The Azure co-hosts had Gino Filicetti and Peter Laudati back after two years to talk about their latest development of the What The Hack initiative that has now grown to over 30 hacks. They also talk about ways to get involve and how everyone can leverage these hack guides and learn with any group one likes. 

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode370.mp3

YouTube Video

Resources:

Homepage: https://aka.ms/wthhome

Repository: https://aka.ms/wthrepo

How To Host a WTH: https://aka.ms/wthhost

How To Author a WTH: https://aka.ms/wthauthor

MSFT Employees: Propose a new hack: https://aka.ms/wthproposal

External Folks: Send an empty PR with your idea!

Other Updates:

Testing device registration health

You can use a PowerShell script to test the Internet connectivity to the following Microsoft resources under the system context to validate the connection status between the device that needs to be connected to Azure AD as hybrid Azure AD joined device and Microsoft resources that are used during device registration process. It also, checks for SSL/TLS handshake and report as failure if any.

· https://login.microsoftonline.com

· https://device.login.microsoftonline.com

· https://enterpriseregistration.windows.net

For more information, please see…

Test Device Registration Connectivity - Code Samples | Microsoft Docs

Perform at-scale, agentless SQL server discovery and assessment with Azure Migrate

Learn about the latest innovations: Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture

Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects Gino Filicetti and Peter Laudati talk to the guys about an innovative approach to getting your team to learn Azure. They have developed a set of challenge-based hacks which allow for better retention of knowledge.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode267.mp3

Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/7794ec50e2/

Hack content: https://aka.ms/wth

Other updates:

More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/more-reliable-event-driven-applications-in-azure-with-an-updated-event-grid/

We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure.
The following features now GA: Dead lettering, Retry policies, Storage Queues as a destination, Hybrid Connections as a destination, Manual Validation Handshake

Azure.Source - Volume 70
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-70/

Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-19-02-for-azure-sphere-public-preview-now-available/

Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/under-the-hood-performance-scale-security-for-cloud-analytics-with-adls-gen2/

BlockTalk - IPFS
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Blocktalk/?ocid=AID765057&wt.mc_id=CFID0423