Episode 320 - COVID-19

by Cale Teeter March 24, 2020

The team gets together to share personal thoughts and experiences on working at home for extended periods of time and how Azure and other cloud vendors are helping the cause during this difficult time.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode320.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/f0d8448fcd/

Resources:

https://www-theverge-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/21/21189227/cdc-microsoft-chatbot-coronavirus-symptom-checker
https://hackorona.in.dev/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/our-commitment-to-customers-and-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/

Other updates:

Configure Azure Monitor log alert rules for recommendations and alerts exported from Security Center by taking advantage of Security Center's continuous export capabilities to Log Analytics Workspace.

How Azure Machine Learning service powers suggested replies in Outlook
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-machine-learning-service-powers-suggested-replies-in-outlook/

New Deploy to Azure extension for Visual Studio Code
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-deploy-to-azure-extension-for-visual-studio-code/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-research-covid-19-literature-dataset-eric-horvitz/
https://www.bing.com/covid
https://www.coepi.org/
http://privatekit.mit.edu/
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/03/20/delivering-information-and-eliminating-bottlenecks-with-cdcs-covid-19-assessment-bot/

Azure Security Center—Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service is now available

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-security-center-s-threat-protection-for-azure-kubernetes-service-is-now-generally-available/>

Protect your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities with Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network from Microsoft. Web Application Firewall is already natively integrated with Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door services.
Apply the firewall policies to protect your Azure Content Delivery Network endpoints from malicious attacks. A Web Application Firewall security policy may consist of an ordered list of custom match rules, rate limit rules, or Azure-managed pre-configuration rules.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-web-application-firewall-waf-for-azure-content-delivery-network-cdn-from-microsoft-service-is-in-preview/>


How Azure Machine Learning service powers suggested replies in Outlook

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-machine-learning-service-powers-suggested-replies-in-outlook/>

[Preview] Joining a Live Share session from the browser

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/quickstart/browser-join


Cognitive Services introduces new Neural Text to Speech voices for different styles
Updated: March 18, 2020
We are announcing new style voices for Neural Text to Speech. Neural Text to Speech enables fluid, natural-sounding speech that matches the patterns and intonation of human voices. New speaking styles allow you to tailor your voice for different scenarios, such as expressing different emotions, like cheerfulness or empathy. We are excited to be rolling out new speaking styles for newscast, voice assistant, and customer service scenarios for our English and Chinese neural voices.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cognitive-services-introduces-new-neural-text-to-speech-voices-for-different-styles/>


Azure Web Application Firewall service protects your web applications from malicious attacks. In addition to Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door service, Web Application Firewall is now natively integrated with Azure Content Delivery Network, protecting Content Delivery Network endpoints from common exploits such as SQL injection and cross site scripting (XSS) attacks.


Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications preview now available
Updated: March 18, 2020
Azure Shared Disks is a shared block storage offering, enabling customers to run latency-sensitive workloads without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for fast failover and high availability. Azure Shared Disks are best suited for clustered databases, parallel file systems, persistent containers, and machine learning applications.
Azure Shared Disks provide a consistent experience for applications running on Windows or Linux based clusters today. These include, Global File System 2 (GFS2), SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), Scale-out File Servers (SoFS) which leverage SCSI Persistent Reservations (PR) to handle cluster node communication as well as write locking.
Visit the Azure Shared Disk blog
Learn More about Enable Shared Disk
Learn More about Azure Disk Storage

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-shared-disks-for-clustered-applications-preview-now-available/>


Azure Database for MySQL—Connection redirection support for PHP drivers
Updated: March 18, 2020
Redirection support for the mysqlnd PHP driver used to connect to Azure Database for MySQL is now available in preview. Take advantage of the mysqlnd_azure extension to improve the connection latency between applications and Azure Database for MySQL. This new redirection support allows the gateway to return the backend database server address to the client driver. Subsequent connections then use this address to connect directly to the Azure Database for MySQL server.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-database-for-mysql-connection-redirection-support-for-php-drivers/>

 

 

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Episode 319 - Machine Learning Options

by Sujit D'Mello March 15, 2020

Evan and Sujit talk to Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Jose Medina about the options we have to run Machine Learning workloads in Azure and provides some great tips on how to pick the right option and what development tools are available.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode319.mp3

Transcription: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/f4a096fe20/?location=EUS2

 

 

 

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Episode 318 - This and That

by Cynthia Kreng March 8, 2020

Cynthia and Sujit discuss a couple of things they are working on including training for the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam and using Azure Files for remote software development.

