Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
392 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsMade for tech enthusiasts and IT professionals. Expanded coverage of your favorite technologies across Microsoft; including Office, Azure, Windows and Data Platforms. We'll even bring you broader topics such as device innovation with Surface, machine learning, and predictive analytics.
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Azure Confidential Computing - Virtual Machines & Containers
October 12, 2022 18:42 - 12 minutes - 74.5 MB VideoLift and shift your confidential VM and container workloads to the cloud —without code changes— for higher levels of data protection. When combined with Azure's stringent attestation measurements, Zero Trust security and confidential computing provide the latest silicon level advances. See your options for data encryption and isolation, starting with the virtual machine layer, to containers running in the encrypted VM, and ultimately Azure Container Instances. From the Azure confidential c...
Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL | How it Works
October 12, 2022 18:24 - 14 minutes - 85 MB VideoBuild highly scalable applications using the distributed Postgres relational database in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. See how it works with current Postgres tools, how to scale out with distributed tables and nodes to keep apps responsive, and how to eliminate latency with geo-replication capabilities for globally distributed apps. Cosmos DB has a variety of APIs, including native NoSQL and compatible APIs, targeted at NoSQL workloads. With the introduction of Postgres, Cosmos DB offers...
Build Power Apps from a drawing & Power Automate Flows using natural language
October 12, 2022 17:28 - 13 minutes - 73.6 MB VideoBuild low code apps and processes easily with the latest updates to Microsoft's Power Platform. Move quickly from ideation on paper, to automatic Power App creation with AI-assisted app development through Express design. Then tie those apps to business processes using natural language to generate automated workflows in Power Automate. For IT admins, we show how the new Managed Environments provide the foundation for better management and governance over data used in your apps and flows. B...
Enhance, Connect, and Manage Content at Scale | Microsoft Syntex Content AI Services
October 12, 2022 17:14 - 13 minutes - 75.3 MB VideoUnderstand and assemble content at scale, discover and reuse your content in intelligent ways, and as an admin, analyze and protect content. Microsoft Syntex content AI services integrate with your digital estate in Microsoft 365 and offer new pay-as-you-go experiences. Product Management CVP for Microsoft 365, Omar Shahine, joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate what’s available now and what’s coming soon. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Origins of Syntex 01:47 - IT capab...
Surface Pro 9 | Hands-on Review from its Lead Engineer
October 12, 2022 16:57 - 13 minutes - 93.2 MB VideoFind out about the all-new Surface Pro 9 on the 10th anniversary of the Surface Pro line. A secured-core PC, we’ll look at the silicon choices from the 12th Gen Intel® processors built on the Intel® Evo™ platform for work-station class power, to the ARM-based Microsoft SQ® 3 powered by Qualcomm® SnapDragon® with 5G, for superior mobility and performance on the go. Dave Mitchell, who leads the team that engineers Surface Pro, gives a hands-on review with all the details on performance, hard...
Windows Autopilot | How It Works & How to Set It Up
October 03, 2022 13:56 - 9 minutes - 38.4 MB VideoThese are the best practices and tips to set yourself up for success with Windows Autopilot. Windows Autopilot is a feature within Intune that allows you to send devices directly from hardware providers to end users. New device provisioning is foundational to cloud attach and cloud-based update management. During initial Windows setup, Autopilot enables users to enroll their device through Intune device management, so PCs get to a managed and productive state without reimaging. Principal...
Viva Engage | The New Community Experience in Microsoft Teams
September 22, 2022 18:44 - 7 minutes - 50.9 MB VideoBring organizations together to engage across both personal and professional interests with Microsoft Viva Engage, a new experience in Teams and Outlook. The shift to hybrid workplaces has made it harder for employees to connect, engage, and build communities within their internal network. If you’re new to Viva Engage, it’s the evolution of the Yammer Communities app integrated in Microsoft Teams and will be coming soon to Outlook. We’ll show you how it helps build communities within your ...
Windows Autopatch, How it Works | Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices
September 20, 2022 18:40 - 11 minutes - 48.4 MB VideoGo inside our new cloud service with ring-based deployment built-in for the automation of software update management for Windows, Microsoft Edge and your Office and Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams. Windows Autopatch will provide upcoming support for Windows 11 upgrades. If you're using our premium subscription services, it may be available to you at no additional cost. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, reverse engineers Windows Autopatch service to show how it works (within Intun...
