Azure Friday (Audio)

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu from the App Service team about the new Azure App Service Advisor. There's a lot of things you need to monitor when managing your App Service, and the App Service Advisor will give you live recommendations in the Portal for resource exhaustion! It will give you a heads up for conditions related to CPU, Memory, and Connections!

Scott talks to Josh Caplan about the preview of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. A new Azure service which allows app developers to embed live interactive reports into their applications.

Staying ahead of current and emerging threats requires an integrated, analytics-driven approach. By combining Microsoft global threat intelligence and expertise with insights into security-related events across your Azure deployments, Security Center helps you detect actual threats early, and it reduces false positives. Scott talks to Sara Fender who breaks down the details.

With Azure Security Center, you get a central view of the security state of all of your Azure resources. At a glance, verify that the appropriate security controls are in place and configured correctly. Scott talks to Sara Fender who explains it all!

Scott talks to Den Delimarschi about Azure Notification Hubs for Mobile apps and devices! Sending notifications to your users and their devices is WAY easier than you think. You can get notifications running in minutes! Check out this demo-packed episode.

Kevin Lam joins Scott to give an update and overview of the Azure Scheduler. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some point in the future.

The Azure Scheduler has been brought into the new Azure Portal with an all new UI and great new functionality. Kevin Lam brings the scoop. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some point in the future.

This week on Azure Friday Scott talks to Mingfei Yang about how Azure Media Services can use DRM to protect your streaming media content. You can protect your content on any platform and it's a lot easier than you'd think!

Scott talks to Anton Kucer about the powerful new Premium Features that are available in the Azure CDN. There's a bunch of new features that have been added lately and there's a custom dashboard that controls it all.

This week Scott talks to Brady Gaster about some of the new Azure App Service features in Visual Studio. We've got all new Azure Resource Manager Tools in Visual Studio and there's a number of cool tricks that make working easier and more powerful than ever.