Leon Welicki: Hello there and thank you very much for
joining us today in this new Azure Portal How To video.
Today, we learn about Azure Portal Service Information
cards. And we have Balbir Singh with us,
who's going to show us all about these new cards.
So, thank you very much for joining us today, Balbir.
Balbir Singh: Leon, thanks for having me.
Let's jump right into this demo.
On the home page, we've introduced a new service card
that will appear after a short delay when you hover over
any one of our services.
In this example, I'm hovering over our virtual machines.
And you'll notice the card will appear and have a
secondary reveal that will show you more information.
Our goal with this card was to provide you with all the
relevant information in front of you and very specific to
the resource that you're on.
Let's start off on the top of the card.
You'll notice that we put some very common buttons right
at the top, being able to create and browse all of your
resources that are the most common commands that users
want to be able to do.
Leon: So, basically, what I can do here is I can create a
new virtual machine or I can go through the list of
virtual machines that I already created.
Balbir: Exactly. And right below that, we've offered
recent resources, a section on training,
another one for useful links, and then on free offerings.
Leon: And how does these recent resources work?
Like, basically, when I access a VM, it's going to show up
here?
Balbir: Precisely. Anytime you interact with any
one of your VMs, we're going to store that information
and we're going to populate the most recent items
in this list.
Leon: And you don't have to do anything, right?
It just happens automatically? Balbir: It happens
automatically. We've also curated a very specific
set of documentation that's relevant to virtual machines.
We want you to be able to learn about the service,
understand the best ways, what are the best practices, and
help you get started.
Leon: And I see the free training, that's Microsoft
Learn, is that right? Balbir: It is Microsoft Learn.
Leon: And how about the useful links?
Balbir: Useful links, this is a great spot for users that
are new to the portal to understand, give you a quick
overview of the service, help you get started, and then of
course the most important, pricing.
Leon: That's great.
Balbir: We also provided free offerings.
Of course, as a new user, we want you to take advantage of
some of these free offerings.
Leon: Great. And this is for a virtual machine,
but what happens for sets, for example, for a
resource group? Balbir: Great question.
Let's take a look at what happens when I hover my
resource group.
Again, the same sort of commands, the same sort of
sections, but obviously we're going to populate the recent
resources with the most recent resource groups that you
just interacted with.
So, again, we're putting the most relevant information
front and center and at your fingertips.
Leon: So, it's service specific basically.
Balbir: Precisely.
Leon: And what is, for example, a resource that is not
specific at all, like all resources?
What would happen in that case?
Balbir: Great, another great question.
By hovering over all resources, you'll notice that these
are all the resources that have interacted, again, so that
sort of recent list of things that I've interacted with at
the top of my list.
Leon: Oh, great. So, basically, it's not
resource specific, but you're showing me the recent
things of different types basically.
Balbir: Exactly.
Now, you might be wondering, what happens if I've never
interacted with any of these resources?
For example, in storage account, I've never deployed a
storage account and so, I don't have recent resources.
And this is where I want to provide you with a
description.
If you're not familiar with storage accounts, this is a
great way for you to learn about it and understand
what's included.
Leon: And that's great because I can read the description
and then if I want to, I can decide to create an instance.
I have the create button right there.
Balbir: Exactly.
Leon: Great. Balbir: The great thing is that we
provided this, these service cards in several locations
within the portal. Let's take a look at another spot.
By clicking on all services, similar view by hovering over
any one of the services, the hover card will reveal after
a short delay and then fully extend to provide you all
that content.
Another place that we also offer service cards is on the
favorites bar.
As you could see by hovering over any one of the items on
the service bar, on the favorites bar, sorry, you'll
notice that the hover card appears as well.
Leon: Oh, that's really nice. Balbir: Same relevant
information.
One other thing I should call out, you'll notice that on
the hover card there is a star located in the top right
hand corner.
This will allow you to pin this specific service to the
favorites bar.
Let's take a look at that.
And you'll notice that the app services is now visible in
the favorites bar.
Leon: So, by clicking the star, you added that service to
your favorites list.
Balbir: Precisely. And similarly, if you wanted to
remove it by unselecting the star, the service is removed.
Leon: Let's click back on the bar and let's see it.
Balbir: Whoops, I did not click on it.
Leon: Oh, let's do it now.
Balbir: Whoops.
There we go.
Leon: It's gone. Balbir: It's gone.
Leon: Great. So, thank you very much, Balbir.
So, basically with the service information cards, we show
them in the home page, in the list of all services, and in
the favorites bar.
And what we give customers is the access to the most
common actions and relevant information, so they can
accelerate their workloads in the portal.
Balbir: Exactly.
Leon: Thank you very much. Balbir: Thanks for having me.
Leon: And thanks every one of you for watching.
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