 everyone and Happy Canada Day as you can tell I'm embracing the red today with the fourth coming you know we don't allow you know we don't allow guns on the walls and in this dream bald eagle that you have on my head on the thumbnail yes well you said you wanted a bald eagle so I gave you a bald eagle actually to be completely honest I tried to do the Captain America uniform so that'd be like Captain Canada versus Captain America yeah searching for women Captain America costume is not a safe search for work and now I tease watching you well I said whoa close close close close yeah no that wasn't a good idea so I kind of gave up plus I need more pictures of you so I can cut you out of the background and yeah fine for me it's easy I just turned on my camera it is a holiday sandwich Canada Day on Friday Independence Day on Monday he'll be fun yeah thanks James James is saying the happy Canadian day so this is the the celebration of the Confederacy I think in 18 something I can remember I put it in the blog how about you what are you doing um well doing the good old American barbecue and go swimming with the kids and yeah probably blow some stuff up fireworks you know that's what we do it's such an American thing to say yeah it's what we do it's part of you know the Pledge of Allegiance you know and I'll blow stuff up and it's funny but for us in Canada fireworks are only legal I think two days out of the year oh that's nice people are crazy here they'll blow them up all I mean they're illegal in Illinois no but they're they're also illegal to sell oh okay so you can't get them anywhere it's not like you can walk into a store like in America and like buy a barrel of them but we have to cross the border at least Illinois they're illegal except for like little sparklers but people go to Indiana by the big boom booms bring them back so it's it I'm playing I'm thinking tonight I may have to keep the dogs in the house and because it's gonna be all over the neighborhood yeah so we've got the James van de Bergen online we've got the Jared the nomad Shockley uh last I heard I think last I talked to me was still in Montana he was on his way to um the Dakotas I'm not quite sure where he is now uh and it is that's right James reminded me it is MVP Rio the renewal day as well today so there's gonna be a lot of happy people and potentially some disappointed people so uh good luck everyone out there and I'm sure you are worthy and that you will be fine uh Andrew says yeah you put up fireworks in this city people set them off often uh not good for pet no yeah and Jared as replied and he's now in Minneapolis so all right what do you say we get this uh show on the road sounds good and I believe you are up first yes do you have it all right so GA is um um as your key vault secrets provider on azure arc enabled kubernetes so what's cool about this is it's a microsoft extension that allows you to get your secret content stored in an azure key vault instance and mount them into your kubernetes pod or of your azure arc enabled kubernetes cluster so you reduce your exposure of your secrets or certificates um um so you now maintain them locally on the cluster instead of like outside of it so um and like I said you can pull there's keys and secrets and certificates I believe so well that means that no hopefully uh developers won't will stop uh hard coding credentials wow what a call out oh I'm just I'm just saying that because last week we were in in Vienna for the power shell summit and uh I that was one of the questions I was asked in one of the sessions is like who who puts credentials in their scripts and a lot of people their hands up and I think okay we have to stop that so that was the whole point of that particular session but also I think there was some some articles about github I think it's called credential guards or something like that yeah where when you're checking in your code it won't let you if it detects uh credentials nice and apparently the hit rate is uh atrocious uh even I know but I mean come up I know path of least resistance I guess yeah it's easier so but it but it makes no sense so I'm really happy to see that that is finally gade yeah um key vault is your friend secrets yeah I'm does it look for a password hey that's a that's a great password I think the eps which one this is my password for everything I mean actually that one doesn't work for azure anymore oh the one that works in azure now is capital p at sign ss w0 rd 1234 oh yeah it needs to be longer and because it needs to be longer super safe yeah so hmm so don't use that in production that's my password don't use my password don't use my password you do bang bang bang at the end yeah yeah all right so let's jump into our second item and our second item is the general availability availability that's uh for a Friday morning french tongue to uh say that uh some of those words is hard english is hard uh general availability for azure WAF policy and dd os management so what that really means is that now uh your firewall manager is supports actually blanket policies about all of your firewalls or your WAF so your windows application firewalls um to basically load and apply a standard policy or policy of your choice and a dd os policy protection policy across all of your endpoints uh in in one word so it's a very easy way to uh deploy configure policies across your entire workstation but it also makes sure that if you are get attacked by dd os that you're covered everywhere that you don't end up because typically what happens is if you've got a hundred endpoints or a hundred applications running and you've got your windows application firewall or any kind of firewall and then something happens and you you plug a hole or your change of policy you always forget someone you're often i wouldn't say always you often forget like one or two firewalls that either you didn't know existed and uh and they're not protected uh it's kind of like the case of the what we experienced this week with the uh um the production environment sitting on the server under the receptionist desks don't tell people doesn't happen at microsoft it it does it does it happens everywhere that's the point of it and ops i know no i did i remember working where yeah the server was under someone's desk it was a desktop as a server yeah and for the audience who's wondering what the hell i'm talking about we had a service let's call it a service uh that was developed by uh one of the cloud advocates not in our immediate team and i remember that was a couple years ago and i remember saying why are we using that where we have the exact same service but it's provided by corp and they went oh because we have more flexible we can do what we want with it i said yeah but what about support backup redundancy like what happens and they went ah you don't know how things work it's open source we're all maintaining it all right all right and of course it stopped working this week and there's no way of there's no backup of it so we can't recover the stuff though isn't it no everybody has to learn from our mistakes that's the problem that's the thing that's why we're advocate yes but in 2022 i didn't think that would happen honestly really well i mean you and i've been around the block you know in this realm of it for a long time and i think people still do that it's