🎉 Just renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the 4th year!

Endlessly grateful to be part of this amazing community.

To those not renewed—your impact still matters.

Once an MVP, always an MVP. Keep doing what you do. 💙

#MVPBuzz #MicrosoftMVP #Community

On a year of immense highs and devastating lows—a year of growth, gratitude, and resilience.

Microsoft renewal while on a train for the win!!!

A request to OpenAI. Please, please, introduce a family plan.

That’s right, a family plan, hear me out:

1. Discounted plan for up to 5 users

2. Control content for younger users

3. Collab together, as well as integrate with shared services

Am I right? I even more reasons/features for families

New handle is live. You can find me @jamescook.dev. Downside is my old handle becomes available, so I had to create another account with the old handle and direct people to my new one.

@bsky.app something to consider retaining the old handle for a period of time before making it available to others

Anyone managing Entra ID PIM using an Everything as Code approach? Like Terraform, Bicep, or PowerShell?

Working out the best approach to managing the configuration of roles and membership.

Please link posts or examples if you have any

#microsoft #azure #security #terraform #bicep #powershell

This mornings ☕️ ready and about to read socials for the first time in a very long while. I noticed @bsky.app was missing a iPad app. Using @skeetsapp.com for now. Seems to be doing the job well 👏

New to Bluesky?

Looking for people to follow who post content about Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and/or Security?

Click the below starter pack and click follow all.

Let me know if you want to be added to the list.

go.bsky.app/2nmrHcS

Deploy HashiCorp Vault to an Azure Container Instance using NO CODE!

jamescook.dev/hashicorp-va...

#hashicorp #azure #microsoft #security #nocode #containers

Set in two mindsets. Do I update my handle to use my custom domain jamescook.dev or should I retain my bluesky username that matches my other socials.

Hmmm… 🤔

What are others thinking/doing?

We now have @github Certifications. Watch my video, where I provide an overview of the certifications available, costs, learning content available, and my early opinion on who these certifications are targeted at

youtu.be/ljBauDyZm1k

#DevOps #Cloud #GitHub #exams #certs #dev

Ok… I am prepared to invest in the GitHub certifications. Not just for me but to share my learnings and experience with the exams.

I would love to hear from everyone else

#GitHub #DevOps #devcommunity #exams #certification #poll #YouTube #stream #growthmindset #learn #pass

AzAPI, what is it, is it replacing AzureRM, how does it work?

New video: youtu.be/VX74U94zt18

#CloudFamily #Azure #DevOps #Cloud #Terraform #HashiCorp #MVPBuzz #AzureFamily #devcommunity #code

How do you create an Azure Service Health? I've got you covered...

youtu.be/wjeVpQYWC98

#CloudFamily #Cloud #SRE #Microsoft #MVPBuzz #Azure #AzureFamily #HealthTech #reliability #maintenance #alerts

Are you linting your codebase as part of Pull Request automation in Azure DevOps?

Have you used MegaLinter?

Checkout my post on implementing MegaLinter for Azure DevOps

jamescook.dev/megalinter-i...

I am very excited to share that I have been promoted to Director, DevOps.

I’ve been transforming the culture, implementing processes and building application resiliency at the organisation I joined a little over a year now.

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Working with SPFx and utilising GitHub? Create a CICD workflow to automatically deploy your SPFx apps.

jamescook.dev/sharepoint-f...

Getting back into writing posts after a (short) break. My MOST SUCCESSFUL AGILE EXPERIENCE

I would like to hear your thoughts and your experience.

jamescook.dev/most-success...

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