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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Book Launch: Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification via Chris Pietschmann
- Goodbye, Microsoft Professional Program is Retiring via Chris Pietschmann
- Tips for Preparing for Microsoft Certification Exams via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure IoT Edge on Ubuntu VM via Sander van de Velde
- Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions via Daria Grigoriu
- New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available via Deborah Chen
- Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project via Chaoyi Yuan
- Rapidly develop blockchain solutions, but avoid the complexities via Diego Tamburini
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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 Firewall – Where to Start? via Joe Carlyle
- Azure IoT Edge on Ubuntu VM via Sander van de Velde
- Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade via Mark Russinovich
- How to – Troubleshoot your Azure Virtual Network Gateway via Joe Carlyle
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions via Daria Grigoriu
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Microsoft Poised to Release New OneDrive Storage Plans via Paul Thurrott
Command-Line and ARM Templates
- Azure Datacenter IP ranges from PowerShell to XML via Thomas Thornton
Database and Big Data
- Azure Datacenter IP ranges from PowerShell to XML via Thomas Thornton
- New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available via Deborah Chen
Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT Edge group enrollments using symetric keys via Sander van de Velde
- Azure IoT Edge on Ubuntu VM via Sander van de Velde
- Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project via Chaoyi Yuan
DevOps and Development
- Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions via Daria Grigoriu
- Microsoft acquires jClarity for optimizing Java workloads on Azure via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Understanding delta file changes and merge conflicts in Git pull requests via Aram Maliachi
- Recommending VSCode extensions within your Open Source projects via Shayne Boyer
- Better together, synergistic results from digital transformation via Diego Tamburini
- F# from a C# Developers Perspective – Part 4 via James
- August patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server via Erin Dormier
- Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure via Atul Malaviya
- New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available via Deborah Chen
- Azure IoT DevOps Projects now General Available to help you easily initialize a CI/CD ready IoT Edge project via Chaoyi Yuan
- TWC9: GitHub Actions Get CI/CD, New VS Code, Windows Terminal Updates, Retro Video Games and more via Microsoft Developer
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric
- Developing Docker-Powered Applications on Windows with WSL 2 via Antonis Kalipetis
- Developing with Docker and ASP.NET Core via shawn@wildermuth.com (Shawn Wildermuth)
Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Rapidly develop blockchain solutions, but avoid the complexities via Diego Tamburini
Learning and Certification
- Book Launch: Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification via Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Professional Program is retiring. Explore our new role-based training and certifications. via Alex Payne
- Tips for Preparing for Microsoft Certification Exams via Chris Pietschmann
- Why you should become Microsoft Azure Certified via Thomas Maurer
Other
- The Secret Sauce That Devs Don’t Want IT Pros to Know About via AFinn
- Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better via Xin Huang
- Goodbye, Microsoft Professional Program is Retiring via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Ultra Disk Storage: Microsoft’s service for your most I/O demanding workloads via Mark Russinovich
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage via Tad Brockway
- Microsoft MVP Award – How do you become an MVP? via Gregor Suttie
- Inter-Region Resiliency for Zone Redundant Storage via AFinn
- Cloud Native Show: What’s Cloud Native, Really? via Microsoft Developer
- What Does Your IDE/Code Editor Look Like? via Emma Wedekind ✨
- What is Azure Dedicated Host? via Joe Carlyle
- Geo Zone Redundant Storage in Azure now in preview via Art Khlobystin
- Your single source for Azure best practices via Saket Gupta
- Azure SDK August 2019 preview and a dive into consistency via Maggie Pint
- Johnson Controls is removing Microsoft’s Cortana from the GLAS thermostat via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- What Impact on You Will AMD EPYC Processors Have? via AFinn
- Azure Cost Management – 8 tools to help optimise spending and maximise potential in the cloud via Gregor Suttie
- Six ways we’re making Azure reservations even more powerful via Yashesvi Sharma
- Kevin Gates on Cloud Architecture via David Giard
- Microsoft Announces Azure-focused Partnership With India’s Jio via Mehedi Hassan
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- An introduction to decentralized identities via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- An introduction to Azure Dedicated Hosts | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- An introduction to decentralized identities | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Introducing Azure Anomaly Detector | AI Show via Channel 9
- Train with Azure ML and deploy everywhere with ONNX Runtime | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Podcast
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 311 | Exploring Microsoft Application Insights Js V2 and Recent News via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 312 | Inspire Tidbits and Big Cloud Wins via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 313 | Solo Cj and the News via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 314 | Azure Is the New Mainframe With Steve Steuart via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 315 | Catch Up on the Latest Microsoft Azure Office 365 News via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 292 – Logic Apps ISE via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 138 – Slaying PowerShell Dragons via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Episode 315 | Catch up on the Latest Microsoft Azure + Office 365 News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:
- General availablility of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
- General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions
- New Quick Action Transformations Added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
- Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x
- Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks now generally available
- Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available
- Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
- Visual Authoring API for Power BI Embedded now available
- The service principal is now available for Power BI Embedded
- New tool for automating load testing of Power BI Embedded capacities now available
- Recent Rendering performance improvements now available in Power BI Embedded
- New filters experience is available in Power BI Embedded
- New region: Johannesburg (South Africa North) now supports Power BI Embedded
- Email notifications available for Azure Government alerts
- Public Preview of Managed Identity for Azure Service Fabric applications
- New PowerShell scripts to streamline Azure Monitor Logs query and data collection
- Announcing Azure Backup limited public preview support for large disks up to 30TB size
- FastTrack for Azure
- Azure SignalR Service introduces Event Grid integration feature
- Azure Datacenter IP ranges (XML files) will be deprecated by June 30, 2020
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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.
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