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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

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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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Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.