Techielass - A blog by Sarah Lean

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.

Presenting

Speaking at SQLGLA

I've been accepted to speak at SQLGLA in September 2018 in Glasgow, UK.

Presenting

Speaking at Evolve

I've been accepted to speak at Evolve in September 2018 in Birmingham, UK.

Presenting

Speaking at MSCUG Manchester July 2018

Recently I spoke at MSCUG in Manchester about Azure Cost Management.

Presenting

Gathering Feedback from Audiences

How I've used Azure components to deploy a feedback app

Azure

Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn

I recently put together a presentation for a customer to give them an insight into Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn and thought it might be a good blog post. Cloudyn, an innovative company that helps enterprises and managed service providers optimize their investments in cloud services, were purchased by Microsoft

Presenting

I am available for public speaking

Last year I stepped into the world of public speaking for the first time.  I delivered a session as part of my work at one of the Microsoft Tech4Good events in Edinburgh and then I spoke at a community event in Glasgow. Public speaking isn't something that I

Mindfulness

Royal Highland Show 2018 - Taking time out

Some of you probably already know but grew up on a dairy farm, we moved away when I was 16.   We kept a large herd of Holstein dairy cows and as a hobby I kept chickens.  Primarily Welsummer bantams, but I also had some Buff coloured Silkie bantams as well

Azure

Getting hands on with Azure Migrate

Getting started with Azure Migrate and evaluating your environment for a move to Azure.

Azure

Manage Social Media Account Details using Azure AD

Manage your social media accounts through Azure AD!

Blogging

Hosting my WordPress blog on Azure

Last month I moved my blog from AWS hosting to Azure, as I mentioned in my blog Moving my blog from AWS to Azure.  My blog is currently hosted on WordPress and when I migrated it I chose to build a IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) virtual machine.  Maybe not

Azure

Utilising Microsoft Flow to trigger Azure Automation

Recently the question of how can we trigger stop all virtual machines (VMs) within the Azure platform when a certain event happens was posed.  As I'm sure you're all aware there is a auto shutdown of VMs within Azure which is triggered using day/time.  However

Azure

Using Azure Policy

How to practically use Azure Policy within your environment.

Azure

Track basic metrics such as CPU, Disk and Memory Usage within Operations Management Suite

In this blog post I share how to track some basic metrics within Operations Management Suite.

Review

Jabra Evolve 75e Headset Review

A review of the Jabra Evolve 75e Headset

Azure

Azure Policy

Read how you can use Azure Policy within your environment to create standards.

Review

Techair 15.6" Grey EVO Magnetic Laptop Messenger Review

I was given the Techair 15.6" Grey EVO Magnetic Laptop Messenger bag a month ago to review.  I've been using it as my to-go bag for travelling for work.  For the last seven years as a consultant that travels between customer sites I've always