Episode 83 – Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches with Iain Foulds

In Episode 83, Ben and Scott talk with Iain Foulds about his new book, Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches and how it can help those that are just getting started with Azure or the cloud get up to speed in just a month! Tweet @msclouditpro with the hashtag #azurebook to enter for a chance to win a free copy of Iain's book! Sponsors Mover.io - Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Office365Mon.com - How do you know what's going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon! Sperry Software - Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox Office365AdminPortal.com - Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink - We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches Use code podmiccloud18 for 40% off all formats Create a free Azure account Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches Github repo Azure Quickstart Templates Github repo Install Azure CLI 2.0 Azure DevOps Utilities Azure Cosmos DB About Iain Iain Foulds is a senior content developer at Microsoft, currently writing technical documentation for Azure container services, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets. Previously, Iain was a premier field engineer with Microsoft for virtualization technologies such as Azure, Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With over 15 years of experience in IT, most of it in operations and services, Iain embraced virtualization early with VMware and has helped build and teach others about cloud computing for years. You can follow Iain on Twitter @fouldsy. About the sponsors Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck - with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info. "How do I know what’s going on with the health of my Office 365 tenant?" When there's a problem with your tenant you need to know what’s going on before your users. Office365Mon helps you understand not only when your tenant goes down, but how well it's performing. When you do have a problem, where do you start looking? Is it your network? Is it your tenant? Is it some feature inside of Office 365? Our network analysis features can help pinpoint performance issues and help you figure out where those bottlenecks are. Sign up for a FREE 90-day trial today at Office365Mon.com. Stay in the Know, and Stay in Control with Office365Mon.com. Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.