by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 17, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 17, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
The AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Solutions Architect. NOTE: The AZ-304 exam is being released soon, and is not yet available. It will be replacing the AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 10, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
The AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Solutions Architect. NOTE: The AZ-303 exam is being released soon, and is not yet available. It will be replacing the AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 10, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 5, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
The AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. Candidates should also have a strong understanding of core Azure services, workloads, security, and governance. NOTE: The AZ-104 exam is being...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 3, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
The AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests your expertise across all phases of the Microsoft Azure development process; from solution design, to development and...
by Dan Patrick | Jan 30, 2020 | Azure CLI, DevOps, Featured Articles
UPDATE: more scripts from this post have been added – here: https://github.com/deltadan/az-cli-kung-fu The last week has been a blur because I didn’t sleep. I spent days helping a client restore every single VM that had running in Azure (about 250). ...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 27, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 24, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
Microsoft Learning posted an article that announced some upcoming changes to the Microsoft Azure and Data & AI certifications. These certification exam changes are slated to be released by March of 2020, and affect the Azure Administrator, Azure Developer, Azure...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 23, 2020 | Development, Featured Articles
The Visual Studio Online (VS Online) web-based IDE is now available to be used. Based on the popular Visual Studio Code editor, it offers a familiar feel and workspace for writing and working with source code.. This also offers the extensibility of supporting Visual...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 21, 2020 | Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions employ some kind of messaging protocol for each individual IoT device to communicate in the system. These messaging protocols are used to transmit device telemetry (or messages) from the IoT devices to the IoT Messaging Hub (or...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 20, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 20, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
It’s important to use plenty of great study materials when studying for that next Microsoft certification exam. There are many great paid resources available on the video course front. You can always read the official Microsoft documentation too. However, if you...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 17, 2020 | Internet of Things, PowerShell
It’s simple to provision an Azure IoT Hub service instance using the Azure Portal. However, there are time when you need a more DevOps style approach by scripting it. The Azure Powershell Az.IotHub module can be used to manage commands for managing Azure IoT Hub...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 16, 2020 | Internet of Things, Featured Articles
Recently, Hackster.io announced the contest winners for the “Secure Everything with Azure Sphere” contest they were running, along with partners Microsoft and AVNet. The contest was giving away prizes worth a total of $37,000. And, they were giving away...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 15, 2020 | Hardware, HoloLens
A while back I wrote up a summary of the hardware specifications for the first generation HoloLens. Here’s a short write up of the hardware specifications for the HoloLens 2 (the second generation HoloLens hardware). The biggest difference in the new device is a...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 14, 2020 | Architecture, Infrastructure, Offer
Awhile back Microsoft had the BizSpark program that offered free Microsoft software for startups. A couple of my own startups were able to get free licenses for Microsoft software and Azure services credits to help get bootstrapped. While BizSpark is no longer around,...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 13, 2020 | Certification, Featured Articles
As we begin a new year, and enter 2020, you are among a large group of people looking to earn their next Microsoft certification. The site Bookauthority.org has a list of the Top 9 Best New Microsoft Certifications Books to Read in 2020. And, The Ultimate Guide to...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 13, 2020 | Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 12, 2020 | Infrastructure, Linux
In this hands-on lab, you will migrate an on-premises based help desk application called OsTicket, to Azure. This will be a two-phase project to lift-and-shift the application into Azure IaaS and then migrate it to Azure PaaS. The application is Linux based using...
