Back when I was a SysAdmin one of my roles was to create and maintain server images for quick deployment, so I often had templates for customer environments. They weren't perfect but they helped to make the creating of a new virtual server a bit more streamlined and consistent. For the customers t...
Back in December 2018 I submitted some sessions via Sessionize to the Intelligent Cloud Conference call for speakers and in January I received two wonderful emails confirming that two of my sessions had been picked!
I had never visited Denmark before and was excited about getting the brie...
Techsnips is a free learning platform where people "from the trenches" provide training content that others can consume. The snips/videos that are recorded are short in nature, anywhere between 1 minute to 10 minutes. The content doesn't include any slides and is designed to be easy to consume,...
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...
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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