Great (free) Online Azure Training for IT Pros

10+ hours of videos to help build your foundational skills on Azure.  Updated Dec 2014

• Day 1:  Establish the Foundation: Core IaaS Infrastructure Technical Fundamentals
  • View from the CTO: Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer – Azure
  • Azure IaaS Virtual Machines Inside Out
  • Optimize Your Windows Server Workloads on Azure
  • Inside IaaS Architecture Best Practices and Management
• Day 2:  Dive Deep into Networking, Storage and Disaster Recovery Scenarios
  • Designing Networking and Hybrid Connectivity Infrastructure
  • Deep Dive into Azure Storage Blobs, Disks, Files, Tables and Queues
  • Planning Disaster Recovery, Migration and More
  • Learn the Ins and Outs of Azure Automation, PowerShell and Desired State Configuration
• Day 3:  Embrace Open Source Technologies (Chef and Puppet Configurations, Containerization with Docker, and Linux) to Accelerate and Scale Solutions
  • How to Deploy Linux and OSS on Azure
  • Leverage Existing Chef / Puppet toolsets for management
  • How to Implement Containerization with Docker to Increase Density and Performance of Virtual Machines
  • Creating Large Scale Linux Deployments on Azure
• Day 4:  Optimize Windows Workload Architecture and Administration Capabilities Within Azure
  • Identity Solutions: Leveraging Azure Active Directory / Active Directory Premium
  • Azure Websites: Manage Your Websites not Your VMs
  • Leveraging SQL Azure for Your Solutions
  • Architecting SharePoint for the Cloud