 Welcome back. My name is Thomas, and I'm here with Vishal, Senior Product Manager for Hot Patching. We're going to talk about Hot Patching in Windows Server today, a super exciting feature for many of our customers out there. First of all, Vishal, great to have you in this video today. For the people who are not familiar with Hot Patching, can you explain a little bit what Hot Patching is? I know that already customers can use it today. Can you explain that a little bit? Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me here, Thomas. Hot Patching is a new way of installing updates, security updates on your Windows machines without the need of a reboot. If you'll recall, we had released this functionality back in February of last year on Azure Edition Core machines where you could install the security updates without the need of a reboot. You would require less number of reboots every year to install your security updates for your OS. Well, that's fantastic. Again, less reboots for patching. That sounds amazing. You just mentioned Windows Server Azure Edition. Now, can you let people know what that is? That's not necessarily just your regular version of Windows Server, is it? No, not quite, but it is, kind of. Let me explain you a little bit more. Windows Server Azure Edition is only available on Azure to begin with. It has all the great features of standard and data center that you all are aware of, but on top of that, we have added some additional functionality to make sure that it runs best on Azure. The features include SMB on Quick. We also have Hot Patching feature, which I'm talking about right now. We also have extended network features for Azure. On top of that, we also have some storage replica compression to name a few functionalities. Yes, they are pumped in with a lot more functionality for you to use Windows. Awesome. This is fantastic. Basically, you get all those stuff you get with Windows Server, data center edition. But since you're running it in Azure and you run the Azure Edition, you get even more features and more improvements for that. That's fantastic. Again, as you mentioned, we're here to talk about Hot Patching. Obviously, less reboot sounds very exciting, but can you talk a little bit more about the advantages of Hot Patching? Absolutely. Some of the advantages of Hot Patching is, first of all, it is reboot-less. That means whenever you get a Hot Patch update for your Windows, you would notice that you can install it without the need of a reboot. So the security is guaranteed even if you don't reboot the machine. That is one of the biggest benefits that we have seen with Hot Patching. The second thing is with Hot Patch packages, these packages are much, much smaller than your regular update packages. They are smaller and they are making sure that your machines are secure nonetheless. And the third biggest benefit that I see is now that these packages are smaller and does not need a reboot, you could go and deploy these immediately as soon as these updates are released to the world. That means you can get updated to Windows servers without the need of a reboot and you meet the compliance requirement for your company as well. That is faster and quicker to deploy. Awesome. It's not just less reboots, it's really also faster to deploy. So this is all exciting. So obviously, people want to see it and I want to see it. Can you show us a quick demo on how Hot Patching in Windows Server Azure Edition works? What you're looking at is my Windows Server Azure Edition desktop experience. And I have a video that's playing. It could be any workload in your case. It could be SQL. It could be your containers running. It could be IIS or any other application running on your machine. They are running fine. And generally, you have to have a downtime. But in this case, we will show you live update of this particular server without needing a reboot. So to let everyone know, let's first check quickly. What is the version running? It's already there on the screen, but it's 1.668. That's running. And now what we'll do is we'll simply go ahead and click on Check for Updates. So look at how quickly you would notice that the update gets downloaded and installed. So this is a live demo. So there's no slit of hands, no magic happening behind the scenes that I'm doing. The video is not paused. The video is playing right now on the right-hand side. And Windows Update is looking for an update. It found an update. It's downloading the update right now, and it's already installing it. So it's done 20% now. The video is still playing. We have not seen any kind of a spike. We haven't seen the video, any glitches in the video. And the update is installed. This is the first time you would have noticed that an update, a cumulative update for two months, it's not just one month. It's two months of update that's installed. And your Windows version has now changed to 1784. So this is huge, right? We had the machine that actually was 11668, which is the April update. It installed the May and the June update of Windows on this machine in within a minute. And nothing has happened on the server. This is amazing. So I obviously was excited about hot patching because I didn't need to reboot. But if I see that speed of installing the patch, and again, you even said two months of patches, this is crazy. This is really, really cool. So thank you very much for sharing that quick demo. And one of the big things you just did here is, at the beginning, we obviously said, OK, this is now work. We released hot patch with Windows Server Azure Edition Core. And now I saw that you used Windows Server Azure Edition desktop experience. So does that mean it now also works with desktop experience? Absolutely. Yeah, so with this release, we are now extending this capability to desktop experience. We heard a lot of our customers talk about saying, hey, we really need to be able to see a UI for servers. And we said, of course. And so yes, we have now extended this to desktop experience. We are releasing a new image for Windows Server Azure Edition desktop experience that would have the capability for hot patching inbuilt on those images. OK, this is fantastic. Again, I'm super excited about this. We can now use it with Windows Server Azure Edition Core, as well as Windows Server Azure Edition desktop experience. So you absolutely made my day here. Now, if customers want to learn more about hot patching, where should they go? So they can definitely go on a website. And we can send some resources, links in this video at the end. And so that is where you would be actually going to go and get more resources. But of course, you can always go and explore the images itself. It's available on the marketplace. Go and use your Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition hot patch images that are available, both a small disk and your regular sizes for you to start playing with. Awesome. Fantastic. Thank you very much, Vishal. And thank you, everyone, for watching.