 Good morning, everyone. Mr. Claus. How are you? Did I catch you in a mid-coffee? You literally caught me in mid-coffee drink What's going on man? Oh not much not much living the life living my life Thank you so much for joining us this morning. This is a Z update, right? I'm in the right show. It is the right show It's not testing in production. It's not what's that? Oh, yeah patch and switch This is this is a easy update. This is the the work we get paid for Fantastic happy to be here my friend happy to be here. How you doing? I'm doing great. I'm doing great It's been been a busy week. It has man. There's been some good updates It has there's been some good updates The the tempo seems to be coming back up because I think they're over the summer it kind of slowed down a little bit and now it's starting to ramp back up again and I Got pulled into a very interesting meeting of a project this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm building I'm building a simulation for Azure orbital I mean like this piece thing. I'm in space That's awesome, man Yeah, no, I'm not building it. I'm helping on deploying the infrastructures to support it. You got it I understand is that gonna be a news item we're talking about today It is it is it is it's it's kind of cool. There was a news release for but we could get to that in a second What about you? What have you been doing? For me it has been preparing for this thing that's called the Windows server summit Which is taking place later in the in the in the fall. So September time frame people For it. I know that was covered in a previous episode So there's a whole bunch of pre-work that has to go on So I'm looking after doing a bunch of organization and content for that As well as for this small little other conference that we talked about Microsoft Ignite Don't know if you've heard about that one before. I don't know about that one because we haven't announced dates I just know that it's going on but that's all I'm allowed to say Stay tuned as they say More information that's coming I guess for sure man. Oh, absolutely. So if you everybody stays glued to itopstock.com in our blog in our um Twitch and YouTube and Facebook channels You will get the information as soon as we're allowed to let you know about it. Absolutely way to go. Yeah So in the chat right now people are just kind of starting to come in we've got a few people We've got seven people watching but I'll say hello to the ones that actually shows me who they are Mm-hmm. We've got Andrew McCallum. We've got rabbit jr And they all the other ones are not logged in. I mean identified so Thank you people for joining us this morning. Have you as you noticed? There's a bit of a change on the easy update desk Hey, I miss filling in you put out the call you turned on the bat signal as they said You're looking for people that are gonna be Co-hosting and hosting and swapping things around so This is a sign of things to come for folks that are going through a whole bunch of different sorts of changes, which is awesome So it is August at Microsoft. Yeah, I know it's definitely here for sure So yeah, I'm I'm helping out Anthony is taking on a new role, but he's still around, you know, he might even be inside the chat room Who knows? Who knows and and I'm sure at some point He'll come back in and do an episode or two and now and then has his new Job permits absolutely man And the the funny thing is because this is a significantly earlier time that I'm used to being around I couldn't find the appropriate green hat. So this is actually my disaster recovery hat This is the backup hat you can tell because it's a little too stiff and too new So I've got to go throw it in the washing machine about five or six times to be able to Break it in a bit better, but it's on just for the folks here at AZ update. So, where's Rick still he had? Did you not put a Was it though those Apple find my hat? Put an air tag inside of there. That's actually something that my my daughter suggested But have not made the investment as of yet. So it's a little bit too late Yeah, oh mr. Chocolate just joined us there we go Steve the audio guy from that other show that other one Funny shall we get to the news? That's absolutely get to the news my friend. What's going on? You know, it's the the stuff that we have lined up today is kind of cool You alluded to one. Is that the first one we're talking about today? It is it is so Microsoft or Microsoft space actually is it called azure space or azure orbital? I Am going to defer that just because the name has changed since I've known about it for a while And so I don't want to say because I don't actually know definitively So you would know more than I would based on the PR article I would guess well the the PR article or the the the release actually talks about both so they mentioned at azure space and Also azure orbital and I'm thinking that the the division is called azure space, but that the product it's called azure orbital. Yeah so Since 2017 we HP and NASA have put an actual Data saver data server data center grade server into the ISS just to see whether or not it would survive Cosmic radiation solar radiation call it whatever you want I'm not sure. I'm not a I'm not a scientist. He person just even even think about the the mechanics of how like the heads on a hard drive have To be in you know Touching the platter and doing stuff I bet these guys and gals are using some kind of SSD and no actual physical heads on it But I digress sorry go ahead. I Was just gonna say did you ever hear about this new new Fandango thing called SSDs flash memory So what what is this one what's going on man anyway, so here building on that success of 2017 where the servers actually Survived they've installed two new servers and they call them space space born one and space born two And they are connected to Azure through Azure orbital. Mm-hmm Oh, there is the space station and then there's a ground station service And then there's an actual communication link in between where you can they're looking at running some workloads into those servers and Then having the Delta or the the the payload sent to Azure for analysis using AI and any other Tools that the you may you may need to access or to basically do the crunching of those numbers And the first project is a genomics projects where they're they're looking at Basically the genome the human genome and how it's being affected by space by space in general And