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:

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

About the Author

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.