Ctrl+Alt+Azure (Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine)

• About Application Gateways (Microsoft)
• Manager web traffic with an application gateway using Azure PowerShell (Microsoft)
• Autoscaling and zone-redundant AG V2 (Microsoft)
• Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Tobi & Jussi)

Follow along when we talk a bit about considerations and practices for Azure development at scale. Performance, caching, redundancies and more - some good tips for thinking before kicking off development.

Show notes:

• Azure Application Architecture (Microsoft)
• Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis (Zimmergren)
• Caching Best Practices (Microsoft)
• Cloud Design Patterns (Microsoft)
• Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)
• Using  Azure Automate to run PowerShell runbooks (Microsoft)
• Reflections on Logic Apps (Ctrl+Alt+Azure episode 006)

• Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)
• RBAC Roles and Permissions (Microsoft)
• ACR and Security Center integration (Microsoft)
• Authenticate with an Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)
• Authenticate to ACR with Managed Identities (Microsoft)
• Repository-scoped Permissions for ACR (Microsoft)
• Content trust in Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)
• Content trust and Azure DevOps (Microsoft)
• Azure Container Registry Unleashed – ACR up and running (Thorsten Hans)
• Content trust in Docker (Docker)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:53) - Show content starts.

Show links

• Microsoft Ignite (Microsoft)

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In this week's episode, we look at recent Azure updates. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring? We found updates for Azure Bastion Host, Virtual Network Manager, Defender for Cloud, and many others. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:48) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Bastion Premium
- How to use Virtual Network Verifier
- isNestedVirtualizationSupported
- Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
- Defender for Endpoint with Defender for Cloud Apps: macOS support
- Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
- Azure Web Application Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security (preview)
- Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI

- Give us feedback!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:47) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Overview of Defender for Cloud (Microsoft Docs)
- Microsoft Entra (Microsoft Docs)
- Overview of PIM (Microsoft Docs)
- Jussi with his new reading glasses (Twitter)

Bonus links:
- Favorite security-focused open-source workbooks for Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel (Zimmergren)
- Track your Secure Score over time in Azure (Zimmergren)

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In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:54) - Show content starts.

Show links

- JavaScript challenge on Azure WAF integrated with Azure Front Door

- Enforce passwordless with Azure Cache for Redis

- Retirement: Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025 (microsoft.com)

- Retirement: Migrating to TLS 1.2+ with the Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols (microsoft.com)

- Retirement: Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment is retired as of August 31, 2024 (microsoft.com)

- Retirement: Azure HDInsight on AKS will retire on January 31, 2025 (microsoft.com)

- New Copilot+ PCs with Intel and AMD CPUs

- Cloud.microsoft details

- Public Preview: Customer managed planned failover for Azure Storage (microsoft.com)

- Monitoring traffic flows in Azure Firewall using VNet Flow Logs

- Generally Available: Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant by 15 October 2024 (microsoft.com)

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Today, we'll talk about cost management and FinOps, and we have Paola Annis from Microsoft as the expert on this. What's FinOps again? What are companies focusing on as part of FinOps? We consider the different aspects of FinOps, and reflect how it looked in the back compared to today. Also, Jussi asks Paola an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:42) - Show content starts.

Show links
- https://data.finops.org/#11755
- https://data.finops.org/#11757

 - Give us feedback!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:43) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Andrew Connell contact info: Blog, Twitter, YouTube, Voitanos
- How to create Azure Function Apps with Bicep (YouTube)
- How to: CI/CD/IaC for Azure Function Apps and GitHub Actions (YouTube)

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• Sideloading a custom Linux distro
• Building a local WordPress test environment using Windows 10, Docker Desktop, and WSL 2 (Jussi)
• Installing WSL 2 (Microsoft Docs)

In this week's episode we're diving head first into Azure OpenAI. Let's talk about the service, how it relates to OpenAI and ChatGPT, what models to use, how and why. What does it cost? And will this change everything? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:50) - Show content starts.

Show links
- How to get access to Azure OpenAI?
- A practical look at Azure OpenAI (Jussi)

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In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:04) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365
- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel | Microsoft Learn
- Face Check in GA
- GitHub Models and instructions
- Microsoft 365 - Copilot for Microsoft 365 Risk Assessment QuickStart
- New Outlook is GA
- Microsoft AI Tour 2024

- Give us feedback!

This week, we talk about Entra Suite. What is it? We tackled Entra ID plans previously, but now we have Entra Suite. What's included, who should get it, and how much does it cost?  Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:27) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Entra Suite
- The Microsoft vision for a trust fabric | Microsoft Security Blog
- Episode 235: Entra SSE

- Give us feedback!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:30) - Show content starts.

Show links

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• Azure Bicep on GitHub
• PSArm
• Thread on Twitter about Azure Bicep likes and dislikes (thanks @ryanyates1990 & @CloudCristoph!)
• Getting started with Azure Bicep (Tobi)

In this episode, we'll look at SecOps or Security Operations. What is it, and what are the elements one should consider? What about SOC, how does it tie into all of this? Lastly, we discuss the tools and services within Azure that are essential for any SecOps work. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:55) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Introduction to Security operations (SecOps) - Training
- MCRA
- SAF

- Give us feedback!

In this episode we dive into a discussion around developing on Azure. Whether you're just getting started, or a seasoned developer, we'll take a look at what's involved when you want to start building solutions on Azure.

Tag along for this episode where we're reflecting a bit on what's essential in developing solutions on Azure!

Show links:

• Visual Studio Online
• Azure Pricing Calculator 
• How Azure pricing works
• Get Visual Studio 2019

In this episode, we talk about lessons learned from using MacOS (and a MacBook Pro) instead of relying on Windows for all of our work. What works? What doesn't? What's been challenging? Would we recommend this to everyone? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:39) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Give us feedback!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:32) - Show content starts.

Show links

• Sustainability guidance for Azure with the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft Docs)
• Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB) (Microsoft Docs)
• Azure Savings Plan for Compute (TechCommunity)

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:10) - Show content starts.

Show links
- SFTP on Azure Storage (Microsoft Docs)
- Building a modern data integration solution using SFTP (Jussi)

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Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talks about Microsoft Azure Certifications, and different angles on if they are still important, what the experience is today versus in the past, differences between beta- and released exams and a lot more.

Links:

• Role-Based Certification Exams (Microsoft)
• How to prepare and succeed with exams (Jussi Roine)

In this episode, we talk about Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions. Our guest, Panu Oksala, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about these two services. Also, Tobi asks Panu an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:43) - Community highlights.
(03:28) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Niek Palm: Safer GitHub administration through IssueOps
- Daniel Margetic: Cloud Adoption Security (microsoft.com

Show links
- Panu Oksala on Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog
- Understanding GitHub Actions
- What is Azure Pipelines?
- Gold-diggers association: https://www.kullankaivajat.fi
- Sisu, the movie

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• Windows 365 overview (Microsoft Docs)
• Pricing for Windows 365 (Microsoft)
• A look at Windows 365 (Jussi)

In this episode, we find updates on Defender for Cloud, Azure Container Instances, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Virtual Desktop, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:50) - Community highlights.
(04:49) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Eleanor Berger: Grounding LLMs
- Joseph Dadzie: Microsoft Entra ID Governance is generally available

Show links

- Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

- Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

- Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers

- Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
- Release notes for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor

- Public Preview: Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by the Azure Monitor Agent

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• Azure CDN documentation (Microsoft)
• Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft)
• Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft)
• Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!)
• Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)

In this episode, we reflect on what it takes to work with security in Azure. What are the skillsets? What general experience and knowledge should you have? What about certifications? And how do we learn new stuff? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:00) - Community highlights.
(04:15) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Merill Fernando: Entra Newsletter
- Aaron Powell: Generative AI and .NET - Part 1 Intro

Show links
- Microsoft Fabric - get started!
- Microsoft certifications: AZ-500, SC-100, AZ-305
- Other certifications: CISSP, CompTIA Security+

- Give us feedback!

