Scenarios featuring Microsoft on-premises technologies on Azure
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This article describes scenarios that feature Microsoft on-premises technologies on Azure. These scenarios enable you to gain the benefits provided by the cloud when you use technologies that were historically used in a local environment. The following on-premises technologies are frequently used in Azure solutions:
Windows Server 2022. The foundation of the Microsoft ecosystem. It continues to power the hybrid cloud network.
SQL Server 2019. The data platform that's known for performance, security, and availability.
Exchange Server. The messaging platform that provides email, scheduling, and tools for custom collaboration and messaging service applications.
Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2016. The service that stores information about user accounts and enables other authorized users on the same network to access it. Security is integrated with Active Directory through sign-in authentication and access control to objects in the directory.
Host Integration Server. Technologies and tools that enable enterprise organizations to integrate existing IBM host systems, programs, messages, and data with new Microsoft server applications.
For information about solutions in which Azure services integrate with the other Microsoft cloud platforms, see these articles:
Learn about an optimized approach to disaster recovery of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Azure Site Recovery integrates with Windows Server-based apps and roles, including Active Directory Domain Services.
Learn about an optimized approach to backing up and restoring files and applications of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes backup and restore of Exchange Server servers and databases.
Learn about an optimized approach to disaster recovery of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes a discussion of disaster recovery for Exchange workloads.
Enhance your security in a client access scenario by using Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication. Discusses scenarios for Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises.
Enhance your security in a mobile access scenario by using Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication. Discusses scenarios for Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises.
Enhance your security in a web access scenario by using Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication. Discusses scenarios for Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises.
Learn several options for moving, converting, transforming, and storing mainframe and midrange file system data on-premises and on Azure. HIS is used to convert EBCDIC files to make them compatible with Azure.
Learn about an optimized approach to backing up and restoring files and applications of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes backup and restore of SharePoint farms and front-end web server content and restore of SharePoint databases, web apps, files, list items, and search components.
Learn about an optimized approach to disaster recovery of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes information about disaster recovery for SharePoint workloads.
Deploy a highly available SharePoint farm for intranet capabilities that uses Microsoft Entra ID, a SQL Server Always On instance, and SharePoint resources.
Learn how to create a resilient multitier web application that's built for high availability and disaster recovery on Azure. Applies to applications like SharePoint.
Learn about an optimized approach to backing up and restoring files and applications of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes backup and restore of SQL Server instances and their databases.
Automate data integration tasks by using Azure Logic Apps. Configure API calls to trigger tasks like storing data in an on-premises SQL Server database.
Learn about an optimized approach to disaster recovery of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes information about disaster recovery for SQL Server workloads.
Learn how to implement an ELT pipeline that moves data from an on-premises SQL Server database into Azure Synapse Analytics and transforms the data for analysis.
Give mainframe applications access to Azure data without changing code. Use Microsoft Service for DRDA to run Db2 SQL statements on a SQL Server database.
Optimize, modernize, and streamline IBM z/OS mainframe applications by using Micro Focus Enterprise Server 6.0 on Azure VMs. This solution uses a SQL Server IaaS database in an Always On cluster.
Learn best practices for configuring your environment for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). SQL Server is the recommended database for servers that support a high number of client computers.
Learn about an optimized approach to backing up and restoring files and applications of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Supports backup and restore of various resources on VMs that run Windows Server.
Learn about an optimized approach to disaster recovery of VM-based user workloads that are hosted on Azure Stack Hub. Includes information about providing disaster recovery for Azure Stack Hub VMs that run Windows Server operating systems.
Learn how to rehost SQL Server 2008 R2 failover clusters on Azure virtual machines. Use the Azure shared disks feature and a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster to replicate your on-premises deployment on Azure.