Microsoft Azure 2017 course gives an overview of the services and features on offer by Microsoft Azure. The course outline covers the management, testing, deployment and operations of a Microsoft Azure platform and it also teaches on how to make full use of functionalities like virtual machines, storage, DNS, active directory and VPNs through the management portal. This course will build on the existing skills of the target audience regarding server and system administration and enhance their skills to cover the cloud computing technologies on offer by Microsoft Azure. Firstly, the course touches the basics of configuring networking, security and storage. Secondly, it goes on to the more advanced topics of deploying Azure VMs in a high available environment and lastly, it enables the students to perform configuration management and disaster recovery tasks on the cloud infrastructure.