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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 191 – Serial console access with Azure VMs via Michael Crump
- Top 13 Cosmos DB Features Coming Soon as of March 2019 via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 190 – Multi-Factor Authentication on Azure in a Nutshell via Michael Crump
- Azure Blob Storage on Azure IoT Edge via Microsoft Developer
- Introduction to Windows Server IoT 2019 via Microsoft Developer
- Using Ethereum Logic Apps to push ledger data into to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database via Microsoft Developer
Azure Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- IoT Hub supports new Azure Monitor metric alerts
- Azure Cache for Redis resource GUID changes
- Service Bus Premium Messaging Unit name changes
- ExpressRoute Resource GUID name change from “Port” to “Direct”
- Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
- Azure API Management roundup of features and fixes
- Azure Site Recovery: Firewall support for replication of on-premises machines
- App Service updating PHP to latest versions
- Public preview: Windows Server container support in Azure App Service
- Event Hubs resource GUID changes
- Azure Security Center change from monthly to hourly unit of measure
- Greater storage capacity and performance with new Azure Disks SKU
- New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts
- Public preview: Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
- General availability: Read scale-out support for Azure SQL Database
- Speech service region expansion to ten additional regions
- B-series update: B1ls is now available
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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 Tips and Tricks Part 191 – Serial console access with Azure VMs via Michael Crump
- Analysis of network connection data with Azure Monitor for virtual machines via Scott Kinghorn
- Azure Stack IaaS – part six via David Armour
- Introduction to Windows Server IoT 2019 via Microsoft Developer
- Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines via Tad Brockway
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Azure Blob Storage on Azure IoT Edge via Microsoft Developer
- Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management generally available via Yuan Zheng
- High-Throughput with Azure Blob Storage via Claus Joergensen
- Playing with Container in Azure App Service via Andreas Helland
- Azure Storage support for Azure Active Directory based access control generally available via Chris Brooks
- Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available via Claus Joergensen
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 1, 2019 via Gautam
- Concurrency and Isolation in Serverless Functions via Mikhail Shilkov
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 1, 2019 via Gautam
- Reducing Cold Start Duration in Azure Functions via Mikhail Shilkov
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: March 25, 2019 via Gautam
- Building serverless microservices in Azure – sample architecture via Gorka Madariaga
- Using Ethereum Logic Apps to push ledger data into to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database via Microsoft Developer
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- MB-900: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals Is Now Available: Register Today via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
- Announcing the Remaining Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Beta Exams via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
Command-Line and ARM Templates
- Enabling precision medicine with integrated genomic and clinical data via David Houlding
- Azure CLI – some tips via Wriju Ghosh
Database and Big Data
- Schema validation with Event Hubs via Volkan Civelek
- Enabling precision medicine with integrated genomic and clinical data via David Houlding
- Announcing the public preview of Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse via Kavitha Jonnakuti
- Resource governance in Azure SQL Database via Alexandru Chirica
- Our new Azure SQL Database blog site is live via Ajay.MSFT
- Analysis of network connection data with Azure Monitor for virtual machines via Scott Kinghorn
- Microsoft, Adobe and SAP are out to prove the Open Data Initiative is ‘open’ via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Top 13 Cosmos DB Features Coming Soon as of March 2019 via Chris Pietschmann
- Clean up files by built-in delete activity in Azure Data Factory via Ye Xu
- Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2017 RTM via SQL Server Engineering Team
- Incrementally copy new files by LastModifiedDate with Azure Data Factory via Ye Xu
- Lesson Learned #83: How to create my own SQL Auditing file in Azure SQL via Jose M Jurado – MSFT
- Using Ethereum Logic Apps to push ledger data into to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database via Microsoft Developer
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure Blob Storage on Azure IoT Edge via Microsoft Developer
- Driving Cloud Transformation Through IoT Solutions via Justin Slade
- Azure IoT Device Workbench bumped to 0.2.6 with more cool samples and huge performance improvement via Liya (Liki) Du
- Microsoft expands its patent protection program to include Azure-powered IoT devices via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Hannover Messe 2019: Azure IoT Platform updates power new, highly-secured Industrial IoT Scenarios via Sam George
- Securing your IoT Application with Azure Security Center via Microsoft Developer
- Azure Sphere ecosystem accelerates innovation via Olivia Burgess
- What’s new in Azure IoT Central – March 2019 via Vivian Liu
- Introduction to Windows Server IoT 2019 via Microsoft Developer
- Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released – import modules from Azure marketplace via Xin Shi
- Why IoT is not a technology solution—it’s a business play via Jaishree Subramania
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Step up your machine learning process with Azure Machine Learning service via Sarah Bird
- Umanis lifts the hood on their AI implementation methodology via Gaelle Cottenceau
- How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training via Timothy Prickett Morgan
DevOps and Development
- Azure DevOps to build and deploy ReactJS App via Subodh Sohoni
- Azure Developer – Get the list of conference rooms using Microsoft Graph API programmatically via Deva [MSFT]
- Azure Developer–Let’s investigate production issues with Azure Monitor, Snapshot Debugger via Deva [MSFT]
- Using Azure DevOps for NodeJS application optimization using Gulp via Subodh Sohoni
- Using Azure DevOps for Build and Deployment of NodeJS application via Subodh Sohoni
- Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released – import modules from Azure marketplace via Xin Shi
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric
- Developing using Azure Dev Spaces with Azure Kubernetes Services via Tobias Zimmergren
- Testing outbound connections in AKS-Kubenet and ACI via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Advancing Windows Containers with Docker and Kubernetes via Mark Church
Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Using Ethereum Logic Apps to push ledger data into to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database via Microsoft Developer
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Are You an Azure Security Engineer? Want to Become One? Check Out This Beta Exam! via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
- ASP.NET MVC5, Azure Security Center, and More on This Week’s Friday Five! via MVP Award Program
- Securing your IoT Application with Azure Security Center via Microsoft Developer
- Azure Storage support for Azure Active Directory based access control generally available via Chris Brooks
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack IaaS – part six via David Armour
- Azure Stack vs Azure Stack HCI via Mark Scholman
- Microsoft’s Azure Stack HCI: A new option for running virtualized apps that connect to Azure via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Azure Stack HCI – A new member of the Azure Stack family via Thomas Maurer
Learning and Certification
- Are You an Azure Security Engineer? Want to Become One? Check Out This Beta Exam! via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
- Preparing and appearing for AZ-300 via Wriju Ghosh
- Announcing the Remaining Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Beta Exams via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
- How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training via Timothy Prickett Morgan
Government
- Resource governance in Azure SQL Database via Alexandru Chirica
Other
- Azure Availability Zones in the Real World via AFinn
- Azure Update during March 2019 via Wriju Ghosh
- Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 34 via Christine Alford
- Azure Search – New Storage Optimized service tiers available in preview via Mike Carter
- Get an official service issue root cause analysis with Azure Service Health via Stephen Baron
- API Management exclusive access to Azure Function via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Microsoft Takes Control of 99 Websites Linked to Hacker Group via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge via Michael Feldman
- Happy birthday to managed Open Source RDBMS services in Azure! via Sudhakar Sannakkayala
- PHP Minor Version Update for March 2019 via Eric Stenson (Microsoft)
- What are Azure Blueprints? via Joe Carlyle
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 190 – Multi-Factor Authentication on Azure in a Nutshell via Michael Crump
- Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It via Nicole Hemsoth
- Azure.Source – Volume 75 via Rob Caron
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Deploy to Azure using GitHub Actions | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Using GitHub Actions to Deploy to Azure | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
- Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository and tag locking via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository and tag locking | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Introduction to Windows Server IoT 2019 | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Using Ethereum Logic Apps to push ledger data into to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database | Block Talk via Channel 9
- Azure IoT Certification Service | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Azure Friday Microburst #2 via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- What is Azure Mixed Reality Services? | One Dev Question via Channel 9
Podcast
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 297 | The Last Microsoft Cloud Show via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 272 – The New Azure Monitor via The Azure Podcast
- Azure Functions using Node with Simona Cotin via .NET Rocks!
- Episode 118 – Lots Of News via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Power Platform Daily Brief: March 27, 2019 via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
- Episode 296 | “Have I been pwned?” – An Interview with Troy Hunt via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Daily Brief: March 26, 2019 via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
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