Microsoft Virtual Academy Events and Courses to Check Out by Jason Chee

12 Jan 2015

There are a slew of new courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy relating to Azure IaaS for IT Pros and upcoming Live Events on Azure Websites and C++/DirectX Game Development. Check them out below!

Azure IaaS for IT Pros

Missed the live streams from the 1st of 4th of December? The streams from the four days have now been made available on MVA and offer the following content (which are great if you’re studying for Microsoft Certification Exam 70-533):

Establish the Foundation: Core IaaS Infrastructure Technical Fundamentals

View from the CTO: Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer – Azure
Azure IaaS Virtual Machines Inside Out
Optimize Your Windows Server Workloads on Azure
Inside IaaS Architecture Best Practices and Management

Dive Deep into Networking, Storage and Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Designing Networking and Hybrid Connectivity Infrastructure
Deep Dive into Azure Storage Blobs, Disks, Files, Tables and Queues
Planning Disaster Recovery, Migration and More
Learn the Ins and Outs of Azure Automation, PowerShell and Desired State Configuration

Embrace Open Source Technologies (Chef and Puppet Configurations, Containerization with Docker, and Linux) to Accelerate and Scale Solutions

How to Deploy Linux and OSS on Azure
Leverage Existing Chef / Puppet toolsets for management
How to Implement Containerization with Docker to Increase Density and Performance of Virtual Machines
Creating Large Scale Linux Deployments on Azure

Optimize Windows Workload Architecture and Administration Capabilities Within Azure

Identity Solutions: Leveraging Azure Active Directory / Active Directory Premium
Azure Websites: Manage Your Websites not Your VMs
Leveraging SQL Azure for Your Solutions
Architecting SharePoint for the Cloud

A Lap Around Azure Websites

Interested in getting your website hosted on Azure? There’s going to be a live event on the 14th of January from 4am to midnight (Singapore Time) exploring the following: