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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

Show links
- 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

- Give us feedback!

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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

Show links

- 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

SPONSOR
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

Show links
- DevTunnel CLI
- DevTunnel CLI on GitHub

- Give us feedback!

SPONSOR
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

Show links
- Prompt engineering techniques with Azure OpenAI

- Give us feedback!

SPONSOR
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

Show links
- Defender for APIs

- Give us feedback!

SPONSOR
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

Show links
- GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot Chat Waitlist

- Give us feedback!

SPONSOR
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

We talk about our favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2023. A lot of interesting content, so we picked the ones we felt are useful, interesting and game-changing. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:08) - Show content starts.
(31:25) - Community highlights.

Community Highlights
- Denise Schlesinger: Use OpenAI GPT with your Enterprise Data
- Toon Vanhoutte: Authenticate Logic Apps against Microsoft Graph using Managed Identity

Show links
- Dev Home
- Dev Drive
- WinGet Configuration
- API Center
- Microsoft Fabric and OneLake
- Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB
- DevTunnels CLI

- Give us feedback!

SPONSOR
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 Azure for containers, Azure Storage, and Azure Firewall, among others. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:53) - Community highlights.
(05:05) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- The NSA: NSA Releases Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network
- Yoav Dobrin: MLOps & GitHub Actions (Tech Community)

Show links

- Preview: Azure Container Storage!
- GA: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- GA: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
- GA: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
- GA: Azure Backup Server V4
- GA: Azure Storage Mover
- Preview: Azure Cold Storage

SPONSOR
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 Pipelines and GitHub Actions. Our guest, Panu Oksala, is the expert, and we pick his brains to learn more about these two services. Also, Tobi asks Panu an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(02:43) - Community highlights.
(03:28) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Niek Palm: Safer GitHub administration through IssueOps
- Daniel Margetic: Cloud Adoption Security (microsoft.com

Show links
- Panu Oksala on Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog
- Understanding GitHub Actions
- What is Azure Pipelines?
- Gold-diggers association: https://www.kullankaivajat.fi
- Sisu, the movie

SPONSOR
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 the SC-400 certification exam. We take you through the requirements, the content, the learning material and the actual exam. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(03:31) - Community highlights.
(05:42) - Show content starts.

Community Highlights
- Liam Cleary: How Microsoft Purview helps keep you compliant
- Scott Hanselman: GitHub Copilot for CLI for PowerShell
- Greg Beaumont: Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Solves Cryptic Error Codes from Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and more!
- Graeme Bray: Reporting on Azure AD Password Protection

Show links
- SC-400 study guide
- SC-400 learning path: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- SC-400 labs
- Practice Assessments for Microsoft Certifications | Microsoft Learn

SPONSOR
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