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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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General availability: Dual network interfaces for all Azure VMs
- DocumentDB Data Explorer (preview) available in the Azure portal
- Service Fabric .NET SDK goes open source
- Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.5.216 and Runtime 5.5.216 for Windows
- Release of Service Fabric SDK Preview 0.8.0.0 and Runtime Preview 5.5.0.2 for Linux
- Azure DevTest Labs: Use Azure CLI to create and manage lab VMs
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- 10 ways working with Microsoft helped endpin grow over the last 7 years by Howard van Rooijen
- Announcing Azure Analysis Services general availability by T.K. Anand
- 2017 Global Azure Bootcamp was a HUGE Success by Chris Pietschmann
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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 Deutschland Adressbereiche / IP Ranges for Azure Germany by RalfWi
- Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) nearing end-of-life by Stephen Zarkos
- Dipping the toe in the Azure Compute space and then some. by Shayne Boyer
- Announcing Cloud Partner Portal: Public preview for single-virtual machine offers by Ankit Sun
- Introducing OMS DNS Analytics via The Scripting Guys
- Announcing the general availability of Service Map solution via The Scripting Guys
- Now available on Azure Marketplace – Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine by Lee Stott
- How to fix Load Balancer not working in Round-robin fashion for your Cloud Service by VinothMariKumar
- Azure File Storage on-premises access for Ubuntu 17.04 by Rena Shah
- Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 2 by Olivier Martin
- Cloud migration and disaster recovery of load balanced multi-tier applications by Prateek Sharma
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Two Ways To Build a Recursive Logic App by Frank Boucher
- Wednesday Featured Forums: Azure Logic Apps by Mandar Dharmadhikari
- Part Three: Become acquainted with PowerApps and Flow by Adis Jugo
- Use a container to show your function swagger by Shayne Boyer
- Deploy Node.js applications to Azure App Service by Gopinath C H
- Azure App Services Security by Wriju Ghosh
- Azure App Services Migration Assistance by Wriju Ghosh
Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Serverless like a Superhero with Azure Functions by Shayne Boyer
- Unmasking your swagger with proxies in Azure Functions by Shayne Boyer
Database / Big Data
- How Microsoft builds massively scalable services using Azure DocumentDB by Aravind Ramachandran
- Announcing Azure Stream Analytics on edge devices (preview) by Santos Balasubramanian
- Cloudera now supports Azure Data Lake Store by Paige Liu
- Automating SQL Azure Server Firewall Rule Creation by Pam Lahoud
- Deadlock analysis for SQL Azure Database by cabattag
- Introducing H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight by Xiaoyong Zhu
- Cloudera clusters now run with Azure Data Lake Store by CP_MSFT
- Azure Data Warehouse:Understanding the DWU, workload management, resource and memory allocation by Agarwal Gaurav
- Azure Tables–What are They Good For? by SoundCode
- What is your Azure SQL DTU by Wriju Ghosh
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure IoT Suite connected factory now available by Sam George
- Azure IoT supports new security hardware to strengthen IoT security by Arjmand Samuel
- Announcing new functionality to automatically provision devices to Azure IoT Hub by Nicole Berdy
- Microsoft unveils IoT Central to simplify Internet of Things development by David Curry
- Microsoft simplifies IoT further by Sam George
- Unlock your door using Face API & Windows 10 IoT Core by Julia Nikitina
- “Happy Path” to IoT via Channel 9
Machine Learning
- Text Mining to Improve the Health of Millions of Citizens by Kenji Takeda
- Empowering Every Organization on the Planet with Artificial Intelligence via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Accelerating Business Transformation with Cortana Intelligence Solution Templates via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Microsoft Cognitive Services – General availability for Face API, Computer Vision API and Content Moderator via Cognitive Services Team
- Now Available: Speaker & Video APIs from Microsoft Project Oxford by Julia Nikitina
