 Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Amy. Good morning. I'm here. I always love that dramatic intro It's the elevator music for the the countdown for some reason I'm like Smooth jazz. Yeah I hear you're waiting for a laptop today It's not funny Waiting for my work laptop Supply chain issues are real Yeah, I've been delivering it yesterday, and then yeah April Fool's we're not I've been on a waiting list for close to a year now for a 3080 ti at my local shop. Yeah And an NVIDIA graphics card And there's no way in hell I'm spending two grand on a card that has a Suggested retail price of like seven hundred dollars Canadian. Oh, yeah, it's it's just nuts It's just makes no sense plus like NVIDIA just released another one It's like almost three thousand dollars Canadian for for a graphics card and I'm thinking What kind of computer do you put a three thousand dollar graphics card in? Building a car Exactly like he's spending more on a PC than that for for gaming than you are on on the car It just makes no sense to Today's April Fool's yes, it is anybody made any joke on you today Know what I want to do on to my husband Nick because I there's automation you just got an iPhone You there's automation in there. Yeah, and this one lady She changed so every time her husband like plugged in his phone to charge like it made a crazy sound or did something So I think I might do that to him Just but I miss working in an office We used to do so many crazy things like the knowing noise maker putting someone's wall And they wouldn't know what this sounds coming from or put their screen upside down, you know We one year or screen shotting their desktop and then they're clicking and it's just a picture though. Oh, yeah One year my boss's office is like a cubicle, but it's like that was before our existing boss That was prior to I wouldn't I would never do that to my boss now Room We we lifted the the ceiling tiles outside of his office And then we reached in and took the ceiling tile inside of his office and we filled the cubicle or that little Office with you know those those balls from a ball pit. Yeah, I think we had I think we had 55 big garbage can't garbage bags of those balls that we just Dropped in so when they showed up and he opened the door I mean, that's but I mean, yeah, but he made us clean it. Oh No, yeah, so that kind of soured the joke a little bit Yeah, but today today's no joke today we're here and Welcome to you all and we are also broadcasting on a LinkedIn live today so for those of you Joining us on LinkedIn live and I'm looking at the stats though. There's two attendees So welcome aboard to AZ update this show where we look at the news and the shenanigans coming out of Redmond the mothership in Redmond. So How about we jump right into it? Let's do it So the first news First item of a newsworthy item this week is the general availability of Azure data Explorer support for conditional access Which has been I'm for a long time. I was wondering why that didn't happen And we use data Explorer for many reasons you can if you have a big data set that you want to ingest or Do some some data analysis you can use Azure data Explorer but up to now It wasn't protected by like it wasn't listed or you couldn't list it as a enterprise application in your active directory and therefore could not set up Conditional access Yeah, so now for considering that most enterprises are getting more and more security Conscious which they should that's a good thing. It's a really good thing So now when you have people that in your office that can go in and access that data There's no more excuses you can connect and set up conditional access so Something that you can only ingest or remove data From an account that is from a trusted location on a corporate device that is Updated to the right specs Like you have some control or you can say if you're outside of X geography you cannot access that data So all of the tools that you can have in order to like kind of lock it down So that your enterprise or your organization or your people are safe You can you can do that Starting now. Well, it's not even it's not even the preview. This is like generally available so it's ready to be used ready to be used in production and If we look at conditional access at a greater I know Joey snow and the last patch and switch kind of mentioned it a little bit Why would you not want to use conditional access for anything? So Right, if you're an admin then you need two-factor authentication. Actually two-factor authentication should be for everyone. Yeah But if you've got special rights, well, you can only do it from these machines and I think it's so powerful and It's significant. It's it's really not that hard to set up. Yes, I understand people are gonna say there's license issues and stuff like that but I Think it's a it's a small price to play for peace of mind, right? anything I Think so too. I mean, I didn't even know you could just some random person Explorer and go through your data. Well, not a random person, but someone in IT could go through, you know That's right. You still had you still had to authenticate, but right but now you can be like, no, this is you know