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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Data Catalog enhanced permissions
- Azure Monitor: New capabilities for diagnostic settings
- Azure Cloud Shell: Generate scripts by using mssql-scripter
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- What is Azure Event Grid? by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Monitor now available in Azure Government by Lily Kim
- Microsoft Azure Icon Set Download – Visio stencil, PowerPoint, PNG, SVG by Chris Pietschmann
- Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering by Kumail Hussain
- IoT and Visual Studio by Greg Duncan
- A New Real-Time AI Platform from Microsoft, and a Speech Recognition Milestone via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Event Grid | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
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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 Monitor now available in Azure Government by Tom Keane
- Azure Log Analytics – Container Monitoring Solution general availability, CNCF Landscape by Keiko Harada
- Azure Network Watcher introduces Connectivity Check (Preview) by Abhishek Pathak
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Web App on Linux <3Azure Container Registry by Ahmed Einably
- Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering by Kumail Hussain
- How to manually create a directory on your Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- Supporting a logistics process using Logic App and other Azure Services by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- How to cook Mobile Apps (node.js): table schemas, primary keys and existing tables by Sergiy Baydachnyy
- Enable PHP extensions on Azure Web App on Windows by Yi Wang
- Proactive Auto Heal, on Azure App Services by Arm Koukia
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Logic App and B2B Integration Account monitoring solution right from the Azure portal by David Burg
- Azure Cognitive Services with Azure Logic apps – Errors and Workarounds by ranand12
- Azure Logic Apps Monthly Update – August 2017 by Sriram Hariharan
- Watching TypeScript files while developing local Functions by steve@opendirective.com
- Building Serverless Applications in Azure by SoundCode
- Why use async/await for your JavaScript AzureFunctions? by steve@opendirective.com
Command Line
- Getting Started With Microsoft Azure PowerShell by Timothy Warner
Database / Big Data
- Event Processing Ordering Design Choices for Azure Stream Analytics by Zhong Chen
- Benchmark: Data migration to Azure SQL Database using DMA 3.2 by Harini Gupta
- Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases by Joseph Sack
- What is Azure Event Grid? by Chris Pietschmann
- Custom Subscribers In Azure Event Grid by Eldert Grootenboer
- Sending Custom Events To Azure Event Grid by Eldert Grootenboer
- Routing with a custom Event Grid Topic by Steve-Jan Wiggers
- Exploring Azure Event Grid – Are Service Bus Topic Dead? by Tom Kerkhove
- Azure Event Hubs Capture now integrates with Azure Event Grid by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- Exploring Azure Event Grid by Tom Kerkhove
- Exploring Azure Event Grid – Looking ahead by Tom Kerkhove
- SQL Server on Linux for the Business Intelligence Professional: Getting your Database on the VM by Jen Stirrup
Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT and Visual Studio by Greg Duncan
- Updates to Azure Time Series Insights simplify analysis of IoT data via Microsoft IoT
- MXChip IoT DevKit is available for pre-ordering by Liya (Liki) Du
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- A New Real-Time AI Platform from Microsoft, and a Speech Recognition Milestone via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Microsoft Cognitive Services – Face API, with Jupyter Notebooks and Python by Lee Stott
- Microsoft Cognitive Services Translation API with Python & C# by Lee Stott
Development and DevOps
- Using the VSTS Packer Task and Replace Tokens Task by Maninderjit Bindra
- Visual Studio Test Platform – upcoming changes to data collectors by Pratap Lakshman
Containers and Service Fabric
- Container Monitoring solution general availability by The Scripting Guys
- Microsoft and Red Hat Help Accelerate Enterprise Container Adoption by John Gossman
- [ServiceFabric] How to change/reset RDP password for Service Fabric VMSS/VMSS instances using Powershell by Maheshk
Security
- Azure AD – Working across tenants using PowerShell by aforank
- Azure AD Delegation scenario by GianlucaBertelli
- Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Recover Function by Matt Rathbun
- Working with Azure Key Vault Certificates for secure exchange of data by Srikantan Sankaran
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack is an On-Prem Hybrid Cloud Extension of Azure by Arlan Nugara
- Security and Compliance in Azure Stack by Filippo Seracini
Events
- Calendar of UK based Azure workshops from our tech team by David Gristwood
Learning / Certification
- Advance Your Skills: Azure and Azure Government Training Resources by Steve Michelotti
- Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure 5-Day in Person Training Course in a city near you this September! by Sarah Arnold
Other
- Microsoft Azure Icon Set Download – Visio stencil, PowerPoint, PNG, SVG by Chris Pietschmann
- Fixed: In Exchange Hybrid scenario Microsoft Graph REST API query fails due to $select $top $skips commands ignored by Deva
- Experimenting with Azure Managed Applications by GianlucaBertelli
- Discussions around JupyterHub Infrastructure at JupyterCon by Lee Stott
- Azure Monitor: Enhanced capabilities for routing logs and metrics by John Kemnetz
- Azure Analysis Services web designer adds visual model editing to the preview by Josh Caplan
- New Offers in Azure Marketplace! by Walter Harp
- Automation with Azure? How to securely script login? by Troy Ault
- Perform advanced analytics on Application Insights data using Jupyter Notebook by Alice Jin
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Cloud Foundry on Azure via Azure Friday
- Azure Managed Applications via Azure Friday
- Snack Pack 19: Serverless Compute in 5 Minutes | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
- TDE with Bring Your Own Key Support in Azure SQL DB and DW | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Event Grid | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Azure Portal Updates 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 208 | Reviewing the Latest Microsoft Azure and Office 365 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:
- Moby Project and Open Source Summit North America by Victor Coisne
- ARM Servers: Qualcomm Is Now A Contender by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Microsoft to cease work on its GigJam collaboration service via ZDNet
- MQTT v5 : what is on the way ? by ppatierno
- Your Serverless Raspberry Pi cluster with Docker by Alex Ellis
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