid blogger, author speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps. DAN PATRICK is the Chief Cloud Strategist for Opsgility http://www.opsgility.com. He has an extensive background in the IT industry with a focus on Virtualization, Networking and Identity management. Dan is a 15 year veteran of Microsoft, where was a Principal Consultant and Prac¿tice Manager. Today he still works with Microsoft as an Azure MVP and advisor. He regularly speaks about the cloud all over the world, and you can follow him on twitter @deltadan. STEVE ROSS is Partner Technology Strategist with Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner Tech¿nology Team and is heavily involved in helping partners build services using cloud technolo¿gies. Steve has also been a Principal Cloud Solution Architect with Opsgility, building Microsoft Azure training content and teaching enterprise customers and Microsoft partners and employ¿ees all around the world.

• Chapter 1 Design and implement Azure App Service Web Apps Skill 1.1: Deploy web apps Skill 1.2: Configure web apps Skill 1.3: Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics Skill 1.4: Configure web apps for scale and resilience   Chapter 2 Create and manage Compute Resources Skill 2.1: Deploy workloads on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines (VMs) Skill 2.2: Perform configuration management Skill 2.3: Design and implement VM Storage Skill 2.4: Monitor ARM VMs Skill 2.5: Manage ARM VM availability Skill 2.6 Scale ARM VMs Skill 2.7 Manage containers with Azure Container Services (ACS) Chapter 3 Design and implement a storage strategy Skill 3.1: Implement Azure Storage blobs and files Skill 3.2: Manage access Skill 3.3: Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics Skill 3.4: Implement storage encryption Chapter 4 Implement Virtual Networks Skill 4.1: Configure Virtual Networks Skill 4.2: Design and implement multi-site or hybrid network connectivity Skill 4.3: Configure ARM VM Networking Skill 4.4: Design and implement a communication strategy Chapter 5 Design and deploy ARM templates Skill 5.1: Implement ARM templates Skill 5.2: Control access  Skill 5.3: Design role-based access control (RBAC)  Chapter 6 Manage Azure Security and Recovery Services Skill 6.1: Manage data protection and security compliance Skill 6.2: Implement recovery services Chapter 7 Manage Azure Operations Skill 7.1: Enhance cloud management with automation  Skill 7.2: Collect and analyze data generated by resources in cloud and on-premises environments Chapter 8 Manage Azure Identities Skill 8.1: Monitor On-Premises Identity Infrastructure and Synchronization Services with Azure AD Connect Health Skill 8.2: Manage Domains with Active Directory Domain Services Skill 8.3: Integrate with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Skill 8.4: Implement Azure AD B2C and Azure AD B2B

RICK RAINEY is Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT). MICHAEL WASHAM, Microsoft Azure MVP, Insider and Advisor, is CEO of the cloud readiness company Opsgility. Michael has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, developer, Evangelist, and Program Manager before turning to his passion of enabling companies of all sizes make the digital transformation to the cloud. Michael is an avid blogger, author speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps. DAN PATRICK is the Chief Cloud Strategist for Opsgility http://www.opsgility.com. He has an extensive background in the IT industry with a focus on Virtualization, Networking and Identity management. Dan is a 15 year veteran of Microsoft, where was a Principal Consultant and Prac¿tice Manager. Today he still works with Microsoft as an Azure MVP and advisor. He regularly speaks about the cloud all over the world, and you can follow him on twitter @deltadan. STEVE ROSS is Partner Technology Strategist with Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner Tech¿nology Team and is heavily involved in helping partners build services using cloud technolo¿gies. Steve has also been a Principal Cloud Solution Architect with Opsgility, building Microsoft Azure training content and teaching enterprise customers and Microsoft partners and employ¿ees all around the world.

• Chapter 1 Design and implement Azure App Service Web Apps Skill 1.1: Deploy web apps Skill 1.2: Configure web apps Skill 1.3: Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics Skill 1.4: Configure web apps for scale and resilience   Chapter 2 Create and manage Compute Resources Skill 2.1: Deploy workloads on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines (VMs) Skill 2.2: Perform configuration management Skill 2.3: Design and implement VM Storage Skill 2.4: Monitor ARM VMs Skill 2.5: Manage ARM VM availability Skill 2.6 Scale ARM VMs Skill 2.7 Manage containers with Azure Container Services (ACS) Chapter 3 Design and implement a storage strategy Skill 3.1: Implement Azure Storage blobs and files Skill 3.2: Manage access Skill 3.3: Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics Skill 3.4: Implement storage encryption Chapter 4 Implement Virtual Networks Skill 4.1: Configure Virtual Networks Skill 4.2: Design and implement multi-site or hybrid network connectivity Skill 4.3: Configure ARM VM Networking Skill 4.4: Design and implement a communication strategy Chapter 5 Design and deploy ARM templates Skill 5.1: Implement ARM templates Skill 5.2: Control access  Skill 5.3: Design role-based access control (RBAC)  Chapter 6 Manage Azure Security and Recovery Services Skill 6.1: Manage data protection and security compliance Skill 6.2: Implement recovery services Chapter 7 Manage Azure Operations Skill 7.1: Enhance cloud management with automation  Skill 7.2: Collect and analyze data generated by resources in cloud and on-premises environments Chapter 8 Manage Azure Identities Skill 8.1: Monitor On-Premises Identity Infrastructure and Synchronization Services with Azure AD Connect Health Skill 8.2: Manage Domains with Active Directory Domain Services Skill 8.3: Integrate with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Skill 8.4: Implement Azure AD B2C and Azure AD B2B