My day job involves talking to customers about moving their existing on-premises environment to Azure and one of the first things people want to understand is how cost effective the move will be. There are a number of ways that this data can be gathered, I'm a big fan of using Azure Migrate and...
Earlier this year I reached out to the community via Twitter saying I'd love to be be a guest on podcasts and some folk reached out and some of the interviews I'd done are now live and available to listen to.
TechStringy
Back in February I sat down with Paul Stringfellow, who the Technica...
As you may know I moved my blog away from WordPress in August 2018 and have been running Grav on Azure since. My source code is stored in Azure DevOps and my Azure Web App has just been pulling the code into the Web App whenever I do a new commit. However, as my blog has grown with more conten...
I recently received the confirmation email that I will be speaking at the Intelligent Cloud Conference Copenhagen, Denmark. This is the second international conference that I've been accepted at this year, but it will be the first I speak to due to scheduling.
This is a three day event, with...
MVP Online Days
In December I received confirmation that my session submission to MVPDays Online had been excepted. So I duly recorded my session and send it across to the team to pull together for the actual event. Pre-recording a session was a new experience for me, to be honest it was ac...
If you are active on Twitter or LinkedIn you'll have seen a flurry of posts from people around the world posting that they have passed an exam/earned a new badge from Acclaim. And it's great to see, but if your not one of them and pondering why you should take an exam or what exam you should take...
You often hear services within Azure labelled as Private Preview, or Public Preview or General Availability (GA). But what do these labels actually mean and especially in relation to support or pricing.
Private Preview
Private Previews are generally the first release of a product and custome...
As I'm sure you are aware Microsoft have changed their certification paths for Azure and Microsoft 365, the main announcements came at MS Ignite in September 2018. The focus now is on role-based certifications. Which has meant a whole slew of exams within the Azure certification path and we are n...
In my day job I often take customers through demos of our products, we have some pre-canned demos available to use as well as some demo environments but there are some gaps and we have to built our own or find other methods of showing off the products. Three products I talk about often are Azure...
As I'm sure you are aware Microsoft have changed their certification paths for Azure, the main announcements came at MS Ignite in September 2018. A lot of the exams they announced have been in beta and over the Christmas holiday most of the exams were made live. A lot of changes and even a new e...
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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