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Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roinectrlaltazure.com
Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.
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Episodes

164 - Get certified as a Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300)

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:53) - Show content starts. Show links - The SC-300 exam (Microsoft Learn) - Preparation videos (Microsoft Learn) - Learning path (Microsoft Learn) - Labs on GitHub (GitHub) - Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 076 - So you want to become an Azure developer? Get the AZ-204! - Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 087 - Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500 - Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 098 - Get certified as a Security Operations Analyst - Ctrl+Alt+Azure | 128 - Preparing for the new Cybersecurity Archi...

Dec 14, 202236 minEp. 164

163 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:35) - Show content starts. Show links - GA: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Microsoft Learn) - GA: More free services for new Azure PAYG customers (Microsoft Azure) - Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service (Azure Updates) - Updates to Azure Monitor logs (Microsoft Learn) - Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links (Microsoft Learn) - A plan: IPv6 support for Microsoft Azure AD (Microsoft Learn) SPONSO...

Dec 07, 202237 minEp. 163

162 - Lessons learned on Zero Trust in the past year

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:00) - Show content starts. Show links - MCRA - Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture - Azure Security – Zero Trust guidance - Securing PaaS services with virtual networks and restricting public access SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Nov 30, 202237 minEp. 162

161 - Design for sustainability with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (04:00) - Show content starts. Show links - Welcome | Learn Green Software - Sustainability workloads - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn - Build sustainable solutions on Azure and save money (Zimmergren) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Nov 23, 202229 minEp. 161

160 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:39) - Show content starts. Show links - Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Microsoft Learn) - Azure Front Door zero downtime migration (Azure Updates) - Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier (Azure Updates) - Manage tables in a Log Analytics workspace (Azure Updates) - Migrate from Azure MFA Server to cloud-based Azure MFA Service (Microsoft Learn) - Introduction to Azure Advisor Score (Microsoft Learn) - Microsoft...

Nov 16, 202221 minEp. 160

159 - Celebrating 3 years of Ctrl+Alt+Azure

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (04:02) - Show content starts. Show links: Guest episodes - 009 - Thinking about remote access options for VMs - 036 - All things Security with Sami Laiho - 021 - Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet - 072 - Ignite recap with Martijn - 080 - Exploring Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer - 109 - Azure Policy as Code with Jesse Loudon - 155 - Building Mission-Critical workloads on Azure with Martin Simecek Show links: Favorite episodes - 001 - Let's talk about A...

Nov 09, 202239 minEp. 159

158 - Exporting data from Dataverse to Azure

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:43) - Show content starts. Show links - Data Export Services deprecation notice (Microsoft) - Episode 141 where we talked about ADF (Ctrl+Alt+Azure) - Azure Synapse Link details (Microsoft Docs) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Nov 02, 202231 minEp. 158

157 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (02:50) - Show content starts. Show links - Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm-based VMs and AKS clusters (Azure Updates) - Deprecation notice: Log Analytics Alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired (Azure Updates) - Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys (Microsoft Learn) - Customer-managed keys for Azure Storage encryption (Microsoft Learn) - Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks (Azure Updates) - Generally available: Ac...

Oct 26, 202227 minEp. 157

156 - Top 3 favorite announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (02:32) - Show content starts. Show links Sustainability guidance for Azure with the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft Docs) Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB) (Microsoft Docs) Azure Savings Plan for Compute (TechCommunity) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Oct 19, 202225 minEp. 156

155 - Building Mission-Critical workloads on Azure with Martin Simecek

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (02:39) - Show content starts. Show links Azure Well-Architected: Mission-critical workloads (Microsoft Docs) GitHub: Mission-critical Online & Mission-Critical Connected (GitHub) Martin Simecek (Twitter) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Oct 12, 202238 minEp. 155

154 - Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2022

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:53) - Show content starts. Show links Microsoft Ignite (Microsoft) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro

Oct 05, 202239 minEp. 154

153 - An early look at Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (06:00) - Show content starts. Show links Microsoft announcement on Defender TI (Microsoft) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Sep 28, 202227 minEp. 153

152 - A look at Ampere Altra Arm-based Virtual Machines

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (06:00) - Show content starts. Show links GA: Ampere Altra Arm-based VMs (Azure News) Ampere Altra details (Ampere Computing) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Sep 21, 202231 minEp. 152

151 - Back to basics: Securing Azure in 3 steps

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:47) - Show content starts. Show links - Overview of Defender for Cloud (Microsoft Docs) - Microsoft Entra (Microsoft Docs) - Overview of PIM (Microsoft Docs) - Jussi with his new reading glasses (Twitter) Bonus links: - Favorite security-focused open-source workbooks for Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel (Zimmergren) - Track your Secure Score over time in Azure (Zimmergren) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal ...

