Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code
In Episode 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent.
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Show Notes
Latest Defender Update KB2267602 Bug Deletes Shortcuts
Security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware
Using Application Health extension with Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code
Runbook authoring through VS Code in Azure Automation
Overview of change tracking and inventory using Azure Monitoring Agent (Preview)
Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent from Log Analytics agent
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