Omaha Azure User Group Meeting – August 2020 – 2

The second bi-weekly meeting for the month of August 2020 took place on Wednesday, August 19th, starting at 6:00 PM. It was an online event.

Topic: Azure Governance – 101
Join us in this interactive session where Vaibhav will cover the basics of Azure Governance. He will cover:

  • Azure resource Hierarchy and scopes
  • Azure Management Groups / Subscriptions / Resource Groups
  • Azure Blueprints and Azure Policies
  • Azure Role-based Access Control
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Azure Cost Management

He will also cover some demos to illustrate the different concepts. The session will be a Level–100 session. Regardless of your experience with Azure, you will find the session helpful. The session will also be helpful to candidates who are preparing for Azure Role-Based certifications.

Speaker: Vaibhav Gujral
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhavgujral/
Twitter: @vabgujral

Vaibhav is a seasoned cloud architect with extensive experience in designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-class applications. He is currently working as a cloud architect at Kiewit Corporation and is based out of Omaha, NE. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and he holds numerous other Azure Certifications including Microsoft certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, and Azure Developer Associate. He has been putting in his time and effort in building and growing the Azure tech community. Apart from being a regular speaker at different user groups and events, he also runs the Omaha Azure user group (https://omahaaug.com/) where he organizes bi-weekly meetings. He regularly blogs at https://vaibhavgujral.com/. His blog is listed as one of the “Top 50 Microsoft Azure Blogs, Websites & Influencers in 2020” (https://bit.ly/3dhbYyV).

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Our sponsor gave away two $50 gift cards at the end of the talk.