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29 preview recommendations in Azure Security Benchmark NIST SP 800 171 R2 added to the regulatory compliance dashboard Recommendations list now includes filters Auto provisioning experience improved and expanded Secure score is now available in continuous export (preview) "System updates should be installed on your machines" recommendation now includes sub-recommendations Policy management page in the Azure portal now shows status of default policy assignmentsAzure Storage Account Blob inventory (Microsoft Docs) Implement Azure Policy as Code with GitHub (Microsoft Docs) Understanding provisioning for Premium file shares (Microsoft Docs) Azure Purview (Microsoft Docs) Anti-virus logs in App Service logs (App Service Blog) Updates to Logic Apps runtime (Microsoft Blog) Denmark Azure region (Microsoft Blog)

Tamás Gémesi on LinkedInFinOps FoundationIntroduction to FinOps courseCost Management (Microsoft)Azure VM comparisonCloud Economics v2.0: The FinOps HandbookShareGate OvercastCloud Custodian

Microsoft Azure SpaceThe announcement on Azure SpaceIntroducing Azure OrbitalAzure Orbital docsI am interested in Azure Orbital

Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 (Microsoft ASP.NET Blog)Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft Azure)Azure Cosmos DB serverless (Microsoft Docs)Azure Advisor (Microsoft Docs)Azure Firewall DNS settings (Microsoft Docs)Use FQDN filtering in network rules (Microsoft Docs)Create Bing Search resource through Azure Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell (Microsoft Azure)Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service (Microsoft Azure)Azure Machine Learning updates (Microsoft Azure)QnA Maker Deep Learning (Microsoft Azure)Reduced vCPU VMs (Microsoft Azure)

Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)Built-in Azure Policies for Azure Key Vault (Microsoft Docs)

Enforce a minimum required version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for incoming requests (Microsoft Docs)Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope (Azure Updates)App Service Discount for Premium Plans (Azure Updates)Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification (Azure Updates)Grant permission to applications to access an Azure key vault using Azure RBAC (Microsoft Docs)Monitoring Key Vault with Azure Event Grid (Microsoft Docs)Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Zimmergren)Azure Modular Datacenter (Microsoft)New datacenter: Taiwan, and Greece (Microsoft)SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension (Microsoft Docs)Soft delete for Azure File Shares is now generally available (Microsoft)

Best Practices for building Azure Functions (Zimmergren)Reflections on Azure Logic Apps (Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast)Event Grid message delivery and retry (Microsoft Docs)Subscription and tenant limits / throttling (Microsoft Docs)

Sideloading a custom Linux distroBuilding a local WordPress test environment using Windows 10, Docker Desktop, and WSL 2 (Jussi)Installing WSL 2 (Microsoft Docs)

Azure Backup Center announcement (Microsoft)Support matrix for Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)Overview of Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)

Get Started Guide for Azure Developers (Microsoft Docs)Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Azure Resource Explorer (Zimmergren)Microsoft Architecture Center (Microsoft Docs)Microsoft Learn - Azure (Microsoft Docs)What is Azure Active Directory? (Microsoft Docs)

.NET 5 RC1 (Microsoft Devblogs)Azure Private Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)Azure SQL Edge (Microsoft Docs)Azure Logic Apps updates (Microsoft Techcommunity)Azure Resource Mover (Microsoft Docs)022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies (Ctrl+Alt+Azure episode)Azure Arc updates (Microsoft)Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)Azure Backup Center Support Matrix (Microsoft Docs)

Overview of Azure Communication Services (Microsoft)Microsoft Mechanics video on the service (Youtube)Get a phone number (Microsoft)Events supported by ACS (Microsoft)Hero sample on group chat (Microsoft)

Azure Automanage (Microsoft)Azure Sentinel Updates (Microsoft)Microsoft Compliance Manager (Microsoft)Microsoft Compliance Manager Licensing and Terms (Microsoft)

Testing application fault resiliencyAutomate Always On availability group deployments with SQL Virtual Machine resource providerAzure Cache for Visual Studio Code Extension (Preview)ASC: Security principals recommendationAKS: CVE-2020-8559 information (GitHub)Durable Functions v2.3.0 (GitHub)

Azure FarmBeats announcement (Microsoft)Overview of Azure FarmBeats (Microsoft)Integrating with Azure FarmBeats (Microsoft)Building a Translator component (Microsoft)

