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Use our customer-ready content to host workshops that foster cloud learning and adoption. Contribute your own content and feedback to add to a robust database of training guides for deploying advanced Azure workloads on the Microsoft Cloud Platform.Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) is a hands-on community development experience.
Use our customer-ready content to host events with customers and partners, or contribute your own content and feedback to add to a robust database of training guides for deploying advanced Azure workloads on the Microsoft Cloud Platform.Welcome
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Design a modernization plan to move services from on-premises to the cloud by leveraging cloud, web, and mobile services, secured by Azure Active Directory.
Design a hybrid cloud architecture using a combination of the Azure public cloud and Azure Stack. Recommend the appropriate hybrid cloud systems based on customer requirements.
Build a complete machine learning model in Azure Databricks and deploy a web app for predicting flight delay. Train the model to report data.
Build resilient architectures by designing for converting/extending an existing IaaS deployment to account for resiliency and high availability.
Design solutions for three customer environments using Azure business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) technologies to build more complex and robust BCDR plans.
Combine pre-built AI models with custom AI services to create intelligent solutions atop unstructured text data by designing and implementing a text analytics pipeline.
Using DevOps best practices, build a proof of concept to transform a PaaS application to a container-based application with multi-tenant web app hosting.
Set up and configure continuous delivery within Azure to reduce manual errors using Azure Resource Manager templates, Azure DevOps, and Git repositories for source control.
Design a data pipeline solution leveraging Cosmos DB for scalable ingest and global distribution. Use Azure Databricks Delta with a modern data warehouse to reduce risk.
Conduct a site analysis for a customer to compare cost, performance, and level of effort required to migrate from Oracle to SQL Server.
Set up, configure, plan, and design secure virtual networks in Azure with multiple subnets to filter and control network traffic.
Design a governance plan for a manufacturing company to showcase the security and governance features of Azure and control costs.
Set up and configure a scale-out media processing architecture using Azure Batch. Use High Performance Computing (HPC) techniques with less code and accomplish tasks declaratively.
Employ real-time analytics without IoT as you enable intelligent conversation in a real-time chat pipeline enabled by machine learning to visualize customer sentiment.
Design an end-to-end IoT solution implementing device registration with the IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service and visualizing hot data with Power BI.
Build a smart city solution by managing intelligent devices with IoT Hub and running the IoT Remote Monitoring starter solution to improve traffic and public transportation.
Design a migration strategy for both Windows and Linux servers, including virtual and physical services, as well as databases, from on-premises to Azure.
Combine Azure Databricks with Azure Machine Learning service to build, train, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models. Construct deep learning models for NLP in text classification, and compare data with PyTorch and Keras.
Design a video-based learning solution that supports uploading, playback, and encoding with Azure Video Indexer, integrated through Logic Apps and Azure Functions.
Design scalable microservices solutions using Service Fabric and Azure Functions to optimize the architecture to handle traffic spikes for an online ticket vendor.
Plan a migration of an on-premises enterprise data warehouse to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and integrate it with both cloud-based and on-premises services and data sources.
Develop a plan for migrating on-premises virtual machines and SQL Server 2008 R2 databases into a combination of IaaS and PaaS services in Azure and enable advanced SQL features to improve security and performance.
Learn to design and implement end-to-end solutions that fully operationalize deep learning models from model creation, application packaging, model deployment and application deployment in one unified repeatable, pipeline.
Deploy, configure, and implement an end-to-end secure and PCI compliant solution for e-commerce that is based on Azure App Services, Azure Active Directory, and Azure DevOps.
Gain a better understanding of new features of SQL Server 2019 that enable more Big Data and analytics capabilities. Learn to configure and manage SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters to combine, query, and transform disparate data sources for AI and advanced analytics scenarios.
Use DevOps tools to migrate an existing MERN stack application from a hosted environment into Azure PaaS, integrating and deploying complex open-source software workloads.
Learn advanced features of the managed PostgreSQL PaaS service to design a highly scalable, managed open source database solution able to handle the rapid ingest of streaming data, while generating and serving pre-aggregated data. Design a resilient stream processing pipeline and create complex reports to build a customizable dashboard updated in real-time.
Provision a highly available deployment of SAP HANA in Azure, identifying infrastructure components necessary to support a clustered deployment and testing failover scenarios.
Deploy and configure SAP NetWeaver on Azure infrastructure and describe the proper configuration of Azure solution components to run SAP applications.
Learn to architect a comprehensive oil and gas manufacturing IoT solution that is secured end-to-end following best practices. Provide guidance to your customer on defining lifecycles from deployment, maintenance, planned obsolescence, and decommissioning of devices and how Azure supports this.
Implement Azure Security Center and Microsoft Compliance Manager to ensure a secure and privacy-focused cloud-based architecture that follows compliance standards.
Implement a series of Azure Functions that independently scale and break down business logic to discrete components, allowing customers to pay only for the services they use.
With the release of the new "Line-of-business application migration" workshop, both the "Lift and shift/ARM" and "Linux lift and shift" workshops will be archived on June 28. They are no longer being maintained.
The "Azure security, privacy, and compliance" and "Azure security and management" workshops have been consolidated into the new "Security baseline on Azure" workshop. Please use the new workshop from now on.