Today marks the conclusion of our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series. Over the past 6 weeks we've walked through the process of assessing our current environment, planning and architecting our new environment with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure, and then migrating existing server workloads to our new Hybrid Cloud infrastructure.
 

Additional Resources

As you continue through your own server migrations, the following additional resources will be helpful to continue your Hybrid Cloud learning on Microsoft Virtual Academy ...

• Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Storage and Backup
• Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Disaster Recovery and High Availability
• Hybrid Cloud Workloads: SQL Server Databases
• Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Websites and Web Applications
• Corporate Apps Anywhere, Anytime with Azure RemoteApp
• Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation
• Migrating VMs from VMware to Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure
• Migrating VMs from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure
• Windows Azure Pack: Infrastructure as a Service Jump Start
• Exchange Cutover Migration to Office 365
• Exchange Hybrid Deployment with Office 365
• SharePoint Online Overview for IT Pros
• Expanding Office 365 with Enterprise Mobility Suite

Got Questions? We're here to help!

In addition, as technical questions arise during your migrating planning, feel free to reach out to our team of US-based IT Pros if we can assist with additional guidance and resources.

In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, follow along with Dan Stolts as he provides an overview of the various options and considerations for migrating existing SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, along with step-by-step examples.
 

READ DAN'S ARTICLE HERE!

In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton is back to walk us through using the Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant tool to define a step-by-step checklist for migrating legacy Exchange Servers to Office 365.
 

READ BLAIN'S FULL ARTICLE HERE!

Lots of organizations may have web servers running on Windows Server 2003 today.  With End-of-Support for Windows Server 2003 quickly approaching on July 14, 2015, your migration plan should include migrating these web servers to either Windows Server 2012 R2 or Microsoft Azure Websites.  Migration of existing web applications can involve several considerations, but there's also tools available to help streamline this process. When migrating to Azure Websites, you can also benefit from new capabilities that you may not currently have today, such as improved availability, a financially-backed Service Level Agreement, one-click scalability, and a super-easy way of managing roll-forward and roll-back of web application or web site changes.
 

Migrating Web Servers to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure

In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton walks us through the steps for migrating existing web sites and web applications to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure. Along the way, he also explores tools, such as the Azure Websites Migration Assistant, that can help accelerate your migration steps.
 

READ BLAIN'S FULL ARTICLE HERE!

In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Tommy Patterson is back again to help us with options for easily migrating existing legacy file servers to Windows Server 2012 R2. 
 

Migrating File Servers to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure

Join Tommy as he explains leveraging tools such as Distributed File Servers (DFS) namespaces, Robocopy, and the Server Migration Tools kit to quickly move and modernize Server Message Block (SMB) file server workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2.  When considering moving SMB shared folders to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, be sure to also check out this article from Jessica DeVita on our new Azure Files cloud platform feature.
 

READ TOMMY'S FULL ARTICLE HERE!