Immediate Discontinuation of Azure Passes
Important breaking news that has immediate impacts to TSPs delivering courses that currently use an Azure Pass. Effective immediately, Microsoft is discontinuing the use of Azure passes and recalling any Azure Passes in use by students and trainers. Why is Microsoft removing the Azure Pass option? As a part of the commitment to provide the best possible learner experience, Microsoft was in the process of moving away from using Azure passes to provide cloud access to course labs. The lab experience via the Lab Hosters (LH) removes friction for learners (i.e. activation and support considerations) and provides a more uniform training experience for our learners regardless of their location. Recently, Microsoft has experienced a significant increase in potential fraud and unintended use of Azure services, resulting in the immediate discontinuation of Azure Passes. Which courses are impacted by the discontinuation of the Azure Pass? The following course will not have labs available until end of January: SC-200T00: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Lab Hosters are working quickly to convert the following courses to non-Azure Pass. Please consult directly with your Lab Hoster to find out the status of what they have available. AZ-2001: Implement Security Through a Pipeline Using Azure DevOps AZ-2008: DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices AZ-400T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions SC-300T00: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator All localized versions of labs for these courses are offline. An ETA on when they will be available will be provided at a later date. Please consult with your Authorized Lab Hosters to see if your delivery will be impacted as a result of not having Azure passes. Additional information can be found in the attached FAQ. Dan
Best way to get Copilot for custom training sessions
Hi everyone I need to deliver a custom Copilot for Microsoft 365 course and require Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses for the attendees. I need about 10 licenses. What's the best way to get Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses for the training session? Regards Chintan PatelNEW: MS-203 Retirement Update
The new retirement date for MS-203: Microsoft 365 Messaging will now be December 29th, 2023. We understand that the initial retirement date did not support future scheduled deliveries of this course, and we always strive to provide course retirements in a timely manner to allow for appropriate planning. Please continue to reach out with any questions you may have. Thank you!
Community Course
Hi Team, I am looking for Community Course which were made available in Courseware Marketplace earlier. It is understood that the Community Courseware will be available in Skillpipe till 31st December 2023. Is there any information where I can look for the Community Courseware moving forward. Thanks in a advance.NEW Copilot ILTs coming your way May & June!
UPDATE TO AI-3016! AI-3016 was marked incorrectly on the marketing slide below. This course will be offered as an Applied Skills Copilot ILT. The updated version has been shared below. _______________________________________________________ Note: Please click on image to view full-size. Thank you
Need Help for Selling Applied Skills
Hi, we appreaciate the new offerings for copilot, AI, and more. For our understanding it would be helpful to have a learning path available which course has which content and whats the audience for it. There are more than 20 new applied skills for copilot and ai. Is our opinion there is much content overlapping, very short new content for 1 day courses, and basics in nearly every course (e.g. responsible AI, what is Copilot, What are LLMs) e.g. Overlapping content in the MS4004 to 4008, 4012 courses. Some are only the "legacy" course split up in 4 courses (e.g. AI3002, 3003, 3004) is the same content as AI102. A big picture about the new applied skills would be helpful to understand and to sell. What about a poster: "How to successfully learn, plan, apply the copilot solutions" Overall our students find it very frustrating to have only Click-Thru-Simulations or Demonstration Only Courses. We are waiting for many months now to get training licenses for Copilot Training. No one is willing to give us a working answer. It is very difficult to decide which course to offer and which one to skip. You have to check: * learn.microsoft.com * PPT Slides (when LDC is down) * Course Description & Format differences * GIT-Hub MCT Pages are almost all empty without any content. (besided the template files azuredeploy.json) Regards, MarioURGENT: Labs Impacted by changes to Entra tenant: AZ-104, AZ-500, AZ-800
We have been made aware of a new issue around the creation of Entra tenants that prevents Learners from completing labs.Learners are no longer able to create tenants, but receivea message saying,"Only paid customers can create a Microsoft Entre Workforce tenant." CURRENT KNOWN LABS IMPACTED: AZ-104 – Lab 1 AZ-500 – Lab 2,3,4 AZ-800 – Lab 2 Currently, the Content Owners are working towards a solution for all impacted labs. I will then provide a status update hopefully by end of week. Thank you.Learning Download Center (LDC) Outage Update
Hi all, the Learning Download Center (LDC) continues to be down. Please see this post from our MCT lead, Tracey Carisch:Anticipated Learning Download Center Outage - Microsoft Community Hub. The LDC is where MCTs access course resources for instructor-led training delivery. Work is going on behind the scenes to get this back up and running. I will continue to provide updates to this thread as they become available. Thank you for your patience.
