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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)

Hybrid Data & Services – Connecting your datacentre to Azure by Lee Stott
Stretched Hyper-V Cluster on Azure using Express Route by Vinayak Rattan
Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery by Cameron
Security Monitoring In Azure IaaS Resources by Thuan Nguyen
Azure IaaS Audit Solution by Christopher Harrison
How to receive an email on Azure Network Security Group Rule changes by Sanganak

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

CI/CD for ColdFusion with Azure Web App by Michael Hansen
Azure App Service IP Based SSL and SNI Based SSL configuration by Benjamin Perkins
Most awaited Azure Table Storage Connector is available now! by Gautam
Maven: Deploy Java Web Apps to Azure by Asir Selvasingh
FAQ : App Service Domain (preview) and Custom Domains by mksunitha

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

New Azure Logic Apps solution for Log Analytics (OMS) released today! by Jon Fancey
New tabbed experience for Azure Functions UX by Byron Tardif
Iterate and get all items from a SharePoint Large List or Library using Microsoft Flow (no-code solution) by Srinivas Varukala
Automate Application Insights processes with the connector for Flow and Logic Apps by Harel Broitman
Build apps faster with Azure Serverless by Raman Sharma
Deploying to Azure Functions from npm scripts by steve@opendirective.com

Command Line

Remove Auto Scaling from an Azure App Service using Azure PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins
Understanding Idempotence and Scope in Azure Resource Manager Templates by Jason Boeshart
Log in to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) through Kudu to use ARM PowerShell by Gabe Shapiro

Database / Big Data

Using Azure Analysis Services over Azure SQL DB and DW by Josh Caplan
Azure Data Factory July new features update by Linda Wang
Azure AD authentication extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW tools by Mirek Sztajno
mySQL, POSTgreSQL DBs as a Service by Premier Developer
Initializing Azure SQL Database with SQL Server Transactional Replication by Holger Linke
Best way to host Microsoft R Server in Azure by SoftwareSimian
Bring Interactive Analytics to Azure HDInsight: Kyligence Analytics Platform enables sub-second query by Xiaoyong Zhu
Root cause analysis and time exploration updates to Azure Time Series Insights by OP Ravi
Lesson Learned #28: Why does SQL SERVER Management Studio report that my Azure SQL Database version is 12? by Jose M Jurado
Azure Notebooks are 2 years old how are they being used in academia? by Lee Stott

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order by Chris Pietschmann
Electric Imp and Particle solutions seamlessly integrate with Azure IoT Hub via Microsoft IoT
IoT Developers, Check Out These Development Tools! by Zhidi Shang
Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview by Chris Pietschmann
Azure IoT Toolkit for Android is coming! by formulahendry

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Experience with Cognitive API – Text Language Detection & Translation by Ganesh Alala Sundaram
How Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance Uses AI to Predict Customer Churn by Zoran Dzunic, Chris Hoder, Tao Wu
Microsoft Machine Learning for Apache Spark by Lee Stott
Bringing AI to BI – Text Analytics in Azure Machine Learning by Sudarshan Raghunathan, Jonathan Larson
OpenAI Wins Dota 2 Tournament using Microsoft Azure by Chris Pietschmann

Development and DevOps

Message in Test section of VSTS Team Project: “You can’t create test cases without a test plan. Click here to create a test plan.” by Trevor Hancock
Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client GA by Justin Conway
DevOps Self Assessment from DORA, ITRev and MS by Sam Guckenheimer
Azure Service Bus Java Client GA by Justin Conway
Testing Power BI Report Server Setup using Azure DevTestLabs and VSTS online by Jaime Tarquino
Step by step: .Net Core and Azure Search by Robert Bermejo
Announcing deploy to Azure app service Jenkins plugin and more by Pui Chee Chan
There’s a Visual Studio package for that! Building for Data Science In Visual Studio by Lee Stott

Containers and Service Fabric

Service Fabric Customer Profile: Info Support and Fudura by Sander Molenkamp
Manage Docker Hub and Azure Container Registry in Visual Studio Code with Docker Explorer by formulahendry

Security

Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Respond Function by Matt Rathbun

Azure Stack

Operating Azure Stack by Daniel Savage

Events

Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Workshops in a city near you! by Sarah Arnold
Microsoft Azure Events Site by Ken Cenerelli

Other

Data Management Gateway – High Availability and Scalability Preview by Abhishek Narain
Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks by Mark Russinovich
Organizing Azure resources with Tags by Shayne Boyer
Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics by Ketan Ghelani

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

Episode 232: Azure Container Instances via Channel 9
Graphs with Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API via Azure Friday
Table API for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Friday
Episode 28: Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Donna Malayeri | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey: Kubernetes Connector for Azure Container Instances! | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Azure Cloud Shell 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 191 – Just-In-Time Access via The Azure Podcast
Episode 206 | Latest News from Azure, Office 365 Plus Epic Container News via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Mixed language research: The key to making machines human? by Monojit Choudhury
Introducing Functions as a Service (FaaS) by Alex Ellis
Your first serverless Python function with OpenFaaS by Alex Ellis
How IoT could benefit from Bluetooth’s new mesh specs by Skip Ashton
Using Windows Device Portal to debug streaming install by Andy.Lx
You Can Test Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server in Preview by Paul Thurrott
Microsoft’s second Windows Server 2016 test build runs Linux distributions via ZDNet
Four big trends pointing to a boom in healthcare IoT by Greg Schultz

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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.