like putting your password in the code yep and that's why we have key vault now and that's why we have uh global policies for WAF uh or password manager for WAF policies and ddos policies so use them and better yet go check the website our blog itopstop.com check out the article and there's lots of links in there for you to explore a little deeper how you can use that technology and while you're at it hit that like button and subscribe you need that like yeah i know i gotta make the i gotta make the overlay for that yeah all right so next item for you bring it bring it there's public previews multiple backups per day for azure vm's what does confuse me is they say multiple backups but it's multiple snapshots so are they really backups i mean no but if you read the article which i expect everybody will yeah it does say that it's it's multiple backups per day but it's a lot shorter in terms of retention yeah so it pretty much you can use an enhanced policy to make multiple snapshots a day and have a low recovery point objective as low as four hours i believe so then with this you can define the duration with your backup jobs would trigger an align with your backup schedule like your working hours and there's frequent updates and you want to you know take that snapshot so pretty cool but public preview play with it at your own risk i guess well public preview to me just starts to say all right this is coming up here's your opportunity to learn and maybe try it in in try and also give us feedback as to does that actually meet your or or is the do we need to cut the work on the recovery point objective of 30 minutes instead of four hours like give us some feedback on that so that we can make the product better but also you're not paying for using that service while it's in preview exactly so that is very cool so lots of information go check that out and that is it for our event or our news this week this is the last episode of season four we've already been almost four seasons and approximately anywhere between 15 and 20 episodes per season i'm a little impressed that we lasted this long nice we are going to take the summer amy and i and april and the rest of the game to kind of retool because this format the the co-host format which is i love because it gives me an opportunity to hang out with really cool people but it's getting a little hard to coordinate now that the life is starting again and we're not all stuck in our home like last week i was in vienna for the the psconf.eu conference and on friday i was on a plane so i wouldn't there was no way of me plus it was i think it was eight hours difference nothing like the one a.m easy update or something actually on that one i think it would have ended up for me at like five or six p.m in the afternoon it's not bad which in europe at that point i'm already sitting at the cafe with the pint so we are looking at changing the format so if you've got any suggestions please drop it in the comments we'd love to hear your opinion what you'd like to see do you really like this format the length we're also kind of tinkering with the length so that it's more bite size and consumable for on like mobile devices and such anyway so if you have any uh uh comments just leave them down below yeah always helps the algorithm and i want to show off my i got my as my headphones attached to my easter wire my able way shirt oh finally it came in yeah it will be happy for you i donated to girls who code and i ordered my shirt so i have to ask a me uh april how much we ended up uh getting to that because we had a couple of corporate vice president that we're gonna match and microsoft as a whole was matching yeah like a 10k match from yeah so yeah we had the opportunity i think to be like 40 or $50,000 to uh yeah give the girls code so in memory of uh able so that would have been really cool yeah all right uh the next thing that we have is that we have uh events coming up so there is a page uh on microsoft called events.microsoft.com and uh we noticed this week that there's a slew of uh virtual training day some are on um developer stuff some are in infrastructure someone oh 365 m365 security so i picked one that's coming up in uh i think it's um early july yeah what is it uh july 6th so mid next week uh there's still room on this one uh when they're closed uh it actually tells you that they're sold out or full uh but this one is migrating on premises infrastructure and data um online training uh that is free available for everyone so go check it out and register and let us know if it's valuable we'll keep uh bringing those up for you and uh do you want to cover the module of the week sure since we had that awesome WAF update with DDoS protection um the learn modules introduction to azure web application firewall so says it shouldn't take too long 40 minutes to just get in a nice introduction by using the WAF yeah i really like the the WAF especially the way it's configured to use the like the uh i forget the acronym though but there's a uh industry standard set of rules in terms of like uh sequel injection and all kinds of like the the the all of the standard um web threat uh vectors that are covered and so you once you turn it on you're basically pretty much covered with that base coverage and then you can add uh the stuff that's unique or or specific to you but it's it's not like a regular firewall where you you start it and it basically either says uh deny everything everywhere or allow everything everywhere and then you have to build your own stuff this one comes with a base set of of rules that is really cool especially for somebody who is not doing security day in and day out so mm-hmm it's very very cool uh james says that is uh is abel wang shirt is being delivered today so that will be really cool so when you get that uh james take a picture and send it over yeah tweak tweak yep get a group photo going hey get a group photo you can photoshop everybody and they're abel wang shirt sure sure and i think uh jared and andrew are having hot dogs at cosco dollar fifty hasn't changed the price i know hot dog and a soda i think that was for us it was the ikea at the end of the at the end of the ikea maze there was always the hot dog stand there yeah no that was i had a boss who would go there for lunch all the time for lunch i don't know dollar fifty yeah but they're not that good it's about the money yeah no yeah i know yeah all right so uh this was a short one today because it's it's my day off yeah why don't you go back to being canadian or what do you canines do like i'm gonna apologize i'm gonna go uh and the pole yeah i just yelled at the top of my lung in the backyard i'm sorry so thank you very much for joining me amy thank you for everyone at home who is uh just uh oh my god jared just gassed up 217 dollars us for what tank of gas oh that's a big tank or just yeah that's why i'm gonna stay home this weekend i have an electric car all right so uh as i mentioned we are retooling this this is the last episode until uh late august early september unless something special comes up and then we'll let you know yeah do you have any suggestions please let us know we would love to hear from you yep all right amy thank you very much have a great weekend you too and uh everybody else uh stay safe uh stay hydrated and uh have a good one cheers cheers