This week, as it's the summer holiday season, we discuss our plans for interesting Azure projects. What to study, try out, and what's a long-forgotten project to resume? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:36) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Bastion Premium
- Llama3 fine-tuning: Meta, Azure AI Studio
- GrovePi Internet of Things Robot Kit

- Give us feedback!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:52) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Jussi's cake
- Azure Well-architected Framework (Microsoft Docs)
- WAF assessments (Microsoft Docs)

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:00) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Signal announcement on the proxy (Signal)
- Running a Signal Proxy (Jussi)

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So many Copilots! We take a look at Copilot for Azure, which was announced during Ignite 2023. What can you do with it? What's our experience using it? How does it relate to other Copilots, such as GitHub Copilot Chat. Who benefits from this capability? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:27) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Sign up: https://aka.ms/MSCopilotforAzurePreviewRequest
- Product docs: Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) overview | Microsoft Learn
- Tech community post: Simplify IT management with Microsoft Copilot for Azure

- Give us feedback!

• Azure Migrate Overview (Microsoft)
• Getting started with Azure Migrate: Migrating an on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure (Jussi)
• Migrate to the Cloud with Azure Migrate (e-book, Microsoft)
• Cloud Migration Simplified: A new framework for migrating infrastructure, data, and applications (e-book, Microsoft)
• Azure Migrate in Cloud Adoption Framework (Jussi)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:07) - Show content starts.

Show links

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• Azure Cloud Shell can run in an isolated virtual network (preview)
• Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available
• Eight new recommendations to enable threat protection features
• Container security improvements - faster registry scanning and refreshed documentation
• Vulnerability assessment for virtual machines is now available for non-marketplace images
• Choose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accounts
• All Azure updates (Microsoft)

• Chaos Monkey (Netflix)
• Chaos Monkey docs (Netflix)
• Chaos Engineering (Wikipedia)

In this episode, we talk about Azure services we don't know enough about. Perhaps they are rare and uncommon, or we're simply not exposed to specific industries or projects where these are needed. During our journey this week, we learn a lot more about a lot of Azure services. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:55) - Community highlights.
(04:20) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Aymen: Turn any YouTube Channel Into a Chatbot
- David Giard: Increasing Developer Velocity (davidgiard.com)

Show links
- Azure IPAM
- R Server for HDInsight
- Azure Spring Apps
- Azure Operator Nexus
- Azure Orbital Ground Station
- Avere vFXT for Azure
- Azure Sphere
- Azure Lab Services
- Azure Quantum
- Jussi's Q# and Azure Quantum journey
- Azure Space
- Azure PlayFab

- Give us feedback!

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• Cognitive Services overview (Microsoft)
• Cognitive Services language support (Microsoft)
• Container support (Microsoft)
• Pricing (Microsoft)
• Language Understanding (LUIS) (Microsoft)
• Custom Vision (Microsoft)

• Log Analytics Open in Excel (Azure Updates)
• Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (Microsoft Docs)
• Migrate Azure Monitor Application Insights smart detection to alerts (Microsoft Docs)
• Public preview: Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall (Azure Updates)
• Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona (Azure Updates) - see also here
• GA: Azure Defender for Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server (Azure Updates)
• Now Available: Pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor to help you reduce costs (Azure Updates)

Show links

- Felt (mug) coasters we use (Minimaldesktop)

 - GA: Audit Logs for Azure Monitor Log Queries

- GA: Availability of custom OpenID providers in App Service and Azure Functions

- GA: Disable local admin accounts for new AKS clusters when using AAD

- Preview: Azure AD and Kerberos (Microsoft Docs)

- FSLogix overview (Microsoft Docs)

- Preview: Azure Load Testing (Microsoft Docs)

- GA: VPN Gateway NAT (Microsoft Docs)

- GA: Virtual Machine Selector (Microsoft)

- Preview + opt-in: SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage (Microsoft Docs)

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• Azure AD App Proxy licensing (Microsoft Docs)
• Building secure access to Teslamate using Azure (Jussi)
• Publishing Qlik via Azure AD App Proxy (Microsoft Docs)

• Developer Velocity Assessment tool (Microsoft)
• What is Developer Velocity (Microsoft)
• A look at Developer Velocity (Jussi)

• Vesa Tikkanen on Twitter
• Vesa Tikkanen on LinkedIn
• Azure Synapse Analytics (Microsoft Docs)
• Azure Databricks (Microsoft Docs)
• Getting started with Snowflake on Azure (Snowflake.com)

• Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service in public preview (Microsoft Azure)
• Application Insights work item integration in Azure Monitor (Microsoft Docs) 
• Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor (Azure Updates)
• Azure Cache for Redis Event Grid overview (Microsoft Docs)
• New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor (Azure Updates)
• Using Policy with Azure Site Recovery (Microsoft Docs)
• Upgrade your infrastructure with the latest Dv5/Ev5 Azure VMs in preview (Microsoft Blog)
• Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup (Microsoft Blog)
• URL Rewrite for Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft Docs)
• Open Source API Portal (GitHub repo)

In this episode, we refresh our knowledge of Azure AI services. What used to be called Azure Cognitive Services has now changed a bit. We take a look at the services, the capabilities, and the use cases. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:10) - Community highlights.
(04:17) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Christopher Graham: Microsoft Azure resource groups: Introduction and best practices
- Andy Beatman: Use your own data to create a Power Virtual Agent with Azure OpenAI Service

Show links
- What are Azure AI Services?
- Multi-service resources

- Give us feedback!

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In this week's episode we talk about Azure Quantum with Elaine van Bergen from Microsoft. What is quantum? What about Azure Quantum? Who can build solutions, and what sort of solutions can you build? We try not to understand the math, but we want to understand everythin else. Also, Tobi asks Elaine an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:57) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Get started with Azure Quantum - Training | Microsoft Learn
- Starting your journey to become quantum-safe | Microsoft Security Blog
- Advancing science: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits on record with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits - The Official Microsoft Blog
- Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia
- Azure Quantum | Learn about quantum and cryptography (microsoft.com)
- Azure Quantum | Elements Overview (microsoft.com)

- Give us feedback!

• 29 preview recommendations in Azure Security Benchmark 
• NIST SP 800 171 R2 added to the regulatory compliance dashboard 
• Recommendations list now includes filters 
• Auto provisioning experience improved and expanded 
• Secure score is now available in continuous export (preview) 
• "System updates should be installed on your machines" recommendation now includes sub-recommendations 
• Policy management page in the Azure portal now shows status of default policy assignments
• Azure Storage Account Blob inventory (Microsoft Docs) 
• Implement Azure Policy as Code with GitHub (Microsoft Docs) 
• Understanding provisioning for Premium file shares (Microsoft Docs) 
• Azure Purview (Microsoft Docs) 
• Anti-virus logs in App Service logs (App Service Blog) 
• Updates to Logic Apps runtime (Microsoft Blog) 
• Denmark Azure region (Microsoft Blog)

• Securing Microsoft Teams (Tobias Zimmergren)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:31) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box  (Microsoft Docs)
- GA: Azure API Management - 11 new policies (Microsoft Docs)
- GA: Qatar cloud region (Microsoft Azure)
- Cyber Signals (Microsoft Security blog)
- Public preview: Update management center (Microsoft Azure)
- Public preview: Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports private endpoints testing (Microsoft Docs)
- Public preview: Use managed identity-based authentication to enable Az Monitor container insights (Microsoft Docs)
- GA: Audit log for continuous mode with Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft Docs)
- Public preview: Policy blocking the deployment of vulnerable images (GitHub)
- GA: Azure App Service Environment v3 supports custom domain suffices (Microsoft Docs)

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This week we talk about security fundamentals - specifically, how and why to prepare for the SC-900 fundamentals exam. What topic areas are included, where to study, and what to expect during the exam? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:25) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Study Guide (Overview): RE4Mr81 (microsoft.com)
- Microsoft Learn (Free): Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals: Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity
- Security documentation: Microsoft security documentation

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:45) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Tamás contact info (Linkedin)
- Cost reservation types (Microsoft Docs)
- Capacity reservations (Microsoft Docs)
- Discount application (Microsoft Docs)
- Instance flexibility (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure Cost Management Data in Power BI (Microsoft Docs)
- Cost Management App (AppSource)

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In this episode, we find updates on Azure for containers, Azure Storage, and Azure Firewall, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:53) - Community highlights.
(05:05) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- The NSA: NSA Releases Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network
- Yoav Dobrin: MLOps & GitHub Actions (Tech Community)