Sep 14, 202232 minEp. 151

150 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (02:31) - Show content starts. Show links - Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box (Microsoft Docs) - GA: Azure API Management - 11 new policies (Microsoft Docs) - GA: Qatar cloud region (Microsoft Azure) - Cyber Signals (Microsoft Security blog) - Public preview: Update management center (Microsoft Azure) - Public preview: Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports private endpoints testing (Microsoft Docs) - Public preview: Use managed identity-based authentication to en...

Sep 07, 202225 minEp. 150

149 - Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:09) - Show content starts. Show links - Configure the Dev Box service (Microsoft Docs) - Dev Box pricing (Microsoft Azure) - Markus Lintuala's tweet on the passwordless update (Twitter) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Sovelto . We at Sovelto support your personal growth, keep your Azure skills up to date and increase your market value. Learn or expire: sovelto.fi/pro...

Aug 31, 202236 minEp. 149

148 - Tackling DDoS attacks in Azure

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (06:22) - Show content starts. Show links - Best Practices for endpoint security (Well-architected Framework) - Security monitoring tools (Microsoft Docs) - Azure DDoS Protection simulation testing (Microsoft Docs) - Azure Front Door overview (Microsoft Docs)...

Aug 24, 202243 minEp. 148

146 - A look at Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (06:28) - Show content starts. ** NOTE ** Once the trial of Defender EASM ends, the service will switch to Pay-As-You-Go model - be extra careful with the costs! Show links - Study Guide: SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert (Tobi) - Defender EASM Overview (Microsoft Docs) - Defender EASM Pricing (Microsoft) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT ...

Aug 10, 202238 minEp. 146

145 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:27) - Show content starts. Show links - Preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants (Microsoft Docs) - Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor (Azure Updates) - Generally available: .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in isolated process model (Azure Updates) - Defender for Cloud updates (Microsoft Docs) - Preview: Building an automated process for improving security with governance rules (Microsoft Docs) - Generally available: US West 3...

Aug 03, 202229 minEp. 145

144 - A look at the Power Platform API and Azure AD Service Principals

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (05:07) - Show content starts. Show links SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jul 27, 202244 minEp. 144

143 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (07:20) - Show content starts. Show links SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jul 20, 202233 minEp. 143

142 - Building Azure at home with Azure Stack Edge

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (05:30) - Show content starts. Show links SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jul 13, 202236 minEp. 142

141 - Adventures in data: Integrating PostgreSQL with Azure Data Lake

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (05:36) - Show content starts. Show links SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jul 06, 202231 minEp. 141

140 - Reliability in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (05:50) - Show content starts. Show links - Reliability patterns (Microsoft Docs) - Calculating Composite SLAs (AZ-900 GitHub content) - See the Azure service SLAs (Azure Charts) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jun 29, 202246 minEp. 140

139 - Azure Updates

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (07:45) - Show content starts. Show links - New storage optimized Azure VMs (Microsoft Tech Community) - Preview: Manage Azure Web App Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager (Azure Updates) - Microsoft Artifact Registry (Microsoft Artifact Registry) - Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall (Microsoft Azure) - Dynatrace for Azure (Microsoft Tech Community) - Azure Synapse Link for SQL (Microsoft Docs) - Landi...

Jun 22, 202231 minEp. 139

138 - F5 NGINX on Azure - what, why and how?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (09:35) - Show content starts. Show links - NGINX on Microsoft Azure (nginx.com) - Jussi's take on NGINX on Azure (jussiroine.com) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jun 15, 202238 minEp. 138

137 - Our personal favorites from Microsoft BUILD 2022

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (07:05) - Show content starts. Show links - Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News (Microsoft News) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jun 08, 202235 minEp. 137

136 - Operational Excellence in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (05:23) - Show content starts. Show links - WAF: Operational Excellence (Microsoft Docs) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

Jun 01, 202258 minEp. 136

135 - Managed Grafana in Azure

(00:00) - Intro and catching up. (06:32) - Show content starts. Show links - Azure Managed Grafana (Microsoft Docs) SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by ScriptRunner . ScriptRunner is a great solution to centrally manage PowerShell Scripts and standardize and automate IT tasks via a Graphical User Interface for helpdesk or end-users. Check it out on scriptrunner.com...

May 25, 202238 minEp. 135
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