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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Bing Maps Launches new Fleet Management APIs by Ricky Brundritt
- Hot/Cold/Archive Blob Tiering in Azure by Aidan Finn
- Q&A: MVP Mitch Muenster Talks About Accessible Tech, And Being A Developer With A Neurodiversity via Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog
- Alternative way to protect your Application Insights “Instrumentation Key” in JavaScript by Pam Lahoud
- Microsoft’s Modern Approach to Artificial Intelligence Grows by Richard Hay
- Get started with quantum development by Lee Stott
- Setting up a managed container cluster with AKS and Kubernetes in the Azure Cloud running .NET Core in minutes by Scott Hanselman
- New Azure management and cost savings capabilities by Jeremy Winter
- General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V by Nitin Soneji
- Azure General Purpose v2 Storage Accounts by Aidan Finn
- Azure ARM API for consumption usage details by Vinod Kurpad
- Microsoft Killing Off The Classic Azure Management Portal by Aidan Finn
- Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage by Kumail Hussain
- Microsoft Azure preview with Azure Availability Zones now open in France by Tom Keane
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- GUID migration: Managed Disks and Blob storage
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services supports Azure CSP subscriptions
- PHP updated to latest versions for App Service
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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)
- Mesh and Hub-and-Spoke Networks on Azure: Architectural Considerations for Virtual Network Peering by Lamia Youseff
- General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V by Nitin Soneji
- Microsoft Azure preview with Azure Availability Zones now open in France by Tom Keane
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Hot/Cold/Archive Blob Tiering in Azure by Aidan Finn
- Alternative way to protect your Application Insights “Instrumentation Key” in JavaScript by Pam Lahoud
- Azure General Purpose v2 Storage Accounts by Aidan Finn
- Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage by Kumail Hussain
- November 2017 App Service Update by Byron Tardif
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Controlling Your IoT Home with Azure Functions Runtime by Andreas Helland
- Azure Functions Get More Scalable and Elastic by Mikhail Shilkov
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- Resolving Branch Specific Azure Template Links in Github Repositories by mihansen
- Azure ARM API for consumption usage details by Vinod Kurpad
- shell.azure.com – look Mom no install! by Shayne Boyer
Database / Big Data
- How To: Move your Azure Data Warehouse to a new region and/or subscription by Tim Salch
- Azure Data Factory 2.0 – Next Generation of Data Integration by Tom Kerkhove
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 68 – Access Cosmos DB through a .NET Application by Michael Crump
- How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs by Conor Cunningham
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 67 – Querying documents properties with special characters in Cosmos DB by Michael Crump
- #PowerBI #DirectQuery with #Azure #HDInsight Interactive Query Cluster by AshishThapliyal
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 66 – Using the Data Migration Tool with Cosmos DB by Michael Crump
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Distinguished Microsoft Engineer, James Whittaker, on IoT via ReadWrite
- Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code via Visual Studio Blog
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft’s Modern Approach to Artificial Intelligence Grows by Richard Hay
- Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding, enabling developers to build better conversational bots by Lili Cheng
- Microsoft adds more AI-powered updates to Bing, Cortana, Office 365 via ZDNet
- Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding via Microsoft Azure Blog
- Smart solutions 1: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Dynamics NAV by navteam
Development and DevOps
- Visual Studio Toolbox: More Database DevOps with Redgate by Robert Green
- Easy tables – How can I manipulate and See My Data Efficiently by Jeff Sanders
- Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.15 by Willy-P. Schaub
- Automate DevSecOps with CI CD using VSTS… by Visual Studio Geeks
- Get started with quantum development by Lee Stott
- Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac via Visual Studio Blog
- A VSTS Release Gate with ServiceNow by Brian Harry
Containers and Service Fabric
- Azure Container Service (AKS) and Kubernetes UI by Wriju Ghosh
- Setting up a managed container cluster with AKS and Kubernetes in the Azure Cloud running .NET Core in minutes by Scott Hanselman
Security
- Securing remote connection to Azure infrastructure using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) by Vaibhav G
- Security with API: OAuth, token-based access vs key-based access by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Learning / Certification
- Whiteboard Feature Now Available in Online Proctored Exams by Liberty Munson
- Microsoft expands scope of Singapore MTCS certification by Alice Rison
Azure Government
- Azure Government – Missing Features or Services? by Nicole Welch
Blockchain
- First Look Into Blockchain by Pam Lahoud
Other
- Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 1 by CliveW
- Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 2 by CliveW
- Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 3 by CliveW
- Microservices Guidance Is Now Available by Wriju Ghosh
- Azure Marketplace – New offers in November 2017 by Christine Alford
- Azure Log Analytics: Finding CPUs with perf counters by CliveW
- Bing Maps Launches new Fleet Management APIs by Ricky Brundritt
- How to drive retail profitability in the digital shopping era with advanced analytics via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
- New Azure management and cost savings capabilities by Jeremy Winter
- Microsoft Killing Off The Classic Azure Management Portal by Aidan Finn
- Azure Monitor: Send monitoring data to an event hub by John Kemnetz
- Last week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more by Rob Caron
- Microsoft Takes Path Less Traveled to Build a Quantum Computer by Bloomberg
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- The DevOps Lab Kickoff Show #1 – Connect(); 2017 Recap | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
- More Database DevOps with Redgate | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- Jenkins CI/CD with Service Fabric via Azure Friday
- Windows 10 IoT and Azure IoT Device Management Enhancements via Azure Friday
- Announcing General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding service | AI Show via Channel 9
- Open Service Broker for Azure | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- AKS cluster upgrades and managed K8s | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Azure IoT Hub 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:
- Episode 230 | FCC and Net Neutrality via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 229 | AWS Invent News & Cloud Kontainer Catch-up via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 208 – From College to Azure via The Azure Podcast
- Implementing DevOps at Microsoft with Lori Lamkin via .NET Rocks!
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Q&A: MVP Mitch Muenster Talks About Accessible Tech, And Being A Developer With A Neurodiversity via Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog
- Let’s talk about cryptocurrencies and blockchain by tzink
- IBM releases code patterns, resources to accelerate IoT development by Courtney Bjorlin
- AI, IoT to Drive Enterprise Public Cloud Growth: Survey by Todd R. Weiss
- Google Cloud Migration Helps Etsy Tap Machine Learning by Nicole Henderson
- This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Computer #QuantumComputer via Adafruit
- Microsoft Adding a Built-in OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by Mehedi Hassan
- AWS Announces New China Region, but AWS Isn’t the Provider by Yevgeniy Sverdlik
- Building An Enterprise Blockchain by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- ‘Cellular IoT Explained’ – NB-IoT, Cat-M1, EC-GSM and More | #IoT #IoTuesday via Adafruit
- A tour of containerd 1.0 via Michael Crosby
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