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now we find out there's an opencircuit somewhere on the button close to the battery. i'd better make sure. see, and i've also gotthe world's most dangerous phone. [laugh]>> so, yes, it's the note. actually this is the replacement. so. [laugh] [laugh] my wife says don't putit into your pocket. okay, so anyway,

one of the things that i amaware of based on my personal experience with 346, is that likei've said it's a moving target. so, i've got some tips for you​. now the other thing that i wouldrecommend for anybody is of course there's a certification exam prepsession on things just in general to know if you're about to tackleyour first certification exams. and the other thing that i waskinda talking about very early on with just some folkswe're hanging out. i'm going to throw up somesample questions up here.

don't focus on thesesample questions. maybe focus on the topic andsome of the details that pop up, but you're not going to see thesequestions on any certification exam. i can't tell you about the questions that you wouldsee on a certification exam. because i think we've all readthat little preamble that pops up at the beginning of the examthat says i won't talk about this. so i've gotta be careful, there's,i would, i can't say trust me. i think trust me was said enoughlast night, don't you think?

>> [laugh]>> i wish i could just tell you all theseare the questions. this is where youwould find the answer. i wouldn't say this is the answer. but i'd love to be able to steeryou towards the white paper or the technet article that tells youexactly what you need for that. i can't do that, but we can talk about this and by the wayone thing that i wanna emphasize, i'm not a traditional stand in

front of the room and you guys,everybody be quiet, listen to me. if you got a question,fire it up, it's okay. i'm an instructor. i'm used to that happeningevery time i teach a class. and i teach,i'm a full time trainer. i do a little consulting with, cuz i've always got people that areplanning on implementing office 365. a lot of what i deal withare gonna be people that are primarily exchange,is one of my areas of focus.

so we want to talkabout that part of it. so we want to talk aboutthe exam objectives. i don't, you know what we're not gonna really talk about the examobjectives, those are online. i want to talk a little bit moreabout some of the other details which i think are a littlebit more important. so, what you're going to see onany of this, 40 to 60 questions, something that many of you probablyalready know is that some of those questions are just trial questions,they don't really count on the exam.

sometimes they'refairly easy to spot. but you're gonna see just questions. you gotta score a 700 to pass. i have, i remember when i sawthose case study questions, are those frustrated me. yeah, you get four orfive questions on one case study. then you move on tothe other case study, and then you see the one clue. and you realize no,i just botched that one question.

i'd really like to go back to that,and you can't. that frustrates me just like itfrustrates anybody else, but 700 is the score. and my experience with this,i thought 346 and 347 were probably two ofthe most challenging exams i've ever had to deal with in my career. i went, i was the kind of guythat went probably ten years, passing certificationexams the first time. there was primarily after ijoined the training center that i

work with now. and then it was about 2012 that,i don't know what happened, maybe it's just me getting old. i hope not. am i full? of the color of my eyes,was little brown. okay. what's that? they, yeah, nebulous.

that's a good word. sometimes, you know you couldlook at a questions and then you see an answer andthere's clarity. and now,you see some questions that you go. okay, change this oneparameter on the user account. which three of these sixcommands are possible for changing that parameter? and one of them you'veused all the time. there's another one thatyou're pretty sure works, and

then there's the other onethat you're going, ooh. because you hadn't used those,right? yeah, that's frustrating forme as well. so, all questions havea consistent anatomy. i didn't write that part,that's one of the. yeah, some of these slidescame to me from microsoft and i was going i don't knowthat i'd call it anatomy. but they should be allhave a similar structure. you're gonna have business problem,you're gonna have goal statements.

you're gonna have one ormultiple correct answers. you're gonna see questions that, the ones i like are the ones thatsay, pick these three steps. as opposed to pick allthe steps cuz i know i'm gonna get one of them wrong. i get frustrated withthose like anybody else. and distracters, yeah and some of those distracters are justway to close to a real answer. i get it.

questions are notintended to trick you. [laugh]>> [laugh] i'm sorry could you say that,could you cough clearly into the microphone wewanna get that posterity purposes. yeah, i heard that i, and yeah, i, i get frustratedwhen i don't pass. and it seems to be happening more. and i've had to buckle down. the real issue frommy perspective and

i want to get to this,okay, this right here. the part that gets to me,and this is something you know before we start at 9:00, iwas kind of talking with everybody. we've spent somany years becoming specialists and now we're having to goback to being generalists. i'm an exchange guy. how many of you havethe copy of the book mastering the exchange server 2013? okay, i did four of those chapters.

