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- Learn how to monitor Windows Server performance using Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Reliability Monitor, data collector sets, System Insights for capacity forecasting, and Windows Admin Center.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Use built-in tools in Windows Server to monitor server performance
- Understand the fundamentals of server performance tuning
- Learn how to manage and monitor Windows Server event logs using Event Viewer, Windows Admin Center, Server Manager, custom views, and event subscriptions for centralized log collection.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe event logs
- Use Server Manager and Windows Admin Center to - Review event logs
- Implement custom views
- Configure an event subscription
- Learn how to implement Windows Server auditing for regulatory compliance and security, including basic and advanced audit policies, User Access Logging (UAL), and Setup and Boot Event Collection.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Audit Windows Server events
- Configure Windows Server to record diagnostic information
- Learn how to monitor Windows Server IaaS VMs and hybrid instances using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics workspaces, the Dependency Agent for service maps, and integration with Microsoft Operations Manager.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Enable Azure Monitor for VMs.
- Monitor an Azure VM with Azure Monitor.
- Enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios.
- Collect data from a Windows computer in a hybrid environment.
- Plan Azure Monitor and Operations Manager coexistence.
- Learn how to monitor your Azure VMs by using Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host and client metrics and logs.
- Understand which monitoring data you need to collect from your VM.
- Enable and view recommended alerts and diagnostics.
- Use Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host metrics data.
- Use Azure Monitor Agent to collect VM client performance metrics and event logs.
- Learn how to troubleshoot on-premises and hybrid networking issues including DHCP authorization and scopes, DNS zone data and replication, IP configuration and routing tables, Packet Monitor, and Azure Network Watcher.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Diagnose DHCP and DNS problems in on-premises contexts.
Diagnose IP configuration and routing problems.
Implement Packet Monitor to help diagnose network problems.
Use Azure Network Watcher to troubleshoot Microsoft Azure virtual networks.
- Learn how to troubleshoot Azure-hosted Windows Server VMs, including provisioning and allocation failures, boot diagnostics, VM Agent and extension issues, RDP connectivity, performance monitoring, and storage tier selection.
After completing this module, you're able to:
- Troubleshoot VM deployment and extension issues
- Troubleshoot VM startup and performance issues
- Troubleshoot VM storage and encryption issues
- Troubleshoot connectivity to VMs
- Learn how to deploy and manage Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for centralized update management, including deployment topologies, computer groups, and integration with Azure Automation Update Management for hybrid environments.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe the role of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- Describe the WSUS update management process
- Deploy updates with WSUS
- Learn how to troubleshoot Active Directory including recovering deleted objects with AD Recycle Bin, managing the AD DS database with NtdsUtil, restoring SYSVOL, troubleshooting replication, and diagnosing hybrid authentication with Microsoft Entra Connect.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Recover the AD DS database, objects in AD DS, and SYSVOL
Troubleshoot AD DS replication
Troubleshoot Hybrid authentication issues