Protect data in use with Azure Confidential Computing and Intel SGX
September 12, 2022 18:35 - 14 minutes - 99.1 MB VideoSee how to create confidential clouds that host sensitive data in public clouds with Intel Software Guard Extension, as part of Azure confidential computing. Protect your sensitive information in the Cloud. Mitigate privileged access attacks with hardware enforced protection of sensitive data, and protect against data exfiltration from memory. Beyond security, we’ll demonstrate machine learning analytics on multi-party data. Data center security expert, Mike Ferron-Jones from Intel, give...
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management | Admin Set-up Tutorial
August 22, 2022 19:53 - 13 minutes - 75.7 MB VideoWith remote work and a changing data landscape, risk of data theft has reached new heights - Insider Risk Management helps protect against those risks. Watch the step-by-step tutorial for implementing an Insider Risk Management solution for your organization as part of Microsoft Purview. It's surprisingly simple to build a baseline for managing activity inside your organization - from getting everything running, to setting policy on the types of violations that should raise system alerts, ...
Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform | Real-world Demo
August 16, 2022 16:34 - 15 minutes - 79.7 MB VideoWe're all trying to work faster and smarter to solve today's data-driven challenges. Microsoft's Intelligent Data Platform can help by removing silos around data and providing near real-time insights, augmented with predictive AI and built-in controls that protect your data wherever it goes. Sharieff Mansour, a leader on the Data and AI team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman for a closer look at how databases, analytics, machine learning, and governance come together in the Intelligent Da...
Hybrid Dev, Compute & Management Updates with Azure Arc
August 15, 2022 16:41 - 9 minutes - 52.9 MB VideoRun business-critical data workloads on-premises while you interact with servers across clouds. See what’s new when you build and operate hybrid workloads on Azure with Azure Arc. Check out the highlights of how hybrid development and management across Azure, on-premises, edge and multi-cloud services and infrastructure are enabled through Azure Arc. For most of us, hybrid architecture is now a fact of life. There will always be some combination of on-premises infrastructure, along with ed...
Manage Objectives and Key Results with Transparency | Microsoft Viva Goals
August 03, 2022 02:13 - 12 minutes - 75.4 MB VideoIf you’re a manager or a team member, Viva Goals makes it easier to align and stay focused on the strategic priorities of your organization and work together to accelerate progress. Vetri Vellore, Viva Goals team lead at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman for a closer look at how this brand-new goal setting and management solution helps drive clarity around your objectives and key results, and makes it seamless for teams to track progress against them as they work. If you are a team leader, w...
Office and Microsoft 365 Apps Deployment & Update Management 2022
August 01, 2022 20:18 - 10 minutes - 51.8 MB VideoIf you're running Office 2016 or earlier, see your best options to configure Office for deployment and how you can predictably manage updates for newer versions of Office whether you're targeting a few dozen or a few thousand users. Host Jeremy Chapman answers your top questions for Office and Microsoft 365 app deployment and servicing. Importantly, Office 2016 & 2019 won’t be supported for connecting to Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange Online, starting Oct 2023. And Security upd...
Easily Scale Your Desktop Automation With Hosted RPA Bots
July 19, 2022 15:08 - 6 minutes - 31.7 MB VideoRun automation flows unattended and scale to work simultaneously on multiple Windows VMs, for even the most challenging tasks. If you’re thinking this is something you’ve been able to do before, we'll show how it’s much easier to get started with Hosted RPA Bots and Virtual Machines operating in Azure. Ashvini Sharma, Partner GPM from the Microsoft Power Automate team, walks you through how to automate repetitive, mundane tasks across legacy and modern systems at scale using Power Automate...
Manage Windows Updates From the Cloud Using Endpoint Manager
July 11, 2022 20:14 - 12 minutes - 62.1 MB VideoAre you a device administrator responsible for updating Windows on dozens, hundreds, or thousands of PCs? Have you used WSUS, Configuration Manager or Intune? In this show, we'll explain all of the options and for managing Windows Updates from the cloud using Microsoft Endpoint Manager and how it compares to your options in Configuration Manager and WSUS. Jason Githens from the Windows Management team at Microsoft joins Jeremy Chapman for a full tour of Microsoft Endpoint Manager's Windows...
