Rick Claus 🦋 @RegularITguy.com

A cannuck, a geek, a family man & a self-professed server hugging infrastructure guy who has moved to Azure. I lead a team of awesome worldwide Cloud Advocates.

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"Metrics rule, but Authenticity trumps. Do the right thing." - @RicksterCDN (5/1/14)

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check out the playlist - https://t.co/CwjwWINxsR

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"Update and Restart"
It's for IT pros navigating how AI fits into their real-world infrastructure, operations, and troubleshooting. Hosted by Myself and Sonia Cuff, the series cuts through hype to show how tools like Azure Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot work in the real world

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You know - where security, reliability, and production constraints still matter?

Each episode combines hands-on demos and practical advice to help IT pros understand what AI can do today, when to trust it, and how to adopt it responsibly without breaking systems or workflows.

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Looking to complement your existing skills with an extra tool in your toolbox known as "AI" ? This event is for you... Targeted training on how to complement your existing skills with some AI superpowers to take your craft to the next level. Go register and check it out.

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The lineup is live—and AI Skills Fest is shaping up to be unmissable. 🚀

From conversations with industry leaders to hands-on hackathons to live learning and role-based skilling playlists, this is more than an event—it’s a full week to build the AI skills that matter right now.

Check out what we’re preparing, and don't miss out! Register for the event: https://t.co/J4U0teVwMA

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How it started and how it ended. We'll look back at this at some point and see it as a day of adventure motorcycle riding: avoiding the rain and ending up in a tornado. 😳

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@donasarkar

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What does it say about you that you’d rather find time to fold and put away your laundry and iron your shirts then write your performance review? 

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Best part? Every session includes live interactive chat with the engineers, so you can ask the real questions around scale, design, operations, performance, and day two realities.
https://t.co/3K2dajhnsp
#Azure #Infra #ITPro #CloudComputing

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Less than 24 hours to go until Azure Infrastructure Summit kicks off with a Convo Note from Mark Russinovich.
Over three days, from 8am to 3pm PDT, there are 30 plus sessions focused on what Infrastructure teams actually care about. Building, operating, and optimizing Azure.

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@donasarkar It’s always cool to be able to just sit down with him and talk.

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No slides. No marketing. Just a straight conversation with Mark Russinovich on how Microsoft actually runs Azure at hyperscale.
If you build, run, or secure cloud infrastructure, you’ll want this one.
May 19 at 8:00 AM PDT

#Azure #Cloud #Security #Infra

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Register for the keynote

https://t.co/O0mxNkD6DE

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direct link to jump in! https://t.co/PO6MBa3Ri0

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Windows Server Summit kicks off at 7 am pacific and this one is for the folks running real workloads in the real world. Modern Windows Server, hybrid scenarios, what’s changing, and what actually matters to IT Pros. I’ll be there and would love to chat. Jump in if you can.
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Took the Kia in for an oil change today and had them look into a concerning thunk sound whenever you started to slow down.

Turns out there's something wrong with a front wheel hub and transmission linkages between electric and gas engines.

Buy your warranty, folks.

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Popped over to building 83 yesterday on MSFT Campus for a quick shoot with my friends on the Global Skilling team.

Happy Friday folks keep on learning!

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Connected versus disconnected tradeoffs, validated hardware selection, and day two operations patterns that actually hold up under pressure.

Azure Infrastructure Summit May 19 to 21

https://t.co/TdLTW0FtMW

#Azure #Hybrid #Security #SovereignCloud #Operations

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What if you could describe the outcome and let the platform do the work?
If you are building for regulated, hybrid, or air gapped environments, this session goes deep on Azure Local as a sovereign private cloud stack.

#AzureInfraSummit Tue May 19 9:00 AM PDT
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If image sprawl, slow updates, or brittle pipelines sound familiar, this one’s for you.

Tue May 19 at 2:30pm PDT

https://t.co/XhjDQqtln8
#Azure #Infrastructure #SRE #Reliability #Automation

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Less toil. Faster recovery. More confidence in your builds.

Golden images are still one of the most underrated reliability tools in modern ops. Azure Image Builder + Azure Compute Gallery = automated image pipelines. Scale globally without turning into a maintenance nightmare.