 Good morning, everyone. Happy Friday. Today is a special day with us We have the one the only the moon the man the myth the legend Mr. Wireless life Anthony Bartolo. How you doing? I was going everybody. How's going Pierre? Did you like that entrance? No Important Thank you It's nice to have you back. Where have you been? Oh wow Big adventure underway So I'm now focused on students in terms of their enablement and they're you know trying to help them achieve Their dreams and their ideas and it's been so awesome Just having that opportunity to talk to you know students in universities and even high school students in some cases In terms of what they're trying to accomplish. I participated in Imagine Cup The one that just passed and just you know sitting down with the students and seeing you know Where their ideas are and and how they want to accomplish it? It's been a great learning experience Just because the perception that these students have in terms of how they're adopting technology Greatly differs, you know, what's currently in you know private sector public sector and so it's the you know Coming of age when they have this ideology of what they're trying to Accomplish and adopt and how that translates to you know Public and private sector and what they understand can be adopted It's been a very very interesting experience. I've only been at it for just over a month But it's been something of you know a great learning experience I'm bringing my infrastructure knowledge in and the team That I'm working with specifically focuses on infrastructure and application Development creation I was gonna say are you are you like deserting the it pro community? No, no not at all. So this is the thing that's interesting right in the student space There isn't a clear defined it pro and developer, right? It's all about enablement It's all about what can the technology do to achieve a goal or opportunity and so hearing, you know these students just Talk from architectural standpoints and security implementations and then flip over to Utilization of services and incorporation of a API so seamlessly. It's like wow. How did this is awesome? So it's like it's it's been a really great learning experience. Yeah, they haven't had time to pick a specialization yet I There are on the security side There's been a lot of you know much more focused individuals in terms of the enablement, but for the most part it's yeah, it's very much general Yeah, there's another thing that's was that came up this week other than your wonderful return to az updates the show is Ignite Reg is open It's all very excited So I have not registered yet It was a little event that happened yesterday that we're going to talk about later today. I think I was helping on a little bit on social and that one to bring visibility, but I've not registered for ignite yet I'm definitely gonna get that done today because I love doing the conversations inside of the chats that are made available when you You know once you've registered and you put your name in Available for for conversations and feel free to reach out to produce of care and I In regards to anything that you want to bring up in terms of what you want to see it ignite always excited, you know, it's something where you have this capability of You know interacting with what's coming out. That's new. What's gonna come come out. That's fresh What can we talk about and yes that definitely was hoping you could share that as well? Yeah We are going to still run our ignite channel in a discord server for side conversations this year again So if you're not already Joined That's the address. That's the invitation come and join and have a conversation with your fellow IT and ops colleagues and We'll be talking about ignite when the time comes And you know what Pierre thank you for the introduction of the whole discord server and setting that up I'm finding out very quickly in the student space That's one of the big mechanisms that use for communication is discord and the amount of discord servers that are available out there It's been, you know learning from the firehose is what we say here in terms of how do we connect with students and discord It's been one of those great tools to do so. Yeah, it's a It's a gamer. It's a gamer tool that suddenly a lot of people have realized that It doesn't have to be just for gaming. It's it. It is really a community server It's like the the next evolution of the bbs that we used to run when we were When we were fresh faced IT pros I've not heard the term bbs in a long time what does bbs stand for again Pierre? Bolton board system. Hey, you got it. I was hoping the chat room would jump in on that one, too Oh, okay. Well, they might they may have I haven't looked speak in the chat chat room who's in there right now Currently we have Andrew McCallum. We have Paul Jensen and we have the boss I rick Welcome to the show there's more people that are watching but they're not logged in so I can't see their names Anyway, shall we get to the news? Let's get to the news. So apparently it was a big event yesterday It was it was we have We had the windows server summit that our illustrious boss Rick Claus was hosting and One of the big announcements that's really resonated out there is the fact that we are now Introducing a Windows server hybrid administrator associate certification That's a mouthful Which is basically Administrating Windows server in a hybrid configuration meaning on-prem and using cloud services two exams AZ 800 and AZ 801 and if you