Build, Scale & Operate Kubernetes Workloads in Azure | 2022 Updates
July 06, 2022 18:27 - 13 minutes - 81.3 MB VideoSimplify your Kubernetes experience, without compromising the power of what it can do. If you're experienced or new to cloud-native apps, you'll get a closer look at the recent updates for Azure Kubernetes Service to improve and streamline the developer experience, with the new open-source Draft bootstrapping tool, to containerize and prepare your apps for deployment, along with the new managed Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaler – or KEDA. And for operators, we’ll share how you can now run...
Azure Landing Zones | Architectural Blueprint, Tooling & Best Practices
June 21, 2022 16:44 - 11 minutes - 79.1 MB VideoAs you build new Cloud-based services and migrate or modernize check out the new tools to assess where you are in your Cloud journey and how to automate the build out of recommended foundational services to host your workloads in Azure. We take a look at updates to the Azure Landing Zone guidance, that gives you proven best practices, architectural blueprint and tooling. Whether you're in a data center, you need to move fast to accommodate new circumstances for your organization, or you si...
Inside Surface Duo 2 | Microsoft's two screen mobile device for multitasking & hybrid work
June 14, 2022 20:23 - 5 minutes - 28.9 MB VideoGet more done and stay productive wherever you work with Surface Duo 2. Completely re-engineered from the original Surface Duo with a comprehensive design that includes leading mobile productivity with Office 365, best-in-class immersive displays, ultra-fast 5G connectivity, as well as uncompromised camera experiences complemented by powerful intuitive software. Take a tour inside one of the thinnest foldable devices ever created. Surface Duo 2 opens up new possibilities for multitasking i...
Simplify regulatory compliance with Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
June 07, 2022 20:02 - 14 minutes - 88.8 MB VideoAre you using spreadsheets to manage your regulatory compliance now? You can modernize the process and reduce the time it takes to decipher and comply with regulations that impact your organization. Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview breaks down compliance criteria to actionable control and manual processes for over 350 regulations and standards globally. If you're concerned about security and data protection, compliance should also be your concern. Think about cases where data is mai...
Build developer environments fast with Microsoft Dev Box
June 02, 2022 13:46 - 13 minutes - 57.9 MB VideoA first look at the new Microsoft service that leverages Windows 365 infrastructure to stream secure, ready-to-code developer workstations on demand. Setting up a dev box is extremely arduous for both geographically distributed and co-located development teams. As a developer, you're configuring different environments, weekly, and monthly, for new projects or team members. And it's not unusual for you to have costly over spec'd physical machines under your desk or hosted virtual machines s...
Build Text-Based & Talking Chatbots using the Microsoft Power Platform
June 01, 2022 13:11 - 12 minutes - 61 MB VideoNew updates have come to Power Virtual Agents, our low-code bot creation service that’s part of the Microsoft Power Platform. We’ll show you how this single environment enables fusion teams of citizen and pro developers to author bots that are more engaging with dynamic custom greetings, in addition to quick replies, and more sophisticated and visual through adaptive cards. Gary Pretty, from the Power Platform Team, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk you through all of this along with the deep P...
Add Data at Scale | Datamart in Power BI
May 24, 2022 16:59 - 12 minutes - 44.7 MB VideoDatamart is a new self-service capability included with Power BI Premium that reduces the time it takes to do custom departmental reporting, from weeks to minutes. In just a few clicks, both business users and analysts can easily create and access their own mix of data from dozens of the most common data types and services, all backed by Azure SQL that brings elastic scale and ad-hoc analysis to Power BI. Charles Webb, from the data team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you a Datam...
Transform your security operations with Microsoft Security Experts | Human-led services
May 09, 2022 16:08 - 12 minutes - 96.4 MB VideoMicrosoft Security Experts is a new service category that combines expert-trained technology and product innovation with human-led services. In this show, Kelly Bissel, CVP of Microsoft Security Services, demonstrates how the Microsoft Security Services organization can now manage your security operations for you and with you, and the difference this can make in the timely mitigation of a real ransomware attack. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - How Microsoft Security Services can help? 01:01 - Wh...
RPA at Scale with Power Automate and Azure Virtual Desktop
April 26, 2022 17:46 - 11 minutes - 68.5 MB VideoRun big unattended automation jobs across multiple VMs dynamically at scale, with the new Azure Virtual Desktop integration starter kit. Ashvini Sharma, from the Power Automate engineering team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share recent updates to Power Automate such as the addition of dynamically, scalable unattended Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Power Automate flows can run in a virtual machine using an automation account, and that VM doesn't need to be constantly running. It can wake ...
