What’s New and What’s Coming from CBT Nuggets

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We are always creating new content for you here at CBT Nuggets. Here is your October News Flash with the details! In an act of shameless self-promotion, I listed my courses in BOLD. What would you like to see from CBT Nuggets? Let me know in the comments area below this post.

JUST RELEASED

  • Ansible Essentials
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • CompTIA Security+ (SY0-501)
  • Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (Exam 70-740)
  • IT Expertise: Building and Configuring a Business Switch Network
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Salesforce Admin – Classic Interface
  • Soft Skills for ScrumMasters
  • VMware vSphere 6.5 (VCP6.5-DCV)
  • Windows 10 End User Essentials

IN DEVELOPMENT

  • End User Security Awareness
  • Designing and Operating Defensible Network Architectures
  • Agile Essentials
  • IT Expertise: Building and Configuring a Business Wireless Network
  • CompTIA Cloud Essentials (CLO-001)
  • Microsoft MCSA SQL Server 2016 70-761
  • Everything Linux
  • Microsoft Azure 70-533 with ARM Updates

What was on Fire at Microsoft Ignite 2017?

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This conference was certainly short on big product announcements, but it was long on visions for the future involving super exciting emerging technologies. Below is a list of hot topics from Microsoft at the event!

  • The keynote set the tone by emphasizing mixed reality, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing; all of these are impacting key Microsoft products including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure
    • Microsoft 365 refers to Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security plus other Microsoft apps
    • Dynamics 365 refers to Microsoft’s cloud-based ERP and CRM enterprise system
    • Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud offering
  • Microsoft is pushing a new programming language aimed at quantum computing
  • Microsoft 365 F1
  • Microsoft 365 Education
  • Microsoft 365 Powered Devices
  • Teams (replacing Skype for Business)
  • Bing with AI
  • LinkedIn Profile Cards in more and more MS apps
  • Windows AutoPilot – a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use; also, you can use Windows AutoPilot to reset, repurpose and recover devices
  • ATP – Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
  • Azure
    • Stack Shipping
    • Hybrid Benefit
    • Cost Management
    • Security Center
    • Machine Learning
    • Cosmos DB
    • Cognitive Services
  • SQL Server
    • Linux and Docker support
    • DB Migration Service (to Azure)
    • SQL Data Warehouse

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