Azure – Start Here

More from the cloud engineer

Basics (legacy)
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2015/04/azure-basic-definitions.html

Labs

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2017/04/azure-labs.html

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2011/09/great-sharepoint-2010-sp1-vhd.html

Spending Limits - Piece of Mind
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spending-limits/

Early Experts
Great Site from Keith Meyer – Microsoft Evangelist
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2015/01/12/early-experts-study-guide-for-microsoft-specialist-certification-exam-70-534-architecting-microsoft-azure-solutions.aspx

Labs from IT GURU

Description and Live links to Series

• Lab 1: Building Foundation
  • Virtual Network
  • Storage
  • Cloud Service
• Lab 2: Building Workloads
  • Build Domain Controller
  • Create SQL Server (SQL)
• Lab 3: Working with Identity
  • Create Azure Active Directory
• Lab 4: Build Application & SQL Workloads
  • Create Application Server
  • Configure SQL Workload
• Lab 5: Deploy Data Access App
  • Configure Web Server Workload
  • Test SQL Connectivity
  • Deploy and Test Data Application
• Lab Appendix – Bonus Labs
• Lab Bonus: resources page with links to the lab guides and more:
  • Updates to documentation
  • Electronic Lab Guides with live links and PowerShell snips
  • Labs to add to your environment (coming soon)
  • Additional Great Resources

- See more at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2015/02/it-camp-azure-labslab-5-building-application-workloads-deploy-data-access-appstep-by-step/#sthash.Htz6f0FL.dpuf

Screen by Screen Labs – Yung Chou and others
https://yungchou.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/screen-by-screen-guided-labs-for-us-it-camps-in-spring-of-2015/

Online version is also at http://aka.ms/FY15Q3Labs. In addition,

• As needed, one can acquire a free trial subscription of Microsoft Azure at http://aka.ms/Azure200.
• The prerequisites for IT Camps labs are detailed athttp://aka.ms/prerequisites.
• The IT Camp slide deck in PDF format is available athttp://aka.ms/theDeck.
• The one-stop learning portal for all Microsoft technologies is athttp://aka.ms/MVA1.
• SQL server deployed in Azure, this lab, Windows Azure SQL Server 2012 VM Connectivity Lab, has the specifics.

Lab 1

Create a virtual network, allocate a storage account and configure a cloud service. Which builds a foundation for deploying resources in Azure.

Lab 2

Deploy a VM with custom script to configure an AD forest. This AD environment is to mimic an on-premises Active Directory establishment for Lab 3 to configure DIrSync with Azure AD in cloud.

Lab 3

Create an azure AD directory followed by configuring DirSyn and MFA, i.e. multi-factor authentication. The click-through includes the deployment of an Active Directory forest, identical to the one in Lab 2 to make Lab 3 a self-contain module for learning DirSync and MFA.

Lab 4

Configure the connectivity between Azure VMs of a SQL server and an IIS server to form a web application.

Lab 5 – Soon

Deploy a web application to the web server configured in Lab 4. The click-through is to be available. Subscribe the page to receive the updates.