Discover Microsoft Learn with expert Johan Myburgh.

Even if you’re completely new to Microsoft technology—or technology as a whole—Microsoft has some great tools and resources to assist you in getting skilled up, topic by topic, course by course, one certification at a time.

One thing that could help is having a knowledge partner—someone who understands that you might be new to all this stuff. No matter what piques your interest, whether it’s development, AI, security, or another tech topic altogether, the Microsoft Learn Community is here to help. Microsoft—and more specifically, Microsoft Learn—can help you to build the skills you need to take your career to the next level or even to kick-start a new career in technology.

Microsoft Learn is a family of skill-building offerings that brings together all Microsoft technical content, learning tools, and resources. It contains not only the technical documentation that underpins Microsoft products and services but also all related content, like training material, curricula for Microsoft Certifications and exams, and much more. In essence, learn.microsoft.com is the place to find and access all these resources.

Though many of us land on the Microsoft Learn website via a search engine, it’s worth noting that there are several key aspects of the site that make it worth a visit and browsing from the landing page. Of course, it has some of the expected revamped technical documentation and in-depth learning paths, but Microsoft Learn also showcases all Microsoft skill-building offerings, so I highly recommend bookmarking the site.

Track your learning progress, and continue where you left off

If you haven’t yet created a Microsoft Learn profile, I encourage you to do so. To make the most of all these benefits, you need to have—and be signed in to—a Microsoft Learn profile (with your work, school, or personal email address). For more details, go to Managing your Microsoft Learn profile.

After you’ve created and signed in to your Microsoft Learn profile, you can start a module, work your way through it, and even come back at a later time to complete it. Microsoft Learn lets you pick up where you left off, which means this is not something you have to keep track of, manage, or remember! To pick back up, on Microsoft Learn, simply select Training and then, on the module or learning path, select Resume. There is also a See all activity link that navigates to all your activities on your Microsoft Learn profile.

Share your transcript

Your Microsoft Learn profile is rich with information about your training activities, certifications, badges, and even trophies for completed learning paths. Your transcript is essentially the details about all of the current and past certifications you’ve earned, and it includes the number of exams you’ve passed and the number of Microsoft Learn modules you’ve completed. When you’re in your transcript, the Transcript settings option lets you select the data you want to share or print. You can also share your transcript URL by going to the Share link option and selecting Show MCID (Microsoft Certification ID).

TIP: Consider sharing your transcript on your LinkedIn profile. This makes sense, since that’s likely where recruiters will be looking for skills first.

Group your favorite content by creating custom collections

Microsoft creates official collections of curated content for courses, learning paths, or certifications. But you can also create your own custom collections and group together modules in a way that makes sense to you, based on a specific service or technology. With the Save to a collection option, you can save any module on Microsoft Learn to a custom collection on your profile.

Microsoft Assessments

On Microsoft Learn, Microsoft Assessments allow you to work through a scenario of questions and recommendations, resulting in guidance reports that are both actionable and informative. Certain assessments, like Azure Well-Architected Review, even allow you to import and connect your Azure subscription and resource groups to evaluate your actual resources or a subset thereof. Even though assessments can take time, don’t underestimate how valuable they can be in getting official feedback about your implementations and how they stack up against recommended best practices.

Microsoft Q&A

Microsoft Learn is not just about learning directly from Microsoft and its content teams—it’s also about learning from one another and from other folks who are willing to share their own knowledge and experiences. This is why there’s a whole new flavor of Microsoft Q&A on Microsoft Learn, and Reputation Points are why you want to get in there as early as possible. Ask questions, answer others, and vote on the answers to find out which is the right one. You can also follow a question by selecting I have the same question.

Organizations can track employee progress

For organizations, if employees sign in to Microsoft Learn with their corporate identities, the site can export their training progress to your corporate Microsoft tenant on an Azure Data Share. This allows your organization to help employees set goals and even to reward them if they meet the challenge. Information that can be exported includes:

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  Training units.

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  Training modules.

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  Training learning paths completed.

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  Achievements earned (badges, trophies, certifications, and experience points [XP]).

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This really is a great feature and, if approached in the right way, it can not only assist employers to build the learning paths that employees need to be successful in their careers but also can help them to be more successful in deploying workloads with Microsoft platforms.

Microsoft Learn Catalog API

Finally, there is also a technical side to Microsoft Learn that folks might not know about. The Microsoft Learn Catalog API lets you integrate your custom applications with Microsoft Learn, programmatically exposing the content to your applications. This information includes:

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  Modules

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  Units

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  Learning paths

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  Instructor-led courses

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  Exams

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  Certifications

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TIP: To access the information, go to or send a GET request to aka.ms/learnapidata.

Why would you want to access this information? Well, one reason might be to include Microsoft Certification or training offerings on your organization’s intranet or on an in-house portal where your employees could explore these options. Another might be to view metadata, like module popularity or duration, which is available via the API. After connecting to the API, your application will constantly be updated with the latest and greatest info on the learning material—and you don’t have to do a thing.

As you can tell, Microsoft Learn isn’t just technical content published for your consumption—it’s much more than that. Microsoft has created a family of skill-building offerings, tools, and resources to support your learning journey and your organization’s training and certification goals. I hope to see you there soon!

Meet Johan Myburgh, Microsoft Learn expert

Originally from South Africa, Johan Myburgh is a Microsoft Technical Trainer for Microsoft in the United Kingdom. Johan is passionate about learning and sharing knowledge and has been focused on Microsoft technology for over 20 years. He does lot of community work and is currently doing some open community sessions with Microsoft Reactor in London. Johan invites you to talk to him about Azure architecture and Microsoft DevOps technologies.

Learn more about Johan Myburgh.

Even if you’re completely new to Microsoft technology—or technology as a whole—Microsoft has some great tools and resources to assist you in getting skilled up, topic by topic, course by course, one certification at a time.

One thing that could help is having a knowledge partner—someone who understands that you might be new to all this stuff. No matter what piques your interest, whether it’s development, AI, security, or another tech topic altogether, the Microsoft Learn Community is here to help. Microsoft—and more specifically, Microsoft Learn—can help you to build the skills you need to take your career to the next level or even to kick-start a new career in technology.

Microsoft Learn is a family of skill-building offerings that brings together all Microsoft technical content, learning tools, and resources. It contains not only the technical documentation that underpins Microsoft products and services but also all related content, like training material, curricula for Microsoft Certifications and exams, and much more. In essence, learn.microsoft.com is the place to find and access all these resources.

Though many of us land on the Microsoft Learn website via a search engine, it’s worth noting that there are several key aspects of the site that make it worth a visit and browsing from the landing page. Of course, it has some of the expected revamped technical documentation and in-depth learning paths, but Microsoft Learn also showcases all Microsoft skill-building offerings, so I highly recommend bookmarking the site.

Track your learning progress, and continue where you left off

If you haven’t yet created a Microsoft Learn profile, I encourage you to do so. To make the most of all these benefits, you need to have—and be signed in to—a Microsoft Learn profile (with your work, school, or personal email address). For more details, go to Managing your Microsoft Learn profile.

After you’ve created and signed in to your Microsoft Learn profile, you can start a module, work your way through it, and even come back at a later time to complete it. Microsoft Learn lets you pick up where you left off, which means this is not something you have to keep track of, manage, or remember! To pick back up, on Microsoft Learn, simply select Training and then, on the module or learning path, select Resume. There is also a See all activity link that navigates to all your activities on your Microsoft Learn profile.

Share your transcript

Your Microsoft Learn profile is rich with information about your training activities, certifications, badges, and even trophies for completed learning paths. Your transcript is essentially the details about all of the current and past certifications you’ve earned, and it includes the number of exams you’ve passed and the number of Microsoft Learn modules you’ve completed. When you’re in your transcript, the Transcript settings option lets you select the data you want to share or print. You can also share your transcript URL by going to the Share link option and selecting Show MCID (Microsoft Certification ID).

TIP: Consider sharing your transcript on your LinkedIn profile. This makes sense, since that’s likely where recruiters will be looking for skills first.

