What is Azure Firewall Basic and How to Deploy One

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What is Azure Firewall Basic and How to Deploy One

Azure now has three SKUs for the firewall project: Premium, Standard, and recently GA, Basic.  Azure Firewall Basic offers many of the same features as the Premium and Standard firewall but at a reduced cost.  Azure Firewall Basic is a good option for small and medium businesses or application-specific deployments where internet or East and West traffic needs to be controlled.  In this video, we start with an overview of Azure Firewall Basic and how it differs from Premium and Standard.  Then we examine the requirements to deploy it and move into the Azure portal to deploy it.

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What is RDP Shortpath for AVD Public Networks and How to Use It

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AVD

This is a follow up to my previous video on RDP Shortpath for Private networks.  A low Round Trip Time (RTT) is required for a good user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop.  RDP Shortpath for Public Networks in AVD improves the connection between the client and session host.  Performance is improved by using UDP and a direct connection over the public internet. In this video, we go over the requirements and considerations of RDP Shortpath for public networks. 

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What is RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks and How to Use It

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AVD

A low Round Trip Time (RTT) is required for a good user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop.  With RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks, we can leverage existing connections between the client network and Azure to keep the RTT latency low.  But this feature is not enabled by default.  In this video, we go over connectivity between the client and an AVD Session Host.  Then we review how we can use RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks to direct traffic over existing private WAN connections between the client and Session Hosts.

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Cut Cost, Improve Security, Reliability, and Performance with Azure Advisor

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This is a quick but important one.  If you are new to Azure or simply looking for ways to manage cost, improve security, reliability, and performance you need to check out Azure Advisor.  Azure Advisor scans Azure environments and compares current configurations to known best practices.  It also identifies ways to save money in Azure.  This video is a quick walkthrough of the Azure Advisor interface meant as an introduction so you can view recommendations in your own environment.  All under 5 minutes.

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How to Use Azure DNS Private Resolver and Outbound Endpoints

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Azure DNS

This video goes over how to use an Azure DNS Private Resolver and Outbound Endpoints with Azure DNS Forwarding Rulesets.  These two services allow us to resolve on-premises host names from Azure clients.  We no longer need to deploy DNS servers in Azure to bridge on-premises and Windows DNS with Azure DNS.  We can leverage the Azure DNS Private Resolver PaaS service to handle DNS lookups for Azure.

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How to Use Azure DNS Private Resolver and Inbound Endpoints

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Azure DNS Reslover

This video goes over how to use an Azure DNS Private Resolver and Inbound Endpoints with Azure Private DNS zones.  These two services allow us to resolve private endpoints from an on-premises server.  We no longer need to deploy DNS servers in Azure to bridge on-premises and Windows DNS with Azure DNS.  We can leverage the Azure DNS Private Resolver PaaS service to handle DNS lookups for Azure.

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10 Things You Need to Know About Azure Availability Zones

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Do you know all there is to know about Azure Availability Zones?  In this video, we go over 10 things to know about Availability Zones including how to use them and some of the limitations with Availability Zones. 

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Avoid these Mistakes with Azure Availability Zones and Availability Sets!

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In this video we review Availability Sets including fault domains and update domains.  Then we look at Availability Zones.  After that we review Azure SLA’s for VMs deployed with Availability Sets and Availability Zones.  Once we understand these concepts, we look at two mistakes to avoid when deploying highly available solutions with Availability Sets and Availability Zones.

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