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Get the tools you need to advance your career with Microsoft Azure Expand your career opportunities in the cloud with three offers that combine training and industry-recognized Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certifications. Choose the tools that can help you to succeed—from free on-demand learningto Microsoft Azure certification to MCP exam prep and retake opportunities. Prove to the world and show employers that you’re ready to take advantage of the growing collection of integrated cloud services in Azure, as you gain the skills to develop solutions that can lower total cost and help improve scalability, security, and privacy. Choose the Azure certification training offer that best meets your needs: Free training Learn and build Azure skills Get full access to Azure massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the Microsoft training on Open edX catalog. Earn a free certificate of completion for each completed MOOC. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azurefreetrainingMicrosoft Learn
Microsoft Learnis an interactive, quick, and fun way to learn Azure! With Microsoft Learn, you can master new Azure skills with step-by-step interactive tutorials including videos and hands-on learning. Learning on your time:Tutorials and modules aligned to role-based certifications to fit your schedule. Learn by doing:Interactive, in-browser coding environments provide hands-on experience. Get recognized with achievements:Complete modules, test yourknowledge,and earn and share achievements to recognize your Azure skills. Learn the way you want:Choose from free self-paced tutorials and hands-on learning, free structured online courses from Pluralsight, and instructor-led classes from learning partners. The new learning content is aligned to the new role-based certifications. Let us know on the comments below what you think and what courses you`re taking, and visit Microsoft Learn.Staying up to date with the Microsoft Azure roadmap
On September 5, 2018, we launched a new and improved experience on both Azure updates and Products available by region on Azure.com. Azure updates Azure updateson Azure.com has been consolidated with the Azure roadmap to provide an all-inclusive experience for users to learn about important Azure product updates and roadmap in one place. This revamped page allows you to: Filter by Status - All, Now available, In preview, or In development Product search -Browse the dropdown or type in a product in the text field Update type - Compliance, Features, Pricing and Offerings, Regions and Datacenters, Event-related announcements, etc. Subscribe to RSS Feed to keep track of new updates based on the filters you've chosen Provide feedback via UserVoice Products available by region Products available by region on Azure.com is the roadmap source-of-truth on what services are available and coming in specific regions. This site is directly integrated with Azure engineering roadmap tools and now displays: What Azure services are currently available or in preview within a particular region Future estimated release dates for previews or general availability in a particular region You can now hover over Preview and Future availability icons highlighted with a circle to learn when to expect a service to go into Preview or Generally Available A dynamic, customizable view that allows you to multi-select: Products of interest Regions/geographies of interest - including sovereign clouds like Azure Government Let us know what you think and what you'd like to see in the comments below.Azure Essentials - Free Training
At Ignite 2017, we launched the new Microsoft Azure Essentials, the best place to get started with and learn more about Azure. Don`t know what is Azure, or want to learn more about Azure and Cloud? Just choose a topic and use the curated set of demo videos, hands-on labs, and product trials to learn about and try Azure at your own pace. Be sure to also check out the Azure learning paths, and Azure certification. You can access all this content for free at Azure.com/EssentialsAzure Essentials just got an upgrade - Free learning resources
Forget Moore’s Law. It seems like the pace of migration to the cloud is doubling every month now. We see the shift to the cloud and love to hear about how it’s helping your organization and your career. Azure Essentialsis meeting your need to expand your skills and is the single best resource to learn Azure, get training and have access to practical and free learning resources. Now we’ve made it even easier for you get exactly what you need with these upgrades: New Azure Essentials topics have been added. Watch the short video, do the Hands-on Labs and practice what you learned in a live environment with these new topics: Managing VM’s and Resources Data Visualization and Modeling Data Analytics The new Progress Tracker (requires log in) gives you a quick view of what you’ve already completed and allows you to add items to your queue for later. You will also see what is new since your last visit. No more need to log in to access most of the learning resources so accessing the content is even easier. Whether you’re picking up where you left off or starting your Azure education from scratch, Azure Essentials is more capable and accessible than ever. Take a look. Whether you’re picking up where you left off or starting your Azure education from scratch, Azure Essentials is more capable and accessible than ever. Take a look.Azure Site Recovery between Azure regions in public preview
Today we are extending Azure Site Recovery to support the failover of applications running within Azure. The set of features customers have used for replication and disaster recovery from on-premises to Azure are now available from one Azure region to another. Customers can create recovery plans between Azure regions, test failovers between Azure regions and replicate their applications to any other Azure region. You can set up Azure to Azure site recovery in a few minutes and have confidence that Azure meets your compliance needs. To learn more, check out our blog and documentation.March Member Madness Contest!
Think you can provide some fantastic content this month, or be the most active community member? We have some extra incentive for you in our March Member Madness contest, where you can win one of 15 pairs of Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones! I’m excited to see the contributions from the Azure community, and hope to spark insightful dialogue around Azure and Microsoft Cloud. For more information, check out the post on Community Announcements
