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In this episode, we take a look at recent updates to Azure. What's new, what's in preview, and what's interesting? Also, 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!

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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 SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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 SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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! SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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 SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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 SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

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 SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro