142 posts tagged with "Misc"

You don't have a be a Microsoft MVP to engage with Microsoft product teams, and help give feedback! One of the best ways that the Microsoft product teams engage with the community- is through Public Community Calls!

Here is a list of the community calls across Microsoft Azure products.

Topic	Link	Notes
Azure Landing Zone	https://aka.ms/ALZ/CommunityCallAgenda	Azure Landing Zones news roundup and updates
Microsoft 365 Platform Community	https://pnp.github.io/#community	Not specifically Azure related, but related more to the M365/Modern workspace.
Windows Customer Connection	https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/join-the-windows-customer-connection-program/ba-p/3473775	Not specifically Azure related, but related more to the Windows OS (Operating System)
Azure Development Community Call	https://github.com/Azure/azure-dev/discussions/categories/announcements	Azure Developers Community Call
Azure Governance & Deployments	https://github.com/Azure/azure-policy#general-questions	Same as the ARM/Bicep community call. Also features Azure Policy.
Cloud Security	https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/join-our-security-community/ba-p/927888	This is a 'Private' community. Meaning that feedback for Cloud security products (Defender, Sentinel etc) is under NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). A great community to get early feedback and testing, to help the products grow.
Azure ARM/Bicep Community Calls	https://github.com/Azure/bicep/issues?q=label%3A%22Community+Call%22+
Azure Arc	https://github.com/microsoft/azure_arc_community
PowerShell Community Call	https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/tree/master/CommunityCall

There may be other communities I have missed - so feel free to add links in the comments.

Up-to-date links to additional public Microsoft community calls can also be found on the AWESOME-Azure-Architecture list.

This was asked in the Microsoft forums; with the change of platform from being able to see and download certificates for the competition of your Microsoft exam with Pearsonvue to the new Microsoft Learn experience, you might find yourself lost when attempting to view (and print) your hard-earned Microsoft certificate!

The certificate format has also been refreshed.

Old

New

To view and print your certificate:

1. Navigate to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/me/activity/
2. Click on: Certifications
3. Find your certificate and click on View certification details.
4. Click a Print certification, then click Print and you can print and save it as a PDF or print (remember to uncheck print Headers and footers, to remove any footers from the print).
5. 

If you want to download it, you can print it to a PDF, to save the certificate to your computer.

The path to becoming a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) is not as linear as some might think, others have a goal to receive the Microsoft MVP Award, and others have a passion for technology that shows in community activities such as speaking or user groups, helping others on forums, and helping to maintain documentation and helping others be up-to-speed with the ever changing ecosystem that is the Microsoft stack - it is not a one size fits all, just as there are multiple ways of learning, there are multiple ways to the MVP Award.

I join Christian Buckley for episode 167 of his #MVPbuzChat Podcast/Video chat, to tell my story, feel free to check it out (if you can ignore the bad camera angle!) and other MVPs talk about their journey to the Microsoft MVP Award.

• #MVPbuzzChat with Luke Murray

Did you know you can contribute to Microsoft documentation (ms docs)?

Suppose you see something not quite right, technically or even if the document's readability doesn't look right! Then, in true community style, you can contribute!

Tip: You can edit it straight from the Github webpage directly, or pressing "." in a Github repository will open up Visual Studio Code in Dev spaces with the markdown linter to help check against best practices from your browser.

See the image below for an example:

Once the pull request is made, it will be reviewed by designated technical document reviewers/product owners at Microsoft. Then your changes will be merged live if successful (and if not, the reviewers will let you know why and what changes could be made)!

• Microsoft Docs contributor guide overview

If you don't want to make the edit yourself, you can also raise an issue and give your feedback by linking to the document, and this will then be worked on by someone to review, contact the relevant product owners, and amended.

Try to be as concise as possible, as people reading it may not have the same experience as you!

Pretty simple article today regarding 'My website setup'.

I've had a few people ask what CMS (Content Management System) my website runs on - and no it's not running on an Azure App Service!

I am using:

• Github Pages (running Jekyll and Ruby on Rails)
• Cloudflare as my DNS CDN (which also allows me to set HTTPS) and cache the website across the planet

Because the pages are in a git repository, I have version control across my pages, can roll back or make any changes easily and allow others to submit pull requests for changes, or issues natively.

The pages are created using Markdown, I usually have a OneNote page with an idea or blurb, then Forestry to do the initial post, and then manually edit the files and verify the syntax is correct, add tables into the page and fix any issues that may have been caused (Forestry doesn't support markdown tables and can make some content look a bit weird and unstructured, but its usually an easy fix editing the markdown manually).

Having it on Github pages, helped me learn a lot more about using git and source control, versioning methodologies.

Then for comments, I use Disqus and for analytics, Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools.

• Markdown
• https://pages.github.com/
• What CMS is this site using?
• https://forestry.io/
• https://disqus.com/

All in all - I just have to pay for the domain, everything else is free and because it's stateless, caching content is a lot easier and I don't have to worry about keeping a CMS up to date/patched or a database tuned!

If you're wondering why it's not running on an Azure App Service? I wanted something cheap, could further challenge and learn from, at the end of the day I wanted a stateless website (static websites in Storage account, wasn't available when I set this up) and I wanted to reserve my limited Azure credits to be able to actually learn and play more. I have no regrets in putting it in Github Pages and depending on your requirements - recommend you try it out!