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Service Updates

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

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.

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.