Sarah Lean

Microsoft Teams

Create a Microsoft Teams Live Event

A tutorial on how to set up a Microsoft Teams Live Event

Recording

Remove Typing Noises from your Recordings

Remove typing noises from your recording and presentations with Krisp.

Podcasts

Technology and Friends

I had a chat with David Griad on his Technology and Friends show about the current pandemic and what it's meant for my role.

Getting started in IT - Your IT Career Questions Answered

In this video I share my career journey and answer questions from young people who are looking to embark on an IT career.

Jabra Featured

Using a Jabra dongle with another headset

Help improve your Jabra headset connection by connecting to a dongle!

Weekly Update

Weekly Update #34

A look back at the week

Weekly Update

Weekly Update Audio

I've been recording a weekly update video for a while now, and I'm now going to bre releasing an audio version of that each week as well.

Microsoft Teams Featured

Microsoft Teams Meeting or Microsoft Teams Live Event

Should you spin up a Microsoft Teams Meeting or a Microsoft Teams Live Event for your event? In this blog post I cover off my thoughts and experiences.

Weekly Update

Weekly Update #33

A look back at the week

Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate - Assess Physical Servers

Assess your physical servers for a migration to Azure

Presenting

Women IT Pros EMEA Meetup April 2020

I'm presenting at the next Women IT Pro EMEA meetup to share my career story and hear other's stories, please join us!

Recording Featured

Setting up OBS on my Surface Book 2

In this blog post I share how to set up OBS on your Surface Book 2.

Presenting Featured

Present PowerPoint in Microsoft Teams and still see the chat

In this blog post I show you how to use Microsoft Teams, present PowerPoint and still see the chat messages.

Windows 10

Focus Assist within Windows

Focus Assist is a great way to help calm the storm of notifications you receive while you concentrate on the task in hand.

Review

Jabra Elite 75t Headset Review

A review of the Jabra Elite 75t headset

Azure

A Walk Through Azure

Some additional reading material after my "A Walk through Azure" session with the BCS in Aberdeen

Azure

Start your datacentre transformation with Azure Migrate

I really enjoy speaking to customers about their migration projects from on prem to Azure, understanding their motivations, budgets, timelines, what workloads they run, etc And I love helping them on that journey which is why my talk "Start your datacentre transformation with Azure Migrate" was created. I

Stickers Featured

Stickers

Looking for Microsoft and GitHub sticker designs? Join me in this blog as I share where I get my sticker designs and then print them off.

Acoustic panels

Reducing the echo in my home office - Building the Acoustic Panels

Reducing the echo in my home office with home made acoustic panels.

Home Office

Reducing the echo in my home office - The beginning

Reducing the echo in my home office with homemade acoustic panels.

Home Office

Reducing the echo in my home office - The Results

Reducing the echo in my home office with homemade acoustic panels.

Hello it's me - International Women's Day

Celebrating International Women's Day by sharing a bit about my journey in the IT industry

Azure

Cloud 5X20

I had the pleasure of chatting with Prabhath Mannapperuma [https://twitter.com/dprabhathm] on his Cloud 5X20 podcast show. Prabhath is a fellow Microsoftie based in Sri Lanka. We had a great chat about the Cloud Adoption Framework [https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/?WT.mc_id=techielass-blog-salean] . The Cloud

Event

Employers should support employees who want to speak at events

in this blog post I share why it's important for people to try and speak at local events and why their employers should support that activity.

STEM

Go4SET STEM Event

I became a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ambassador [/stem-ambassador] back in 2018 and have tried to volunteer at at least one event a year. Earlier this week I was a judge at a STEM which saw various different high schools work on a project for 10 weeks. The