So today marks day 1 of my #100DaysOfCloud challenge, this involves setting everything up, deciding on what projects I am going to focus on, the amount of time each day I commit to the projects etc. As I write this I am not sure how I am going to manage this but I have seen plenty of people having success and this gives me hope I can also achieve the same goals.

What have I done previous to the challenge?

In Jan 2020 I passed my AZ103 Azure Administrator exam (now AZ104) , and subsequently went on to continue the setup of the following on a home-lab / azure tenant over the last year, this covered:

• Azure Update Management - (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/update-management/overview), produced an in-depth presentation covering this, very cool!
• Intune - Endpoint Management
• Cloud Management Gateway
• AutoPilot - (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/autopilot/windows-autopilot)
• Templates and Desired State Configuration
• Azure Lab - 1 DC (connected to Azure AD using connector), SCCM MP AND DP (although merged the MP and DP together to save on costs). The following allowed me to get provisioned devices to domain join my “on prem” AD via Azure AD, pulling content down from Intune to the machine during setup such as SCCM, and then installing the client locally so that it could be managed through SCCM.

..and so what now?

As I continue to further my knowledge of Azure and the cloud in general, I am looking more into DevOps, BlockChain, Security, Automation and Infrastructure and utilize this in my cloud challenge.

Today I had fun setting up my github, along with installing / updating various things, getting this blog somewhat ready.

I found Visual Studio Code and its integration with github (not surprisingly as MS acquired it for $8b) pretty good, once you spend sometime navigating around the console its pretty easy to understand, such as creating a branch, committing that code so its viewable etc., did a few commits on some text to see how exactly it works, cool stuff!