See the source image

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode318.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/0c405a46ce/

Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-linux

 

Other updates:


Because Azure Resource Manager now has all the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capabilities of Azure Service Management and new advancements, we’ll retire classic IaaS VMs on March 1, 2023.
If you use IaaS resources from ASM, please complete your migration by March 1, 2023. We encourage you to make the switch sooner to take advantage of these feature enhancements in Azure Resource Manager:
• Enables deploying complex applications through templates.
• Includes scalable, parallel deployment for virtual machines into availability sets.
• Provides lifecycle management of compute, network and storage independently.
• Enables security by default with the enforcement of virtual machines in a virtual network.
How does this affect me?
Beginning today, customers who are not currently using classic IaaS VMs, will not be able to create new classic VMs.
Beginning March 1, 2023, customers who are using classic IaaS VMs will no longer be able to start any classic IaaS VMs using ASM. Any remaining VMs in a running or stopped-allocated state will be moved to a stopped-deallocated state.
The following Azure services and functionality will NOT be impacted by this retirement: Cloud Services, storage accounts NOT used by classic VMs, and virtual networks (VNets) NOT used by classic VMs.
What actions should I take?
To avoid service disruption, migrate your IaaS resources from classic IaaS VMs to Resource Manager by March 1, 2023. We recommend migrating sooner to start using the feature enhancements in Resource Manager.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/we-re-retiring-azure-classic-vms-on-march-1-2023/>


ExpressRoute Global Reach: Building your own cloud-based global backbone
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/expressroute-global-reach-building-your-own-cloud-based-global-backbone/

Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – February 2020
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-billing-updates-february-2020/

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Episode 317 - Azure Lighthouse Security

by Cale Teeter March 2, 2020
In this episode we chat with Gunnar Campo on Azure Lighthouse, which provides partners with an easy way to run managed solutions for customers, and manage this via a single plan of glass.  Gunnar talks through the various areas that Lighthouse helps here with RBAC, scaling, and monitoring of these solutions.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode317.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/fb6da9345b/

 

Other updates:

Azure Monitor Log Analytics now has new, upgraded visualizations

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-monitor-log-analytics-upgraded-results-visualization/>

Fileless attack detection for Linux in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fileless-attack-detection-for-linux-in-preview/

Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/burst-4k-encoding-on-azure-kubernetes-service/

A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere now generally available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-secure-foundation-for-iot-azure-sphere-now-generally-available/

Preview of Active Directory authentication support on Azure Files
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-of-active-directory-for-authentication-on-azure-file/

 

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Episode 316 - SAP on Azure

by Sujit D'Mello February 24, 2020

Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, Marc Böhnke, gives us the low-down on the partnership between SAP and Azure and the technical details that that has resulted in the ERP software to be easily accessible in Microsoft's cloud platform.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode316.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/40cb937dc4/?location=EUS2

Resources:


Embrace:
https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/01/1a87f51d-7d7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP Reference architectures on Azure:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/sap/sap-s4hana

Some examples for Integrationscenarios on GitHub from my colleague Roman Broich he uses in Partner Bootcamps:
https://github.com/ROBROICH

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/introducing-the-new-azure-logs-table-pane-schema/


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/migrate-tutorial-windows-server-2008
Extended Security Updates in Azure: Customers who migrate workloads to Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three years after the End of Support dates for no additional charges above the cost of running the virtual machine. For many customers, this is an easy first step before upgrading or modernizing with newer versions or services in Azure. Those that decide to move to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (PaaS) will also have access to continuous security updates, as this is a fully managed solution. Customers do not need Software Assurance to receive Extended Security Updates in Azure.

From <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/extended-security-updates>


Azure Virtual Network—Network address translation is now in preview
Updated: February 18, 2020
Azure Virtual Network now offers network address translation (NAT) (in preview) to simplify outbound-only internet connectivity for virtual networks. All outbound connectivity uses the public IP address and/or public IP prefix resources connected to the virtual network NAT. Outbound connectivity is possible without a load balancer or public IP addresses directly attached to virtual machines. Virtual Network NAT Preview is fully managed, highly resilient.

New Azure Firewall certification and features in Q1 CY2020
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-firewall-certification-and-features-in-q1-cy2020/
SQL Server runs best on Azure. Here’s why.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sql-server-runs-best-on-azure-heres-why/

Azure Offline Backup with Azure Data Box now in preview

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-offline-backup-with-azure-data-box-now-in-preview/>

Private Link:
Azure Private Link is a secure and scalable way for Azure customers to consume Azure Services (such as Storage, SQL, and Cosmos DB) or Customer Own services (for example, Partner Service and BYOS) privately from within their virtual network. Private Link brings in true private connectivity experience between services and virtual networks. The technology is based on a provider and consumer model where the provider and the consumer are both hosted in Azure. A connection is established using a consent-based call flow and, once established, all data that flows between the service provider and the service consumer is isolated from the internet and stays on the Microsoft network. There’s no need for gateways, NAT devices, or public IP addresses to communicate with this service.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-private-link-is-now-available/>

Azure Backup offline-backup with Azure Data Box
Updated: February 19, 2020
Now Azure Backup customers can take advantage of Azure Data Box to move large backups of critical enterprise data through offline mechanisms. With this preview, customers will be able to use Azure Data Box (100 TB appliance) and Azure Data Box disks (up to 8 TB each) with the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent to seed large initial backups (up to 80 TB per server) offline to an Azure Recovery Services Vault. Subsequent backups will take place over the network.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-backup-offlinebackup-with-azure-data-box/>

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Episode 315 - Spot VMs

by Evan Basalik February 19, 2020

Senior Azure PM Varun Shandilya talks to the team about Spot VMs and gives us some great tips on tricks on when and how to leverage these low-cost VM SKUs.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode315.mp3

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Other updates:

Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview
Updated: February 07, 2020
Establish a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link, now available in preview for all public regions.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/key-vault-private-endpoint/>

 

Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean
Updated: February 07, 2020
The sentiment analysis v3 feature of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now supports Korean in addition to English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch. 

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/sentiment-v3-preview-updates3/>


Backup Explorer is now in preview
Updated: February 07, 2020
Azure Backup now offers a new solution called Backup Explorer (in preview). Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor Workbook enabling you to have a single pane of glass to perform real-time monitoring across your entire backup estate on Azure.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/backup-explorer-public-preview-2/>


Azure Stream Analytics—Machine learning–based anomaly detection functions
Updated: February 06, 2020
Easily add anomaly detection capabilities to your Stream Analytics jobs without the requirement to develop and train your own machine learning models. Ready-to-use unsupervised learning ML models are provided within the SQL language

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/machine-learningbased-anomaly-detection-functions-in-azure-stream-analytics-general-availability/>

Advancing safe deployment practices
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-safe-deployment-practices/

Check out Azure for Education.
 
Build, deploy, and manage applications with comprehensive Azure cloud services. Whether you’re a student getting started, an educator teaching advanced workloads, or just interested in building cloud-based skills in your community, we’ve got the cloud development resources you need.
 
Azure for Students
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/
 
Azure for Students FAQ
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-students-faq/
 
Azure for Students Starter FAQ
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students-starter-faq/

 

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Episode 314 - Azure Sphere

by Sujit D'Mello February 11, 2020

Senior Microsoft App-Dev Consultant, Avon Gonzales, fresh from the internal Microsoft Ready conference, shares his passion and learnings about Azure Sphere and IoT in general.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode314.mp3

Transcription: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/76066d068b/?location=EUS2

 

Other updates:

Azure Site Recovery now supports customer-managed keys

From https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-site-recovery-now-supports-customer-managed-keys/

Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore using Azure Virtual machine backup solution

From https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/excludediskpreview/

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Episode 313 - SQL 2019 Big Data Clusters

by Evan Basalik January 31, 2020

Principal Architect Bob Ward makes another appearance to give us the latest technical details on the advances in SQL 2019 Big Data Clusters on Azure.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode313.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/7984c7be05/?location=EUS2

 

 

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Episode 312 - Azure FarmBeats

by Cale Teeter January 24, 2020

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Episode 311 - Pivotal on Azure

by Sujit D'Mello January 15, 2020

Jason Stevens, a Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, explains how Pivotal software can be deployed on Azure and gives us fascinating insights into some of the magic behind the scenes that makes it happen.

 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode311.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/c1d626922f/?location=EUS2

Resources:

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
https://pivotal.io/partners/microsoft-azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/pivotal/

 

Other updates:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/solving-tls1-problem


Azure Lab Services—Virtual machine shutdown for Windows users

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-lab-services-virtual-machine-shutdown-for-windows-users/>

 

Azure Lab Services—Multiple owners for lab and lab management

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-lab-services-multiple-owners-for-lab-and-lab-management/>


Azure DevTest Labs—Browser connect now generally available

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devtest-labs-browser-connect-now-generally-available/>


Learning from cryptocurrency mining attack scripts on Linux
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/learning-from-cryptocurrency-mining-attack-scripts-on-linux/

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