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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 194 – Azure Automation with Windows Machine with PowerShell via Michael Crump
- Microsoft buys real-time operating system vendor Express Logic via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Configure Azure Site Recovery from Windows Admin Center via Thomas Maurer
- Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy via Sercan Guler
- Put IoT in action to overcome public building safety challenges via Justin Slade
- See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps via Bing Team
- Customize your Azure best practice recommendations in Azure Advisor via Kaitlyn Corazao
Azure Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets
- Azure HDInsight is now available in China East 2
- Public Preview: Resource Change History API
- Virtual WAN Scale Unit name changes
- Resource GUID changes for Event Hubs Dedicated Capacity Unit
- Service Bus US Government resource GUID and naming impacts
- Service Bus Standard Base Unit name change
- Azure Batch updates now available
- General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government
- General Availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China
- Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
- General availability: Azure Availability Zones in Japan East
- Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
- Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
- Azure Front Door Service is now available
- Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door is in preview
- ExpressRoute Global Reach is now available
- ExpressRoute Direct is now available
- New features and network expansion for Azure Content Delivery Network
- Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
- Pod security policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
- Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Read Replica is now generally available
- Azure Database for MariaDB: New compute options are now generally available
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)
- What is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? | One Dev Question via Microsoft Developer
- Configure Azure Site Recovery from Windows Admin Center via Thomas Maurer
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy via Sercan Guler
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 22, 2019 via Gautam
- Doing more with Logic Apps via Microsoft Developer
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 22, 2019 via Gautam
- First look at knative build for OpenFaaS functions via Alex Ellis
- Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 15, 2019 via Gautam
Command-Line and ARM Templates
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 194 – Azure Automation with Windows Machine with PowerShell via Michael Crump
- TWC9: Microsoft Edge Insider, Azure April, Chocolatey, PowerShell 7, and more via Microsoft Developer
- Connect to Azure using a Bash shell via Guy Bowerman
Database and Big Data
- Connect IIoT data from disparate systems to unlock manufacturing insights via Diego Tamburini
- Frank Gill on Azure SQL Database Managed Instances via David Giard
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans now generally available via Yashesvi Sharma
- Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator, an easy-to-configure pipeline for streaming at scale via Geoff Staneff
- Manage Azure HDInsight clusters using .NET, Python, or Java via Tyler Fox
- Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy via Sercan Guler
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Connect IIoT data from disparate systems to unlock manufacturing insights via Diego Tamburini
- Unlocking the Promise of Enterprise IoT via Zach Butler
- Meet our Azure IoT partners: Accenture via Microsoft Developer
- Put IoT in action to overcome public building safety challenges via Justin Slade
- How to develop an IoT strategy that yields desired ROI via Peter Cooper
- Microsoft buys real-time operating system vendor Express Logic via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning powered detections with Kusto query language in Azure Sentinel via Liza Mash Levin
DevOps and Development
- DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt.5 – Unit Testing via Microsoft Developer
- What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 150? via Anisha Pindoria
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.19 via Edward Thomson
- Manage Azure HDInsight clusters using .NET, Python, or Java via Tyler Fox
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano – Install Docker Compose via Docker Pirates ARMed with explosive stuff
- Service Fabric Community Q&A 33 via Service Fabric Team
- Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers via Steve Lasker
Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Working with the Enemy: Why Blockchain Adoption is a Social Problem via Lucas PenzeyMoog
- Blockchain’s Mainstream Debut Awaits Dev Ecosystem Evolution via Reuben Jackson
- Moving Towards web3.0 Using Blockchain as Core Tech via Shahid Shaikh
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Customize your Azure best practice recommendations in Azure Advisor via Kaitlyn Corazao
- How to create service principal or App registration in Azure AD via Sanganak – Authority
- Detecting threats targeting containers with Azure Security Center via Yossi Weizman
Government
Other
- How (and why) Microsoft is looking at freelance experts as its next big target for Office via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Pull Requests with Rebase via Edward Thomson
- Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1 via Will Bratton
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit – Introduction via Docker Pirates ARMed with explosive stuff
- Migrating SAP applications to Azure: Introduction and our partnership with SAP via Bryan McCutchan
- Exploring DNS with the .NET Core based Technitium DNS Server via Scott Hanselman
- Sync File Servers with Azure File Sync in Windows Admin Center via Thomas Maurer
- Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 35 via Christine Alford
- Azure.Source – Volume 79 via Rob Caron
- Azure Cost Management now generally available for Pay-As-You-Go customers! via Adam Wise
- See the Road Ahead with Traffic Camera Images on Bing Maps via Bing Team
- CRM Audio : Power Platform Daily Brief: April 18, 2019 via CRM Audio: Network Feed
- Azure resources to assess risk and compliance via Astha Malik
- Multiple Service Endpoints to multiple services via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- New Logic App connector error responses to SAP via David Burg
- Responding back to SAP from Logic App via David Burg
- Connect Windows Admin Center to Azure Monitor via Thomas Maurer
- Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway via Abhave Sharma
- The Realities Show – Episode 2: HoloLens 2, Human Understanding via Microsoft HoloLens
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Meet our Azure IoT partners: Accenture | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt.5 – Unit Testing | On .NET via Channel 9
- Doing more with Logic Apps | Block Talk via Channel 9
- Getting started with Azure App Configuration via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Getting started with Azure App Configuration | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- How can HoloLens 2 apps be better with Azure 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 275 – Azure Foundations via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 121 – Moving at the Speed of the Cloud via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
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