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This training was a 4 hour training over 4 days. I made it to the live training on Day 1 but couldn’t wake up the subsequent days as the training commenced at 4AM in my time zone.

Luckily, its all recorded for us: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/Level-Up-Azure-IaaS-for-IT-Pros

Topics include:

• Day 1:  Establish the Foundation: Core IaaS Infrastructure Technical Fundamentals
  • View from the CTO: Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer – Azure
  • Azure IaaS Virtual Machines Inside Out
  • Optimize Your Windows Server Workloads on Azure
  • Inside IaaS Architecture Best Practices and Management
• Day 2:  Dive Deep into Networking, Storage and Disaster Recovery Scenarios
  • Designing Networking and Hybrid Connectivity Infrastructure
  • Deep Dive into Azure Storage Blobs, Disks, Files, Tables and Queues
  • Planning Disaster Recovery, Migration and More
  • Learn the Ins and Outs of Azure Automation, PowerShell and Desired State Configuration
• Day 3:  Embrace Open Source Technologies (Chef and Puppet Configurations, Containerization with Docker, and Linux) to Accelerate and Scale Solutions
  • How to Deploy Linux and OSS on Azure
  • Leverage Existing Chef / Puppet toolsets for management
  • How to Implement Containerization with Docker to Increase Density and Performance of Virtual Machines
  • Creating Large Scale Linux Deployments on Azure
• Day 4:  Optimize Windows Workload Architecture and Administration Capabilities Within Azure
  • Identity Solutions: Leveraging Azure Active Directory / Active Directory Premium
  • Azure Websites: Manage Your Websites not Your VMs
  • Leveraging SQL Azure for Your Solutions
  • Architecting SharePoint for the Cloud