Episode 167 – Azure Certification Updates!

In Episode 167, Ben and Scott discuss some updates that allow you to deploy resources in Azure to scopes above a resource group and then break down some big changes coming to the Azure certifications. Sponsors ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Show Notes String functions for Azure Resource Manager templates uniqueString() Did you know you can deploy ARM templates to any scope in Azure now? #AzureRm Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Tools Azure/Azure-Lighthouse-samples Updates to Several Azure and Data & AI Certifications are Coming Soon Updates to Azure certification exams announced in January 2020 About the sponsors Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.