Show links

- Preview: Azure Container Storage!
- GA: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- GA: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
- GA: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
- GA: Azure Backup Server V4
- GA: Azure Storage Mover
- Preview: Azure Cold Storage

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• Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)
• Strategy skills (Microsoft)

• Azure Front Door overview (Microsoft)
• Azure Front Door POP (Microsoft)
• Azure Front Door Rules Engine (Microsoft) Preview

• Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft Docs)
• Ctrl+Alt+Azure Episode #026 - Succeeding with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Azure Automanage overview (Microsoft Docs)

• Testing application fault resiliency
• Automate Always On availability group deployments with SQL Virtual Machine resource provider
• Azure Cache for Visual Studio Code Extension (Preview)
• ASC: Security principals recommendation
• AKS: CVE-2020-8559 information (GitHub)
• Durable Functions v2.3.0 (GitHub)

Last week's Microsoft Build 2024 is fresh on our minds, and we take a deeper look at the hero announcements. Copilot+ PCs and AI in general are top of mind for us, because that was also what Build was essentially about. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:58) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Build 2024
- Build 2024 Book of News
- Copilot+ PCs
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 232 - Diving into Azure AI Studio
- What is Azure AI Studio? - Azure AI Studio | Microsoft Learn

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• Azure AD authentication for App Insights (Microsoft Docs)
• Work item integration (Microsoft Docs)
• Availability tests overview (Microsoft Docs)
• Using Azure Application Insights to monitor for expiring SSL certificates (Jussi)
• Downtime, SLA and outages workbook (Microsoft Docs)
• Alert based smart detection for App Insights (Microsoft Docs)
• Easily create tickets from Azure Monitor to Azure DevOps or GitHub (Tobias)

This week's episode discusses the security module of the Azure Well-Architected Framework. What's in there, how to utilize the content, and what areas does it cover? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:32) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Well-Architected Framework: Security
- Azure Well-Architected Framework Review
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security - Training | Microsoft Learn

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In this episode, we take a look at recent updates to Azure. What's new, what's in preview, and what's interesting? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:30) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Release notes - Microsoft Defender for Cloud

- Detect threats quickly with near-real-time (NRT) analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel

- Analytics with Azure Synapse Link - Azure Cosmos DB | Microsoft Learn

- Azure SQL trigger for Functions

- Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs

- azure_ai extension for PostgreSQL

- Microsoft Fabric reservations

- Private subnet

- Defender for APIs

- Give us feedback!

The Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) recently got a big rewrite. We take Operational Excellence, a pillar from WAF, for a deeper look with Bastian Ulke from Microsoft. What is it? How should you utilize this pillar? Bastian also talks about the recommendations and patterns within Operational Excellence. Also, Tobi asks Bastian an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:41) - Show content starts.

Show links

- WAF: OpEx

- Give us feedback!

We've covered the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) in the past. It also got a significant rewrite recently, and this week, we look at the updated Reliability pillar with Bastian Ulke from Microsoft. What is it? How should you utilize this pillar? Bastian also talks about the recommendations and patterns within Reliability. Also, Bastian asks Tobias an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:18) - Show content starts.

Show links

- WAF: Reliability
- 228 - The updated Operational Excellence pillar in the Azure Well-Architected Framework with Bastian Ulke

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• Best Practices for building Azure Functions (Zimmergren)
• Reflections on Azure Logic Apps (Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast)
• Event Grid message delivery and retry (Microsoft Docs)
• Subscription and tenant limits / throttling (Microsoft Docs)

In this week's episode, we take a first look at Azure Storage Actions. What is this new feature, and why should you use it? Does it differ from existing capabilities that do the same thing? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:11) - Show content starts.

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- Azure Storage Actions
- Introducing Azure Storage Actions: Serverless storage data management

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• Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)
• Download the framework as a single PDF (Microsoft)
• Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)
• A blog post announcing the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)

This week, we discuss security assessments and our experiences performing them. What should we consider, and what are the key elements before getting started? What tools should we use, and what is the overall process? We also reflect on security in general and risk and threat considerations. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:26) - Show content starts.

