Last December, Gaurav was on Azure Friday with Scott Hanselman to introduce a new Azure service: Azure Purview. He showed how Azure Purview scans and map all your data—no matter where it is. Azure Purview is now generally available, and Gaurav is back to show what's new and what's on the roadmap.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:30]– Azure Purview overview[0:05:40]– Key GA Announcements[0:18:40]– Roadmap[0:19:05]– Wrap-upWhat is Azure Purview?Quickstart: Create an Azure Purview account in the Azure portalIntroduction to Azure Purview learning moduleAzure Purview documentationCreate a free account (Azure)

Award for longest blog post title ever? Andrey Muzychenko has a great github repository where they decompiled the 25 year old Space Cadet Pinball application from Windows 95/XP and then recompiled it for Linux (and really any platform now that it's portable code!). NOTE: Because this is a decompilation/recompilation, it doesn't include the original data files. You'll need those from a Windows XP disk or ISO that you'll need to find yourself. I recently did a YouTube where I showed that Windows 11 runs Graphical Linux Apps out of the box with WSLg. Here, they've taken a Windows 95 32-bit app and decompiled it from the original EXE, done some nice cleanup, and now it can be recompiled to other targets like Linux. So, could I go Windows 95 -> Linux -> Windows 11 -> WSL -> WSLg and run this new native Linux executable again on Windows? If you don't think this is cool, that's a bummer. It's an example of how powerful (and fun) virtualization has become on modern systems! I just launched WSL (Ubuntu) and installed a few things to compile the code:sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-devsudo apt-get install libsdl2-mixer-devsudo apt install gcc clang build-essential cmakeThen I cloned the repo under WSL and built. It builds into bin and creates a Linux executable. NOTE: Place compiled executable into a folder containing original game resources (not included).I am a digital hoarder so I have digital copies of basically everything I've worked on for the last 30 years. I happened to have a Windows XP virtual disk drive from a VM from years ago that was saved on my Synology.I was able to open it and get all the original resources and wav files.Then I copy all the original resources minus the .exe and then run the newly built Linux version...and it magically pops out and runs on Windows...as a graphical Linux app. Amazing! Have fun!Sponsor: Make login Auth0’s problem. Not yours. Provide the convenient login features your customers want, like social login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, passwordless, and more. Get started for free.© 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

Sarah Young joins Scott Hanselman to discuss updates to Azure Sentinel automation and how you can use it to accelerate and streamline threat response for your security operations.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:41]– Azure Sentinel automation rules[0:06:15]– Automating responses with playbooks [0:09:30]– Playbook templates [0:12:56]– Wrap-upAutomate incident handling in Azure Sentinel with automation rulesAutomate threat response with playbooks in Azure SentinelSecurity Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) in Azure SentinelAzure / Azure Sentinel GitHub repoCreate a free account (Azure)

David de Matheu joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Communication Services UI Library enables you to add communications capabilities to your applications with only a couple lines of code plus composable components and turn-key composites. [0:00:00]– Overview[0:00:49]– General concepts[0:05:54]– Azure Communication Services UI Library storybook[0:12:22]– Demo[0:19:43]– Wrap-upAzure Communication ServicesAzure Communication Services UI Library storybookAdd Calling Communications to your Application with Two Lines of CodeAzure Communication Services documentationCreate a free account (Azure)

Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Arc-enabled data services bring Azure data solutions – such as SQL Managed Instance and PostgreSQL Hyperscale – to your own infrastructure and how to modernize your data layer using Azure services, outside of Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:14]– Overview and architecture[0:04:22]– Demo: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance deployment flow[0:14:00]– Demo: Azure Arc-enabled data services operations[0:23:34]– Wrap-upWhat are Azure Arc-enabled data services?Azure Arc JumpstartJumpstart ArcBox - OverviewManage hybrid infrastructure with Azure Arc learning pathCreate a free account (Azure)

This is an exciting month for organizations using Azure reservations – you can now scope your reservations to a management group for even more savings. You'll also find a new cost view optimized around the products and services you use, new previews in Cost Management Labs for scheduled emails and better multitasking, as well as 7 new savings opportunities and video and documentation updates. Read on for the details and let us know what you think!

Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matias Quaranta, Deborah Chen, and Estefani Arroyo join Scott Hanselman to provide another set of updates for Azure Cosmos DB.  Learn about: using Azure Cosmos DB as a Session State Provider for ASP.NET Core; the latest updates for Azure Cosmos DB free tier; how to optimize cost and performance by scaling the throughput (RU/s) of your database or container automatically and instantly; and the great new monitoring and diagnostic features that make it even easier to monitor and debug your Azure Cosmos DB resources using insights, workbooks and logs.[0:00:00]– Introduction with Kirill Gavrylyuk[0:01:56]– Session state provider with Matias Quaranta[0:10:32]– Free tier with Deborah Chen[0:12:57]– Autoscale with Deborah Chen[0:25:18]– Monitoring and Diagnostics with Estefani Arroyo[0:33:21]– Wrap-upMicrosoft Caching Extension using Azure Cosmos DB (GitHub)Azure Cosmos DB free tierCreate Azure Cosmos containers and databases with autoscale throughputProvision autoscale throughput on database or container in Azure Cosmos DB - SQL APIHow to choose between standard (manual) and autoscale provisioned throughputMonitor Azure Cosmos DB data by using diagnostic settings in AzureMonitor and debug with insights in Azure Cosmos DBWork with NoSQL data in Azure Cosmos DB learning pathCreate a free account (Azure)

Steve Michelotti joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Government, which provides a physically separate and network-isolated instance of Azure for U.S. federal, state, and local governments in multiple regions in the United States.  Learn how Azure Government is both the same and different from Azure public cloud.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:38]– What is Azure Government?[0:05:19]– Azure Government in the Azure portal[0:12:27]– Azure Government in a terminal or shell[0:17:21]– Azure Government in developer tools[0:22:35]– Wrap-upAzure for government overviewAzure for U.S. governmentAzure Government docsOptimize government operations with Azure learning pathCreate a free account (Azure)