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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)

Azure Active Directory – How to give a Registered Application an AD Directory Administrative Role by Nicholas Rogoff
Azure AD, B2B, B2C, DS, B2x — Straining the Alphabet Soup by Andreas Helland
Announcing General Availability of Europe-based Azure AD B2C directories by Gerardo Saca
Hybrid Cloud just got easier: New Azure Migration resources and tools available by Mike Schutz
Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 1 by Olivier Martin
How to: Add SWAP to Linux VM’s on Azure by Marco A Bicca
How to: Deploy a basic wordpress on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Azure by Marco A Bicca
Availability of migration of ExpressRoute for Classic to Resource Manager IaaS Migration by Kay Singh
Enable the addition of multiple Nics to Azure VM from the GUI by k.moussa
Accessing SSRS URL hosted on Azure VM over the Internet by Krishnakumar Rukmangathan

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Announcing Try App Service: API Apps by Alex Karcher
Ruby on Rails on Azure App Service (Web Sites) with Linux (and Ubuntu on Windows 10) by Scott Hanselman
How (I) configured an App Service Certificate for my Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
Export an Azure App Service Certificate PFX PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins
How to disable TLS 1.0 on an Azure App Service Web App by Benjamin Perkins

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Functions Tools Roadmap by Andrew B Hall
Visualise Azure Functions using a SiteExtension by Jordan Knight
Monitor Azure Web Application backups with Azure Functions by Christos Matskas
How to add assembly references to an Azure Function App by Benjamin Perkins
Add Application Insights telemetry to your Azure Function (for TrackTrace and TrackException) by Gabe Shapiro
Serverless custom Visual Studio gallery with Azure Functions by Daniel Cazzulino
Azure Functions Access-Control-Allow-Credentials with CORS by Benjamin Perkins

Database / Big Data

Microsoft R Server support for Rattle via mstips
Using Flow and Power BI to track social listening through Twitter by Charles Sterling
Azure SQL Database Auditing – Move from Azure Table Storage to Blob Storage by Roberto Cavalcanti
Embarrassingly Parallel Image Classification, Using Cognitive Toolkit and TensorFlow on Azure HDInsight Spark by Mary Wahl, T.J. Hazen, Miruna Oprescu, Sudarshan Raghunathan
Azure Data Factory March new features update by Eric Chen
Power BI Desktop – Terms and Definitions by Samuel Lester
Use H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight by Xiaoyong Zhu
Introducing Microsoft R Server 9.1 Release by CarlNan
Azure #DocumentDB Service Level Agreements by Arnaud Comet

Internet of Things (IoT)

A “Happy Path” to learn IoT development on Azure by Zhidi Shang

Machine Learning

Microsoft Cognitive Services – Translation API by Admin Reiter
Infuse some AI into your Azure apps at hands-on Seattle workshop via Microsoft Azure Blog

Development

Announcing Azure SDK for Node.js 2.0 preview by Matt Hernandez
Deploying ARM Templates using Visual Studio Team Services by Jakob Ehn

Certification

New MCSA: Data Science Certification from Microsoft by Chris Pietschmann
New MCSA: BI Reporting Certification from Microsoft by Chris Pietschmann
New MCSA: Big Data Engineering Certification from Microsoft by Chris Pietschmann
New MCSA: Cloud Database Development Certification from Microsoft by Chris Pietschmann
Answers to Your Questions about Retaking Exams, Recertification, and Renewing Your Certification by Liberty Munson
Introducing the MCSA and MCSE for Microsoft Dynamics Fans! by Liberty Munson
Azure Skills Initiative – Transform you Skills by Marnie Fulmer

Containers

Deploying Docker EE on Azure & solving common issues by Ahmed Farag
Faster and unrestricted power by Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s 1.10 now supports .NET by Cesar Torres
Automated secure Service Fabric deployment with Azure Key Vault using JSON template and Powershell by martynas

Azure Stack

Get started tile now live on Azure Stack by Aditya Sharma

Other

Extract Azure ARM resource counts and quota information by James R Tabor
Using SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business to get out of the Power BI “Refresh Game” by Charles Sterling
The network is a living organism by Yousef Khalidi
Azure Gov March Meetup Replay: How to Apply Cognitive Services to Your Agency’s Mission by Karina Homme
New search analytics for Azure Search by Berni Torres Garayar
Azure Analysis Services now available in West India by Josh Caplan
Integrating Application Insights into a modular CMS and a multi-tenant public SaaS by Sergey Kanzhelev
Cloudera Enterprise Data hub now available on Azure Government Marketplace by Sarah Weldon
Announcing public preview of Instance Metadata Service by Hariharan Jayaraman
Part Two: Become Acquainted With PowerApps and Flow by Toni Pohl
Use Azure Media Services with PowerApps by Karthik Bharathy
Global customer access and additional services now available for Azure in India by Tom Keane

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

Episode 227: Team Data Science Process via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
TWC9: Creators Updated Released, Learn What’s Next Event, Happy Path to Azure IoT, Git Pretty and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Azure Active Directory Identity Protection via Azure Friday
Episode 21: Deploying Realm Object Server to an Azure Linux VM | The Xamarin Show by James Montemagno
Intelligent Customer Care with Bots – Part 1: Introduction via Channel 9
Intelligent Customer Care with Bots – Part 2: Building a bot via Channel 9
Intelligent Customer Care with Bots – Part 3: Channels via Channel 9
ntelligent Customer Care with Bots – Part 4: Cognitive Services via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Cory: Azure Functions Proxies extravaganza | Tuesdays With Corey 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 174 – Azure Government Update via The Azure Podcast
DevOps Pipelines with Donovan Brown via .NET Rocks!
Episode 188 | SharePoint Groups, Sites and Microsoft Teams at the Austin Texas SPUG via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10 by Scott Hanselman
Running .NET Core Apps under Windows Subsystem for Linux (Bash for Windows) by Rick Strahl
ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law Coming to an End by Jeffrey Burt
IoT Environment Monitor Based on ESP8266 by Stephanie
Less than a third of industrial decision-makers have an IoT strategy by David Curry

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About the Author

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.