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- Microsoft cloud security benchmark | Microsoft Learn
- awesome-azure-security (github.com)
- Azure Tenant Security Solution (AzTS) (github.com)
- CIS Benchmark for Azure

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• Overview of Azure Communication Services (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Mechanics video on the service (Youtube)
• Get a phone number (Microsoft)
• Events supported by ACS (Microsoft)
• Hero sample on group chat (Microsoft)

• Breaking changes in Functions Runtime v4 (Microsoft Docs)
• GA: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. (Microsoft Docs)
• Preview: Visual Studio Code for the Web (Microsoft Blog)
• Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability (Microsoft Docs)
• General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks (Microsoft Docs)
• Preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021 (Microsoft Updates)

• Microsoft Ignite site (Microsoft)
• Defender for Cloud Apps trial sign-up
• App Governance trial sign-up
• Azure Container Apps (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (Microsoft)
• Jussi's recap of the keynotes (Rencore)
• Pay as you go model for Power Apps (Microsoft)
• Logic Apps updates (Microsoft)

• The history of Microsoft DNS Server
• What is Azure DNS? (Microsoft)
• Creating a private DNS zone (Microsoft)
• Building a simple and secure DNS updater for Azure DNS using Raspberry Pi and Azure Functions (Jussi)

• Prevent Shared Key Authorization for an Azure Storage Account (Microsoft Docs)
• Azure Cache for Redis Event Grid Overview (Microsoft Docs)
• Secure backend services using client certificate authentication in Azure API Management (Microsoft Docs)
• Security Center Preview Updates January 2021 (Microsoft Docs)
• Security Center GA Updates January 2021 (Microsoft Docs)
• General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts (Microsoft Docs)
• Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview (Microsoft Docs)
• New Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros and new regions (Microsoft Docs)
• General availability: Stop/start functionality for Azure Database for MySQL (Microsoft Docs)

In this episode, we take a look at recent updates to Azure. What's new, what's in preview, and what's interesting? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:38) - Community highlights.
(05:16) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Ben Ufuk Tezcan | Principal PM, AI Platform at Microsoft: Welcoming the generative AI era with Microsoft Azure
- Sonia Cuff | How to display Azure Monitor alerts with smart lights and no code

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- Sample code for Azure Communication Services Call Automation OpenAI sample

- Azure Firewall Explicit Proxy

- Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

- Multi-tenant organization in Azure AD

- Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS

- Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent

- Azure VNet flow logs

- Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

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Defender for APIs is now in preview, so we took this capability for a spin. Why would you need it? And how does it work? We talked about Defender for Cloud, Cloud Posture Management, Workbooks, and a bit of KQL. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:05) - Community highlights.
(05:35) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Jeffrey Appel: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) integrations with Microsoft Sentinel
- Zachary Cavanell: How do LLMs work with Vision AI? | OCR, Image & Video Analysis

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- Defender for APIs

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Microsoft recently announced the Applied Skills initiative. We talk about what it is, how it compares to Microsoft certifications, and our experience in completing the assessments of the initiative. Also, reflections on hiring and recruiting and skills in general. Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:48) - Community highlights.
(05:18) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- TJ Devine: Microsoft 365 Copilot is generally available

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- Applied Skills announcement (Microsoft)
- Applied Skills

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Azure now has Carbon Optimization capabilities available. We take a look at what this means, how it works, why it's important, and what can you do with it. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:37) - Show content starts.

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- Azure carbon optimization - Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Azure emissions insights (preview) - Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability

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Today, we'll talk about GitHub Enterprise. This is based on a recent adventure in getting it to work for us, and the lessons learned are the essence of this episode. What are the plans? What do you need to configure? What got us confused? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:06) - Show content starts.

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- GitHub Enterprise Trial
- Jussi's Whoop 4.0 (Jussi's referral code, if you want 1 month free and Jussi gets 1 month free: link)

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• Maarten Goet (Twitter) 
• Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel (Jussi) 
• Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi) 
• Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias) 
• Design considerations 
• Not your daddy's Splunk
• Threat Hunting with Jupyter 
• Access and authorizations for the enterprise 
• AzSentinel PowerShell module blog 
• AzSentinel GitHub 
• Maarten's blog  

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access. What is it? Why would you need it? We dissect the services and talk about the capabilities and how they map back to services we've had before. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:01) - Community highlights.
(06:10) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Ronak Chokshi: Introducing a new Azure AI Language video series showcasing features powered by Azure OpenAI & more
- Saul Dolgin: Introducing the Azure Business Continuity Guide

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- What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:28) - Show content starts.

