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339 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:14) - Show content starts.

Show links
- ALZ for SMB

- GA: Smart Tier for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage

- Public Preview: Assessment of file shares hosted on servers to Azure Files

- GA: Azure available in Denmark cloud region

- GA: Azure DevOps March 2026 updates

- Copilot Cowork available in Microsoft 365 Copilot

- Give us feedback!

338 - Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 is GA – why does it matter?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we take a look at Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0, which has been generally available since early April. What is it, and why and how can you use it? We reflect on previous SDKs for building agents, how they relate to Copilot Studio-based and Foundry agents, and how to get started with them. Also, we share experiences using this for a real-agent solution.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:10) - Show content starts.

Show links

- microsoft/agent-framework (GitHub)

- The agent development journey

- DevUI

- Give us feedback!

337 - Microsoft's certification refresh: what you need to know

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we reflect on Microsoft certifications and what value they provide. It's been a while since we last looked at these, and plenty has happened - what's new, what's retired, and what's useful in 2026? We also reflect on the usefulness of certifications for juniors and seniors.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:10) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Certification Poster
- New AI business solutions credentials
- Certification updates

- Give us feedback!

336 - Governing the Ungoverned: Agent 365 and Entra Agent ID

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we look at Microsoft Agent 365 and Entra Agent ID. What are these new capabilities, and why should you care? We dissect them both, in contrast with agentic engineering, vibe coding, and the growing needs of governing agents.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:52) - Show content starts.

Show links

- What is Entra Agent ID?
- What is Agent 365?

- Give us feedback!

335 - Reflections on Defender for Cloud and CSPM

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a deeper look at Defender for Cloud and Cloud Security Posture Management. We reflect on what this is all about, what you can do, and how you should approach the capabilities as part of CSPM.

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

Show links

- What is Defender CSPM

- Give us feedback!

334 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:43) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Entra ID-based identities for Azure Blob Storage SFTP

- GA: Draft & Deploy on Azure Firewall

- Microsoft 365 E7 (and Agent 365)

- Azure Skills Plugin
- Defender for Cloud release notes
- Microsoft Sentinel what's new

- Defender XDR what's new
- Microsoft Entra releases and announcements
- AKS supported Kubernetes versions
- AKS security bulletins

- Give us feedback!

333 - The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark v2

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we look at the newly released Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark v2, which is now in preview. What is it, why should you care - and what changed since v1? We take it for a spin, discuss aspects of governance and regulatory compliance, and how to apply them in practice.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:57) - Show content starts.

Show links

- MCSB v2

- Give us feedback!

332 - Checking out Startup-Scale Landing Zones in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a focused look at Startup-Scale Landing Zones. We've previously discussed Enterprise-scale Landing Zones and how the default model from the Cloud Adoption Framework is the usual approach for new deployments. SSLZ is an opinionated approach that is better suited to smaller environments. We talk about the pros, cons, differences, and how to get started.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:51) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Startup-Scale Landing Zone (GitHub)
- Nice intro page for SSLZ

- Give us feedback!

331 - Breaking into Microsoft security as a career

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we're not diving deep into a single feature of Azure - instead, we'll talk and share our insights on how to build a career working with Microsoft security. What should you know? What's relevant? What's less relevant? What are the core skills you should have?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:51) - Show content starts.

Show links
- No links this week :)

- Give us feedback!

330 - From vibe-coding to production: Shipping verifiable AI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at the transition from "vibe-coding" to shipping verifiable, production-grade AI applications. This is the critical shift from relying on "gut feel" and prompt tinkering to implementing rigorous audit trails, versioning, and security controls. We discuss why many AI pilots fail due to a lack of explainability, the specific risks of privilege expansion and data leakage in agentic workflows, and also outline how to use Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI Studio to operationalize your models like true regulated software.

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

Show links
- RedAmon (GitHub) for automated agentic offensive security

- Give us feedback!

329 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links
- Preview: Virtual Network Routing Appliance

- Claude and Codex on Agent HQ (Github Copilot)

- Disabling NTLM by default
- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel

- Give us feedback!

328 - A lap around Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at the Unified Tenant Configuration Management APIs, or UTCM. This is a set of capabilities that allow you to monitor and extract tenant configuration for automated and code-based monitoring and management. We discuss why you would use these, how they work, and also try them out by building tooling around the APIs.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:13) - Show content starts.

Show links
- UTCM APIs
- Jussi's vibe-coded tooling on GitHub

- Give us feedback!

327 - Windows Backup for Organizations

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at Windows Backup for Organizations. What's the capability, and why should you use it? What's required, and anything that's missing from it? We discuss backups in general, also, and provide insights on what you should back up.

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

Show links
- Windows Backup for Organizations

- LEGO Arcade Machine (40805)

- Give us feedback!

326 - Building a Well-Architected AI Workload

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we dissect the newly refreshed Well-Architected Framework guidance on building AI workloads. What is AI, actually? The guidance is organized into sections, and we walk through each one, sharing our insights and thoughts.

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

Show links
- Google Gemini
- AI Workload guidance in Well-Architected Framework
- Reference architectures

- Give us feedback!

325 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100

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?

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

Show links
- Update: Retirement date for default outbound access has been extended
- GA: Tenant-owned Domain Impersonation for Teams messaging
- Preview: Tenant-to-tenant migration with orchestrator for Microsoft 365
- Preview: Dynamic Threat Detection Agent
- Get started with azureblobcontainer-to-azureblobcontainer migration in Azure Storage

- Give us feedback!

324 - Governing AI with the Security Dashboard for AI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at the brand new Microsoft Security Dashboard for AI. We initially spotted this during Microsoft Ignite 2025, and have been eagerly waiting for it to become available. And here it is! We talk about the what, how, and why of this new capability.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:40) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Security Dashboard for AI
- Fitness tests that Jussi is working on - part 1, part 2 (in Finnish)

- Give us feedback!

323 - Thoughts on Azure networking topologies

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at Azure networking topologies from the ground up. What options do we have for building enterprise-scale architectures, and when should we choose one over another? We discuss our own experiences, and also the stuff we seemingly do not know enough about.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:59) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Define an Azure network topology
- Traditional Azure networking topology (Hub and Spoke)
- Virtual WAN network topology (Managed)

- Give us feedback!

322 - Getting started with Azure Trusted Signing

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we dive deeper into Azure Trusted Signing, and how it can help with signing your binaries. Why should you care? What are the tools today and in the future, and how to get this done right?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:01) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Signtool
- Introduction to code signing
- Trusted Signing

- Give us feedback!

321 - Three free tools to help you with Azure and Entra ID

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at three interesting - and free - tools to help you manage and secure Azure and Entra ID. We take each tool for a spin and reflect on the findings and usage.

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

Show links
‑ ScEntra

‑ azqr - Azure Quick Review

‑ EntraExporter

- Give us feedback!

320 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:25) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Agent 365 tooling servers
- Mistral 3 available in Microsoft Foundry
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
- Entra ID support for RDP Connections
- Ignite 2025 Next Steps
- Foundry Control Plane: Where Developers Build, Operate, and Govern Every Agent

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319 - Hello there, new Microsoft Defender for Cloud!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we unpack what's new with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. During Ignite 2025, Microsoft announced that the public preview of MDC would be available shortly, and it has arrived now. We'll take a look at what changed, what didn't, and why you should care.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:52) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Defender for Cloud Preview

- Give us feedback!

318 - A look at the new Zero Trust assessment tool from Microsoft

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we take a look at the new Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool. We reflect on Zero Trust in general, its application in the Microsoft security landscape, and what this exciting tool will offer you.

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

Show links
- Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool
- Demo of Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment (Merill Fernando)

- Give us feedback!

317 - Reflections from Microsoft Ignite 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is here! We reflect on the hero announcements and what they mean for the future. Some exciting announcements were made during the first keynote, and we already had a chance to try a few of them out.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:35) - Show content starts.

Show links
- ESPC’25 in Dublin

- Microsoft Agent 365
- Security Copilot announcement
- Azure Copilot
- Microsoft Foundry, and more here
- Defender for Cloud

- Give us feedback!

