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 workload...
The DigiGirlz program is one that Microsoft have give girls an opportunity to learn about careers in technology, connect with Microsoft employees, and participate in hands-on computer and technology workshops. This week I had the pleasure of being a volunteer at an event held in our Reading offic...
Someone I have followed on Twitter for a long time, Paul Andrew and was lucky to meet in person this year posted a Tweet about his speaking stats and how he'd visualised it in a PowerBI Dashboard.
I decided it was time to overhaul my #PowerBI community speaking dashboard! Especially now I'v...
Following on from my Patching with Azure article a few weeks ago where I started to use Azure Update Management to patch my home lab I've stumbled across an issue when trying to use it with my Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 virtual machine (VM). This article will explain the problem and the fix tha...
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...
About Me
Sarah Lean
Cloud Solution Architect
My name is Sarah Lean, I am a Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft focusing on all things Azure.
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