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articles/azure-portal/azure-portal-overview.md

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 title: What is the Azure portal?
 description: The Azure portal is a graphical user interface that you can use to manage your Azure services. Learn how to navigate and find resources in the Azure portal.
 keywords: portal
-ms.date: 09/13/2022
+ms.date: 12/05/2023
 ms.topic: overview
 ---
 
 # What is the Azure portal?
 
 The Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools. With the Azure portal, you can manage your Azure subscription using a graphical user interface. You can build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments in the portal.
 
-The Azure portal is designed for resiliency and continuous availability. It has a presence in every Azure datacenter. This configuration makes the Azure portal resilient to individual datacenter failures and avoids network slow-downs by being close to users. The Azure portal updates continuously and requires no downtime for maintenance activities.
+The Azure portal is designed for resiliency and continuous availability. It has a presence in every Azure datacenter. This configuration makes the Azure portal resilient to individual datacenter failures and helps avoid network slowdowns by being close to users. The Azure portal updates continuously, and it requires no downtime for maintenance activities.
 
 ## Portal menu
 
@@ -36,50 +36,44 @@ You can't customize the Home page, but you can choose whether to see **Home** or
 
 ## Dashboards
 
-Dashboards provide a focused view of the resources in your subscription that matter most to you. We've given you a default dashboard to get you started. You can customize this dashboard to bring the resources you use frequently into a single view. Any changes you make to the default view affect your experience only. However, you can create additional dashboards for your own use, or publish your customized dashboards and share them with other users in your organization. For more information, see [Create and share dashboards in the Azure portal](../azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards.md).
+Dashboards provide a focused view of the resources in your subscription that matter most to you. We've given you a default dashboard to get you started. You can customize this dashboard to bring the resources you use frequently into a single view. Changes you make to the default dashboard affect your experience only.
 
-As noted above, you can [set your startup page to Dashboard](set-preferences.md#startup-page) if you want to see your most recently used dashboard when you sign in to the Azure portal.
+You can create additional dashboards for your own use, or publish your customized dashboards and share them with other users in your organization. For more information, see [Create and share dashboards in the Azure portal](../azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards.md).
 
-## Getting around the portal
+As noted earlier, you can [set your startup page to Dashboard](set-preferences.md#startup-page) if you want to see your most recently used dashboard when you sign in to the Azure portal.
 
-It's helpful to understand the basic portal layout and how to interact with it. Here, we'll introduce the components of the user interface and some of the terminology we use to give instructions.
+## Getting around the portal
 
-The Azure portal menu and page header are global elements that are always present. These persistent features are the "shell" for the user interface associated with each individual service or feature. The header provides access to global controls. The configuration page (sometimes referred to as a "blade") for a resource may also have a resource menu to help you move between features.
+The portal menu and page header are global elements that are always present in the Azure portal. These persistent features are the "shell" for the user interface associated with each individual service or feature. The header provides access to global controls. The configuration page (sometimes referred to as a "blade") for a resource or service may also have a resource menu specific to that area.
 
 The figure below labels the basic elements of the Azure portal, each of which are described in the following table. In this example, the current focus is a virtual machine, but the same elements apply no matter what type of resource or service you're working with.
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/azure-portal-overview/azure-portal-overview-portal-callouts.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the full-screen portal view and a key to UI elements.":::
+:::image type="content" source="media/azure-portal-overview/azure-portal-overview-portal-callouts.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the full screen portal view and a key to UI elements." lightbox="media/azure-portal-overview/azure-portal-overview-portal-callouts.png":::
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/azure-portal-overview/azure-portal-overview-portal-menu-callouts.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the expanded portal menu and a key to UI elements.":::
+:::image type="content" source="media/azure-portal-overview/azure-portal-overview-portal-menu-callouts.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the portal menu and a key to UI elements.":::
 
 |Key|Description
 |:---:|---|
-|1|Page header. Appears at the top of every portal page and holds global elements.|
-|2|Global search. Use the search bar to quickly find a specific resource, a service, or documentation.|
-|3|Global controls. Like all global elements, these features persist across the portal and include: Cloud Shell, subscription filter, notifications, portal settings, help and support, and send us feedback.|
-|4|Your account. View information about your account, switch directories, sign out, or sign in with a different account.|
-|5|Azure portal menu. This global element can help you to navigate between services. Sometimes referred to as the sidebar. (Items 10 and 11 in this list appear in this menu.)|
-|6|Resource menu. Many services include a resource menu to help you manage the service. You may see this element referred to as the left pane. Here, you'll see commands that are contextual to your current focus.|
-|7|Command bar. These controls are contextual to your current focus.|
-|8|Working pane. Displays details about the resource that is currently in focus.|
-|9|Breadcrumb. You can use the breadcrumb links to move back a level in your workflow.|
-|10|Master control to create a new resource in the current subscription. Expand or open the Azure portal menu to find **+ Create a resource**. You can also find this option on the **Home** page. Then, search or browse the Azure Marketplace for the resource type you want to create.|
-|11|Your favorites list in the Azure portal menu. To learn how to customize this list, see [Add, remove, and sort favorites](../azure-portal/azure-portal-add-remove-sort-favorites.md).|
+|1|**Page header**. Appears at the top of every portal page and holds global elements.|
+|2|**Global search**. Use the search bar to quickly find a specific resource, a service, or documentation.|
+|3|**Global controls**. Like all global elements, these features persist across the portal and include: Cloud Shell, subscription filter, notifications, portal settings, help and support, and send us feedback.|
+|4|**Your account**. View information about your account, switch directories, sign out, or sign in with a different account.|
+|5|**Azure portal menu**. This global element can help you to navigate between services. Sometimes referred to as the sidebar. (Items 10 and 11 in this list appear in this menu.)|
+|6|**Resource menu**. Many services include a resource menu to help you manage the service. You may see this element referred to as the left pane. Here, you'll see commands that are contextual to your current focus.|
+|7|**Command bar**. These controls are contextual to your current focus.|
+|8|**Working pane**. Displays details about the resource that is currently in focus.|
+|9|**Breadcrumb**. You can use the breadcrumb links to move back a level in your workflow.|
+|10|**+ Create a resource**. Master control to create a new resource in the current subscription, available in the Azure portal menu. You can also find this option on the **Home** page.|
+|11|**Favorites**. Your favorites list in the Azure portal menu. To learn how to customize this list, see [Add, remove, and sort favorites](../azure-portal/azure-portal-add-remove-sort-favorites.md).|
 
 ## Get started with services
 
-If you're a new subscriber, you'll have to create a resource before there's anything to manage. Select **+ Create a resource** to view the services available in the Azure Marketplace. You'll find hundreds of applications and services from many providers here, all certified to run on Azure.
+If you're a new subscriber, you'll have to create a resource before there's anything to manage. Select **+ Create a resource** from the portal menu or **Home** page to view the services available in the Azure Marketplace. You'll find hundreds of applications and services from many providers here, all certified to run on Azure.
 
 We pre-populate your [Favorites](../azure-portal/azure-portal-add-remove-sort-favorites.md) in the sidebar with links to commonly used services.  To view all available services, select **All services** from the sidebar.
 
 > [!TIP]
-> The quickest way to find a resource, service, or documentation is to use *Search* in the global header.
-
-Watch this video for a demo on how to use global search in the Azure portal.
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-> [!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/nZ7WwTZcQbo]
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-[How to use global search in the Azure portal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7WwTZcQbo)
+> Often, the quickest way to get to a resource, service, or documentation is to use *Search* in the global header.
 
 ## Next steps