Microsoft Azure Administration New Features (March 2014)
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Recently released features surrounding Microsoft Azure Administration.
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Course Description
New features from Azure Q4 2013 and newer releases focused on advanced topics for the administration of Microsoft Azure. From a backup standpoint, Azure offers Recovery Services to prevent data loss via Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager and Recovery Services. Azure scheduler gives you the ability to schedule jobs that can run internal and external to Azure. Traffic Manager supports both PaaS configurations based upon round robin, failover, and performance metrics. Management Services gives you the ability to set up billing alerts, as well as service alerts for services, storage, and web sites and run queries on the results. Virtual Machine Auto-Scaling has been improved to now give you configurable options for both PaaS Cloud Services, Web sites, and IaaS VMs. Azure BizTalk Services integrates the enterprise and the Azure Cloud by configuring B2B messaging. HDInsight is Azure's solution to bring big data processing to the Azure Cloud. Improvements to Azure Storage include read-only access to geo-replicated storage, improved storage analytics, and allowing the transfer of large amounts of data via physical drive using the Azure Import and Export Service. For Web sites we look at the recent enhancements of AlwaysOn Support, Web Jobs, and Staged Publishing.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction- 8m 6s
—Introduction 6m 21s
—Preview 1m 44sRecovery Services- 37m 41s
—Introduction 7m 4s
—Vaults and Certificates 4m 47s
—Azure Backup Services 2m 43s
—Schedule Backups 8m 5s
—Restore Backups 3m 10s
—Hyper-V Recovery Manager 5m 32s
—Hyper-V Vault 2m 10s
—Summary 4m 6sScheduler- 22m 16sTraffic Manager- 53m 10sManagement Services- 39m 7sBiztalk Services- 47m 30sHDInsight- 36m 46sStorage- 23m 10sAzure Web Sites- 20m 58sSummary- 6m 56s