Understanding Microsoft Azure Core Functionalities

Get an IT administrator's view of Microsoft's cloud offering, Microsoft Azure. David Elfassy provides an inside look at working with Azure cloud-based storage and networking services, which can scale up or down as your organization changes. He'll show you how to manage your Azure account, configure options via portals or PowerShell scripting, and set up services successfully, including web apps, virtual machines, Active Directory, and VPNs. The final chapter makes the business case for Azure, and shows you how to implement backups to make sure your data is safe on premise and in the cloud. Topics include:

• Understanding Azure subscriptions
• Managing Azure with portals and PowerShell
• Configuring Azure web apps
• Deploying virtual machines
• Configuring virtual machines for high availability
• Managing Azure Active Directory
• Creating Azure virtual networks
• Implementing a VPN
• Performing Azure backups