Thank you, I appreciate the reply. I found most of your information within the MS Query notes. I have not validated that your example is pulled all from the document but in any case I will need to spend time with all the BI documentation. Thank you again for your support and clear instructions you share. I enjoy your sessions as I am also doing the CISSP curriculum.

Regards

@Mahogany-Fragata & @Ronnie-Wong , I hope all is well. I do cover what emergency addresses are & how to create them in 2 different places in the MS-700 course, but not the specifics of how to assign to a user.

It is actually a very simple process once you have the address(es) in the system, and the instructions on how to do so are here if you want to take a look:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/assign-change-emergency-location-user

If you have any other questions as you continue your Teams journey, please be in touch as needed.

Good Luck !!

Cheers,

Adam

Here is the new Azure-based SCCM that you are looking for. Note that this documentation is excellent. I have yet to see any published texts that rival this source.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/

@Dwayne-Coleman The Endpoint Manager and Intune course will release in Q1 - we are hoping in February.

We have no firm dates to announce at this point for the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager - in fact, we are still assessing demand.

@Rachael-Gill , I hope all is well. What kind of address objects are you looking to export? Are they Exchange Server? Firewall? need to know specifically to help point you in the correct direction.

Cheers,

Adam

@Sean-Forseth-0 to add to Ronnie's response, here is the documentation about the changes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/exams/md-101

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Click on the MD-101 study guide and the deltas Ronnie mentioned can be found here!

@Adam-Tyler said in Azure vnet and throughput:

I am still troubleshooting this, but thought I would post an update. I've created a direct peering between the two vnets containing Windows VMs. The throughput when transferring files between az-svr1 and az-svr2 shot up to almost 1.5Gbps. This effectively rules out disk performance and VM sizing as a potential issue. For some reason (I have a theory) when using the hub network, performance drops through the floor.

My guess is that the virtual appliance NAT/firewall that is dc3nsv can't handle the traffic. When the hub network is in use, all traffic has to bounce of this router and back down to the internal networks. This is a SonicWALL NSv270 which on paper should be able to handle much more throughput, however I can't seem to get it to perform a basic internet speed test over about 700 Mbps.. Which, interesting enough, if you cut in half is about 350Mbps. Approximately the throughput I am seeing when transferring files between both internal servers when using hub network.

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I've gotten to the bottom of this. The virtual appliance used for the firewall was the bottleneck. I threw the SonicWALL out and deployed a pay as you go Fortigate, traffic runs at line speed. No issues.

One word of caution, if you plan to build your networks in Azure like this, Vnet peering costs 1 cent per GB transferred within the same region.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-network/

Regards,
Adam Tyler

@Stephen-Rodriguez great question and I hope others will add commentary to this as well. When using certificates for your organization, you are right in the fact that a web server will use a certificate to validate the server, distribute a public key and establish trust.

These certificates are provided by public trusted certificate authorities for a fee and are typically trusted by the web clients across the Internet.
However, if your organization wants to support certificate-based authentication for users, network devices, workstations or servers you can bring up an Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) server and issue certificates. This is typically done in a tiered public key infrastructure (PKI) implementation with a root CA that issues a certificate to a subordinate CA. The root CA will be protected by taking it offline an allowing the subordinate CA to issue the certificates to users, computers, network devices (through the NDES service) and servers.

These entities will not (by default) trust the certificate that is being presented unless the root CA certificate is imported into the device that is validating the certificate. For this the certificate that is issued to the, let's say user or device, must go through a validation process by checking the subordinate CA's certificate and then checking the validity of the root CA certificate. This is why you might bring up a private CA (root for the first one), issue a certificate to a subordinate CA and let the subordinate be the "issuing CA".

The root CA certificate must be installed on the devices before any certificates in the chain are trusted. A single public certificate can be expensive and to scale this to enterprise levels, a company can create their own internal/private CA to issue certificates to the company devices and manage the internal PKI.

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As you see above this is a public CA with a root CA and the issuing CA. For companies to deploy an internal or private PKI, there is no difference, except for the fact that the company's certificates are only trusted by the company and nobody on the internet.

