Implementing Azure Solutions

A practical guide that enhances your skills in implementing Azure solutions for your organization

About This Book

• Confidently configure, deploy, and manage cloud services and virtual machines
• Implement a highly-secured environment and respond to threats with increased visibility
• This comprehensive guide is packed with exciting practical scenarios that enable you to implement Azure solutions with ease

Who This Book Is For

This book is for IT architects, system and network admins, and DevOps engineers who are aware of Azure solutions and want to implement them for their organization.

What You Will Learn

• Implement virtual networks, network gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, routing, and network devices
• Understand the working of different storage accounts in Azure
• Plan, deploy, and secure virtual machines
• Deploy and manage Azure Containers
• Get familiar with some common Azure usage scenarios

In Detail

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately.

Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented.

To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment.

By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.

Style and approach

This step-by-step guide focuses on implementing various Azure solutions for your organization. The motive is to provide a comprehensive exposure and ensure they can implement these solutions with ease.

Florian Klaffenbach started in 2004 with his IT carrier as 1st and 2nd Level IT Support Technician and IT Salesman Trainee for a B2B online shop. After that, he changed to a small company working as IT Project Manager, planning, implementing, and integration from industrial plants and laundries into enterprise IT. After spending some years, he changed his path to Dell Germany. There he started from scratch as an Enterprise Technical Support Analyst and later worked on a project to start Dell Technical Communities and support over social Media in Europe and outside of the U.S.

Currently he is working as a Solutions Architect and Consultant for Microsoft Infrastructure and Cloud and is specialized in Microsoft Hyper-V, Fileservices, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Microsoft Azure IaaS at msg services ag.

In addition to his job, he is active as a Microsoft Blogger and Lecturer. He blogs for example on his own page Datacenter-Flo.de or Azure Community Germany. Together with a very good friend, he founded the Windows Server User Group Berlin to create network of Microsoft ITPros in Berlin.

Florian maintains a very tight network for many vendors such as Cisco, Dell, or Microsoft and Communities. This helps him to grow his experience and to get the best solution for his customers. Since 2016, he is also Co-Chairman of the Azure Community Germany. In April 2016, Microsoft awarded Florian Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Cloud and Datacenter Management.

Jan-Henrik Damaschke is an IT Consultant for Security, Network, and Infrastructure from Germany. He was MVP awarded in the categories of Enterprise Security, PowerShell, and AzureStack. PKI implementation and management is one of his core competencies as well as cloud-related security. He writes articles on security-related topics and is involved in many community events as a speaker as well as an organizer. He is passionate about sharing knowledge with others. For this purpose, he is member of the Microsoft Student Partner program and is engaged on forums and on other platforms. Currently, he is writing a book on Azure infrastructure solutions.

Oliver Michalski started in 1999 with his IT carrier as a Web Developer. Now, he is a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft .NET and an SOA Architect. He also works as an Independent Enterprise Consultant in the field Microsoft Azure. When he started in 2011 with Microsoft Azure, there was no Azure Community on the German market. Therefore, Oliver founded the Azure Community Germany (ACD).

Oliver is Chairman of the Azure Community Germany, and since April 2016 he has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure.