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Azure Hour Weekly Call – Fridays

Join us for our weekly community call at 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific each Friday. The purpose of the call is to help you easily maintain current knowledge of Azure updates, learning opportunities, and a focused topic each week that is chosen by the Azure Hour team based on popular topics and customer requests.

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Join The Azure Hour Customer Team

The Azure Hour team is a Microsoft Teams Team where we maintain a number of different materials and artifacts. Most importantly, it is an offline gathering of the same individuals who attend our Friday calls and provides a place where you can interact with the Microsoft coordinators and your EDU peers who are also part of the Team. Joining the team requires you to register. It may take a few days before you are registered as we manually go through each request to ensure only EDU customers are admitted.

Azure Focus Hours

Azure Focus Hours is a spin-off of Azure Hour that gives us the opportunity to go deeper into a topic via a virtual workshop. Sometimes the workshop is hands-on, and sometimes it is just follow-along. In any case, we schedule these occasionally based on customer interest and on topics that are popular. These are always first announced during the Azure Hour calls, and can also be found in the upcoming sessions below.

An interactive way to ask questions, get new ideas, and learn from your peers. Think of it as the water cooler for the topic you choose. See the communities we currently offer below.

Office Hours Communities

Why Should You Join These Calls?

Have a quick question or blocker? Get it answered!

Need guidance for your deployment? We can help.

Interact, learn and share with your peers.

Data & AI

Audience: EDU customers interested in, adopting or supporting Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions

When: Every Tuesday 3-4PM Eastern, Noon-1PM Pacific

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Upcoming Sessions

DATE	TOPIC	Host
1/14/2025	Intro to Azure AI Agent Service with Vaibhav Pandey & Vishal Kalal	Vaibhav
1/21/2025	Fabric Open Mirroring with Mark Pryce-Maher	Hope
1/28/2025	Microsoft OneLake in Fabric with Josh Caplan	TBD
2/4/2025	Azure VM + Azure Elastic SAN with David Pless	Hope
2/11/2025	February Monthly Updates	Team
2/18/2025	Azure AI Agents with Pavan Li	Charles
2/25/2025	SQL in Fabric with Anna Hoffman	Hope
3/4/2025	Evaluation & Groundedness in Gen AI with Savitha Kolar	TBD
3/11/2025	March Monthly Updates	Team
3/18/2025	TBD with Patrick LeBlanc	Team

Azure Virtual Desktop

Audience: EDU customers looking at, deploying or supporting VDI scenarios in Azure including Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 & Lab Services as well as partner solutions such as Citrix on WVD, VMWare on WVD, CloudJumper, Nerdio, etc.

When: Thursdays 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific

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Upcoming Sessions

DATE	TOPIC	PRESENTER
Ongoing	Q & A + Open Discussion Format	Manuel & Gang

AppDev / DevOps

Audience: EDU customers interested in, adopting or supporting Application Development and DevSecOps scenarios in Azure including GitHub, DevOps, App Service, Functions, PowerPlatform, etc.

When: Alternating Wednesdays 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific

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Upcoming Sessions

DATE	TOPIC	PRESENTER
Ongoing	Q + A – Come have a discussion with us!	Arnab / John / Vishal / Omar

Security

Audience: EDU Customers who want to learn more about Microsoft’s security solutions. This call is a bit different than the others because the technologies are not focused solely on Azure. Come learn about all things Microsoft security and ask your questions!

When: Every Other Wednesday 3-4PM Eastern, 12PM-1PM Pacific

Upcoming Sessions

DATE	TOPIC	PRESENTER

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