Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) administration course

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

• 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