While I was setting up the Update Management solution within Azure the other week as part of my home lab setting (which you can read about here, I came across an error where the Update Agent Readiness displayed as Not Configured. After much scratching my brain and digging about I came up ac...
The Background Story
Back when I was an Infrastructure Engineer for a Managed Service Provider, patch management was both the bane of my life and something I enjoyed.
I didn't enjoy the late nights patching and restarting servers, having to be on site on my own watching servers tentatively star...
Earlier this year I applied to become a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ambassador and today took part in my first STEM activity today.
STEM Ambassador Program
For those of you not familiar with the STEM program it is large network of volunteers from a wide variety of...
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, "That doesn't sound like the Sarah I've encountered, I've s...
My friend Craig Porteous pointed me in the direction of this month's T-SQL Tuesday blog topic, horror projects!
I do have a good story about a horror project but in order to protect myself, my ex-employer, and the customer I need to try and dull it down a bit. (So forgive me)
Project Hell
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As I'm sure you are aware Microsoft held their big conference in Orlando in September 2018. A large amount of new products and features were announced and it's going to be an exciting time getting to use them. If you are looking for all of the Ignite announcements in one place I'd recommend taki...
As a few of you know my focus in my day job is helping customers start their journey from on-premises to the Cloud, specifically Azure. And as such when I've been looking through the MS Ignite sessions I've been focussing on the ones around Migrations and gathering knowledge from my peers and colle...
At the weekend I saw a tweet from Colin Westwater about something called Blogtober and after a few minutes I was signed up to participate!
In 2017 Matt Heldstab started a project called Blogtober Tech Edition, the aim of the project was to get people blogging and help drive more traffic to e...
About Me
Sarah Lean
Cloud Advocate
My name is Sarah Lean, I am a Senior Cloud Advocate with Microsoft focusing on all things Azure.
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