Azure Training & Certification
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 learning to 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 Learn is 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 your knowledge, 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 updates on 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 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 Essentials is 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.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 AnnouncementsAzure offers - free support upgrade, hybrid use benefit, training and more
I am bringing together various offers and benefits for Azure, all in one place, that I thought would be useful for the community. This is what will be covered - Enterprise Agreement Support Offer Azure Hybrid Use Benefit Free training and certification offer Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials Visual Studio subscriptions includes Azure credits Enterprise Agreement Support Offer - Ends June 30, 2017 This is a very specific offer but companies may be entitled to a free 12-month Azure support upgrade without knowing it. It does have various stipulations, around buying Azure services via an Enterprise Agreement but it's well worth checking if you qualify. For companies not purchasing an Azure support plan, they can get Azure Standard support at no additional charge. Those companies that already have purchased Azure Standard support, they can get an upgrade to Azure ProDirect support at no additional charge. More info available here, including how to redeem this offer - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/offers/enterprise-agreement-support-upgrade/. Azure Hybrid Use Benefit Not an offer as such but a benefit some companies may not be aware of. If you have Windows Server licences with Software Assurance, save up to 50 percent on Windows Server Virtual Machines. The way this works is by using your licences to license the Windows Server part of an Azure virtual machine then you just pay for the compute cost of the VM. There a couple of ways this works but those with an Enterprise Agreement subscription, it's as simple as deploying VMs from specific Marketplace images that are pre-configured with Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. These are the ones with [HUB] in the names: More details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/hybrid-use-benefit/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-hybrid-use-benefit-licensing Free training and certification offer Microsoft offers free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Azure. Microsoft says "MOOCs are so much more than online videos and demos – they incorporate videos, labs, graded assessments, office hours, and more". Not only this, Microsoft have certification offers for those looking to invest in their future development, boosting their skills and prospects. Here are more details on what is available: More details: https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/new-cloud-trainings-for-next-generation-tech-professionals/ https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/azureskills https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/modern-learning-grow-cloud-muscle-new-azure-training/ Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials provides IT professionals with access to cloud services, training, support and certification - "Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials is a free annual subscription which includes cloud services, education, and support benefits". Here are a few highlights: Free Azure credits to try cloud scenarios like backup, disaster recovery, security & dev/test. Free Pluralsight subscription for on-line training. A free phone support incident for Azure or on-premises products. More details: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/04/20/microsoft-introduces-free-resources-to-help-it-pros-get-started-and-build-their-careers-in-the-cloud/ https://www.microsoft.com/itprocloudessentials Visual Studio subscriptions includes Azure credits For sake of completion, I'll mention Visual Studio paid subscriptions, which includes a monthly credit to run Azure services to develop and test apps. If you have any developers with one of these subscriptions they may have some Azure credits without realising it. Microsoft help to maximise these credits going even further: "Use the Microsoft software included with your Visual Studio subscription on Azure Virtual Machines for dev/test at no extra charge—you’ll just pay the Linux rate for VMs you run, even VMs with SQL Server, SharePoint Server, or other software that is normally billed at a higher rate. Upload custom virtual machine images yourself or use one of our pre-configured images from the Azure Gallery." More details - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits-details/ Finishing up, I hope that was a useful collection of resources. It's worth checking out the https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/legal/offer-details/ for even more offers and deals. Just writing this up, I am reminded how much Microsoft provide and help customers, IT Pros and developers to get the most out of Azure.
MFA without a Cellphone
This is becoming a bigger issue more and more. We cannot, as a company, require our Employees to use a personal cellphone to get text codes or install work apps to authenticate our work accounts. We supply these users with a Business Voice license so they can make business calls and accept business calls. All of our employees have corporately paid laptops running Windows 10 and all have SharePoint, Email, OneDrive, Teams etc. Microsoft does not offer the authenticator app on Windows 10 so we can't use that method. So what do we do? Leave all these accounts vulnerable? I've read about using "landlines" for authentication then Microsoft says that's not secure but then provides no guidance on exactly how we're supposed to do this. We cannot be expected to pay for a cellphone for all these users just to use one app. That's ridiculous.IT Pro Cloud Essentials – New Azure Offer
A new Azure offer has been launched on IT Pro Cloud Essentials, providing $25 per month of Azure credits for 12 months, a $300 value. IT Pro Cloud Essentials offers IT Implementers hands-on experience to increase their knowledge and create a path to career advancement. Joining is free and includes training opportunities and access to experts. Other benefits include: • Enterprise Mobility Suite 90-day trial • Office 365 60-day trial • Pluralsight 3 month subscription • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) voucher • Priority support in the TechNet forums • Phone support incident Sign up for IT Pro Cloud Essentials at: www.Microsoft.com/ITProCloudEssentials
Understanding Azure Account, Subscription and Directory.
For the last couple of days, I am trying to understand the relationship between Azure account, Subscription, and Directory and Resource Groups. Is there any comprehensive guide that can help me to understand how Azure Account, Subscription and Directory works? Thank you in advance.
