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Hi, there.

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Welcome to Pluralsight. Welcome to this course entitled Windows Server 2022:

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Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability.

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This is the first module of five, and its title is

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Implement a Windows Server Failover Cluster.

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My name's Tim Warner. In this first module, we'll begin by

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implementing Windows Server failover clusters.

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You'll understand the step by step, which is really largely the

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same depending upon whether you're on‑premises,

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hybrid or cloud‑only.

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As I said, you'll understand how to deploy a failover cluster.

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We'll also cover stretch cluster configurations, as well as

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configuring storage for failover clustering. This course,

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Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability is part of

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our skill path for Microsoft exam AZ‑801.

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So therefore, every lesson, that is every module and every topic in

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each module, is geared to an AZ‑801 objective. We're in module 1 of 5

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here on implementing failover clusters.

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My module names aren't particularly granular. For example,

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the second module is on configuring a cluster,

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then we manage a cluster.

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I just basically look at it this way. We start with planning and deployment.

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Then, we look at setting up cluster roles, and then by the time we're

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managing the cluster, which is actually spread over two lessons here, we'll

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be concerned with things like cluster‑aware updating,

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falling over, falling back, and that kind of stuff.

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And because there's so much coverage on AZ‑801 on failover clustering

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and in particular Storage Spaces Direct, we'll cover S2D in the fifth

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and final module of the course. In order to earn your Windows Server

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hybrid administrator associate badge, you have to clear two exams.

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There's AZ‑800 called Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure,

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and then what we're doing today is part of AZ‑801. That exam is entitled

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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services.

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Now, when you pass either of those exams, you do get a badge for the exam,

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but you won't earn your Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate until

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you've passed the second of those two exams.

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It doesn't matter which order you take,

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whether you do 801 first or 800. It's up to you.

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These certs have a one‑year validity, and you can renew them for

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free by taking an online assessment at Microsoft Learn. Please

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check the Pluralsight library because I've created introductory

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courses. They're really mini courses. They're not very long at all

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on both AZ‑800 and AZ‑801.

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You can find the exercise files for this or any course by

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going, first of all, in a full browser session,

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not on a mobile device. Go into the course, as you can see in the screenshot,

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but shift your focus over to the Exercise files tab, and click Download

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exercise files. In that zip file, once you unpack it, there'll be a folder for

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each module. And in each module folder, there's a PDF version of my slides, as

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well as a supplemental subfolder that contains any PowerShell scripts that I

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might've used in my demos,

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as well as a links list that points to Microsoft docs and Pluralsight resources

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that can extend or enhance your learning for each module. All right, enough for the preliminaries. Let's get into the content.