A common conversion that's done when setting storage size is to calculate the correct number of Bytes and other values from the base, desired Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, or even Petabytes. The calculator below enables you to enter your desired value...
Microsoft's first WSLConf Linux Conference is being held this week, March 10 - 11, 2020. Originally, it was going to be an onsite event at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. However, with the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, Microsoft has turned their first...
Embedded within Microsoft's announcement of retiring ALL of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications (and their associated exams) is the fact that certifications for Windows Server and SQL Server products are gone. As the older technology-based certifications are being...
Have you ever spent hours building a machine to use as an admin workstation for Azure? What about installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Well, have we have something for you! It's always a pain to get going with a good VM to use for admin tasks with Azure. With...
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,...
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,...
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...
Over the past couple of months, Chris and I have been working with Microsoft on a whitepaper focusing on helping customers get ready for a migration to Azure. This paper focuses on the many different areas that are critical to the success of a project. These include...
The first ever Microsoft Linux Conference named WSLConf is being held on March 10 - 11, 2020 in Redmond, WA, and it's free to attend. With great news for the conference, and possibly bad news for you, the first ever WSLConf is SOLD OUT! That is for in-person General...
In this hands-on lab, you will construct an end-to-end Proof of concept for ticket ordering based on a microservices architecture based on Service Fabric and Azure Functions, alongside other supporting Azure features such as API Management, Web Apps, Azure Active...
Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions available. The Ubuntu Linux operating system has releases published regularly on an interval of every six months. Every few releases are designated as Long Term Support or LTS releases. These LTS releases of Ubuntu...
If you’ve been waiting for an Azure Portal Desktop App, then you’ll be happy to learn that Microsoft now has an Azure Portal App for Windows in Preview. It’s unclear when this first became available, but a quick search reveals it’s been available for a few months now. This Azure Portal App allows you to install a desktop experience for the Azure Portal on a Windows machine. It seems to be framing in the Azure Portal website into a desktop app window, but it does feel more native than the browser experience. Plus, it provides all the same features of the Azure Portal; including the Azure Cloud Shell experience!
In the current cloud landscape, security has never been more important than it is today. This applies to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) security as it relates to securing your networks. Generally, on-premises connections over RDP will require the client to be connected...
Recently, a new Remote Desktop (RDP) and SSH remote access service in Microsoft Azure came to my attention. In short, Azure Bastion enables the Azure Portal to provide the UI for remotely and securely connecting via RDP and/or SSH to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)...
Azure Front Door is a Layer 7 (or HTTP(S) layer) load balancer service and provides a number of great features for better running globally available web applications. These features include SSL/TLS offloading, URL-based routing, among others. You can easily set up...
A DNS outage affected many services in Microsoft Azure between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC on May 2, 2019. The outage affected many services within Microsoft Azure; such as Compute, Storage, App Service, Azure Active Directory, and Azure SQL Database services. Additional...
The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft's own Cloud Solution Architects, as well as Microsoft Partners all over the world, how to use Microsoft Azure services. Currently there are a total of 36...
The AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise at implementing security controls, and maintaining security, and identity, access and protections within Microsoft Azure. This exam is the required exam...
The AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. This exam tests your expertise in managing cloud services that span compute, networking, storage, security, and other cloud capabilities within...
Recently, Microsoft announced some major changes to their certification program. These changes include retiring many of the existing certifications and exams, and releasing brand new exams and certifications as replacements that follow more of a "job-role" oriented...
Recently, Microsoft announced and started releasing all new certification exams that are more job role focused. This new set of certification paths are being made in response to the feedback that Microsoft customers have expressed over the previous certification path....
GitHub keeps on innovating in the source control management and collaboration space. There have been great new features like GitHub Actions recently, as well as GitHub's announcement of acquiring npm. One of the latest things to come out of GitHub is the release of...
Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, announced that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. "npm, inc." is the company behind the extremely popular Node package manager, the npm Registry, and npm CLI. Through these tools and services offered by npm, they have...
I've been seeing lots of questions about earning the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications before their exams are retired on June 30, 2020. With the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and all the quarantines and travel restrictions, I've also been getting a few...
Microsoft has announced that a FREE pricing tier of Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL, cloud-scale database engine) is now available. This new free tier is offering the ability to create a new Azure Cosmos DB Account with 400 RU/s and 5 GB storage for free for the lifetime of...
Embedded within Microsoft's announcement of retiring ALL of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA certifications (and their associated exams) is the fact that certifications for Windows Server and SQL Server products are gone. As the older technology-based certifications are being...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 need...
The AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Developer. Passing this exam will earn you the Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification. If you are an IoT...
Microsoft has announced they are moving Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 as the encryption mechanism of choice. As a result, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be deprecated July 1, 2020, and TLS 1.0 / 1.1 will no longer...
It's really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the task. You can use the Azure CLI to create new instances of Azure IoT Hub when you need to automate the task. This can help with...
Azure IoT Hub provides the cloud messaging service for building Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in the cloud using Microsoft Azure. There are a few other options for messaging services within Microsoft Azure, but the Azure IoT Hub service is the only service that's...
In this lab, you will learn how to build and configure an Internet of Things (IoT) Audit Solution using Azure blockchain services. You will collect device telemetry using Azure IoT Hub and use Ethereum blockchain ledger to enforce contract specifics related to...
This book will guide you through choosing which certification path(s) to follow you’re your unique career goals and technical background. It’ll also explore all the different certifications Microsoft offers, as well as many of your questions, like:
Microsoft and cloud certification helps you keep up-to-date on the latest technologies in a structured, easy to follow path, that is also verifiable by your peers and future career opportunities.
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...
Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure...