Windows Server 2016 Recipes

Course details

This course provides practical recipes to handle the administrative tasks of Windows Server 2016 and a suitable hybrid Cloud Identity & Access Management solution. You will get familiar with the related Windows Server 2016 services and the Microsoft Cloud capabilities like Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, and Office 365.

You will be guided through a three-step program. You will build up a solid Azure AD to provide a cloud only scenario with the focus that you can handle the most important tasks. Second, you will deliver a simple hybrid Identity & Access Management solution with a strong focus on the identity synchronization tasks.Finally, you will learn the related authentication mechanisms to run several authentication scenarios for internal and external users.

About the Author

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a focus and technical deep knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each work day planning, designing, and implementing Identity and Access Management solutions, single parts such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium and Microsoft Azure Rights Management Services, or complete Enterprise Mobility Suite solutions. He has also been part of many projects, proofs of concepts, reviews, reference architectures, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft V-TSP Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Switzerland, and uses his experience for directly managed business accounts in Switzerland. He has also been an established speaker at many technology conferences.

As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen authored Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and reviewed Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan, as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook by Jordan Krause, a Microsoft MVP. He is also reviewing Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook for Packt Publishing.

Committed to continuous learning, he holds Microsoft certifications such as MCSD Azure Solutions Architect, MCITP, MCSE/A Office 365/Private Cloud, MCTS, and many other security titles such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to recharge, in order to handle such interesting technologies.