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Just earned my new Applied Skill: Managing Active Directory Domain Services from Microsoft! 🎉 This hands-on test validates my proficiency in deploying domain controllers, managing user accounts, configuring Group Policy Objects, and more. Excited for what comes next. #ActiveDirectory #ADDS #ProfessionalGrowth #ContinuousLearning #Microsoft #AppliedSkills

Successfully completed the new Applied Skill "Administer Active Directory Domain Services," providing a demonstration of expertise in AD skills. ✅ Deploy and manage AD FS domain controllers ✅ Configure Active Directory topology ✅ Create and manage AD DS objects ✅ Create and configure GPOs in AD DS ✅ Manage security in AD DS This accomplishment showcases your capabilities within Active Directory services, so defintely worth checking it out. Thank you Microsoft / Microsoft Learn to keep investing in these Applied Skills! I had a great experience :) #microsoft #microsoftlearn #activedirectory #anotherappliedskilldone #keeplearning

Just earned my Administer Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skills Credential. 🙂 - This is a new Applied Skills Credential - Microsoft Credentials are globally recognised and can highlight your skills for current or potential employers - They focus on scenario-based skills and validate your ability to implement critical projects aligned to business goals and objectives, perform specific tasks, and solve real-world problems by using Microsoft technologies. - No questions to answer. You are provided with a list of requirements you implement inside a lab machine - You can take this assessment for FREE or pick from a list of 26 FREE assessments. - You have two hours to complete the assessment - If you are not successful, you will have to wait 72 hours before you can launch the assessment again - The result appears within 60 seconds after you end the assessment #Microsoft Microsoft Learn

This is such a cool challenge as it tackles a lot of Microsoft Admin Centers such as Purview, Intune (Conditional Access Policies) and SharePoint! Just earned my 17th Microsoft Applied Skills Assessment which is "Prepare security and compliance to support Microsoft 365 Copilot". 😁 The tasks performed are: - Configure Identity governance to support Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Prepare your Microsoft 365 environment to support Copilot - Configure and manage compliance settings for Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Configure device management to support Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Configure and manage access to information by Copilot for Microsoft 365

I like to promote a new way of verifying your skill for Microsoft products Applied Skills. You get to do real tasks in a lab-environment, and it is totally free. You can find the current tests by link in comments. Here is my first Applied Skill, got a bit nostalgic to my life as an Admin #neverstoplearning

💡 Did you know Microsoft recently released a new Applied Skill "Administer Active Directory Domain Services"? This applied skill will cover following tasks: ✅ Deploy and manage AD FS domain controllers ✅ Configure Active Directory topology ✅ Create and manage AD DS objects ✅ Create and configure GPOs in AD DS ✅ Manage security in AD DS More details for this particular Applied Skill: https://lnkd.in/evQgFKbn 1 more Applied Skill on my to do list 💪 ⚠ Applied Skills credentials are scenario based and evaluate a narrower skill set that is specific to a critical business problem or challenge that organizations are facing. It is a perfect measurement on your understandings of that particular scenario. #microsoft #microsoftlearn #appliedskill #activedirectory #keeplearning

Microsoft has just announced a new Applied Skill Credential for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). AD DS is now more than 24 years old and is utterly ubiquitous in organizations using Microsoft technology. Even the widespread adoption of Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) to support Microsoft 365 and other cloud services has not yet killed good old Active Directory. There are just so many apps and infrastructure that continue to depend on AD DS. AD DS also continues to be a popular target for cyber-attackers, as it usually holds sensitive credentials that would allow attackers to get to the valuable and sensitive data and infrastructure. For all these reasons, knowledge of AD DS administration and security remains a critical skill for IT pros. As Microsoft started emphasizing their cloud products for training and certification, the older certs that covered AD DS eventually lapsed, leaving a gap. There was no clear method for organizations to identify individuals who were qualified to administer AD DS environments. Now, for the first time in several years, there is an official Microsoft credential for AD DS administrators. This is one of the newer Applied Skill credentials, which test the candidate's ability to perform practical tasks in a simulated environment, as opposed to traditional certification exams that were more theoretical. The Applied Skill credentials are also free and can be done from anywhere. For more information, read the blog post or watch the video (both linked below). The blog post lists the skills assessed and includes links to the learning path to prepare for the assessment. https://lnkd.in/grdkjHkW

Excited to share that I've successfully passed the Microsoft Applied Skill exam for Administering Active Directory Domain Services! Grateful for the Microsoft Learn journey and looking forward to applying these skills!!! #MicrosoftCertification #ActiveDirectory #ITSkills #AppliedSkills

Configuring Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Today I earned my "#Manage_users, #licenses, #guests, and #contacts in #Microsoft_365" badge! In this module, I examined the different user identities supported by #Microsoft_365, namely: #Cloud_identities, #Synchronized_identities, and #Federated_identities. I learned that i can either maintain identities in #Microsoft_365, or i can #integrate_identities with our on-premises #Active_Directory. Determining the identity model that best meets our company business requirements is essential to successfully deploying #Microsoft_365. This module then provided instruction on how to manage #user_accounts and #licenses in #Microsoft_365. I learned how to #create and #manage #user_accounts, assign #Microsoft_365 #licenses to #users, and #recover_deleted_user_accounts. Assigning appropriate #licenses to our #organization’s_users enables them to use #Microsoft_365_services such as #Microsoft_Outlook and #Microsoft_SharePoint_Online.