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In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Ignite 2023 and our expectations. We've done this several times before, and this time it feels Ignite is even more geared toward the in-person experience - exciting times! Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:39) - Community highlights.
(03:58) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Stephane Eyskens: From zero to - nearly - hero with Azure OpenAI NLP and vector-based search in Azure Cognitive Search

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- Microsoft Ignite

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In this episode, we discuss Azure Active Directory - I mean Entra ID - cross-tenant synchronization capability. When do you need it, and what does it do? And why would you have more than one Entra ID tenant? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:17) - Community highlights.
(04:24) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Alan Kinane: Azure Backup in 2023: Features you should know about
- Zachary Cavanell: How Microsoft 365 Copilot can work with your external data

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- ME-ID
- Announcement for cross-tenant synchronization
- Billing model for external users

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In this episode, we talk about the lessons we've learned in the past week. Three lessons to share, on Microsoft Fabric, Entra ID and Azure OpenAI. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:54) - Community highlights.
(04:56) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Valentina Alto: Generating applications from sketches with LLMs
- Edi Wang: Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure Container Apps with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes

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- Microsoft Fabric Licensing Guide from Reza Rad
- Entra ID External ID Public Preview

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In this episode, we reflect on what it takes to work with security in Azure. What are the skillsets? What general experience and knowledge should you have? What about certifications? And how do we learn new stuff? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:00) - Community highlights.
(04:15) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Merill Fernando: Entra Newsletter
- Aaron Powell: Generative AI and .NET - Part 1 Intro

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- Microsoft Fabric - get started!
- Microsoft certifications: AZ-500, SC-100, AZ-305
- Other certifications: CISSP, CompTIA Security+

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In this episode, we take a look at recent updates to Azure. What's new, what's in preview, and what's interesting? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:38) - Community highlights.
(05:16) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Ben Ufuk Tezcan | Principal PM, AI Platform at Microsoft: Welcoming the generative AI era with Microsoft Azure
- Sonia Cuff | How to display Azure Monitor alerts with smart lights and no code

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- Sample code for Azure Communication Services Call Automation OpenAI sample

- Azure Firewall Explicit Proxy

- Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

- Multi-tenant organization in Azure AD

- Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS

- Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent

- Azure VNet flow logs

- Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

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In this episode, we dive into PIM, PAM, and PAW. What are these? When and why would you need to deploy these? Our insights on how they map to Azure controls and services, licensing required, and how to get started. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:54) - Community highlights.
(05:18) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Olivier Miossec:  Azure Deployment Stacks, deploy and manage a landing zone with Bicep
- Harun Legoz: Should You Migrate To Fabric? (thatbluecloud.com)

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we talk about Azure services we don't know enough about. Perhaps they are rare and uncommon, or we're simply not exposed to specific industries or projects where these are needed. During our journey this week, we learn a lot more about a lot of Azure services. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:55) - Community highlights.
(04:20) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Aymen: Turn any YouTube Channel Into a Chatbot
- David Giard: Increasing Developer Velocity (davidgiard.com)

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- Azure IPAM
- R Server for HDInsight
- Azure Spring Apps
- Azure Operator Nexus
- Azure Orbital Ground Station
- Avere vFXT for Azure
- Azure Sphere
- Azure Lab Services
- Azure Quantum
- Jussi's Q# and Azure Quantum journey
- Azure Space
- Azure PlayFab

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access. What is it? Why would you need it? We dissect the services and talk about the capabilities and how they map back to services we've had before. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:01) - Community highlights.
(06:10) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Ronak Chokshi: Introducing a new Azure AI Language video series showcasing features powered by Azure OpenAI & more
- Saul Dolgin: Introducing the Azure Business Continuity Guide

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- What is Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access?

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we take a look at API-driven inbound provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID. It's a new capability in preview. We talk about the problem space, the existing solutions, and how this capability aims to make it easier for companies to manage the creation of identities. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:07) - Community highlights.
(04:28) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Kalle Marjokorpi: How to stream all Home Assistant events to Azure?
- Ken Ross: Using ChatGPT to learn how to use JMeter

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- API-driven inbound provisionin in Microsoft Entra ID

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we refresh our knowledge of Azure AI services. What used to be called Azure Cognitive Services has now changed a bit. We take a look at the services, the capabilities, and the use cases. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:10) - Community highlights.
(04:17) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Christopher Graham: Microsoft Azure resource groups: Introduction and best practices
- Andy Beatman: Use your own data to create a Power Virtual Agent with Azure OpenAI Service

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- What are Azure AI Services?
- Multi-service resources

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we find updates on Defender for Cloud, Azure virtual machines, cost optimization, Azure AD renaming, and Defender for IoT, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(0x:xx) - Community highlights.
(0x:xx) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Denise Schlesinger (TechCommunity): From Prompts to Embeddings and Vector Stores - How to use OpenAI in real scenarios
- Jeff Woolsey: 30 years of Windows Server