payroll data and you Well, if you're putting payroll data and Azure data explored and there's other compliance issues that you need to worry about Oh my god, we we have a Ghost of April Fool's past in the chat room. Mr. Anthony Bartolo is joining us today So welcome back, Anthony. Do you for a call of duty session? I want to play. Oh That sounds good. Do you play? Yeah, a little bit. Okay, good play been playing destiny to you right now But yeah, okay, so we'll have to get you we'll have to get you into the BGU the bad gamers United team Because you know Rick needs somebody else to be last in the scoreboard That's a double whammy you just gave me I do suck Wait, don't we all I don't know I get owned by 12 year olds all the time. I know All right, so if we jump into the Second yes item This one's a good one So cross region snapshot copy for Azure disk storage is now available and what's cool is you can save an incremental snapshot to another region To be able to recover from mm-hmm, and you're only paying for that little bit of storage So you're not paying for the full Snapshot you can do your delta somewhere else in case something goes wrong and then restore from either the main snapshot or restore from your delta and That's about it Well, I I think it's it's it's great because yeah Well, first of all, we all know as it pros and operations folks that One of the cheapest and quickest way especially in the virtualized world to Protect yourself is to take snapshots of your discs Like I used to do that all the time like prior to like updating even my lab here before I update My machines like roll out the patch Tuesday or something. Oh, yeah, I'll go to the virtualization platform and I'll say hey take a snapshot or I Kind of can't remember what they I'm having a brain fart right now. I can't remember what it's called in an hyper via Wait, something point. I Restore point or something like that Recovery point. Thank you. And I was I would always like like create those before I did something so that if it went badly I could just very quickly Yeah, revert go back to the snapshot to try it again and it became kind of a like a Regular process. Mm-hmm. Now you can have your snapshots on your virtual machines in Azure and Then actually have those snapshots moved somewhere else were copied to another region because if that region goes down You want to be able? Yes, exactly. It kind of gets Part of it's it's another cog in the BCDR Wheel. Mm-hmm. So you got replication of the the machines and through an environment you've got now those Snapshots that can be replicated They have availability sets and zones and even says if you have ZRS it'll use that automatically so Yeah, so it's just one more things to Sorry, I'm cool that you're only built with a little delta. I know I know I'm I'm keeping an eye on the on the the chat because today we've got the as mentioned We're honored by our tolo's Return to AZ update, but the Jared Shockley Andrew McCallum is there Paul Jensen And I see others from LinkedIn those well that I can't really tell Chevalier mr. Chevalier three Chevalier and two others are joining us and On twitch I Can't know. I don't think we have anybody on switch. Oh, we have 22 followers, but I don't think anybody is actually on the show one me Yeah, it does count If we go to the Next news item and I'm trying to film We have here we have the next news item is Azure front door. There's a new front door. We've replaced the front door And and it's not necessarily that it's new The service has been there, but there's been a significant. Oh, mr. Denny Talbo is joining us on Denny Talbo is a a very very well known reporter For anything techno Gaming mostly got a great show on twitch so follow him So glad to see him for the first time in our Little show I feel outnumbered with the canadiens If you have numbered Yeah, it's like Canada We trust you enough Come steal our cheese on your ice-gates and Sennola Chicago cheese, is that the thing? It's been around for a long time. It's a great way of Managing your content delivery network across Azure and across maybe other Environment because you can set up a different endpoint. So it's kind of part of your high availability Processes it's part of your path potentially your bcdr because if you have multiple sites then multiple sites are hot Then if one stops responding a front door will automatically shift to the next one So there's um Azure front door azure front door with the polka dot door Team okay. No, anthony. I'm not singing that I'm trading cheese for maple syrup So yeah, so azure front door a new BCDN cdn Network and some significant improvement in terms of how much simpler it is for example to provision new dns validation how endpoint host names Are auto-generated now so that's to avoid Subdomain takeover so somebody can steal a subdomain of your environment And basically put whatever they want on it Expanded private link web application firewall, which was always there But now it does use the drs 2.0 rule set And that's just to basically the the the drs Rule set is a a set of rules that are agreed in Backed by this organization that's I'm Can't think of the name right now on The things that they they clear out