Manage Data Risks from Employee Insiders with Microsoft Purview
April 21, 2022 14:24 - 14 minutes - 103 MB VideoHow do you manage insider risk with your staff? What are some of the employee actions that can be automatically discovered? Now, with more and more organizations now supporting hybrid work scenarios and managing employee turnover, insider risk of employee data theft is higher than ever. In this show, Talhah Mir, lead engineer on the insider risk solutions team at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the latest privacy-enabled insider risk management solutions, now part of Micros...
Windows 365 integration into Windows 11 demonstrated
April 12, 2022 14:27 - 12 minutes - 23.5 MB VideoWhat's in store for Windows 365? Get a early look at what’s coming for Cloud PC experiences with Windows 365, including deeper Windows 11 integration with capabilities for booting directly to your Cloud PC, the new Windows 365 app experience, as well as switching from your local device to your Cloud PC. For admins, we’ll show you how setup and management is easy with native, fully cloud managed Azure Active Directory authentication for your Windows 365 Cloud PCs and the new Windows 365 Busin...
Updates to Windows management with Endpoint Manager | Cloud attach, remote help, drivers & more
April 06, 2022 15:44 - 13 minutes - 28.7 MB VideoToday we take a closer look at the latest updates to Windows management for hybrid work and what you get when you attach your device management to the Cloud to keep your users and devices up-to-date, productive, and secure. Jason Githens, from the Microsoft Endpoint Manager team, joins Jeremy Chapman to show upcoming support for driver updates, Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade management using Cloud-based update policies, the new enterprise grade remote help capability, and more. ► QUICK...
Exclusive for Education | Manage Windows 11 SE with Surface Laptop SE
April 06, 2022 14:48 - 13 minutes - 106 MB VideoWe’ll look at the combined learning experiences and how to deploy and manage all your Windows 11 SE devices at scale using Microsoft Intune for Education. Steve Dispensa, VP of Windows Management, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how Windows 11 SE and the Surface Laptop SE represent purpose-built software and hardware for education. Windows 11 SE is a new edition of Windows built off of Windows 11. It’s a cloud-first operating system specifically designed for students and teachers, that brings...
Built-in AI in Power BI. Find the Insight You Can't See!
March 23, 2022 15:57 - 12 minutes - 55 MB VideoIntegrate Power BI Premium Gen2 inherently with Microsoft's collaboration analytics stack — including the new Power BI app for Microsoft Teams that makes it easier to access, share, and act on insights as you work, the latest AI-driven visualization capabilities with Smart Narratives, and achieving near real-time analytics over your enterprise data using Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium Gen2. Vanessa Fournier, Microsoft Power BI Director, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Power BI makes it ...
Single SIM-enabled Number for Teams calls, Mobile & Desk Phones
March 16, 2022 16:11 - 9 minutes - 42.7 MB VideoThe new Teams Phone Operator Connect Mobile service is an industry first that lets you use a single SIM-enabled mobile phone number across your company provided mobile, desk phone, and Microsoft Teams. This is enterprise-grade security and consistent call quality as you move between mobile voice and data networks. Mahendra Sekaran, VP of Program Management for Microsoft Teams, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the quick admin steps to set up the first fixed mobile convergence productivity soluti...
Enterprise Grade Protection for Small & Medium Businesses | Microsoft Defender for Business
March 01, 2022 15:31 - 14 minutes - 87.8 MB VideoSpecially built for businesses with up to 300 employees, go beyond traditional AV to proactively protect your devices, to help prevent attacks, and respond to sophisticated threats with the newly announced Microsoft Defender for Business. If you're a partner, see how you can get a unified dashboard for managing multiple customers in one view with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Security CVP, Rob Lefferts, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you quick steps anyone can take to set it up. - Designed espec...
Azure Chaos Studio | Build fault tolerant apps
February 24, 2022 20:09 - 11 minutes - 47.8 MB VideoTest the resilience of your apps by introducing faults to simulate real-world outages with Azure Chaos Studio. John Engel-Kemnetz, Senior Program Manager for Azure Chaos Studio, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how you can quickly identify failures in your applications —like additional load, high latency, permission issues, and full on outages— to avoid unnecessary downtime. With Azure Chaos Studio, we've delivered a fully-managed experimentation platform to quickly discover hard-to-find issue...
