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May 13, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Melissa Hubbard
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Melissa Hubbard
Where to find Melissa
You can find Melissa on Twitter at https://twitter.com/melihubb and her site at https://melihubb.com/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 11, 2019
Patch your SharePoint Server to the latest Public Update as soon as possible
Earlier this year, a vulnerability was found various versions of SharePoint Server and got assigned the ID CVE-2019-0604. The behaviour of the vulnerability is:
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint when the software fails to check the source markup of an application package. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server farm account.
While this patch has been fixed in the latest Public Update, not all administrators patch their SharePoint Servers every month, which caused multiple enterprises to be affected by this vulnerability. On April 23rd , 2019, the Canadian Center for Cyber Security released an alert called China Chopper Malware affecting SharePoint Servers and here is the assessment from their website:
The Cyber Centre is aware of a campaign that is currently compromising several versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server in order to deploy the China Chopper web shell. Trusted researchers have identified compromised systems belonging to the academic, utility, heavy industry, manufacturing and technology sectors. The following versions of Microsoft SharePoint are known to be affected:
Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP2
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019It is likely that the current campaign is leveraging CVE-2019-0604 in order to deploy the web shell. Microsoft released security updates addressing this vulnerability in February and March 2019; however, many systems remain outdated.
A similar alert has been raised by the National Cyber Security Center of Saudi Arabia so this is definetly a vulnerability that addresses international customers.
What should you do?
This is why it’s super important to keep your SharePoint Servers, whether 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 on the latest Public Updates in order to keep your environment as safe as possible. In Office 365, Microsoft does it right away, but for On-Premises, it’s our duty as SharePoint Administrators to make sure that we keep the farm secure and keep up with the latest security updates from Microsoft! Therefore, if your farm is not already on the March 2019 Public Update or later, plan an update as soon as possible!
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Earlier this year, a vulnerability was found various versions of SharePoint Server and got assigned the ID CVE-2019-0604. Both the Canadian and the Saudia Arabia Cyber Security Centers have released alerts that this vulnerability is being currently used https://t.co/uZPjMoJxNv pic.twitter.com/jfM2QgY46q
— Vlad Catrinescu (@vladcatrinescu) May 11, 2019
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May 10, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Gokan Ozcifci
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Gokan Ozcifci
Where to find Gokan
You can find Gokan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/xGokan and his site at http://gokan.ms/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 9, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Jason Himmelstein
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Jason Himmelstein
Where to find Jason
You can find Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jasehimm and his site at http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 8, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Drew Madelung
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! 
Meet Drew Madelung
Where to find Drew
You can find Drew on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dmadelung and his site at http://drewmadelung.com/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 7, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Joanne Klein
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Joanne Klein
Where to find Joanne
You can find Joanne on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JoanneCKlein and her site at https://joannecklein.com/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 6, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Knut Relbe-Moe
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Knut Relbe-Moe
Where to find Knut
You can find Knut on Twitter at https://twitter.com/knutrelbemoe
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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May 5, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Daniel Glenn
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions!
Meet Daniel Glenn
Where to find Daniel
You can find Daniel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DanielGlenn and his site at https://danielglenn.com/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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April 23, 2019
Microsoft Certification Paths for Azure and Microsoft 365 in 2019
As most of the followers of my blog are aware, Microsoft has completely revamped their certification paths starting in 2018, with the complete roll out starting in 2019. There is still some confusion out there in what are the different options available, what certs are available, and what are the prerequisites for each. There is some great documentation made by Microsoft out there, but it’s hard to find so I wanted to share it all out in a blog! None of those pictures were created by me, all of them are made by Microsoft, but hopefully this blog will make it a lot easier for you to find!
Apps and Infrastructure Azure Certifications Overview
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
PS : Check out my own Study Guide here as well : https://absolute-sharepoint.com/az-900-study-guide-microsoft-azure-fundamentals
Azure Administrator Associate
PS : Check out my own Study Guide here as well : https://absolute-sharepoint.com/az-103-study-guide-microsoft-azure-administrator
Azure Developer Associate
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Data and AI Certifications Overview
Azure Data Scientist Associate
Azure Data Engineer Associate
Azure AI Engineer Associate
Microsoft 365 Certifications Overview
Modern Desktop Administrator Associate
Teamwork Administrator Associate
Messaging Administrator Associate
Security Administrator Associate
Enterprise Administrator Expert
This is it for the blog post, you can find the original source of the documents over here.
Leave a comment and don’t forget to like the Absolute SharePoint Blog Page on Facebook and to follow me on Twitter here for the latest news and technical articles on SharePoint. I am also a Pluralsight author, and you can view all the courses I created on my author page.
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April 16, 2019
Meet the Speaker series: Mark Rackley
Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! I will release two interviews per week for the next two months (or more if you guys like it!)!
13th video in the series is the awesome Mark Rackley from Arkansas!
Meet Mark Rackley
Where to find Mark
You can find Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mrackley and his site at http://www.markrackley.net/
Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?
Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!
https://spvlad.com/SPC2019
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