Extending Your Data Center with Azure - Try It Yourself with Labs!

From time to time, you may have an opportunity to attend one of our in-person events - IT Camp.  Lately these events focus on using Microsoft Azure, particularly using the Infrastructure as a Service components, Virtual Machines, to extend or supplement your existing on-prem infrastructure. During these events you have the opportunity to try out Azure with our hands-on lab guide.  For those of you who haven't had a chance to attend an event yet or maybe you just want to share the labs with a colleague, here is the version of the labs we will be using this Spring!

The goal of labs 1-3 is to show you how Azure and PowerShell can be used to perform familiar tasks while reducing the need for using a GUI tool or a web interface. Using the lab manual and scripts referenced within it, you will set up core Azure components for your cloud infrastructure, including storage accounts, networking and cloud services.  Then you will deploy a traditional Active Directory infrastructure using PowerShell for managing Azure and remotely connect to the VMs to configure Active Directory. Finally, you will use that AD infrastructure to sync with Azure Active Directory and activate Multifactor Authentication features.

With Lab 4, you will use a single script to automate the deployment of a SQL Server and a Web Server to host an application. With minimal adjustments to the script (for uniqueness), you can experience the power behind reusable code in your organization.

Download the lab and get started!