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Well, new years is around the corner and I took some time to look up what the next few topics I need to learn are. Here are the courses I have choses from MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) for spring 2015 !

As you’ll see, they span a wide breath of topics, and I actually can’t wait to do the licensing courses (yep) as turns out I get a lot of questions about that during different projects.

• Office 365 Fundamentals
  Office 365 Fundamentals examines the building blocks of Office 365 and the evolving role of IT Professionals. Microsoft Office 365 is a combination of the cloud services and the latest productivity applications. The course starts with examining the Office 365 architecture from the prospective of the IT Professional, then takes the student through deploying Office 365 and finishes with rolling out changes to applications and services.
• Licensing Programs’ Fundamentals
  In this course, we look at licensing basics and clarify the various ways to acquire licenses for Microsoft software and services so you can choose the right licensing for your company’s needs. We take a look at the new Server and Cloud Enrollment, available only through the Enterprise Agreement (EA), and we look at the availability of Office 365 cloud services through the EA. We touch on the benefits of Software Assurance (SA), and then we review Microsoft Payment Solutions, designed to help qualified customers manage their cash flow more strategically.
• Licensing Windows Server 2012 R2
  With Windows Server 2012 R2, customers receive the capabilities they need to meet today’s transforming IT. In this course, we review Windows Server 2012 R2 benefits and features and look at the editions. Then, we discuss licensing details, including how to license Windows Server 2012 R2, and we focus on the exciting new licensing from Microsoft—The Server and Cloud Enrollment, available through the Enterprise Agreement (EA).
• Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin & Visual Studio
  Want to build an app, start to finish, and share it across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms? Check out this course! Join the experts, and build a sample app, sharing as much C# code as possible across the three platforms. Get an introduction to Xamarin and how to use it with Visual Studio 2013.
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  Are you an experienced IT Pro? Want to know more about Microsoft Azure? Join the always-entertaining Bob Tabor as he delivers the first of four courses that teach you the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure.
• Implementing Big Data Analysis
  Working with big data? Need to make more sense of it—for your own information and for others in your organization? Watch this Jump Start to learn how to use Windows Azure HDInsight to process big data and to generate results for analysis and reporting with Microsoft data tools, including SQL Server 2014 and Office.
• Building Responsive UI with Bootstrap
  Devs, are you looking to easily create webpages that work cross-platform and that scale well to different screen sizes? Join us to explore Bootstrap, the popular framework that makes it easy for all skill levels to create rich UIs for users, regardless of device.
• Single Page Applications with jQuery or AngularJS
  Devs, want to translate your MVC .NET skills to the web platform? Take advantage of jQuery and AngularJS to dynamically update HTML5-based apps, and learn how AJAX works for asynchronous calls. Simplify the development process by separating the model, view, and controller for your web apps, enabling your content to work within a browser and within Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps.
• Implementing Data Models & Reports with Microsoft SQL Server
  Are you a business intelligence (BI) developer, focusing on creating BI solutions? If your solutions require implementing multidimensional data models, implementing and maintaining OLAP cubes, and creating information displays used in business decision-making, this course is for you. Learn from the experts, and get lots of practical information and tips you can use right away.
• Designing BI Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server
  If you’re a business intelligence (BI) professional, and you’d like some tips and ideas for implementing BI solutions, check out this course. Experts walk BI pros through how to plan and design a BI solution based on SQL Server 2014 and other Microsoft BI technologies. Learn how to plan a data warehouse infrastructure, define an appropriate disaster recovery approach, balance query‐based processing versus filter-based processing, and more.
• Excel 2013 Power BI Fundamentals
  Need help making sense of tons of information? Are you interested in data visualization? Access to business intelligence (BI) has become a priority for many companies. Power BI in Excel 2013 provides an expansive set of features that enable dynamic reports and presentations of the most relevant data.
• From Data to Insight and Impact: The BI Revolution
  As a finance professional, you use Excel every day. Did you know that Excel has advanced data visualization capabilities in Power View and Power BI that can change the way you work? Stop creating static presentations for business reviews, and start having proactive conversations with your business partners. Gone are the days of waiting for IT to create or edit a report so you can answer a question.
• Getting Started with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
  If you’re not a data scientist, but you’re interested in data mining and predictive analytics, and you want to go beyond just reporting the numbers, check out this course on Azure Machine Learning (ML). ML is the inexpensive, easy-to-access, and powerful predictive analytics offering from Microsoft.

Happy learning !