MS126: Windows Server 2025 - Migration for IT Professionals

Agenda:

• Overview of the new features of the NextGen platform
  • Fundamental optimizations and use cases
  • Windows Server licensing channels and editions
  • Hybrid OS architecture and hybrid management functionalities
  • Azure hybrid infrastructure: Correct integration and use
  • Windows Platform Security: Zero-Trust / Secured Core / etc.
  • Modern application platforms: container / .Net / etc.
  • NextGen virtualization and the significance of Azure Stack HCI
  • AI assistants and MS Copilot in business use
    
    
• Installation and deployment of the hybrid system platform
  • Detailed information on system and security requirements
  • Clarifying infrastructure and component dependencies
  • Installation types (Server Core / full installation with GUI)
  • Using a modern admin host for hybrid management
  • Options and use of a central deployment process
  • Best practices recommendations and optimizations
    
    
• Hybrid management
  • Overview of management tools and mechanisms
  • Modern and secured remote management
  • Deploying and using Windows Admin Center (WAC v2)
  • Overview of System Center (on-premises & cloud > hybrid)
  • Insight into Azure Arc (cloud-based OS & infrastructure management)
  • Insight into Intune - Endpoint Manager (Azure Cloud)
    
    
• Hybrid network components and integration types
  • Adaptations in network and security design
  • Improvements in performance and reliability
  • Hybrid management and compatibilities
  • Modern implementation of IPv4 and IPv6
  • Optimizing network traffic
    
    
• Using hybrid infrastructures and directory services
  • Overview of current IAM methods and interoperability
  • Important aspects of Azure Core Cloud Services and licensing
  • New features in Local Active Directory (ADDS+DFL)
  • Modern access and identity management with Entra ID
  • Security and synchronization mechanisms
    
    

• Implementing and migrating DCs and Active Directory
  • Requirements and options for deployment or migration
  • Installation / migration of ADDS/DNS components
  • Managing users and resources in hybrid environments
    
    

• Deploying file and storage services
  • Overview of new technologies and features
  • Options for storage migration / storage replica / S2D
  • Data medium / volumes / file systems
  • Optimal methods and compatibilities
    
    

• Network access to file resources
  • Overview of relevant online services (Azure Cloud)
  • Connection technologies and modern security measures
  • Using hybrid management
  • Authorization types and principals
    
    

• Migration of roles and infrastructures
  • Overview of migration tools and options
  • Overview of domain infrastructure migration
  • Migration of domain controllers and ADDS / DNS
  • Possible migration scenarios for Windows platforms
  • Possible migration scenarios for apps and resources
    
    

• Backup and recovery scenarios
  • Current backup and restore mechanisms
  • Options for local, centralized, cloud-based backup/recovery
  • Platform and role-specific backup procedures
    
    

• Monitoring and maintenance
  • Overview of tools and instrumentations
  • Significance and usage of modern monitoring
  • System Center & AI-based monitoring incl. System Insights
  • New patch management / autopatch & hot patching methods

Objectives:

Target audience:

• Technicians
• Support Staff
• Administrators

Prerequisites:

• Basic Windows 1st/2nd Level Know-How
• Good experience with server hardware and software
• Knowledge of client and server operating systems
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructures