 And I'm joined today by a very Rick pause Rick you have a little bit of Mike issues apparently Wow is Producer Steve helping us today because your mic is really bad. Is it hot? There we go there we go a little bit you up a little bit up a little bit up. There we go The problem is that normally producer Steve has the audio so messed up on the show That I have to like you know override stuff So here I'll back off a little bit and just let the the natural excellence of the show takeover Well, this is thing right we have producer Pierre and so he's Very astute and to ensure that the production of this show is such and it's it's been exceptional We've had our hiccups to go get us wrong. We're not professionals But it's been awesome Paul Jensen mentioned. Yeah, Rick. You're hot. I think he's mentioning the tie I really love the clip on tie. I didn't know they sold those anymore, dude It took me three hours to tie this last night. It's not even fun Like so you know the last time that I wore a suit or the last time I wore a tie It's incredible. I know we were talking your label says tip-top tailors, right? But he can kind of dies in the back Probably wore this for my high school graduation, but it still fits Just a little tight. Nothing good can come of the show today Let's talk about something really quickly so We've been in the midst of Imagine Cup and how much do you know about Imagine Cup? Oh, I love Imagine Cup you can get so much coffee inside that thing It easily at least 64 ounces and one cup is amazing You can just imagine how good it is right there. No The student thing. Yes. Yes, so this is what were you doing in high school in high school I was actually hacking away on Commodore 64's and trying to get a bbs running on a pet computer at the back of the room and the Chemistry teacher who ran the computer club kicked me out Here's the thing Imagine Cup Traditionally it's been university students and college students that have been participating This year almost half of the entrance were actually high school students. Oh, wow huge and we had Students had come in from high schools building out solutions to you know detect early stages of Parkinson's or the ability to Have people who have cerebral palsy have the ability to communicate like the the amount of projects that were made available By high school students and we're not just talking theory. We're not talking, you know slides in terms of their concepts We're talking full-on working proof of concepts that they've demoed live for us A bunch of us were able to see what their creativity had brought It was really interesting just to see even the thought process behind why they created what they created Based obviously on Microsoft technology But what I wanted to highlight here was there is no limitation in terms of you have a great idea Bringing it to fruition and making it available to the world Nothing there's nothing stopping you anymore And it's been interesting the fact that there's such a surge in high school students And I don't know that correlates to the pandemic, but that's why I asked, you know What were you doing in high school and I when I was in high school? I was In the parking lot listening to music so I'm just gonna say that if I know I've judged the magic up a number of years in the past when I came to Redmond It's part of the headquarters side of things, but I hear they actually invited you To judge this time around which was interesting Because you you know you kind of remind me of that guy of the meme with it You know the baseball cap backwards carry in the skateboard over the back. Hi kids. How are you? Thanks You're kind of old to be judging the cup, aren't you? Wow, you're gonna hit me with the old joke. Okay. All right, so You know I met up is awesome It's open to kids of all ages as long as you're inside of a school program And it's free to join And it works great to be able to go off and hone your skills and also to get some mentorship from different people What's the prize if they win this time around, you know, well, that's the thing, right? It's twenty five hundred dollars us to get their project out the door But the bigger thing is that you actually get a mentoring session with Satya That's huge, right? So give you insight in terms of what are you trying to produce as a proof of concept? What your ideas are and he can give you, you know suggestions and you know where you can go next with this product You know who you should reach out to I would imagine Satya would have a whole bunch of connections to talk to In regards to the products that are being put forth couple of just a couple of examples to talk about we talked about the diagnosis of Parkinson's there's an education Educational addressing those that have learning disabilities like dyslexia solution for that We have a tracking of pollution solution So in the areas that you're traveling to the amounts of pollution's of where the areas you should avoid There's neurobiotics actually has a solution that does the prosthetic arm And instead of having implants to control the arm. You're actually doing it via thought. So it's actually you know capturing the the your your electric pulses coming from your mind in terms of moving the arm which was probably really cool High school students No These people are severely overachieving as far as these projects they sound amazing Well, this is the thing though. What was even more amazing was some of the entries have sponsorships by think tanks Oh, they've come in so so the example of the neurobiotics Full-on solution 3d printed hand or arm and hand controlled via thought the the apparatus of the the student war was it's connected via Bluetooth and It's he's sponsored by a think tank in terms of a solution. So that's you know Built of all out. There was another one. Actually, we talked about this hands-on labs They have a solution where they have a replica of a full Industrial arm that you can control and you can assign out times to different schools Around the world to gain access to this arm to do specific operations or in terms of robotics and IoT and machine learning Renting out the space to have access to this arm was was another cool solution. It's it's incredible like See, I would be the I would be the guy at the back of the room that was doing like rude gestures with those hands You know as far as trying to get things done and these kids are going off and doing these phenomenal things So I can't wait. I'm assuming you got some previews of what was going on They're going to be judged and then brought on the next round of competition And I believe they announced the winners during build if I know my mistake is that correct? That is correct So there they actually announced the 2021 world finalists last night Oh, so if you go to itopsock.com We have the link and you can go to if you're on the stream right now It's imagine cup that Microsoft comm the 2021 world finalists are already announced You can check them out and actually start seeing their their presentations as well. Cool. Very cool, man Now I guess it was a shit. We could start with the rest of show like is it next segment beer money or is it? See, I feel I feel overclassed over dressed to be able to talk about beer money But if you want to talk about beer money, we can no beer no beer money here We don't want to steal a thunder from patch and switch We have a little bit more of a news type of scenario here happening right on the show and you're actually up first No, I know I know this one's cool when we did our research by our research interns earlier this week One of the things that we had talking about was the new concept of disaster recovery DR is a big deal for business continuity and making sure that you can continue to work during all sorts of Manmade and nature made disasters as well as architectural issues and stuff like that And so as your site recovery is nothing new it's been around for quite some time But the new thing that's available now is the fact that the site recovery scenarios you can use Typically used to be geography based so you do different Azure regions as you would go off and build stuff on Now what you can actually do is you can actually target zonal differences And so a zone just like you would see inside of an Azure data center when you're deploying architecture Instead of you know having you know assuming that you would have your machines deployed across fault zones The difference being with Azure zones is that Azure zones are actually different data centers that make up the region That are at least 40 kilometers or 100 kilometers or 60 kilometers and forget the exact number But it's a big enough distance away that if an entire data center went out The other three areas or other two areas based on the size of the zone Would still be operational and there'd be no business there'd be no disruption of your workload once it's migrated to that area So you can now target when you build up your disaster recovery solution Using asr To deploy it within one of these zones if the particular zone that your check if a particular region your check your Your targeting has zones and is zone capable Now that also helps out with a particular scenario where some customers are interested in making sure they have data sovereignty take place Where they don't want the data to leave the Azure region for some particular reason so for instance if it's inside of France as an example You can now keep it inside of France because France is one of those areas That does happen to have multiple zones inside of it to be able to go off and keep stuff inside of it Plus it also works for latency issues because when you're going between Designing your asr environment You typically will have go off and do a test and you have to build up a network and things like that To be able to make your test network work on this case the network's the same subnet area that's inside the one data center region So the system's actually replicate faster and set up faster too. So Cool stuff finally targeting zones for azure zones and it's now available inside of your subscriptions to be able to try out Provided the region you're targeting has zone support And that's huge right the whole data sovereignty piece You want to ensure that your information stays within country of huge importance It's something where you know wasn't Thought of before and and you know brought to attend brought to microsoft's attention by Everyone you know on the show and everybody you know who utilizes the solution And it's the whole reason why we say Provide your feedback provide, you know microsoft is listening and they're building out these solutions And also timely like we talked about this last week How availability zones are being introduced to every data center around the world has been deployed starting with brazil So having this additional functionality again based on customer feedback is huge Yeah, we're building them out. We're going to hit all the regions coming up by the end of 2021 as a target So we'll see how that goes and you'll hear it here first No, you will I hope so Let's continue on with the news Next up is the regulatory compliance dashboard made available for azure security center Rick, how's your regulatory compliance? skill set well I'm more of a either hire a consultant to do it or else, you know, use the dashboard There are there obviously are a number of tools within azure that when you deploy stuff to make sure things They're working correctly that the machines are running correctly. Well, they actually have one for being able to see if you adhere to different Regulatory compliances and that's assuming that you're talking about this section, right? Right. So this is the thing You're still gonna hire a consultant You're still gonna have to have a consultant come in to do the verification for your certification However, you now have the ability to do the prep work prior to this consultant to come in to do the to do the review Using azure security center. So what I love about this is, you know, purely available standards that are there There's nist standards swift standards uk. Oh standards the Canadian federal standard the HIPAA Standard like all these are made available as a add-on To azure security center that can then go through your architecture and test out It the compliance for that standard to ensure that you're in compliance or your organization's in compliance Again, you're still going to require The consultant to come in to do the full-on analysis to verify your analysis This is this does not remove that but this takes away a lot of the Prebuild work that you would have to go through or exercise that the consultant would then report on to say These are all items that you're missing that you have to get corrected Now you can actually complete all those so that when the consultant comes in to do the verification You may still have one or two things that you'd have to address But for the most part all your compliance needs would be taken care of specifically to this the Standards that you require for your certification. Yep. Now the compliance piece is something that's obviously coming up more and more We're talking with customers around Their deployments inside of the cloud environment doesn't matter which cloud you have to be using And so Governance is also on the big topic as well. But you know governance compliance to people hand in hand These are things that people can go off and start to explore now But also they can go off and and when they design net new solutions that they're going to be moving into the cloud Into the workloads that are being migrated up To be able to evaluate how they're doing against their compliance in their test labs environments To be able to get ready for when they go in the production too So it's pretty cool the the update that's taken place to it And also obviously we'll continue to update these different compliance areas That you can be evaluated against And as you mentioned you still got to bring somebody in to go in and certify it But I just get a lot of the what I would call the busy work the frustrating work That would typically take weeks and weeks beforehand You can get a lot of that done now ahead of time I see a lot of consultants. They come in they look as dapper as you but you know It's something that you know, you have to have it's not just enough to have the the dashboard report on You do need the consultant to verify your meeting compliance needs for your certification We can start offering like rick as a service if you wanted to to do like a fake compliance analysis if you wanted to That could be an option No No next up is az copy man my friend my good friend or sorry if you're american az copy Az Not how you pronounce it now. No, no, I'm an az I've always been az I taught my kids how to say zed And then so anyways they say it they get they got in trouble in grade school when they're growing up here In the latter half once we moved but az copy has been updated It's it's first of all, it's awesome to be able to use az copy to go off and move stuff around inside your different Storage accounts to be able to go off and move stuff from on premises up into azure and things like that It's definitely a great little tool to be able to go off and work with it But again through customer requests, we had a request to go off and make it so you could Do an easy process of using the apis to be able to go off and move stuff between cloud services as well To make it simple to do some data transferability And so we now have the ability to go through and have it so you can do an import from gcp Into block storage blobs in the azure space Automatically without having to bring the data down to your premises and back up again to another location Which you previously would have to go through in script, which would be a bit of a pain So now you have the support is also going through and scanning logs as well That either had that can tell you how the process is going either on a low or high level of detail to see what is going on with that particular process and You're able to go through and preserve data tags and metadata tags that you have inside of the data copy as well To the other side, so it's in preview mode right now. You can go off and download the latest bits and then give it a shot I personally don't have anything inside of gcp to give it a shot against But from what I hear it worked well And it's simply one more way of making sure that you've got data transferability and data portability between your different cloud providers as you're trying stuff out So there's a question coming through on facebook with the uh, is it copy Would you have to copy to on premises first before moving to azure uh blob? So the answer is no you do not uh, it handles doing the calls between the services um up in the cloud But you basically use an api sets between the two different systems So you're good to go without it So no no need for that extra ingress and egress. I think is the official terms we use in cloud speak uh to move stuff between clouds And that's amazing, right? You don't have to have that extra hop of copying everything down to on premises and then moving it up To azure blob storage, right? It's just a straight copy across which was awesome Um, I'd love to see you know those that are in the chat room. Let's just say quickly. Hello to Andrew McCollum to uh, paul jensen, uh producer steve has joined us in the in the chat. Nice He was up. He might be on call or something. He might be on call I wanted to apologize for the joke in regards to rick's audio All the ounces wasn't my fault This is what I need to deal with on the show. Yeah, I'm I'm sure we're gonna hear about it today on on their show today producer We just lost all seven followers, thanks rick Let's continue on with the news uh rick Have you created? uh a Images vm vm images to be pushed out via shared image gallery before Absolutely, and you know, I can kind of give you a sneak peek because I know the guy that actually the team To be exact that created this and it's a really really cool feature I've actually written a blog post about it Because it's quite handy to go off and understand how to make a shared image You can kind of think of the old the old days of of making like a gold image or a master image of pre-configured environments For a particular machine that you want to go off and deploy Moss to your subscription for new to the reason so yeah shared image gallery good stuff And so that's the thing. How would you do it before? Previously you'd have to create the the vm's on-premises or the vhd's on-premises You would have to build your own sig file attach all that and then push it up to azure You no longer have to do that right so the announcement now is that it's generally available It's been in preview for a while, but now they've gone general generally available You can create everything up in azure. You add your sig file up in azure. There's no more extraction of vhd's You know that that all goes away You just simply create your Shared image gallery right into azure itself and then deploy And what I love about this is that you can actually add governance rules to this as well If you're implementing it into your organization to ensure that only certain individuals have the capability of deploying this service Right so and and also once it's deployed inside of azure inside of your private Gallery that makes it available to any other people that have appropriate rights into that gallery from your subscription So you can have like a centralized team that goes off and builds the image your image is And then other people can go off and deploy them or you can use them in the automation routine to go off and do stuff with it And if you are a partner and you wanted to sell this image And you had the rights to be able to license it and make it available You also can just simply take it and copy it from your private image gallery into the marketplace gallery provided You have a marketplace account To be able to go off and make it available too So two big improvements inside of that big area and it's simple to do very very simple Yep And you know what's crazy is that just at ignite there was the announcement of the additional functionality for it pros and management of machine learning Virtual machines and and so now the ability to create this entire environment And have that offered to the data scientists in a controlled manner That's huge And something that you and to your point you're going to sell this solution out Outwards you can also do that as well in this package solution specifically for machine learning And I'm hearing there are going to be other specific Solutions being made available not just machine learning iot something else coming down the pipe That that would also be able to be captured in this image gallery incentive as well Yep And then obviously if this kind of stuff interests you from a selling perspective you do have to go through and Join up to the azure marketplace become a partner Just take some time to be able to do that some legal documentation And you obviously have to have the appropriate licenses if the software you're you're selling You are able to license it you are able to resell that particular license. That's all involved too That's all part of the lovely pieces of paperwork that's there You didn't tell me there's a format we're supposed to use for our lower thirds Like mine's mine doesn't look like it's right compared to to yours over there. Is that That was where's the continuity? I don't understand. We talked about this during pre-production I didn't know you had pre-meetings for this show. I just thought we showed up in five minutes, too And you just boom it works Again, this is not bulging switch. This is oh, see there we go The producer Pierre fixed it for me on the he's on the ball Wow, we we appreciate that you're here. I know it's seven o'clock in the morning for you You don't usually roll out of bed till 10. So the fact that you're on this show is awesome Really quickly. Jared actually made mention in terms of uh, the shared image gallery update that they actually use this to add Automation around it as well. It makes monthly patching a lot easier. Oh, yeah, yeah, um, you know, I know behind the scenes Uh, I'm assuming you know that whenever you deploy an image from the azure marketplace It's official microsoft windows server image or something like that or a linux image We have a whole background process of people that go through and update those images test them And then we roll them out So the same kind of thing can apply obviously for simplifying your own personal, uh, testing the patching areas as well Uh, so yeah, cool stuff So let's talk about events. So do we have events to do things or we have events too. Oh, there is. Yes Check my notes down here Wow, uh, so I'm not used to working with notes I know you This patch of switch is off the cuff. I hear it. I get it. It's fully on prompter actually I apologize. I'm just I'm that type of guy who has to do everything structured. I don't know how producer pierre puts up with me That's how we do it. So the first topic I want to ask you about I don't The first thing I want to ask you about is that you've been making these appearances on this other show And it's not the patch of switch show. It's called. Um Hello world or something like that. Is that hello world? Is that a thing? So that is a thing. Um I've been uh participating one of this as a host alongside uh, jason jason hand On monday's people that do this show, right? There's a lot of people Sorry a plethora of people My life plethora So here's the thing Hello world is a new offering that goes daily and what I love about this show is it's very akin to Imagine cup because everything that's on the show is is how creative technology is being utilized Everything from teaching uh to learning uh in terms of how others are adopting the technology inspirational stories that are being shared in terms of inclusiveness and Everybody can participate and here's the stories of you know Diego shared a great story last week in terms of uh a runner from brazil Who was tripped up in mitzviz run by somebody who was watching the race wasn't even participating in the race And place third was it was supposed to be his first gold medal and couldn't do it Um because of the interruption that occurred and still proud of the fact that he placed third because He placed third for his country He was still you know, even though that interruption happened and it's that whole you know open mindedness and and uh train of thought that allowed him later on when the olympics went to brazil to be uh noted as the flag bear or the Sorry the torch bear to light up the cauldron If he had that negative mindset, you know, he wouldn't have been asked to participate to do that So because he had the positive mindset it was it's it's a great Show it talks about all aspects. I'm not just technology, but the people behind the technology as well Um, there's also so sorry does diego have a regular segment that shares this these these kind of anecdotes Diego has a regular regular same segment that happens every monday and every friday. It's called diego's wall He's got a wall It's he's got a huge wall with a collection of stories. Uh, that's on there. We actually have get this There's also a segment called code talk code Which is tick talk for coding. Oh, okay, like the go There's no dancing Izzy if you're watching rick is dancing you got to capture that and put that on tick talk later It's it's on the small screen though. So we'll have to zoom that up. Um, yeah on the small screen Here's the thing. There's been a massive Uh, uh, acceptance of coding type scenarios Scott Hanselman, I think pretty much started it out for microsoft. I know it's been there for for a while Yeah, the the dev talkers I know is the people that have been doing some stuff outside of the microsoft space has been doing it there too Um, and we actually just got an internal email, but I don't know if you I'm assuming you saw that one there Uh talking about how even visual studio code has gone in as the team in the brand to participate with a bunch of different people working on the team to see how they can just simply Share tidbits that are 30 45 seconds long or so. Uh, and it's picking up Is they should they shared some comments that actually had to be bleeped out because of the words because they liked it so No, I was gonna say it. Um, so much, uh, to be able to see it So, uh, cool stuff. Um, I don't know. I I still can't see doing a tick talk myself um That's me But all that dancing we we could just capture that and put that on tick tock right now We can definitely we could if if pier was fast with the capture button. We might actually see it somewhere But uh, I think I still oh easy a dance Out there so those of you who are watching at home if you go to itobstock.com You know that there's a blog post for every episode and we record these episodes so we can definitely extract that dance after the fact Put that into tick tock later. I love it. We've only got three minutes left I wanted to make sure and I also made mention of the testing and production Yeah, it is the other fortnight. So every other every other week It's patch and switch and now our friends producer steve and producer pierre have their own show Which is called testing and production where they share their secrets behind the scenes on how they put up the antics of Yourself and myself They share is they share the patch and switch twitch stream handle is what they're doing We won't go there. I tuned in the last week. It was good. It was really good. I enjoyed it I thought it was really cool how they showed how they do the scenes on obs How they capture the audio how they deal with rick and joey, you know the whole, you know Just to keep the show afloat, which is really cool. Uh, we got two minutes left really quickly. I wanted to get into this as well No, no, no, sorry. Sorry. Nope gotta do this. So microsoft learn module of the week Uh rick, you're gonna like this one architect migration business continuity And disaster recovery in azure. This contains hands-on labs So what does that mean? You can go in there's a sandbox. You can do full-on functionality with You know disaster recovery testing business continuity testing and it's something where you can learn I will interrupt and say they don't have the zonal stuff in here yet No, they do not the same kind of concept of how you'd be targeting stuff So you can pretend that you're deploying to zonal. It's not actually doing the zonal stuff, but obviously each reference in there It's good hands-on stuff And I'm going to say I'm going to plug a patch and switch dot com for previous episodes because he jumped over top of that and sex ourselves talk about What's coming up next in other shows? We have one minute left rick if they want to get ahold of you, how do they get ahold of you? right here rickster cdn on the twitters uh or on linkedin rick rick claws Or obviously just you know on this show and others if you wanted to watch us We're here And if you want to get ahold of producer pierre you can get ahold of him at wire knuck on twitter And if you want to get ahold of me you can get ahold of me on at twitter as well at wire this life rick so awesome to have you on the show. We got to have you on here more often I only have so many ties See y'all next week