316 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100

Microsoft Ignite 2025 is just around the corner. As is tradition by now, we take a look at what to expect from Ignite: the announcements, expectations, and sessions.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:55) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Ignite 2025

- Give us feedback!

315 - A look at GitHub Universe 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we unpack the hero announcements from GitHub Universe 2025. Much of this is related to agents, agentic AI, and GitHub Copilot. We reflect on these new announcements as we proceed.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:59) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Agent HQ
- Custom agents examples
- Copilot integrations
- Agentic code review in Copilot
- Plan mode

- Agents.md
- GitHub Code Quality
- Usage metrics and API
- Enterprise AI controls and agent control plane

- Give us feedback!

314 - Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we review the Microsoft Digital Defense report 2025. We did the same for 2024 and 2023, so this time we'll look at what's interesting in the report and what to focus on from a security perspective.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:40) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 275: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: Episode 210: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023

- HackTheBox

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313 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:40) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Public preview: VM Customization in Azure: Disable Multithreading & Constrained Cores

- Containerization Assist (GitHub)

- Microsoft Azure Migration Hub

- Private Link service Direct Connect

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312 - Avoiding identity mistakes using IdentityProxy with Stephan van Rooij

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we talk about identity mistakes, with our guest, Stephan van Rooij. We learn about OWASP top 10, his project IdentityProxy and things to avoid when building custom solutions that revolve around identities.

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

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- Blog: https://svrooij.io

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephanvanrooij

- IdentityProxy: https://github.com/svrooij/identityproxy
- OWASP Top 10
- GitHub servers being migrated to Azure

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311 - The three must-have alert types for your Azure tenant

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we go through the three recommended and must-have alerts you should configure in all of your Azure tenants. We touch upon FinOps, security, a bit of WAF and CAF, and find out if we're using these recommendations ourselves.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:20) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Quota Alerts (Preview): Still overlooked, but incredibly useful | Microsoft Community Hub

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310 - Stepping away from the cloud to reflect on Microsoft PowerToys in 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we take a tour of Microsoft PowerToys in 2025. What's in there? What's new? Do we actually use these tools, or are they just gimmicks?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:44) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft PowerToys

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309 - Goodbye, Project Online and SharePoint 2013 Workflows

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we talk about our experiences with SharePoint and Project. Now that Project Online is going away, as well as SharePoint 2013-style Workflows, we discuss the options for moving to more modern capabilities, and why these are still very valid tools.

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

Show links

- Project Online is retiring
- SharePoint 2013 Workflow retirement
- SharePoint 2013 Workflow Assessment Tool
- SharePoint Workflow Manager

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308 - Running AI workloads at home

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we share ideas, experiences and lessons learned running AI workloads at home. On a laptop, in a custom-built AI rig, and everything in between!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:37) - Show content starts.

Show links

- HuggingFace
- Ollama & Open WebUI
- LMStudio
- Azure AI Foundry Local

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307 - Microsoft Security Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we dive deep into security-focused updates from Microsoft. As we've done with more generic tech updates, this time we'll focus on the interesting security updates from Microsoft.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:29) - Show content starts.

Show links

- RETIREMENT: Migration from Azure China CDN to Azure Front Door
- PREVIEW: Custom block response codes and body for Application Gateway WAF
- PREVIEW: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling
- PREVIEW: Workspace-level Private Link for Microsoft Fabric workspaces
- GA: AKS Security Dashboard
- WAF: CAPTCHA, and JS challenge

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306 - Azure Storage Discovery

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we take a look at Azure Storage Discovery. It's a new preview feature that gives you insights and actionable items across all your Storage Accounts. We discuss our experience using it and how to properly test its capabilities.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:25) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Azure Storage Demo Populator tool (GitHub)
- Azure Storage Discovery

- Pricing

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305 - Finally here – Group Source of Authority in the cloud

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we'll take a look at something that is of the essence for anyone working with identities and the shift to the cloud. What is Group SOA, and why should you care? We reflect on the dependencies of Active Directory, the five stages of transformation, and what this capability will help you achieve.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:20) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Group SOA

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304 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200

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

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- Create Tenant Level Service Health Alerts (preview) - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Learn
- AKS Updates
- What is Azure App Testing?

- Azure 128 & 192 vCPU sizes

- Azure Cloud HSM

- GA: Network Security Perimeter

- Two-way forest trusts for Entra DS

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303 - A look at Microsoft Sentinel in 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Back in 2020 we did our first episode on Microsoft Sentinel. We feel it's time to revisit Sentinel after five years, and take a look at where it stands today. What's relevant, what's new, and what's happening with Sentinel?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:29) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Microsoft Sentinel Quickstart
- Sentinel Data Lake

- Give us feedback!

302 - A brief overview of Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we break down Model Context Protocol, or MCP. What is it, why should you care, and how does it change your solutions? We discuss the concept, the architecture, and share our experiences working with MCP solutions.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:02) - Show content starts.

Show links

- MCP home: modelcontextprotocol.io

- Use MCP: Connect to Remote MCP Servers

- Build a server: Build an MCP Server

- Build a client: Build an MCP Client

- modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk: The official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients.

- MCP Dev Days session

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301 - A look at agentic workflows with n8n

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we'll take a look at n8n—the agentic workflow engine/tool/product/service. How does it compare to Power Platform, Azure Functions, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and other similar offerings from Microsoft? Self-hosting vs. cloud-hosted? We also share lessons learned and other insights.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:44) - Show content starts.

Show links

- n8n.io
- n8n GitHub Repo
- n8n workflows

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300 - Episode Three Hundred, and some Microsoft security updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This is episode 300! Massive thank you and gratitude to everyone for tuning in over the years. We reflect a bit on the past 6 years of the show, and then we dive deep into security-focused updates from Microsoft.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:02) - Show content starts.

Show links

- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features | Microsoft Learn

- Containers support matrix in Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Learn

- Alerts for AI services - Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Learn

- Manage workspaces in Microsoft Security Copilot | Microsoft Learn

- Manage security compute unit usage in Security Copilot | Microsoft Learn

- Azure DNS security policy | Microsoft Learn

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299 - Lessons learned self-hosting small Docker-based services and utilities

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, it's time to share insights and lessons learned from self-hosting stuff at home! We'll talk about the why and the what, and also some stuff that didn't work at all. You'll also hear about how to best service workloads from home, and what sort of equipment is needed.

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

Show links
- Cloudflare Tunnel
- Jussi's ipecho service

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298 - Understanding Azure Virtual Network Manager from an ALZ perspective with Jack Tracey

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we'll talk about AVNM, or Azure Virtual Network Manager, with insights from Microsoft's Jack Tracey. What is it, and why do you need it? We talk about mesh networks, routing, IP address management, AVNM with Azure Landing Zones, and more!

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:08) - Show content starts.

Show links
- What is AVNM?
- Frequently asked questions about Azure Virtual Network Manager | Microsoft Learn
- Azure Virtual Network Manager in Azure landing zones - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn

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297 - Thoughts on vibe coding, productivity and the future of software development

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we'll talk about vibe coding - the practice of writing code that prioritizes aesthetics, creativity, and personal expression. What's our experience on this? What tooling are we using? What does this mean for productivity?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:14) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Mistral Small 3.2

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296 - Common questions about Azure landing zones with Jack Tracey

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we'll talk about Azure Landing Zones, with insights from Microsoft's Jack Tracey. What are landing zones, to be more exact? We touch topics on application and platform landing zones, networking, architectures, infrastructure as code, and many others.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:30) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Landing Zones | Cloud Adoption Framework
- Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
- Azure Landing Zone Brownfield
- Development environments

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295 - What’s new in MCRA – Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we look at MCRA - the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture. Updates were released in April 2025; we'll go through the updates and explain why MCRA matters.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:29) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Updated MCRA

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294 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:20) - Show content starts.

