Azure Innovation Days 2018 Tour Azure Innovation Days We’ve successfully wrapped up our 2018 Innovation Days Tour but stay tuned for the release of our 2019 dates. In this workshop, attendees will get hands-on experience with the Azure platform. As one of many workshops to come, we’ll touch on getting started with the basics, and focus on the most popular Azure services to quickly get your workloads running on the platform. For most users, these services are vital to a successful implementation and consumption of cloud services moving forward. Participants should bring a personal laptop to access the Azure platform, along with a pre-established Azure account. If you do not have an existing Azure account, Microsoft provides a free 30-day account including $200 of credit which you can sign up for here. Tour Stops To find out more details and register for the free workshop, click on your city below: Detroit, MI October 10 Sign Up Here Milwaukee, WI November 1 Sign Up Here Agenda Overview and Lab Setup AHEAD will give an overview of the Innovation Day and answer any initial questions about the lab configuration. Presentation 1 Azure Networking OverviewLearn about all the options available to you when constructing your network in Azure. VNET Peering, Routing, Security Groups, Load Balancers, and On-Premises connectivity will all be covered in this presentation. Lab 1 Azure NetworkingCreate an Azure VNET, Subnet, and Network Security Group. Create a second VNET and peer it with the first VNET. Presentation 2 Azure – Virtual MachinesAHEAD will present everything you need to know to get started with Azure Compute options and then dive deeper into Virtual Machines including Resource Groups, VM Instance Types, Specializations, and Disks. Following the basics, we will move on to how you can plan for availability and scalability in an Azure environment as well as mechanisms for deployment. Lab 2 Azure – Virtual MachinesCreate a new Virtual Machine using the Azure Portal, and then via PowerShell. The lab will help demonstrate how a VM is deployed and how you can connect to it. Once deployed, you will then learn how to deploy VMs into availability groups. Presentation 3 Azure Storage ServicesLearn about all the different types of storage available to you in Azure as well as how to determine which service to use to solve your use cases. Lab 3 Azure Blob StorageCreate an Azure Storage Account for Blob Storage and then use it to upload a series of image files. In addition you will learn how to use Storage Explorer and AzCopy before finally deploying your own Azure Files Service which will be mounted onto the Virtual Machine from Lab 1. Presentation 4 Azure Monitoring and OperationsLearn about the various services available to you in Azure for monitoring your environment. Lab 4 Configure Monitoring and Log AnalyticsTake a tour of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitors, and Azure Security Center. Run Log Analytics queries for troubleshooting, configure Azure monitors, and create a resource lock to prevent accidental deletion of Azure objects. Finally, configure Just in Time (JIT) access for your Windows Virtual Machine you built in Lab 1 to restrict RDP sessions via Azure Security Center. Presentation 5 Automation TechnologiesExplore the different automation tools available to you in Azure and potential use cases. Lab 5 ARM TemplatesDestroy everything we built previously, and then rebuild it immediately using an ARM template.
