Welcome to the Microsoft Azure Course

Immerse yourself in the world of Microsoft Azure with our comprehensive webinar series, designed to provide you with unparalleled access to a wealth of information on this powerful platform.

Semester 1 classes:

Class 01: Planning Your Azure Environment with the Cloud Adoption Framework
Class 02: Migrating to the Cloud with Azure
Class 03: Desktop Experiences: Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365
Class 04: Azure Management with Azure Arc

Semester 2 classes:

Class 01: Azure Virtual Desktop: Maximum Flexibility & Control for Your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Class 02: Azure VMware Solution for Your Cloud Migration
Bonus Class: Windows 365 Cloud PC for the Hybrid Workplace

These classes are designed for IT leaders and IT professionals. Register for the course to receive the password to watch the recordings below.

Classes from Semester 1

Class recordings are available below!

☁️ Class 01: Planning Your Azure Environment with the Cloud Adoption Framework

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There’s an adage that goes, “measure twice, cut once” when talking about building and construction. The same principle applies to planning your Azure cloud environment. By building a solid foundation, you can structure it to easily support your business in the future.

In this class, we’ll explore:

The importance of landing zones
Operational best practices
Governance considerations and principles

Learn how you can use the cloud adoption framework to create an Azure foundation that will meet all your identity, security, and networking requirements. Remember, it’s easier to renovate an empty house than one with furniture.

⚙️ Class 02: Migrating to the Cloud with Azure

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This class will help you to complete your first migration to Azure and ensure that your critical business operations continue to run during the process.

In this class, we’ll discuss:

Leveraging Azure tools
The migration process
Testing and validating the Azure experience

Join Bill to start your Azure migration journey on a solid footing.

🖥️ Class 03: Desktop Experiences: Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365

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With hybrid work, remote work, and the use of employees’ personal devices commonplace for many businesses, achieving a consistent online desktop experience can be a challenge.

In this class, we’ll explore how Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 can provide great user performance experiences while safeguarding your organization’s intellectual property and confidential data.

We’ll delve into use cases for both scenarios so you can decide if you would like to use one or both in your organization.

🗄️ Class 04: Azure Management with Azure Arc

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Microsoft’s Azure Arc is an inexpensive way to manage all your hybrid and multi-cloud environments no matter where they reside.

In this class, we’ll discuss:

How Azure Arc can help you build applications and services to run across data centres and in multi-cloud environments
How Azure Arc can help you manage a consistent operations and security model
How you can use the latest cloud innovations to manage your data workloads

Join Bill to learn how your organization can free up time from day-to-day activities and focus on value-add and strategic projects.

Classes from Semester 2

Class recordings are available below!

🖥️ Class 01: Azure Virtual Desktop: Maximum Flexibility & Control for Your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Azure Class 01 has happened!
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Similar to Windows 365 which we discussed last semester, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) also supports hybrid work, enhanced security needs, and remote operations. If you are already using Microsoft 365 or Windows 10, you may already have this virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution.

Azure Virtual Desktop gives you maximum flexibility and control with consumption-based pricing. We’ll help you decide if AVD or Windows 365 is the better virtual desktop solution for your organization.

🧰 Class 02: Azure VMware Solution for Your Cloud Migration

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When choosing the right path for your migration, there are numerous factors to consider including your evolving business priorities, your existing investments in people, skills, and on-premises infrastructure, and how best to modernize and advance the applications that keep your business thriving. Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is the ticket to accelerate your migration to the cloud.

In this class, we will explore:

Reducing your migration complexity
Incorporating built-in security capabilities across all your cloud resources and all layers of your architecture, and
Improving cost effectiveness

Join us to learn how you can drive scale, gain operational efficiencies, maintain operational processes, and focus on what matters most to your organization.

🌟 Bonus Class: Windows 365 Cloud PC for the Hybrid Workplace

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Gain a comprehensive understanding of Windows 365 in the commercial space, as well as a roadmap of the experiences being built to meet your hybrid work needs – from client to cloud.

This engaging session will include the following segments:

Two demos of Windows 365: “How to provision a Cloud PC” and “How to get started using Windows 365.
A dedicated Q&A session about your organization’s unique situation and computing requirements.

You’ll have the opportunity to see first-hand how Windows 365 helps alleviate concerns and challenges organizations like yours now face because of hybrid work, enhanced security needs, and remote operations.

Bill Kastner_ProServeIT

About the Instructor

Bill Kastner

Azure Solutions Architect, ProServeIT

With over 25 years in the IT industry, Bill Kastner has been with ProServeIT for the past 5 years. In addition to his knowledge of Office 365 and various other Cloud technologies, Bill's principle area of focus is Microsoft Azure. As Bill explains, Azure is like the Swiss Army Knife of toolsets and products, and Bill enjoys the opportunity to provide customer education on the versatility and diversity of Azure. When he isn't at work, Bill's an avid reader whose tastes run to the distant past (historical fiction) or distant future (science fiction) genres.

This Azure course is for the "Infrastructure" room of your Technology House (see image).

Infrastructure is what we would think of as “traditional IT”. While its role in being strategic has been diminished, it doesn’t mean it’s not important.

Microsoft Azure is definitely one of the best Cloud platforms for business. Explore Azure with Bill throughout this semester to evaluate it for your organization.

To learn more about each room of The House, have a look at our blog, The CEO’s Technology Strategy Framework.