We get it – you have a mountain of online learning resources at your fingertips, and this information overload can leave you feeling lost in a maze of disorganized material. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Plans on Microsoft Learn, a new tool that provides guided learning for cutting-edge Azure tools and solutions.
We get it – you have a mountain of online learning resources at your fingertips, and this information overload can leave you feeling lost in a maze of disorganized material. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Plans on Microsoft Learn, a new tool that provides guided learning for cutting-edge Azure tools and solutions.
This innovative approach provides individuals or teams with a structured plan to acquire new skills, offering targeted content, clear milestones and support to accelerate the learning process. In this blog, we’ll introduce you to plans for Microsoft Learn and explore a few select plans to get you started!
Reimaging online learning to keep up with technology
Developing the technical skills you need is critical to career progression, but finding the right starting point can be overwhelming. Plans on Microsoft Learn help individuals, teams, and organizations reach their learning goals faster, with curated content, milestones you can complete in a recommended time or at your own pace, and automatic reminders to keep you motivated.
Build new skills with expertly designed learning paths or create your own plans tailored to your specific needs. Team leaders can easily manage and track their organization’s progress with the ability to copy and manage existing plans.
We have a growing library of plans on Microsoft Learn designed to accelerate your learning journey:
We’re constantly developing more plans, but let’s take an in-depth look at some to show you the full value of this new skill experience.
Microsoft Fabric is our powerful analytics platform designed to simplify the process of turning data into insights. By unifying data science, real-time analytics and business intelligence, Fabric offers a seamless end-to-end experience that eliminates the need for companies to cobble together tools from different vendors.
This official roadmap aims to help you use AI to unify your intelligent data and analytics on the Fabric platform and includes learning milestones that include:
- Income data: Learn the different methods of transferring data to Fabric, including shortcuts, pipes, and data streams.
- Transform data: Transform data with data flows, procedures and notebooks.
- Save data: Learn to store processed data in both Lakehouse and Data Warehouse for efficient retrieval.
- Expose data: Learn how to build reusable semantic models in Power BI to make transformed data available for analysis.
Migrating and modernizing with Azure helps individuals and organizations seamlessly transition their workloads and applications to the cloud. With step-by-step instructions and tools to migrate your on-premises infrastructure and data to Azure, you can update legacy applications and take advantage of advanced Azure native cloud features.
This official plan addresses the migration and security of Windows Server, SQL Server and Linux Estate to Azure with a particular focus on:
- Cloud and hybrid solutions: Learn to build and manage data platforms that work effectively in cloud and on-premises environments.
- SQL Server and Azure SQL Services: Get hands-on experience with SQL Server, Azure Database for MySQL, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build and manage robust database solutions tailored to your application needs.
- Azure Arc for multi-cloud: Understand how Azure Arc enables SQL Server in various cloud environments.
- Performance optimization: Understand strategies to maximize the speed and efficiency of data platform solutions.
The need for intelligent applications is growing as businesses and individuals seek to harness the power of AI and machine learning. These applications offer the ability to deliver personalized experiences, analyze complex data for better decision-making, and streamline workflows to increase efficiency. As AI technology evolves, smart apps will become even more indispensable and revolutionize how we interact with technology in our daily lives.
This official roadmap focuses on building and modernizing intelligent AI-based applications and includes lessons on:
- Database selection: Learn how to choose the right Azure Cosmos DB option for your AI application.
- AI Integration: Understand strategies for incorporating AI into your technical or non-technical solutions.
- AI Copilot Development: Explore how to build an AI assistant using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB based on virtual cores.
AI tools offer enormous potential to accelerate developer productivity by streamlining coding, automating tasks, and providing intelligent, time-saving recommendations. By adopting these tools, developers can focus on innovation and strategic problem solving rather than mundane coding tasks.
With this official plan, learn about coding in the cloud with GitHub Copilot, our AI-powered assistant that allows developers to focus on the more creative and strategic aspects of their work:
- Coding with GitHub and Azure: Seamlessly integrate these platforms and use GitHub Copilot to streamline your development workflow.
- DevOps Planning: Identify critical GitHub features to optimize your organization’s enterprise DevOps strategy.
- Build communities: Encourage collaboration, set clear rules, and enforce security standards within your development community.
Building resiliency into your cloud infrastructure is critical to maximizing efficiency and controlling costs. By carefully aligning resources to match your workload requirements, you can eliminate waste and avoid unnecessary spending on unused capacity.
This official roadmap shows how to optimize your cloud architecture and workloads so your organization can invest in continued growth and innovation, and includes learning about:
- Tools and frameworks: Analyze and improve workloads and environments using FinOps Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework, Well Architected Framework, Cloud Center of Excellence and more.
- Landing zones: Leverage best practices from the Cloud Adoption Framework and deploy entry zones to align business and technical strategies for successful cloud adoption.
- Durable workload: Manage and optimize your environment to maximize business value, cloud security, new workload migration, modernization and reliability.
Migrating your VMware workloads to the cloud can unlock new levels of flexibility, scalability and cost optimization. The Azure VMware solution enables you to seamlessly migrate and run VMware workloads natively in Azure using familiar VMware tools and skills.
This official roadmap will guide you through the process and ensure a smooth transition and efficient management of your VMware environments in Azure, including comprehensive guidance on:
- Basics of Azure VMware solutions: Understand the core concepts, benefits, and architecture of running VMware on Azure.
- Migration strategy: Explore different approaches, tools, and best practices to ensure a smooth transition of your VMware workloads to Azure VMware solutions—including live and cold migrations—to minimize downtime and disruption.
- Deployment and configuration: Get step-by-step guidance on setting up and managing your Azure VMware Solution environment, including networking, storage, and security, to ensure optimal performance.
Start your AI learning journey today
You and your team deserve better tools to get qualified and stay competitive in today’s fast-paced market. Visit our AI Learning Center for resources to help your team understand the potential of AI, develop AI skills, and successfully adopt AI solutions. You’ll also find eight current AI-related plans and a complete guide to getting started!