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Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine

Tune in to Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talking about Azure, in a podcast usually digestible over a cup of coffee.

In this episode, we dive into PIM, PAM, and PAW. What are these? When and why would you need to deploy these? Our insights on how they map to Azure controls and services, licensing required, and how to get started. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:54) - Community highlights.
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Community Highlights- Olivier Miossec: Azure Deployment Stacks, deploy and manage a landing zone with Bicep
- Harun Legoz: Should You Migrate To Fabric? (thatbluecloud.com)

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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.
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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

Show links- What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?
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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.

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(03:07) - Community highlights.
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Community Highlights- Kalle Marjokorpi: How to stream all Home Assistant events to Azure?
- Ken Ross: Using ChatGPT to learn how to use JMeter

Show links- API-driven inbound provisionin in Microsoft Entra ID
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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.

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(03:10) - Community highlights.
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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

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In this episode, we find updates on Defender for Cloud, Azure virtual machines, cost optimization, Azure AD renaming, and Defender for IoT, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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(0x:xx) - Community highlights.
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Community Highlights- Denise Schlesinger (TechCommunity): From Prompts to Embeddings and Vector Stores - How to use OpenAI in real scenarios
- Jeff Woolsey: 30 years of Windows Server

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Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
What's new in Microsoft Sentinel
Release notes - Microsoft Defender for Cloud
New workbook template in Azure Advisor for cost optimization
Defender for IoT firmware analysis
WS2012 and WS2012R2 end of support guidance
Vector search
New Burstable VMs
Best Ever Food Review Show - YouTube

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In this episode, we talk about cost and performance in the context of business continuity and disaster recover. Our guest, Paola Annis from Microsoft, is the expert, and we pick her brains to learn more about this approach. Also, Jussi asks Paola an unexpected question.

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Community Highlights- Jorge G: Data Governance 3.0: Augmenting your Data Governance experience with Purview and OpenAI - Nikita Nallamothu: Azure Load Testing: You can run load tests from command-line now
Show links- Paola Annis
- Business continuity and disaster recovery

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In this episode, we talk about building and running a SaaS service on Azure. Our guest, Adis Jugo, (Microsoft MVP & Regional Director) shares their journey on building run.events, an events management platform, on Azure. Also, Tobi asks Adis an unexpected question.

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Community Highlights- Neha Hafeez: Getting Started with API Management: A Beginner's Guide for Developers
- Valentina Alto: Chat with your own data with Azure OpenAI
Show links- Adis Jugo contact info
- run.events
- The European Cloud Summit
- The European Collaboration Summit
- 37Signals and the way out from the cloud
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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.

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

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In this episode, we talk about subscription vending. Our guest, Jack Tracey from Microsoft, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about this approach. Also, Tobi asks Jack an unexpected question.

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Community Highlights-Maarten Balliauw: Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C#
- Valentina Alto: Introducing LangFlow: a GUI for LangChain
Show links- Jack Tracey
- Azure Landing Zones - How many subscriptions should I use in Azure?

A blog on subscription vending
Subscription vending details
Subscription vending implementation guidance
Subscription vending with Bicep
Subscription vending with Terraform
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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.

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(03:50) - Community highlights.
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Community Highlights- Eleanor Berger: Grounding LLMs
- Joseph Dadzie: Microsoft Entra ID Governance is generally available

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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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In this episode, we take DevTunnel CLI for a spin. It's a nifty little command-line tool for opening tunnels from the cloud (or public Internet) to your locally running APIs. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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Community Highlights- Tim Heuer: Announcing C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
- Aaryan Arora: Integrating Power Apps with Azure Machine Learning & Open AI using Power Automate

Show links- DevTunnel CLI
- DevTunnel CLI on GitHub

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In this episode we talk about prompt engineering in the context of ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI. What makes a good prompt? What aspects can you consider and use when crafting your prompts? And why should you care? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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Community Highlights- Morten Knudsen: Orphaned Azure Security Principals Clean-up & Azure Policy Managed Identity Role Assignment Automation- Zachary Cavanell: What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer | Featuring Mark Russinovich

Show links- Prompt engineering techniques with Azure OpenAI

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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.

