40550: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Windows Server and SQL Server 2008-R2 End of Support Planning — Lesson 1: Legacy Environment Assessment and Business Drivers

Learning Objectives

• Inventory Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 workloads and dependencies
• Identify support, security, compliance, availability, and business risks
• Define objectives, constraints, recovery needs, downtime, and success criteria

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, development, analysis, or support workflow.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, code, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the acceptance criteria and identify gaps.

Hands-On Activity

Assess a legacy workload portfolio and prioritize migration candidates.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected result are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Legacy Environment Assessment and Business Drivers in a realistic scenario and support the result with documented evidence.