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Conquer Windows Server from the inside out!

Dive into Windows Server and really put your Windows expertise to work with this definitive guide to mastering all supported versions of the Windows Server operating system, including the latest— Windows Server 2025. Authored by Orin Thomas, a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, this comprehensive resource covers both longstanding and new features of Windows Server. You will gain valuable skills in planning, implementing, and managing Windows Server across enterprise, datacenter, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Windows Server Inside Out offers insights into optimizing the Windows Server life cycle, ensuring smooth upgrades and migrations, and integrating Windows Server with Azure. With hundreds of solutions, tips, and workarounds, you’ll be equipped to enhance infrastructure services, bolster security, and efficiently troubleshoot common issues.

For experienced IT professionals

Prepare for the updated version of Microsoft Exam MS-100— and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge needed to effectively design, deploy, manage, and secure Microsoft 365 services. Designed for experienced IT professionals, Exam Ref focuses on critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: • Design and implement Microsoft 365 services • Manage user identity and roles • Manage access and authentication • Plan Office 365 workloads and applications This Microsoft Exam Ref: • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you • Assumes you have working knowledge of Microsoft 365 workloads, networking, server administration, and IT fundamentals; and have administered at least one Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, or Windows deployment About the Exam Exam MS-100 focuses on knowledge needed to plan architecture; deploy a Microsoft 365 tenant; manage Microsoft 365 subscription and tenant health; plan migration of users and data; design identity strategy; plan identity synchronization; manage identity synchronization with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD); manage Azure AD identities and roles; manage authentication; plan and implement secure access; configure application access; plan to deploy Microsoft 365 Apps and messaging; plan for Microsoft SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams infrastructure; and plan Microsoft Power Platform integration. About Microsoft Certification The Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert certification credential demonstrates your ability to evaluate, plan, migrate, deploy, and manage Microsoft 365 services. To fulfill your requirements, pass this exam and Exam MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security, and earn one of these five prerequisite certifications: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate, Security Administrator Associate, Messaging Administrator Associate, Teams Administrator Associate, or Identity and Access Administrator Associate. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-500 and demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. Designed for professionals with Azure security experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate level.

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About the Exam

Exam AZ-500 focuses on knowledge needed to manage Microsoft Entra identities, authentication, authorization, and application access; plan and implement security for virtual networks, as well as for private and public access to Azure resources; plan and implement advanced security for compute, storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL managed instance; plan, implement, and manage governance for security, manage security posture and configure and manage threat protection using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as an Azure Security Engineer capable of managing an organization’s security posture, identifying, and remediating vulnerabilities, performing threat modeling, implementing threat protection, responding to security incident escalations, and participating in the planning and implementation of cloud-based management and security.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Conquer Windows Server 2019—from the inside out! Dive into Windows Server 2019—and really put your Windows Serverexpertise to work. Focusing on Windows Server 2019’s most powerful and innovative features, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds—all you need to plan, implement, or manage Windows Server in enterprise, data center, cloud, and hybrid environments. Fully reflecting new innovations for security, hybrid cloud environments, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), it covers everything from cluster sets to Windows Subsystem for Linux. You’ll discover how experts tackle today’s essential tasks—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. • Optimize the full Windows Server 2019 lifecycle, from planning and configuration through rollout and administration • Leverage new configuration options including App Compatibility Features on Demand (FOD) or Desktop Experience • Ensure fast, reliable upgrades and migrations • Manage Windows servers, clients, and services through Windows Admin Center • Seamlessly deliver and administer core DNS, DHCP, fi le, print, storage, and Internet services • Use the Storage Migration Service to simplify storage moves and configuration at the destination • Seamlessly integrate Azure IaaS and hybrid services with Windows Server 2019 • Improve agility with advanced container technologies, including container networking and integration into Kubernetes orchestration clusters • Deliver Active Directory identity, certifi cate, federation, and rights management services • Protect servers, clients, VMs, assets, and users with advanced Windows Server 2019 security features, from Just Enough Administration to shielded VMs and guarded virtualization fabrics • Monitor performance, manage event logs, confi gure advanced auditing, and perform backup/recovery Windows Server 2019 For Experienced Windows Server Users and IT Professionals • Your role: Experienced intermediate to-advanced level Windows Server user or IT professional • Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Windows Server procedures, techniques, and navigation

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-500: Demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including tools and techniques for protecting identity, access, platforms, data, and applications, and for effectively managing security operations. Designed for professionals with Azure security experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate level.  

