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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- General availability: Azure IoT Hub device management
- General availability: Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services
- General availability: Azure IoT Gateway SDK
- Azure DevTest Labs: Create claimable lab VMs in a pool
- DocumentDB: Change Feed support
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Docker for Azure Public Beta by Michael Friis
- Microsoft Azure – Security Center Partner Integration by Steve Ross
- Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview by Chris Pietschmann
- Free eBook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 by Chris Pietschmann
- Understanding the Azure App Service Editor by Ken Cenerelli
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Azure IoT Hub message routing dramatically simplifies IoT solution development by Nicole Berdy
- Azure IoT Architecture: 2-way Messaging by Chris Pietschmann
- My Take on an Azure Open Source Cross-Platform DevOps Toolkit by Bruno Terkaly
- My Take on an Azure Open Source Cross-Platform DevOps Toolkit–Part 2 by Bruno Terkaly
- Azure SQL Elastic Pool Overview by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Connect Azure App Service to Virtual network by Admin Reiter
- Service Fabric node fails to read DNS conf and fix by Maheshk
- Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 5 – Amazon.com Order History Dashboard by Samuel Lester
- Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 6 – Meetup.com Dashboard by Samuel Lester
- Boost Azure Security Center with Integrated Vulnerability Assessment by Thomas W Shinder
- Tom Shinder Discusses Cloud Security at CloudAdminCon 2016 by Thomas W Shinder
- Why Azure is the default choice for Microsoft in Education partner Capita SIMS by Andrew Robertson
- Writing HTTP CRUD in Azure Functions by Adrian Hall
- Docker Announces Federal Security and Compliance Controls for Docker Datacenter built on Azure Blueprint by John Molesky
- New Azure Logic Apps innovation – general availability of cloud-based Enterprise Integration Pack by Frank Wigel
- Hello world! Welcome to AzureCAT Guidance! by Varsha G
- Latest update of Azure Analysis Services preview brings scale up and down by Josh Caplan
- Introducing Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB by Aravind Ramachandran
- Exploring Azure Data with Apache Drill, Now Pre-Installed on the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine by Gopi Kumar
- Eight new service offerings added to Azure Government certification scope by Derek Stausbaugh
- Microsoft Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform product that enables organisations to deliver Azure services from their own datacenter by Lee Stott
- How to protect an API in Azure APIM using Azure Active Directory. by Kalpit Singh
- Capture and Analyze Brain Waves using Azure, Part 2 by Benjamin Perkins
- Need to Nuke an Azure Subscription? by Frank Boucher
- Changing VM Sizes in Azure by markga
- Building Intelligent Bots for Business by Herain Oberoi
- StorSimple as a Backup Target by Harsha Kiran Kanna
- Scaling Up “Project Springfield” using Azure via the Project Springfield Team
- Azure Support Academy (Spanish): SQL Server, Next Station Azure by Jose M Jurado
- Azure Blueprint is now available for the FedRAMP High Baseline by John Molesky
- Microsoft Cloud certification updates by martynas
- Operations Management Suite deployment via Azure Automation by martynas
- Docker for Microsoft’s Azure hits public beta via ZDNet
- How to use Azure Function App to crush an SQL Database on a schedule by Frank Boucher
- Using Connected Services in Visual Studio with ASP.NET Core and Azure Storage by Mahesh Sabnis
- N-series – first Azure VMs with GPU by Kirill Kotiyarenko
- Moving existing workloads to Azure by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- OMS Gateway with SCOM support now GA by OMS Blog
- Migrating data between different cloud providers by Lee Stott
- Azure DocumentDB and NightScout better together! by Mazaheri
- Building an interactive calendar view with PowerApps by David Nissimoff
- Slot Swap with Preview by Prashant Pratap
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Episode 221: Azure CLI with Jason Shaver | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
- Introducing Azure Analysis Services via Azure Friday
- Interactive Spark on Azure | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Tuesdays with Corey: Internal use of Azure Bot Framework to improve support engineering | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- A developers guide: joins and aggregations in Azure SQL Data Warehouse | Connect(); // 2016 via Channel 9
- Defrag Tools #171 – Application Insights Profiler | Defrag Tools via Channel 9
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 157 – Partner Spotlight – Stackify via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 170 | News from AWS re:Invent and ExpressRoute for Office 365 via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Use the Cloud to help people in need by James Staten
- Microsoft outlines plans to build a ‘world graph’ for geographic data via ZDNet
- Google Jumps Into IoT with Android Things by Paul Thurrott
- Using IoT to help farmers to protect livestock from fires by David Curry
- More details about containerd, Docker’s core container runtime component by Patrick Chanezon
- containerd – a core container runtime project for the industry by Solomon Hykes
- Microsoft officially launches Zo.ai, more bot-building tools via ZDNet
- New blog launches: Microsoft AppSource, your destination for SaaS business apps by Satish Thomas
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