- Happy? Sad? Angry? This Microsoft tool recognizes emotions in pictures by Julia Nikitina
- Project Oxford featured in China Cloud Computing Conference by Julia Nikitina
- Apps World North America Hackathon winner used Project Oxford by Julia Nikitina
- Deep Learning with Caffe2 on the Azure Data Science Virtual Machine by Gopi Kumar, Paul Shealy
- Now Available: Microsoft Face APIs v1.0 by Julia Nikitina
- Deep Learning on the New Ubuntu-Based Data Science Virtual Machine for Linux by Gopi Kumar, Paul Shealy
- Leveraging Cloud Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform eyecare by PG303
- Visualize Azure Machine Learning Models with MicroStrategy Desktop™ by Beth Zeranski
Development
- [Azure Powershell] How to improve the performance of BlobCopy by placing inline C#.NET code by Maheshk
Certification
- MCSA: Linux on Azure Certification by Chris Pietschmann
- Exam Finder Helps Search Microsoft Certification Exams by Technology by Chris Pietschmann
- Don’t miss these two IT pro tracks in the latest Know it. Prove it. challenge via Microsoft Learning
- Quick news: Save 50% on all Microsoft Press ebooks by Kim Spilker
Containers
- Speed up Service Fabric development with the new Refresh Application debug mode by Vaclav Turecek
- How can I get started with Kubernetes on Azure Container Services by markga
Open Source
- OSS Spotlight: Swagger by Chris Pietschmann
Events
- April and May Webinars: Power BI Security, Flow Approvals, InfoPath migration, Deploying PowerApps, Marco Russo on Design and more! by Charles Sterling
- Meet the Azure Analysis Services team at upcoming user group meetings by Josh Caplan
Other
- Announcing Azure Time Series Insights by Joseph Sirosh
- Microsoft Azure Platform for India GST Suvidha Providers (GSPs) by Sarvashrestha Paliwal
- Thinking Inside The Cloud: DevOps Summit Brazil via MVP Award Program
- New Pluralsight course: Azure Beyond Websites by Troy Hunt
- New page: Performance testing in the cloud. by David Burg
- Latest Availability of Azure Services by Wriju Ghosh
- Managing Azure AD Application members in Portal by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Today’s Community Champ: Andrew Connell by Mary Jo Foley
- Discover and act on insights with new Azure monitoring and diagnostics capabilities by Shiva Sivakumar
- Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor by Greg Oliver
- Welcome to Azure CLI Shell Preview by Courtney Oka
- From Office 365 To Azure Machine Learning, These Five MVPs Share Their Insights via Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog
- Azure Analysis Services Backup and Restore by Bret Grinslade
- Azure Search releases support for synonyms (public preview) by Ashish Makadia
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Microsoft Data Amp Keynote | Microsoft Data Amp 2017 by Scott Guthrie, Joseph Sirosh
- Windows Weekly 514: Bash on Windows via Paul Thurrott & Mary Jo Foley
- Azure Marketplace via Azure Friday
- Save Money in Azure Tip 1: Compare Azure Region Pricing by Chris Pietschmann
- Synonyms in Azure Search | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Custom Image Factory with Azure DevTest Labs by Xiaoying Guo
- TWC9: Win Dev’s at Build, GA Cognitive Services, Linux Containers on Windows and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
- Episode 228: Building Games with Service Fabric via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
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:
- The Azure Podcast: featuring Azure Government via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 189 | Discussion with Paul Schaeflein about developing in Hybrid Environments via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 175 – Encryption at Rest 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:
- Are we going from “Artificial Intelligence” to “Augmented Intelligence?” by Scott Noteboom
- International Cognitive And Cloud Business Machines by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research by Jeffrey Burt
- Here’s how Steve Ballmer is building a huge US government data repository via ZDNet
- Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems by Justin Cormack
- HUZZAH + OLED Framework for IoT: Scheduler, MQTT, Monitoring, and More #ESP8266 #IoTuesday by nick normal
- How Intel Makes a Chip by Max Chafkin
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