Cloud Services and Enterprise Mobility

MS offers 365 and storage services, outlook etc. (free consumer offerings)

In MS Office 365, you can install applications on premise or as cloud

Cloud storage types:

·       Personal cloud storage (example – OneDrive)

·       Public cloud storage (entire company’s storage offloaded to a public cloud service)

·       Private cloud storage (data made available via an internal data centre, and not via internet)

·       Hybrid – combination of public + private

 

Advantages - Off site backup, less local storage

Disadvantages – argument on data ownership, bandwidth constrictions on public clouds

Cloud communication characteristics

·       Internet based voice ccommunication are hosted outside of the organization

·       Voice over internet protocol

·       Replacement of private branch exchange (PBX)

Advantages of cloud-based comm. Services

·       Cost is lower

·       Allows for greater flexibility

·       Services can be outsourced

Disadvantages of cloud-based comm. Services

Depends on the internet connectivity

 

Examples – Whatsapp, Skype

Azure search services

·       Fully managed cloud services

·       Offers search capability

·       Natural language support

·       Scalability

·       API-based

·       Stores data in an index

·       Data storage is given to the search service

·       Can use push/pull models for indexing

·       Can select the prederred service type (dedicated services or not)

 

MS Intune

·       Mobile device management and mobile application management is available with MS Intune

·       Offers PC management including Windows, Windows RT

·       Updates can be performed and managed in MS Intune easily

·       Protection tab of MS Intune shows malware statuses

·       Alerts section shows what input protection and monitoring was done by MS Intune on behalf of us

·       Apps status is displayed as a dashboard

·       Several out of the box reports are available for licensing, software history, inventory etc.

·       Selective WAP capabilities are there

·       Devices can be grouped and managed

·       In the Account portal, you can create users

·       Create a user -> assign a role (whether administrative role, if not then what the role is), user location (if licensing is prohibited in the country then the country will not appear, create the user with a temporary password

·       MS Intune allows us to configure malware protection (real time or by via certificate updates)

 

Microsoft Azure

You can create a VM whether using gallery or as a quick create

Select the OS, and the image (several images such as Windows server, sharepoint, sql server, Visual studio are there)

Replications of storage can be configured

Options for replication are – locally redundant, geo redundant and read-access geo redundant

Locally redundant = replication within the same region

Geo redundant = replication within a secondary storage region

Read-access geo redundant = geo-redundant however the second copy is only read only

 

Fault tolerance in MS Azure

Fault domain = a hosting space maintained separately in Azure data centre, fault domain is automatically created to allow for seamless service-level agreement enforcement

Upgrade domains are similar to fault domains, however, they support upgrades instead of failures

Identity services

In Windows, goto Administrative tools

Domain specific info can be configured in AD Domains and Trusts tool

To access the Azure active directory, login to manage.windowsazure.com

Login using Windows account/onMicrosoft account (organizational account)