AZ-600 Study Guide Microsoft Certified Azure Stack Hub Operator
Last week, the team released an updated version of the Azure Stack Hub exam called AZ-600: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub (This exam is currently in beta and you can take it with an 80% discount). When you pass the AZ-600 exam you will get the Microsoft Certified Azure Stack Hub Operator Associate certification. As always I try to take the exam early so I started to prepare for this exam, and as always I will share my AZ-600: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub Exam Study Guide with you. You can find the full exam study guide here: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/az-600-study-guide-microsoft-certified-azure-stack-hub-operator/Azure Stack Hub Platform Improvements for Ignite 2020
Thank you for providing feedback and your continued trust in us. We’re excited to share the following platform improvements with you. We encourage you to take full advantage of all the new features. If you have any feedback, please let us know. We are thrilled to announce the general availability of VNET Peering on Azure Stack Hub. VNET peering gives you the ability to connect two virtual networks on Azure Stack Hub regardless of the subscription they reside in, without the additional complexity of NVAs, gateways or public IPs. Once peered, the two virtual networks appear as one for a coherent connectivity experience. Traffic is routed over the private IPs, through the SDN layer and is not exposed to the internet. This new feature provides a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between resources in different virtual networks. This has been a highly requested feature and we are excited for our customers to try it out in the upcoming software release. We are introducing a set of scripts that will enhance the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) failback experience to Azure Stack Hub. These scripts enable a simplified failback experience from Azure by automating the process and removing the manual steps required after failover. This is intended to simplify the process by removing the manual steps, reduce the time required to go through each step, and enable a better experience when doing a failback to Azure Stack Hub. Later this year, customers will be able to create cost-effective, space-efficient, point-in-time incremental snapshots of managed disks attached to running VMs. Microsoft is working with several backup and disaster recovery solutions partners to add support for incremental snapshots in their products.Azure Stack Hub Remote Support
As an Azure Stack Hub Operator, you can use the Remote support feature for Azure Stack Hub and benefit from a simplified experience by allowing a Microsoft support professional to solve your support case faster by permitting access to your device remotely and performing limited troubleshooting and repair. In this next article, we've invited Chris Black (who is one of our Azure Stack Hub MVPs) to walk us through his experience with the tool and some of the benefits he's seen.Learn about Azure Stack HCI on Microsoft Learn!
Last week the general availability of the new Azure Stack HCI, our new hybrid cloud hyper-converged platform was announced. With the release of this new platform, the team also released a new Microsoft Learn learning path called Azure Stack HCI foundations. In this learning path, you will be introduced to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. If you want to get an overview of the Azure Stack portfolio or the new Azure Stack HCI 20H2 version, check out my blog posts. The new Azure Stack HCI foundations learning path on Microsoft Learn currently has 4 modules: Introduction to Azure Stack This module introduces you to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. You can check out the module here. Introduction to Azure Stack HCI core technologies This module introduces Azure Stack HCI technologies. You’ll learn about the core Azure Stack HCI technologies, including Hyper-V, Windows Server software-defined storage, and Windows Server software-defined networking. You can check out the module here. Plan and deploy Azure Stack HCI This module introduces you to planing for and deploying Azure Stack HCI. Content includes identifying suitable workloads, determining the optimal configuration to host these workloads, stepping through the deployment process, validating post-deployment operational status, and evaluating Azure integration options. You can check out the module here. Integrate Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI In this module, you will learn the fundamentals of Azure Arc and how is it used to bring new capabilities to the management and monitoring of your Azure Stack HCI clusters at scale. You can check out the module here. You can read the full blog post here.Azure Stack Hub Support: Getting a quick answer to an issue you are having with Azure Stack Hub
As an Azure Stack Hub operator, you can quickly find solutions to many issues in the Support Portal in global Azure. In this blog post, we'll join Shireen Isab (PM on the Azure Stack Hub team) as we walk through how to quickly find an answer to an Azure Stack Hub problem. In the Support Portal, you can find solutions created for specific problems customers have encountered in the past. This is a simple way of potentially identifying a solution for your individual problem, without actually creating a support ticket. In addition to the Support Portal, you can also find troubleshooting topics and step-by-step instructions in the Azure Stack Hub product documentation for both the cloud operator tasks and for developers using the Azure Stack Hub user portal. You can also find information about new features and current issues can be found in the release notes section of the documentation. If you can't find the answer to your problem through the support portal or the documentation, you can ask questions in the Microsoft Q&A for Azure Stack Hub or take part in the Azure Stack World Wide Community on Yammer. You can also find us using the tag #azurestackhub on Twitter, or 'azure-stack' in Stack Overflow to either post or find answers. However, in this scenario, we will use the Support Portal. Let's assume I have an issue connecting to a virtual machine that was created in Azure Stack Hub. I am having trouble connecting to the VM. I'm getting this message when I try to use Remote Desktop on my management computer to connect to my VM. I've already installed things on the VM, but now I can't connect. Before I got to support, I've tried to restart the VM, redeploy, and a take a look at the settings. I'm still unable to connect. From the Azure Stack Hub administrative portal, select the ? For Help + support. Select Create support request. Add the information about your issue in the New Support request form. Select Technical for issue type. Select your subscription. Select My services. Select Azure Stack Hub for the Service. Select the Resource group associated with your issue. Type a summary of your issue. In this case, "I cannot connect," and so I summarize my issue. I type, “I cannot connect to my VM." I then see a list of recommended solutions. Select the Problem type from the list of options - Here, I am having trouble connecting to my windows VM, and so I select Virtual Machine running Windows. Select the problem subtype. I cannot connect to my VM. Select Next: Solutions. I review the options in the recommended solutions. I check that my ports open. I open my Azure Stack Hub portal and then open the VM machine. I select Networking. I see that the port rule for RDP, port 3389, is set to Deny. I update to allow. I try with my RDP client again and I can connect. I resolved this problem.Announcing the Public Preview of IoT Hub on Azure Stack Hub
Azure IoT Hub enables highly secure and reliable communication between your Internet of Things (IoT) application and the devices it manages. It provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. This service is not available in Public Preview on Azure Stack Hub and enables you to deploy complex IoT pipelines on-premises without relying on your internet connection.
