The First Mixed Reality module on Microsoft Learn
https://twitter.com/vogueandcode/status/1295375165853806592
Go checkout this great new module. NO DEVICE REQUIRED! This is just the first of many more to come to the learning paths and modules from the team. head over to https://aka.ms/learn-mrtk today!
Content Round Up
https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/force-hyper-v-virtual-machine-vm-to-turn-off/
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
In this blog post, we are going to have a look at how you can force a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) to turn off using the https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/06/hcsdiag-exe-hyper-v-host-compute-service-diagnostics-tool/ tool. A couple of days ago I had an issue where I wasn't able to shut down and turn off a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM)
https://www.techielass.com/studying-for-dp-900
https://twitter.com/techielass
Study guide pointing to resources to study for the DP-900 exam
https://devkimchi.com/2020/08/19/remote-controlling-home-appliances-using-raspberry-pi-and-power-platform/
https://twitter.com/justinchronicle
This post shows how to turn on and off home appliances from the Internet, using node.js API, ngrok, Azure Functions and Power Platform.
Run Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Admin Center
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
If you are managing a Hybrid Cloud environment, you can now get a new Azure Cloud Shell extension in Windows Admin Center. Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell. We are able to use Cloud Shell directly from the https://portal.azure.com/?WT.mc_id=thomasmaurer-blog-thmaure, https://shell.azure.com/?WT.mc_id=thomasmaurer-blog-thmaure, in Visual Studio Code, in the new https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/06/download-the-new-windows-terminal-preview/, or even in the https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/azure-portal/mobile-app?WT.mc_id=thomasmaurer-blog-thmaure. Now with the new solution/extension, administrators can also run Cloud Shell directly within WAC.
https://leaddev.com/how-demand-shaping-can-reduce-carbon-cost-our-applications
https://twitter.com/jawache
An article on the new leaddev.com website about carbon aware applications.
Containing Apps: How to Extract a Web App from IIS to Create a New Container Image
https://twitter.com/wirelesslife
Containers are becoming extremely popular these days and many ITPros are being asked to modernize existing applications and run those apps on Kubernetes. The process can be a bit challenging if you don't know how to get started, and more importantly if you don't have the right tools for the job.
https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/08/eject-iso-from-hyper-v-vm-using-powershell/
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
Here is how you can eject or remove an ISO from a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) using PowerShell.
This works with https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/08/install-hyper-v-on-windows-server-using-powershell/ and on https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2017/08/install-hyper-v-on-windows-10-using-powershell/.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/IT-Ops-Talk/Azure-Stack-Hub-Partner-Solutions-Series--Byte?WT.mc_id=modinfra-8319-thmaure
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
Join our Australian partner Byte as we explore how they are using the Azure Stack products to simplify operations, accelerate workload deployment, and enable the teams to focus on creating value rather than "keeping the lights on".
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/IT-Ops-Talk/Azure-Stack-Hub-Partner-Solutions-Series--RFC?WT.mc_id=modinfra-8321-thmaure
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
RFC is a strong partner focusing of offering a range of hosted services, managed services, and consultancy to their customers. They partner with a number of other ISVs to offer a complete solution where needed and have a range of customers. Join us in this video to explore how RFC provides value to their customer, both by partnering with other ISVs where needed, or offering the Azure Stack Hub platform directly.
https://codetraveler.io/xamarin-summit-csharp-ui/
https://twitter.com/TheCodeTraveler
Many developers use XAML to create UIs in Xamarin.Forms, but did you know that everything you can do in XAML can be done in C#? Microsoft's recent announcement of .NET MAUI has also promoted C# as the way to build our apps in the future using the MVU architecture. Join me as we discuss the benefits of C# vs XAML, learn how to create our UIs in C#, and explore new exciting frameworks like C# Markup and MVU in .NET MAUI that make creating mobile apps even easier!
https://codemilltech.com/microsoft-identity-web-and-spas/
https://twitter.com/codemillmatt
Find out how to use SPAs to get at an Azure AD protected .NET Core Web APIs using the Microsoft.Identity.Web library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYL3tn57kA
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
Join our Australian partner Byte as we explore how they are using the Azure Stack products to simplify operations, accelerate workload deployment, and enable the teams to focus on creating value rather than "keeping the lights on".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAHXEEoz4SM
https://twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
RFC is a strong partner focusing of offering a range of hosted services, managed services, and consultancy to their customers. They partner with a number of other ISVs to offer a complete solution where needed and have a range of customers. Join us in this video to explore how RFC provides value to their customer, both by partnering with other ISVs where needed, or offering the Azure Stack Hub platform directly.
https://www.sethjuarez.com/2020/08/20/onnx-model-azure-functions-deploy/
https://twitter.com/sethjuarez
Model inferencing with Azure Functions is awesome! Sometimes, however, you might run into issues deploying them... In this blog post I take a look at some of the things to look out for when deploying an ONNX model using Azure Functions.
How to Manage Microsoft Teams via PowerShell
https://twitter.com/wirelesslife
The increase of use of Microsoft Teams has also resulted in an increase of demand of system administrator's time to manage Microsoft Teams. Everything from adding users and groups to managing policies of said users and groups can be managed via PowerShell. This post will highlight the foundations to get started and provide links to continue your automation through script writing journey.
https://medium.com/microsoftazure/directml-empowering-students-and-beginners-in-machine-learning-31192480798e
https://twitter.com/frlazzeri
http://www.aka.ms/DirectML-GitHub is a high-performance, hardware-accelerated DirectX 12 library for machine learning. http://www.aka.ms/DirectML-GitHub provides GPU acceleration for common machine learning tasks across a broad range of supported hardware and drivers, including all DirectX 12-capable GPUs from vendors such as AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
tbdhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/az-update-microsoft365-to-retire-ie11-support-azure-iot-central/ba-p/1602283
https://twitter.com/wirelesslife
Quite a bit of Azure news to cover this week. Items covered include Microsoft 365 apps to retire support for Internet Explorer 11, Azure IoT Central updates including a command line-interface (CLI) IoT extension update and a Mobile app gateway sample, Assigning groups to Azure AD roles is now in public preview and Video Analytics is now available as a new Azure IoT Central App Template.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/716373194
https://twitter.com/lazerwalker
Me working through the process of programmatically generating an Electron app, and using GitHub Actions to automate that process. A good introduction to both Electron and GitHub Actions.
https://dev.to/azure/elevando-o-nivel-de-microsservicos-com-service-meshes-13n2
https://twitter.com/_staticvoid
In this article, we get to know the concepts behind service meshes and how they work.
https://dev.to/azure/tutorial-how-to-ingest-data-from-kafka-into-azure-data-explorer-40pk
https://twitter.com/abhi_tweeter
This blog will cover data ingestion from https://kafka.apache.org/ to https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/data-explorer/data-explorer-overview?WT.mc_id=devto-blog-abhishgu (Kusto) using https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect.
