by Contributed | Jun 1, 2022 | Technology
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We’re pleased to announce the new Microsoft Certified: Fundamentals site, designed exclusively for the community of learners who want to pursue a Microsoft fundamentals certification. Are you looking for a way to stand out as you start on your career path? Want to switch jobs and pivot to something fresh? Or master the basics as you advance in a challenging role? Explore the Microsoft Certified: Fundamentals site to learn how certification can help you achieve your goals. Earning a fundamentals certification differentiates you as someone who’s willing to learn and takes concrete steps to make their goals a reality.
Who needs a fundamentals certification?
Whether you’re a technical professional, student, or business professional, a fundamentals certification is designed to help you accelerate your progress, boost your career, and stay current with evolving technology trends. It can be the first step on your journey for role-based or specialty certifications, but it isn’t a prerequisite for any of them.
Use Microsoft fundamentals training and certification to highlight your skills and to show prospective employers your drive and determination to learn. Take it from Chris Dinnel, a system administrator with a cybersecurity background, who wanted to move his career to cloud infrastructure. He earned a Dynamics 365 Fundamentals certification and got a job as a Dynamics 365 administrator/IT technician at SBS CyberSecurity. He comments, “Certification is a great way to show people that you can take initiative and communicate that kind of abstract concept, like self-motivation, which is otherwise hard to show on a résumé.”
Use fundamentals certifications to validate the skills that you’ve worked so hard to hone. Plus, earning fundamentals certifications can give you the confidence to pursue higher-level certifications as you move forward in your career journey. A Global Knowledge survey notes that 87 percent of IT professionals have at least one certification, while nearly 40 percent are pursuing their next certification. April Dunnam, a developer with many certifications, reports that when she learns a new technology, she often earns a fundamentals certification just to get a broad understanding. For example, when she was learning Microsoft Power Platform, she earned the fundamentals certification, recalling, “It seemed like a good starting point because it’s about the basics.”
A fundamentals certification on your résumé can make a difference as you launch your career. An IDC white paper points out that those who earned a certification prior to their first IT position were promoted 23 percent sooner than their counterparts who didn’t earn one. Use your fundamentals certification to build practical, workplace skills for in-demand jobs and to gain an edge in a competitive labor market. When you study for a fundamentals exam, you learn industry-standard technology from an industry leader, in addition to earning marketable proof of your knowledge.
If you have a passion for technology and are switching to a more technical role, earning a fundamentals certification can help ensure that you’re up to speed. According to The Nigel Frank Careers and Hiring Guide: Business Applications Edition 2022, 68 percent of respondents believe that certifications help you stand out in a competitive job market. Respondents who received a salary increase after they earned a certification said that their take-home pay rose by an average of 20 percent.
Get started
Begin by going to the new Microsoft Certified: Fundamentals site to gather information and make your learning plan. Each certification’s landing page includes a journey map that offers a visual explanation of the steps you need to take. If you want to work with an instructor, read About Microsoft Learning Partners.
Choose a certification path
Depending on your skills and interests, the new fundamentals site will help you choose the fundamentals certification that’s the best fit for you.
Find a community
Join a community to network with others who have a passion for Microsoft technology, share ideas, and ask questions. You can also find news about Microsoft events and learning opportunities.
Celebrate with the world: Post your badge on LinkedIn
Once you earn your fundamentals certification or learn a new skill, celebrate your accomplishment with your network. It often takes less than a minute to update your LinkedIn profile and share your achievements, highlight your skills, and help boost your career potential.
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Turn your aspirations into opportunities
The new Microsoft Certified: Fundamentals site offers you even more support as you move ahead on your learning journey. Join the community of professionals who have earned a Microsoft Certification and get what you need to land that first job, advance your career, or shift your focus to a new and exciting technology.
Sources
IDC white paper, Impact of Certifications and Training on Career Milestones, #US45090619, June 2019
by Contributed | May 31, 2022 | Technology
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More and more companies are bringing their databases to the cloud, now you want to take this step too!? But what is the right way and which is the right target platform, how do we get our data there? How much power do we need for our application? This is exactly where I would like to start with this episode – the preparation – finding the right SKU for your target environment and how you get data with the help of the Azure Migration Assistant and the Azure Data Studio. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Bjoern Peters and Anna Hoffman show you how easy it is and how easy it is to get results.
