Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Introduction to System Administration

• Start your sysadmin journey
• What are the roles of a system administrator?
• A week in the life
• The biggest challenges
• Keeping your skills sharp
• Major components of a modern network

1. Operating Systems: Installing, Updating, and Maintaining OSs

• Servers and clients
• Active Directory
• Operating system installation
• System Center Suite
• Endpoint Manager
• Manual installation options
• Windows Server Update Services
• Why updates are so important

2. Servers: Managing, Configuring, Maintaining, and Monitoring

• Commercial administration monitoring tools
• Physical equipment maintenance
• Utilizing event logs to monitor and maintain a server
• Built-in Windows monitoring tools

3. Identity and Authentication Services

• On-premises and cloud identity services
• Active Directory from scratch
• Azure AD and Directory Services
• Multi-factor authentication
• Single sign-on
• Group creation and management
• Group policy application
• Shared folder security
• Security in the modern era

4. Basic Networking

• The sysadmin's role in networking
• What runs over the Internet Protocol?
• The OSI model
• IP structure
• Routing tools
• VLANs and subnets
• Static and dynamic routing

5. Virtualization

• What is virtualization?
• Windows Hyper-V
• VMware virtualization
• Creating an Azure virtual machine
• The future of virtual machines and containers

6. Cloud Administration

• What is cloud administration?
• How cloud computing adds resiliency
• Preparing for a cloud environment
• Utilizing the hybrid cloud
• Virtualization in the cloud
• Overview of the Azure Portal and services
• Azure cloud storage
• Microsoft 365 online services

7. Security and Monitoring

• What security means to the role of a systems administrator
• Email security from phishing attacks
• Securing the network from attacks
• How to secure your cloud resources
• Data loss prevention
• How to be secure in public places
• Mitigating social engineering attacks

8. Backup and Recovery: Scheduling, Monitoring, and Securing Backups and Sound Backup Strategy

• Overview of backup solutions
• Different backup types for different types of organizations
• Windows Server backups for smaller operations
• Commercial backup options from third-party companies
• Backing up Linux and Macintosh
• Windows client backup solutions
• What type of hardware should be used in a backup solution?
• Azure backup for on-premises and cloud resources

9. Getting Started as a System Administrator

• Explore the hiring process
• Writing your resume
• How to be successful starting out

Conclusion

• Your next sysadmin steps