Power Virtual Agents & Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams | Chatbot Demo & Tutorial
February 24, 2022 17:04 - 11 minutes - 52.3 MB VideoExtend Microsoft Teams collaboration experiences by embedding intelligent Power Virtual Agents into Teams chat. Build interactive adaptive cards for bots to share information, assign chatbots to specific security groups so only users with the appropriate permissions can access them, and see how you can make your bot communicate proactively. We'll also show you how Teams can be directly embedded into your Power Apps. Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Lili Cheng, from the Power Platform team...
Infrastructure Deployment Automation with Red Hat Ansible & Azure Bicep | Linux and Open Source
February 21, 2022 17:32 - 12 minutes - 61.8 MB VideoThe latest updates to configure and manage your Linux workloads in Azure. We recently introduced a new, simpler open source declarative language called Bicep that helps you easily deploy Azure resources. For Red Hat users, we’ll show you the new managed app version of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure, to set up a maintenance-free ansible environment in Azure. Lachie Evenson, Linux and Azure expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how we have focused on removing the learning cur...
App Architecture | Improve Azure App Performance, Reliability, Security, Operations & Cost
February 15, 2022 16:31 - 9 minutes - 63.1 MB VideoFree tools and guidance with Azure Advisor and the Well-Architected Review to improve your Azure app performance, reliability, security, operations, and cost. Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can get actionable recommendations to optimize your architecture across these areas. Even if you've planned and architected your workloads properly, there may still be room for optimization of your existing services. To help with this, the Well-Architected Framework i...
How to Build and Deliver Apps Fast and Scalable with Azure Container Apps
February 02, 2022 17:16 - 12 minutes - 64.9 MB VideoBuild and deploy container-based apps and microservices at scale, with the new fully managed Azure Container Apps service. Jeff Hollan, serverless technology expert for Microsoft Azure, joins Jeremy Chapman to show the benefits and how it works under the covers. Microservices help teams build and deliver apps faster and more scalable than traditional architectures. Containers are a core piece of tech when building microservices, because they provide a consistent way to package and run micr...
NoSQL Database for High Performance & Scalability | How to Get Started with Azure Cosmos DB
January 26, 2022 18:19 - 15 minutes - 116 MB VideoUpdates to the managed, limitless scale, NoSQL Azure Cosmos DB database. For your smaller apps, get the best cost performance with the new serverless option for on-demand querying and the Azure Cosmos DB free tier for provisioned throughput. For larger workloads, embed and partition your data, and leverage autoscale for cost optimizations. Estefani Arroyo, Azure Cosmos DB Program Manager, joins host Jeremy Chapman to share updates and benefits of Azure Cosmos DB. Run smaller apps for less ...
Robotic Process Automation with Power Automate | How we built it: Xerox
January 20, 2022 18:41 - 13 minutes - 76.4 MB VideoUse Microsoft's Power Automate with robotic process automation, or RPA, to extensively automate everyday manual business processes. Xerox and their internal community of citizen developers are using this homegrown expertise to launch a rich catalog of unattended bots as a service to their customers. Shivani Agarwal, Director of Process Automation at Xerox, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how Xerox is using RPA with Microsoft’s Power Automate. See how everyday business users are driving proce...
Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What's Live and Coming Soon
January 13, 2022 16:39 - 14 minutes - 88.9 MB VideoYou'll see recent and upcoming updates to Teams for frontline workers and admins. Timely communication and access to information on the ground makes for faster decision making and leads to increased job satisfaction. We're building distinct frontline experiences crafted for Teams to bring the whole workforce together to communicate and collaborate on one unified platform. Microsoft Team's Vice President, Kristina Behr, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates for using Teams on the frontline. ...
What Azure Option is Right for You? Free New Assessment Tool
January 11, 2022 17:50 - 8 minutes - 54.4 MB VideoReduce research time for cloud adoption strategy in Azure with new assessment tools. There’s often a lot of room for optimization when you start to move your services to the cloud. Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to show you how to build solutions the right way, with the least amount of trial and error. Assessment tools can make it easier to find what you need to build or host your workloads in Azure with the right SLAs and help you to assess and close gaps on s...
Cloud Migration - Options for virtual machines, databases, web apps and containers explained
January 06, 2022 18:39 - 8 minutes - 56.1 MB VideoOptions for migrating and modernizing almost any workload as you move it to the cloud in Azure. The act of migration, whichever path you choose, whether infrastructure as a service or platform as a service, opens the door to the modernization of your workloads. The Azure Migrate experience is designed to be a central place to track your progress as you move to the cloud. Join Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure Senior Product Manager, as he shares essential things to know as you go down your migr...