by default So there's a new rule set and we're using it with the bot manager. There's a whole bunch of other capabilities mostly around the security side That allows you to have a more secure quicker and more simplified a way of Building your content delivery network. So whether or not you're just sharing files Or videos or complete websites or static sites By using azure front door as your content delivery network You can significantly improve the way you do this Pretty neat. It's actually it is pretty neat. I'm um, I'm very um I used to go through the the azure front door like in terms of the setup But it's been a while since I've visited it and kind of this kind of gave me a I got a I got to get back into it and it's It is a completely operation thing, but it's it's been mostly used by developers, but it is It is infrastructure in For for us to take care of um So I really really recommend everybody to go and check it out. Uh azure front door if you have any way or in any shape are Putting information out on the internet through application through Content delivery networks or anything where you're publishing data. Um, you should take a look at that Definitely Take a look at that. You should take a look at that. Uh, what is uh our last item for today? um, our next item is this really cool thing with asr is you can have on-demand capacity reservation. So You have your Site recovery you have everything backing up, but can you actually power up the VMs that you want to recover? So this you can actually make sure you have that. Um That capacity and nobody can steal it. You do have to like Pay for it, but it's not set in stone like a one-year reservation or three-year reservation You can say I want this capacity for three weeks to spin up three ds v3s You know just in case. Um, so it's I think it's pretty cool So, you know, you make sure you have that capacity before you start trying to recover And getting the oh, sorry. You don't have the capacity to do this Well, the I think the one of the biggest benefit here is that some Families of VMs that we have in azure We have had some Mostly because of the supply chain issues in the last two years and the growth in some region Some of those VMs have become me like you have you need to have quotas increased and then when you start to Try to deploy something then you'll get like, okay They may be an error and it's happened to to us internally because we do have Some more restrictions because we want to make sure that the the resources go to the paying customers not just to the The advocates that's trying to build the demo But in your case if you have that reserved If it's your critical jewel if it's your You're the main application where your company makes money from you want to make sure that's if something happened that it That nothing is going to stand in the way of of the failovers to another region Mm-hmm. So reserving that capacity and always having it there Guarantees that your failover is not going to say even though the chance the chances are Very low that You're gonna try to fail over and that that there's the compute's not going to be available But wouldn't you want to put all of the the chances on your side? Yeah, I want to be the one told my boss. Um, so yeah, we have a copy of the video. I can't power it up So good funny thing happened on april 1st. Yes, we didn't fail over it didn't fall over right So i'm gonna go to lunch now I'll be right back for the next year Yeah That's funny. Um, so yeah, I think it's I think it's great and anything that you can do in order to um strengthen and Um, strengthen and practice your your BCDR so your business continuity and disaster recovery process um should be done Especially if it's uh your critical systems I find I find people that say, yeah, well, we have uh, we run backups all the time. Okay. Well backups is a data retention It's not necessarily a business recovery Practice well, it is but only if your rpo is like two days um I I had where we took us a week to recover The backups were on the storage that failed of the The main devices the VMs. I'm like, why are the backups of the same storage? Yeah, and you get to a point where you get to a point where you You get one full backup on friday that runs friday saturday and sunday Uh, and then on monday through thursday you get the differential So if it fails on thursday, you got to restore saturday sunday monday Tuesday wednesday thursday It's not it's not something that happens very quickly It's a lot quicker in the cloud because you don't have to run to the bank to get the tapes Uh, which I used to had to do And I actually used to uh, that was the the joke of the the new guy every year On april first is uh, we would give him a list of tapes and we would send them to the bank and say you gotta go Get those tapes We knew those tapes didn't exist So he would be there for hours going through the Safety deposit box at the tape at the at the bank are looking for those tapes Just because it's fun I wouldn't give it up to 30 minutes. We're like, all right address site recovery is your friend and Reserving the capacity that you're going to need in your failover site Is a good idea for you to do And we are coming towards