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(04:05) - Community highlights.
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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

Show links- Defender for APIs

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In this episode we take a practical look at GitHub Copilot Chat - the AI-based service for developers. How does it work? Will it change a developer's work? What does it do in practice? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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(02:55) - Community highlights.
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Community Highlights- Kevin Chant: Spreading your Power BI wings with Microsoft Fabric- Denise Schlesinger: Build a chatbot to query your documentation using Langchain and Azure OpenAI

Show links- GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot Chat Waitlist

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MCRA - Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture
Azure Security – Zero Trust guidance
Securing PaaS services with virtual networks and restricting public access

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-Welcome | Learn Green Software
- Sustainability workloads - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn

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Show links-Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Microsoft Learn)

Azure Front Door zero downtime migration (Azure Updates)
Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier (Azure Updates)
Manage tables in a Log Analytics workspace (Azure Updates)
Migrate from Azure MFA Server to cloud-based Azure MFA Service (Microsoft Learn)
Introduction to Azure Advisor Score (Microsoft Learn)
Microsoft Sentinel Technical Playbook for MSSPs (TechCommunity)

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Show links: Guest episodes

009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs
036 - All things Security with Sami Laiho
021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet
072 - Ignite recap with Martijn
080 - Exploring Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer
109 - Azure Policy as Code with Jesse Loudon
155 - Building Mission-Critical workloads on Azure with Martin Simecek

Show links: Favorite episodes

001 - Let's talk about Azure Key Vault
121 - Cost Optimization in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
133 - Performance Efficiency in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
136 - Operational Excellence in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
140 - Reliability in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
Any Azure Update episode, as they are very informative and a great way for anyone to stay updated with interesting and relevant updates that we hand-pick each time.
And, of course, all episodes where we reflected on something tangible from customer and real-world project experiences.

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Show links- Data Export Services deprecation notice (Microsoft)
- Episode 141 where we talked about ADF (Ctrl+Alt+Azure)
- Azure Synapse Link details (Microsoft Docs)

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- Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm-based VMs and AKS clusters (Azure Updates)
- Deprecation notice: Log Analytics Alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired (Azure Updates)
- Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys (Microsoft Learn)
- Customer-managed keys for Azure Storage encryption (Microsoft Learn)
- Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks (Azure Updates)
- Generally available: Action groups can now be saved and processed within Europe (Azure Updates)
- Azure Orbital updates (Azure Updates)
- Generally available: Managed Grafana (Azure Updates)

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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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Azure Well-Architected: Mission-critical workloads (Microsoft Docs)
GitHub: Mission-critical Online & Mission-Critical Connected (GitHub)
Martin Simecek (Twitter)

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Microsoft Ignite (Microsoft)

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Microsoft announcement on Defender TI (Microsoft)

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GA: Ampere Altra Arm-based VMs (Azure News)
Ampere Altra details (Ampere Computing)

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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)

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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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Show links- Configure the Dev Box service (Microsoft Docs)- Dev Box pricing (Microsoft Azure)
- Markus Lintuala's tweet on the passwordless update (Twitter)

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Show links- 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)

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Show links- Getting started with Azure Developer CLI (Microsoft Docs)

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

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Show links- Preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants (Microsoft Docs)
- Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor (Azure Updates)
- Generally available: .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in isolated process model (Azure Updates)
- Defender for Cloud updates (Microsoft Docs)
- Preview: Building an automated process for improving security with governance rules (Microsoft Docs)
- Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment (Azure Updates)
- Azure StorSimple 8000/1200 series retirement (Azure Updates)
- Generally available: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers (Azure Updates)
- Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer (Azure Updates)
- Preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines (Azure Updates)
- Preview: Microsoft Graph API integration with Azure Event Grid (Azure Updates)

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- Reliability patterns (Microsoft Docs)
- Calculating Composite SLAs (AZ-900 GitHub content)
- See the Azure service SLAs (Azure Charts)

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New storage optimized Azure VMs (Microsoft Tech Community)
Preview: Manage Azure Web App Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager (Azure Updates)
Microsoft Artifact Registry (Microsoft Artifact Registry)
Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall (Microsoft Azure)
Dynatrace for Azure (Microsoft Tech Community)
Azure Synapse Link for SQL (Microsoft Docs)
Landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Microsoft Docs)