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- Design, troubleshoot, and secure networks using Microsoft Copilot in Azure | Microsoft Learn

- GA: Private subnet

- Public preview: VM network troubleshooter

- Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits

- Virtual Network TAP

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293 - The Dawn of Agent IDs in Entra ID

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0200

The future of generative AI might very well be agentic workloads. Fresh from Build 2025, we take a look at Agent IDs in Entra ID. What are they, and why would even need to know how they work? What's the difference from Enterprise Applications? We consider compliance, reporting, licensing and other aspects on Agent IDs.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:08) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Agent IDs announcement from Build 2025

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292 - What are Service Groups?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Today, we're taking an initial look at Azure Service Groups. We're already familiar with Resource Groups and have discussed Management Groups and governance in general in previous episodes over the years. Service Groups provide a new approach to governing and managing your resources operationally. We'll share our thoughts on governance, this new capability, and how it can be utilized.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:45) - Show content starts.

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- Service Groups

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291 - Reflections from Microsoft Build 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:00:00 +0200

* NOTE: It seems like Microsoft Teams recording messed up big time. This episode has an audio distortion issue around the 16-minute to 20-minute mark. Apologies! *

This week, we'll have our initial reflections and thoughts from major Microsoft Build 2025 announcements. What caught our eye? It's AI all the way, but we find other aspects as well. Tobi shares some surprising news, and we also talk about future episodes now that we'll have a bit more time to dive deep into the new announcements.

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

Show links
- Build 2025 Book of News

- Give us feedback!

290 - Basics of Azure AI Foundry

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we'll tackle the basics of Azure AI Foundry. First, we'll talk about what it is and who it aims for. We will also walk you through the options and capabilities, like reviewing models, fine-tuning, and managing your data and indexes. We'll also consider the different aspects of building your apps before wrapping up with considerations on possible apps you could build.

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

Show links
- Plan and manage costs for Azure AI Foundry

- GitHub - Azure-Samples/rag-data-openai-python-promptflow: A copilot sample that uses python to ground the copilot responses in company data.
- GitHub - openai/openai-dotnet: The official .NET library for the OpenAI API

- Give us feedback!

289 - Expectations on Microsoft Build 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we ponder what to expect from Microsoft Build 2025. Is it worth traveling to Seattle for the event, that takes place May 19-22? We reflect on the possible announcements, the breakout session topics, as well as the keynotes.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:56) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Build 2025
- DEM554: Building Agents with Security Copilot

- BRK231: Building Secure AI Agents with Microsoft Entra ID

- BRK222: Windows AI Developer Workstations: Optimized for AI

- Give us feedback!

288 - Review your environments with checklists!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we take a look at Azure Review Checklists. Relatively unbeknownst to us, this interesting capability allows you to really supercharge the reviews on your Azure environments!

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

Show links
- Azure Review Checklists

- Azure Resource Inventory

- Give us feedback!

287 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:45) - Show content starts.

Show links

- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel

- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features

- CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines - Azure DevOps Blog

- ActiveX disabled now in Microsoft 365

- I/O performance analysis in SQL Server on Azure VMs

- AI agents for beginners

- Azure Networking capabilities for Copilot in Azure

Feedback

- Give us feedback!

286 - A look at GitHub Copilot in practice in 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we're revisiting GitHub Copilot. We talked about it a few years ago, when it was fresh. Has anything changed? How are we using it? Prepare to be blown away by one specific capability now in preview.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:38) - Show content starts.

Show links
- GitHub Copilot
- Visual Studio Code Insiders
- Agent mode in GitHub Copilot

- Give us feedback!

285 - Considerations when services are being deprecated

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we'll talk about services that are being deprecated, and what to think of that. How to best prepare when you get an announcement that something is going away? What are the business perspective, and the perspectives on security?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:57) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Entra Permissions Management retirement

- Azure AD B2C retirement
- Remote Desktop App retirement

- Give us feedback!

284 - Understanding Network Security Perimeter in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we look at Network Security Perimeter, which is currently in public preview. It's a nifty capability for controlling inbound and outbound traffic for your PaaS resources.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:01) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Creating a network security perimeter in the Azure Portal
- Tobias' device: ZTE U50, 5G Portable WiFi Hotspot (Amazon.se)

- Give us feedback!

283 - Getting started with Azure Firewall

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we're considering when and how to use Azure Firewall in your deployments. What are the features, SKUs, and capabilities? When should you choose Azure Firewall, and when should you choose something else? Considerations on enterprise architectures also.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:59) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Firewall Basic - getting started
- Cloud Adoption Framework: Landing Zones

- Give us feedback!

282 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links

- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features

- Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

- Vaulted Backup Support for Azure Files

- Log Analytics Simple Mode

- Azure AI Foundry new models

- Secure and govern AI Apps

Feedback

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281 - Securing Microsoft Entra

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we take a look at fresh guidance from Microsoft on increasing security for Microsoft Entra. It's an interesting guide - easily digestible, solid advice, and very actionable recommendations. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Securing Microsoft Entra-guidance

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280 - A lap around Azure AI Foundry Agents (preview)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we look at building agents using Azure AI Foundry. What's an agent, and why should you care? What's the process for building an agent? And where does Copilot Studio stand in here? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Azure AI Foundry: Agents (preview)

- Introducing Azure AI Agent service

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 267: Building AI apps with Microsoft.Extensions.AI

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 269: Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents with Paolo Pialorsi

- Give us feedback!

279 - Backing up the cloud

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we focus on disaster recovery - specifically, backups. Should you back up the cloud? All of Azure and Microsoft 365? Or nothing? We consider the different viewpoints, options, and possibilities. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here's What I Found
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 218: Azure SQL Backup and Recovery
- EntraExporter

- Give us feedback!

278 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:50) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Data Studio retirement
- DNSSEC in Azure DNS Public Zones
- Deepseek-R1 in Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Sentinel:
- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel
- Announcing Public Preview: New STIX Objects in Microsoft Sentinel
- (Request access to STIX tables) https://forms.office.com/r/903VU5x3hz?origin=lprLink
- Enable the data connector for Microsoft's threat intelligence

Find us on Bluesky:
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren.net) — Bluesky
- Jussi Roine • Microsoft MVP (@jussiroine.com) — Bluesky

- Give us feedback!

277 - Five things you should start doing for operational security

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100

Let's talk OpSec! In practice - we share five indispensable things you shuold adopt today - if you haven't - to ensure you are following proper operational security approaches when dealing with customer data, connectivity, and work in general. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:20) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Windows LAPS overview | Microsoft Learn
- Tailscale
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode #235: Understanding Entra SSE
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode #036: All things Security with Sami Laiho

- Give us feedback!

276 - The State of Zero Trust in 2025

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0100

It's been a couple of years since we last looked at the state of Zero Trust. In this week's episode, we discuss Zero Trust as we see it today. What is it, and is it widely adopted already? What should you consider if you're going to Zero Trust? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:54) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Trust no-one! A look at Zero Trust in 2022
- Zero Trust and Copilot
- Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP800-207)
- The Evolution of Zero Trust in the Financial Sector:… | Synpulse

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275 - Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we review the Microsoft Digital Defense report 2024. We did the same previously for 2023, so this time, we'll look at what's interesting in the report and what to focus on with security. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
- Microsoft blog: Escalating cyber threats

- Give us feedback!

274 - CIS Benchmark for Microsoft 365 v4.0.0

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we discuss the newly updated CIS Benchmark guidance for Microsoft 365. What is it, and why should you use it? We walk through the areas of the benchmark, how to do it, and what to do with the results. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:23) - Show content starts.

Show links
- CIS-CAT® Pro - A powerful tool for automating CIS Benchmark assessment and reporting
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 258 - Approaching security assessments for your Microsoft tenant

- Give us feedback!

273 - Microsoft 365 Copilot one year later

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we reflect on Microsoft 365 Copilot. It's been available for about a year now, and we talk about the insights, lessons learned and considerations, and reflections on productivity with Copilot. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:49) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Dashboard
- Copilot Analytics reports

- Give us feedback!

272 - Lessons learned with Azure Policy

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we're taking a real-life look at Azure Policies. We've talked about the capability a bit before. Let's see what insights we've gathered over the previous months working with Azure Policy. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Sample KQL queries from Microsoft
- AzAdvertizer
- Azure Resource Inventory

- Give us feedback!

271 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:14) - Show content starts.

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- Sign-up form for WAF on Application Gateway for Containers
- Azure Automation limits and quotas
- Migrate to Azure CDN from Edtio to Azure Front Door
- Microsoft 365 network connectivity test
- Defender for Cloud "Setup experience" (Azure Portal)
- New Message Trace in Exchange Online

Find us on Bluesky
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren.net) — Bluesky
- Jussi Roine • Microsoft MVP (@jussiroine.com) — Bluesky

- Give us feedback!

270 - Recap from the ESPC 2024 conference

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, we recap the ESPC 2024 event, live on site. Apologies, again, for the "hopping microphone" issues - we used wireless mics, and they caught some inferences we didn't see when recording. What did we learn about the event, and what are the expectations for the future based on these announcements? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:20) - Show content starts.

Show links
- ESPC 25

- Give us feedback!

269 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents with Paolo Pialorsi

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we're (still) live from ESPC 2024, and we'll talk with Paolo Pialorsi from Microsoft about agents in Microsoft Copilot. What are they? How do you create them? Is coding involved? What things to consider? Also, we ask Paolo an unexpected question.

PS. We struggled a bit with the fancy wireless microphones, so expect some deterioration in the audio quality - SORRY! We blame AI for this.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(01:31) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Paolo Pialorsi (LinkedIn)

- Give us feedback!

268 - Microsoft Purview with Jasper Oosterveld

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we're live from ESPC 2024, and we'll talk with Jasper Oosterveld from Rubicon about Microsoft Purview. What is it? What's included? How should you approach your compliance and data security projects? What things to consider ? Also, we ask Jasper an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:05) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Purview
- Jasper Oosterveld (Linkedin)

- Give us feedback!

267 - Building AI apps with Microsoft.Extensions.AI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we're recording live from the ESPC conference in Stockholm, Sweden. We talk about a new and interesting SDK, the Microsoft.Extensions.AI. What is it, and why should you try it out? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview - Unified AI Building Blocks for .NET
- GitHub - dotnet/ai-samples
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI - What is it? · microsoft/semantic-kernel · Discussion #9163

- Give us feedback!

266 - Our three picks from Microsoft Ignite 2024 announcements

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, we discuss three very exciting announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2024. What did we learn, and what are the expectations for the future based on these announcements? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:40) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Introducing Microsoft Copilot actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT
- Introducing new agents in Microsoft 365
- Azure Local

Find us on Bluesky:
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren.net) — Bluesky
- Jussi Roine • Microsoft MVP (@jussiroine.com) — Bluesky

- Give us feedback!

265 - Developing for Microsoft 365 Copilot with custom apps with Waldek Mastykarz

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we'll talk with Waldek Mastykarz from Microsoft about Microsoft 365 Copilot custom apps. What are they? How can you create your custom apps? What things to consider when publishing them? Also, Tobi asks Waldek an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:08) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot

- Give us feedback!

264 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links
- Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management
- Generally Available: FinOps toolkit 0.6 - September 2024
- Bluesky.ms
- Bastion Developer SKU
- Themes by Copilot in Outlook

Find us on Bluesky:
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren.net) — Bluesky
- Jussi Roine • Microsoft MVP (@jussiroine.com) — Bluesky

- Give us feedback!

263 - Hey there, Windows Server 2025!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we take a look at Windows Server 2025, which was released just recently. Who needs it? What are the new and exciting features? What's our experience running it so far? Also, Tobias asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:28) - Show content starts.

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Find us on Bluesky social:
- Tobias Zimmergren — Bluesky
- Jussi Roine — Bluesky

- Windows Server 2025 GA
- Windows Server 2025 documentation

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262 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2024

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Ignite 2024 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.
(04:02) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Ignite
- Innovate with AI: govern, manage and secure your AI platform
- Azure AI platform unlocking the AI revolution
- Implementing AI Responsibly and Securely
- Trustworthy AI: Future trends and best practices
- Windows Server 2025: New ways to gain cloud agility and security
- Building intelligent multi-agent systems with Azure AI
- Security Partner Growth: Trends on Customer Needs in Security
- Accelerate your Zero Trust Journey: Unify Identity and Network Access

- Give us feedback!

261 - A look at the NIST AI RMF playbook

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we digest the NIST AI RMF Playbook and dive into what the four functions are, and share a few thoughts on what we think about this framework. Also, Tobias asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:10) - Show content starts.

Show links
- ESPC 2024 discount code (100 EUR): CtrlAltAzure - get your tickets here: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/
- NIST AI RMF Playbook

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260 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:17) - Show content starts.

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- Public Preview: Simulate everyday interactions with your app in Azure AI Studio

- Public Preview: New evaluations for quality and similarity in Azure AI Studio

- Public Preview: Evaluations for protected material (text) in Azure AI Studio

- Public preview: Azure Virtual Network IP address management

- Retirement: Azure Orbital Ground Station Retirement

- Sentinel Ninja training

- Microsoft discontinues HoloLens 2

- IntuneMacAdmins

- GSA resources

- Give us feedback!

259 - Hey there, RDP Shortpath!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- 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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258 - Approaching security assessments for your Microsoft tenant

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- 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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257 - On productivity

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we reflect on productivity with a practical approach. What is productivity for us? How do we get stuff done? What tools do we use? What to consider when thinking of work and outcomes? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:52) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Stay productive with the Pomodoro Technique! (zimmergren.net)
- Three habits to improve health and work-life balance (zimmergren.net)
- Muji pencils!

- Give us feedback!

256 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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

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- 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)

- Give us feedback!

255 - Reliability in the Well-Architected Framework with Bastian Ulke

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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

- Give us feedback!

254 - Notes from the field: MacOS for work

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

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- Give us feedback!

253 - Reflections on low-code, coding and Copilots

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we reflect on the history, the present, and the future of low code/no-code, coding in general, and Copilots/Generative AI and LLMs. What does the job entail today, and will Copilots replace developers altogether? Some pleasant memories and a few horrifying realizations. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

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- Give us feedback!

252 - Microsoft Tech Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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

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- 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

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251 - Unpacking Microsoft compliance

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we unpack Microsoft compliance. It can mean many things, and often different things to different people. How have we experienced compliance in practice? What tools, regulations, capabilities, and resources are there? What lessons have we learned? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- CIS Azure Benchmark
- Responsible AI Tools and Practices | Microsoft AI

- Give us feedback!

250 - A look at Microsoft Sentinel auxiliary logs

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0200

We haven't talked about Microsoft Sentinel in a while. This week, we take a look at auxiliary logs - a new capability that Sentinel benefits from. What is it, and why and when should you use it? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Setting up auxiliary plan
- Create a destination table using the API

- Give us feedback!

249 - Understanding the modern security landscape

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we talk about the modern security landscape, based on an infographic we saw floating around on LinkedIn. It's a great point to start conversations with decision makers and your teams to understand the wider security landscape, and which components on the Microsoft platforms that can help.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:33) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Post by Sameh Younis | LinkedIn

- Cybersecurity Copilot blog by Sameh Younis (cybersecurity-copilot.com)

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 153 - An early look at Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 146 - A look at Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 231 - Let's explore Microsoft Security Exposure Management

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248 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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 Functions, Defender for Cloud, Windows VM and MFA, and many others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:54) - Show content starts.

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- Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Windows VMs to enhance VM Troubleshooting
- Windows Server 2025 Preview on Azure
- MFA requirements update
- Public preview for the Microsoft Entra Powershell module
- Generally Available: Run Azure Load Testing on Azure Functions (microsoft.com)
- Service Retirement (Preview) - Microsoft Azure
- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features

- Give us feedback!

247 - Entra Suite explained

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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!

246 - Azure Summer projects

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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!

245 - Entra ID licensing: One person, one license

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we tackle Entra ID licensing. We discuss the basics of Entra ID plans, the use of licenses with B2B guest accounts, and what comes into play with multi-tenant organizations and governance licensing. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

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- One account, one tenant
- About MAU

- Give us feedback!

244 - We discovered Azure virtual machine hibernation

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- Hibernation for Azure virtual machines
- Supported SKUs

- Give us feedback!

243 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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!

242 - Building a homelab

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200

This week, we talked about why it's useful (and fun!) to build a homelab. What constitutes a homelab? Why should you build one? We talk about the different use cases, the options, and key components you should get. Lastly, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:09) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Jussi's Homelab Part 1, Part 2

- Give us feedback!

241 - A lap around Copilot for Security

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- Copilot for Security (Microsoft Learn)

- Give us feedback!

240 - Build 2024: Thoughts on the hero announcements

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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

- Give us feedback!

239 - Lessons learned: Infrastructure as Code with Jack Tracey

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200

Infrastructure as Code means one thing and so many things simultaneously for people. We pick the brains of Jack Tracey from Microsoft, on his lessons learned and insights with IaC. What are the pitfalls? What works? Bicep or Terraform? Also, Jussi asks Jack an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:46) - Show content starts.

Show links
- https://aka.ms/avm
- Decompile ARM template JSON to Bicep - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Learn

- Give us feedback!

238 - An introduction to Azure Quantum with Elaine van Bergen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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)

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237 - Expectations on Microsoft Build 2024

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we ponder what to expect from Microsoft Build 2024. Is it worth traveling to Seattle for the event, that takes place May 21-23? We reflect on the possible announcements, the breakout session topics, as well as the keynotes. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:14) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Build 2024
- Cloud Skills Challenge
- Employ AI on Snapdragon X Elite for code generation and image creation (Seattle only)
- RAG at scale: production-ready GenAI apps with Azure AI Search
- (PnP team – Rob Bagby delivering a session: Take an Azure OpenAI chat application from PoC to enterprise-ready )
- Optimize productivity by meeting next-level demands of the AI era
- The power of AI and Copilot for Azure Databases
- Power AI apps and develop rich experiences with Azure SQL Database
- What’s new in GitHub Copilot and the Visual Studio family
- Activate enterprise data in AI-enabled business applications
- Inside AI Security with Mark Russinovich
- Learn how to accelerate Stable Diffusion
- Deploy next generation workflows from PC to Cloud with Arm tools
- Scott and Mark learn to Copilot
- Running .NET on the NES

- Give us feedback!

236 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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 AI, Microsoft Sentinel, and Azure Advisors, and many others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Virtual network flow logs
- Azure Classic networking services retirement
- New Azure OpenAI and AI Search connectors for Logic Apps
- Azure AI Search changes
- Windows Server 2025 & Windows Server Insider Program
- Get end-to-end protection with Microsoft's unified security operations platform
- Use the SIEM migration experience - Microsoft Sentinel
- Calculate cost savings in Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn

- Give us feedback!

235 - Understanding Entra SSE

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0200

In this week's episode, we're talking about Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge (SSE). What is it? How does SASE tie into this? When and why would you need this? We reminisce a bit on history to better understand the use cases. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:22) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft Entra expands into Security Service Edge and Azure AD becomes Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Security Blog

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234 - Talking cost management and FinOps with Paola Annis

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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

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233 - Getting started with GitHub for Enterprises

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- 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)

- Give us feedback!

232 - Diving into Azure AI Studio

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0200

We've discussed generative AI and Azure AI capabilities in a few past episodes. In this episode, we'll bring it all together and focus on Azure AI Studio—how do you build generative AI solutions using this service? We consider how to choose LLMs, cost, deployment, bringing your data, and what solutions companies are building with this. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:56) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 199 - Refreshing our knowledge on Azure AI
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 220 - When to use what with generative AI?
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 223 - Understanding Azure AI Search

- Azure AI Studio

- Give us feedback!

231 - Let's explore Microsoft Security Exposure Management

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, we look at Microsoft Security Exposure Management. What is it, and what can you do with it? We discuss the capabilities, our initial impressions of this capability, and licensing. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Microsoft Security Exposure Management documentation

- Give us feedback!

230 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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.
(03:14) - Show content starts.

Show links

- GA: Application Gateway for Containers

- Public preview: Application Gateway support for TLS and TCP

- GA: Elastic SAN

- Windows Server 2025

- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

- Migrate Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Cloud Services (extended support)

- Azure Storage Actions documentation

- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel

- Microsoft Graph CLI

- Give us feedback!

229 - Checking out Azure Storage Actions

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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.

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

- Give us feedback!

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

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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!

227 - Experiences in Azure with Mustafa Toroman

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0100

We talk about experiences in Azure with Mustafa Toroman. He is the CTO for run.events and shares his vast experience working with Azure both as a consultant and for building a product. How does he learn new stuff? What about the approach to DevOps? Also, Jussi asks Mustafa an unexpected question.

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

Show links

- CloudSummit
- Mustafa Toroman (@toromust) / X (twitter.com)
- Windows95man - No Rules!

- Give us feedback!

226 - Azure Verified Modules with Jack Tracey

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0100

We're talking about Azure Verified Modules with Microsoft's Jack Tracey. What is AVM? How and when should you use it? Jack shares insights on the vision and how you can benefit as an architect and developer. Also, Tobi asks Jack an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:15) - Show content starts.

Show links

- https://aka.ms/AVM
- https://aka.ms/AVM/ModuleProposal
- https://aka.ms/AVM/ModuleTriage

- Give us feedback!

225 - Get sustainability insights with Azure Carbon Optimization!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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.

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

- Give us feedback!

224 - We're talking about Security Operations (SecOps) in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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!

223 - Understanding Azure AI Search

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

Let's focus on understanding what Azure AI Search is. What was it called before? What features does it have, and how much will it cost? We also talk about use cases, especially with generative AI workloads with Azure AI Search. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:07) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Introduction to Azure AI Search
- Pricing - Azure Cognitive Search

- Give us feedback!

222 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

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.
(02:57) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

- GA: Azure Virtual Network encryption

- Entra ID - redemption order

- Azure Copilot for Azure CLI

- Entra External ID - Google as an identity
- Public Preview of the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension

- Quickstart: Create and run a load test with Azure Load Testing

- Use secrets & environment variables - Azure Load Testing

- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 190 - Let's take Defender for APIs for a spin

- Microsoft Announces GA of Defender for APIs

- Give us feedback!

221 - Exploring the updated Azure Well-Architected Framework with Dom Allen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

We re-visit the Azure Well-architected Framework, with Dom Allen from Microsoft. What has changed, and what's interesting now in the WAF refresh? We take a look at what's new, and how to best utilize WAF. Also, Tobi asks Dom an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- WAF
- Azure documentation | Microsoft Learn
- YouTube: Unsolved Tetris Mysteries With Creator Alexy Pajitnov & Designer Henk Rogers

- Give us feedback!

220 - When to use what with generative AI?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Tobias and Jussi reflect a bit on options for building Generative AI with the lens of available studios like the Azure AI Studio and the Microsoft Copilot Studio. Jussi also asks Tobias a question about useless things you'd have an endless supply of.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(01:53) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure AI Studio
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Using Ollama (Jussi)
- LM Studio

219 - Designing architectures for Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

We talk about Azure architectures - how to design them, thoughts and experiences on visualizing them, and what matters in the end. Additional thoughts also on collaboration and Well-architected Framework as it relates to this. Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- WAF: Architect's checklist
- Azure Architecture Center
- Draw.io
- Azure Diagrams

- Give us feedback!

218 - Azure SQL backup and recovery

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0100

Let's not talk about AI, but instead let's talk about Azure SQL backup and recovery. What aspects to consider for disaster recovery? What options are available for backups in Azure SQL? How to test for recovery? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

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

Show links
- Disaster Recovery in WAF
- Disaster recovery in Azure SQL

- Give us feedback!

217 - Exploring Microsoft's 'Generative AI for Beginners' training material

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0100

We take a look at the Generative AI for Beginners course from Microsoft. It's free, open-source, and available for everyone. What's in it? Who should go through the lessons? And is this even needed? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:28) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Generative AI for Beginners – A Course
- 191 - Prompt engineering techniques with ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI

216 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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!