i'm very proud of that. i gotta watch saying that, too. it sounds wrong. believe me, i'm very proud of this. okay, the other area that i'vespent quite a bit of time in the last few years has beenlink and skype for business. i'm not a sharepoint guy. i have really never, i've nevertaught a sharepoint class. i've sat one class and i'veprobably spent my time in the back

of the room returning emails andplaying settlers of catan online. well that's why they makethe back of the room right? and so now, i've had to go back andi've got to learn something that i'm not don't havea great deal of comfort with. and the other thing that i know thatmany of us have to deal with is one of the other challenges. a long time ago in a galaxy far,far away. i taught all the officeapplications. that was 1994.

i taught excel, i taught word,i taught power point. but like i said, that was 94. i haven't done a whole lotwith anything like that since. and going back andhaving to cover things like office 365 pro plus deployment andediting and managing a configuration.xml file isa little bit out of my comfort zone. am i alone oryou guys with me on that one? okay, i want just exchange people. who are the exchange folks? okay.

hands down. skype for business folks. sharepoint. cnc. if you had your hand up the firstfew times it didn't come up the third time did it? and then you've alsogot the office pros. who are my office prosthat have to do, yeah. so it's a sophisticatedmulti-topic exam.

it covers such a broad area. and you got to know it all. that's rough man. that's really rough. i teach the course. the course does a pretty goodjob laying out a pretty good foundation forthe 346 and 347 exams. but it's not everything. so you gotta worry about that.

office 365 is a moving target. i don't think a more accuratestatement has ever been said about preparing forthis certification exam, because you don't know what'sgoing to happen from week to week. office 365 changes, so do the exams. and what you thought you knewlast week may have changed. and if you're retaking an exam, youcan pretty much bet that you're not gonna see the same question that youmight've seen the week before, or two weeks before, or 30 days before.

so that's troublesome. and now we're goingthrough a portal upgrade. joy, bliss because it would be easy, it would be easier, i shouldn'tsay easy, it's not really easy. it'd be so much easier if certain things didn't changewith an update in the portal. look, we've updated the portal. they've updated the front end andguess what's also changed? some of the rules that you definemaybe in sharepoint aren't

the same anymore. what are you gonna get on the exam? you might get either one. that's what can make thiseven more challenging. i emphasize procedures. when you go through and prepare forthis, and you're taking your notes and going through, i saw a gentlementhat had the office 365, the 364 study guide, was that you? >> yeah.

go through that book and take a look at anything thathas multiple steps to it. when you're going through technet, when you're taking the course,take a look at those procedures. let's say, here's step one,here's step two, here's step three, here's step four. get very comfortable with those. the reason i bring thatup is that very often, those are going to pop up and you'regoing to see them in the gui, but

you're also going to seethem in powershell as well. what i would emphasize foryou is that the powershell side is going to change with lessfrequency than the gui will. the other part that is going tothrow you off relative to this is going to be whichshell do you use? how do you load upthe proper module? what do you connect to? because you'll see that,wait a minute, that's not how you connect to an administrativesession in sharepoint.

that's not how you connect toan administrative session with exchange online. so that part of it i know getsto people, because it got to me. so going through a few things, we know that we started gettinginto just the basic things here, provisioning office 365,getting it out there. what happens with the person whosets up the office 365 subscription? what happens with them as faras administrative rights? >> global admin.

>> what?yeah, they're the global admin, right? now how often is that personthe accountant who's responsible for paying the bill and doesn't doday to day administrative work. >> a lot. >> okay, so that's the weird kind of thinking that we haveto bring into this. what happens in the realworld versus what happens in the microsoft world.

sometimes there's a conversion,sometimes there's a disconnect, but that is one of the thingswe have to worry about. network and security, we've gotto worry about implementing and keeping things locked down,cloud identities. okay so one of the other thingsyou're gonna have to worry about obviously is when we start gettinginto synchronization of identities, you know hybrid deployment. and well yeah, and it's great,but well, the frustration for me is that when i initially tookthis, we used the old deer sync and

then all of a sudden, we switchedover to azure ad connect and now you've got some otherthings that pop up in there. how do you get into azure ad connectand filter out the users in a particular domain, or the users ina particular organizational unit, or based on a custom attribute? what the hell is goingon with my phone? thing's buzzing up here. [laugh]>> [inaudible] >> that's it, yeah.

i don't know man,this guy came in with a mask and threw a galaxy note 7 at us andran away. >> [laugh]>> okay yes, that's the visual part ofthe ignite conference yeah. okay, sowe've got that azure ad connect. we've got to worryabout single sign on, we've got to worry about howsynchronization takes place. you know,because if you learned deer sync, it was just about 100% of yoursynchronization was upward, right?

but now we've got to worryabout more of the things in azure ad connect that synchronize upas well as come back down a little bit because that wasn't happening somuch with the old deer sync but with azure ad connect, we know that'sgonna happen with your passwords. user changes their password online, that's gotta go back and syncwith your onprem implementation, so that's something thatwe've got to address. and, yeah? >> [inaudible]>> you shouldn't have to anymore.

i was talking about, that was my experience with itbecause i've worked with it so long. so that's what, okay. that's okay. i hope everything's okay. his note 7 was ticking. i shouldn't joke about that. okay, we'll joke about it. it's tuesday morning in it,this is what we do. yeah.

>> what about like yammer or other services? >> know it. you need to. with the additional services,okay so as far as your day to dayadministration, know your big ones. when it comes to things likethe implementation of yammer, know the why. why would you want to haveyammer in this implementation?

i don't think. i don't think it really got intojust the nuts and bolts of yammer. obviously you have toknow the foundation, what you have to have first beforeyou implement it, but i don't think you really have to worry asmuch about the nuts and bolts. now there are definitely some other areas you haveto know nuts and bolts. sharepoint, you gotta know nuts andbolts, exchange, skype for business, those types of things,you have got to be able to dig in,

but with some of the add-ons,not so much. i don't think there's a whole lothere that requires people to know much about the projectcomponents in office 365, so that part of it maybe you don'thave to allocate as much time for. but knowing when youwould use yammer, knowing when you would use project, knowwhen you'd use the project server, knowing when you would wanna getsomebody a visio deployment, that part of it i'd wanna know, butas far as getting into the actual push, i don't think you have toworry about that one quite so much.

did i answer your question? okay. >> [inaudible] >> how briefly? i'm kidding, that was bad. >> [laugh]>> i can't help it's, i didn't sleep well last night. you guys made me nervous. if i had known it was you guys,i would have been cool, i would have slept much better.

but, yeah? >> [inaudible]>> so yeah, provisioning tenants,knowing the differences, knowing the features thatcome with individual plans, i think certainly helps, butit's just the basic things. this is a sample question, youwill not see this on an exam, but i wouldn't worryabout this question. i wouldn't worry about this answer. i'd worry about this subject.

i'd want to go back andmake sure that i had a good understanding of what comes intoplay with each of those individuals. what are the differencesbetween each subscription? when can i get by with an e1,when do i need to go to an e3? what does an e3 bringto me that an e1, or office 365 homeversion doesn't have? that's the necessary body languageyou have to throw in with office 365 home. well it's kind of a baseball thing.

yes sir, going home. yes these are the questions theytell me that i can show people. like these are the onesi would write. >> the newer onesare gonna have [inaudible] >> the newer ones are gonna be having all of the other,yes, yes, absolutely. so i don't emphasize, like i said,i don't emphasize the questions. >> but knowing where to look andtake a look at the office 365 plans. this is the part that i would say,go look at here.

because what was the firstthing i said about office 365? it's gonna change all the time. you can download the slides later. okay, what's that? >> [laugh]>> yes, no, no, no, no. i know how that works on facebook,man. it's like->> [laugh] >> it's like, hey,here's the bobster meme, right here. okay, no.

i know that game. i've done it to people. [inaudible]>> [laugh] what's that? >> [inaudible]>> no, it was fun. >> [inaudible]>> as far as you know, okay. [laugh] i really. yeah no, i'm not gonna show thatpicture, my wife would kill me. all right, so anyway. this is something that youmight see, but let me tell you.

i would not write the questionthis way if, i were writing it. because i wouldn't be askingyou about the one file type. i'd ask you to know both file types, because they're leaving one out,here. see, they're getting in tune, and they got, you're an administratorat fabrikam.com, everybody's favoritemicrosoft domain. actually, i'm kind ofmore of an adatum guy. but host records, text records,srv records, alias records.

what's missing? >> [inaudible]>> mx record. good, i'm glad youguys caught that one. cuz that's the kind of thingthat i would be asking people. or i would ask somebodya question about, you're trying to prove ownership andyou haven't been able to get your text record toauthenticate, what's your next step? cuz i'd want somebody to knowthat there was the mx record, the one they could fall back on.

remember when i was firststarted teaching this class, i just put in both. cuz very close,very similar when you set them up. so, [inaudible] i'd die up here. >> [inaudible]>> yeah, so i've got live electricity and water. this is always a good choice right? >> [laugh]>> a bad knee and a place to trip onstage.

okay, get your cameras ready folks,okay. but there you get a text record,so yeah. that one does not have a link to it,but it's the kinda thing that i would talk to peopleabout configuring dns for services, enabling clientconnectivity to office 365. you gotta know your clients, yougotta know which clients are gonna work, you gotta knowwhich clients won't work. you're gonna need to know whichones need to be upgraded. you need to know

how to check which upgradeshave been deployed. and then you get into administeringazure rights management. that part of it of course, definingthe role based access control roles for the individual users. and managing administrator roles,that's all there. and here again, what isthe autodiscover dns record for exchange online? i would not write a question likethis, but exchange online, so what should be the obviousgiveaway in the top three lines?

>> [inaudible]>> yeah, but the dns record. you had an a record,a txt record, and srv record. and srv is one that i'm gonna takea close look at, but it's not right. yeah, one of the things that we haveto worry about are the differences in the way that autodiscoveris implemented on premises, versus the way it getsimplemented in office 365. because we have tospot those differences, it can be challenging at times. and where as,i see the word autodiscover,

i know what i'm thinking. but remember what we talked a littlebit about distractors, right? so, what has beenthe primary email service microsoft has been presenting tous outside of exchange online? outlook.com. so did they reinvent the wheel whenthey come out with exchange online? or did they build onwhat they already had? they built on what they already had. so autodiscover.outlook.com isprobably gonna be your best guess.

now the one that i gotta admit,going through these questions, and by the way, you're allunder nda now, internal only. i don't like the alias reference. because we don't have enoughinformation in this question to say, i don't know if thatalias is right or not. now, when you take a look at whatthey're presenting is the answer, they're sitting there including thatin there, but i wouldn't do that. that's why i'm telling you, don'tpay attention to these questions, but pay attention to whatthe question itself is addressing,

the subject matter. what does get configured? what's happening with autodiscover? how do we setup autodiscover tosupport our users and our clients? so that's the kindathing i would focus on. what's funny is, i see peoplein the back of the room waving, are you trying to get my attention? i can't tell. so anyway, butthat's the kind of thing.

you have to know how to setup dnsfor use of office 365 services. that's the point totake away from that. this will search getting intosome other things to planning and implementing network security. you need to delegate administratorrights to user1 to reset passwords, but user1 must not be able to resetpasswords of other administrators. which administratorrole must you assign? so what's the pointof emphasis here? the point of emphasis would be,

knowing what the individualadministrator roles can do. that's what you want totake away from that. who can do what? and they're getting intocustomizing that, and [inaudible] passwordadministrator out there. there's some other roles thatcan allow that while you do that as well. yeah. >> [inaudible]>> i think you're right.

it's in. i would have ignored help desk but[laugh] going back to the point i wastrying to make, know the roles, and know what each of the roles do. these questions,when we prepare these sessions, there's some contentthat i throw in here. there's some other contentthat comes to me and i gotta kinda workwith what i'm given. those of you that are mcts thatever taught a microsoft course,

you know exactly whati'm talking about. but, there's always challenges. yeah? different names between thedifferent [inaudible] [crosstalk] >> they can be. >> [inaudible]>> that's [inaudible] >> no no no, yes, that is a pet peeve of mine. i'm 53, i don't like change anymore. >> [laugh]>> i'm going home,

my wife's gonna be home fora week with a kid. i know that things are gonnaget changed around and i'm not gonna like it. >> [laugh]>> like, what happened to my chair? i know where my chair is. at least i know where it was. but i know i'm gonna get home, and there's gonna be thingsmoved around in the house. and my wife will have been watching,what is it?

it's chip and joanna. on home and garden tv. you know what i'm talking about? dear lord. yeah, yeah. that's what happens when you've got,yeah, my youngest daughterwants to be an architect. so of course, start with our house. >> [laugh]>> while dad's away,

that's always great. >> [laugh]>> i'm gonna be tripping over stuff, i did not mean to that just then,it just kind of worked out that way. so yeah, managing your identities,managing user and security groups. this is the basic stuff,but you have to know it. and also that third one isthe one you've got emphasized. because like i said,the gui changes, but the powershell does not changewith as much frequency. >> [inaudible]>> yes there is.

and the other point i guessi would make is that, it's not enough to knowhow to do it one way. because you're gonnafind out set-user, while there's also set-csuser. and we've got to worry about,okay, what do they have in common? how are they different? and that's the part that iknow can be so frustrating for anybody that's pursuingthis certification. because, what do you doin the regular a regular

powershell session. now, you've flipped over andyou're running skype for business powershell session. and you've got different commandsbut sometimes there's some cross-pollination that takes placebetween those two different modules. and we still have to know them both. i feel your pain. i do. i've been through it.

