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December 07, 2025
Microsoft certifies Azure Administrators, Developers, and Data Engineers. But there's no certification for the role 80% of Azure admins actually perform: building Workbooks, writing KQL queries, creating Power BI dashboards, and leveraging AI for operations. Here's the exam that should exist.
December 06, 2025
Azure Arc ghost registrations occur when VMs are deleted from VMware without Arc cleanup. At 64% ghost rate (300 of 467 Arc VMs non-existent), inventory becomes unusable for governance and ESU compliance. Includes RVTools reconciliation method, PowerShell cleanup scripts, and Arc Resource Bridge deployment guide for automatic lifecycle sync with vCenter.
November 30, 2025
A practical comparison of MCP vs Power BI AI: what actually reads data, what actually builds visuals, and how Azure admins should think about both.
November 10, 2025
I passed AZ-104. I was certified. I knew how to create VMs, configure networking, deploy ARM templates. Day 1 on the job: 'Pull me an inventory.' AZ-104 never covered this. Here's the certification gap nobody talks about, the query that proves it, and the templates that save your career.
October 13, 2025
Chris Bowman's CCO Dashboard is 200+ pages of Power BI. I needed to understand it to build CCO 2.0. Built a tool that extracts all queries, measures, and relationships in seconds. .pbix files are just ZIP archives.
October 02, 2025
Reverse-engineering and modernizing the legendary Chris Bowman Azure dashboard model for real-world enterprise environments.