MJFChat: Everything sysadmins and devs need to know about task automation


Our next MJFChat is all about PowerShell, and task-automation in general. My special guest is Adam Bertram, a Microsoft MVP, trainer and founder of the IT career-development platform TechSnips.

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Microsoft Shifting Certifications to Workload-Based to Align with Skills


If you are looking to take or update existing Microsoft certifications, you might be wondering which are best to obtain and what technology path would be most beneficial. The certification program is in flux now as Microsoft gradually begins to move to role-based certifications, or workload-based as it is sometimes referred to, instead of focusing on specific products.

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MJFChat: Learning to love the social spotlight (for IT pros)


Our next MJFChat, scheduled for Monday September 16, is between me and Harjit Dhaliwal, Senior SysAdmin and Tech Evangelist. He’ll be sharing tips on how IT pros can learn to love the social spotlight.

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MJFChat: How Microsoft’s Power Platform can empower ‘Citizen Developers’ – Audio Now Available


Our next MJFChat, scheduled for Monday, April 15, is between me and Steve Mordue, CEO of Forceworks Global and a Microsoft Business Applications MVP. We’ll be talking all about Microsoft’s Power Platform.

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MJFChat: Diving Into Microsoft’s new Mixed-Reality apps with Lorraine Bardeen – Audio Now Available


Our second MJFChat, scheduled for Monday March 18, is between me and Lorraine Bardeen, Microsoft’s General Manager of Engineering for Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Apps.  The general topic of our chat is why it’s not too early to start learning about Microsoft’s new mixed-reality apps.

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Why PowerShell is a Core Skill for Office 365 Administrators

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PowerShell is a critical skill for Office 365 tenant administrators. A knowledge of PowerShell allows you to fix things that Microsoft leaves undone in apps like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. Sure, black holes exist for PowerShell (like Planner) and it is slow to process thousands of objects, but there’s nothing like a little script for getting things done.

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Stop Taking Advice From “A Person Connected To Microsoft”

One of the things that annoys me in our industry is how supposedly educated people take advice and guidance on IT from no-nothings, the barfly, or the town idiot.

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