Everywhere Cloud Connectivity & Access to Space Satellite Data — Azure Orbital
December 09, 2021 16:18 - 16 minutes - 114 MB VideoConnect to space satellites around the world and bring earth observational data into Azure for analytics via Microsoft and partner ground stations. Apoorva Nori, from the Azure Space team, joins host Jeremy Chapman to take a first look at the Azure Orbital preview. We’ll show you how it works and how it fits into Microsoft’s strategy with Azure Space to bring cloud connectivity everywhere on earth and to make space satellite data accessible for everyday use cases. Azure Space marks the c...
How to Keep Internet Explorer Sites Working
December 07, 2021 18:23 - 7 minutes - 32.6 MB VideoContinue using your Internet Explorer dependent sites and web apps, as an individual user or at scale, using IE mode with cloud-managed Microsoft Edge site list for Microsoft 365. Support for Internet Explorer will end in most versions of Windows 10 as of June 15th, 2022. Microsoft Edge includes IE mode for your IE dependent sites, so you can open them just as you would in Internet Explorer without leaving the Edge browser, and continue using these apps until at least 2029. Join host Jer...
Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial
December 01, 2021 17:19 - 11 minutes - 47.7 MB VideoSet up Microsoft Teams Essentials, our new most affordable option. Get the best of Teams with easy instant meetings for anyone — whether they have Teams or not. The Microsoft Teams Essentials experience starts at just $4 per user per month with no meeting time limits. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, walks you through step-by-step setup options. • Sync your existing calendar with Teams. Configure email to be delivered to both Google and Microsoft services with dual delivery. • Use ...
Increase app availability with auto-scaling | Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
November 18, 2021 18:21 - 7 minutes - 44.7 MB VideoAzure Virtual Machine Scale Sets lets you create and manage a group of virtual machines to run your app or workload and provides sophisticated load-balancing, management, and automation. This is a critical service for creating and dynamically managing thousands of VMs in your environment. If you are new to the service this show will get you up to speed or if you haven’t looked at VM Scale Sets in a while we’ll show you how the service has significantly evolved to help you efficiently archite...
Reduce Operational Costs of Stateless Workloads | Azure Spot Virtual Machines
November 17, 2021 16:53 - 7 minutes - 53.6 MB VideoReduce the operational costs of stateless workloads by using Azure Spot Virtual Machines. When compute capacity in Azure frees up, and depending on where you need it, Azure will provision your VM workload on unused compute capacity. Spot VMs are then evicted when Azure needs capacity back or when the current price of using the spot VM is higher than the price threshold you may have specified. This results in considerable discounts. And although the price of your Spot VM will vary based on th...
What's new in SQL Server 2022
November 17, 2021 16:41 - 13 minutes - 27.8 MB VideoA first look at SQL Server 2022—the latest Azure-enabled database and data integration innovations. See what it means for your hybrid workloads, including first-time bi-directional high availability and disaster recovery between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server, Azure Synapse Link integration with SQL for ETL free near real-time reporting and analytics over your operational data, and new next-generation built-in query intelligence with parameter sensitive plan optimization. Bob Ward...
New Microsoft 365 hybrid work and collaboration experiences to save you time
November 08, 2021 19:52 - 14 minutes - 28.1 MB VideoTour updates to improve your hybrid work and collaboration experiences across Microsoft 365. We've focused on capabilities that give you more flexibility in the way you work, whether that's in the office, at home, or anywhere in between. The latest round of updates fall into two main categories: New ways to securely share your work while collaborating with people inside and outside your organization, and the continuous infusion of intelligence across Microsoft 365 experiences to save you t...
Power Apps | Pay-as-you-go Model, Standalone Mobile App Packages & Azure Integration
November 02, 2021 22:57 - 9 minutes - 64 MB VideoTake advantage of the new pay-as-you-go billing model and seamlessly leverage the low-code Power Platform to spin up Power Apps directly from Azure. We’ll also show you how to package Power Apps as self-contained mobile apps. Charles Lamanna, Microsoft Business Applications & Power Platform CVP, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through updates across the Power Platform. Pay-as-you-go billing model: Set it up and link your app to your Azure subscription Only pay when people use the app Trac...