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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Automation will begin redirecting users to the new portal in September
• Azure CDN from Akamai supports HTTP/2
• DocumentDB: SDK support for automatic retries, parallel query execution, and performance improvements
• Service update: August 10, 2016
• Monetizing your APIs in API Management
• Send runback job status and job streams from Automation to Log Analytics
• Azure Automation available in North Europe and Canada Central regions
• Improved Linux support for VMware and other Site Recovery enhancements
• Introducing a quicker Mobile Apps Quickstart

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Azure Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS by Jane Louis
• Azure N-Series VMs and NVIDIA GPUs in the Cloud by Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft to drop Azure RemoteApp in favor of Citrix virtualization technologies by Mary Jo Foley
• Free eBook: Introducing Microsoft Power BI by Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft Azure Stack: Upcoming Technical Preview and other updates via Microsoft Azure Stack Team
• Microsoft answers critics on its Azure Stack hybrid cloud reset by Mary Jo Foley
• Patching Swagger-UI Vulnerabilities in Azure Mobile Apps by Adrian Hall
• Application Insights: Track an Analytics query in a dashboard by Dan Hadari
• Microsoft releases its Common Data Model database to testers by Mary Jo Foley

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

• Simple Websites using Azure Storage Blob Service by Omer Amin
• Troubleshooting Azure IoT Hub connections on embedded Linux by Holger Kenn
• How to Create a Monster Build Agent in Azure for Cheap! by Peter Hauge
• How to Tell Who Drop Your Azure Sql Database by Wayne Walter Berry
• Using Microsoft Cognitive Services to create a Facebook and Skype Bot by Shoban Kumar
• Enabling multitenant support in you Azure AD protected applications by Andrei Dzimchuk
• Introducing a Quicker Mobile App QuickStart by Adrian Hall
• Creating Service Principal and New Roles Using AzureRM Powershell by Joseph Fultz
• Azure Content Spotlight – High Availability via MSDN Blogs
• Data Platform Online – Sales Training for Microsoft Partners! by Sarah Arnold
• Working with Azure App Services Application Settings and Connection Strings in ASP.NET Core by Cj Aliaga
• Azure Compliance in the Context of Malaysia Security and Privacy White Paper now available by Thomas W Shinder
• Using Table Valued Parameters with Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database by Arvind Shyamsundar
• Hear tricks of the trade from machine learning experts via Cortanan Intelligence and ML Blog Team
• Dive deeper into data and IoT at the Microsoft Data Science Summit via Microsoft IoT
• Azure RM: SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Listener configuration with Azure External Load Balancer by Carlos Reyes Garcia
• How to Check Database Integrity with App Insights on ASP.NET Website by Peter Hauge
• A 10 Step Program to Azure Security Center Success by Thomas W Shinder
• Working with Logic Apps and Microsoft SQL Connector on Microsoft Azure by Arjun Kakkar
• Best Practices: Using SSH keys to access Linux VMs on Azure by Marco A Wicca
• Best Practices: Running Linux on Azure by Marco A Bicca
• Microsoft Azure Platform and its AWS equivalent – Part two by Kunal Chandratre

Videos

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

• Microsoft Azure Stack: Insights into Integrated Systems by Matt McSpirit
• Optimizing Hadoop using Microsoft Azure HDInsight & Real-world data streaming with HDInsight Spark, Storm & NoSQL HBase cluster via MSDN Blogs
• How to leverage the Azure Security Center & Microsoft Operations Management Suite for an incident response by Kim Spilker
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure N-Series GPU Acceleration in the public cloud via Channel 9
• Utilizing Machine Learning in Bing Ads by Krishna Suresh Kumar by Seth Juarez

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:

• Building apps for multiple clouds – Episode 139 via The Azure Podcast
• Discussing the Microsoft Cloud Show 2016 Listener Survey Results via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud

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

• Raspberry Pi GPIO Pin Reference by Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft Acquires Beam, An Interactive Game-Streaming Service by Brad Sams
• SQL Server on Linux by Fabricio Catae
• CJIS Implementation: How Microsoft Government is Committed by Rochelle M. Eichner
• “Database Platform Service” Error with MSDeploy and dbDACFx by Brian Ball

Book of the Week

Cloud Architecture Patters: Using Microsoft Azure

by Bill Wilder

If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.

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.