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by Contributed | May 31, 2022 | Business, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, Technology
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Across the manufacturing industry, pressure continues to rise as organizations and their workforces balance unpredictable supply chains, complex regulatory and compliance requirements, advanced security threats, and heightened competition. At Microsoft, we are working to empower all manufacturing workers, from the factory floor to the customer’s door, with the solutions they need for sustainable growth and increased productivity.
The post How Microsoft is equipping manufacturing workers with the tools of the future appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.
Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.
by Contributed | May 30, 2022 | Technology
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Build collaborative app that connect people, data, and processes to help over 270M Teams users thrive with hybrid work. Rapidly build powerful apps, bots, flows with a single integrated development stack that seamlessly blends low and pro code with Power Platform. This session will focus on the opportunities and practices for building collaborative apps. Join Microsoft Cloud Advocates, MVPs, and product engineers as we go deeper into the tech announced at Microsoft Build and share what we’ve learned. Join our session at: MSFT Build: Unpacking the Tech: Innovate with collaborative apps and low code
Who is it aimed at?
• Developers of all stripes
• Entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and IT Pros looking to for the latest
• Students or learning professionals interested in learning more about the newest tech
Why should you attend?
Learn about the latest tech announced at Microsoft Build
• Get a pulse at where the tech industry and Microsoft are headed
• Share your thoughts on what you liked at Microsoft Build (and what you’d like to see more of)
• Network with other professionals in our community
Microsoft Build: Unpack the Tech at the Reactors.
Everyone loves unboxing or unpacking that new phone or laptop or tech gadget. Like we’re unwrapping something new, unexpected, and meaningful…a gift to get excited about. Recently at Microsoft Build, we announced so many new products and opportunities! But if you’re a developer or an entrepreneur or industry leader, perhaps it can be difficult to decide what really matters to you. How to separate what’s experimental from what’s production-ready for your org? Where should you begin? What will make a real difference in your day-to-day work? Let’s unpack the tech of Microsoft Build and find out!
Speaker Bio
Hadeel Shubair (Cloud Advocate)
Hadeel is a Regional Cloud Advocate and Data Analytics Engineer for Microsoft, Middle East/Africa region. She holds a Master’s degree in Data Analytics and is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge on tech topics including Data Analytics, AI, & ML. Before joining Microsoft, Hadeel held several appointments and roles including Google Women in Tech scholar through which she delivered several sessions to the community to motivate and empower young talents. Hadeel also served as part of the Data & Communications team overlooking the organization of the World Government Summit. On the other side, while at University, Hadeel chaired the Women in Engineering club, and was the Chief Editor of the Engineering Newsletter. As a Cloud Advocate for the Microsoft Reactor, Hadeel’s main goal is to take you on a journey to understand & learn more about Data and AI concepts and applications. She’s passionate about technology, education, & growing the Data & AI community across the region.
Someleze Diko (Cloud Advocate)
Someleze is a young individual that is passionate about upskilling people from different communities using the different technologies at his disposal through being involved with initiatives that upskill and empower people. Today, he is an M365 and Power Platform Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focusing on upskilling students and communities through the Microsoft Power Platform. Before becoming a Cloud Advocate, Someleze was a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador in which he worked closely with other ambassadors to learn, upskill and empower students in different communities through hosting sessions that cover different Microsoft Technologies. He also served as a United Nations Peace Ambassador along side his team from Artpeace.
Gomolemo Mohapi (Cloud Advocate)
Gomolemo is a young South African who is determined to make a long-lasting impact on the world through technology. In university, he took it upon himself to create multiple written programming tutorials for his peers which significantly assisted those who were struggling to grasp programming concepts. Thereafter, Gomolemo joined the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador program where he gained advanced technical skills and eventually expanded to host workshops, hackathons and speaking at various conferences. Gomolemo eventually fell in love with the Power Platform, because it was a low-code platform which gave way for him to empower and upskill not just those with a technical background, but anyone from any industry who was looking to learn how to build applications. He has since co-authored a Power Platform Udacity course and is now a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Power Apps and Fusion Development.
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by Contributed | May 29, 2022 | Technology
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We are excited to announce that Azure Video Indexer customers using paid ARM based accounts can now monitor their Audit logs (with Azure Monitor). This will allow you to gain deeper insights on the operations of your Azure Video Indexer resources and consume this data in flexible ways. This will allow users to analyze data, troubleshoot issues, set alerts for failed operations, and monitor the usage and identities accessing the Azure Video Indexer resource.
