The InsiderĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft, written by Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin, and published by PostHillPress publishers, explores the innovation strategies and practices at Microsoft over the past 50 years.
When I heard about this book, I ordered myself a copy during pre-order, and got excited from the day I got it in the mail. This was honestly one of the few books I read cover to finish in just a weekend.
Hey folks,
Iām a fond user of Azure DevOps for testing application builds, running CI/CD pipelines to publish Azure demo scenarios and train our Microsoft global customers on it every few weeks out of AZ-400 training deliveries.
One of the lesser-known, yet AWESOMELY POWERFUL features besides ārunning pipelinesā is Azure Boards, providing an end-to-end project methodology platform using Scrum, Agile, CMMI or custom approach.
In this post, I mainly wanted to zoom in on the custom capabilities, capturing feedback from employees - which got entered through an Office Forms form, picked up by Azure Logic Apps, and stored in a customized Azure Boards Work Item.
I have to admit, I am not a real book reader, and the bit of reading I am doing typically involves Azure-related tech books, or what my wife and family describes as ābusiness booksā (Biographies, Non-fiction company stories such as the start of Netflix, Uber, Silicon Valley,ā¦). For several years, I relied on an Amazon Kindle app on my (cheap) Samsung A8 tablet, dating from the time I was traveling weekly and wanted to travel light. While it still runs fine, the 8" form factor is sometimes a bit small - especially when screenshots of development code are involved - and I was also missing the capability to take notes (apart from the basic notes in Kindle app).
Hey,
April last year, I wrote a post in which I looked back at my 1st 6 months as an Azure Technical Trainer. Where I think it makes sense to update this post in the week Iām officially starting my 3rd year in the role :).
April 2020 was literally in the middle of the (first) pandemic lock-down, where we all thought it would clear out by May; little did we know it would last for another 18 months from there, facing another 2 or 3 lockdowns and still not seeing the end of it, although there is some tiny spark of light at the end of the tunnel.
Hi there,
If you wonder why itās been a bit quite on the blog front, itās because I enjoyed 2 weeks off from work, distracting a bit from Azure, technology and spending some needed family time. Bonus was that these 2 weeks probably had the nicest weather of the whole year (although my wife would argue on that, since she is more into snow and cold, not the humid hot sweaty weather we had).
Hi,
For almost 2 years, I have been using the āOffice 365 Outlook Connectorā as part of my Logic Apps flows, to send emails internally and externally. Mainly for external receivers, I used the āis HTMLā parameter for the body of the email.
This weekend, I was building a new Logic Apps flow, and to my surprise, finding out that the āV2ā of this same connector / action, doesnāt have that parameter anymore.
A few days ago, I blogged about Bing Desktop Wallpapers, a nice little tool you can install on your Windows Machine to enjoy some of the amazing views of the world.
Knowing these got stored on your local machine as JPEGs (C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\WPImages), got me the idea to reuse these as āTeams Backgroundsā during video calls.
As the Bing Wallpaper gets updated every day, it would be nice to have a different image in Teamsā¦ every day. So instead of trying to remember to copy a Bing Wallpaper image, why not using a Windows Scheduled Task for this, based on a little PowerShell script?
Due to COVID19, my traveling rhythm went down from an avg 90% the last six years, to 0%. I have never been that much at home without travel than in these last 5 weeks (and a few more to come).
While the primary reason for my travel is business related, every now and then, I have the opportunity to enjoy the area, if even only for a short moment, or in-between delivering sessions. Some locations immediately coming to mind:
Things are going fast in the Azure world, and apparently exams are more and more following that pace. Before you start screaming and worrying, as you might be preparing for a current exam, let me share a bit about several steps happening before an exam becomes available.
Exam Objectives (OD) For a long time, Microsoft Learning has based exams on āexam objectivesā, which is typically a list of āservices, features, activitiesā anyone taking the exam, should master. An easy example from the Exchange Server 2007 time frame could have been:
As I got asked so many times what Azure learning resources are available, I thought this could make up an excellent blog post :) - This is actually based on a summary slide I have added to my in-person and online Azure training workshops closing deck, but updated where needed. Below order is a random listing of resources, not forcing any priority or preference:
Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Hands-on Labs
Azure Docs
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