the end of our show We've got seven minutes, but before we jump into that We wanted to talk about our learn module of the week We should we should really have some like dramatic music No, I got rid of the board with the effects Board on it because it took too much room on my desk and and i'm trying some new stuff now So No fun I've got like these This is my new while I got another one over there, but this is my new It's my my new My new toy for controlling my all my sounds It's much smaller on my desk. I was getting it's getting a little I was getting a little Involved with the faders and the sound boards and everything else. I barely barely any room to move my mouse around DJ here But today Today uh our learn module of the week, uh considering that we talked about azure front door We thought have you run through this one uh introduction to azure front door? No, I'll be honest. I have not played with azure front door at all. So I am actually going to take this one later So this one's actually a pretty quick one. Um, it's uh six Really five The introduction. What is it? How does it work? When do you use it? You're not, let's check Um, you can set it up in your environment. You can't set it up in the sandbox, which is why there are no Uh real example and that's but just going through it Um, it kind of gives you a really good kind of well rounded understanding of where it can help your environment uh be more resilient be more um accessible because it is all about uh delivering content reliably to your stakeholders whether there are customers or internal people So they changed the name because I remember like content delivery network was cool because you deliver it to someone, you know The content's closer to them So it's fast, but then they change it to front door No, it's not necessarily that because the azure front door is um It's part of the content delivery network Uh process, but it's not the content delivery network. Oh, it just facilitates your uh connecting to the endpoint that are more Uh efficient to you based on the policies that you've decided. So are you doing if you're connecting to an environment? um If you're connecting to an environment from let's say from canada Then then the front door will basically direct you to the canadian website Right if you're coming in from the u.s. Then you'll go to the u.s. End point if you're going from coming from uh Europe or africa you're going to go to the closest endpoint to you uh in order to make a better Experience for the end user connecting and then that kind of sits on top of your content delivery network that's Basically replicates that data to all those end points plus if one fails over You can go to the next one and because there's a lot of it is dns space where it uh, it redirects to uh specific dns It doesn't necessarily have to be an azure. It could be an azure, but it also could be uh on prems or your backup site your Your developer site. So if you if you're running like at the uh the 9010 rule where Uh 10 of all your traffic is going to your test site for like bug check and uh in production uh stress testing for example It can do uh facilitate some of that so lots of power on that one and uh, I really think that we should all Be very familiar with it if not um expert had it because I know It can help uh all of our enterprises depending on what we Putting out there uh in terms, but if you are Like an online retailer or stuff like that This is definitely something that you'd want to check Okay, somebody who wants more cowbells I I said more cowbell because anthony was like air whore I was like we need more cowbell Want want want No, I'm not I got rid of the sound board But now that you mentioned it now, maybe I'll have to come out and make it come back So we have some fridays It's friday. It's april 1st. Uh, I am are you um Awaiting the rest of your family uh to uh To prank you in any way today I don't know my 10 year old is now acting like she's 16 and sleeping till like noon during spring break So no, that's just a regular teenager. Oh, I know but she's 10. I mean she's like oh, okay The actual teenager wakes up at like eight or like what's going on here? But no, it'll probably be easy to prank her though because she's kind of gullible, but that sounds really mean So Well, there's there's a testing and production podcast broadcast today with myself yours truly and jared on twitch on the patch and switch channel and i'm hoping Nothing happens. I don't know if Jared do something come on. I don't know if jared has planned anything. He's the producer today. So That'd be hilarious. Yeah, that goes. I'll pay for that. Come on Jared You see I like teasing pure Yes, yes You guys love teasing me if it's not about my luscious hair It's about my canadian accent All right. Amy. Thank you very much for joining us. We are at time. It is a 10 30 a.m. Eastern standard time Great, or is it daylight savings time? I forget. It's daylight now cdt here central I can't wait till mo is open. All right. Let me know. It's 10 30 All right. So thank you very much for joining us today on twitch on facebook on LinkedIn live and on youtube I hope you have a great week and we'll see you next week on az update Cheers