[Andreas Schwarz (ASchwarz1984)]

Summary

• Replaces outdated Challenges 7 and 8 with first-class Windows Server/IIS and Ubuntu/Apache alternative tracks for Azure Monitor and Azure Copilot Observability Agent operations, followed by a manual Azure App Service replatform.
• Corrects Challenges 2 and 5 to use the native Hyper-V discovery and migration flows: an Azure Migrate appliance for discovery, and the Azure Site Recovery provider plus Recovery Services agent on the Hyper-V host for migration.
• Renames the lab to MicroHack – Migrate and Secure to be ready for AI Ops and preserves the subtitle From secure migration to agent-assisted cloud operations.
• Cleans up proofreading, terminology, challenge navigation, and handoffs, and removes 76 unused image assets.

Design and constraints

• Teams select either the Windows/IIS or Ubuntu/Apache workload in Challenge 7 and keep that track through Challenge 8; they do not need to complete both.
• The lab has no VMware dependency, no participant GitHub source-repository dependency, and no mandatory Azure OpenAI deployment or model quota.
• Azure Copilot Observability Agent is used for assisted investigation when available, with a complete KQL/VM insights fallback when tenant policy or access blocks it. Autonomous operations remain optional preview content.
• Azure App Service remains the pedagogical replatform target, while Azure Storage static website hosting and Azure Static Web Apps are discussed as potentially better production targets for this static workload.

Validation

• Validated all local Markdown links and image references.
• Checked the added and updated Microsoft Learn URLs.
• Parsed PowerShell examples and ran Bash syntax checks.
• Compiled the Bicep entry point.
• Checked Markdown headings and code fences, challenge/solution navigation, stale terminology, and branding consistency.
• Ran git diff --check against the upstream comparison.