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- NGINX on Microsoft Azure (nginx.com)
- Jussi's take on NGINX on Azure (jussiroine.com)

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Show links- Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News (Microsoft News)

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Show links- WAF: Operational Excellence (Microsoft Docs)

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Show links- Azure Managed Grafana (Microsoft Docs)

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Show links- Microsoft Purview renaming announcement (Microsoft Blog)
- Microsoft Purview pricing (Microsoft)

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Show links- Performance Efficiency in WAF (Microsoft Docs)

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- Partner Center Dashboard (Microsoft Partner)
- Intro to the Solutions partner program (Microsoft Docs)
- Jussi's take on this (jussiroine.com)
- Solutions partner for Infrastructure (Azure) – details
- Solutions partner for Data & AI (Azure) – details
- Solutions partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) – details
- Solutions partner for Modern Work (Microsoft 365) – details
- Solutions partner for Security – details
- Solutions partner for Business Applications (Dynamics 365) – details

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- Deploy to Azure Container Apps using Visual Studio (Microsoft Docs)
- Deploy to Azure Container Apps using Visual Studio Code (Microsoft Docs)
- Managed identities in Azure Container Apps (Microsoft Docs)
- Collect text and IIS logs with Azure Monitor agent (Microsoft Docs)
- Enabling Full-stack Observability with Azure Monitor and Grafana (Microsoft Tech Community)
- Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024 (Microsoft)
- New Datacenter region in Finland (Microsoft News)
- The new Azure Front Door (Microsoft Blog)
- Custom IP ranges in Azure (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure AD Graph retirement date (Microsoft Update)

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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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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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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:40) - Show content starts.

Show links- SC-100 certification (Microsoft Docs)
- Pre-requisites (Microsoft Docs)
- SC-100 certification requirements (Microsoft Docs)
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (Microsoft Docs)
- Zero Trust ebook (Microsoft)

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:01) - Show content starts.

Show links- Jussi's stream approach from Firefox to Sonos
- Azure AD Identity Governance approach (Microsoft Docs)
- Management & automation solution by Adaxes (Adaxes)
- Azure AD Entitlement Management (Microsoft Docs)
- Creating a new user with Microsoft Graph (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure AD and SCIM (Microsoft Docs)
- Azure AD Access Reviews (Microsoft Docs)

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(08:10) - Show content starts.

Show links
- The new and better WordPress on App Service (Apps on Azure Blog)
- Creating a WordPress site (Microsoft Docs)
- PHP Support on App Services (GitHub)

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

Show links
- 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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(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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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:23) - Show content starts.

Show links- SysInternals Procmon (Microsoft Docs)
- Native Client (preview) details (Microsoft Docs)
- An overview of using Azure Bastion (Jussi)

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

Show links- 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)

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(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.
(07:08) - Episode content starts.

Show links

Azure Key Vault service limits (Microsoft Docs)
Preview: Multitasking in the cost analysis preview (Azure Updates)
Azure Cache for Redis and managed identities (Azure Updates)
One-minute frequency log alerts (Azure Updates)
GA: Azure Backup hybrid backup updates (Azure Updates)
Preview: Managed certificate support for Azure API Management (Azure Updates)
GA: Azure DevOps updates (Azure Updates)
GA: New and improved alert rule creation experience (Azure Updates)

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(09:06) - Show content starts.

Show links

Azure IoT Central and the virtual coffee maker lab (MS Learn)

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(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:56) - Show content starts.

Show links

The PowerShell script to fix permissions (Microsoft Docs)
Jussi's primer on Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Jussi)
Backing up PostgreSQL in Azure (preview) (Microsoft Docs)

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(04:54) Episode content starts.

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Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD (Microsoft Docs)
Jussi's blog on break-glass admin accounts (Jussi)

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Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview (Microsoft Docs)
Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Zimmergren)
GitOps in Azure (Microsoft Docs)
Microsoft Defender for Containers (Azure Updates)
Enabling access to virtual networks in other regions (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Machine Learning update: Terraform configuration templates (Microsoft Docs)
AutoML lab (Microsoft Learn)
Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is generally available (Microsoft Docs)
PowerShell script to upgrade Load Balancer Basic SKU to Standard SKU (Microsoft Docs)
Create VM restore points - public preview (Microsoft Docs)
Tobi's book recommendation: Extreme Ownership (Amazon)
Jussi's book recommendation: How to avoid a climate disaster (Amazon)

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Show links

Overview of Azure Load Testing (Microsoft Docs)
Apache JMeter downloads (Apache)
Using the Azure Load Testing service (Tobias Zimmergren)

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Container services (Microsoft Docs)
Containers on Windows: Lift and shift to containers (Microsoft Docs)
The decision tree flowchart (Microsoft Docs)
Running a single Docker Container in Azure cost-effectively (Jussi)

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Show links

The official whitepaper (Microsoft)
Zero Trust adoption report (Microsoft)
Zero Trust e-book (Microsoft)
Zero Trust assessment (Microsoft)
Jussi's monitor light - the BenQ ScreenBar Plus (benq.com)

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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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Cloud Adoption Framework – Compute Options (Microsoft Docs)
Choose an Azure compute service (Microsoft Docs)

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Azure in Sweden (Microsoft)
Azure Sweden details (Microsoft)
Azure Prices endpoint (Microsoft Docs)
PsPing (Microsoft Docs)
Comparing Azure Sweden services (Microsoft)
Azure Resource Mover (Microsoft Docs)
Product availability in Power Platform (Microsoft)

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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)

What is Azure Chaos Studio? (Microsoft Docs)
Built-in faults (Microsoft Docs)
Supported resources (Microsoft Docs)

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)

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

AZ-305 registration (Microsoft)
AZ-305 skills measured (Microsoft)
Training Certification Poster (Microsoft)
Interesting courses on Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Harvard Business School)
Interesting courses about Business from Harvard Online (Harvard.edu)

Security Center Updates (Microsoft Docs)
Dynamic Concurrency in Azure Functions (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Functions runtime 4.0 preview (Microsoft Tech Community)
Cost reservations for Management Groups (Microsoft Docs)
Windows 11 generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop (Microsoft Tech Community)
Updates to Azure Form Recognizer (Microsoft Docs)
Deploy Azure AD-joined VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop (Microsoft Docs)

Introduction to Azure App Configuration for Developers with C# .NET Core (Zimmergren)
Azure App Configuration (Microsoft Docs)

Creating a User VPN tunnel in Azure (Microsoft Docs)
Azure AD authentication with P2S (Microsoft Docs)
AlwaysOn VPN tunnels (Microsoft Docs)
Tailscale (tailscale.com)
Building a Site-to-Site VPN from home to Azure (Jussi)

No show notes this time!

Azure AD Graph is retiring June 30, 2022 (Azure Updates)
Discover Azure AD Graph Apps (GitHub)
Azure Functions: Configuring the Node version (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Functions: Configuring the Python version (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Functions: Configuring the PowerShell version (Microsoft Docs)
Cross-resource query Azure Data Explorer by using Azure Monitor (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Disk Storage: Automatic key rotation of customer-managed keys (Microsoft Docs)
Screen capture protection for Azure Virtual Desktop (Microsoft Docs)
Upgrade Azure AD connect (Microsoft Docs)
Multi-step web tests will be retired - see TrackAvailability() (Microsoft Docs)
VM's retiring (here, here, and here)
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model replacement (Microsoft Docs)

The SC-200 exam (Microsoft Docs)
The SC-200 course (Microsoft Docs)
All Microsoft courses (Microsoft)
Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500 (Ctrl+Alt+Azure)
Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet (Ctrl+Alt+Azure)
Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi)
All posts on Azure Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)
Visualize Log Analytics data ingestion using Azure Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren)
Discover sensitive Key Vault operations with Azure Sentinel (Tobias Zimmergren

About Marc:
Marc is a lead consultant at Xpirit with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He has extensive knowledge of the serverless offerings in the Azure platform and he enjoys helping organizations making effective use of cloud-based technology.

You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference since he's a regular speaker in the area of Azure cloud & serverless technologies. He started Azure Functions University, a free and open source learning curriculum on GitHub, where everyone can learn about Azure Functions at their own pace.

In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art, code visuals & music, and occasionally create retro games.

Join us in this episode, where we discuss the numerous aspects of moving towards a cloud-only architecture. Having a more lightweight approach to on-premises is often something that companies are focusing on, so we take a look at the relevant aspects such as file shares, legacy apps, Active Directory, and security. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question!

GitHub Codespaces (GitHub)
Azure VPN Client for macOS (Azure Updates)
Azure Automation: Az module support (Azure Updates)
PowerShell 7 support in Azure Automation (Azure Updates)
Azure AD support for Azure Automation (Azure Updates)
Discovery and assessment for ASP.NET web apps with Azure Migrate (Azure Updates)
Azure to Azure Disaster Recovery (Microsoft Docs)
Support matrix for Azure to Azure DR (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Defender for SQL details (TechCommunity)
Start VM on connect capability in Azure Virtual Desktop (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates (Azure Blog)
Azure Migrate blog post (Jussi)

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

Twitter's strong authentication stats (BleepingComputer.com)
Mark's tweet about passwordless (Twitter.com)
Windows Hello for Business planning guide (Microsoft Docs)
Enable passwordless with Microsoft Authenticator app (Microsoft Docs)
Enable passwordless using a security key (Microsoft Docs)
Nudge users to set up Microsoft Authenticator (Microsoft Docs)
Temporary Access Pass (Microsoft Docs)
Becoming passwordless in Microsoft 365 using Surface Go and a FIDO2 key (Jussi)

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)

Azure Image Builder services overview (Microsoft Docs)
NAT on Azure VPN Gateway (Microsoft Docs)
IoT Plug and Play Mobile App (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Bastion Standard SKU (Microsoft Docs)
Windows 365 (Techcommunity)
Session and Cache provider using Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Service Bus support for large messages (Microsoft Docs)
Azure AD Authentication for Application Insights (Microsoft Docs)
API Management and Event Grid (Microsoft Docs)

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

Jussi's ground floor chart
Azure Data Encryption at rest (Microsoft Docs)
dm-crypt (Wikipedia)
Get-AzVMDiskEncryptionStatus (Microsoft Docs)
Securing your Linux VMs in Azure with Azure Disk Encryption (Jussi)

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)

AZ-500 (Microsoft Docs)
Free learning resources for AZ-500 (MS Learn)
AZ-500 labs (GitHub)
Passing AZ-500: Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate (Zimmergren)

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)

Azure Arc with App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps (preview)
Custom locations (Microsoft Docs)
Deploy and manage Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster extensions (Microsoft Docs)

In this episode, we focus on creating Azure-hosted custom connectors, that Power Platform can use. We briefly take a look at what Power Platform is, and then move on to how to host your custom connectors and what Azure services to utilize. Lots of talk about APIs, Swagger, and serverless! Jussi also asks Tobi an unexpected question.

Build 2021 Book of News
The main blog post on Build from Microsoft
Jussi's recap of the Build announcements and keynote
Azure Security Center and container scan results (Microsoft Tech Community)
Azure Bicep (GitHub)
GPT-3 integrates with Power Apps (Microsoft Power Apps blog)
Logic Apps gets new hosting options
Updates to Azure Communication Services
Azure AI updates (Microsoft Docs)
Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) (Microsoft Docs)
Power Platform updates (Microsoft Power Platform blog)
Azure Confidential Ledger (Microsoft Azure)

Data residency (Microsoft)
Further documentation (Microsoft Docs)
Power BI Report (Microsoft)
Jussi's blog on Azure data residency

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)

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

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

Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager
GA: Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now generally available
GA: Updated App Service Authentication portal experience is now generally available
GA: Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
GA: Azure Communication Services
GA: Azure Blob Storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size
Preview: Azure STIG Solution templates to accelerate compliance for DoD
Azure Security Center updates
Preview: Event Grid provides support for delivery headers
Jussi's felt mousepad! (Grovemade)

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

Certification poster (Microsoft)
The AZ-204 certification (Microsoft Docs)
How I prepare and (often) succeed with technical Microsoft certification exams (Jussi)
AZ-204 labs (GitHub)

REST API for querying SAS tokens in a Storage Account (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Clean!

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)

Securing Microsoft Teams (Tobias Zimmergren)

Martijn Brant on Twitter
Martijn Brant on LinkedIn
Scheveningen
Catch up on Ignite
Ignite: Book of News
Certificate renewal
Microsoft Mesh
Azure Bicep v0.3
Windows Server 2022
Windows Admin Center with Azure Portal
Device Update for Azure IoT Hub
Azure Percept
Azure Route Server
Azure Resource Mover
Azure Backup Center

041 - Optimize your workloads with the Azure Well-Architected Framework
021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet

Register for Microsoft Ignite

Building a print-anywhere setup using Universal Printing and an old HP LaserJet (Jussi)
Removing a print connector (Microsoft Docs)

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)

Load test projects in VS2019 (Micrsooft Docs)
Playwright GitHub repo
Browserless.io
Selenium
Creating a custom Azure Function on Linux using a custom container (Microsoft Docs)

Encryption of backup data using Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) (Microsoft Docs)
View changes at scale with Application Change Analysis (Azure)
Azure Security Center - News and Updates for December 2020 (Azure)
Intro to flow logging for NSGs (Microsoft Docs)
ARM template support for NSG flow logs (Microsoft Blog)
Deploy and manage NSG Flow Logs using Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)
Chile Azure region announcement (Microsoft Blog)

Transient Fault Handling (Microsoft Docs)
Error handling for resilient applications in Azure (Microsoft Docs)
Retry Guidance for specific Azure Services (Microsoft Docs)
Retry Pattern (Microsoft Docs)
Overview of the Reliability pillar in the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft Docs)

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)

Create a Zone-redundant Azure Container Registry (Microsoft Docs)
App Service Environment v3 now available in Public Preview (Azure Updates)
App Configuration is now GA in China and US Gov (Azure Updates)
Azure Functions in Any Language with Custom Handlers (Microsoft Tech Community)
Five more services available in Azure free services (Azure Updates)
Digital Twins is GA (Azure Updates)
Azure Stack HCI is GA (Azure Updates)
Azure Stack HCI Catalog
Azure Storage account recovery portal (Azure Updates)

Azure Maps overview (Microsoft Docs)
Creator Preview (Microsoft Docs)

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)

Tamás Gémesi on LinkedIn
FinOps Foundation
Introduction to FinOps course
Cost Management (Microsoft)
Azure VM comparison
Cloud Economics v2.0: The FinOps Handbook
ShareGate Overcast
Cloud Custodian

Microsoft Azure Space
The announcement on Azure Space
Introducing Azure Orbital
Azure Orbital docs
I am interested in Azure Orbital

Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 (Microsoft ASP.NET Blog)
Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft Azure)
Azure Cosmos DB serverless (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Advisor (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Firewall DNS settings (Microsoft Docs)
Use FQDN filtering in network rules (Microsoft Docs)
Create Bing Search resource through Azure Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)
At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell (Microsoft Azure)
Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service (Microsoft Azure)
Azure Machine Learning updates (Microsoft Azure)
QnA Maker Deep Learning (Microsoft Azure)
Reduced vCPU VMs (Microsoft Azure)

Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)
Built-in Azure Policies for Azure Key Vault (Microsoft Docs)

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)

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)

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)

Azure Backup Center announcement (Microsoft)
Support matrix for Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)
Overview of Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)

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)

.NET 5 RC1 (Microsoft Devblogs)
Azure Private Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)
Azure SQL Edge (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Logic Apps updates (Microsoft Techcommunity)
Azure Resource Mover (Microsoft Docs)
022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies (Ctrl+Alt+Azure episode)
Azure Arc updates (Microsoft)
Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Backup Center Support Matrix (Microsoft Docs)

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)

Azure Automanage (Microsoft)
Azure Sentinel Updates (Microsoft)
Microsoft Compliance Manager (Microsoft)
Microsoft Compliance Manager Licensing and Terms (Microsoft)

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)

Azure FarmBeats announcement (Microsoft)
Overview of Azure FarmBeats (Microsoft)
Integrating with Azure FarmBeats (Microsoft)
Building a Translator component (Microsoft)