Elio's blogPimp Your Own Device webshop for stickers!Visual Studio Code extension for Front MatterAzure Static Web Apps Preview (Microsoft)Static website hosting on Azure Storage (Microsoft)

Access Kubernetes resources from the Azure Portal (Microsoft Docs)Audit Logs of Azure Monitor logs queries now available (Microsoft Docs)Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor (Azure Updates)What's new in PowerShell 7.0 (Microsoft Docs)Azure Cloud Shell Repository (GitHub).NET Framework 4.8 Release Notes (GitHub)NFS 3.0 protocol support in Azure Blob storage (Microsoft Docs)

API Design ebook (Microsoft)APIs + Microservices ebook (Microsoft)Create an Azure AD protected API (Christos Matskas)Visual Studio Code (Preview) extension for Azure API Management (Microsoft)

Azure Cloud Shell can run in an isolated virtual network (preview)Azure Firewall Manager is now generally availableEight new recommendations to enable threat protection featuresContainer security improvements - faster registry scanning and refreshed documentationVulnerability assessment for virtual machines is now available for non-marketplace imagesChoose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accountsAll Azure updates (Microsoft)

Azure Migrate Overview (Microsoft)Getting started with Azure Migrate: Migrating an on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure (Jussi)Migrate to the Cloud with Azure Migrate (e-book, Microsoft)Cloud Migration Simplified: A new framework for migrating infrastructure, data, and applications (e-book, Microsoft)Azure Migrate in Cloud Adoption Framework (Jussi)

Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)Download the framework as a single PDF (Microsoft)Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)A blog post announcing the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft)

Try out DevTest LabsPricing (it's free)Building the perfect remote workstation in the cloud (Jussi)How to configure a lab (Microsoft)

Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Creating secret volumes and consume secrets using C# .NET Core (Zimmergren)Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Using Secure Environment Variables (Zimmergren)Azure Container Instances - C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Jussi + Tobias)Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Zimmergren)An adventure in containers and command-line tools: Running MongoDB in Azure (Jussi)

Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)VSCode remote development (Microsoft)Remote development extension for VSCode (Microsoft)Developing remotely on Raspberry Pi 4 and Linux using Visual Studio Code (Jussi)

Chaos Monkey (Netflix)Chaos Monkey docs (Netflix)Chaos Engineering (Wikipedia)

AppLocker (Microsoft)KnowBe4BeyondTrustPolicyPakCyberArkBitlocker (Microsoft)Sami on Twitter Sami's blogsSamiLaiho.com

Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)How to run business logic as background jobs in Microsoft Azure (Jussi)Background jobs guidance (Microsoft)Azure Batch (Microsoft)

Developer Velocity Assessment tool (Microsoft)What is Developer Velocity (Microsoft)A look at Developer Velocity (Jussi)

Use the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game (Zimmergren)Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services (Zimmergren)Using the Azure Portal to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Using PowerShell to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Using the Azure CLI to run Resource Graph queries (Microsoft)Understanding the Azure Resource Graph query language (Microsoft)Azure Resource Graph - Get resource changes (Microsoft)

Build 2020 sessions on-demandVisual Studio Code: Azure ExtensionsStatic Web AppsWindows Terminal 1.0 is GA nowYAML CD Pipelines are GA nowNew Consent controls in public preview (Tobias)Windows Package Manager (Tobias)Recap of announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 key segment session (Jussi)Microsoft Build: Reflections on the announcements and digital experience (Jussi)

The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.comBuilding a simple analytics and tracking solution for the web using Azure Storage (Jussi)What is a tracking pixel?

Azure Front Door overview (Microsoft)Azure Front Door POP (Microsoft)Azure Front Door Rules Engine (Microsoft) Preview

About Application Gateways (Microsoft)Manager web traffic with an application gateway using Azure PowerShell (Microsoft)Autoscaling and zone-redundant AG V2 (Microsoft)Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway (Tobi & Jussi)

The history of Microsoft DNS ServerWhat is Azure DNS? (Microsoft)Creating a private DNS zone (Microsoft)Building a simple and secure DNS updater for Azure DNS using Raspberry Pi and Azure Functions (Jussi)

GitHubGitHub LabMultiple Teams client launcher on GitHub (Marko Loukkaanhuhta)

