- Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of OEM TV.
I'm Eric Mills with Microsoft.
I do Windows Server marketing here, and in this video,
you're gonna learn about Azure Virtual Networks
integrated with Windows Server Essentials.
In the video, Paul will take you through
quite a few ideas about why you would want to connect your
on-prem Active Directory with a virtual network in Azure
so your two networks are connected.
He'll start with the basics, you know,
like what is a virtual network,
and how does that help a small/medium business.
Sometimes these things are not 100 percent obvious,
but he'll take you through the concept about
why you should do the connection
and just the scope of Azure if you're not
100 percent familiar with everything that Azure offers,
or not 100 percent up to speed.
Paul will give you a quick overview of just the scope,
and it's really nice to have Azure now because
a small or medium business can connect their local network
to their Azure network and they really have a global
infrastructure available to them as a small business,
where they can just pay as they go.
So there are a lot of common scenarios
where a small or medium business could use Azure
and Azure Virtual Networks to conduct business
and Paul will take you through
some of those common use cases that would
make sense for a small or medium business.
He'll also touch on ExpressRoute so if your company
is interested in a really high speed, dedicated network
that connects very fast to Azure,
then ExpressRoute is something you should check out
and Paul will talk about that in a little more detail.
So if you're interested in networking,
you're a small or medium business,
you have that on-prem network and you want to know whether
you should connect it up to an Azure Virtual Network,
this is the video for you, hope you enjoy it.
We'll see you next time on OEM TV.
- [Paul] Hi everybody.
In this video, we're gonna talk about
Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition
and Azure Virtual Network Integration.
But first, for Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition,
it helps you safeguard your business,
improve IT efficiency and productivity,
and then it helps you get ready for the cloud.
And the ways it does this, as in safeguard your business,
there's these easy permission settings
through the dashboard when you're setting up the system,
allows you to implement Active Directory,
and file shares, and permissions on all of that.
And then there's just in time and just enough administration
so you can assign people a level of administration
for a given period of time, and then,
there's Windows Defender for malware protection,
and there's also the ability to do trusted and secure boot.
And then, for improve IT efficiency and productivity,
there's a new enhanced management experience
through the Windows Server 2016 Essentials dashboard,
and there's built-in services like file shares,
a web server, Active Directory, certificate services,
a local desktop backup environment,
and there's also remote desktop services
and PowerShell enhancements to help you
manage the environment more efficiently.
And then it also helps you get ready for the cloud.
So in this case, it's easy Microsoft Cloud integration,
and there's a wide variety of integrations
in Windows Server 2016 Essentials,
so there's Azure Active Directory integration,
there's Azure backup and storage,
Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery,
the Office 365 environment, Microsoft Intune,
and then, remote management services as well,
like remote server management tools
and Operations Management Suite, so for this video,
we're going to be talking about Azure Virtual Networks.
At a high level, this is an illustration of what's there.
On the left hand side, you can see the
Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition
and the networking that is in that environment.
And so, you can integrate the applications and the networks.
In this case, you'll be creating a virtual network
inside of Azure, and then, connecting it back to
your on-premises environment, but in Azure
there's a wide variety of things
you can do with that virtual network.
I mean it's just essentially a network
that is in Azure that is devoted to you.
We'll talk more about that,
but there's the ability to do analytics, you know,
dev and test, develop mobile apps,
do business intelligence and big data,
and also internet of things, a real wide variety
of capabilities that exist in Azure
that can help your business move forward.
So let's look at Azure.
First thing is Azure is global.
There's 38 regions, 100 countries,
600 local datacenters, 100 world-class partners.
It's trusted, secure, and compliant,
and it's also designed for hybrid.
If we look at the map, you can see
there's a tremendous number of partners,
and also datacenters and regions, and then this thing
that's also mentioned is an ExpressRoute location.
We'll talk more about ExpressRoute in a moment,
but the point being that no matter where your business is,
you most likely have access to an Azure environment.
So inside of Azure, there's the datacenter infrastructure,
and then, built on top of that infrastructure
are all these services, so virtual machines,
container service, storage, various types of networking,
domain name system, traffic manager, on and on.
A wide variety of infrastructure services
that you can take advantage of.
And then on top of that are all the platform services,
and there are too many here to go into,
but just keep in mind that even as a small organization,
you have access to all of these platform services,
the infrastructure services to help you move
your business forward, and more and more small businesses
are taking advantage of having a global IT infrastructure
at their disposal, so they can
accelerate the growth of their business.
Small businesses today can have far more effect
than they could 20 years ago because all of this technology,
the same technology that's available to
a Fortune 500 company is available to a 10-person company.
That's a huge shift in how businesses can operate today.
So for this video, we're just talking about Virtual Network,
but first I want to take a look at
the most common Azure scenarios for SMB customers.
63% of them are storing their data in Azure.
57% are hosting apps in the cloud
with Azure Virtual Machines, and those can actually be
on a virtual network that is connected back to on-premises.
And then, 52% are hosting their websites in Azure,
and 43% are backing up their data to Azure.
So there's a lot of statistical proof here
that small businesses are taking advantage of Azure
in a pretty significant way.
So for Azure Virtual Networks and what it is.
Virtual Network is an Azure service that enables you
to securely connect Azure resources
to each other with virtual networks, so that would be
if you've got multiple resources within Azure
and you wanted to use a virtual network,
or a series of virtual networks to connect
all of those applications and resources, you can do so,
and that separates them out from
just the multi-tenant environment.
And so, VNet is a representation
of your own network in the cloud.
It's like your small, bubbled network inside of Azure,
but then, you can also connect these virtual networks
to your on-premises network,
and there's a couple different ways to do that.
You can have an encrypted tunnel, or a VPN,
or you can have a direct connection,
and there's a couple different types of direct connections.
You can just do it through your internet service provider,
or you can opt to do this next one,
which is a thing called ExpressRoute.
ExpressRoute isn't available everywhere, but what it does
is it gives you a direct connection between your network,
your on-premises network and the Microsoft Network,
so it goes through a partner environment
and gives you a solid connection
between your network and the Microsoft network,
so it's unified connectivity to Microsoft Cloud Services,
you get predictable performance.
It's Enterprise-grade resiliency with a high SLA,
and then, they're becoming more and more of these over time.
And so, you can see they've got your network,
the partner edge, the connection, and the Microsoft Edge,
and you can access a wide variety of services
inside the Microsoft network.
The one on the bottom is Azure,
so your virtual network in Azure
would be connected via this high speed environment.
It comes in a range of speeds,
so depending upon what you're doing as an organization,
you may not need the highest speed,
which is 10 Gigabits a second,
and it's also the most expensive.
You may need something significantly less than that
that is also significantly less expensive.
So it gives you the ability to connect your network
directly into the Microsoft network,
and into that Azure virtual network that you would
create to run the rest of your infrastructure
or to run new infrastructure,
or to expand your business in a global way.
So in summary, can accelerate your digital transformation
by combining Windows Server 2016 Essentials
and Azure Virtual Networks in Azure,
and all of the services that are there.
And you extend your on-premises compute environment
to that global IT infrastructure of Azure.
If you need a website in Europe, fine, create one.
If you need to run a virtual machine in Singapore,
fine, create one, and you can run that all on the same
virtual network that is connected back to on-premises.
And you can employ cloud technologies to extend
your reach and capability, like I just mentioned,
and then, you can use the dedicated high speed networking
if you want to, if it's needed,
if it's required for your environment.
And then, obviously you can move forward at your own pace.
By having a single virtual network in Azure
and then connecting it back to on-premises,
you can take advantage of everything that Azure offers,
so you can move forward and adopt these
different technologies at your own pace,
and expand your business at your own pace,
but it would be faster than
if you tried to do it all on-premises.
So with that, thank you very much for watching.