Yesterday (Saturday 20-03-2016) I passed the Azure 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) exam. This was the second time that I did the exam and I passed with 747 points. So that’s a close call. Here are some tips for passing the exam: Practice every exam objective in your (Azure) lab. This is very important because you will get some questions in the exam where you need to tell step by step which step you took to install or configure a service.

If you have an MSDN or Visual Studio subscription, you’ll automatically get Azure credits. Because I need to test System Center - Configuration Manager/Virtual Machine Manager/Operations Manager for my work, I have an Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscription. That gives me $150 credit on Azure automatically and makes it very easy to create a (big) home lab for dev/test or study purposes. You can do a lot with 150 euro in Azure, if you turn your virtual machines off when you don’t use them.

Really good information about the new Azure exam changes.

With TPM 1.2, Microsoft was able to clear the TPM during the SCCM Task Sequence without asking for permission to clear the TPM. With TPM 2.0, SCCM is unable to clear and activate the TPM chip during the deployment. The first time you boot your computer, you need to provide a BitLocker Recovery Key, or the tpm.msc console will tell you that the TPM is ready for use, with reduced functionality.

A very helpful course from Christopher Chapman and Yuri Diogenes. Must see if you want to learn more about Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and best of all: it’s a free course from the Microsoft Virtual Academy! Enterprise Mobility Suite: Beyond “Bring Your Own Device”

When you enable Device Guard or Credential Guard with Hyper-V on your system, your screen will blink every X seconds. This is a really annoying bug and has been fixed by Intel. Solution: Upgrade your Intel(R) HD Graphics driver to version 20.19.15.4352.