by Cale Teeter
May 13, 2021
The Azure Podcast hosters get together for a round-table discussion on NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) led by our resident Blockchain expert Cale Teeter. Cale explains what they are and why they are growing in importance. He also provides information on how Azure services such as compute and storage can help applications that want to leverage NFTs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode377.mp3
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/5NT8cZUjB38
Resources:
https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitty/1338266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrNOYudaMAc
Other resources:
Company officials are predicting that Microsoft will be building 50 to 100 new datacenters each year for the foreseeable future.
Microsoft currently operates more than 200 datacenters. Its currently operating and planned datacenters are located in 34 countries worldwide, networked with more than 165,000 miles of subsea cable, officials said. The company is expecting to add datacenters in at least 10 more countries in calendar 2021, with Malaysia being the most recently announced. Microsoft typically provides customers with Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 services in all of its cloud datacenters.
And last month, officials pledged to offer Azure Availability Zones in every country in which Microsoft publicly operates by the end of calendar 2021, plus offering Availability Zones in all new Azure regions Microsoft launches going forward.
https://www.msn.com/en-US/money/other/microsoft-we-re-on-pace-to-build-50-to-100-new-datacenters-each-year
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-static-web-apps-is-now-generally-available/
by Sujit D'Mello
May 6, 2021
by Evan Basalik
April 29, 2021
by Cynthia Kreng
April 24, 2021
by Evan Basalik
April 19, 2021
by Cynthia Kreng
April 7, 2021
The team talks to Azure Program Manager Mike Budzynski about the API Management service. He discusses the common use-cases for the service and tips to get started so you can expose your APIs securely.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode372.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZnrBuYq3HHs
Resources:
Other Updates:
Cloud Services (extended support) is generally available, migration tool in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cloud-services-extended-support-is-generally-available-migration-tool-in-preview/
Deepen the value chain for geospatial earth imagery on cloud using Azure Orbital
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepen-the-value-chain-for-geospatial-earth-imagery-on-cloud-using-azure-orbital/
Microsoft gets two-phase immersion cooling running in an Azure datacenter
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-gets-two-phase-immersion-cooling-running-in-an-azure-datacenter/
by Kendall Roden
April 5, 2021
by Cynthia Kreng
March 25, 2021
The Azure co-hosts had Gino Filicetti and Peter Laudati back after two years to talk about their latest development of the What The Hack initiative that has now grown to over 30 hacks. They also talk about ways to get involve and how everyone can leverage these hack guides and learn with any group one likes.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode370.mp3
YouTube Video
Resources:
Homepage: https://aka.ms/wthhome
Repository: https://aka.ms/wthrepo
How To Host a WTH: https://aka.ms/wthhost
How To Author a WTH: https://aka.ms/wthauthor
MSFT Employees: Propose a new hack: https://aka.ms/wthproposal
External Folks: Send an empty PR with your idea!
Other Updates:
Testing device registration health
You can use a PowerShell script to test the Internet connectivity to the following Microsoft resources under the system context to validate the connection status between the device that needs to be connected to Azure AD as hybrid Azure AD joined device and Microsoft resources that are used during device registration process. It also, checks for SSL/TLS handshake and report as failure if any.
· https://login.microsoftonline.com
· https://device.login.microsoftonline.com
· https://enterpriseregistration.windows.net
For more information, please see…
Test Device Registration Connectivity - Code Samples | Microsoft Docs
Perform at-scale, agentless SQL server discovery and assessment with Azure Migrate
Learn about the latest innovations: Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture
by Evan Basalik
March 19, 2021
The team meets with recurring guest Bob Ward and meet a new one, Anna Hoffman, to talk about their Learn Azure SQL video series.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode369.mp3
Resources:
https://aka.ms/azuresqlyt --> Data Exposed / Data Exposed Live / Azure SQL 61 video series
https://aka.ms/azuresqlbook --> Azure SQL Revealed
https://aka.ms/azuresqlfordevelopers --> Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers
https://aka.ms/learnliveazuresqlfundamentals --> Learn Live Azure SQL Fundamentals (6 week live series)
https://aka.ms/azuresqlfundamentals --> Learning Path on Microsoft Learn with free hands on exercises
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/I42ikJ1IfU8
Other updates:
Our commitment to expand Azure Availability Zones to more regions (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/our-commitment-to-expand-azure-availability-zones-to-more-regions/)
Limited-time free quantities offer for Azure Synapse Analytics
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/limited-time-free-quantities-offer-for-azure-synapse-analytics/
Do more for the National Security mission with Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/do-more-for-the-national-security-mission-with-azure/
by Evan Basalik
March 11, 2021