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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:

Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT Starter Kits and Platforms by Chris Pietschmann
Can an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Policy be Overridden? by Steve Ross
ARM Templates: Deprecating the “kind” field by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Leveraging Azure Security Center and OMS Security for Incident Response by Thomas W Shinder
Leveraging OMS Log Search to Report on Dynamic Access Control Usage by Wei H Lim
Leveraging OMS Log Search to Report on User Logon and Object Access Events by Wei H Lim
Leveraging OMS Log Search to Analyze Security Events for a Specific Computer / User / Event ID by Wei H Lim
Leveraging OMS Log Search to Track Policy and Permission Changes by Wei H Lim
Azure VNet peering – connect two virtual networks by Armin Reiter
MS Bot Framework (C#) and Application Insights error by Jamie Dalton
Forecasting the Future through Machine Learning by Anil Bhansali
Azure N-Series preview availability by Corey Sanders
ICYMI: How to Do Data Science via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
How big is my Azure SQL database? by Yochanan Rachamim
Everything we Should Know About the new Azure Usage And Billing (AUBI) Portal by Frank Boucher
Some highlights of the August 1st U-SQL refresh: Skipping header rows, Database Level ACLs, improved Extractor framework by Michael Rys
Accessing Azure Data Lake Store using WebHDFS with OAuth2 from Spark 2.0 that is running locally by Arsen Vladimirskiy
[Sample Of Aug. 3] How to store temp files in Azure applications via OneCode Team
Compile and build specific Hadoop source code branch using Azure VM by Arsen Vladimirskiy
Visual Studio Team Services – Creating a build pipeline (Part 2) via Azure Development Community Blog
Apple FairPlay Streaming for Azure Media Services generally available by Mingfei Yan
Introducing Azure IoT support for X.509 certificates by Sam George
Rack up new Azure dev skills at Microsoft Ignite via Microsoft
Tips on Migrating Existing Solutions to Service Bus Premium Messaging by John Taubensee
How does Azure Data Warehouse scale? by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Change allocation method for Azure Network Interface by Trevor Sullivan
Getting Azure Storage (blob) to work with Xamarin.Forms by David Voyles
Azure SQL Database – How to Choose the Right Service Tier by Murilo Miranda
An introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework by Gary Pretty

Videos

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

New Microsoft Virtual Academy Course – Introduction to Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
Leveraging NVIDEO GPUs in Azure via Azure Friday
Cortana Intelligence Competitions: a New Challenge via Channel 9
Exploring the Azure Service Profiler 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:

Partner Spotlight – Blue Chip Consulting – Episode 138 via The Azure Podcast
Cloud News – Azure, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Verizon and Some Cool Picks! – Episode 140 via Microsoft Cloud Show
Introducing Dockercast – The Docker Podcast by Victor Colsne

General Cloud

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

Windows IoT Core Anniversary Update and Raspberry Pi 3 by Chris Pietschmann
How does fog computing differ from edge computing? by Ryan Matthew Pierson
Windows IoT Core SD Card Requirements by Chris Pietschmann
Fix Windows IoT Core Raspberry Pi Upside-down Display by Chris Pietschmann
VMs to try out Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer by Stefano Mapelli
Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2 by Pratap Lakshman
Adding Extensions to your Visual Studio Team Services Environment by Lee Stott
The Inevitability of Private Public Clouds by Nicole Hemsoth
Introducing the Microsoft HoloLens Commercial Suite via Microsoft
Building Universal Windows apps targeting the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK via Visual Studio Blog
IoT alliances join forces to make homes smarter by David Curry

Book of the Week

Microsoft Public Cloud Services: Setting up your business in the cloud

by Blain Barton

Grow your business with Microsoft public cloud services–without costly new hardware or IT staff. Discover high-value services including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Intune, Azure, OneDrive for Business, and Windows Server 2012 R2 in the cloud. Set up your work environment, build websites, customize apps, market online, and more!

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.