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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 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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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.