 Hear me. Yeah. Yeah. Good morning everybody. How are you? I Am fantastic a little tired, but it's a beautiful day Speaking of that. I hope you and it is are okay after the big storm earlier this week Yeah, you know, we we looked out this week the storm last week was pretty pretty Harrowing over out in here in the New York City area But you know, we're covering day by day We're getting a little bit better and I think that that's all you can really hope for is that the When these types of natural disasters that your area can kind of bounce back quick Yeah, well, I saw some pictures of New York City subways with basically like water like pouring out of the subway itself I Can't be easy on the city to to have to go through and no we We we definitely need to work on our infrastructure just like we got to work on our infrastructure in the cloud you know what I mean like sometimes your infrastructure gets a little leaky and The only way that you can really have it improved is by having like an investment and not just by you know whoever's managing The infrastructure itself but from the top down and so I think that's kind of a great parallel Without having you know in devops. What do we always say is that having a top-down approach to? Change is extremely important and so I think that that's one of those things you got to look at it It's all kind of cyclical, you know, how we do things with Technology how we do things in the real world and real infrastructure. It's all not that different well, yeah, I have my experience with that and I used that I add a customer that We talked to them about disaster recovery and being redundant and and and planning For disasters and they were telling us that oh, they didn't have the budget for that. There was there's just to They're covered. They used to tell us to work covered. Don't worry about it. We're covered until one day they had a flood like that and Bad design on their part in actually was a customer in Quebec City, Quebec City itself Which is basically built on a rock. So they they dig a hole into the rock to put the foundation in the building They put their data center in the basement Hmm. So what happens when there's a flood? Yeah, there's the biggest thing that I can remember is we had a Superstorm standee here in the New York City area I was working in tech and one of the big things I recall the most is a lot of the big New York City tech companies Think since like Galker BuzzFeed you name it they were they were all in this one particular data center over on Water Street, which is right next to the seawall in lower Manhattan and Their their generators were in the basement and Their generator got flooded their power went out and and that was that and so it taught a lot of people So even like our public housing we ended up having a lot of buildings that had Basement flooding, which is where the generators are. So Standards have been changed in the last few years To help improve reliability and I think that kind of leads us into one of our really cool stories for today about improving reliability And I'm sure we'll get to that in a few in just a moment. So how's everything else going for you here? Oh, everything is great I'm back. This was this week was back from vacation So I spent a lot of the first couple of days of the week just trying to Pile on pile myself from an inbox overflowed Because one thing I did is I basically turned off my notification on my phone I didn't uninstall the app like a lot of people do but I basically turned off all the notification and trying to made a made a point of not turning on my Corporate email for the week. So I came back on on Tuesday because Monday was Labor Day and I was like, oh my god My inbox was overflowing and trying to go through everything and we're we're in so many distribution lists and and informational and and dog food program for this and and Elite program for that and you have to go through hundreds of messages to figure out which one's important Which ones you need to but got through it Back in business back in doing the right thing. So let's go on with the news and your segue from Sure master from Sandy. So just want to say also. Hi Paul. Thanks for watching. We really appreciate. We're doing great That's absolutely I'll go ahead. Yeah Good All right, I'll get started. No problem. Hey, you know when you do these things live folks So what when I talk about reliability what I really am talking about also is your reputation as a business Yeah, and so what you want to do when you really think about in your planning stages on how to ensure the most Capable application solutions You want to actually, you know build high availability and so this was a great announcement that was From the third as your app service support for availability zones reaches GA Availability support for public multi-tenant as your app service enables you to build high availability availability into your application architecture and There are a bunch of really great new docs that are available up on docs dot Microsoft comm that talk about availability support rest of the availability some zone support Improvements and and one of the things that you'll actually see if you want to scroll down a little Pierre is how? many different regions are supported With this new app service version 3 so there's a number of different regions that you could put your application It'll give you multiple multiple AZ Availability and so I think that's huge It'll give people who are not necessarily concerned with just development but the people who are making sure availability and reliability are part of your Solutions are ready and so having like one region fail or I should say one AZ fail Means that the other AZs that you have in there are going to stay online and your application or websites will as well Yeah, the thing that I love about this is not necessarily about the the Development side because I know that's from a developer standpoint. It's not going to change much of how their workflow However for the operation side because how when you set up the app service on which your development teams will Deploy part of the CI CD pipeline and all of that that good DevOps stuff that you that you preach all the time In a good way, sorry You you set it up with Zone availability and then you