so managing cloud identities. you wanna preventthe company administrator, your admin oncepassword from expiring, what powershell commandwill achieve this? and now they're gettingget-msoluser, set-msoluser -strong. and here, a lot of it's gonnacome down to, okay which of these are actual arguments andwhich ones are distracters? and you know whatwill throw you off? one of these might be an answeryou've never seen before because

it's gonna be something that's sofar back in technet and it's gonna be that last night thatyou have to scroll over to the right to see that argument becauseit's like a second level switch. yeah, i get them. but it's in technet, it's valid. it's something that you might see. i shouldn't say might see. odds are you willprobably see one or two really obscure switches.

just because that'sthe way it's set up. and, i'm sorry. i don't write these questions. [laugh]. i, yeah, the question again, yeah. i'm gonna try to keepfrom killing myself. >> [inaudible]>> yeah, it's. >> i know they're saying,>> [inaudible] >> uh-huh.

>> they should have beenputting the [inaudible] >> i always wonder if the person that writes these for demosactually ever took the exam itself. >> [laugh]>> or actually ever done this. >> they probably haven't taughtthe class, i can tell you that. >> [inaudible]>> yeah, >> and a part of it, like i said, that's why i emphasizeprocedure, procedure, procedure. the things that we're gonna bedoing on a regular basis and

how many different waysare there to do them? and, you might very well see a question similar to this, that'llhave two or three correct answers. learn how to make that modification. it might not be about passwords, it might be aboutmodifying smtp addresses. or leaving an smtp but modifyingthe sip address cuz that's what we got to do with skype forbusiness. so, it's heady.

i mean i think we are really asking, we are really putting a loton us to learn this stuff. im not kidding. i think,that's it's been troublesome for me. because i have focused onexchange ever since it was called microsoft 32. but back when we hadto take electives. and one of my electives was tcpip. >> [laugh]>> yeah.

>> did you downloadthe [inaudible] to the internet, because [inaudible]? >> man.>> [laugh] >> [laugh] >> i think that's when i briefly focused on teachinghardware for compaq and ibm. compaq used to be a company. >> i've still got a jacket [laugh]so.

this, yeah, this one,it says get mso user. you know what? i say start with get msol user. just kind of take it from there. and look that up and learnthe switches associated with it. implementing and managing identitiesby using azure id connect. yeah, this is, so in my neck of the woods,and i'm out of kansas city. so i worked inkansas city in leawood,

one of the suburbsi live in lawrence. yeah, we don't talk aboutthe university of kansas during football season. it's just not a wise thing to do. we just don't do itwhen we go there. come november, we come to life. but no, not during football season. we won a game this year. rhode island, yeah!

okay, [laugh]so yeah, i know it's, that's a kufootball fan right there. yeah, we beat rhode island! yeah! and then we get probably slaughteredby iowa state but never mind. so, this tool, the azure ad connecttool, i've been impressed with it, it's a solid tool, andthis is the second or third generation of these tools thati've had a chance to work with. know the basics about setting it up.

know the filtration process. what happens if you don't want tohave a particular ou uploaded. what comes back down? i would want to be familiarwith the attributes. i would want to befamiliar with the cleanup. because that's one of the things wehave to worry about are gonna be illegal characters. when we setup andwanna setup this hyper deployment. because in as muchas you are on-prem,

active directory deployment isgonna have certain attributes. you don't use all those sameattributes up in the cloud. so there are some that you reallyhave to pay close attention to. there are some that you don't haveto worry about quite so much. yeah? >> if there is a limit that has a numerical value associatedwith it, know it. and i'm not just talking about this. i'm also talking about things likesky for business conferences. what's gonna be, what aboutwhat are the limits there,

like when you're uploading files,is there a top and limit? is there a way to modify that? is there,what [inaudible] am i thinking of? maximum number of conference attend,default maximum number of attendees. right, butyou [inaudible] gotta know that. [inaudible] >> sounds to me like, let's see how can i say thiswithout violating an nda. [laugh] i would, i think consideringit's something that we talk about

in the, the course itself andit's a necessary tool. any of the tools, i don't know whoamongst you has had a chance to take, i was gonna say 20346which is a microsoft official curriculum course, but that courseis been rolled over to 20347. >> it's essentially the same course. but they just modifiedthe numbers a little bit. so, if you have a chance, i know that taking a microsoftofficial curriculum course is not something that everybodycan afford to do on their own.

but if it is a piece of softwarethat's mentioned in a course you'd want to know when youwould use it and why. especially maybe some of the testingtools, troubleshooting tools, id fixes one that i use prominent,and there are some others. so especially having to do withthings like remote connectivity. yes, write that down. yes, i would write that one down. remote connectivity. any testing or reporting tools.

absolutely i'd wanna befamiliar with those. you need to force a directorysynchronization immediately to update the azure adwith recent changes. what command do you have to run? >> [inaudible]>> there we go. directory sync clientcommand.exe delta, okay. well like i said,i don't know, is that an exit? okay, it is now. [laugh] it's a parallel.

[laugh] it's a door toa parallel dimension. yes, that's it. i'm the guy that putsdementia in multidimensional. all right, so, yeah, understandwhat's happening with ad fs. ad fs is something you gonnawanna spend considerable time on. yeah. back to the back. [inaudible] on that previousslide where you showed the answer [inaudible] how do you determine

[inaudible]>> i have no idea. like i said, that's why imade the comment very early on about it being a moving target. see, what you're usually gonna dowith the exams is that you're gonna cycle through the questions. so, the questions you gettoday are probably gonna be, the question pool is probably gonnabe stable for a couple more months. but if it's beena change that's happened lately, probably, you're gonna be,

that's where you gotta go withthe best guess maybe, sometimes. hopefully, i know i hate guessing. i really hate guessing. i wanna know the answer. but sometimes, you're stuck witha question, you gotta stay a look at them, and you gotta hopethat you got the right one. yeah, that's why passing,it's 700 instead of 999. >> do you feel like [inaudible]be there right now or? >> no.

>> [inaudible]>> no. if i recall correctly, the olderdirsync stuff is no longer. what is on the otherside of that door? >> [laugh]>> [laugh] like applesauce, i have no idea. okay, so anyway, butyou get ad fs obviously, setting up ad fs servers,proxy servers, that's all. and best practices forimplementing ad fs. if you're gonna be implementingan ad fs implementation,

even if it's a smallerimplementation, do you wanna go with a single server deploymentor do you wanna set up a farm? >> farm. >> why would youwanna set up a farm? you only need the one server, right? >> [inaudible]>> ha, i like that. good combination of letters. >> [laugh]>> no, it is. ha, there's a lot said rightthere with those two letters ha.

because even if you don't needto have multiple servers today, you might need them tomorrow. and if you set up ad fswith only a single server, you're not gonna behave that option. so, putting up a server farm whereyou can add another server down the road for availability isgonna be a better choice. you're worried about security. is setting up an ad fs proxya good idea then maybe? and you set that up therein your perimeter network.

i say perimeter network. i know some people say dmz. both my brothers werein the military. i couldn't go in. but dmz means somethingvery different to them. [laugh] >> tell that to north korea. okay, so. [laugh] and their 25 websites, okay.

i thought that wasfunny when i read that, it's like they've gotthe internet from 1974. okay, so, what port do youhave to open up between the ad fs proxies andthe ad fs servers? 443, that's nice, we use https. what's that?i like the, yes, i do to. i wish there were more of them. i'd like 70% of them to be easy. [applause]

>> that's all. i don't have to have75% easy questions. i only need 70% easy questions. reports help obviously. when it comes to observinghealth in office 365, know the different ways thatoffice 365 provides you feedback about what'shappening with those services. yeah, i know it's happening withthe various arrows, and boxes, and switches, and funny little symbolsthat pop up from time to time.

i'm not saying you'llsee something like that, but it's something that i would. yeah, it might be a good idea,just to share with the family. and that once again,another, where will can. yes. >> [laugh]>> hi, i'm bob. i've got a degree in english andi wrote this question. >> [laugh]>> no, i didn't do this. where will can you view>> [laugh]

>> [laugh] real-time information about service incidents orplanned maintenance events? i'm an rss fan that helps out. well, my echo changes when iswitch over here behind the table, doesn't it? okay, other preparation resources. so, this gentleman had the microsoftpress book on preparing for the 70-346 exam. not bad, but the thing you mightrun into with that is that

that book's already been out. 18 months, i think, soit's probably a little bit dated. but once again, the things thati would primarily focus on, procedures, powershell, that stuffreally doesn't change that much. >> the omnibook [inaudible]>> 20346, yeah. 24, okay. >> i think the omnibook, that changed brought inwith the new change, right? >> i haven't checked.

sorry, i'm honest,i haven't checked. now, what i would probably checkout, how many of you are planning on trying to bump this exam outthis week while you're here? do they have the measure upacross the way with the 346? >> [inaudible]>> have you taken a look at it? >> [inaudible]>> what do you think? >> [inaudible]>> good. so, yeah, go hit the studyhall across the way. and did you ever check outthose 70-346 exam questions?

