50. Create a Windows failover cluster I want to look now at installing the failover cluster service on our server here, or I should say our servers, because we’re going to put it on both NYC-DC1 and NYC-SVR1. So, here we are on NYC-DC1. We’re just going to go to the Manage add roles and features. We’re going to click Next, next, next. All right. And then one more next. And we should see failover cluster servers. I believe I actually had already […]
49. Configure storage for failover clustering Real quick, I want to say a couple of things before we get started too hardcore into clustering. Clustering is something that can be a huge pain to deal with on virtual machines, especially if you don’t have a lot of memory. So, I just want to give you a heads up that I’m going to show you in just a second how to create checkpoints and all that. You definitely want to do that. And if […]
48. Implement a failover cluster on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-only Let’s talk about the concepts of failover clustering with on-premises hybrid and cloud scenarios. So, failover clustering is a feature that’s been around for a very long time in which it allows us to have multiple servers that are sharing a certain resource., maybe, it’s SQL, maybe, it’s Exchange, maybe, it’s Hyper-V, maybe, it’s some kind of file related services, maybe, it’s DHCP. There’s various things here that you could use clustering for. And […]
46. Enable storage encryption by using Azure Disk Encryption Now I want to take a look here in Azure, at how Azure is going to encrypt virtual disks. So, if you’re using a virtual machines and, maybe, you’re hosting a server in Azure, I want you to know that Azure is going to encrypt your disk automatically. There’s a couple of considerations I want to look at. Here we are on portal.azure.com and I’m going to create a virtual machine real quick. Now, […]
44. Manage Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) Let’s talk now about BitLocker Drive encryption. Now, BitLocker is nothing new. We’ve had BitLocker ever since Windows Vista came out back in the year 2008. However, it is a very it’s still a very powerful capability and feature that can be used as a full disk encryption, which means it can basically encrypt our partitions for us on our hard drives. And that way nobody could access our data offline if they booted the hard […]
42. Manage Windows Defender Firewall I want to go over now the Windows Defender Firewall capabilities that we have on server. These really aren’t very different than what we’ve got on our client operating systems. We can we can very easily just go down here to search, go to control panel right here. And we get in control panel. We have Windows Defender Firewall. We can just click on that and then we can go and allow apps through the firewall and all […]
40. Monitor on-premises servers & Azure IaaS VMs by using Microsoft Sentinel I’d like to now look into using Microsoft Sentinel to monitor our different servers, whether they be physical servers or whether they be virtual servers, virtual machines hosted either on-premises or even in Azure. First thing is, if we go to Google and we just type, what is Microsoft Sentinel, it will tell you that Sentinel used to be called Azure Sentinel, and they recently changed the name to Microsoft Sentinel. […]
37. Manage AD built-in administrative groups I want to talk now about the built in groups that we have in Active Directory. So, there’s a couple of things we want to look at here. Number one is if we go to Server Manager and then go Tools and then open up Azure or sorry, open up Active Directory Users and Computers, that’ll bring us here and we can click on users and here are your built in groups. Now, you may not have […]