Group your favorite content by creating custom collections

Microsoft creates official collections of curated content for courses, learning paths, or certifications. But you can also create your own custom collections and group together modules in a way that makes sense to you, based on a specific service or technology. With the Save to a collection option, you can save any module on Microsoft Learn to a custom collection on your profile.

Microsoft Assessments

On Microsoft Learn, Microsoft Assessments allow you to work through a scenario of questions and recommendations, resulting in guidance reports that are both actionable and informative. Certain assessments, like Azure Well-Architected Review, even allow you to import and connect your Azure subscription and resource groups to evaluate your actual resources or a subset thereof. Even though assessments can take time, don’t underestimate how valuable they can be in getting official feedback about your implementations and how they stack up against recommended best practices.

Microsoft Q&A

Microsoft Learn is not just about learning directly from Microsoft and its content teams—it’s also about learning from one another and from other folks who are willing to share their own knowledge and experiences. This is why there’s a whole new flavor of Microsoft Q&A on Microsoft Learn, and Reputation Points are why you want to get in there as early as possible. Ask questions, answer others, and vote on the answers to find out which is the right one. You can also follow a question by selecting I have the same question.

Organizations can track employee progress

For organizations, if employees sign in to Microsoft Learn with their corporate identities, the site can export their training progress to your corporate Microsoft tenant on an Azure Data Share. This allows your organization to help employees set goals and even to reward them if they meet the challenge. Information that can be exported includes:

\n
• \n

  Training units.

  \n
\n
• \n

  Training modules.

  \n
\n
• \n

  Training learning paths completed.

  \n
\n
• \n

  Achievements earned (badges, trophies, certifications, and experience points [XP]).

  \n
\n

This really is a great feature and, if approached in the right way, it can not only assist employers to build the learning paths that employees need to be successful in their careers but also can help them to be more successful in deploying workloads with Microsoft platforms.

Microsoft Learn Catalog API

Finally, there is also a technical side to Microsoft Learn that folks might not know about. The Microsoft Learn Catalog API lets you integrate your custom applications with Microsoft Learn, programmatically exposing the content to your applications. This information includes:

\n
• \n

  Modules

  \n
\n
• \n

  Units

  \n
\n
• \n

  Learning paths

  \n
\n
• \n

  Instructor-led courses

  \n
\n
• \n

  Exams

  \n
\n
• \n

  Certifications

  \n
\n

TIP: To access the information, go to or send a GET request to aka.ms/learnapidata.

Why would you want to access this information? Well, one reason might be to include Microsoft Certification or training offerings on your organization’s intranet or on an in-house portal where your employees could explore these options. Another might be to view metadata, like module popularity or duration, which is available via the API. After connecting to the API, your application will constantly be updated with the latest and greatest info on the learning material—and you don’t have to do a thing.

As you can tell, Microsoft Learn isn’t just technical content published for your consumption—it’s much more than that. Microsoft has created a family of skill-building offerings, tools, and resources to support your learning journey and your organization’s training and certification goals. I hope to see you there soon!

Meet Johan Myburgh, Microsoft Learn expert

Originally from South Africa, Johan Myburgh is a Microsoft Technical Trainer for Microsoft in the United Kingdom. Johan is passionate about learning and sharing knowledge and has been focused on Microsoft technology for over 20 years. He does lot of community work and is currently doing some open community sessions with Microsoft Reactor in London. Johan invites you to talk to him about Azure architecture and Microsoft DevOps technologies.

Learn more about Johan Myburgh.

Discover Microsoft Learn with expert Johan Myburgh.

\"Microsoft Learn is a fantastic resource for building your tech skills, whether you're new to Microsoft technology or just looking to expand your expertise. With learning paths, certifications, and the ability to track your progress, it's an all-in-one platform for growing your knowledge. I highly recommend creating a profile so you can easily resume your courses and share your achievements through your transcript. It’s a great way to stay organized and make the most of your learning journey!\"

This article does an excellent job of highlighting the comprehensive resources available through Microsoft Learn, making it clear how valuable the platform is for anyone looking to enhance their skills or start a career in technology. The ability to track progress, create custom collections, and even integrate content through the API offers flexibility and personalization in the learning journey. It’s also great to see the emphasis on community support and the role it plays in the learning process.

