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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Functions integration with Application Insights
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New subscription purchase option for StorSimple
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Top 10 Tricks to Save Money with Azure Virtual Machines by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Functions now has direct integration with Application Insights by Chris Anderson
- Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers by Manling Zhang
- Price reductions on L Series and announcing next generation Hyper-threaded virtual machines by Brian Hillger
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Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Microsoft’s open approach to networking by Yousef Khalidi
- Enhance protection of VMs with Azure Advisor backup recommendations by Trinadh Kotturu
- My personal Azure FAQ on Azure Networking (v3) by Igor Pagliai
- Get started with Azure Relay Hybrid Connections – Using Apache Thrift Listener by Benjamin Xue
- Azure Content Spotlight – Azure Relays by chilberto
- Programmatically adding elements to an Azure ARM template using PowerShell by Pete Rodriguez
- Alibaba joins Microsoft’s Azure networking switch community via ZDNet
- How to: Resize Linux osDisk partition on Azure by Marco A Bicca
- Step-by-Step guide: How to Move VM to different VNET on Azure RM by martynas
- Uploading Azure NSG Flow Logs to OMS by Jason Boeshart
- Monitoring applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure by Christos Matskas
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Deep dive into Azure Blob Storage by Christos Matskas
- Microservices Application Architecture: One Customer’s Journey from Azure Cloud Services to Service Fabric by Premier Developer
- Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 refresh with Azure PaaS services by Azure Stack Team
- Azure API Apps–Troubleshooting PowerApps Export error: Unable to download Swagger 2.0 metadata. Please verify that the URL is publicly accessible. You may need to enable CORS for the App Service portal extension located at by Jeff Sanders
- Tips & Tricks: Cost savings using Logic Apps by Rene Brauwers
- Azure App Service : Swap with Preview by Premier Developer
Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Testing/Consuming an Azure Function by Benjamin Perkins
- Hosting Static Websites in Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions Proxies by SoundCode
Database / Big Data
- Azure Data Factory makes it even easier and convenient to uncover insights from data when using Data Lake Store with SQL Data Warehouse by Sachin C Sheth
- Data, data, and more data – How and Where to store it on Azure? by David Gristwood
- Introducing Dataiku’s DSS on Microsoft Azure HDInsight to make data science easier by Pranav Rastogi
- Service Fabric application lifecycle management using PowerShell by Andrei Dzimchuk
- Connect from Power BI to Azure SQL Database using AAD authentication by Beatriz Garcia Roces
- Calculating the difference between two dates in YEARS, MONTHS, and DAYS in Power BI or Excel by Samuel Lester
- Big Data and Analytics made easy for Sales, Marketing and Services by 365blog
- Announcing general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6 by Pranav Rastogi
- Visualising telemetry in your bot with Application Insights Analytics and PowerBI by Jamie Dalton
- Azure Data Factory – using a Stored Procedure as a destination by Robin Lester
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure making IoT compliance easy by Alice Rison
Machine Learning
- Introducing AI by Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed
- Latest Rev of Utilities for Microsoft Team Data Science Process (TDSP) Now Available by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Real-time machine learning on globally-distributed data with Apache Spark and DocumentDB by Denny Lee
- Microsoft Updates its Deep Learning Toolkit by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Anomaly Detection (One Class SVM) in R with MicrosoftML by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
- Data Preparation in AzureML – Where and how? by Jen Stirrup
Development
- [Azure Storage] How to call Storage API’s from Powershell (without SDK) by Maheshk
- Azure HDInsight 3.6 – Five things that will make a data developer happy by Ashish Thapliyal
- Using Visual Studio 2017 in Microsoft Azure Germany by RalfWi
- Java and Service Bus… oh my?! by John Taubensee
- Introducing the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension by Steve Michelotti
- Scaling Agile using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services by Pam Lahoud
- Configure PowerShell for running Azure Cmdlets by Benjamin Perkins
Certification
- Get Rewarded! Build your Azure Skills Today! by Sarah Arnold
- Data Science, IT and Cloud… certify your students by Microsoft Education Australia
Security
- Azure Active Directory “Can’t access the account” Account Recovery–Where does the email contact come from? by Jeff Sanders
- Azure Network Security Groups – Explained in Less than 5 minutes by ranand12
- The ridiculously simple Azure NSG tool by ranand12
Containers
- Azure Container Registry now generally available by Steve Lasker
- Microsoft + Docker – Investing in the future of your applications via Microsoft Azure Blog
- Monitor Kubernetes Containers with OMS Insight & Analytics Container Monitoring solution by The Scripting Guys
Events
- Announcing the Azure Government HackFest + Training Event – June 7-8 in Washington, DC by Steve Michelotti
- Free AI Immersion Workshop on May 9th in Seattle – Register Now! by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Other
- IaC on Azure – Developing ARM Template using VSCode efficiently by Ryan Kia Zhi Tang
- Using Azure AD to enable partner access to SharePoint 201x by SailingRock
- Azure Active Directory Graph API Wrapper to help make it a bit easier! by nrogoff
- Microsoft refreshes Azure Stack preview; adds new cloud services via ZDNet
- Using xEvents to monitor Azure Analysis Services by Bret Grinslade
- How to use Azure Resource Health API to gain visibility into the health of a VM, Web App or SQL Database by Premier Developer
- Do more or less with default values in the Azure CLI by Shayne Boyer
- Upcoming changes to the Microsoft Access Control Service by Anchit Nair
- Scalable Telemetry Based Multiclass Predictive Maintenance Model by Jaya Mathew
- Interview with a Microsoft MVP and Azure Development Ninja – Ryen Tang by Ed Price
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Introduction to Azure for Developers by Chris Pietschmann & Opsgility
- DevRadio:Microsoft Azure IP Advantage by David Giard
- Azure Container Registry General Availability via Azure Friday
- Use Helm with Azure Container Service and Kubernetes via Azure Friday
- Azure Container Registry General Availability via Azure Friday
- App Compatibility with SQL Server on Linux | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Audio / Podcasts
To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:
- Episode 173 – SQL Data Warehouse via The Azure Podcast
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Quarter of all U.S. homeowners own an IoT device, says Wink by David Curry
- You won’t be able to buy autonomous cars until 2026, says Ford by David Curry
- The pros and cons of an IoT-connected world by Eran Abramson
- How the transformation of the automotive industry is IoT-driven by Ronald van Loon
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