don't have to worry about if if one compute module goes down or if one network Switch goes down it builds in redundancy into your systems very very easily and then makes it so that your your redundancy and your Resiliency to Failures Increases tremendously with very little effort Mm-hmm, and if you wanted to actually improve reliability overall There's of course as your front door, which is like a global scalable entry point for global edge networks to all of your websites So you could create a front door with multiple Regents, so I want to maybe have Australia East Australia Southeast and maybe I want to have end points here in like New York, so or I should say on the east coast of the US so US East Or East US to or something like that and then I can have front door essentially serve traffic to all three And then within those individual regions having Availability zone reliability, so we can highly distribute advocate applications Find ways to keep redundancy and and have these really really strong infrastructure architectures Yeah, no, it's it's it's absolutely What you're saying is dead on in terms of layering your your infrastructure so front door you can The benefits of front door as well is that it'll give the end user the best possible experience So if I'm in North America, it's gonna direct me to a North American zone if I'm in Australia It'll direct me to the closest one to the user So making your your user experience that much better, but that layering that on top of Availability zones makes it so much More resilient Absolutely, and and so that's what we we want and hey here Paul says back in the day We used to use cluster for everything about every for absolutely everything and now we add AZ to everything so they can handle it Yeah, that's service expanding. I think is gonna be really really big for people who are concerned with Redundancy reliability and like I said maintaining your your business road or your applications Reputation and ultimately we people frequent our apps and our businesses if they're reliable and That'll only make it so that they keep coming. That's right. That's right. So speaking of getting a keep in going Well, let's move on to the next item so this week we have oops So this week we have a new on-demand capacity reservations for Azure virtual machines in public preview This is huge in my opinion We've this is something that our illustrious competitors have had for a long time, but now you can actually reserve Instances or capacity for your environment because when you look at in Corporations that I've mission critical applications Mm-hmm, and you get to a point where either if it's for a failover either it's for at Bursting in terms of capacity in terms of like if you got like a million people that suddenly come in and hit your website You want to be able to to grow? If you're in a region that has some constraint and we've we've known we've known Some of those constraints over the pandemic where at some point they were Basically, the the market was growing faster than our data centers but now you can actually Reserve that capacity instead of Deploying that capacity and having it either turned off or idle sure I want to show everybody really quick the big differences and so here's the on-demand capacity and reserved Virtual machine instances the big differences on-demand capacity Virtual machines the term I think it's huge. No commitment required Capacities reserved and backed by SLAs. There's no discounts here. It's pay as you go But still I think the benefits when you consider the fact that it's burstable It's it's general purpose. You can also really consider Concern yourself with disaster recovery. So if you've got a dr situation that you need to Always have capacity available for that that you can go ahead and have on Demand as you need it and and then also the special events So let's say, you know, you're planning a huge promotion You're expecting a huge influx of traffic and that requires say maybe 15 20 more VNs Well, they're there's there's an app for that, you know And we can handle your your we can handle these This expansion by giving you this on-demand capacity. So I think this is really great for people who you know same as we just talked about before Liability redundancy and the ability to have a reputation that's maintained because People are able to get to what you're providing to them. Yeah And and we still know that this is more for the I as type deployment So it's not so much like the app service that we were talking about earlier But that's still a huge huge portion of our Customers that are leveraging I as to deploy those types of systems. So Great Moving on to our next item J. Well, what's the what's the what's going on? so the next thing is We need you to upgrade To the latest version of Azure AD connect before August 31 of 2022. So you've got a year or a little bit less than a year So if you want to avoid service disruptions when using this It's it's really really Important so before August 31st make sure if you have some 1x versions of a AD connect Get it upgraded to the latest version. I Know that Windows And we'll talk about a little bit there's all these improvements to Windows that are going to be coming out soon and Based on that you're going to want to make sure that you are quote-unquote ready for it and so if a new version doesn't necessarily to Add a machine into an AD environment. It isn't up to or I should say doesn't use those older versions of these protocols What's the point? You know why upgrade so making sure that you're ready. You're prepared. That's a huge part of operation Yeah, well, this one is very important and we're giving them a year like I Remember in the days of when 2008 went out of support We've been telling them for like two three years in advance that it was coming. It was coming It was coming and then when we cut support everybody went. Oh my god. Why didn't you tell us? So that's what we're doing again. We're telling you To update your AZ connect and the reason that we're doing that ahead of time is because the AZ connect has Components in it that are from a sequel server 2012 Like they're there there's some run times and some some sequel 2012 Components that are no longer going to be supported and maintained So that everything that's like