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
by Cynthia Kreng
February 28, 2021
The team talks to Azure specialists Jeff Mitchell and Rob Kuehfus about the Enterprise Scale Landing Zones that are part of the Cloud Adoption Framework. These architectural templates allow enterprises to lay down an Azure footprint that is consistent with best practices in terms of security, governance, networking and identity and can be leveraged by new and existing Azure customers.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode367.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/5xshifBaj1E
Resources:
by Evan Basalik
February 22, 2021
by Sujit D'Mello
February 16, 2021
Evan and Sujit talk to Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects Matthew Garrett and Tyler Peterson about an interesting Open Source project they developed that can help customers reduce the consumption of resources in Azure. This innovative solution allows for lowering the service tiers in dev/test environments and can result in significant reduction of consumption costs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode365.mp3
Resources:
GitHub repo: https://github.com/Azure/bellhop
Documentation site: https://azure.github.io/bellhop/#/
Other updates:
General availability: Azure mobile app now supports Azure Government
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/azure-portal/mobile-app/
Today we’re announcing Microsoft Azure has increased the scope of its HITRUST CSF certification to include 172 Azure offerings across 49 Azure regions. Azure’s HITRUST certification letters are available on the Service Trust Portal and include the full list of HITRUST CSF certified Azure offerings and regions.
Azure has partnered with the HITRUST Alliance to deliver the HITRUST Shared Responsibility Matrix for Microsoft Azure. Azure customers can leverage Azure’s HITRUST CSF certification to inherit controls and apply them to their own assessments.
Azure customers can also accelerate their HITRUST CSF deployments by using Azure’s HITRUST Blueprint. This blueprint helps customers deploy a core set of policies by defining a repeatable set of standards, patterns, and requirements enforced across Azure resources.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/offerings/offering-hitrust
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ddos-protection-2020-year-in-review/
by Sujit D'Mello
February 11, 2021
Russell, Sujit, and Cynthia chat with Michael Collier about different considerations regarding Azure Functions ranging from virtual networking, hosting, common use cases and some of the existing limitations to be aware of.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode364.mp3
Other Updates:
Availability Zones now available in South Central US and Germany West Central
Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
Azure Security Center—General availability updates for January 2021
Azure API-Management Updates Jan 21
More Resources:
Michael's Blog
@michaelcollier
by Sujit D'Mello
February 4, 2021
by Cynthia Kreng
January 26, 2021
by Evan Basalik
January 21, 2021
Our hosts talk to Ben Cutler from the Project Natick team and learns about the experimental work Microsoft did hosting a datacenter at the bottom of the ocean. Don’t forget to check out the cool seal picture!
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode361.mp3
Resources: https://natick.research.microsoft.com
Other updates:
Azure SQL Database named among the top 3 databases of 2020
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sql-database-named-among-the-top-3-databases-of-2020/
Publishing Azure Container Instances from Docker CLI ( I think I did this one on a previous call -ken)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/publishing-azure-container-instances-from-docker-cli/
Jump Start your Developer Skills with Visual Studio Code Coding Packs
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/jump-start-your-developer-skills-with-visual-studio-code-coding/ba-p/2036765
Cross resource query between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer in public preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cross-resource-query-between-azure-monitor-and-azure-data-explorer-in-public-preview/