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Service Updates

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

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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)

Azure Disk Encryption with EncryptFormatAll feature for Data disks on Linux IaaS VM by Devendra Tiwari
There Are 732 Hours In An Azure Month by Aidan Finn
Moving Azure VM with managed disks to another subscription by Andrei Dzimchuk
New Partnership Brings SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to Azure by Todd R. Weiss
Microsoft and SAP both commit to running SAP HANA on Azure internally via ZDNet
Last week in Azure: Migrating VMWare environments to Azure, and more by Rob Caron
Launching preview of Azure Migrate by Shon Shah

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PHP updated to latest versions by Eric Stenson
API Management: Quota versus Rate Limits by Sanket Bakshi
How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only by Benjamin Perkins
Drag and drop deployment to an Azure App Service, quick, for simple small changes by Benjamin Perkins
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 58 – Continuous Deployment with Docker and Web App for Containers by Michael Crump
Manage Azure CDN Endpoint by SPN in Node.js by Wu Shuai

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Serverless compute with Azure Functions – Getting Started by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Running Azure Functions anywhere with the power of containers by Christos Matskas
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 61 – Java in Azure Function with VS Code by Michael Crump
Precompiled Azure Functions in F# by Mikhail Shilkov
C# LINE Bot development with Azure Function for cross-platform by Kenichiro Nakamura
Scale up AppServicePlan from Azure Function App by Prashant Pratap
Using Azure Functions with Dynamics 365 by keydet
Azure Logic Apps Monthly Update – November 2017 by Sriram Hariharan
How to access an SQL Database from an Azure Function and Node.js by Frank Boucher

Command-Line / ARM Templates

Azure Cloud Shell – your own bash shell and container – right inside Visual Studio Code by Scott Hanselman
Disabling TLS 1.0 in Azure Web App using Application Gateway – PowerShell Automation by mihansen

Database / Big Data

SSIS packages executed through SQL Agent Job scheduler fails while connecting to Azure File Storage Path by Krishnakumar Rukmangathan
Ad-hoc query support in Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio by Yanan Cai
Exploring Big Data: Course 8 – Orchestrating Big Data with Azure Data Factory by Samuel Lester
Elastic database tools for Java by Anum Jiang Sher
Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management by Danimir Ljepava
Run your PySpark Interactive Query and batch job in Visual Studio Code by Jenny Jiang
Technical reference implementation for enterprise BI and reporting by Ramkumar Krishnan

Internet of Things (IoT)

New Azure location-based service brings greater value to the enterprise via Microsoft IoT

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Utilizing Custom Vision AI for creating Cognitive Services Projects by Lee Stott
New book: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework: A Multiplatform Approach to Building Chatbots by Kim Spilker
Developing and Operationalizing H2O.ai Models with Azure by Daisy Deng, Abhinav Mithal

Development and DevOps

November extensions round-up: Actionable Insights for Agile teams and a widget for easy access to all teams in your project by Joseph Bourne
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 59 – FREE E-book titled The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure by Michael Crump
ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) supports Python & R Programming by Jenny Jiang
DevOps for Data Science – Infrastructure as Code by BuckWoody
Visual Studio Toolbox: CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer by Robert Green
Four Ways to Deploy an ASP.NET Core 2 Website in Azure by SoundCode

Containers and Service Fabric

Running Azure Functions anywhere with the power of containers by Christos Matskas
[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your Service Fabric cluster–Part I by Larry Wall
[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your Service Fabric cluster–Part II by Larry Wall
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 60 – Use Visual Studio 2017 with Docker Support by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 58 – Continuous Deployment with Docker and Web App for Containers by Michael Crump

Security

Get started with Azure key vault by Armin Reiter

Learning / Certification

Save Up to 50% on Microsoft Certified Professional Exams—Plus Get Big Discounts on Exam Prep Resources by Selina Winter
SAP on Azure Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) workshop by Sarah Arnold

Events

Join us for an AMA on Azure Stack by Natalia Mackevicius

Azure Government

Team Foundation Server in Azure Government by mihansen
Azure Government Technical Community by Steve Michelotti

Other

How to setup live streaming server using Azure Media Service in less than 30 mins by Premier Developer
Get notified when Azure service incidents impact your resources by Shawn Tabrizi
Announcing Azure Location Based Services public preview by Chris Pendleton
Personal Assistants in the Cloud and Clippy’s Comeback! by Chris Pietschmann
Savill’s FAQs: From Azure Fabric to Project Honolulu by John Savill
Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs by Christian Wade
Introducing Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview by Eamon O’Reilly
Server aliases for Azure Analysis Services by Christian Wade

Videos

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

Azure Free Account via Azure Friday
Durable Functions in Azure Functions via Azure Friday
TWC9: Connect(); On-Demand, Dev’s Guide to Azure, Future Workspace, Furby Hacking and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
Video – Understanding the Azure VM Series by Aidan Finn
Using Web App for Containers in a Multi-Tier Application via Azure Friday
Video – Chat with Carsten Rachfahl (MVP) About Azure by Aidan Finn
HDInsight Quick Video Tip # Use Azure toolkit for IntelliJ to debug Spark applications remotely by AshishThapliyal
HDInsight Quick Video Tip # Create Hive table on top of raw csv data with HiveView 2.0 by AshishThapliyal
HDInsight Quick Video Tip # Multi User HDInsight With Ambari by AshishThapliyal
HDInsight Quick Video Tip # Hadoop, Hive, Spark log analysis in Azure Log Analytics by AshishThapliyal

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 206 – Kubernetes via The Azure Podcast
Episode 227 | Office and SharePoint ESPC2017 News, Publicly Secret AWS Regions and Migrating VMWare to Azure via Microsoft Cloud Show
Artificial Intelligence and the Future with Joseph Sirosh 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:

Major Update to Windows Phone Internals Tool Unlocks All Lumia Phones y Rafael Rivera
Announcing the OpenFaaS Function Store by Alex Ellis
Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel by Nicole Hemsoth
Windows 10 in Use on More Than 600 Million Active Devices by Richard Hay
Configuring Docker Swarm as Container Orchestrator on Windows by Aram Koukia

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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.