go to our website and I will put the You URL right here if you go to our websites. There are three Blogs from Oren Thomas who was an instrumental in bringing that back. He's been for the last year. He's been Fighting to power fighting to go to fight To bring this back to to the forefront because there are millions of IT pros out there that are certified Or were certified in previous versions of windows That have been Waiting for this so he's he's taken it from infancy to to birth and it's now coming up the Blog post will give you there are some study guides There's information about that and there are Objective listings that he's covering in his blog articles. So go and check it out It's interesting, right? You know Twitter was on fire with the announcement Mary Joe Foley actually shared out the articles as well and our own article that she shared out, you know, it's really Amazing that we have this scenario where you know Everybody's been asking for the Windows server certification to come back because it's still being used in day-to-day activities A lot of IT pros still require that certification For their jobs and so to have this now being reintroduced And you know had soft Oren Thomas in terms of the amount of work that he's put forth to get this back In into play It's something where it brings to light, you know the need for that hybrid implementation So Matt some information has to stay on premises. Some has to stay in the cloud You know in that enablement of Windows server makes that you know So something a lot easier to manage and easier to enable well at that ignite to 2019 So the last time we actually met in person Xander Forget his first name Jason Xander Jason Xander. Thank you Thank you our illustrious corporate vice president for Azure actually said in his keynote that Ibrid is our customers end goal So it we kind of a pivoted a little bit now that's a like we're not expecting everybody to go full cloud native Ibrid is the end goal meaning we now have to learn how to manage it As such and this is a great step forward for that So we could hit you on the news. Yes. I'm just trying to find the right Your is a news item and go ahead All right So next up in the news is the general availability of Azure AD joined virtual machines in Azure virtual desktop a lot of people said well wait Anthony You talked about this a while back in terms of this enablement It's now generally available before it was under public preview So thank you to all those that went forth and did testing on the functionality to make sure it made sense in terms of its implementation What's great about this is now when you're setting up the templates for individuals to use for Azure virtual desktop You can have it automatically connect to a domain Your Azure AD implementation. What does that mean? So now you have the capability of enforcing stuff like multi-factor authentication or post-it lists Emits these Implementations and your policies are automatically pushed down to these templates when they're spun up as opposed to having this guess work in terms of Is this individual going to have the right experience and in the in the current times when a lot of people are working from home Making things simpler for them so they don't have to follow a whole bunch of hops To make the enable security policies are important to your organization is key And so this is a great, you know step forward in terms of this type of capability Yeah There's one thing that I'm a little fuzzy on though is because if when you if you go if you read the documentation It says that it'll it simplifies and facilitate Joining your Azure virtual desktop to an AD But you don't have to have line the site into the DC And then there's a note in there that says that it might even be able to join without actual have access to a DC at all So that's that's interesting because sometimes you don't have your domain Replicated in the environment or whatever. There's some architectural Gotchas there that you have to look at first If you're using a D connect are you using Azure AD? Are you using a domain controller as a as a VM in the very specific V net like all that stuff have to as to be I'm wondering whether or not that will be ported to standard being standard VMs Which I think would be cool But I don't know I have not I have not heard and this is not a product announcement in any way shape or form It's my my wishful thinking Because right now we're doing it a lot with deployments But by using custom custom extensions to to to basically join the machine to a domain on first boot But it'd be cool to see that ported. What are your thoughts on that? So here's here's what I researched when I looked at this news item In the midst of creation of the template for people to use when they're using as your virtual desktop You have the you know drop-down menu in terms of the selection of which as your AD domain You're gonna actually connect to right so there has to be a line of sight to the domain that you're gonna Enable these users to connect to and this can be specified by template right in terms of that type of activation. So Further on down the road, you know making it simpler for people to just gain access to the information that matters to them Most is is going to be key. I think this is the first step in terms of this in enablement in a virtual desktop sense What you know if it's gonna come down the road again not a product announcement We're just guessing right now it would make sense in terms of that enablement But I think it's gonna