In November 2021, Azure Video Indexer introduced a new account type to public preview – ARM Based accounts. This enables users to better secure and monitor their accounts as well as many other benefits – see here to learn more. ARM Based accounts allow users to utilize many robust Azure native capabilities for Azure Video Indexer control plane while also enabling powerful integrations such as with Azure Monitor.
In this blog, we will help you get started by showing how to:
- Set up Diagnostic Settings configuration using Azure portal.
- Use Azure Log Analytics to monitor Azure Video Indexer Audit logs.
- Use Kusto(KQL) queries to monitor Azure Video Indexer resources.
Set up Diagnostic Setting logs for the Azure Video Indexer account
To enable Diagnostic logs through the Azure Portal, take the following steps:
- Go to the Azure portal
- Use the search bar to look for “Azure Video indexer”
- Select the relevant Video Indexer account
Under Monitoring choose Diagnostic settings.
Choose “Diagnostic settings” under the monitoring section in the Azure Video Indexer account.
Using Diagnostic settings, logs can be exported to several destinations: Event hub, storage account, third party solution or Azure Log Analytics. The following instructions are specific to exporting, configuring, and querying the logs using Azure Log Analytics.
- Enter a new name for the diagnostic settings connection you are going to create.
- Select Audit from the categories and the Log Analytics workspace from the destination list.
- Then choose the right subscription and ‘Target Log Analytics’ workspace and click the ‘Save’ button.
Set a connection to an Azure Log Analytics workspace
Congratulations, in a few minutes and depending on the actions you would perform on the account you should see logs using the ‘Logs’
button through the Video Indexer resource or through the Log Analytics Workspace.
Using Azure Log Analytics to monitor Azure Video Indexer Audit logs
There are two ways to view and analyze logs produced by Azure Video Indexer:
- Azure Video Indexer resource view – this includes only the logs of the specific Video Indexer instance.
From Azure Video Indexer resource view – select the “Logs” icon in this view.
- Log Analytics Workspace – this includes logs of all Video Indexer instances sending logs to the Log Analytics workspace. As multiple Video Indexer instances can send logs to a single Log Analytics workspace, this option is ideal when working with multiple Video Indexer instances and looking to view and query them in one workspace.
From the Azure Portal, search for the Log Analytics Workspace you selected as the target destination when configuring the “diagnostic settings” (pervious section) and choose the ”Logs”
.
VIAudit
| where AccountId == "<YOUR ACCOUNT ID>"
| where Status == "Failure"
| project TimeGenerated, OperationName,CorrelationId, _ResourceId
Useful Kusto(KQL) queries for monitoring Azure Video Indexer resources
Querying of audit logs is done through the Video Indexer resource or log Analytics Workspace using Kusto query language.
In order to query Azure Video Indexer Audit table efficiently, in Log Analytics or in the resource view, we recommend exploring the table’s structure here.
To get started easily, we would like to share some basic KQL queries:
Example 1:
Use the following query to look for failed operations and their cause.
As the examples show, in the last 24 hours, this account had four failures when attempting to upload a video. From the error message you can see the two different reasons for the failure. The first one is an access token that was expired, the second was due to an access token with wrong scope of permission.
Query sample:
// Project failures with detailed error message.
VIAudit
| where Status == "Failure"
| parse Description with "ErrorType: " ErrorType ". Message: " ErrorMessage ". Trace" *
| project TimeGenerated, OperationName, ErrorMessage, ErrorType, CorrelationId, _ResourceId
Example 2:
Search for the top 10 operations of the account:
For the selected time range, 28% of the operations were searching for videos with in the account.
Query sample:
VIAudit
| summarize count() by OperationName
| top 10 by count_
| render piechart
Example 3:
Query searching for top ten active user for an account.
Query sample:
// Trend of top 10 active Upn's
VIAudit
| where TimeGenerated > ago(30d)
| summarize count() by Upn
| top 10 by count_ desc
| project Upn
| join (VIAudit
| where TimeGenerated > ago(30d)
| summarize count() by Upn, bin(TimeGenerated, 1d)) on Upn
| project TimeGenerated, Upn, count_
| render timechart
For more information on how to get started monitoring your Azure Video Indexer resource visit our public documentation.
For asks around monitoring Azure Video Indexer leave comments on this blog or visit our user voice page.
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