** NOTE ** Once the trial of Defender EASM ends, the service will switch to Pay-As-You-Go model - be extra careful with the costs!

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- Study Guide: SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Tobi)
- Defender EASM Overview (Microsoft Docs)
- Defender EASM Pricing (Microsoft)

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• Lobe
• How to train with TensorFlow (Microsoft Docs)
• How to deploy a local container notebook (Microsoft Docs)
• How to deploy machine learning models with TensorFlow
• Building a machine learning model with Lobe, easily (Jussi)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:43) - Show content starts.

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- Getting started with Azure Developer CLI (Microsoft Docs)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:22) - Show content starts.

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- Best Practices for endpoint security (Well-architected Framework)
- Security monitoring tools (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure DDoS Protection simulation testing (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure Front Door overview (Microsoft Docs)

• Azure Arc for servers - PREVIEW (Microsoft)
• Onboarding servers to Azure Arc (Microsoft)
• Introducing Azure Arc (Ignite session)
• Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer and Donovan Brown)
• Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)

• Use the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game (Zimmergren)
• Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services (Zimmergren)
• Using the Azure Portal to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)
• Using PowerShell to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)
• Using the Azure CLI to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)
• Understanding the Azure Resource Graph query language (Microsoft)
• Azure Resource Graph - Get resource changes (Microsoft)

In this episode, we take a lap around Microsoft Fabric. Our guest, Oskari Saarinen, a Data Platform MVP, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about the capabilities. Also, Jussi asks Oskari an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:10) - Community highlights.
(03:20) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Davide Mauri: Vector Similarity Search with Azure SQL database and OpenAI
- Vinod Soni: Azure OpenAI GPT model to review Pull Requests for Azure DevOps

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- Oskari Heikkinen contact info
- Microsoft Fabric on Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Fabric learning path
- Microsoft Fabric pricing

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:22) - Show content starts.

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- GA: Alert processing rules in Azure Monitor (Azure Updates)

- Center for Internet Security (CIS) Kubernetes benchmark (Microsoft Docs)

- Azure Defenses for Ransomware Attack - e-book (Microsoft Azure)
- Azure AD Certificate-based authentication (Microsoft Docs)
- GA: Deployment enhancements for SQL Server on Azure VMs (Microsoft Docs)
- Emissions Impact Dashboard for Azure (Microsoft Docs)
- Software workload support for accessing Azure resources (Microsoft Docs) 

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• Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 (Microsoft)
• Session catalog for Ignite (Microsoft)
• Cloud Skills Challenge (Microsoft)

In this episode, we take a look at API-driven inbound provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID. It's a new capability in preview. We talk about the problem space, the existing solutions, and how this capability aims to make it easier for companies to manage the creation of identities. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:07) - Community highlights.
(04:28) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Kalle Marjokorpi: How to stream all Home Assistant events to Azure?
- Ken Ross: Using ChatGPT to learn how to use JMeter

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- API-driven inbound provisionin in Microsoft Entra ID

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• Running Azure Functions on .NET 5 (Microsoft Docs)
• Differences with .NET class library functions (In-process vs out-of-process) (Microsoft Docs)
• Network routing preferences for Azure Storage (Microsoft Docs)
• Azure API Management for Visual Studio Code (Visual Studio Code Marketplace)
• Introducing Microsoft Power Fx (Microsoft Power Apps)
• RBAC with Cosmos DB (Microsoft Docs)
• Security Center Updates, February 2021 (Microsoft Docs)
• Routing preference (Microsoft Docs)
• Trusted launch for VMs (Microsoft Docs)
• Automatic VM guest patching (Microsoft Docs)
• Request access to on-demand capacity reservations
• Azure Purview (Microsoft Docs)
• Azure VPN Gateway updates (Microsoft Blog)
• Azure Media Services HEVC encoding support (Microsoft Docs)

This week, we discuss something near and dear to our hearts - RDP Shortpath! What is it, even? TCP and UDP? Get out of here! We touch on the current enterprise landscape, the need for BYOD, Microsoft's remote working capabilities, and how RDP Shortpath rules them all. Mostly. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:50) - Show content starts.

