M365 May
It has been a huge month of content from some great speakers and finished off with Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, presenting the locknote.
Catch all the sessions from this playlist on Regarding365’s YouTube Channel.
Our AMITPC Meetup group joined in on the action as well~
MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams
Inspired by Loryan Strant – one of the five designers of the MS-700 exam – I booked myself in for this exam following his session during M365 May.
When I designed this exam along with @AlistairPugin, @cwheeler76, @magrom, @atwork and @rbrynteson I never thought I would lol as much at someone passing it and calling it out like this. Thank you for making it worth it @Andrewoyoung. 🙂 https://t.co/RQml6e5ScT
— Loryan Strant #RE365 (@LoryanStrant) May 21, 2020
The exam contents have since been updated with new content on using Power BI to identify call quality issues and configuring dynamic emergency calling.
The learning materials I used:
Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams – edX.org course, currently archived with audit access until June 7, 2020. While slightly dated, the content here was pretty good.
Microsoft Learn – the recommended Learning Paths from the exam page:
Microsoft Webinars: Exam Prep MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams
Presented by Jochen Nickel (Microsoft Certified Trainer based in Switzerland):
- MS-700: Microsoft Teams Overview
- MS-700: Implementing Security and Governance
- MS-700: Upgrading from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams
- MS-700: Managing Collaboration in Microsoft Teams
- MS-700: Managing Communication in Microsoft Teams
These links are based on my registration in the above link.
Microsoft Build
Some pretty big announcements this year in the first virtual format of MS Build.
Here’s the Book of News covering all the headlines on developments in Azure, Microsoft 365, Security, Windows, Edge and Bing.
Just a few things that caught my interest:
Microsoft Lists
This is so cool. The humble SharePoint List has been given a makeover and Powered-Up!
Looking forward to when this rolls out.
Fluid Framework Experiences
Check this out at fluid.microsoft.com
See the Microsoft Blog for more details.
Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge
This was a nice surprise, as a community drive focused on Learning and friendly competition with some prizes.
Microsoft will be donating funds between the following five organisations:
Code.org
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
NetHope
UNICEF
The Nature Conservancy
The way it works is that registrants of MS Build would then register for the Cloud Skills Challenge and select a Team representing one of these organisations.
There are five curated Collections in MS Learn to choose from, each collection that is completed means more chances for you to win a prize and for your Team to move to first place.
The incentive for completing more collections is that the winning team receives 10x more entries to the sweepstakes, and the represented organisation receives a large donation out of the pool.
As a bonus each registrant of the Cloud Skills Challenge that completes one Collection will receive a free Microsoft Certification Exam!
Unfortunately you would need to have registered to MS Build before the event finished to be eligible to enter the Challenge…
That month just happened.
I spent a lot of time in M365 May Sessions, cramming studying for MS-700, and following all the exciting announcements.
Between all that was all the work commitments, mentor-y like things, community building and poor life balance.
I hadn’t had the chance to publish any posts in that time – but at least I have them lined up in my drafts.
To battle the mental ailments (and actually exercise again) I did however manage to put in 50km of running for The May 50K – Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia’s virtual community fundraiser event!
Yesterday was World MS Day and the amount raised so far in this event for MS Research had passed $6 Million AUD.
In the final few hours, you can still sponsor me here: https://www.themay50k.org/fundraisers/andrewoyoung/the-may-50k-run
M365 Senpai 