Elio's blog
Pimp Your Own Device webshop for stickers!
Visual Studio Code extension for Front Matter
Azure Static Web Apps Preview (Microsoft)
Static website hosting on Azure Storage (Microsoft)

Access Kubernetes resources from the Azure Portal (Microsoft Docs)
Audit Logs of Azure Monitor logs queries now available (Microsoft Docs)
Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor (Azure Updates)
What's new in PowerShell 7.0 (Microsoft Docs)
Azure Cloud Shell Repository (GitHub)
.NET Framework 4.8 Release Notes (GitHub)
NFS 3.0 protocol support in Azure Blob storage (Microsoft Docs)

API Design ebook (Microsoft)
APIs + Microservices ebook (Microsoft)
Create an Azure AD protected API (Christos Matskas)
Visual Studio Code (Preview) extension for Azure API Management (Microsoft)

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)

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)

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)

Try out DevTest Labs
Pricing (it's free)
Building the perfect remote workstation in the cloud (Jussi)
How to configure a lab (Microsoft)

Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Creating secret volumes and consume secrets using C# .NET Core (Zimmergren)
Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Using Secure Environment Variables (Zimmergren)
Azure Container Instances - C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)
Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Jussi + Tobias)
Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)
An adventure in containers and command-line tools: Running MongoDB in Azure (Jussi)

Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)
VSCode remote development (Microsoft)
Remote development extension for VSCode (Microsoft)
Developing remotely on Raspberry Pi 4 and Linux using Visual Studio Code (Jussi)

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

AppLocker (Microsoft)
KnowBe4
BeyondTrust
PolicyPak
CyberArk
Bitlocker (Microsoft)
Sami on Twitter
Sami's blogs
SamiLaiho.com

Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)
How to run business logic as background jobs in Microsoft Azure (Jussi)
Background jobs guidance (Microsoft)
Azure Batch (Microsoft)

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

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)

The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
Building a simple analytics and tracking solution for the web using Azure Storage (Jussi)
What is a tracking pixel?

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

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)

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)

GitHub
GitHub Lab
Multiple Teams client launcher on GitHub (Marko Loukkaanhuhta)

Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)
Strategy skills (Microsoft)

Azure Policy (Microsoft)
Built-in policies (Microsoft)
Building policies (Microsoft)
Azure RBAC (Microsoft)
Azure Policy Extensions for VS Code
Lighthouse integration with Azure Policy

Azure Governance overview (Microsoft)
Azure Management Groups (Microsoft)
Azure Resource Graph (Microsoft)
Azure Blueprints (Microsoft)
Azure Policy (Microsoft)
Azure Cost Management + Billing (Microsoft)
Overcast (ShareGate)
Jussi's book on Azure Governance (ShareGate)
A recent webinar recording on Azure Governance by Jussi and Stephane Lapointe (ShareGate, again!)
Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)
Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as a Service Provider (Jussi)
Using VSCode to create ARM templates (Microsoft)

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)

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)

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

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

AKS in brief (Microsoft)
AKS - The Big Picture (Pluralsight - might require a subscription to view)
Team Development on Kubernetes - Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)
Introduction to Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)
Tip: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren)
Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)
Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

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)

Reference Enterprise Design for Azure Network Security (Microsoft)
Load balancing overview (Flowchart decision tree guide) (Microsoft)
Azure DDoS Protection Standard overview (Microsoft)
Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft)
Azure Front Door (Microsoft)
Secure remote access solutions for Azure Virtual Machines (Jussi)

Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL (Jussi)
Data Migration Assistant (Microsoft)
Azure Database migration guide (Microsoft)
Tutorial on migrating data to Azure SQL (Microsoft)
Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL (Jussi)

In this episode we explore what Application Insights can help us with in Azure, and how it can monitor and help us troubleshoot our applications and systems in the cloud.

