Azure Friday

In this episode of Azure Friday, Steve Michelotti talks with Scott Hanselman about Azure Government, which provides a separate physical and network-isolated instance of Azure for federal, state, and local governments with a higher level of compliance for US Government workloads. Steve shows how easy it is to get connected and get started with Azure Government. Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFrida...

Duke Kamstra joins Scott Hanselman to demo the new Azure Monitor Notification features. Duke shows how you can receive alerts via SMS, email, or a WebHook when Azure is experiencing an incident or when something is logged to your Activity Logs.

Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to share the new interactive experience for the Azure Marketplace, which makes it easier to navigate the product catalog and find the right solution for your cloud application. Marketplace provides a rich catalog of thousands of products and solutions that range from open source and community software to enterprise applications that have been certified and opt...

Nitika Gupta joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure AD Identity Protection, which uses technologies and machine learning capabilities that Microsoft uses to help protect Microsoft Account identities. If you're using Azure AD Premium, you're just one step away from including these protections for your Azure AD accounts.

Anthony Howe joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Helm in Azure Container Service, which is a package manager for Kubernetes that enables the community to share best practices for installing distributed applications, such as from KubeApps.

Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to demo & discuss Azure Container Registry, which was in preview since November 2016. Since then, we have received a lot of valuable feedback from customers that we've worked to incorporate, which enables us to move Azure Container Registry to GA.

John Kemnetz joins Scott Hanselman to show how to unlock the power of Azure monitoring data with Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor is the built-in platform monitoring service that provides a single pipeline for monitoring and diagnostics data across all Azure services, enabling you to monitor, diagnose, and get alerts & notifications of problems in your cloud infrastructure.

Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss & demo a solution for implementing a high availability configuration for most types of network virtual appliances (NVA), which was created by the Azure CAT Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft. The NVA monitor client is implemented as a ZooKeeper client running in a Docker container, while a ZooKeeper server ensemble runs in multiple Docker co...

Andrew Liu joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure DocumentDB's language integrated, transactional execution of JavaScript, which enables developers write stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions (UDFs) natively in JavaScript. Andrew also shares best practices for writing these stored procedures.

Adrian Hall joins Scott Hanselman to explain the new features and demo push notifications in Azure App Service, which is a secure way to use Azure Mobile Apps to integrate mobile apps with Azure Notification Hubs to receive push notifications.

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to extend the Common Data Service (CDS) base schema for custom scenarios. CDS ships with over 65 standard entity sets that you can use to build apps for many common scenarios.

Manbeen Kohli joins Scott Hanselman to explain and demo Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud consultant that guides you to optimal resource configurations. It delivers best practices recommendations to improve the high availability, security and performance of your resources, while looking for opportunities to optimize your overall Azure spend. Get started with Advisor today by visiting https://...

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use the Common Data Service (CDS) with PowerApps & Microsoft Flow. The Common Data Service is fully integrated with Microsoft Flow. An update to the Common Data Service can trigger workflows built with Microsoft Flow, and you can use the Common Data Service as a place to store data for Microsoft Flow workflows.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Steve Lindsay – Senior Technical Evangelist for the Azure Developer Experience team, talks with Scott Hanselman and shares the techniques and tools he uses to interface with DocumentDB through REST. Steve makes available his example REST clients written in Postman(js), C#, nodes.js, Native Swift and Java. Using his example code you can learn how to navigate the Doc...

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to demo and discuss Azure CLI 2.0, Azure's new command-line experience for managing Azure resources. It can be used on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aravind Ramachandran talks with Scott Hanselman about support for aggregate functions at global scale in Azure DocumentDB. Aravind explains how you can perform low latency aggregation queries against large datasets without schema definitions or secondary indexes, and other improvements in the DocumentDB query engine like reduced request units and support for polygo...

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, shows Donovan Brown how to continuously deploy containers using the Azure Spinnaker to Kubernetes QuickStart Template (https://aka.ms/azk8sdeploy).

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about Spinnaker, a continuous delivery platform from Netflix OSS. Arun shows how using Azure QuickStart template (https://aka.ms/azspinnaker) makes this quick and easy.

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about extending the capability of PowerApps using Custom APIs. In this session, we will use PowerApps with Microsoft Cognitive Services API, a custom Image Upload API and the Camera control to build a cross platform app to detect the age, gender, smile of the user, similar to http://how-old.net. Karthik explains how to build custom logic can be hosted...

Visual Studio Mobile Center powers end-to-end mobile app development experiences. Adrian Hall joins Scott Hanselman to showcase how to work with his TODO app data in the cloud with Visual Studio Mobile Center’s Tables feature. Check out the other Mobile Center (http://mobile.azure.com) features including Build, Test, Distribute, Identity, Crashes, and Analytics.

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, returns to Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about how to use Azure for CI with Jenkins. Arun talks about the new Azure VM Agents plugin (https://aka.ms/azjenkinsagents) his team has contributed so as to make this simple and scalable.

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown. They discuss how best to host Jenkins on Azure. Arun demos how using an Azure QuickStart template makes this quick and easy.

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use the Common Data Service (CDS) with PowerApps. CDS provides an out-of-the-box entity model and storage for PowerApps. All the tools for building apps and managing data are available in the PowerApps portal.

Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott Hanselman about the DocumentDB SDK for the Xamarin platform. DocumentDB offers everything mobile developer needs from a cloud database: speed, limitless elastic scale, geo distribution, geo spatial support, binary attachments, and more. Resources: Tutorial: https://aka.ms/documentdb-xamarin Samples: https://github.com/Azure/azure-documentdb...

In this episode of Azure Friday, Donovan Brown is joined by Sam Chandrashekar as they take a look at native support for geospatial functions in Azure Stream Analytics (now Generally Available). Take advantage of built-in geospatial functions in your stream-processing logic to define geographical areas, and evaluate incoming geospatial data for containment, proximity, and overlap to generate alerts...