and once again, focus on thesubject, focus on the procedures. that's the thing that i'd probablypush, take away from that. but i'm a bookish kind of person. i'm the guy that's got probably4,000 titles in his kindle. for my kindle software thati've got on my tablet, surface. so, the books that are uphere listed, 70-346 and 70-347, i know thatthey are both readily available either frommicrosoft press. i know that some of you haveother sources for your books.

i've got an amazon prime account, so i go through books like otherthings go through a goose. but if you're portable andcheap,but it could be out of date. i think one of the things that iwould wanna take a look at that meazura because i think meazura'sdone a pretty good job trying to stay ahead of it a little bit. >> [inaudible] that's why->> yeah. >> [inaudible]>> well, that's what you wanna do. you don't wanna take a canned,prefab,

simple exam that builds your ego up,and then, go take the actual exam andget kicked in the kidneys. that's not fun. i've been kicked in the kidneys,that's not fun. those of you with childrenknow what i'm talking about. >> [laugh]>> [laugh] you're gonna get kicked in the kidneys a lot. [laugh] the numberthree is on the way? >> yeah, it is.

>> no, they jumped up intodaddy's lap too, don't they? they lead with the knee,i hate that. >> [laugh]>> [laugh] daddy! flunk. don't, yeah. minor at 19, 18 and 15, i don'thave to worry about that anymore. except when the 19-yearold needs money. she's good at that.

i've got two daughtersthat are both in college. one of them, full academic ride,has extra money. she doesn't need anything. the other one, no,she still needs daddy. and she, boy. i get played. daddy, i need a surface tablet. >> [laugh]>> well, she did. she's an architecture major.

so, yeah, she wants the pen. because that pen, like a thousanddifferent degrees of pressure, yeah. it's like the oldest daughter. yeah, i spent $800 on her laptop,the other one, $2700 bucks on that laptop. yeah, anyway,check out microsoft virtual academy. mva does a pretty good job. and one of the things that mva isdoing right now is that they're going through some changes asfar as how they're presenting

the content relative to the exams. so, they're trying tostay more current. because they know that office 365has some of these challenges, office 365 and azure. are driving those folks up the wall,because they're changing faster than they can get new content outthere in support of those services. but i spoke with the guythat's in charge of mva, and that is something that heis very actively working on. to the point where he wasrecruiting talent this weekend.

talking with trainers about helpingout providing that content, keeping it up to date. getting away fromthe hour long mva courses to where they're ten minutes thistopic, ten minutes this topic. and trying to keep it ona faster refresh cycle. so that's one thing iwould also look for. and i know that relativeto the online courses, this one isn't in the deck. but i know some of the peoplethat work at another education

company and they put outsome pretty solid content. and if i had had some troublepreparing for the 346 and 347 i would probably look intomaybe sitting a pluralsight. they put out some good content. i know those folks, and i think theydo a very professional job creating, they're must more professionalthan i am up here, i mean [laugh] i'mtalking with friends. >> pluralsight p-l-u- r-a-l-s, what, s-i-g-h-t, yeah.

yeah, i worked with a coupledifferent folks on some other things. j peter breezee's their mvp forexchange, and he's the one actually that got me involved inthe master exchange for 2013. but he was the technical editor andhe had more work then he could handle, sothrew four chapters at me. instructor led training. the thing about this, being one ofthe guys that does the instructor led training,i don't like surprises, but

with office 365 it's unavoidable. you teach a class one week,i rolls over to the next week. and all of a sudden the lab thatyou did last month has changed. and there's a few more, thepowershell probably hasn't changed. but some of the stuff in the gui hasprobably been tweaked a little bit. i've had that experience. i tell you what,one time i was doing a session for microsoft on office 365, it was a one day session showing thefeatures and benefits of office 365.

and they were doingthis at the time that they were doing rolling blackouts. so that day didn't goquite the way i planned. spent a lot of time explaining andnot much time showing. but the one thing that iwould probably say about the instructors teaching this, we're gonna learn how to dealwith the problems on the fly. and, it can be challenging, i've certainly hadchallenges with this course.

but you know what,every single lab has worked for just about all of my students. i had a couple of students thatprobably weren't ready to tackle a course like this that had issues, especially withthe powershell side of it. but every lab i've run has worked. so you know what,i've had some classes, i haven't been able to say that. i can say that with this.

there are some thathaving been a trainer for 20 years, well let's see, what decade is this? 24, 23 years, this is 2016, right? okay, well okay. [inaudible]>> yeah, so i've been training actively since 92, 93. >> [inaudible]>> yes, yeah, for a long time the only coursethat was available was 20346.