Cloud Adoption Framework (Microsoft)Strategy skills (Microsoft)

Azure Policy (Microsoft)Built-in policies (Microsoft)Building policies (Microsoft)Azure RBAC (Microsoft)Azure Policy Extensions for VS CodeLighthouse integration with Azure Policy

Azure Governance overview (Microsoft)Azure Management Groups (Microsoft)Azure Resource Graph (Microsoft)Azure Blueprints (Microsoft)Azure Policy (Microsoft)Azure Cost Management + Billing (Microsoft)Overcast (ShareGate)Jussi's book on Azure Governance (ShareGate)A recent webinar recording on Azure Governance by Jussi and Stephane Lapointe (ShareGate, again!)Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as a Service Provider (Jussi)Using VSCode to create ARM templates (Microsoft)

Azure CDN documentation (Microsoft)Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft)Creating a WAF policy for Azure CDN (Microsoft)Sankohiipiminen (Water bucket sneaking - a competition!)Web Application Firewall overview (Microsoft)

Azure Arc for servers - PREVIEW (Microsoft)Onboarding servers to Azure Arc (Microsoft)Introducing Azure Arc (Ignite session)Manage hybrid servers using Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer and Donovan Brown)Building a hybrid governance solution using Azure Arc (Jussi)

Maarten Goet (Twitter) Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel (Jussi) Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel (Tobias) Design considerations Not your daddy's SplunkThreat Hunting with Jupyter Access and authorizations for the enterprise AzSentinel PowerShell module blog AzSentinel GitHub Maarten's blog

Cognitive Services overview (Microsoft)Cognitive Services language support (Microsoft)Container support (Microsoft)Pricing (Microsoft)Language Understanding (LUIS) (Microsoft)Custom Vision (Microsoft)

AKS in brief (Microsoft)AKS - The Big Picture (Pluralsight - might require a subscription to view)Team Development on Kubernetes - Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)Introduction to Azure Dev Spaces (Microsoft)Tip: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases (Tobias Zimmergren)Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (Tobias Zimmergren)

Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry (Tobias Zimmergren)RBAC Roles and Permissions (Microsoft)ACR and Security Center integration (Microsoft)Authenticate with an Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)Authenticate to ACR with Managed Identities (Microsoft)Repository-scoped Permissions for ACR (Microsoft)Content trust in Azure Container Registry (Microsoft)Content trust and Azure DevOps (Microsoft)Azure Container Registry Unleashed – ACR up and running (Thorsten Hans)Content trust in Docker (Docker)

Reference Enterprise Design for Azure Network Security (Microsoft)Load balancing overview (Flowchart decision tree guide) (Microsoft)Azure DDoS Protection Standard overview (Microsoft)Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway (Microsoft)Azure Front Door (Microsoft)Secure remote access solutions for Azure Virtual Machines (Jussi)

Migrating SQL Server 2008 databases to Azure SQL (Jussi)Data Migration Assistant (Microsoft)Azure Database migration guide (Microsoft)Tutorial on migrating data to Azure SQL (Microsoft)Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL (Jussi)

In this episode we explore what Application Insights can help us with in Azure, and how it can monitor and help us troubleshoot our applications and systems in the cloud. Show notes:What is Application Insights? (Microsoft)Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (Tobias Zimmergren)

Show notes:Azure DevOps (Microsoft)Secure DevOps (Microsoft Security Engineering)Embrace a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Azure (Zimmergren.net)Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension (Zimmergren.net)Get started with Azure DevOps (Microsoft Learn)

Show notes:Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.comAzure Account extension for Visual Studio CodeAzure Portal (mobile app): iOS, AndroidNokia N900Azure PowerShell 'Az' moduleUsing PowerShell in Visual Studio CodeA blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net)WSL 2 deployment guideWindows Terminal (Store install), GitHub reporesources.azure.com Cmder (Tobias' choice of command line environment)Installing the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code (Zimmergren.net)Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10 (Zimmergren.net)

Follow along when we talk about IoT, and how to build the Internet of Things-solutions on Azure. We talk about the devices, the services and approaches you can use to build scalable IoT solutions easilyShow links:Exam AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (beta)Azure IoT HubRaspberry Pi 4Raspberry Pi Zero WRead Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpointsUse Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to build IoT Plug and Play devices