Azure Administrator Basic Training

Course Information

  • Title: Azure Administrator Basic Training
  • Instructor: Ed Chase, Azure Cloud and AI Specialist at Microsoft
  • Time: Nov. 3 & Nov. 5, 1-5 p.m. ET each day
  • Duration: Four hours per day for two days
  • Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members
  • Delivery: Virtual via Zoom
  • Registration: Register
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Ed Chase, Azure Cloud and AI Specialist at Microsoft

Course Overview

This two-day course equips higher education IT professionals with practical guidance for designing, deploying, and managing Microsoft Azure environments effectively.

Participants will explore proven best practices, common pitfalls, and actionable strategies for building secure, reliable, and cost-conscious cloud solutions.

Skill Level and Target Audience

  • Intermediate/Advanced
  • Cloud engineers; Administrators of other cloud platforms; Cloud enablement teams

Workshop Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Explain Azure’s core concepts, terminology, service structure, and shared-responsibility model
  • Design an Azure governance foundation using identity controls, management groups, subscriptions, role-based access control, policy, tagging, and cost management
  • Make informed decisions about networking, administrative tools, workload placement, storage, backup, and operational monitoring
  • Apply higher-education-specific controls for research, teaching, regulated data, and AI workloads
  • Recognize common Azure anti-patterns and identify practical steps to improve security, compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency

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