and then i wanna sayin april of this year, they refreshed the course andthey just renamed it 20347. so that's kind ofthe big change there. yeah, we've got a fewmore minutes yet. practice test, measure up is, ibelieve, the only option these days. but you know what? where it says it can be out of date, like i said they'redoing a better job. and i would tell any of you,

go check out the studyhall across the way. it's a nice, quiet place. bring your ear buds,bring some music. just kick back for a little bit,take a practice exam. you don't have to pay for it,it's right there, i like free. across the hallway, yeah,where it says study hall, just pop in there,introduce yourself and grab a seat. and it's wolf down lunch one day and just spend the extratime in the study hall.

you don't wanna be around, yeah you don't wanna bearound me when i'm eating. >> [laugh]>> i leave a debris field. >> [laugh]>> i did pretty good this morning, i didn't get any bacon on my shirtor anything like that, i did okay. >> [applause]>> i did okay. >> [applause]>> yes, life is a series of minor victories. >> [laugh]>> i found bacon, hot damn.

okay, so this is just aboutmandatory for anybody. obviously if you're gonna be tryingto get certified in office 365, you need to haveaccess to office 365. don't use your productioncopy of office 365. what? >> what? >> [laugh]>> love this guy. >> [laugh]>> get yourself a 30 day eval copy and blow it up.

they're ready for you. it's not that big a deal. cancel your credit card atthe end of the process. >> [laugh]>> well you don't wanna leave it open,i had a guy do that by mistake. the first time i taught the classwas still when we were, people were signing up andputting some of their information. one guy used his personal accountthat was already registered and he had his credit card on it.

and then he got a bill. >> [laugh]>> now what was good is that, he was in one of the earlyoffice 365 courses. they knew they were having sometroubles with stuff like that, and he works fora pretty good size consulting firm. and they didn't want tomake people angry, so microsoft remediated the problem andi appreciated that. and he had a betterexperience because of it. he also learned a veryvaluable lesson.

>> [laugh]>> don't do that again, yes. but yeah, get yourself a trial andpound away at it. dive into technet,create a notebook or a onenote notebook of your own andcopy and paste everything into it. know what the commands are,know what the switches are, get comfortable with things that youare not used being comfortable with. for me, like i said, my background, i had to get comfortablewith sharepoint.

i had to get comfortable withoffice 365 proplus deployment, and the related tools, the officedeployment tool kit, those natures, and the configuration.xml file. and knowing the differences between32 bit excel and 64 bit excel. because there are some, know the exclusion arguments,they're some oddball ones. i think they've modified theexclusion command for onedrive for business since i took it. do you guys know,does it still exclude groove or

did they change that? >> it's still groove. >> it's still groove, yeah. isn't that bizarre? >> [inaudible]>> yeah. yeah that's no. because groove,because you know what? if somebody at first blush saw that,they'd say, well that can't be right.

i mean,what is this groove business? it's like we're making somereferences to an earth, wind, and fire song. i don't know. it was a good song. let's groove tonight. yeah, okay, sorry,i'm an entertainer at heart. okay, so yeah i don't know that we need to worry about passingaround a microphone, but, here's me. breinsh@centriq.com,

centriq training is where i work in kansas city. i don't plan on leavinganytime in the near future. because now that i've passedthese exams they gotta keep me. [laugh] nobody else wants totake these certification exams. we are managed partners,somebody's gotta be certified. i gotta remember that nexttime i come up from a review. >> [laugh]>> so how much would itcost to replace me?

i am blessed, i work for a great trailing center surroundedby a lot of great people. and i get a chance in my job to meeta lot of cool people like you guys. and i'm not just, i'm notbrownosing, well maybe a little. but you guys evaluate me, right? i i'm available,if you guys have questions. like i said, after this onewe're gonna be covering 347. we've got about another sevenminutes, and i'm gonna hang out. i like interacting with y'all.

yeah, sorry, that's thatmidwestern thing coming out there, i'm a y'all guy. >> [inaudible] questionsweighted the same? >> are all the questionsweighted the same? i don't believe so. that's the best answeri can give you. yeah, thank you,sorry i didn't get everybody's name. tomorrow, wednesday and thursday, i'll be upstairs in microsoftlearning from 11:00 until 2:00.

so if any of y'all want to getahold of me, i'll be up there. i'll also be at the mcpparty tonight for those of you that are going. thanks guys, i appreciate it. >> [applause]>> i'm not going any place. i'm here for the next session, too.