Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) administration course

With SIMULATIONS! This course provides training and hands on simulations you can practice anytime anywhere!

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more then the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND SIMULATIONS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course

• Understanding the Microsoft Environment

• A Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• A Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

• A Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

• IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

Setting Up a Practice Lab for Entra Connect hands on later in the course

• Introduction to setting up a practice lab

• Downloading Windows Server 2022 ISO

• Getting Hyper-V Installed on Windows

• Creating a Virtual Switch in Hyper-V

• Installing a Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machine

• Disable large send offload version 2

• Downloading the Windows 11 ISO

• Installing a Windows 11 virtual machine

• Setting up a domain controller

• Joining Windows 11 to a domain

Getting Started with Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

• Understanding Microsoft’s IaaS, PaaS, and SAAS

• The First Concept of Microsoft's Cloud

• The Basics of Using the Entra ID Portal

• Understanding the available Versions and Licenses of Entra ID

• Azure and Microsoft 365 both share the Entra ID Services

User Identities in Entra ID

• The Concept of Identities in Microsoft Entra ID

• Creating User Identities

• Creating external (Guest) users

• Bulk User Management in Entra ID

• Licensing User Identities in Microsoft Entra ID

Working with Groups in Entra ID

• Understanding Groups in Azure/Microsoft/Entra ID

• Creating and managing groups using the Microsoft 365 Portal

• Creating and managing groups using the Azure Portal

Managing Entra ID with PowerShell / Graph

• A Foundation of Administration with PowerShell

• Understanding Microsoft Graph vs Traditional PowerShell

• Installing and connecting to MS Graph to support cloud services with PowerShell

• Using PowerShell with MS Graph to manage Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

Understanding Device join types in Entra ID

• Entra ID device register vs device join

• Join devices to Microsoft Entra ID

• Register devices to Microsoft Entra ID

Managing Roles in Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

• Understanding Roles in Azure/Microsoft 365/Entra ID

• Configuring Role Based Access Control within Entra ID

• Working with Roles through Microsoft 365

• Working with Azure roles for resource permissions including custom role creation

• Viewing effective permissions for a set of Azure roles

Privileged Identity Management and Administrative Units

• Understanding the use of Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

• Configuring Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Entra ID

• Understanding Administrative Units in Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

• Creating and managing Administrative Units in Entra ID

Managing Domains for Connecting Entra ID/Microsoft 365 Services with On-Premise

• Understanding Entra Connect Sync vs Entra Cloud Sync for Hybrid scenarios

• Visualizing Entra Connect Sync and Entra Cloud Sync

• Fixing account naming issues in On-Prem Active Directory using the IdFix tool

• Deploying directory synchronization with Microsoft Entra Connect Sync

• Deploying directory synchronization with Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

• Using Microsoft Entra Connect Health to monitor synchronization

• Synchronization troubleshooting with Entra Connect Sync and Entra Cloud Sync

Managing Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Identities

• Managing Password Settings in Microsoft Entra ID

• Implementing and Configuring Entra Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

• Using Access Reviews in Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication and Identity Protection

• Understanding Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

• Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

• Understanding Entra Identity Protection

• Configuring Entra Identity Protection

• Understanding Conditional Access policies

• Implementing Conditional Access policies