Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.
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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- General availability: Azure Security Center
- General availability: Microsoft Authenticator
- General availability: Azure Active Directory B2C
- General availability: Apple FairPlay Streaming for Azure Media Services
- General availability: Logic Apps feature of Azure App Service
- General availability: Azure Premium Storage in additional regions
- General availability: Azure Active Directory conditional access
- Public preview: Microsoft Stream
- New generation of D-Series instances in Brazil South
- Exciting enhancements to the App Service Environment
- Azure in-lace virtual machine migration eliminates reboots during critical security updates
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Register Now for the First Microsoft Data Science Summit by Joseph Sirosh
- Cloud Platform Release Announcements for July 27, 2016 via Cloud Platform News Bytes Blog
- 35 Azure and Cloud eBooks for Amazon Kindle by Chris Pietschmann
- Service Bus and the new Azure portal by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- IaaS isn’t your only path to outsized gains by James Staten
- Docker for Mac and Windows is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production by Michael Chiang
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Dynamics CRM Online Training now Available via Opsgility
- Announcing Azure Logic Apps general availability by Frank Weigel
- Azure Logic Apps facilitates rapid integration for IoT solutions via Microsoft IoT
- Announcing Internal Load Balancer and Resource Manager VNet support by Christina Compy
- Incremental backups on Microsoft Azure Backup: Save on long term storage by Aditi Gangwar
- Office 365 Programs Gain New Cloud Powered Features via SuperSite for Windows
- Azure Active Directory B2C is now generally available in North America by Swaroop Krishnamurthy
- Supporting network architecture that enables modern work styles by Mikel Riis
- Azure Advanced Data Center Bootcamp class now available via Opsgility
- Free eBook: Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities by Chris Pietschmann
- Application Insights: Work item integration with GitHub by Mike Gresley
- Service Bus client 3.3.2 is now live by John Taubensee
- Microsoft takes another step toward making Office apps smarter by Mary Jo Foley
- New visual alerts added to Application Insights metric widget for VSTS dashboards by Mike Gresley
- Azure Service Bus Abandon with Reason by Sean Feldman
- Get hands-on with IoT technologies at the Microsoft Data Science Summit via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- ANSYS CFD and Microsoft Azure perform best HPC scalability in the cloud by Tejas Karmarkar
- Announcing the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Conference in India via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- Modern SharePoint lists are here – including integration with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps by SharePoint Team
- Solutions for Azure SQL Database Throttle Log Wait of HADR_THROTTLE_LOG_RATE_GOVERNOR by Tim Smith
- Cross Platform Mobile Development in a Team using Xamarin, VSTS and Azure by Subodh Sohoni
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Office Dev Show – OneNote APIs in the Microsoft Graph via Channel 9
- Exploring the Azure Service Profiler via Azure Friday
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 137 – Live from Redmond via The Azure Podcast
- R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova via .NET Rocks
General Cloud
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Docker Built-In Orchestration Ready for Production: Docker 1.12 Goes GA by Docker Core Engineering
- Mesos Reaches Milestone, Adds Native Docker by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Docker as a (workstation) service by Kofi Gumbs
- Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core by Scott Hanselman
- How cognitive computing is changing IoT by K.R. Sanjiv
- An introduction to Docker for Mac by Chris Ward