be more than just that because we're now seeing compute happen on other platforms Right, so it's not just about these devices, you know Laptops and tablets we're talking about you know smartphone enable enablement is which is again still baseline You know the whole explosion of VR and the whole explosion of mixed reality, you know It's becoming that nuance. It's the Ray-Ban sunglasses that were just launched I'm Intrigued with that. I'd like I'd love to try it. So I don't know if I want to buy one because I don't know What I would do with them But this is kind of cool but this is the thing right so We hear launches of new smartphones that are coming out and we hear, you know, the new camera functionality Updated processor, but there's a lot that are talking about in the marketplace that we're nearing saturation in the capabilities of smartphones And what they can actually do and then the next step now is the whole immersive experience with mixed reality Now we've dabbled in this even on the show prior to in the utilization of howl ends and other devices But there's a cost barrier, right? It's a little bit more expensive And it's a much bigger unit to wear all the time as opposed to having your smartphone in your in your pocket Well, you'd look pretty look pretty stupid walking down the mall with your hollow lens helmet on Well, and that's part of the challenge, right? So the Ray-Ban launch With Facebook is interesting because they look like a normal pair of sunglasses even bows has sunglasses with the speakers built in Which is an audio Immersion as opposed to a visual immersion you're starting to see more of that occur and so What does that mean for interfaces and what the way we experience, you know Information at our fingertips It's going to be something that's going to be of interest in the next five years And where we're going when the device has become smaller and become more Unattrusive as opposed to wearing this helmet walking down the mall I think that the hardware is cool, but I think what's even cooler Or more interesting to me is the possibilities of what you can do with them by leveraging ml Edge computing Recognition of any kind I'm not not talking about facial recognition because there's so many Privacy issues that jump into that but right like I was looking I was working on my Jeep last weekend and I was looking for a bolt because The our nice Canadian winters have basically eaten through on the suspension bolt So I was looking for one so grade grade 10 A very specific boat and I'm going through the store and they've got like It's a Ottawa fasteners so that there's like there's Thousands of little cubbies with bolts in them I would have loved to be able to say like okay This is the one I want and then look at the wall and then also in the one I made actually lights up or like something like that So like what do you can do with with the the the technology? Maybe even able to distinguish between a metric bolt and an imperial bolt. Hmm. I wonder who that would help Somebody in the chat room. That's for sure. I'm in the chat room. That would yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Anyway, uh I get in trouble because I still report to him Let's move on to our next news item, which is Azure VM I get the the right screen here as your VM But Azure VM as your VM where a solution as achieved fed ramp high authorization standard Now you would ask me okay. Well, what does it is that a technical thing? What does it do? It's not it hasn't the the the solution itself hasn't changed at all but now the government or Fed ramp, which is a Arm length or organization for the federal government in in the US, but that standard is used in outside Geographies like I know Canada we use though We use it as well and other places use it as a stamp or approval in terms of how secure And how manageable the solution can be so as your VM where solutions has now achieved that fed ramp certification Which can open a lot of doors in terms of compliance because there's some industries that especially if you deal with government that you must have like in I in in Healthcare you but you got to have high trust and you got to have Epa in if you're dealing with the feds in terms of the DoD or DND National Defense types scenarios you got to have fed ramp and you have sock one and talk to so those those compliance Are very very important, but now a VM where our Azure solution has now achieved that Certification so that's really cool in terms of how many doors it can open now for being used for working Well, not just for the government or with the government Governments because there's multiple multiple geographies But the fact that it's a stamp of approval in terms of how secure our solution really is thoughts Anthony Well, this is the thing anytime you're enabling something for government It means it also helps the people at the end of the day because now that information that's that's you know People rely on in terms of you know, just something as simple as Getting a vaccine shot or you know going to the doctor or you know something in terms of taxes and whatever relates to the government in regards to everything that's going on When they modernize and we enable them to modernize through these tools It makes it a lot easier for us to get in access to information as well So just doesn't just help government also helps the people as well You know a lot of us complain in terms of a lot of the systems being archaic and trying to get information It's it's multiple hops So when stuff like