Show notes:

What is Application Insights? (Microsoft)
Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Show notes:

Azure DevOps (Microsoft)
Secure DevOps (Microsoft Security Engineering)
Embrace a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Azure (Zimmergren.net)
Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension (Zimmergren.net)
Get started with Azure DevOps (Microsoft Learn)

Show notes:

Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.com
Azure Account extension for Visual Studio Code
Azure Portal (mobile app): iOS, Android
Nokia N900
Azure PowerShell 'Az' module
Using PowerShell in Visual Studio Code
A blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net)
WSL 2 deployment guide
Windows Terminal (Store install), GitHub repo
resources.azure.com
Cmder (Tobias' choice of command line environment)
Installing the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code (Zimmergren.net)
Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10 (Zimmergren.net)

Follow along when we talk about IoT, and how to build the Internet of Things-solutions on Azure. We talk about the devices, the services and approaches you can use to build scalable IoT solutions easily

Show links:

Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (beta)
Azure IoT Hub
Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints
Use Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to build IoT Plug and Play devices

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)

Azure Security Center overview
Pricing
Microsoft Secure Score
Identity Governance
Azure Advisor

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about remote access options for VMs, and the joys of traveling around the world to talk about Azure.

Show notes:

Tiago Cost (Twitter, Linkedin)
Tiago's courses on Linkedin Learning:
- Scaling Applications with Microsoft Azure
- Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure
- Azure for Developers: Implementing and Developing Functions
- Azure Administration: Implement and Manage Application Services
The Maersk article
Azure Bastion Host
Jussi's walkthrough of getting started with Azure Bastion Host
Just-In-Time VM access
Just-In-Time VM access pricing details
PowerShell DSC
Pets vs. Cattle analogy
Windows Admin Center
Run Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Admin Center (Thomas Maurer)
Azure Functions consumption plan
Azure Functions 3.0 availability

Tag along for this episode where we're talking about the tools we like with Azure, and what happens when you accidentally delete a Web App in production.

Show notes:

Azurespeed.com and fast.com
Azure Heatmap
Azure Pricing Calculator
Azure CLI
Curl
Postman & Fiddler
Screenshotting: Greenshot / SnagIt / Windows 10
Windows Terminal
Resources.azure.com
Visual Studio Code + PowerShell extension
Azure Roadmap
Azure Architectures
Azure Storage Explorer
AzCopy
Azure Portal App

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 dive into a discussion around Logic Apps. What are they, what differs Logic Apps from things like Flow or Azure Functions? When do you use what? Do you know the costs involved? What about recurring Logic Apps and the involved cost? … and what about custom code in my Logic Apps?

Links:

Automating tasks with Logic Apps
Logic Apps pricing model
Short (28 min) intro to building solutions with Logic Apps
Serverless and Logic Apps

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)

Project Cortex. Azure Synapse. Democratizing AI. Entitlement Management. A lot of announcements took place during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 week in Orlando, and we're digesting some of our favorite ones in this episode.

Show links:

Azure Security Center updates
Adding TLS certs for App Service
Cloud Adoption Framework
Pre-registration for Ignite 2020
Jussi's new book: Azure Governance
Project Cortex
Vision Keynote with Satya Nadella
Jussi's recap of the Vision Keynote
Maarten Eekels' Podcast with Jussi and Benjamin Niaulin from Ignite
Azure Synapse Analytics
Democratizing AI
Spotify democratizes content creation with Azure AI

Microsoft recently announced a plethora of news on Microsoft technologies. During Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft made quite a lot of new announcements around Azure and the Microsoft cloud offerings. In this episode we dive into some of our favorite announcements.

Here's links to some of the things we talked about:

Azure Cost Management for Cloud Solution Partners
Azure Internet Analyzer Preview
Azure Arc
Azure AD Passwordless and MFA updates
Azure Security Center updates
Azure Monitor with Network and Storage Insights

Recommended conferences
- Microsoft Azure + AI Conf
- Microsoft Ignite
- Microsoft Ignite "The Tour"
- Microsoft BUILD
- Microsoft Inspire
- Microsoft Envision "The Tour"
- European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference
- European Collaboration Summit
- European Cloud Summit

Welcome to the Ctrl Alt Azure podcast. This is the very first episode, where Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine dives into the realm of Azure Key Vault.

Links from the recording:

Azure Key Vault Overview (Microsoft)
Who accessed my Azure Key Vault (Tobias Zimmergren)
Using Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines (Tobias Zimmergren)
Microsoft Azure AZ-500 Exam (Microsoft)
Mastering Azure CLI (Jussi Roine)