The document provides information about upcoming presentations for the Azure Australia Slack Team. In February 2021, Joe Albahari will present on "What's New in C# 9 - The Best Parts". Other upcoming presentations include exploring Azure Data Explorer in March 2021 and tracing and profiling .NET Core apps on AKS in April 2021. The document also summarizes recent Azure announcements including new deployment options for Azure Cloud Services, availability zones in South Central US, Azure HoloLens 2 for industrial environments, and insights for SAP on Azure with Qlik.

2. Microsoft Azure News
February 2020

4. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2021 --
February 2021 Joe Albahari What's New in C# 9 - The Best Parts
March 2021 Martin Cairney Exploring the World of Azure Data Explorer
April 2021 Rahul Rai Tracing & Profiling a .NET Core App on AKS with a Sidecar Container
May 2021 Rory Braybrook The Microsoft Identity Jigsaw – Putting the Pieces Together
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au
Your name could be here!!

6. Azure Cloud Services (extended support) ARM
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/build-regionally-resilient-cloud-services-using-the-azure-resource-manager/
- New Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services.
- Cloud Services (extended support) provides two paths for customers to migrate from ASM to
ARM.
- One path is to re-deploy, where customers deploy cloud services directly in ARM
- The second path is to execute an in-place migration that gives our customers the ability
to migrate Cloud Services (classic) to ARM
- ARM capabilities such as
- role-based access and control (RBAC),
- tags,
- policy,
- and deployment templates.

7. Availability Zones in the South Central US (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-availability-zones-in-the-south-central-us-datacenter-region-add-resiliency/
Availability Zones in South Central US
build upon a broader, rich set of
resiliency features available with Azure
that support customer resiliency.

8. Azure HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/hololens-2-industrial-edition-brings-mixed-reality-to-regulated-environments/
First and third party mixed reality applications that are backed by the reliability, security, and
scale of Azure.
With HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition, customers can now use HoloLens 2 in restricted environments
without modifying your space, protocols, or workflows.

9. Real-time insights on SAP (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/gain-realtime-insights-on-sap-erp-data-with-azure-and-qlik-data-integration/
Gain real-time insights on SAP ERP data with Azure and Qlik Data Integration.
A joint offer with Qlik Data Integration (formerly Attunity) that brings Azure Synapse, Microsoft
Power BI, and Qlik Data Integration together

10. 2020 DDoS attack trends
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-ddos-protection-2020-year-in-review/
COVID-19 drove a sharp increase in DDoS attacks
Low barriers to entry for DDoS attacks
In 2020, the average price of a
- one-hour DDoS attack was $48,
- a one-day attack was $134,
- a one-month attack was $1,000.

15. Azure Australia Slack Team!
http://bit.ly/az-aus-slack

16. BAUG You-Tube Channel
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!
http://bit.ly/BAUGYouTubeChannel

17. On Demand Training - Updates
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/30-days-to-learn-it
www.pluralsight.com
•Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
•Docker for Web Developers
•Azure AD for Developers
www.opsgility.com
•Azure For AWS Experts
•Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD
•Monitoring Apps with Application Insights

18. http://www.hanselman.com/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/bg-p/ITOpsTalkBlog

20. What's New in C# 9
- The Best Parts
Joe Albahari is a C# MVP, creator of LINQPad, author of
"C# 8 in a Nutshell“
An in-depth tour of C# 9's best new features.