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- Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel

- Release notes - Microsoft Defender for Cloud

- New workbook template in Azure Advisor for cost optimization

- Defender for IoT firmware analysis

- WS2012 and WS2012R2 end of support guidance

- Vector search

- New Burstable VMs

- Best Ever Food Review Show - YouTube

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we talk about cost and performance in the context of business continuity and disaster recover. Our guest, Paola Annis from Microsoft, is the expert, and we pick her brains to learn more about this approach. Also, Jussi asks Paola an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:25) - Community highlights.
(04:40) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Jorge G: Data Governance 3.0: Augmenting your Data Governance experience with Purview and OpenAI
- Nikita Nallamothu: Azure Load Testing: You can run load tests from command-line now

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- Paola Annis
- Business continuity and disaster recovery

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we talk about building and running a SaaS service on Azure. Our guest, Adis Jugo, (Microsoft MVP & Regional Director) shares their journey on building run.events, an events management platform, on Azure. Also, Tobi asks Adis an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:28) - Community highlights.
(04:22) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Neha Hafeez: Getting Started with API Management: A Beginner's Guide for Developers
- Valentina Alto: Chat with your own data with Azure OpenAI

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- Adis Jugo contact info
- run.events
- The European Cloud Summit
- The European Collaboration Summit
- 37Signals and the way out from the cloud

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we take a lap around Microsoft Fabric. Our guest, Oskari Saarinen, a Data Platform MVP, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about the capabilities. Also, Jussi asks Oskari an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:10) - Community highlights.
(03:20) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Davide Mauri: Vector Similarity Search with Azure SQL database and OpenAI
- Vinod Soni: Azure OpenAI GPT model to review Pull Requests for Azure DevOps

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- Oskari Heikkinen contact info
- Microsoft Fabric on Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Fabric learning path
- Microsoft Fabric pricing

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we talk about subscription vending. Our guest, Jack Tracey from Microsoft, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about this approach. Also, Tobi asks Jack an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:22) - Community highlights.
(03:20) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Maarten Balliauw: Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C#
- Valentina Alto: Introducing LangFlow: a GUI for LangChain

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- Jack Tracey
- Azure Landing Zones - How many subscriptions should I use in Azure?  

- A blog on subscription vending

- Subscription vending details
- Subscription vending implementation guidance
- Subscription vending with Bicep
- Subscription vending with Terraform

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we find updates on Defender for Cloud, Azure Container Instances, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Virtual Desktop, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:50) - Community highlights.
(04:49) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Eleanor Berger: Grounding LLMs
- Joseph Dadzie: Microsoft Entra ID Governance is generally available

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- Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

- Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

- Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers

- Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
- Release notes for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor

- Public Preview: Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by the Azure Monitor Agent

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode, we take DevTunnel CLI for a spin. It's a nifty little command-line tool for opening tunnels from the cloud (or public Internet) to your locally running APIs. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:32) - Community highlights.
(04:28) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Tim Heuer: Announcing C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
- Aaryan Arora: Integrating Power Apps with Azure Machine Learning & Open AI using Power Automate

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- DevTunnel CLI
- DevTunnel CLI on GitHub

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode we talk about prompt engineering in the context of ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI. What makes a good prompt? What aspects can you consider and use when crafting your prompts? And why should you care? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:42) - Community highlights.
(04:00) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Morten Knudsen: Orphaned Azure Security Principals Clean-up & Azure Policy Managed Identity Role Assignment Automation
- Zachary Cavanell: What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer | Featuring Mark Russinovich

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- Prompt engineering techniques with Azure OpenAI

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

Defender for APIs is now in preview, so we took this capability for a spin. Why would you need it? And how does it work? We talked about Defender for Cloud, Cloud Posture Management, Workbooks, and a bit of KQL. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(04:05) - Community highlights.
(05:35) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Jeffrey Appel: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) integrations with Microsoft Sentinel
- Zachary Cavanell: How do LLMs work with Vision AI? | OCR, Image & Video Analysis

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- Defender for APIs

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro

In this episode we take a practical look at GitHub Copilot Chat - the AI-based service for developers. How does it work? Will it change a developer's work? What does it do in practice? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:55) - Community highlights.
(04:19) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Kevin Chant:  Spreading your Power BI wings with Microsoft Fabric
- Denise Schlesinger: Build a chatbot to query your documentation using Langchain and Azure OpenAI

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- GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot Chat Waitlist

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This episode is sponsored by Sovelto. Stay ahead of the game and advance your career with continuous learning opportunities for Azure Cloud professionals. Sovelto Eduhouse – Learning as a Lifestyle - Start Your Journey now: https://www.eduhouse.fi/cloudpro