@Brad-Aanderud,

We are evaluating right now to see our capacity for Server 2022 in 2023 and also for demand

Please submit a course request for Server 2022 offerings via the chat bubble on our site. This will ensure that your request is logged officially. The more requests that we see from these the more likely they are to make it onto our roadmap.

@Ronnie-Wong, thank you very much sir.

@Thomas-Sadi,

This current version on our site is not updated with Windows 11. We are looking at that for the future right now maybe Q1 of 2023. The last update to the exam was May 3, 2022.

You can download the objectives: here: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE3VJVC

@Mahmoud-Saad,

Yes, I believe the keys are legal. Here is the thing though, If Microsoft decides that it wasn't what they intended when they sold those keys, they can choose to validate them or invalidate them. I cannot think of a case that they have done that. But it is possible.

I think the hard limitation is simple. When the seller tells you it will work as a one time activation. It may not work again...even if you reinstall on the same machine.

I named the wim file "PLANWIN101 reference Computer" which is a typo on my part it should be "PLABWIN101 Reference Computer". However the name of the wim file will not affect the ability to create the image.

Hey @Kwasi-Konadu-Yiadom, I believe the answer to be "Windows AutoPilot" as the A and C are for application discovery (Exchange) and GPOs will not propagate to Intune only Active Directory.

Here is the documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/autopilot/windows-autopilot-hybrid

@Jack-Gerbs & @Timothy-Ferrelli , I hope all is well. Quick updates to follow up on what @Ronnie-Wong mentioned:

The MS-700 course is current & the most recent updates Microsoft just launched for the exam went live last week, and the 9 episodes I just shot to provide for those updates should be up as part of the course and available within the next week or so, they are passing through internal editing and Quality checks currently.

The MS-900 course will be totally redone and updated by Wes & myself starting this week to bring it fully 100% into alignment with the most recent batch of exam outline updates that Microsoft launched last week. That course will be done and available by early to mid-September, approx. 30 - 45 days from now.

The AZ-104 course will be totally redone and updated by Wes & myself starting this week to bring it fully 100% into alignment with the most recent batch of exam outline updates that Microsoft launched last week. That course will be done and available by mid to end of September, approx. 45 - 60 days from now.

In the meantime, if either of you have any questions as you are studying, please feel free to be in touch with me directly as well as using our forums.

My direct e-mail is: adam@itpro.tv

Good luck !!!

Cheers,

Adam

@Craig-Lush , I hope all is well. Frustrating to say the least... While there can be several reasons why this is happening, it's hard to pinpoint based on what you have described so far.

I think the best place to begin unravelling the mystery is to ensure that you are following the recommended workflow and process steps taht ensure successful deployments.

Take a look at the guidance here directly from AutoDesk for deploying their products via SCCM:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/Autodesk-Installation-Admin-ODIS/files/GUID-CA16B5AA-E1BD-40B2-9A1C-26D1408DDCB4-htm.html

See if anything stands out as you walk back through the step-by-step processes, and if so, hopefully it will resolve the issue.

Good Luck !!!

Cheers,

Adam

@Ammar-Alsayeh , @Eric-Wies , @Rahim-Mawani-0 , @Rajesh-Puri , I hope everyone is doing well. Just a quick update on the SC-900 timeline.

I will be shooting/updating the AZ-104 & MS-900 courses starting the eek of August 8th, & that will run through Mid to end of September approx.

The next 2 courses up after that will be the SC-900 & ISC2 CCSP.

We should have them done & live in the library by November as long as nothing changes in our production schedule.

I will keep everyone updates a s we move closer & get started.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please let me know.

Also, keep in mind, that while not a perfect match for the SC-900 exam outline, ALOT of the content in SC-900 can be found in both my MS-500 & AZ-500 courses, which are up to date and live in the library.

Cheers,

Adam

Update:

Here's an update regarding the NEW Azure AZ-800/801 exam

I just found out that TESTOUT/Labsim will be offering this course in November 2022.

I do not feel the Kaplan practice exams are very good - they do not give partial points / scores for partially correct answers, and they seem to be way beyond the league of the actual exams - and the content is certainly not covered in ITPROTV to this level either. It can be a learning resource but for a fundamentals exam this seems just a little bit NUTS.