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:
- Service Bus messaging in the Azure portal
- Improved support for Azure AD B2C in App Service
- Azure DevTest Labs: More running VMs are supported in a single lab
- Azure Automation Hybrid Runback Worker supports proxy environments
- Azure Scheduler gets new PowerShell cmdlets
- Parse Server available in all regions
- Azure Mobile Apps SDK for Apache Cordova reaches RC1
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- PowerShell now Open Source AND Cross-Platform! Linux, macOS, Windows by Chris Pietschmann
- Announcing MySQL in-app (preview) for Web Apps by mksunitha
- Microsoft expands and renews international certifications in seven countries by Alice Rison
- Citrix replacement for Microsoft Azure RemoteApp is coming in 2017 by Mary Jo Foley
- Replace your Cron/Batch servers with Azure Functions by Brian Christopher Harrison
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Join the conversation with Build Azure Slack group by Chris Pietschmann
- Portal support for Azure Search blob and table indexers now in preview by Evan Boyle
- Build, push and run Docker images with Visual Studio Team Services by Julien Corioland
- 10 Azure Security Technologies You Want to Know About NOW by Thomas W Shinder
- Make a custom role for users to Create an Azure Data Factory by Jason H
- How to create a Docker Datacenter on Microsoft Azure by Fabien Dibot
- BUILD BOT with Microsoft Bot Framework Rest Api by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
- NEXT UP – Calling Aspiring Microsoft Azure Specializes! by Sarah Arnold
- Provisioning the Azure Kubernetes infrastructure with a declarative template by Stephane Goudeau
- Deploying an Azure Red Hat Linux VM Running Apache Tomcat for use with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server by Paul T. Barham
- Join us! DC Azure Gov Meetup on open source in the cloud – Aug. 31 by Karina Homme
- Run PowerShell Natively on Linux and Docker! by Trevor Sullivan
- Ramp Up on Operations Management Suite Security & Compliance by Thomas W Shinder
- Azure Government Blog: Introduction & highlights by Lily Kim
- PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by Jeffrey Snover
- The Cloud Security Mindset by Thomas W Shinder
- Open Mind: Microsoft’s Visual Studio-like suite for Machine Learning by Mary Jo Foley
- Azure SQL Database Threat Detection, your built-in security expert by Ron Matchoro
- Cloud-first, mobile-first: Microsoft moves to a fully wireless network by Mikkel Riis
- Creating the AD application and service principal and then the Azure Automation Connection Asset by Greg Oliver
- Create your own VM images via MSDN Blogs
- Creating the Certificate Asset in Azure Automation by Greg Oliver
- Pro Tip: On Sending Email From Azure Virtual Machines to External Domains by Thomas W Shinder
- Passing Complex Parameters to New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment inside an Azure Automation Runbook by Greg Oliver
- Alerting and monitoring for Azure Backup by Giridhar Mosay
- Accelerate your insights with Application Insights Performance Counters by Mackenzie Frackleton
- We are seeking rock stars to become Microsoft MVPs for Azure by Karina Homme
- Azure Compliance in the Context of New Zealand Security and Privacy Requirements White Paper Now Available by Thomas W Shinder
- Blockchain 101 – Developing using Azure Services by Sean Dastouri
- Announcing HTTP/2 support for all customers with Azure CDN from Akamai by Manling Zhang
- #RioOlympics2016 Twitter Sentiment Analytics using Azure Stream Analytics & Azure ML with Predictive Analytics using PowerBI via MSDN Blogs
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting via Azure Friday
- Azure Data Lake: PowerShell, CLI, SDKs, and APIs | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Run PowerShell Natively on Linux with Docker via Channel 9
- PowerShell on Linux and Open Source via Channel 9
- Tuesdays with Corey Azure Functions Part 2 – Expanded Demo via Channel 9
- Using Azure Notification Hubs in an Android Application via Azure Friday
- Using Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin.Android Application via Azure Friday
- Using Azure Notification Hubs for Push Notifications in Google Chrome via Azure Friday
- Using Temporal in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Keynote: Zero to DevOps with VSTS | Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2016 by Donovan Brown
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:
- Women in Technology and #IStandByYou with Cathy Dew 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:
- Morgan Stanley: IoT to see major growth in 2017 by David Curry
- Website enumeration insanity: how our personal data is leaked by Troy Hunt
- Haas drives up U.S. fed cloud spending by 25% by Donal Power
- Deep Learning Drives Nvidia’s Tesla Business to New Highs by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- The “Have I been owned” API, rate limiting and commercial use by Troy Hunt
Book of the Week
Microservices, IoT, and Azure: Leveraging DevOps and Microservice Architecture to deliver SaaS Solutions
by Bob Familiar
This book provides practical guidance for adopting a high velocity, continuous delivery process to create reliable, scalable, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that are designed and built using a microservice architecture, deployed to the Azure cloud, and managed through automation. Microservices, IoT, and Azure offers software developers, architects, and operations engineers’ step-by-step directions for building SaaS applications—applications that are available 24×7, work on any device, scale elastically, and are resilient to change–through code, script, exercises, and a working reference implementation.