215 - Exploring AI and Copilot for Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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!

214 - Becoming certified as an Azure AI Engineer Associate with exam AI-102

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100

We look at AI-102 - the exam, the course, and the labs. As this course focuses on Azure Cognitive Services (Azure AI Skills after the rename), we walk through the intended audience, the skills you'll need, and the stuff you'll learn. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:41) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Study guide for Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

- Instructor-led course: Course AI-102T00--A: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

- Self-paced learning: Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution - Certifications

- Certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate - Certifications | Microsoft Learn

- Give us feedback!

213 - Reflections from Microsoft Ignite 2023

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100

Microsoft pushes into chip manufacturing, we heard about new chips like Azure Maia and Azure Cobalt. There's also the Azure AI Studio, all the new and updated Microsoft Copilots, the updated Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA), Microsoft Cloud PKI, The Windows App, and more. Tobias asks Jussi an unexpected question about being turned into a cat.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:18) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Announcing Azure AI Studio preview (microsoft.com)
- Azure AI Studio: ai.azure.com
- Copilots: See them all in the Book of News
- AI transformation and the technology driving change
- What’s new in Azure AI Platforms – Charting the Future with Innovative AI and ML
- Security Adoption Framework
- Cloud PKI
- Windows App
- Microsoft SSE

- Give us feedback!

212 - Developing generative AI apps with AI-050

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced courseware and studying materials for Azure OpenAI. We look at this 1-day course and reflect on the content, who this course is best suited for, and what one should learn. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:02) - Community highlights.
(04:42) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Uli Homann, CVP & Distinguished Architect at Microsoft: Deepening Well-Architected guidance for workloads hosted on Azure (microsoft.com)

Show links
- Course details: AI-050
- Course Details: AI-102
- Request access to AOAI: Limited access to Azure OpenAI Service - Azure AI services

- Give us feedback!

211 - Reflections on upskilling with Microsoft Applied Skills

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links
- Applied Skills announcement (Microsoft)
- Applied Skills

- Give us feedback!

210 - Reflecting on the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100

In this episode, we delve into the annual Microsoft Digital Defense Report, the 2023 edition. We dive into some of the findings and reflect a bit on what this means. Some surprises here, but also some known threat angles.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:40) - Community highlights.
(04:07) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Gregor Reimling: The new Azure Update Center is GA Part 1 – three big reasons to migrate to Update Center and forget the classic Update Management Center

Show links
- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 (Microsoft)
- What is the Cybercrime Atlas? (Tobias Zimmergren)

- Give us feedback!

209 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.
(03:52) - Community highlights.
(08:30) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- James Berger | Say Goodbye to Visio: The Future of Diagram Design is Here!

Show links

- GA: Azure AI Content Safety
- Releasing CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark v2.0.0 in regulatory compliance dashboard
- Data security overview dashboard in CSPM
- Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
- Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
- Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
- Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
- Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 30 September 2024
- Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October
- Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support
- Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
- Public preview: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing service: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
- General availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Italy
- Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— transition to a new method of internet access

- Give us feedback!

208 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2023

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links
- Microsoft Ignite

- Give us feedback!

207 - What is Microsoft Entra ID cross-tenant sync?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we discuss Azure Active Directory - I mean Entra ID - cross-tenant synchronization capability. When do you need it, and what does it do? And why would you have more than one Entra ID tenant? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:17) - Community highlights.
(04:24) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Alan Kinane: Azure Backup in 2023: Features you should know about
- Zachary Cavanell: How Microsoft 365 Copilot can work with your external data

Show links
- ME-ID
- Announcement for cross-tenant synchronization
- Billing model for external users

- Give us feedback!

206 - Lessons learned this week on Microsoft Fabric, Entra ID and Azure OpenAI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we talk about the lessons we've learned in the past week. Three lessons to share, on Microsoft Fabric, Entra ID and Azure OpenAI. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:54) - Community highlights.
(04:56) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Valentina Alto: Generating applications from sketches with LLMs
- Edi Wang: Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure Container Apps with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes

Show links
- Microsoft Fabric Licensing Guide from Reza Rad
- Entra ID External ID Public Preview

- Give us feedback!

205 - Reflections on relevant skills to work with security in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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!

204 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

- 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

- Give us feedback!

203 - PIM, PAM and PAW - what and how in Azure?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.
(05:18) - Show content starts.

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

Show links

- Give us feedback!

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202 - Let's talk about uncommon services in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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!

201 - A peek into a secure future with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links
- What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?

- Give us feedback!

200 - What is API-driven inbound provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

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

- Give us feedback!

199 - Refreshing our knowledge on Azure AI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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!

198 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(0x:xx) - Community highlights.
(0x:xx) - Show content starts.

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

Show links

- 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

197 - Cost and performance considerations for BCDR with Paola Annis

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:25) - Community highlights.
(04:40) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

196 - Building a SaaS service with Adis Jugo

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:28) - Community highlights.
(04:22) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

195 - A lap around Microsoft Fabric with Oskari Heikkinen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

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

- Give us feedback!

194 - Subscription vending to enable democratization of Azure with Jack Tracey

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:22) - Community highlights.
(03:20) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

193 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

192 - Getting started with devtunnel CLI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:32) - Community highlights.
(04:28) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

191 - Prompt engineering techniques with ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:42) - Community highlights.
(04:00) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

190 - Let's take Defender for APIs for a spin

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links
- Defender for APIs

- Give us feedback!

189 - AI-based coding with GitHub Copilot Chat

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:55) - Community highlights.
(04:19) - Show content starts.

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

- Give us feedback!

188 - Favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2023

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:00:00 +0200

We talk about our favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2023. A lot of interesting content, so we picked the ones we felt are useful, interesting and game-changing. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:08) - Show content starts.
(31:25) - Community highlights.

Community Highlights
- Denise Schlesinger: Use OpenAI GPT with your Enterprise Data
- Toon Vanhoutte: Authenticate Logic Apps against Microsoft Graph using Managed Identity

Show links
- Dev Home
- Dev Drive
- WinGet Configuration
- API Center
- Microsoft Fabric and OneLake
- Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB
- DevTunnels CLI

- Give us feedback!

187 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 May 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

186 - Azure Pipelines vs. GitHub Actions with Panu Oksala

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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

185 - Get certified as a Microsoft Information Protection Administrator (SC-400)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we talk about the SC-400 certification exam. We take you through the requirements, the content, the learning material and the actual exam. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:31) - Community highlights.
(05:42) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Liam Cleary: How Microsoft Purview helps keep you compliant
- Scott Hanselman: GitHub Copilot for CLI for PowerShell
- Greg Beaumont: Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Solves Cryptic Error Codes from Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and more!
- Graeme Bray: Reporting on Azure AD Password Protection

Show links
- SC-400 study guide
- SC-400 learning path: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- SC-400 labs
- Practice Assessments for Microsoft Certifications | Microsoft Learn

184 - Reviewing design decisions for Microsoft Sentinel workspace architecture

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we look at the decision tree model for designing Microsoft Sentinel workspaces. Its 8 steps guide you through planning and designing your Sentinel deployment architecture. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:48) - Community highlights.
(07:14) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Sam Cogan: Resource Group Location Matters
- Anthony Chu – Tech Community: This Month in Azure Container Apps: March/April 2023
- Daniel Calbimonte: How to work with ChatGPT in Visual Studio Code
- Jukka Niiranen: The world beyond apps – my thoughts on AI’s impact

Show links

- Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet (Ctrl+Alt+Azure Episode 021)

- Design your Microsoft Sentinel workspace architecture (Decision tree)

- Example workspace design

- Workspace architecture best practices for Microsoft Sentinel

183 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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.

Show links
- 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

182 - Expectations on Microsoft Build 2023

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode, we talk about our expectations for the Microsoft Build 2023 event happening in May. Jussi also asks Tobias an unexpected question about video games.

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

Show links
- Microsoft Build 2023 session scheduler

181 - Keeping skills relevant and renewing your certifications

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0200

In this episode we talk about Microsoft certifications. It's been a while, so has our thinking evolved at all? How do we upskill and prepare for exams? We also discussed the approach for renewing exams. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:45) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Certification Poster
- Microsoft Certifications

180 - Build your own ChatGPT solution with Azure OpenAI

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0200

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)

179 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0200

We take a frequent look at the recent Azure Updates. This week we found updates on Azure Firewall, Data API Builder, Azure AD Graph and Durable Functions, among others. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

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

Show links

- Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Apps, Logic Apps

- Public preview: Data API builder

- Sign up for Azure Data Manager for Agriculture

- Migrate to MS Graph from Azure AD Graph

- Bash for Beginners video tutorials

- What is Azure Firewall? (Azure Firewall Basic)

- Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall

- General Availability: ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts

- Configure Durable Functions with Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Learn

178 - Using Microsoft Assessments to establish your cloud posture

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100

This week we do assessments! What are they? We specifically focus on the Cloud Adoption Security Review assessment, which is freely available on Microsoft Learn. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:38) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Cloud Adoption Security Review
- Assessments (microsoft.com)

177 - Security in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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

176 - Let's talk about Azure Virtual Desktop

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, we talk about Azure Virtual Desktop. It's a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) in the cloud, like Windows 365 and Microsoft Dev Box, which we've covered previously. We cover deployment options, configuration, pricing, and other considerations. Also, Tobi reflects on his CD burner and Nero. Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:50) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Episode 94: Your PC in the cloud with Windows 365 | Ctrl+Alt+Azure
- Episode 149: Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box | Ctrl+Alt+Azure
- Enterprise-scale support for Azure Virtual Desktop - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn
- Tutorials for getting started with AVD
- AZ-140: Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty

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175 - Azure Landing Zones with Dom Allen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, we talk about Azure Landing Zones. We have Dom Allen from Microsoft to share his insights on ALZ, the content, the capabilities, and how to best approach. We also reflect on best practices and the guardrails approach. Also, we ask Dom an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:44) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Landing Zones

SPONSOR
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174 - Preparing for the SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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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173 - Understanding Power Platform for Azure professionals with Antti Pajunen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100

This week, we talk about Power Platform. We have Antti Pajunen from Forward Forever to share his insights on the platform, capabilities, integration points with Azure and features. We also reflect on OpenAI capabilities such as ChatGPT, and briefly talk about the licensing model with Pay-as-you-go. Also, we ask Antti an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

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

Show links
- Antti Pajunen on LinkedIn
- Forward Forever
- Episode #063 | Getting started with machine learning using Lobe | Ctrl+Alt+Azure
- Pay-as-you-go options
- The European Power Platform Conference 2023
- Dynamics 365 CX Summit 2023

SPONSOR
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172 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100

We take a frequent look at the recent Azure Updates. This week we found updates on the Chaos Studio, Logic Apps, Azure Load Testing and SQL Server, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:24) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 108 - Controlled havoc with the Azure Chaos Studio
- Public Preview: Container insights support for AKS hybrid clusters
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for SQL Server overview - SQL Server
- Using the Azure Load Testing Service (zimmergren.net)
- Indirect Enterprise Agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
- Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension
- Azure Database for MySQL - Logic Apps and Power Automate Connector
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 115 - We took the Azure Load Testing service for a spin

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171 - Azure Files with Azure AD Kerberos

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100

This week we delve into Azure AD Kerberos - specifically, how you can configure Kerberos-support for file shares when you migrate your legacy file shares to the cloud. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question. This episode sponsored by Sovelto.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:56) - Show content starts.

Show links
- How Azure AD Kerberos works (TechCommunity)
- Enable Azure AD Kerberos on Azure Files (Microsoft Learn)
- Permissions (Microsoft Learn)
- Troubleshooting guidance (Microsoft Learn)

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170 - Can we ignore certificates and PKI in cloud era? With Mika Seitsonen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:10) - Show content starts.

Show links

- Certificate Revocation in Microsoft Edge – text/plain (textslashplain.com)

- err_connection_reset if asking client certificate with Windows Server 2022 - Microsoft Q&A

- Another free CA to use via ACME! (scotthelme.co.uk)

- Certified Pre-Owned. Active Directory Certificate Services… | by Will Schroeder | Posts By SpecterOps Team Members

- Certificates and Pwnage and Patches, Oh My! | by Will Schroeder | Posts By SpecterOps Team Members

- 34 PKI & ADCS Whitepapers You Must Read - PKI Extensions (sysadmins.lv)

- Learn about the types of certificate that are supported by Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn

- Overview of Azure AD certificate-based authentication - Azure Active Directory - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn

- Stealing and faking Azure AD device identities (aadinternals.com)

- Azure Code Signing, democratizing trust for developers and consumers - Microsoft Community Hub

- NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms | NIST

- Navigating the New OV Code Signing Requirements - YouTube

- Build With Matter | Smart Home Device Solution - CSA-IOT

Other podcasts etc.

- Root Causes Series | Sectigo® Official

- Minding the Keystore - YouTube (esp. Microsoft PKI)

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169 - What is the EU Data Boundary?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:30) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Microsoft announcement (Microsoft Blog)
- Whitepaper on EU Data Boundary (Microsoft)
- Azure AD as a non-regional services (Microsoft Learn)
- An early look at the EU Data Boundary (Jussi)

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168 - A look at Microsoft Entra Verified ID

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links
- Decentralized identity and verifiable credentials whitepaper (Microsoft Security)
- Set up Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Microsoft Learn)

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167 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:54) - Show content starts.

Show links
- The EU Data Boundary (Microsoft)
- EU Data Boundary detailed docs (Microsoft Learn)
- Identity data for European customers in Azure AD (Microsoft Learn)
- Azure Integration Services Landing Zone Accelerator (Azure Blog)
- Public preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases (TechCommunity)
- Company branding for sign-in experiences in Azure AD (TechCommunity)

- GA: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (Azure Updates)
- GA: Azure Static Web App Diagnostics (Microsoft Learn)
- Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management (Microsoft Learn)

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166 - Let's talk about Defender for DevOps

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:28) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Defender for DevOps (Microsoft Learn)
- DevSecOps with Microsoft Defender for DevOps (Panu Oksala)

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165 - Running a Signal Proxy on Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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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164 - Get certified as a Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links
- The SC-300 exam (Microsoft Learn)
- Preparation videos (Microsoft Learn)
- Learning path (Microsoft Learn)
- Labs on GitHub (GitHub)
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 076 - So you want to become an Azure developer? Get the AZ-204!
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 087 - Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 098 - Get certified as a Security Operations Analyst
- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 128 - Preparing for the new Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) certification
- Exam Study Guide: SC-100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Zimmergren)
- Passing AZ-500 - Study Guide and free resources to pass the exam (Zimmergren)

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163 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:35) - Show content starts.

Show links
- GA: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Microsoft Learn)
- GA: More free services for new Azure PAYG customers (Microsoft Azure)
- Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service (Azure Updates)
- Updates to Azure Monitor logs (Microsoft Learn)
- Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links (Microsoft Learn)
- A plan: IPv6 support for Microsoft Azure AD (Microsoft Learn)

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162 - Lessons learned on Zero Trust in the past year

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links

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

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161 - Design for sustainability with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100

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

Show links

- Welcome | Learn Green Software
- Sustainability workloads - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn
- Build sustainable solutions on Azure and save money (Zimmergren)

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160 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100

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

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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159 - Celebrating 3 years of Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:02) - Show content starts.

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.

Show links: General
- How we planned and launched a Podcast - the technical story (Zimmergren)

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158 - Exporting data from Dataverse to Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:43) - Show content starts.

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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157 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links
- 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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156 - Top 3 favorite announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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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155 - Building Mission-Critical workloads on Azure with Martin Simecek

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:39) - Show content starts.

Show links

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

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154 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2022

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

Microsoft Ignite (Microsoft)

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153 - An early look at Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

Microsoft announcement on Defender TI (Microsoft)

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152 - A look at Ampere Altra Arm-based Virtual Machines

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

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

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151 - Back to basics: Securing Azure in 3 steps

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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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150 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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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149 - Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:09) - Show content starts.

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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148 - Tackling DDoS attacks in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

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)

147 - What is the new Azure Developer CLI?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

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

146 - A look at Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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!

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

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145 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

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)

144 - A look at the Power Platform API and Azure AD Service Principals

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

143 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(07:20) - Show content starts.

Show links

142 - Building Azure at home with Azure Stack Edge

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links

141 - Adventures in data: Integrating PostgreSQL with Azure Data Lake

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:36) - Show content starts.

Show links

140 - Reliability in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:03:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:50) - Show content starts.

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

139 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(07:45) - Show content starts.

Show links

- 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)

138 - F5 NGINX on Azure - what, why and how?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(09:35) - Show content starts.

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

137 - Our personal favorites from Microsoft BUILD 2022

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

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

136 - Operational Excellence in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

Show links
- WAF: Operational Excellence (Microsoft Docs)

135 - Managed Grafana in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(06:32) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Azure Managed Grafana (Microsoft Docs)

134 - Compliance with Microsoft Purview

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:00:00 +0200

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

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

133 - Performance Efficiency in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:54) - Show content starts.

Show links
- Performance Efficiency in WAF (Microsoft Docs)

132 - Microsoft Partner program updates for Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(08:50) - Show content starts.

Show links
- 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

131 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(07:09) - Show content starts.

Show links
- 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)

130 - Structured Azure Functions deployments and monitoring with Andrew Connell

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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)

129 - Azure Reservations with Tamás Gémesi

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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)

128 - Preparing for the new Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) certification

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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)
- Exam Study Guide: SC-100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Zimmergren)

127 - Joiners, Movers and Leavers in Azure AD

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0200

(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)

126 - The latest on WordPress on Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

125 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

124 - SFTP with Azure Storage

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

123 - The latest on Azure Bastion

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

122 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Secure Score

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)
- Top 3 favorite capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Zimmergren)

121 - Cost Optimization in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

120 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

119 - Using Azure IoT Central to control your coffee maker

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(09:06) - Show content starts.

Show links

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

118 - Backing up PostgreSQL databases in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(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)

117 - Make sure you have a break-glass admin account

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) Intro to the show, and catching up.
(04:54) Episode content starts.

Show links

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

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116 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0100

(00:00) Intro to the show, and catching up.
(08:53) Episode content starts.

Show links

- 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)

115 - We took the Azure Load Testing service for a spin

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0100

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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114 - Options for running containers in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0100

Show links

- 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)

113 - Trust no-one! A look at Zero Trust in 2022

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

112 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

111 - How do you choose the correct Azure compute service?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0100

Show links

- Cloud Adoption Framework – Compute Options (Microsoft Docs)

- Choose an Azure compute service (Microsoft Docs)

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110 - Azure in Sweden

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0100

Show links

- 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)

109 - Azure Policy as Code with Jesse Loudon

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

108 - Controlled havoc with the Azure Chaos Studio

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0100

- What is Azure Chaos Studio? (Microsoft Docs)

- Built-in faults (Microsoft Docs)

- Supported resources (Microsoft Docs)

107 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

106 - Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite in November 2021

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

105 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0200

104 - Become an Azure Architect with the new AZ-305 certification

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

103 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

102 - Where do you store your application config data?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

101 - Dial into Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

100 - Celebrating one hundred episodes of the podcast!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0200

No show notes this time!

099 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

098 - Get certified as a Security Operations Analyst with the SC-200 exam

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

097 - Durable Functions with Marc Duiker

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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.

096 - Moving towards a cloud-only architecture

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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!

095 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

094 - Your PC in the cloud with Windows 365

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0200

093 - Forgetting your passwords with passwordless

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

092 - What's up with Application Insights

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

091 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

090 - Managing virtual machines with Azure Automanage

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

089 - Azure Disk Encryption for Linux

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

088 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

087 - Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

086 - Exploring Azure Synapse with Vesa Tikkanen

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

085 - A look at Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

084 - Creating custom connectors in Azure for Power Platform

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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.

083 - Microsoft Build 2021 announcements and news

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

082 - So, where is my data?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:00:00 +0200

081 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

080 - Exploring Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 May 2021 15:00:00 +0200

079 - We're talking about Azure Bicep

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

078 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0200

077 - Publishing with Azure AD Application Proxy

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

076 - So you want to become an Azure developer? Get the AZ-204!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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)

075 - Azure spring cleaning

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0200

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

074 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

073 - Security with Microsoft Teams

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

Securing Microsoft Teams (Tobias Zimmergren)

072 - Ignite recap with Martijn

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

071 - Briefly chatting about Security Operations in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

070 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2021

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0100

069 - Printing is still a thing - a look at Universal Print

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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

068 - Azure updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

067 - End-to-end testing with Playwright on Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

066 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

065 - Design for transient faults in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

064 - Getting started with machine learning using Lobe

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

063 - Azure updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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)

062 - Finding your way with Azure Maps

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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

061 - Azure updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

060 - FinOps with Azure with Tamás Gémesi

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

059 - Azure in Space?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

058 - Azure Updates

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

057 - Azure Policy and Azure Key Vault integration

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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

056 - News in Azure, November 2020

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

055 - A few thoughts on event-based automation with Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

054 - Linux on Windows with WSL 2

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

053 - Backups using the new Azure Backup Center

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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

052 - Recommendations if we started working with Azure today!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

051 - Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0200

.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)

050 - First look at Azure Communication Services

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

049 - Security News from Microsoft Ignite September 2020

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

048 - Azure News in September, Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0200

047 - Managing the crops with Azure FarmBeats

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

046 - Azure Static Web Apps with Elio Struyf

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

045 - Azure News in August 2020 - Part 2

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

044 - Common approaches to building an API in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

043 - Azure News in August 2020 - Part 1

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0200

042 - Migrate away with Azure Migrate

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

041 - Optimize your workloads with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

040 - What is DevTest Labs?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

039 - Embracing Azure Container Instances

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

038 - Remote development with Visual Studio Code

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

037 - Discussing the Chaos Engineering methodology

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

036 - All things Security with Sami Laiho

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

035 - Running background jobs in the cloud

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

034 - Measuring your Developer Velocity

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

033 - Governance with the Azure Resource Graph

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

032 - Favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200

031 - How we turned a coffee call into a website analytics solution on Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:00:00 +0200

030 - Briefly chatting about Azure Front Door

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

029 - What is Azure Web Application Firewall?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 May 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

028 - Succeeding with Azure DNS

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 May 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

027 - All things GitHub

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0200

026 - Succeeding with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0200

Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)
Strategy skills (Microsoft)

025 - Azure Policies - the how, the what, and the why?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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

024 - Azure Governance - the overview

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

023 - The basics of Azure CDN, and how you can protect it

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0200

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)

022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0100

020 - Powering your apps with Azure Cognitive Services

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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

019 - Understanding the basics of Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

018 - Talking about securing your Azure Container Registry (ACR)

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

017 - Planning and designing perimeter security in Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

016 - Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

015 - A brief overview of Application Insights

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

014 - Let's talk about Azure DevOps and embracing DevSecOps

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

013 - Battle of the Azure Command Line - CLI, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, what more?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

012 - Azure IoT Hub and Raspberry Pi

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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:

011 - Considerations and Good Practices for Azure Developers

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0100

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)

010 - Thoughts about Azure Security Center essentials

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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:

008 - Our favorite tools for Azure professionals and developers

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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

007 - Thoughts on how to get started with Azure development

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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:

006 - Reflections on Azure Logic Apps

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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:

005 - Talking about how to master Microsoft Azure certifications

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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)

004 - Interesting news from the Microsoft Ignite keynotes

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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:

003 - Let's dive into the latest Microsoft Azure announcements!

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0100

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:

002 - Big technology conferences, to go or not to go?

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0100

Recommended conferences

001 - Let's talk about Azure Key Vault

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:00:00 +0200

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)