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Coming up in this episode of the Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson Brad talks to the CEO of JAMF software, Dean Hager. Brad and Dean discuss the JAMF Casper integration with Microsoft Intune and Microsoft 3365 [01:00] Some context on JAMF [03:40] "We're Apple guys" [07:40] Whiteboarding ow JAMF and Conditional Access work together [10:45] Demo [17:00] Insight into where the JAMF / Microsoft partnership is going next

In this episode of Defrag Tools, we discuss Windows Defender Application Guard, a great security feature in the Edge browser which allows you to easily run browser sessions in a virtual machine.

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Data Factory (ADF) integration with Azure Monitor, which enables you to route your data factory metrics to Operations and Management Suite (OMS). Get the Azure Data Factory Analytics OMS service pack from the Azure marketplace. For more information: Monitor Azure Data Factory with Operations Management Suite (OMS) (docs)Monitor Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite (blog post)Azure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory pricingAzure Data Factory documentationAzure Data Factory Management Solution Service Pack (Azure Marketplace)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azure

In this episode, Laurent Bugnion and Jeremy Likness from the Cloud Developer Avocates team come together and talk about Xamarin.Forms, and how it uses .NET Standard to provide cross-platform compatibility. Jeremy takes his first tour of a Xamarin.Forms app guided by Laurent, and sees how his experience as a .NET, WPF (and former Silverlight) developer is helping him to get started with native iOS and Android development with Xamarin, C# and XAML. Jeremy and Laurent also talk about .NET Standard, the difference with Portable Class Libraries and why you should probably move to this new cross-platform model soon. Show Notes: Xamarin.Forms documentation.NET Standard portability analyzerA small history of .NET Standard (Xamarin blog)Porting MVVM Light to .NET Standard, lessons learned

Unity is a game development platform that allows you to create high quality 2D and 3D games, and deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, gaming consoles or even the web. In this episode we're joined by Cloud Developer Advocate Brian Peek (@BrianPeek), who gives us some insight on building games with Unity. He shows how .NET developers can use their skills with Unity and also leverage cloud services in the backend. [01:30] - What is Unity?[04:31] - What's the process of going from project to native game?[07:46] - Does Unity support .NET standard libraries?[09:04] - (Demo) What is the development experience like?[15:22] - How do Visual Studio and the Unity editor work together?[16:52] - What are some additional services that game developers can use?[20:22] - What devices does Unity target?[21:25] - How does Unity compare to Xamarin?[22:23] - Where can we find helpful resources?Useful Links Unity enginePlayFabScavenger demo (video | code)Azure for Game DevelopersServerless APIs with Azure FunctionsVysorCreate a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/azft-gaming

Distributed system blog posts, podcasts, and presentations are everywhere, but understanding how to actually use various tools, projects, and services? Not so straightforward. Adron Hall (@adron), Developer Evangelist at DataStax, joins Christina Warren (@film_girl) to break down distributed systems, including what they are (and aren't), then dive into questions to ask as you design distributed data systems and how to weigh pros and cons. To help you visualize and get started, you'll see his favorite Cassandra* demo -- and how to make systems more intelligent and resilient across clouds and regions. *Apache Cassandra = NoSQL open source distributed database 00:54 What is a Distributed System? 04:07 Distributed database demo - multi-cloud, mulit-node, DataStax and more 08:32 When should I use a distributed system 10:00 Getting started resources, repos and more Check out Microsoft + Open Source: https://opensource.microsoft.com/ DataStax Academy materials available here: https://academy.datastax.com/courses Explore Cassandra: http://cassandra.apache.org/ Adron's blog: https://compositecode.blog/ DataStax Enterprise is available in the Azure Marketplace here: https://aka.ms/DataStax_and_Azure_Marketplace Follow @ openatmicrosoft Follow @ adron Follow @ film_girl

Here is a smart way to use sound to provision IoT devices with wireless configuration, Cloud connection credentials and more. Chirp (https://chirp.io) created enterprise-ready, cross platform SDKs for transmitting data over sound and the Azure IoT team collaborated with Chirp to implement a nice and easy way to setup an MXChip devkit and connect it to Azure IoT Central using just sound. Get started with Azure IoT Central: http://azureiotcentral.com Get started with the Chirp SDK: https://admin.chirp.io/ Get the code for the sample: https://github.com/Azure/azure-iot-experimental/tree/master/Chirp_IoT_Central Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree

Mark Jacobs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Microsoft's internal enterprise increases compliance and creates a more trusted cloud environment using the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure (AzSK). Learn how Microsoft's DevOps teams leverage this tool to continuously keep their cloud applications secure and how you can use the same tool to reduce risk in your environment. For more information: Secure DevOps Kit for AzureSecure DevOps Kit for Azure documentationGetting started with the Secure DevOps Kit for AzureCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azure

.NET Core CLI you work from the command line, outside Visual Studio. You might do this if you're developing on a Mac or Linux box, because you prefer it, or to automate processes. You'll learn how easy it is to use, check out the great documentation, and see how to get tab completion specific to the shell you're using. You can also extend the CLI by writing global tools or using global tools other people have written. See how fast it is to create a global tool and the road map for the future tool ecosystem for .NET Core.

Let's dive into what's new in ASP.NET Core! In this session, we'll take a look at the new features in the latest ASP.NET Core preview, including improved support for building descriptive Web APIs, HTTP/2, a new in-process IIS hosting, support for health checks, and much more!

This week on Channel 9, Christina is back, this time wearing more ironic merch (keep those nerd shirt suggestions coming!), and ready to talk about the latest developer news, including: [00:30] Azure Devs at GopherCon, including a workshop on Cloud-native Go and an upcoming Azure Friday takeover.[00:53] Microsoft Ignite - now with more code and you can register for Ignite. It runs September 24-28 in Orlando.[01:24] Azure CosmosDB JavaScript SDK 2.0 Public Preview[02:06] Linux on Azure App Service Enviornment now Generally Available[02:48] Windows Container Support in Azure App Service Public Preview[03:20] #FiveThings About CSS[03:31] Defrag Tools: Console Command Favorites[03:44] The Xamarin Show: FlexLayout for Xamarin.Forms Explained[04:00] VS Code Extensions For the Discerning Developer Palette[04:20] Microsoft Underwater Data Center Gets Webcams amd you can watch the stream at the project website. Utterly mesmerizing![04:47] Christina's Pick of the Week Meet the 15-year old World Excel ChampionDon't forget to let me know your favorite VS Code extensions in the comments! Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @film_girl Create a Free Account (Azure)

This week, James is joined by friend of the show David Ortinau, Xamarin SDK & Xamarin.Forms Program Manager, who introduces us to exactly what this new FlexLayout is all about. He walks us through some awesome demos of how and when you would want to use FlexLayout and how you can combine it with CSS if you desire for super awesomeness. Show Links: FlexLayout documentationCSS + Xamarin.Forms documentationDavid's Felxibility GitHub ProjectFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsXamarin University Self-Guided

In this episode Dmitry is joined by Jeremy Epling to discuss and show demos of how the VSTS team is working to improve the products web-based user interface for things like home page, general navigation, "my work" and favorites and around specific feature areas like Build Status and Release Management (RM) editor pages. We'll also demo Azure DevOps Projects, a great way to get started on learning how to setup full CI/CD pipelines powered by VSTS, Application Insights and Azure infrastructure such as Web Apps or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and do this right from the Ibiza Portal. Resources: VSTS - Microsoft's cloud-hosted DevOps serviceAzure DevOps ProjectsFollow us on Twitter: Dmitry Lyalin (@lyalindotcom)Jeremy Epling (@jeremy_epling)

Online chat, realtime dashboards, social media sites and even games are just a few examples of where real-time technology can make a huge impact on user experience. ASP.NET Core SignalR is an open-source library that simplifies adding real-time functionality to your applications.In this episode, Anthony Chu (@nthonyChu) comes on to talk about how we can get started with ASP.NET Core SignalR. He also shows us how the Azure SignalR Service allows us to easily scale our real-time connections. [01:26] - What is SignalR?[02:10] - Why would we want to use SignalR instead of polling?[03:03] - (Demo) How do we setup SignalR?[08:48] - What are the scaling options for SignalR?[12:00] - How does the SignalR service help with scaling?[13:40]- (Demo) How do we add the SignalR Service to an application?[18:07] - How can other languages or services integrate with Azure Functions?[19:23] - (Demo) How can we wire up the Azure Functions SignalR Binding?[25:17] - Where we can learn more and check out the demos?Useful Links Introduction to ASP.NET Core SignalRWhat is Azure SignalR ServiceServerless Trivia CosmosDB Real-time Update demoAzure Functions Binding for Azure SignalR ServiceCreate a Free Account (Azure)

This weeks ASP.NET Community Standup features the whole MVC Team. ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards. To learn more, please go to: https://www.asp.net/mvc Community links for this week.