Microsoft Azure: Publishing and Caching

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Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
One of the primary purposes of cloud services is for content publishing. The availability aspect of public cloud computing makes it ideally suited to the task. Caching is implemented in Microsoft Azure to improve performance, which is sometimes seen as the weakness of public cloud offerings. This course covers caching and web publishing; it also covers Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager and hosted Active Directory. Finally it covers alerts for monitoring cloud systems, and backup.

Target Audience
Administrators looking to gain skills to administer public cloud services hosted on Microsoft Azure

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.6

Lesson Objectives

Microsoft Azure: Publishing and Caching

start the course

create a cache in Microsoft Azure

describe caches in Microsoft Azure

describe cache configuration options in Microsoft Azure

monitor cache values in Microsoft Azure

set up a website on Microsoft Azure

monitor a Microsoft Azure web site

configure web site scaling to upgrade or downgrade sites

publish an FTP site on Microsoft Azure

configure web sites to support WebMatrix publishing

enable web site content publishing on Microsoft Azure

upscale and downscale the resources that have been allocated to a site on Microsoft Azure

describe Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager features and policies

distribute client access across multiple instances using Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager

configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager failover mode

configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager performance mode

configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager round robin mode

describe Windows Azure cloud-based security

describe the concepts and benefits of Microsoft Azure cloud-based Active Directory services

set up a Microsoft Azure Active Directory

create an administrative account on Microsoft Azure Active Directory

configure password synchronization in Microsoft Azure Active Directory

integrate Windows Azure applications with Active Directory synchronization

manage users and groups in Microsoft Azure Active Directory

set up alerts in Microsoft Azure

create and upload a custom certificate for secure access to backup vaults in Microsoft Azure

install the Microsoft Azure backup agent

Course Number:
cl_msaz_a03_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate