Merge pull request #48907 from Orin-Thomas/orthomas-31Jan25-A

JillGrant615 · web-flow · commit d2aae3c83248 · 2025-01-30T14:42:37.000-07:00
Technical review and update to Windows Server 2025
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/1-introduction.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/1-introduction.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Introduction
 metadata:
   title: Introduction
   description: "Introduction"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/2-plan-migration.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/2-plan-migration.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Plan your migration
 metadata:
   title: Plan your migration
   description: "Plan your migration"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/3-describe-azure-migrate.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/3-describe-azure-migrate.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Describe Azure Migrate
 metadata:
   title: Describe Azure Migrate
   description: "Describe Azure Migrate"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/4-perform-server-assessment.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/4-perform-server-assessment.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Perform server assessment
 metadata:
   title: Perform server assessment
   description: "Perform server assessment"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/5-assess-physical-servers-azure-migrate.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/5-assess-physical-servers-azure-migrate.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate
 metadata:
   title: Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate
   description: "Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ quiz:
     choices:
     - content: "Install the dependency agents on each on-premises VM, install the collector appliance, edit the default properties of an assessment, and then create the assessment."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Download and install the collector appliance first, and then install the dependency agents. You can't change the properties of an assessment until one has been created."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Download and install the collector appliance first, and then install the dependency agents. You can't change the properties of an assessment until one has been created."
     - content: "Install the dependency agents on each on-premises VM, install the collector appliance, create the assessment, and then edit the default properties of the assessment to your requirements."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Download and install the collector appliance first, and then install the dependency agents."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Download and install the collector appliance first, and then install the dependency agents."
     - content: "Install the collector appliance, install the dependency agents on each on-premises VM, create the assessment, and then edit the default properties of the assessment to your requirements."
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "That's correct. Remember that installing the dependency agents is optional. Also, you don't need to edit the assessment properties if the defaults are sufficient."
+      explanation: "Correct. Remember that installing the dependency agents is optional. Also, you don't need to edit the assessment properties if the defaults are sufficient."
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/6-migrate-windows-server-workloads-azure-migrate.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/6-migrate-windows-server-workloads-azure-migrate.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
 metadata:
   title: Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate
   description: "Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/7-knowledge-check.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/7-knowledge-check.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Knowledge check
 metadata:
   title: Knowledge check
   description: "Knowledge check"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -18,32 +18,32 @@ quiz:
     choices:
     - content: "Assess Azure readiness, migrate with confidence, and migrate databases."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Migrate databases isn't a feature of Azure Migrate. You use Azure Database Migration Service for database migration."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Migrate databases isn't a feature of Azure Migrate. You use Azure Database Migration Service for database migration."
     - content: "Assess Azure readiness, obtain VM size recommendations, and migrate with confidence."
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "That's correct. All three are valid reasons to use Azure Migrate."
+      explanation: "Correct. All three are valid reasons to use Azure Migrate."
     - content: "Obtain VM size recommendations, assess Azure readiness, and replicate identities to Microsoft Entra ID."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Azure Migrate isn't used to replicate identities to Microsoft Entra ID. You can use Microsoft Entra Connect to replicate your Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Azure Migrate isn't used to replicate identities to Microsoft Entra ID. You can use Microsoft Entra Connect to replicate your Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID."
   - content: "Which of these source server configurations are supported by Azure Migrate: Server Migration?"
     choices:
     - content: "VMware VMs, physical Unix, and physical Windows Server."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Azure Migrate: Server Migration doesn't support the migration of physical Unix hosts."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Azure Migrate: Server Migration doesn't support the migration of physical Unix hosts."
     - content: "Azure VMs, physical Unix, and physical Sun Solaris."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Azure Migrate: Server Migration doesn't support the migration of physical Unix hosts or Sun Solaris hosts."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Azure Migrate: Server Migration doesn't support the migration of physical Unix hosts or Sun Solaris hosts."
     - content: "Azure VMs, VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and physical Windows Server."
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "That's correct."
+      explanation: "Correct."
   - content: "What service can an administrator use to migrate large quantities of data to Azure?"
     choices:
     - content: "Azure total cost of ownership (TCO) Calculator."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Azure TCO Calculator is used to estimate costs on Azure."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Azure TCO Calculator is used to estimate costs on Azure."
     - content: "Azure Advisor."
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "That's incorrect. Azure Advisor recommends best practices to improve your environment."
+      explanation: "Incorrect. Azure Advisor recommends best practices to improve your environment."
     - content: "Azure Data Box."
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "That's correct. Azure Data Box can be used to migrate large amounts of data to Azure."
+      explanation: "Correct. Azure Data Box can be used to migrate large amounts of data to Azure."
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/8-summary.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/8-summary.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Summary
 metadata:
   title: Summary
   description: "Summary"
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: unit
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/1-introduction.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/1-introduction.md
@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
-
 Using Azure Migrate, you can assess and migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Microsoft Azure.
 
 ## Scenario
 
-Contoso is a medium-size financial services company in London with a branch office in New York. Most of its compute environment runs on-premises on Windows Server. This includes virtualized workloads on Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts. Contoso IT staff are in the process of migrating Contoso servers to Windows Server 2022.
+Contoso is a medium-size financial services company in London with a branch office in New York. Most of its compute environment runs on-premises on Windows Server. This includes virtualized workloads on Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts. Contoso's IT staff are in the process of migrating Contoso servers to Windows Server 2025.
 
 Contoso’s IT director realizes that Contoso has an outdated operational model with limited automation and reliance on dated technology. The Contoso IT Engineering team has started exploring Microsoft Azure capabilities. They want to determine whether Azure services might assist with modernizing the current operational model through automation and virtualization.
 
 As part of the initial design, the Contoso IT team asked you, their lead system engineer and server administrator, to set up a proof of concept environment. This environment must verify whether Azure services can help to modernize the IT infrastructure and meet business goals.
 
 As the lead system engineer, you've been tasked with planning and testing the process of migrating server workloads to Azure.
 
-This module will cover planning a migration, using Azure Migrate, migrating server workloads using Windows Server Migration Tools, assessing physical servers with Azure Migrate, and migrating on-premises servers to Azure.
+This module covers planning a migration, using Azure Migrate, migrating server workloads using Windows Server Migration Tools, assessing physical servers with Azure Migrate, and migrating on-premises servers to Azure.
 
-By the end of this module, you'll be able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You will also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers.
+By the end of this module, you're able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You'll also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers.
 
 ## Learning objectives
 
-After completing this module, you will be able to:
+After completing this module, you'll be able to:
 
 - Plan your migration.
 - Describe Azure Migrate.
@@ -35,6 +34,6 @@ In order to get the best learning experience from this module, it's important th
 - On-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies
 - Implementing and managing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services in Azure
 - Microsoft Entra ID
-- Security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication)
+- Security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multifactor authentication)
 - Windows PowerShell scripting
 - Automation and monitoring
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/2-plan-migration.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/2-plan-migration.md
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
-
 For organizations such as Contoso, which are considering moving their on-premises resources to Azure, one of the first and most important steps in migration is planning. In a migration project, the majority of work is usually done in the preplanning phases.
 
-These phases involve a very thorough assessment of:
+These phases involve a thorough assessment of:
 
 - The business model.
 - The current processing and systems.
-- How the business process will resemble in Azure when the migration is completed.
+- How the business process functions in Azure when the migration is completed.
 
 The following table identifies various items that you should consider, and corresponding strategies you should take when defining and determining an overall migration strategy.
 
 |Consideration|Details|
 |----------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
 |Business drivers|IT Leadership must work closely with business partners to understand what they want to achieve with the migration. The business drivers should focus on addressing business growth, limiting risks, and specifying the extent of the migration.|
 |Migration goals|The goals are used to determine the best migration method.|
-|Solution design|After identifying your goals and requirements, you design and review a deployment solution, and identify the migration process, including the Azure services that you will use for the migration.|
+|Solution design|After identifying your goals and requirements, you design and review a deployment solution, and identify the migration process, including the Azure services that you'll use for the migration.|
 
 ## Choose a migration strategy
 
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/3-describe-azure-migrate.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/3-describe-azure-migrate.md
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-
-
 Having selected a strategy, Contoso is now ready to start their migration project. To help with this migration, Microsoft has provided a number of tools that they could use to perform their workload migration. The foremost of these is Azure Migrate.
 
 ## What is Azure Migrate?
@@ -19,13 +17,13 @@ Azure Migrate components include:
 
 ## How can you use Azure Migrate?
 
-Azure Migrate can help with a number of migration scenarios. The one that Contoso selects depends on what they are trying to achieve. The six major migration scenarios are described in the following table.
+Azure Migrate can help with a number of migration scenarios. The one that Contoso selects depends on what they're trying to achieve. The six major migration scenarios are described in the following table.
 
 |Scenario|Description|
 |---|---|
 |Windows Server workloads|These include moving on-premises roles such as file servers, containers, Active Directory roles, and DNS roles. It also includes migrating on-premises app VMs to Azure VMs using the Azure Migrate service.|
-|SQL Server workloads|This involves app databases, Business Intelligence (BI) and other functionality running on SQL Server VMs.|
+|SQL Server workloads|This involves app databases, Business Intelligence (BI), and other functionality running on SQL Server VMs.|
 |Linux workloads| This migration scenario covers migrating RedHat or SUSE VMs, and Hadoop and Linux containers.|
 |ASP.NET-PHP-Java apps|This includes customer-facing and internal-facing apps at the software as a service (SaaS) level.|
-|SAP HANA|This covers a very specific vendor Enterprise Resource Planning system that uses a centralized database for various business processes. SAP HANA uses in-memory database technology that allows for processing massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine enables HANA to process data stored in random access memory (RAM), as opposed to reading it from a disk system that uses in-memory database technology to process massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk.|
+|SAP HANA|This covers a specific vendor Enterprise Resource Planning system that uses a centralized database for various business processes. SAP HANA uses in-memory database technology that allows for processing massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine enables HANA to process data stored in random access memory (RAM), as opposed to reading it from a disk system that uses in-memory database technology to process massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk.|
 |Specialized compute|This involves high-performance computing (HPC).|
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/4-perform-server-assessment.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/4-perform-server-assessment.md
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-
-
 The IT staff at Contoso can use the Azure portal to perform server discovery and assessment in their environment. After this is complete, Azure Migrate will make appropriate migration recommendations regarding the size of the VMs they must provision.
 
 ## How the assessment works
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/6-migrate-windows-server-workloads-azure-migrate.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/6-migrate-windows-server-workloads-azure-migrate.md
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-
-
 Having considered the workloads that they want to migrate, IT staff at Contoso are undertaking the implementation stage in the project. There are four main technical implementation steps involved in actually moving a server workload to an Azure VM workload using Azure Migrate:
 
 1. Prepare Azure for the Azure Migrate: Server Migration tool.
@@ -26,11 +24,11 @@ Start the imported image and configure the tool using the following high-level s
 1. Point the tool to the Azure subscription.
 1. Add any Windows-based credentials for discovery.
 
-After configuration, it will take some time for the tool to enumerate all the VMs. After the enumeration is complete, they are listed in the Azure Migrate tool in Azure for your review.
+After configuration, it will take some time for the tool to enumerate all the VMs. After the enumeration is complete, they're listed in the Azure Migrate tool in Azure for your review.
 
 **2. Prepare on-premises VMs**
 
-After migration, you will connect to the Azure VMs and allow Azure to manage the VMs. To do this, perform the following procedure before migration:
+After migration, you'll connect to the Azure VMs and allow Azure to manage the VMs. To do this, perform the following procedure before migration:
 
 - For access over the internet:
   - Enable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Secure Shell (SSH) on the on-premises VM before migration.
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/8-summary.md b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/includes/8-summary.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 Contoso has an outdated operational model with limited automation and reliance on dated technology, and with most of its compute environment running on-premises on Windows Server. Contoso wants to assess and migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure.
 
 Using Azure Migrate, you can assess and migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure. You were tasked with planning and testing the process of migrating server workloads to Azure.
diff --git a/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/index.yml b/learn-pr/wwl-azure/migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-azure-iaas-virtual-machines/index.yml
@@ -2,17 +2,17 @@
 uid: learn.wwl.migrate-premises-windows-server-instances-to-azure-iaas-vms
 metadata:
   title: Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
-  description: "You'll be able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You will also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers."
-  ms.date: 08/15/2023
+  description: "You're able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You'll also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers."
+  ms.date: 01/15/2025
   author: wwlpublish
   ms.author: tonyj
   ms.topic: module
   ms.service: windows-server
-  ms.contributors: orthomas-08152023
+  ms.contributors: orthomas
 title: Migrate on-premises Windows Server instances to Azure IaaS virtual machines
-summary: You'll be able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You will also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers.
+summary: You're able to plan a migration and select appropriate server migration tools. You'll also learn how to use Azure Migrate, how to assess physical servers, and how to migrate those servers.
 abstract: |
-  After completing this module, you will be able to:
+  After completing this module, you'll be able to:
   - Plan your migration.
   - Describe Azure Migrate.
   - Migrate server workloads using Windows Server Migration Tools.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ prerequisites: |
   - On-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies
   - Implementing and managing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services in Azure
   - Microsoft Entra ID
-  - Security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication)
+  - Security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multifactor authentication)
   - Windows PowerShell scripting
   - Automation and monitoring
 iconUrl: /training/achievements/migrate-on-premises-windows-server-instances-to-azure-iaas-vms.svg