that will lead to safer humans on our way to Mars possibly nice So that's very very very cool so we are also building as part of this project a Ground simulation where we're using as the difference is you can't actually run a cable up to the space station and plug in the Ethernet and jiggle the cable. I think that would go a long ways past the realms of how How much? Signal attenuation you're gonna have it stuff like that. Yeah, so it's not like you're getting the giggies like a lot of gigs on on that particular Connection so you have to figure out how the most efficient way of Sending your data over it's like putting a developer Building a big application behind a 56k modem. You have to figure out what absolutely needs to go over the the wire And design it that way So we're building a simulation that will be allowed to just hit the button and it'll deploy in multiple areas around the world and Simulate that slow link in between so that you they are scientists friends can build Solutions and test them here before they get pushed up there. Very cool, man. It is very cool So you're your project you're working on was specifically around building that infrastructure making it repeatable. Yeah Yeah, and we're using That the cool thing is is that we're using multiple Technologies can you give me a reference and scroll down that page to get the picture But these two systems look like oh, yeah scroll down scroll down scroll down there you go stop stop stop go back up I want to see the picture That's giving me cable phobia right now Like I need to go in and do a better job of tying all those cables down So if you're interested NASA, I will volunteer to be shot into space and do better cable management for you That is the number one question I ask when they when they talk to me about building that simulation and they say I said Question number one. Do I get to go? Absolutely anyway, man very cool project. I'm excited I can't wait to see the the content and the arm template and the use of the bicep language people often deploy it Very very cool stuff How about you? I've got the 80 sign-in concept. So the using workbooks inside of Azure to be able to go ahead and to do a new way of Visualizing and and and looking at different types of data and different logs And so there's some awesome documentation specifically around ad authentication In different ways of doing activity reporting on that kind of data but then the the a couple of Pfe's and and engineers have gone ahead and Created a specific workbook for a question that they get asked and that they you can visualize is how do you know? Who's actually using Windows? Hello for business you can configure people to go off and do it they have to go through and Actually finish the complete finish the registration process set up their local machines people to do it So there's only so much that you can automate Yeah, so you need to know how you can actually view and see how many people are going off and using it So instead of a simple counter you can go off and expose the data You can render it in different ways obviously that's all part of workbooks and how workbooks are created But these fine folks here that are part of the Pfe world It's there. Sorry Pfe's are now known as customer engineers so your own is gone ahead and published a Workbook specifically about how to expose and render and view What this particular data looks like for Azure AD and for sign-on with Windows? Hello for business and Michelle also a former Pfe So I guess she's also a customer engineer is currently a product manager inside the identity division and going through so all that brought together Gives you the ability to go through and take a look at what is the Windows? Hello usage? per device and per user authentication counts and then also global allocations or sorry global locations of those authentications So three different visualizations They've gone ahead and published the code on a github for you to be able to go off and to use for that workbook And you can basically go in and bring that code down bring an adjacent Make a couple of changes to it and then import it into your workstation Very cool visualizations and good way of getting a handle on who's actually using Windows. Hello for business Is this really just about hello or like what's the the benefits to our viewers and our audience here is What they use to build it right? Correct. Yes The Sorry Drop this guy down. Where are you going with up here? well, I just want to talk about the The workbook and how super powerful that workbook those workbook can be well, they're fully customizable, right? So if you can get the data from a particular source that you need that you find that is important for that data source You're going through and you're visualizing it and rendering it in a way that makes more sense to you and to the other people That have access to that particular dashboard that you're looking at. I mean workbooks are the same back-end that are being used by other products as well like Sentinel and things like that. So This is simply one more view of lens of data that you can look at and bring that into your environment That's very very very cool. I think that that is more Like the fact that you can use that technology to visualize any data that's in your environment and build actual Useful and informative dashboard is can be adapted to a number of different situation for our customers Yeah So they've actually gone ahead and as I mentioned they've given you access to this workbook inside of a github repo The link that's inside the show notes gives you a link that particular repo and also there happens to be a nice blog post It talks about on tech community Michelle he's gone ahead and Created the initial work above that you've seen as far as what's inside that blog post your own has gone in and done some more tweaking to it as well and brought into it and that's The essential version that you can download and then take a look at inside your own visualization And obviously everyone's is encouraged to go ahead and to continue to edit and to revise to make it more useful for folks Well, that is not that that's the beauty of public repos and open source solutions like that is We get to learn. I'm currently actually They're learning from somebody and Ben Wilkinson's Repo on on bicep and mostly Deployment script embedded in biceps files because he's done a lot of work on that and he's actually quite phenomenal Awesome, man. Oh All right. So our next the news item considering it is 1015. So we've got to keep going is Nope wrong scene Azure private multi-access edge compute. So we right now we are just Released or announce this new service Which is a combination of Azure resources and partners Talcos and so on where we could actually bring the the compute power as close to possible to your business So right up there at the edge of the their communication for your to run your workloads at so benefits is Full choice of trusted industry so if you we can basically pick your partner that you're going to deal with in your region or in your environment And you can actually have let's say IOT stuff that running at the edge without having to host the the compute yourself for example like the HD HCI Azure stack edge To compute or what is it called IOT hub? I think I need an idea Anthony here to talk about IOT Nice love it but now the the the great thing about this particular one is The fact that even though you may be in an area where the Closest Azure region is not necessarily that close to you. Mm-hmm. So for Some reason you want to run something while you can use our partners Talcos or whatnot to actually host and connect That workload would right there at the edge without having to be bound to an Azure region Got it. Got it. It's it's got some really Funky possibilities. Yeah, no, definitely. I was noticing in the chat There's Andy that's asking a question about our previous story because obviously the chat links are a little bit delayed for when we actually are able To see them was just asking for a short link to that workbook that I was talking about would Can you remind everybody on the show? Where can they find all the details about the articles that we're talking about the articles that you that we talk About are all on our blog at itops talks.com you got it So every article we have also links and other related information and you'll see the links inside of there You can go ahead and access them that way. So that's probably about the best short link We can give you for everything perfect right now I could hunt it down, but I think we've got a show to do. Oh, yeah Appreciate it man. I appreciate it I've I've got some retirement news you do is that is that good? No, I'm not retiring And no Anthony did not retire We're talking specifically about the NC series VM So I remember I was actually working in Azure compute when we came out with the NC series Basically, it's our GPU enabled VMs inside of our data centers across our regions across the world And some of the earlier ones of being deprecated just because we have to refresh the hardware for what's going on, right? and so some of those some of those GPUs are no longer being Supported but different versions of CUDA for rendering and for computing and sort of stuff And so we're going through and cleaning house Removing some of the old hardware. It's already been replaced with the newer versions of the different GPUs that exist. Yep my by Nvidia in this case We're talking about the the the k series or the the c series But see this is hard because I know the way that we the way that we talk about our VMs is Is unique with the way that everything's been classified and it's evolved over the years and so these are specifically Environments where it is the NC the ND and the NC v2 series That we're talking about from a retirement perspective So basically you're going to want to if you're using GPUs in Azure You're going to want to come and take a look at this article You already would have been notified through communications as normal through Azure and through the contacts on the azure subscription To say hey, hello just so you know You need to go through and reprobition and rework out your GPU usage And how you're doing it because we're cycling these ones out and new ones are coming in Basically the NC series of machines are going to be retired on August 31st Which is about a 10 days from now or so And anyone that's still using them at that time are going to see and a rolling wave of their machines being set to Deallocated so that the hardware can be swapped out But by that time you will continue to get notifications leading up to that particular 31st of august To get you to use the newer machines that happen to be out there Yeah, and no pierre just before you ask you don't get to have access to the old and GPUs Uh, they're being recycled and reused in a in a proactive and environmentally friendly way Well, I was thinking with the the global sort shortage of GPUs. Maybe I can just grab one or two But well again, these are also the compute so the NC used to stand for NVIDIA compute So these are more compute oriented. These are not the ones that are video oriented And again as I mentioned all the new VM series happened to be there There is a guide specifically talking about migrating your workloads from the older to the newer That's linked in the article that we reference on the blog post talking about GPU compute migrations And you can obviously always go ahead and take a look at the the VM pricing page On azure to be able to see what new versions of the NVIDIA series happened to exist And I believe we've got pretty good coverage across all of our regions To make sure that everyone's going to be covered with access to that hardware And from what I understand too is The new VMs that are replacing those retired VMs Are actually more cost efficient. Yeah Yeah, so we're taking advantage of these efficiencies as we're going, right? All right, so you so you get nicer hardware or newer hardware potentially more powerful hardware Added potentially Beneficial cost to you. So it's win-win. You got it. Good stuff. So follow up read that article See if you're impacted and is even a migration guide to help you So now I have to think about do I have to go and update the learn tv Hardware, I don't know man. Well, I guess you'll figure that out soon. But we got a show to finish. What's all that's right? uh, all right, so the next um What's our next item? I think we're done with the news items. I think we're Oh, man, I was looking at news or other things man. I'm just a guest on the show I know this week like I said this week has been so uh, uh Like ah the that's I'm I'm losing track of some of the stuff that I'm supposed to be doing But no this week here. Hey as your manager. That's not something you necessarily want to say to your manager I didn't say I didn't I'm not doing them as I'm losing track, but I'm getting it done So now for uh this week in Kind of like inspired by what I had to do for That simulation deployment. I figured that the um learn module of the week should be How to deploy resources to subscriptions management groups and tenants are using bicep because ah See I I see where you're going with this. I got that So, uh, I'm assuming that you're using bicep for your infrastructure definitions and deployment for your project We are we are and the and the cool thing is uh in In any templates typically you have to target it to like the resources go into a resource group. Mm-hmm Normally you have the resource group either pre-created or it's part of the parameters that you pass in right well in this in this one because and actually, um There's a very nice little module in that learning path about this um where you Your bicep file actually targets the Suscription so you can deploy new resource groups. Mm-hmm and then in the same templates Have modules that will deploy resources in each of those resource groups. It's a really nice way of consolidating multiple uh scopes Into a single into a single, um bicep file really he makes it easy to to, um Organize your infrastructure deployment. Got it. So biceps the way to go. It's the new way that we're doing a declarative language to be able to go off and handle resources and Jason's not going away though. Pardon me. Jason is not going away. No, no it's I mean jason is the is the The lifeblood of how arm is going through that sorry as your resource manager is going through to define and deploy the infrastructure On top of our fabric. That's right. So this is simply another more programmatic way More up-to-date way to be able to go ahead and to address that and then work with our templates That's correct. So you're right in bicep. You compile in jason and and azure resource manager ingests it nice and For what we have I'm a little Behind to hear is uh, we have a another show this week You know what show we're we're talking about I have no community show. What who there's a community show going on later today Oh I got to change my shirt for that one. That's the patch of switch show. That's right. So this week is patch and switch Uh next week will be uh testing and production, but this week is patch and switch What do you guys uh plan do you have anything special planned for us? Or is it just the the normal shenanigans? planned Did you actually say the word planned? really No, no in all seriousness, uh, we're actually gonna have a special guest We have a guest joining us this week. We're going to be uh pinging our good friend, uh, mr Rich Campbell Richard Campbell is going to be on again Uh, so the people that are watching this show right now Got the inside scoop because we haven't really talked about it as of yet But uh, we were chatting with rich Campbell early in the week. We said hey, man Why don't you come on down on the show? So uh, he's coming down to be able to have a chat with us as well should be fun See, I was just fishing because I had no idea you were having a special guest Well, and you know the the other stuff that's kind of new is Besides the disaster recovery hat that I've got on I don't know if you've noticed but I have a new background Happening here behind me. Yes. I did notice. What's up with that? so, uh I Microsoft's going back to work and giving people the option of going back to work or be Basically based on your job having the opportunity to work from home And I've decided because my team's all remote. I might as well free up my office space for people that need to have the space And I'm going to be working from home And then going into the office for meetings if I have to because I live close enough to campus to be able to do that So I'm last night because you know, we all say never make changes to production On a on a before a major event like a live stream The next day I except except for the show next week because that's what we do is production test things in production So it basically went and moved The office that I have the infrastructure So my my camera set up my lights that I have that I can control and that sort of stuff to be able to go Off and do things all that was moved last night at around midnight or so to be able to set up and do testing prior to the show this morning And I need to rebuild my camera angles and everything else But the one thing that I like about this already But you can't see because she's actually tired went back to bed Is bailey the puppy came in earlier and was rolling around on the carpet over here Both of my dogs love the fact that I have all the space that they can now come and just kind of flop around on So they might be making some appearances on future shows Very nice Mine are upstairs and are going to be nowhere near my office because Mac is an idiot and he just jumps everywhere Nice, I'm not sure if he's a dog or a kangaroo Very very excitable and young so And I see jaren the chat room is like saying me me me. I'll take your office. I'm like, sorry It gets allocated back to the pool The traditional way at microsoft was your length of tenure on the team And also Various other different weighted factions would make it so that you would be able to get a window office And so I had I had a nice window office at microsoft, but I'm going to give that Yeah, it was nice Cool, so but yeah, so eventually I need to go ahead and rebuild because right now this is a very plain background Hey, well, you know where that might be something that we can help you with on the Other show in production. Yeah, right on but for now We have to say goodbye because we are coming up to time and we don't want to get cut off on learn tv Thank you so much rick for joining us this morning and filling in for the empty seat that Mr. A wireless for life. Anthony Bartolo has left Um, he's not gone. He's just Focusing on new responsibilities. So you got it. He'll be back Well shows once tomorrow, right for me. He'll he's he'll be back and offered to drop in for some shows once tomorrow Absolutely, absolutely So thank you very much everyone for joining us this morning on az update if you have any comments or feedback You can absolutely send it to us either on our discord or in an email at itobstock dash feedback At microsoft.com Read the blog and see all of the details of the news items that we've talked about today on itobstock.com And we'll see you next week. So thank you very much and thank you rick for joining us Cheers