a one-point X version of AD connect needs to be upgraded So that you have the upgraded or the supported Portion of sequels that are built into that to that product project or a project product It's one of the reasons I actually like Azure SQL so much is that as these kind of changes happen You don't need to be as concerned if you're maintaining your own SQL servers locally Or I should say in a pat I ask situation, you know There's a lot of this type of overhead that you need to concern yourself The other thing I love about Azure SQL is the versionless aspect to it and so that you know We maintain a a non version, but we're just a feature-driven version of SQL and I think Reducing how much overhead you have especially with managing your AD. I think Thinking in this way. I love services over VMs While VMs have their place I still prefer services and I think that that also gives you an opportunity if you have old SQL servers that are using this Connect considering moving them into a platform as a service or database as a service as opposed to Infrastructure as a service. Yeah, well infrastructure versus and I as versus pass I Completely agree with you. I prefer I pass service because then I don't have to worry about the patching I don't have to worry about the underlying OS. I don't have to worry about anything like that I just have to set it up maintain and make sure that the backups are taken make sure that the security is set that the data is Is is secure and protected and that the users have the access they want But I don't have to worry about all the nuts and bolts that are underneath it But for most of our for a lot of our customers that are supporting legacy systems or and I use the term legacy very very Lightly because it could it doesn't have to be like software if that's 10 15 years old It might be something that was built a little while ago but it's supporting or it's built on an I as platform and We all know how long sometimes that the development especially in the corporate world development of a new Corporate tool can take so if it's on I as then run it on I as and you have that you have the choice And you have the the capacity to do both, but if you can go to pass especially with some of the Enhancement and we talked about that last week with the private endpoints For past services It does make more sense To slowly start embracing those cloud natives technologies Yeah, and there's also ways to kind of still have some of that underlying control you have but still be in more of a Past situation like with say as your sequel managed instance, you know what I mean like I think that that's a good kind of in between of Having some sort of management that it's handled by the provider But still giving you the ability like if you you have certain types of like store procedures and things like that You still can manage those pretty easily Yeah, but there are some requirements that you have to look at your application and what you're using because some stuff doesn't actually Work exactly the same in pass versus I as especially for something like sequel, but there is a definite Benefits, but you have to know your application and you have to plan properly Alright next item is Let me switch here Windows server is 2022 is now generally available and this was this came last week But for some reason we didn't make our cutoff for our show last week, but we are talking about it this week So Windows 2022 is generally available and there is a Windows service summit that is coming up Very shortly, I think I believe it's on the 16th So go register if you have not registered already Where you can actually do a deep dive on all of the capabilities. Yes, September 16th capabilities of Windows 2022 with all of the added features added functionality for new hybrid type of workloads better security and What's the other thing I'm having a brain fart here? New support for stuff like Kubernetes on Windows server Mm-hmm, and and so that leads you into the other big big announcement that came I believe Windows 2022 is now Windows server 2022 is now GA. Yep All right, well really cool like I like I said that there's a ton of new features like advanced multilayered security Hybrid capabilities with Azure, which I think is huge a flexible application Platform that you could take advantage of scalability like support for up to 48 Terabytes of memory which jeez and and told 2048 logical Core is running on 64 physical sockets So if you need very very high end compute Windows 2022 or Windows server 2022 is definitely going to be useful for you and That there's container support So some of the capabilities of Azure kubernetes service and aka stack HCI They're all available for you. So I think that that's that's real big. Yeah, it really is the the the best version of Windows to run in an hybrid environment It gives you all of the stuff that you are used to and you love for on-prem, but it does have The the connection to Azure so that you can use some of the Azure services to make your on-prem life a little easier and better So I do I do believe that this is going to be the the the best version for you to use if you are in a hybrid situation, especially if you're running workloads as you mentioned like kubernetes and containers and stuff like that It's a great way of simplifying your life by having an one OS In all of your environment and there's a great way to kind of start taking a look at this You can use a Windows server on Azure for free So if you go and I'll share this website over here with y'all in chat for a V evaluate Service value So I think if you want to check this particular service out Let me bring it up here. Yep. There we go. You can evaluate Windows server 2022 using either Azure you can create a Windows server VM You can download the ISO you can download the BHD I Think that gives you just all these different options where you don't have to make a huge commitment right away You just give it that quick look and see if it's right for you and hopefully it is You've also got the version that I think is huge the server core version And the server core version gives you a headless deployment We all don't need to interface with a GUI sometimes So sometimes we just want to write run some PowerShell commands. Well, well, you can Because the way