For any successful deployment of IT infrastructure, an Active Directory Domain Controller is a must and IT pros know how to do this quite well in their On-Premise environments. Given the popularity and the importance to embrace the cloud, IT Pros are constantly having to re-learn how to do things in the cloud which they were used to doing in certain ways in their On-Premise environments. During this session the IT Pros will learn: What is Azure IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Learn how to quickly build a Virtual Network in Azure Learn how to create a VM (Virtual Machine) using the Azure Preview Portal Learn how to setup an Active Directory Domain Controller using the best practices relevant to Azure

2. SHAWN
ISMAIL
My twitter is @shawnismail, my blog is at http://cloudranger.net and I work at
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4. LET’S HAVE A QUICK CHAT?
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HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
ALREADY ON AZURE?
How many of you
are exclusively on
Azure?
How many of you are in
a Hybrid scenario

5. WHAT IS MICROSOFT AZURE?
A Cloud Computing Platform by Microsoft
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PaaS – Platform As A Service
IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
80%OFFORTUNE500HAVESOMETHINGONAZURE

6. CLOUD IS IMPORTANT!
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7. WHAT IS AD DC?
A SERVER THAT RUNS ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES (AD DS)
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Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stores directory data
and manages communication between users and domains,
including user logon processes, authentication, and directory
searches.

8. AD DC IS IMPORTANT!
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9. WHAT IS TODAY ABOUT?
AD DC on Microsoft Azure
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BRINGING IT TOGETHER

10. WHAT CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT?
DOING IT RIGHT!
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11. WHEN DO YOU NEED AD IN
AZURE?
There are several scenarios for building AD DCs in Azure
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BUILDINGNEWINFRASTRUCTURE(CLOUD-ONLY)
EXTENDINGON-PREMISESINFRASTRUCTURE
ADDRESSINGSOMETHINGSPECIFIC

12. IS THIS SAFE?
Are you virtualizing AD DCs on-premises today?
MOST BEST PRACTICES IN
AZURE VM ARE SIMILAR TO
ON-PREMISES VM FOR AD DC

13. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS TO
KNOW FOR AZURE
A lot more about each of these @ http://www.cloudranger.net
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AZUREVIRTUALMACHINES
AZUREVIRTUALNETWORKS
AZURERESOURCEMANAGER
AZUREINSTANCE-LEVELPUBLICIPADDRESS
(PIP)
AZUREDYNAMICIPADDRESS(DIP)
AZUREHOSTCACHEPREFERENCES

14. AD DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
Also works as best practices for building AD DC ion Azure
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• Must have an Azure VNET created
• VMs created in same Resource Groups
• For HA Azure Availability Groups must be used
• IP Addressing
• DIT/SYSVOL must be on non-cache data drive
• AD sites and Subnets must be correctly defined

15. WHAT IS HOST CACHE
PREFERENCE?
Disk caching preferences for I/O
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DIT/SYSVOL must be on non-cache data drive
This will prevent USN Rollbacks
Keep this setting to NONE for the DC Data Drive

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