this happens and we see Certifications occur on on solutions that are made available. It's it's something where it helps not only governments But it also helps the people gain access to that information. Yeah, no, I think it's great and It's the first and if you one look at how many of Of our solutions have already received that certification or that standard accreditation I can't I don't even know what you're supposed to call it. Is it a certification? Is it an accreditation? anyway, in any case you can do that by looking at our at the Article the blog article that we put this morning that I put on this morning because I did list or link a Page where all of our services that are fed ramp Approved are listed. So you can look at that and Hopefully that helps you if you've got any kind of compliance issues or compliance requirement in your job All right next one which is I've got too many windows open here I Producing the show and being on the show at the same time, right? Yes. Yes, and we got to I'm starting to think that I got too many monitors That is that is that a really a problem. Is that a first world problem? Oh, no, no six. Is that six is six enough? Do you have six monitors now? She's I know I do I do I Got one two three four five and six. Well the sixth one is I don't really look at it that much but Yeah, five that are constantly on anyway, that's a Your show your your item, I mean Next item up in the news is the enablement of private endpoints within the machine learning workbench This is a great one. It's currently in preview a lot of the challenges, you know, just talking about government right now There was a lot of scenarios where there's a requirement for segregation of endpoints and specific, you know data flows and There's a need to capture that information for machine learning to do Automation of X or decision-making of Y and it's always been a challenge because the two The data streams cannot intersect you can have access to both simultaneously So this whole aspect of the inclusion of multiple private endpoints into machine learning workbench is a big one because now you can actually have Additional amounts of data coming to your decision-making process in terms of your machine learning exercise And they can still be completely separate of each other in terms of the the data flow itself This also includes the whole aspect of utilization of Azure Kubernetes service Clusters as a separate vnet as well injecting into your machine learning exercise for your outcome of x whatever x may be Yeah, um, I Look at it more on the end of on the security side because if you're doing machine learning and you've got your data set Depending on what you're looking at you may have sensitive information into that data set that you're going to be running through By using private endpoints you eliminate the need to have that's that little internet hop to go over the internet to access the the storage account or the Kubernetes cluster or whatever it may be where your data is being crunched So it makes the whole solution so much more isolated and so much more secure which in these day and age with the ethics of AI and machine learning This is something that we really have to be conscious of and Making an extra effort to ensure that all of that data that we're crunching is being secured And it's not just that right there's the whole aspect of ISO certification that you know Requires these endpoints to be separated that a lot of organizations have to adhere to and so having this ability to keep them Separated but still utilize in decision-making processes or automation capabilities It's it's important right the more data that we can bring into machine learning workbench for the outcome of x the better in terms of its preciseness of its decision-making So enabling this functionality where the being it stays separate But the data itself still can be used and still adhere to ISO rules or certification requirements. It's a huge advantage. Yep So we are going to go to our module of the week and Anthony because that was a suggestion from you. I'm gonna like I'm gonna let you take that So really quickly, you know, we talked a lot about technical enablement on the show In certifications in the in the upskilling that's available within Microsoft learn but of late there's been a lot of soft people skills that are being made available In regards to what you should do as a student and if you want to you know Line your first job and what you should do for your interview process and how your resume should look and what have you This one was an interesting one. It was just released. It's how to build your tech resilience And what does that mean right? the whole aspect of an IT professional inside of an organization is The the you know, how are we supporting this organization and part of the challenge is the communication aspect of that It's the whole thing where if you don't have a seat at the table with the business decision makers You're being told I want you to do this. I want you to do that. You're not providing any of your input This is a great tool great, you know learning Module that provides some insights in terms of what are the best practices to have that conversation with leadership in terms of Why things should happen the way should happen security protocols multi-factor authentication private endpoints There's a lot of aspects of the technology that even leadership doesn't understand but they have an opportunity or problem that they need to address and this provides a Way to