it's built now with the the Windows and min console if you deploy all of your servers with core So no no GUIs on all of them But you have the GUI installed on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 machine or Maybe a jumpbox where you've got all of your management application, so if you want the GUI you can Do it it remotely and if you want the command line, then it's there as well So you get to really get the best of both worlds without having to lock down some processes and memory Utilization for a GUI that's not being used on a server And so you can try a Windows server on Azure if you'd like to I think it's a really great way To kind of get those evaluations here is a link to it in case you need it. I think Sorry about that. No worries You can use Windows server On Azure not an Azure part of me. I typed that too fast You can get that evaluation Azure Microsoft comm campaigns Windows server take a look right away You can go ahead and discover the trusted cloud for Windows server on Azure Absolutely Well, we're almost out of time So we've got two more segments to our show and the first one was a Suggestion from you so I'm gonna let you drive that one and I really am I am I actually went through it last night And I'm really appreciate I really really did so take us there Sure, so one of the big things that we want to be able to do if you want to just bring up the the module create Microsoft learn is an amazing place to start getting education for different subjects and a lot of it is you know driven by Microsoft technologies whether it's working on Windows or learning containers or managing and securing Azure but This particular learning path I think is very very special because it leads people to being able to do a little bit more with their career So now they're not just skilling up the ideas of the technology, but This learning path, which is start in tech as an intern Really gives you a kind of a guide on how you is the beginner Or you maybe the career transition or that works as an intern somewhere So there are great modules on how to get noticed. So networking but not even computer networking with human networking resume building a Module with nine units about successful interviewing and then there's this idea about how to go from that Intern to a full-time position. So how do you negotiate that? How do you you know find out if this is the right job for you long term? Maybe you just want to take that experience and continue on your path where regardless you having some Having a roadmap I think makes us feel a little bit more comfortable when we're taking these journeys And so what we're doing was we're trying to enable everyone, you know I think that that that goes to our our company's mission statement That what is it to enable everyone to empower power and and that's I guess another Big part of it is you're empowering people you're telling them you can take control of how your career looks by By using tools that people who have had this, you know journey find to be really useful Well, I It's really useful It's targeted for People that are just coming into the industry. I'm like, okay. I'll give them that However, having gone through it last night There are some stuff that's especially in the interview part because none of us are well Some of us are not really great at interviewing because when you get the anxiety going you get the The the the fear and well the you start doubting yourself because nobody likes to be in that situation Some actually people thrive on it other people kind of like shy away from it But it had some good tips and and some good Things to keep top of mind when you're going through a an interview I haven't had to write a resume in 18 years Hopefully I won't have to again, but I had some good tips on that Yeah Useful extremely useful content huge subject very very helpful and I think that you know people are going to thrive they're going to thrive because Like I was about to say at Microsoft our mission to is to empower every person in every organization on the planet to achieve more and Things like this are gonna help you achieve more yep All right, so our community and other shows coming up You have a weekly show don't you yep as your fun bites learn TV Every week from 11 a.m. Pacific to p.m. Easter you can go you can check out all these different versions Or I different updates that we have on the blog post you can go to aka ms Slash learn TV or you can go to dev dot to slash J. Destro JAY DESTRO same as my Twitter handle and you can see I've got all the archives of just all 56 shows and this past week we did a great show Christos Motskas We talked about Identity services and managed identities and secret lists application development. I thought it was really interesting great and today later today we have Testing in production with the Jared Shockley Jay shock and myself Steve the audio guy as he calls himself Which is I think right now he's in New York, but he's driving back to the West Coast In his new RV I think he just picked up an RV in the New York City area and he's taking the scenic route Back to the West Coast and I think he's going to be broadcasting from the RV. So I'm not quite sure about that Quick note about testing in production later today. We are on YouTube only today And that's something that I know that the the The protest for hate raids that has happened in Twitch was a couple weeks ago But we this is our first episode since so Jared and I decided to we're gonna skip Twitch today and we're gonna be strictly on YouTube for today's episode. I Know that that's you know you want to keep everything in a Good environment for people. So, you know, that's a big part of it. There's no place for hate anywhere Absolutely, I can't this suit. I can't disagree with that statement. That's very very true All right. Well, we are a little out of time, but no worries So thank you very much Jay for joining us again this week for an other episode of AZ update As you mentioned, you can find all of the information on aka.ms. Dot aka.ms slash AZ update All of the links and information that we talked about today are gonna be there in that article Again, Jay, thank you very much for joining us And my pleasure. Thanks for having me again. 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