Saturday, March 09, 2019

Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS E-book

Microsoft team announced a new hands-on guide that has a focused and practical approach to IaaS Migration and helps you in migrating your On-premises legacy systems to Azure IaaS.



Access here to download the E-book: Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS

Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist Certification

Microsoft team recently announced a new Online course and certification "Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist" in partnership with EdX.org. This course is focuses on six knowledge areas required to successfully drive the adoption of Microsoft services in your company.



Mainly this course uses Microsoft Teams as an example throughout the material and provides you the required knowledge to drive a successful adoption of Microsoft Teams in your Organization.

What you'll learn

  • Drive adoption of Office 365 and Microsoft Teams for your organization as example workloads in a cloud service adoption strategy.
  • Write a collaboration and communications service strategy.
  • Utilize the Outcomes Matrix to quantify and select success measures.
  • Structure early adopter and champion programs.
  • Work with technical talent to ensure service readiness and quality.
  • Configure scalable user feedback methods.

Access the Course here: Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist

Official Announcement post: Microsoft Releases the Service Adoption Specialist Course

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Microsoft Learning: Microsoft Teams Training modules for IT Pros

Microsoft Teams product group recently released additional readiness material for IT Pros to learn Microsoft teams, Conduct training and deliver workshops.


Access the training content here: Admin training for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Tech Community blog reference here: Microsoft Teams Training modules for IT Pros

Additionally you have a EdX.org course that helps you to enable Microsoft Teams on your Office 365 environment.

Access here: Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams

Next Steps:

Get yourself prepared for the new Microsoft Certification "Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate" announced covering Microsoft Teams aligning with their new role based Certification path.

Access here to know more: Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate

Update:

Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate is being retired by August 31, 2020. and you have a new MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate Certification 

Know more here: Microsoft 365 certification and exam updates

Friday, March 08, 2019

SPS : Understanding Microsoft Teams Security & Compliance features and plan for Governance

As more Organizations are transforming towards Modern Workplace, Enabling users for Modern collaboration becomes essential and Microsoft Teams plays a key role in providing this platform with rich experience across the Organization.

Once an Organization is ready to adopt Microsoft Teams it needs focus on some key elements that make the adoption successful.



I recently delivered a session on SharePoint Saturday event in Chennai, India.  This session provides an Overview of Microsoft Teams and Primarily focus on the Security and Compliance features available with Microsoft Teams, and also show how you can plan for Governance in Teams.

Access the Session slides here: Understanding Microsoft Teams Security & Compliance features and plan for Governance