Microsoft Azure Free Training Resources

If you are a Windows administrator and haven't upgraded your skill on Public cloud , specially Microsoft Azure cloud then you are missing big employment opportunities. Public cloud adoption is speeding up month by month and their is shortfall of skilled people on Public Cloud. read these reports of shortage people with cloud skills :

http://www.cio.com/article/3093453/cloud-computing/businesses-struggle-to-hire-workers-with-cloud-skills.html

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/growing-need-for-cloud-skills-at-global-2000-enterprises-driving-worldwide-developer-shortage-according-to-cloud-foundry-report/

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/tackling-the-cloud-skills-shortage-027750.php

Microsoft Azure has made a tremendous progress in last 2-3 years and giving a tough competition to the AWS Public Cloud for first place. More and more organizations are migrating of Microsoft Office 365 from traditional on-premise Exchange and SharePoint environments. Azure platform seamlessly integrate with Office 365 - which is another reason organizations are choosing Azure for there workloads. 

So without thinking further please upgrade your skills and grab great employment opportunities waiting for you.

These are some resources I came across for Microsoft Azure Free Training:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: https://mva.microsoft.com/product-training/microsoft-azure

Cloud Ranger Blog: http://www.cloudranger.net/azure-training/
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions : https://courses.edx.org/course_modes/choose/course-v1:Microsoft+DEV205Bx+3T2016/

Microsoft Azure Developer Program Benefits - Free 300 USD Credit

Today I am sharing a great news for you people who want to learn and play around with Microsoft “Azure" Public Cloud offering . Microsoft is giving a 300$ (25 $ per month for one year) credit on Azure platform to consume if you sign up and join Visual Studio Dev Essentials. You can use your credit on popular Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Web Apps, Cloud Services, Mobile Services, Storage, SQL Database, Content Delivery Network, HDInsight and Media Services.

Some of the common uses cases for you are:
 - Provision and use one S0 Standard Azure SQL Database
 -  Run a D2 Windows VM for ~ 90 hours
 -  Analyze big data for 24 hours with an A3 Hadoop Insight Cluster
 -  Run five Linux D11 virtual machines for 24 hours

To now more and signup for this offer you can open this URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/member-offers/vs-dev-essentials/

Windows Server 2012 Installation error 0x80070570

This issue comes when you try to install Windows Server 2012 from the downloaded evaluation ISO file. Actually sometimes the installation files get corrupted during the downloading from Microsoft website. To resolve this issue, you can try this :

1. Change your NIS’s DNS to Google : 8.8.8.8
2. Clear DNS cache by running ipconfig/flushdns command
3. Use a different browser to download the installation media again
4. Try to install again

Hope this helps!

Device SWD PRINTENUM PrintQueues Requires further Installation.

You may receive this error after your PC or laptop is updated to Windows 10:
“Device SWD\PRINTENUM\PrintQueues requires further installation”

Basically this happens when the printer driver get corrupted after the Windows 10 installation. To resolve the issue , you can simply uninstall the printer driver and re-install the compatible version available of printer vendor website.

VMware vCloud Director Free Online Course

If you are trying to find a free elearning resource on VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals, here you go:  https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=one&id_subject=75246

Course content is really great and gives a good understanding of  the functionality and architecture of
Mware vCloud Director :

SAP Crystal Report with Visual studio 2012 is not working in Windows 10

When you are not bale to run SAP Crystal Report 13 with Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 10, you need to this settings:

--> go to “aspnet_client” folder  in IIS and rename it from  ''4_0_30319" to "4_6_79" 

This will work for sure.

Cheapest 20 GB Data Plan in Delhi

For last 3 years I have been using Tata Docomo PhotonMAX WiFi Data card which I got from my employer at a discounted corporate post plan. I get 20GB data per in Rs1000 per month which seemed to be the cheapest one until I came across this news about state run telecom giant BSNL that they will be offering cheapest 20GB data plan in Delhi and across India in Just Rs.50 to support PM Modi’s Digital India plan. When I did some research on internet, I found that this was a fake news and there is no such plan BSNL will be offering.