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Manage identity and access

• Implement platform protection

• Manage security operations

• Secure data and applications

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

• Assumes you have expertise implementing security controls and threat protection, managing identity and access, and protecting assets in cloud and hybrid environments

About the Exam

Exam AZ-500 focuses on the knowledge needed to manage Azure Active Directory identities; configure secure access with Azure AD; manage application access and access control; implement advanced network security; configure advanced security for compute; monitor security with Azure Monitor, Azure Firewall manager, Azure Security Center, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel; configure security policies; configure security for storage and databases; and configure and manage Key Vault.

About Microsoft Certification 

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as an Azure Security Engineer capable of maintaining security posture, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, implementing threat protection, and responding to incident escalations as part of a cloud-based management and security team.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-800 and demonstrate your real-world mastery of designing, implementing, and managing Windows Server core infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment. Designed for professionals with Windows Server experience in on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate level.

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About the Exam

Exam AZ-800 focuses on knowledge needed to deploy and manage AD DS domain controllers; configure and manage multi-site, multi-domain, and multi-forest environments; create and manage AD DS security principals; implement and manage hybrid identities; manage Windows Server via domain group policies and in hybrid environments; manage Windows Servers and workloads via Azure services; manage Hyper-V, guest VMs, and Azure VMs running Windows Server; create and manage containers; implement on-premises and hybrid name resolution; manage IP addressing and implement network connectivity; configure and manage Azure File Sync and Windows Server fi le shares; and configure Windows Server storage.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam and Exam AZ-801 (Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services) fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate credential.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-801 and demonstrate your real-world mastery of configuring and managing Windows Server on-premises, hybrid, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform workloads. Designed for professionals with Windows Server and Azure experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate level.

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About the Exam

Exam AZ-801 focuses on knowledge needed to secure Windows Server operating systems, networking, and storage; secure hybrid Active Directory infrastructures; use Azure Services to identify and remediate Windows Server security issues; implement and manage Windows Server failover clusters and Storage Spaces Direct; manage Windows Server backup and recovery; use Azure Site Recovery to implement disaster recovery; protect VMs with Hyper-V replicas; migrate on-premises storage and services; move workloads and AD DS infrastructure to Windows Server 2022 from previous versions; migrate IIS workloads to Azure; use Windows Server tools and Azure services to monitor Windows Server; troubleshoot on-premises networking, hybrid networking, virtual machines in Azure, and Active Directory.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam and Exam AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate credential. This demonstrates your expertise in configuring and managing Windows Server on-premises, hybrid, and IaaS platform workloads; integrating Windows Server environments with Azure services; managing and maintaining Windows Server IaaS workloads in Azure, and moving workloads to Azure. This certification supports your goals as an IT, cloud, identity/access, or information protection administrator; a network, security, or support engineer, and a technology manager.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-500: Demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including tools and techniques for protecting identity, access, platforms, data, and applications, and for effectively managing security operations. Designed for professionals with Azure security experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate level.

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About the Exam

Exam AZ-500 focuses on the knowledge needed to manage Azure Active Directory identities; configure secure access with Azure AD; manage application access and access control; implement advanced network security; configure advanced security for compute; monitor security with Azure Monitor, Azure Firewall manager, Azure Security Center, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel; configure security policies; configure security for storage and databases; and configure and manage Key Vault.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as an Azure Security Engineer capable of maintaining security posture, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, implementing threat protection, and responding to incident escalations as part of a cloud-based management and security team.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Prepare for Microsoft Exam MS-102 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to deploy and manage Microsoft 365 and perform Microsoft 365 tenant-level implementation and administration of cloud and hybrid environments. Designed for administrators, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level.

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About the Exam

Exam MS-102 focuses on the knowledge needed to implement and manage Microsoft 365 tenants; manage users, groups, and Microsoft 365 roles; implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity synchronization, authentication, and secure access; manage security reports and alerts with Microsoft 365 Defender portal; implement and manage email, collaboration, and endpoint protection with Microsoft Defender; and implement Microsoft Purview information protection, data lifecycles, and data loss prevention (DLP).

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert credential, demonstrating that you have expert-level skills in evaluating, planning, migrating, deploying, and managing Microsoft 365 in environments and organizations of all sizes.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2! Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-412—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of advanced configuration tasks for Windows Server infrastructure. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA or MCSE level.

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Note: Exam 70-412 counts as credit toward MCSA and MCSE certifications

Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2!

Designed to help enterprise administrators develop real-world, job-role-specific skills - this Training Guide focuses on core infrastructure administration for Windows Server 2012 R2. Build hands-on expertise through a series of lessons, exercises, and suggested practices - and help maximize your performance on the job.

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Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-347--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills needed to help securely and efficiently provide Microsoft Office 365 services in any environment.

Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.

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