Technical requirements and lab setup
To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises in this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, have been completed in full. We will focus on the requirements, best practices, and high-level concepts in this chapter and will be primarily reviewing areas of the legacy Windows Server environment (Windows Server 2016) so that we can follow the walkthroughs throughout this chapter that align with the AZ-801 exam objectives.
Let’s begin with some general insights and recommendations on planning migrations for general application servers running on older versions of Windows Server.
General recommendations for migrating Windows Server workloads
Over the years, Windows Server versions have been released on a much more frequent cadence and for a good handful of organizations, aging server...