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AZ-1010: Deploy and Manage Azure Arc-enabled Servers

Last Updated: 26-05-2025

The AZ-1010: Deploy and Manage Azure Arc-enabled Servers course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to deploy and manage Azure Arc-enabled servers. Azure Arc extends the power of Microsoft Azure to on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, enabling you to manage resources and workloads seamlessly across hybrid infrastructures.

In this course, you will learn how to connect and manage servers using Azure Arc, deploy Azure services across hybrid environments, and implement governance and security for hybrid workloads. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the skills to implement Azure Arc for managing diverse server environments, enabling unified operations and simplified management for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.

Whether you are an IT administrator, cloud architect, or a systems engineer, this course will help you gain the expertise required to leverage Azure Arc to its full potential.

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Course Prerequisites

Before taking this course, it is recommended that learners have:

  • Basic knowledge of Azure fundamentals (e.g., virtual machines, Azure networking, Azure Storage).
  • Familiarity with on-premises server management or cloud infrastructure concepts.
  • Experience with managing servers in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment is helpful but not mandatory.
  • Familiarity with Linux and Windows Server environments.
  • Basic understanding of containers and Kubernetes (optional but useful for advanced topics).

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Understand the core concepts and architecture of Azure Arc and how it extends Azure management to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  2. Deploy and configure Azure Arc-enabled servers to extend Azure's management capabilities to on-premises and cloud-based servers.
  3. Manage on-premises servers as part of your Azure environment and perform operations using Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
  4. Use Azure Arc to implement centralized governance, including security, monitoring, and compliance management across hybrid servers.
  5. Integrate Azure Arc-enabled servers with Azure services, such as Azure Security Center, Azure Monitor, and Azure Automation, to improve management and automation.
  6. Enable Azure policies and blueprints on Azure Arc-enabled servers for consistent governance.
  7. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Azure Arc server deployments.
  8. Leverage Azure Arc to manage workloads consistently across hybrid environments (e.g., on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge locations).
  9. Understand how Azure Arc can simplify the management of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and other workloads across hybrid environments.
  10. Implement security best practices for Azure Arc-enabled servers to ensure compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.
  11. Use Azure Arc to automate tasks and operations for hybrid and multi-cloud servers, enhancing the speed and efficiency of managing complex environments.

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

  • IT administrators who manage on-premises servers and want to extend their management to the cloud using Azure Arc.
  • Cloud architects seeking to manage hybrid cloud infrastructures effectively.
  • Azure professionals who want to understand how to deploy and manage servers in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment.
  • Systems engineers who need to deploy and manage Azure Arc-enabled servers across various environments.
  • DevOps engineers and infrastructure teams responsible for managing distributed and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Course Modules

Module 1: Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled servers

Introduction
What are the characteristics of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
What are the core management and governance capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers? What are the security and monitoring capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers?
Summary

Module 2: Plan and deploy Azure Arc-enabled servers at scale

Introduction
What is Azure Arc-enabled servers and its capabilities?
Test Azure Arc-enabled servers capabilities using Azure VMs
Planning considerations for a secure configuration
Explore different methods to onboard servers at scale to Azure Arc
Best practices for Azure Arc-enabled servers management and services in Azure Knowledge check
Summary

Module 3: Govern your hybrid and multicloud machines through Azure Arc-enabled servers

Introduction
Govern Azure Arc-enabled servers with Azure Policy Guest Configuration
Assign Azure Policies to govern Azure Arc-enabled servers
Azure Automanage delivers best practices to your Azure Arc-enabled servers, so you can point, click, set, and forget
Modernize deployment, response, and orchestration of Azure Arc-enabled servers with Azure Automation Knowledge check
Summary

Module 4: Configure updates for Azure Arc-enabled servers by using Azure Update Manager

Introduction
Azure Update Manager
Azure Update Manager key features
How to manage updates for Azure Arc-enabled servers
Trainer Preparation Guide AZ-1010 Deploy and manage Azure Arc–enabled servers
Create a maintenance configuration schedule Associate a virtual machine with a schedule Knowledge check
Summary

Module 5: Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure Arc-enabled servers

Introduction
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Secure cloud applications
Protect cloud workloads
Connect your non-Azure machines to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Connect on-premises machines by using Azure Arc
Connect on-premises machines by using the Azure portal
Onboard a Windows server
Onboard a Linux server
Verify that your machines are connected
Knowledge check
Summary

Module 6: Manage Azure Arc-enabled servers by using scripting

Introduction
Connect hybrid machines to Azure using a deployment script
Connect hybrid machines to Azure by using PowerShell
Connect machines at scale by running PowerShell scripts with Configuration Manager Knowledge check
Summary

Module 7: Guided exercise - Manage on-premises Windows servers by using Azure Arc

Introduction
Exercise 1 - Onboard Windows servers to Azure Arc
Exercise 2 - Manage Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Policy
Exercise 3 - Enhance security of Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Exercise 4 - Monitor Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Monitor
Exercise 5 - Manage updates of Azure Arc-enabled Windows servers by using Azure Update Manager Exercise 6 - Configure on-premises Windows servers by using Azure virtual machine extensions and CLI Knowledge check

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