I think that this one type of help article from Microsoft itself all alone in particular did a hell of a job in the sense of the ways that it actually explained everything that it actually spoke about within all of these types of articles themselves all as a whole in general. I think that the one and only thing that it should always be able to make sure to include with all of the types of help and how-to articles that it ever actually shows on all of its own types of websites themselves all as a whole in general just like this one type of Microsoft-based type of website called techcommunity.microsoft.com itself all alone in particular should all always actually be able to have any types of forms of media and visual demonstrations that would all always be able to actually show and discuss in exact detail about what all of those types of help and how-to articles are all ever actually talking about in general and let alone, most especially even, should all always actually be able to be translated into all foreign languages in general for the convenience of any types of users and researchers in general and all types of users and researchers in general regardless of their own types of forms of learning styles in general(visual learners, auditory learners, etc.) and everything.

When I wrote my last post, I was asked to periodically save what I wrote with a \"save button\" I have no idea what it should look like, but I can't find one anyway, so how should it look like?

I don't really know where to send my question but feel free to forward it to the right person with the associated data!
My problem may sound simple but tech support and I have not been able to find a solution! It applies to something as simple as being able to get a microphone to work in an old HP laptop's 3.5mm headphone socket as most of the sockets including the microphone connection are missing! It has windows 10home installed and I have never had any problems before with the same setup/configuration but this is getting really ridiculous!!! It's possible I filled in the wrong address on registration so my address should be: something I wasn't allowed to write...  Certainly I check it far too infrequently if I'm now allowed to blame my illness on my finances and also forces me to use donated devices after the old faithful give up... Back in the day, I used to get the best that was on the market and thus they demanded more of them after all! Unfortunately, bureaucrats have no long-term thinking and IF they all pay for something, it's something that doesn't last long, it's the memory that fills up and cloud storage with sufficient capacity (>3 Tb) is expensive and therefore not a workable solution unfortunately... Can only hope for help now, the problem could be that the computer is in Finnish which I can't possibly understand so I use the previous owner's account and pin without a password to log into my own accounts which has been working better than expected . it's a shame of Windows to despise a country's constitution which clearly states that Finland has two equivalent languages namely: Swedish and Finnish! But most people like to \"forget\" the Swedish and then it's totally incomprehensible! If I were an advertiser with national pride, I would boycott monolingual ad options to make anyone really believe that a Swede understands anything at all about Finnish??? As a thought experiment, I wonder how the English speakers would react if all their devices only had Chinese as their original language before you created your own account that SHOULD be in your language but can't really handle it (e.g. system messages only come in incomprehensible Finnish) if it could still be in English which almost everyone must know to a certain extent?
THANKS for any help!

This is machine-translated English.
I didn't understand what learn could do, it was general, it didn't guide me to do it, or even grasp the specific concepts of a specific feature.
Windows has a lot of features that none of them can be understood.
As a simple example, if Windows Defender stops automatic scanning, learn can't give a specific answer.
As a simple example, there are many ways to install Windows, and there is a lack of specific guidance and discussion on how to install through configuration files.

I would like to comment on the documentation format, not sure if this is the right place...

In pages like ASP.NET Core Blazor | Microsoft Learn, there are one to three columns, depending on the window width. My concern is with the center and right columns.

• At the top of the center column (the documentation itself), is the TOC: \"In this article\".
• The right column has an Additional resources list.

Now, until a few months ago, the \"In this article\" section was in the right-hand side column, the Additional resources section was at the bottom of the center column, if I remember well. I prefered that layout: I use the \"In this article\" list a lot to navigate through the current page, and now I have to go back to the top to select a different version, and this is really not convenient.

So I think it makes more sense to either move it back to the right, or make it fixed at the top of the page so that it is always available.

Depends what type of help Ric_Koehn - you can always join one of the Skilling Rooms on Learn:
Microsoft Learning Room Directory - Microsoft Community Hub