The First Mixed Reality module on Microsoft Learn
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
Force Hyper-V virtual machine to turn off
Thomas Maurer
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
HCSDiag 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)
Studying for the DP-900 exam
Sarah Lean
Study guide pointing to resources to study for the DP-900 exam
Blog/ Turning on/off Home Appliances Using Raspberry PI and Power Platform
Justin Yoo
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
Thomas Maurer
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 Azure portal, shell.azure.com, in Visual Studio Code, in the new Windows Terminal, or even in the Azure mobile app. Now with the new solution/extension, administrators can also run Cloud Shell directly within WAC.
How demand shaping can reduce the carbon cost of our applications - LeadDev.com
Asim Hussain
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
Anthony Bartolo
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.
Eject ISO from Hyper-V VM using PowerShell
Thomas Maurer
Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series - Byte Channel9
Thomas Maurer
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".
Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series - RFC Channel9
Thomas Maurer
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.
Building Xamarin.Forms UIs in C#, Xamarin Summit Brasil
Brandon Minnick
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!
Microsoft.Identity.Web, Azure AD, and SPAs
Matt Soucoup
Find out how to use SPAs to get at an Azure AD protected .NET Core Web APIs using the Microsoft.Identity.Web library
Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series - Byte YouTube
Thomas Maurer
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".
Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series - RFC YouTube
Thomas Maurer
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.
Troubleshooting an ONNX Model deployment to Azure Functions
Seth Juarez
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
Anthony Bartolo
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.
DirectML: Empowering Students and Beginners in Machine Learning
Francesca Lazzeri
DirectML is a high-performance, hardware-accelerated DirectX 12 library for machine learning.
DirectML 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.
Az Update Blog Friday August 21
Anthony Bartolo
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.
Twitch stream: building an Electron-Twine wrapper GitHub Action
Em Lazer-Walker
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.
Uplift Your Microservices with Service Meshes
Lucas Santos
In this article, we get to know the concepts behind service meshes and how they work.
How to Ingest data from Kafka into Azure Data Explorer
Abhishek Gupta
