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- Coming up, if you're new to Azure
or an existing Azure user and just want to learn more,
I'll introduce you to the Azure Quickstart Center.
Azure Quickstart Center is the fastest way
to explore and onboard yourself to Azure.
I'll show you how it can help
with in-the-moment, pragmatic guidance and steps
that you can accomplish all in one flow
by taking you to the exact blade in Azure
to perform a specific action
and how Azure Quickstart Center can help you plan
and kick off your VM or data migrations
with our new migration guide.
To find Azure Quickstart Center, you can access it
under the All Services menu, under the General category
and you can pin it to your left navigation
by clicking on the star.
You can also find it in Global Search
by typing in Quickstart and then when you arrive,
you can pin it to your Dashboard
so you can find it when you come back to the portal.
From here, you're presented with two main options.
Setup Guides, which guides you through what's needed
to set up your environment for future success
and help you plan to take steps towards Azure migration
and Start a Project, which allows you to learn
as you build new workloads in Azure
and quickly identify which service is best for your project.
Let's dive into starting a new project.
Here, I'm presented with five options
I might want to choose from.
These represent some of our core Azure scenarios
that you might want to get started with
if you're a new user.
In this case, I want to create a web app,
so I click on that.
I can go directly to the Create a Web App
by clicking any of these Create buttons for each
or I can learn more before I commit to creating a resource.
I'll select the first option:
Build and host a web app with Azure Web Apps,
and as you can see, this gives me a quick view
of what this Azure service is, why I need to use it,
a sample reference architecture, and prerequisites.
It even allows me to explore costs
and see what I can get for free
if I'm a free account customer.
Next, by selecting Create, this takes me directly
to the Create form to build my resource.
By filling in my subscription information,
the name of my web app and some additional details,
I can create my first web app in Azure.
Similarly, if you're an IT administrator or cloud architect,
you can get a guided and actual experience
for setting up your Azure environment.
On the left navigation, you'll see a breakdown
of the key items that you need to consider
that we guide you on as you set up your Azure environment.
These are structured steps
for how to organize your resources
so that way, you could understand the hierarchy
in which your resources are organized
and take actions, like creating your own resource group
by clicking on this button,
which takes you to the Resource Group Create form.
Then, how to manage access for your users and resources
gives you an overview of role-based access controls,
or RBAC, so that you could manage
the appropriate level of access
for users in your organization.
For example, clicking here takes you directly
to the Resource Group blade,
so that way, you can set up RBAC for your resources.
By clicking on a specific resource group,
going to Access Controls,
and then going to Role Assignments,
you can see the scope of what users
or groups in your organization have access to.
Then, Managing Costs helps you to understand
the cost management strategies and tools in the Azure portal
you can use for your Azure subscription.
For example, by clicking on Cost Management and Billing,
you'll get to an overview page of all of your subscriptions.
You can manage costs for your particular subscription
by going to Cost Management and then,
when you select Cost Analysis,
you can see your actual cost, forecasted costs,
and how you're tracking against your budget.
Equally, within Governing, Security, and Compliance,
we showcase the robust tools that Azure offers
to set up the operational guardrails for your organization.
For example, you can set up Azure Policy
to enforce rules on your resources,
like restricting to certain SKUs or regions
to enforce data sovereignty.
By clicking on Assign a Policy,
it takes you to the Azure Policy blade
to review your overall resource compliance
and if you don't have any policies set up,
you can click on Getting Started and assign a policy.
Lastly, under Monitoring/Reporting,
we show you how you can access complimentary tools,
like Azure Monitor, Service Health,
Advisor, and also, Security Center,
which allows you to explore your Security Dashboard
to view your security score, recommendations, and more.
Overall, you get step-by-step guidance
on how to set up your Azure environment
with Microsoft's recommended best practices
and the best part is, you can do this all in one flow.
We've also just added specific guidance
on how to migrate to Azure.
This gives you information
on how to assess your current environment,
prepare for migration, and make the shift to Azure.
This is all built within the Azure Portal
and was developed with our fast track for Azure engineers
who work with customers daily.
It's designed to make you aware of key migration steps,
to help you understand which applications to migrate,
how to manage your costs through the process,
as well as how to secure
your newly migrated resources in Azure
amongst other tools and resources available to you.
For example, under Prerequisites,
we give your an overview of common migration reasons
as well as a planning checklist for your migration,
from planning all the way through to post-migration,
and then, we make you aware of
the different migration options that you can take
along with the tools available to you
in accordance with the cloud adoption framework.
You can follow our decision tree to understand
what migration tools may be useful to you.
Next, Assessing Your Digital Estate introduces you
to the Azure Migrate tool.
You can click on Create a Migration Project,
which brings you to Azure Migrate.
Here, you're given a choice of which resources
you want to assess for migration.
We'll pick virtual machines.
You can get started by picking one of the various first
and third-party out-of-the-box assessment tools
that use agentless assessment,
so you don't need to install anything
on your VMs to run the assessment.
After you've gone through this,
you'll be able to see which VMs are suitable for migration.
From there, you can move on to the actual migration,
where we recommend the latest Azure Migrate capabilities
to assist your migration and in a similar way,
if you have databases, we provide guidance
for using the Azure Database Migration Service.
Beyond resource suitability for migration,
we give you the important guideline information
on timelines and cost management,
where you can see monthly cost estimates
for compute and storage and storage by storage type.
So, that was an overview of the Azure Quickstart Center.
It's available to everyone,
whether you are starting out on your free trial,
want to improve your knowledge on how to use Azure,
or exploring more advanced scenarios,
such as governance and migration.
The content on the Azure Quickstart Center
is updated on a regular basis
to ensure you have the most up-to-date information.
And one more thing: You can also access
online courses offered by Microsoft
directly from the Quickstart Center.
Azure Quickstart Center is available
to all Azure customers today.
Try it for yourself and let us know your feedback
on improvements and additional guidance
you'd like to see at the link below.
Thanks for watching.
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