change a lot of the culture that occurs in terms of the IT professionals role within an organization and What they mean to the business decision-maker and even the developers, you know We talk about DevOps as that intersection between the communication between IT pros and developers But now having this type of tech resilience and having this you know Communications capability and having this open mindset in terms of the possibilities and opportunities that are there Something covered in this module is can be leveraged to have that communication and to establish those relationships with other Parts of the company to make sure that everybody's on the same page when adopting technology. Yeah, I completely agree with you We spend years And I'm when I say we I mean not Microsoft But like the industry to teach those hard skills of like how do you do this? This is but But then we take somebody in IT and operation and we asked them to go and talk to the business dealers or the business stakeholders and say Go and present what you're doing to support their environment and we haven't taught those skills soft skills have been kind of like a An afterthought for many many years and Yes, I understand that in the past let's say five years We've started kind of like bringing that back up to the to the forefront, but it is Extremely important to know how to communicate to know how to To embrace your what the When they call it emotional intelligence, which I am very short on And know how to give and receive feedback and that that Learning path actually has some really good stuff on that and I laughed a little bit this too while you were talking because I noticed that Paul Jensen said that he must have some really good soft skills because he's much softer than he was five years ago So Paul I Don't know if that translates really well, but I Think a lot of us are have been made a lot softer over the last 18 months. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah Actually, no, I I lost 12 pounds. Yes. Don't it's well awesome. Congratulations. It's cool It's the the the byproduct of not eating lunch dinner Breakfast lunch and dinner in the hotel or on the on the plane or at a airport. All right So I think you have an event Coming up that you want to tell us about So really quickly this weekend is hack the north and this is something that's Canada wide But it's based in Waterloo, Ontario And it's the enablement of students for their projects and what they're bringing to the table for new innovations So this is one of the great things like I now get to participate in and so I'm going to be available all week And long if you go to hack on hack the north calm You can see all the new projects that are going to come to life I believe it starts at 8 p.m. Tonight in regards to and it goes for 36 hours In terms of the hack itself Sorry, it is it is a virtual event unless you are at the University of Waterloo There is a staging area for you there But I will be online. It's the staging area inside of Waterloo is only for students So if you're a student of Waterloo, you can't participate But that's the thing it being a virtual event means there are people from around the world That are participating in this event even though it's hacked north and it's it's Canadian base Which is awesome And I hope that's one of the things that doesn't change when you know, we go back to a hybrid model in-person events Yeah, no, I'm really looking forward to All of the in-person events returning but for all of them to have a virtual Component because it removes an adoption non adoption, but a participation barrier That's always been there where if you have somebody that works for a small company and that small company may not have the Five six thousand dollars to send you to ignite to send you to VMworld send you to wear whatever conference You're looking at going to But at least you can participate now and get some most of that information I know with ignite you can still get it, but you don't get it that day of you get it like 48 hours later or or a week later when all of the sessions get published but No, I'm really hoping that this becomes a thing And also this week we are returning to or the boys are returning to patch and switch So mr. Claus who's currently in the Chat room and joey snow. So which one is patch which one is switch? We don't know Will be entertaining you at 9 a.m. Pacific time 12 p.m. Eastern time. I don't know what the uk time is I don't forget about sound guy steve Steve the audio guy If I said it correctly it wouldn't be an ongoing thing Uh, yeah, apparently. Oh, he's like what there's a show today. Well, I hope there is Yeah, mr. Jared the the steve the auto guy is actually uh On his way back through the us to uh, seattle in an rv so hopefully you can find some place to connect the connect the the gigabits and uh be online to Jared the tour Anyway, uh, so if you want to participate and see the shenanigans uh on twitch at twitch uh slash patch and switch And anthony, thank you so much for coming back. It's always so much fun to spend an hour with you and Looking at the news of the day. So thank you and good luck in your new endeavors Thank you very much and this won't be the last time you see me. I'll pop in from time to time But you know keep up the excellent work on the show. It's awesome to see Continue on and if somebody wants to get a hold of you Do you finally me on twitter at wireless life? And I as always will be at wired canucks. So thank you very much everyone and have a great weekend