Azure Hybrid Administrator - Master Azure & Windows Server

Welcome to the Azure Hybrid Administrator – Master Azure & Windows Server 2025 course, designed for beginners, IT students, system administrators, and professionals aiming to build real-world enterprise skills.

This course takes you from Windows Server fundamentals to advanced Azure and hybrid cloud management, covering everything required to work in modern enterprise environments.

We begin with Windows Server 2025 fundamentals, including editions, licensing, system requirements, and installation methods such as Desktop Experience, Server Core, and Nano Server. You’ll also learn essential post-installation configuration and best practices.

Next, we move into Identity and Access Management using Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You’ll design domains, trees, and forests, manage users and groups, and implement Group Policy for centralized control.

We then explore Virtualization with Hyper-V, where you’ll create and manage virtual machines, configure virtual networking, and handle real-world VM operations such as checkpoints, export, and import.

From there, we cover enterprise storage technologies, including storage types, file systems, and protocols like iSCSI and Fibre Channel. You’ll also build your own iSCSI storage and integrate it into a virtualized environment.

High availability is covered in depth with Windows Failover Clustering, including cluster setup, validation, quorum configuration, cluster shared volumes, live migration, and failover testing.

We extend this further with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), enabling software-defined storage across multiple servers.

For disaster recovery, you’ll implement Hyper-V Replica, configuring replication and performing failover scenarios to ensure business continuity.

After building a strong on-premises foundation, we move into Microsoft Azure.

You’ll learn cloud fundamentals such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Azure global infrastructure, tenants, subscriptions, and resource groups. You’ll gain hands-on experience using the Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, and CLI tools.

We then focus on Azure compute and scalability, including virtual machines, disk and network configuration, Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Load Balancers.

Networking is covered in detail through Azure Virtual Networking, where you’ll design secure architectures and deploy multi-tier applications.

We also explore Hybrid Networking, connecting on-premises environments with Azure using Point-to-Site and Site-to-Site VPNs.

Hybrid Storage & Backup

You’ll learn how to protect both cloud and on-premises workloads using Azure Backup. This includes:

• Creating Recovery Services Vaults

• Backing up and restoring Azure virtual machines

• Installing and configuring Azure Backup Server on-premises

• Managing disks and protection groups

• Recovering on-premises virtual machines

• Backup and recovery of SQL Server workloads

Azure Arc – Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Management

We take hybrid management further with Azure Arc, enabling you to manage servers across on-premises and multiple cloud platforms. You’ll learn:

• What Azure Arc is and why it matters in modern IT

• Registering on-premises servers and external cloud VMs (like Oracle Cloud)

• Enabling Hotpatch for streamlined updates

• Integrating monitoring and log collection for centralized visibility

What makes this course unique is the hands-on, practical approach. Every topic includes step-by-step demos and real lab scenarios aligned with enterprise environments.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to deploy, manage, secure, and monitor hybrid infrastructure, combining Windows Server and Azure effectively.

This course is ideal for anyone aiming to become a System Administrator, Cloud Engineer, or Azure Hybrid Administrator, with skills directly applicable in today’s IT industry.