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Top Azure IoT Announcements and Sessions from Microsoft Ignite 2020

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 23, 2020 | Internet of Things

There have been a few great Azure IoT announcements and session made available by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Ignite 2020 virtual conference. With the flood of information coming out of Microsoft Ignite 2020, it can be difficult to parse out the specific...

Microsoft Edge Browser Coming to Linux

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 23, 2020 | Infrastructure, Linux

Microsoft has been increasingly supporting Linux, and the latest application coming to Linux is the Microsoft Edge web browser. About a year ago we saw Microsoft Teams released as the first Office app for Linux, and now we're seeing Microsofts Edge web browser too....

Top Microsoft Ignite 2020 News for Developers

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 23, 2020 | Development

The Microsoft Ignite 2020 conference brings with it a wealth of updates and releases from Microsoft. While Ignite is traditionally focused on IT Pro areas of technology, there are also a number of Developer-related updates and releases that have been announced by...

Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge 2020: Free Certification Exam

by Dan Patrick | Sep 21, 2020 | Certification, Events, Featured Articles

All participants of Microsoft Ignite who complete at least one collection in the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge are eligible for a free certification exam, to help you continue skilling up and prove your technical expertise to employers and peers....

Azure CLI: Suppress Output for Silent Commands / Quiet Mode

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 18, 2020 | Azure CLI Kung Fu, DevOps

The Azure CLI is really great for writing imperative scripts for automating Microsoft Azure resource management. Generally, the command output is helpful in telling you that updates were made or returning values that can be used for setting variables and then passing...

Azure Bicep Roadmap Q4’20 into 2021

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 17, 2020 | DevOps

Microsoft recently released the first preview of the Azure Bicep project which provides a new, more intuitive language for building out infrastructure as code deployments in Microsoft Azure. The v0.1 release includes support for a number of great features, including...

Getting Started with GitHub CLI

by Dan Patrick | Sep 17, 2020 | DevOps

The all-new GitHub CLI has shipped! This now brings the power of GitHub to your terminal, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. GitHub is giving us the following capabilities: Run your entire GitHub workflow from the terminal, from issues through releasesCall the GitHub API...

Get Started with Azure DevOps Permissions On The CLI

by Jim Counts | Sep 16, 2020 | DevOps

Azure DevOps offers a rich set of fine-grained permissions. Unfortunately, the user interface only shows a few of them. When granting permissions through the user interface, it is hard to understand what permissions actually take effect, and how to limit the set to...

Migrate to Azure DevTest Labs

by Dan Patrick | Sep 16, 2020 | Architecture

Earlier this year I wrote a few new articles for the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). One of the docs I was excited about is about Azure DevTest Labs. In this article, we assume the role of the amazing fake company Contoso and look at migrating to using Azure as...

Latest Cloud News: Nvidia acquires ARM, Azure Bicep IoT, Surface Duo and more! (September 15, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly)

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 15, 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 week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing!