 Welcome back to another episode of AZ update. I'm Anthony Bartolo joined today by producer Pierre Roman Pierre, what are you wearing? I am wearing the winning jersey Some of you may know today is the first day of Euro 2020. Yes, it is 2020 not 2021 And so I'm donning my team the Italia jersey and you know, I asked Pierre Let's do you know the soccer jerseys and Pierre showed up with what you're all giving his jersey Which is awesome, you know, congrats to there was a fight schedule in a hockey game broke out They beat Winnipeg for straight, which was awesome. Who do they play next in the semis? I Don't know. I think it hasn't been decided yet. Hasn't been decided yet still still battling it out, right? Paul Jensen follow fellow Canadians jumped on board So, you know, tell us Paul what which games you're currently we're looking at watching in the playoffs I'm gonna be starting my new playoffs rounds with the Euro 2020 watching Italy play Turkey today at 3 p.m Eastern very excited for that Good morning to Jared Shockley to Andrew McCollum and to everybody It's in the chat room if you're watching us online You can watch us and participate in chat on the our AZ update YouTube channel and on the I to opsock.com blog which can access the chat in both ends Pierre what was the last time you participated in a hackathon? Oh I think the last one we did that I did that was involved with was The official one. I think was the missing children's of Canada So the only missing the missing children of Canada hackathon that we did was five years ago By Wow last hackathon I did actually was three years ago. I had hair was So did I it was the The last hackathon it it was the drone one where we had the made the drone self-aware of life jackets in the water Which is a great story We were able to do another hackathon this week and it was pretty Exciting to get this done Because it's something that's a passion of mine that we work with nonprofits to you know do things and learn things about technology which was pretty awesome and Even more so the learning on how to do a hackathon when you can't be in person If you remember the missing children project we flew out to Calgary To the missing children's head office and we were actually in the Calgary Trump sorry Calgary Metro police head office. Yeah, well and did the hackathon in their boardroom, but we also had a Other section or other team that was working on the project in Toronto in the Mississauga office And so we had that connection over Skype at the time That's how long the hackathon was and so we had this connection over Skype that would allow for us to work jointly Come 2021 we now have this hackathon that we completed with Second Harvest Everyone's online Everyone's online. So the whole hackathon had to occur over teams So really quickly a bit about Second Harvest It's a really cool nonprofit Introduced to us by Mark Artiega who's a partner of his organization red bit is a partner of Microsoft's and The the slogan that they have Producing here. Sorry if you can help me out here With the stream there you go The the no, it's okay The slogan that they have is no that no kidding left behind What a you know, wonderful premises in terms of what they're trying to accomplish here and succeeding at doing so When you go to the grocery store, you know, there's fresh produce. There's there. There's you know, canned goods. What have you? Everything has expiry dates on the goods Second Harvest provides the ability for these grocers and restaurants of even prepared food the ability to donate the food to, you know food banks prior to it expiring and so they've Orchestrated this system that allows these grocers restaurants and other vent food vendors to donate the food To the food banks so that they you know, the food gets the people that need it most Prior to it expiring and it's awesome because you know that the the grocer of the food vendor gets a donation The you know, the food banks gets the food that it gets out there But a lot of the nonprofits the biggest challenges that they have is the cost of building up these solutions, right? There's architecture that needs to be built there has to be you know, management of what have you this is what we experienced Other hackathons with nonprofits before as well, right? How familiar Pierre are you with the power platform? Not as much as I want to I'm actually trying to figure out ways that we can leverage that in the IT ops Environment so tell me a bit more about that So here's the thing I'm not an expert either I'm you know first avowing into this hurt we heard a lot about our platform it built and Power automate, you know in its capabilities of you know, we heard about the ability for artificial intelligence to know Which command sets to use and power platform and to automate a lot of the processes? What I found really interesting about this project was as long as you're aware of the business logic and what you're trying to accomplish With that business logic you have the ability to build out these solutions and their actual viable solutions These are not you know, just a let's put pieces together and maybe it'll work with you know Bubblegum and tape. This is a you know full-on production Implementation so you can quickly share my screen once once more This is the discussion that we had with second harvest and with red bit And this was the you know going through the processes the big piece here what we what we did in this hackathon was When food needs to be picked up? Sometimes the the person that's supposed to be picking up the food runs into trouble They're unable to pick up that food and so, you know, even though the food is dedicated to that individual Right now that individual can't pick up the food. It's a manual process to call in and say hey, you know I can't pick up that food, you know, please donate it to somebody else and they have to go back in the system They have to release the food so somebody else can pick it up will have you it's this whole manual process It's actually a hundred and twenty hours a week of work And so we went through the process of understanding the logistics and the what's required in regards to this whole Endeavor of releasing the food when it can't be picked up so that another organized issue can pick up that food Once we've gone through the flow we then went through the logic in terms of okay So when this occurs who gets notification? What does it be an email? What are the links that they have to go to to release the food and what have you so, you know We had the presence of April Dunham and Greg Herman Greg Herman from the power platform team April denim as a fellow cloud advocate on the power platform team and It was interesting to go through that logic and now in regards to hey So this is the individual needs to be contacted when this occurs and this is you know how it cycles back and how you know What have you in a day and a half? We had a full-on working solution Where you had? Notification being automated when the food can't be picked up by the the food bank So that it would release the food into the system to allow another food bank to gain access to the food and have this Capability to now ensure that that food doesn't go to waste. So not only do we save? Second harvest 120 hours a week worth of time We also had the ability to now save up to 2,000 pounds of food a month They can go back into you know the food banks prior to this is the food that would be expired And it would have to be thrown out right so this is food in the belly is better than food in a dumpster Exactly right so this is this is the thing so what was awesome about this was a couple things So the power automate solution how easy and how fluid it was now Hey, I you know I'm so grateful that Greg in April were able to participate. They led to charge in regards to all this Was really awesome, you know for their expertise Mark Artiega a pro developers, you know good friend of ours good friend of the show Also familiar with the you know the back-end what API's need to be called out What have you for specific instances to automate a lot of the tasks? But second harvest has no developers right the team, you know knows the business logic But they were well, you know immersed into this in terms of the creation of this whole solution And it was the it was so inspiring to see All the work that was being done was being done by second harvest with April and Greg In essence looking over the shoulder through teams to go through this is the sequence that you need to do it Put forth to adopt this and the reason we did this specific project was this sets up second harvest for success Now that we've completed this this this task, which was the more complicated task that they needed help What to get this done so they have they have a plethora of other projects of that way Sorry They have no plethora of other projects that they have to go through now That they're going to use power platform and specifically power automate to automate a lot of these tasks Now and the back-end there is a lot of you know building out that the you know RedBid team has has generously donated their time to create on behalf of second harvest and it's something where Building out that foundation was key to the success of this type of implementation But leveraging that back in now and using power platform and power automate to you know further automate their solution So inspiring to see you know how how excited second harvest was and how they're now empowered To go forward and do this type of functionality to really you know help others in need when they need access to food Jared says I can't take a drink because he's shaving It's really early for them right he's out on the West Coast It was interesting right it was so inspiring to see how quickly this was done and the fact that this was done all across All over Microsoft teams, right? Yes power automate cloud platform accessible via browser But like I mentioned the hack itself was done By the second harvest team with support from RedBid and Microsoft Yeah, but it was something where it was is interesting to see how quickly so we completed this in a day and a half We actually sketched out three three days worth of time and the entire hack was done in the day and a half Again, we had you know the top line support from April and from Greg and from Mark or Jake and others at RedBid So without their help I can assure you would have taken the full three days But it was so awesome this too. It's just to see how excited The second harvest team was and how they felt in power that they can complete and do more well, I think the best What the second best outcome because the best outcome is less food wasted the second best outcome is They now have the realization of what the platform can do for them so now they can think of other things that they can automate because in our industry well, not just in Non-profit but any industry in general automating tedious tasks gives you Theoretically it gives you more time to actually address projects and issues that are more business related so you're not putting out the fires or you're not Repeating tedious tasks that can be automated. You're actually working with business units on goals that are common to the enterprise so win-win And this is the thing right and anybody could participate It's you know, it's not the whole aspect of being a pro developer or a business decision maker or an IT professional anybody who you know Knows, you know, they're back in architecture You know what business processes are this is a great opportunity for collaboration across the three In terms of building out these solutions and all you know all facets all facets are important Like the pro developer in this case was Mark Artiega, you know Giving us guidance in terms of backing hooks into the database to specifically on Dynamics 365 The the ability then be a Greg in April to understand the nuances of the power platform and power on me specifically Victorian team from Second harvest giving us the business logic to provide us understanding as to what needs to be accomplished It was that synergy that really knocked it out of the park and made the solution come to life Which they're running into production almost immediately. We did it in the dev test But for them to port it over it's gonna be a very quick port over and they're gonna run with it And they're gonna build on top of it with other automation rules To quicken the process of capturing that food and making sure it goes to the people that need the most Well, congratulations to second harvest and to you and april and everybody else who got involved We are almost at half time in the show. So maybe we should get to the news Let's get to the news. I was just gonna call it out So first up in the news Azure migrate private endpoint support is now available in public preview If you have that requirement to ensure that your data Is being while being migrated does not touch public cloud There is now the availability using azure migrate and in essence express route to ensure that your data is Privately kept and privately migrated without touching the public network This is you know a scenario that could occur in healthcare in finance In other in other industries that are out there This is of great importance to a lot of people. So it's currently in private preview You're have the ability to go and check this out and test this out I've heard of this, you know a couple times in terms of hey the migration I require To the cloud to another data center What have you can't touch public cloud because of ISO standards and certificates that we have to have here to So this is a great way to look at this in respect to Ensuring that it doesn't touch public cloud through private routes specifically through express route or through site to site VPN We've also included sarah's Video on azure migrate if you've not dabbled with the solution before so that you can have an understanding of You know what azure migrate is and then know what the connection is with the the private endpoint support To ensure that no public cloud is touched yeah I'd like to point out though that azure migrate so the client that like collects and and syncs the data Is already encrypted so if you're Going over public internet Your data is already encrypted. This is just an added layer of security where you're connecting to a private endpoint And if you got express route on top of it while the express route by design is a End-to-end mpls segment so it doesn't actually touch any network than the one from your who's you're releasing The the pipe from but it is encrypted end-to-end Okay, next up pier so Next one is let me just switch the screen here Is the tls 1.2 is becoming the standard across all of azure All of azure services because right now we're supporting in some parts some services tls 1.0 1.1 and now they're 1.2 is becoming the standard so the backup team as decided to force not force but take the lead and Deprecate 1.0 and 1.1 from their network so the agent the mars agent which is the the mobility agent for Back azure backup is now going to only support 1.2 so if you are using The mars agent for your backup on prem you have to go in and configure it to actually turn on Tls 1.2 if you don't do that Then it's going to try to connect over whichever it's configured to be using currently And well the connection will get denied so it's very important if you want to keep going with your backups to Go in and check the configuration that you have To make sure that you are secure or using the last the the the very latest latest in encryption technology We've had Sorry, I was going to say we've had a cross Especially in our docs So if you see again, I've made a bunch of changes on ssl and in some in some area. We're still Referring to ssl which is a deprecated So tls 1.2 is what you should be going for So this is a manual process. This isn't something that's automated. You don't get switched over automatically What's the reasoning behind that? Do you know? um Unsure. I don't think the agent is Built to be remotely configured I'm sure some An enterprising it or operations person can conscript it or just Figure out a way to enable it to cross their enterprise But currently it is a manual process It is a good idea to do that and at the same time verify that your keys are still valid And maybe try to do a restore of some of your backups I heard a really good Saying not too long ago saying that customer that they didn't have a backup strategy And i'm like, what do you mean? You don't have a backup strategy. They said we have a restore strategy Backup is implied So any backup that they do has to be restored Once to ensure that it works if that works then they're good If they don't get a restore if they don't get a restore done that backup is not validated So very important. It's it's interesting We we've given that talked before about azure backup and you know those that have those Disaster recovery binders that they haven't touched in you know, how long and they blow the dust off it when you ask them Can I just can I see your disaster recovery plan? You know and we talked about the stories of the dlt tapes and putting them in the electric Sorry electromagnetic safes and getting wiped it's The utmost importance of the chat room is all lit up in terms of azure backup and its capabilities For the simple capability alone to just to i'm running it on this machine here Right every night the midnight that does a backup of my machine to the cloud And the cost is so so minuscule in terms of You know the investment of your data and how much is your data worth them to have it on a tape that you know What it's it's it's interesting that you know sometimes the logic that's is still that hey It's the cost savings that I do it on tape But you know how much is your data worth at the end of the day and backup is part of your compliance Especially if you're going for like iso 27 001 uh, it's actually written in this the the standard that you must have a backup strategy that can be audited um in the standard so Considering we just we're talking about standards and compliance. I think that leads into your next point It does so next up general availability for update in policy compliance for resource type policies So now in you know the situation where you have the criteria allowed resource types disallowed resource types will have you That have a non-compliant resources stored in compliance records If it's compliant it will no longer be stored in compliance records This is to provides a lot more Simplification to the reporting that's being made available in terms of your compliancy If it doesn't show up in the records at all it is compliant It does not need to be reported if it if it does show up then there's a situation now Hey, this is not compliant. This needs to be addressed. This is to really Simplify what is actually being reported out in regards to Your compliance levels again fully adjustable by you in terms of the control and what you're reporting on into compliance But making the report simpler so that you don't have to have hey all these are compliant and they're in the in the report We just want to focus in on what's not compliant well, I think that's Every it and operations person has looked at logs And right in most of the cases we want we don't want to see what went well. We want to see what failed So we typically add filters to it And this is just a way to filter the report so that it only shows you the things that you need to know at that point Uh, we had one more item, uh put in In terms of the news today and you wanted to talk about it was iot edge And it's interesting you're going to talk about this one really quickly iot edge integration with azure monitor is now gone public preview yes, um Everybody knows i'm a big fan of azure monitor. Uh, i'm right a big fan of uh Having a single location that you can query and base your automation on and your security Uh where it collects all of the logs all of the telemetry in one place in one log analytics workspace where You have a top-down view of everything And up to now the iot edge Was not integrated into that so we didn't have Visibility into that right now With the integration of iot edge into azure monitor Regardless of what these edge devices do They will report their They'll report their their their findings their their logs their their access Almost in near real time to azure monitor so that you can now have a graph custo scripts An automation based on that to actually act on it and have an act a real view of what your environment looks like Well, I love that right this is that whole aspect of hey, I have these devices on the edge I don't know what they're doing capturing that information in terms of their uptime their capabilities and what have you greatly important I've said edge is the new hybrid in terms of on-premises implementation of Uh technology and compute power. Uh, it's funneling information Why not have it into your centralized repository for monitoring to understand what's going on on the edge as well absolutely absolutely Next up events So really quickly we have the upcoming azure hybrid and multi cloud digital event coming up on the 29th They'll be talks about the major eight azure arc announcements that are coming out on the 29th And also learning how to use azure arc to harness your your hybrid multi cloud Scenario, yes, we love azure of course being from microsoft But we do understand that organizations are using other clouds as well And also using on-premises. So here's a great Um event that's occurring. It'll be a digital event online free for everybody to attend and register Uh on the 29th of june that provides you that insight in terms of how to put your best foot forward in utilizing your multi cloud Hybrid environment and controlling it all for one pane of clouds Uh next up and this is an interesting one today. Hello world producer pierre You're actually going to be on the show today, which is awesome I know they must uh, they must everybody must else must be on vacation. So they asked me to uh, go talk to Do a little segment and I'm a little puzzled by that but i'm i'm It's fun. Uh, they've asked me to talk about the uh, the faking ddns We talked about it in this show last week. So we are of course, uh, uh ahead of the pack Uh, but they they've asked me to talk about that in in the optic of like why did I do that and not necessarily the code itself but the idea of It and ops using developer tools to achieve Uh, uh the the desired results. So Remember look at that tune in You'll have fun. Now. I always have fun on the on the monday's uh hosting the show Uh, it's a different show from what we do here in a is it update but you know, you'll have fun and you'll get to demo that Fantastic blog post that you've shared out a lot of people. I have a lot of conversations about it Let's do another quick show. Uh shout out to those in the room We have anju mccullum. We have jerry chockley talking to us today a j shock. We have paul jensen A lot of you talking about as your backup and the importance in backing up your systems on premises Into the cloud, which is awesome A lot of people talking about power platform and how its capabilities are also great In regards to everything that's going on Just let you know that hello world is on at 1 p.m. Eastern time So definitely check out a producer pair on the show Last but not least our microsoft learn module of the week To tie into our story at the beginning. We talked about power automate and the power platform Here's a great opportunity to look at this and to start dabbling hands on this is the introduction to power automate module Again, these modules are free Work in sandbox environments to allow you to go forth and test out the functionality Play with you know hands on labs, which is really cool again all free And what's awesome about this one is it takes you through step by step scenarios What's also interesting is what we did with second harvest. We're actually going to Take that story and make it into one of these modules So it's awesome to actually take real world Stories and opportunities and problems that are being addressed and bring brought forth into modules like this Like these to have further impact in regards to telling of the of the story But having others work alongside and repeat the story Well, I'm Like I said at the beginning. I don't know as much as I would love to About power automate. So this one is definitely on my list to review Yep, and I too I have to do this one as well, you know, I learned a lot To that that day and a half working on the hackathon And just seeing how quickly we went from concept to actual, you know in dev environment Solution for them to flip the switch to go production is literally just moving it from dev to to prod And in a way you go so amazing to see how quickly that was done So it's it's something where you know, I'm going to definitely jump into that too and learn more and I want to see how we as it pros could take advantage of this specifically on automation of tasks Using power shell Using through a power power automate and that's something I'm I'm going to task myself with this over the summer There are so many tools that we can leverage as your functions as your Automate as your automate Power automate there there there's a number of What's typically is considered the developer tools? That are built for applications that we can leverage for operations Interesting in the chat room. They just me mentioned of it and I thought this wasn't going to occur Patch and switch is on today at noon eastern standard time So if you are watching on channel nine or twitch.tv forward slash patch and switch I thought it wasn't happening today, but they are going to have the show on today According to Steve the audio guy. They're on I don't know if rick is going to be Joining from the road through his Helmet helmet cam and the helmet microphone Producer pair if you want if people want to get a hold of you, what's the best way to get a hold of you? I have been and always shall be at wired canuck And if you want to get a hold of me for some reason you can get a hold of me on twitter at wireless life Everybody have a great weekend and we'll see you all next week Here's Oh wait You