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In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:45) - Show content starts.Show links- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features- CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines - Azure DevOps Blog- ActiveX disabled now in Microsoft 365- I/O performance analysis in SQL Server on Azure VMs- AI agents for beginners- Azure Networking capabilities for Copilot in Azure Feedback - Give us feedback!

This week, we're revisiting GitHub Copilot. We talked about it a few years ago, when it was fresh. Has anything changed? How are we using it? Prepare to be blown away by one specific capability now in preview.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:38) - Show content starts.Show links- GitHub Copilot- Visual Studio Code Insiders- Agent mode in GitHub Copilot- Give us feedback!

This week, we'll talk about services that are being deprecated, and what to think of that. How to best prepare when you get an announcement that something is going away? What are the business perspective, and the perspectives on security?(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:57) - Show content starts.Show links- Entra Permissions Management retirement- Azure AD B2C retirement- Remote Desktop App retirement- Give us feedback!

This week, we look at Network Security Perimeter, which is currently in public preview. It's a nifty capability for controlling inbound and outbound traffic for your PaaS resources.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(05:01) - Show content starts.Show links- Creating a network security perimeter in the Azure Portal - Tobias' device: ZTE U50, 5G Portable WiFi Hotspot (Amazon.se)- Give us feedback!

This week, we're considering when and how to use Azure Firewall in your deployments. What are the features, SKUs, and capabilities? When should you choose Azure Firewall, and when should you choose something else? Considerations on enterprise architectures also.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:59) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure Firewall Basic - getting started- Cloud Adoption Framework: Landing Zones- Give us feedback!

In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:15) - Show content starts.Show links- What's new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud features- Azure updates | Microsoft Azure- Vaulted Backup Support for Azure Files- Log Analytics Simple Mode- Azure AI Foundry new models- Secure and govern AI AppsFeedback - Give us feedback!

This week, we take a look at fresh guidance from Microsoft on increasing security for Microsoft Entra. It's an interesting guide - easily digestible, solid advice, and very actionable recommendations. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:50) - Show content starts.Show links- Securing Microsoft Entra-guidance- Give us feedback!

This week, we look at building agents using Azure AI Foundry. What's an agent, and why should you care? What's the process for building an agent? And where does Copilot Studio stand in here? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:05) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure AI Foundry: Agents (preview)- Introducing Azure AI Agent service- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 267: Building AI apps with Microsoft.Extensions.AI- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 269: Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents with Paolo Pialorsi- Give us feedback!

This week, we focus on disaster recovery - specifically, backups. Should you back up the cloud? All of Azure and Microsoft 365? Or nothing? We consider the different viewpoints, options, and possibilities. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:00) - Show content starts.Show links- I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here's What I Found- Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 218: Azure SQL Backup and Recovery- EntraExporter- Give us feedback!

In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring? Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:50) - Show content starts.Show links- Azure Data Studio retirement- DNSSEC in Azure DNS Public Zones- Deepseek-R1 in Azure AI FoundryMicrosoft Sentinel:- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel- Announcing Public Preview: New STIX Objects in Microsoft Sentinel - (Request access to STIX tables) https://forms.office.com/r/903VU5x3hz?origin=lprLink- Enable the data connector for Microsoft's threat intelligence Find us on Bluesky:- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren.net) — Bluesky- Jussi Roine • Microsoft MVP (@jussiroine.com) — Bluesky - Give us feedback!