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- RDP Shortpath
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 176 - Let's talk about Azure Virtual Desktop
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 094 - Your PC in the cloud with Windows 365
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 149 - Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box

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• Thomas Maurer's blog
• Thomas Maurer on Twitter
• Manage hybrid infrastructure with Azure Arc (MS Learn)
• Azure Arc jump start
• Azure Arc on Microsoft Tech Community
• Jussi's blog on Azure Arc

We take a frequent look at the recent Azure Updates. This week we found updates on Defender for Cloud, Windows Server Azure Edition, Azure OpenAI, and Logic Apps, among others. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:38) - Show content starts.

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- Hotpatch for Windows Server VMs
- Azure DevOps 2023 Q1
- GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI
- Azure Logic Apps Data Mapper for VS Code
- 30 days of Azure AI

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Guest: Jesse Loudon
Jesse Loudon (@coder_au) is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Principal Consultant at LAB3 in Sydney, Australia. Jesse's mission statement is to democratize Azure Policy as Code.  Over the past year Jesse has been actively advocating in the community across blogs posts, open-source GitHub repositories, and YouTube for greater Policy as Code adoption which drives repeatable, auditable, and scalable deployments for enterprises.

- What is Azure Policy? (Microsoft Docs)

- Azure Policy Extension for Visual Studio Code (Microsoft Docs)

- AzAdvertizer (AzAdvertizer.net)

- AzGovViz - Azure Governance Visualizer (GitHub)

- Understanding Azure Policies with Visual Studio Code (Tobias Zimmergren)

- Favorite Visual Studio Code extensions for Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)
- Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy (Zimmergren)

This week, we discuss a small but handy capability: hibernation for virtual machines. What is it, why would you need it, and is it suitable for all workloads? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:56) - Show content starts.

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- Hibernation for Azure virtual machines
- Supported SKUs

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• Get Started Guide for Azure Developers (Microsoft Docs)
• Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Azure Resource Explorer (Zimmergren)
• Microsoft Architecture Center (Microsoft Docs)
• Microsoft Learn - Azure (Microsoft Docs)
• What is Azure Active Directory? (Microsoft Docs)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:42) - Show content starts.

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- Secure Score recommendations (Microsoft Docs)
- Continuous export for Secure Score (Microsoft Docs)
- Power BI dashboard for Secure Score (GitHub)
- Tracking your Secure Score over time in Azure (Tobias Zimmergren)
- Top 3 favorite capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Zimmergren)

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• Build 2020 sessions on-demand
• Visual Studio Code: Azure Extensions
• Static Web Apps
• Windows Terminal 1.0 is GA now
• YAML CD Pipelines are GA now
• New Consent controls in public preview (Tobias)
• Windows Package Manager (Tobias)
• Recap of announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 key segment session (Jussi)
• Microsoft Build: Reflections on the announcements and digital experience (Jussi)

• Enforce a minimum required version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for incoming requests (Microsoft Docs)
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)
• Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope (Azure Updates)
• App Service Discount for Premium Plans (Azure Updates)
• Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification (Azure Updates)
• Grant permission to applications to access an Azure key vault using Azure RBAC (Microsoft Docs)
• Monitoring Key Vault with Azure Event Grid (Microsoft Docs)
• Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Zimmergren)
• Azure Modular Datacenter (Microsoft)
• New datacenter: Taiwan, and Greece (Microsoft)
• SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension (Microsoft Docs)
• Soft delete for Azure File Shares is now generally available (Microsoft)

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Ignite 2023 and our expectations. We've done this several times before, and this time it feels Ignite is even more geared toward the in-person experience - exciting times! Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:39) - Community highlights.
(03:58) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Stephane Eyskens: From zero to - nearly - hero with Azure OpenAI NLP and vector-based search in Azure Cognitive Search

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- Microsoft Ignite

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In this week's episode we take a deeper look into Copilot for Security. What can you do with it, and will Generative AI really make everything nicer and easier? We talk about capabilities, options, pricing and cost, and security in general. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:03) - Show content starts.

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- Copilot for Security (Microsoft Learn)

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