| Explore 5 essential skills for today's database administrators. | | | | | Volume 21, Issue 24 | November 20, 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A look at Microsoft Endpoint Manager Microsoft Endpoint Manager brings Configuration Manager and Intune together in one unified, web-based experience. Watch a demo and see how new security baselines and Threat and Vulnerability Management help IT and security teams come together. | Download the Migration Guide for Windows Server Extended support for workloads on Windows Server 2008 ends in January. Understand how to analyze your existing environment, move services and applications to Azure, and – for applications not ready for Azure – keep them on premises and upgrade to the latest version of Windows Server. | Azure Arc: Seamless innovation anywhere Customer environments are becoming increasingly complex with many applications often running on different hardware across on-premises data centers, multiple clouds, and the edge. Azure helps you manage these disparate environments at scale while enabling developer agility and innovation. | | | How to deploy SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters is a scale-out, data virtualization platform built on top of the Kubernetes container platform. Learn the tools and steps for deploying SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters to Kubernetes. | | | | | | Accelerate time to insight with Azure Synapse Analytics December 10, 2019, online Learn how to simplify your data lake and data warehousing solutions with Azure Synapse Analytics. Query data using on-demand or provisioned resources. Experience a limitless analytics service built to ingest, prep, manage, and serve data. Engineering and analytics experts will demo Azure Synapse Analytics and answer questions. | | IoT in Action: New York January 13, 2020, New York, NY Join Microsoft in New York and discover what it means to use IoT technology to drive shopping analytics, smart experiences, and store efficiencies. Meet IoT innovators and industry experts, learn best practices, and explore opportunities offered by connected devices. | | Microsoft Ignite The Tour Through May 2020, worldwide Learn new ways to modernize your organization, optimize your cloud infrastructure, and code with deep technical training. Find an event in a city near you. | | | | | |