In-depth discussion with Azure Compute PM, Justin Luk, on the new Cloud Shell feature in the Azure Portal that serves up Bash and PowerShell command prompts right in the browser! Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode202.mp3 Resources: Product page – http://aka.ms/azshell Docs – http://aka.ms/cloudshell Feedback – http://aka.ms/cloudshell/feedback Try It in Docs – http://aka.ms/tryitdoc Other resources and updates: By November 30, 2017, you should plan to rely fully on the new administration experience for portal-based administration of Azure Active Directory. We recently announced that the Azure AD experience in the classic Azure portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) will be retired on November 30, 2017. You are receiving this email because you or another user in your organization recently used that experience. Elastic Query between SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database Monday, October 30, 2017 Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports Elastic Query between SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Database. This improvement enables users to connect to SQL Data Warehouse through SQL Database with the remote query execution capabilities of Elastic Query. Users can now offload their hot/more recent data into SQL Database to support high concurrency and reporting while maintaining the power of SQL Data Warehouse MPP. To learn more about Elastic Query concepts, check out the Elastic Query concepts documentation. To get started connecting SQL Database with SQL Data Warehouse, complete the Elastic Query tutorial. From Public preview expansion: VNet Service Endpoints and Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks Friday, October 27, 2017 The public previews for Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls and Virtual Networks for Azure Storage have been expanded to include all regions in the Azure public cloud. From