Techielass - A blog by Sarah Lean

Community

Global Azure Bootcamp Glasgow 2019

Another Global Azure Bootcamp event is being held in Glasgow this year!

Year In Review

Looking back at 2018

Looking back at the year and sharing thoughts and insights into my career, blogging, social media and travelling.

Community Featured

Why You Should Join a User Group

Why taking part in your local user group can help you grow your skillset and drive your career progression.

Azure

Using Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to assess your environment for a move to Azure

Using Microsoft's free toolkit, evaluate your environment and understand what a move to Azure would look like for you

Presenting

Speaking at MVPDays Online

I've been invited to speak at MVPDays Online in January 2019.

Azure

Azure Migrate and Understanding Dependencies

Use Azure Migrate to understand the dependencies your servers have on each other.

Certification

Passing 70-535

Today I passed Microsoft 70-535. Which is the "Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions" exam. Passing this exam is supposed to demonstrate that you have an demonstrate an understanding of DevOps technologies, provisioning Azure resources using ARM templates, and designing highly resilient workloads running on Azure. I was over the

DigiGirlz 2018

Volunteering at a DigiGirlz event

Presenting Featured

Using Azure SQL and PowerBI to report on Speaking Events

In this blog post I show you how to use Azure SQL and PowerBI to store and report your public speaking events.

Azure

Using Azure Update Management with Windows Server 2008 R2

While trying to use Azure Update Management I hit a small snag using it with a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, read how I fixed it.

Azure Featured

Update Agent Readiness - Not Configured

Learn how to fix the Azure Update Agent when it gives the error Not Configured after install.

Azure

Patching with Azure

Azure can help you manage the patching of your non-Azure and Azure virtual machines. Read how I've implemented it within my lab environment.

STEM

My first time as a STEM Ambassador

I registered as a STEM Ambassador earlier this year, I took part in my first STEM activity today.

Being an introvert but getting involved with your community

Introvert a shy, reticent person. I'm an introvert. Me For some of you reading this blog post that won't be news, you'll be sitting there nodding going, "Yip, that's the Sarah I know". Others will be sitting there pondering, "

Azure

My top three from MS Ignite 2018

My top three MS Ignite announcements from the 2018 event.

Azure

MS Ignite 2018 Migration Sessions

A list of the sessions from MS Ignite 2018 that cover off Migration.

Blogtober 2018

I will be taking part in Blogtober this year!

Presenting

Speaking at Evolve and SQLGLA

I had the pleasure of speaking at Evolve and SQLGLA in September 2018, thank you to everyone involved!

Blogging

Lessons learned from my Grav deployment

I deployed my blog on the Grav platform in August, here I cover off some of the things I've learnt a month later.

Speaking at Speaking at UK Cloud Infrastructure User Group

I've been invited to speak at UK Cloud Infrastructure User Group in October 2018 in London, UK.

Community

#BeAGoodAttendee

Over the years I have attended a lot of events, both paid and free community events.  And as I'm sure many of you are I've been organising the Glasgow Azure User Group events over the past 11 months, this blog post is just some of my

Windows Server

Windows Server 2008 End of Support

What are your options if you are running end of life servers in your environment?

Azure

Azure Web App and Cloudfare DNS

When using Cloudflare DNS your CNAME records do not appear.

Presenting

Speaking at TechUG Glasgow

I've been accepted to speak at TechUG Glasgow in August 2018 in Glasgow, UK.

Blogging

Migration from WordPress to Grav

My reasons for migrating away from WordPress to Grav and the lessons I learnt.