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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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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Introducing the DTU Calculator Command Line Utility by Justin Henriksen
- Azure QuickStart Templates for Azure Government by Ken R Ward
- 10 Security Issues You Can Fix with Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Cummins Power Generation keeps the lights on with Azure IoT Suite by Jerry Lee
- Announcing Azure DevTest Labs support for creating environment with ARM templates by Xiaoying Guo
- NoSQL .NET Core development using an local Azure DocumentDB Emulator by Scott Hanselman
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Static Website Hosting in Azure Storage by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure App Service is really 2 services, not 4 by Chris Pietschmann
- An Introduction to Azure Functions by Christian Reddington
- Reuse your C# Script (csx) code in multiple Azure Functions by Tobias Zimmergren
- Use Azure Functions to run WordPress Cron by mksunitha
- Getting the instance id of a running Azure Function with ExecutionContext.InvocationId by Tobias Zimmergren
- Smallest Azure Stack PoC Box w/o Hacking the Code by Larry Zhang
- London’s Metropolitan Police Service starts testing body cameras connected to Microsoft Azure by Sean Chan
- Live, online, step-by-step guidance from Cortana Intelligence Suite experts by Matthew Calder
- Running Azure Functions Locally with the CLI and VS Code by Donna Malayeri
- App Service Continuous Delivery Preview by Byron Tardif
- Help us shape Azure Storage Client Libraries and Tools by Sercan Guler
- Integrated Vulnerability Assessment with Azure Security Center by Yair Tor
- How I tested debugged my chatbot that I created using the Bot Services on Azure by benjaminperkins
- Auto shutdown Azure virtual machines by Armin Reiter
- ARM template outputs for Azure SQL Database by Orsolya Gal
- Azure samples for Azure AD .Net WebApi using Azure AD “on-behalf of token” to connect to SQL DB and SQL DW by Mirek H Sztajno
- Azure Mobile Apps for Apache Cordova reaches GA by Adrian Hall
- Announcing general availability of preview features and new APIs in Azure Search by Liam Cavanagh
- Cognitive Toolkit Helps Win 2016 CIF International Time Series Competition by Slawek Smyl
- Announcing StorSimple Data Transformation preview by Vivek Darera
- Introducing: Time picker in Application Insights Analytics by Noa Kuperberg
- Investigating Suspicious Activity in a Hybrid Cloud with OMS Security by Yuri Diogenes
- Creating a Linux VM on Azure with Multiple NIC’s using PowerShell by Shahid Aziz
- Azure Monitoring – SIEM integration by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- BizTalk Server 2016 now generally available! by BizTalk Team
- SYSK 398: How to deploy .dacpac to SQL Azure from Azure block blob by irenake
- Azure Content Spotlight – Microservices with Azure Service Fabric by chilberto
- Managing StorSimple virtual arrays in the new Azure portal by Manu Aery
- Digital Transformation with SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances by Ashvin Sanghvi
- Use Visual Studio Team Services As A Continuous Intergration Platform for GitHub by Davide Benvegnu
- Deep Learning Made Easy in Azure by Anusua Trivedi and Jamie Olson
- Azure Site Recovery now supports Windows Server 2016 by Rajani Janaki Ram
- Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer: November update and summer recap by Cristy Gonzalez
- Enabling Preview Features in Power BI Desktop by Samuel Lester
- Azure Management Certificates and Publishing Setting file with CSP Subscriptions by Leonardo Villar
- Creating my first ChatBot using Microsoft Cognitive Services and Python by Lee Stott
- Introducing Python SDKs for Data Lake Store & Analytics by Saveen Reddy
- Application Insights Diagnostics Preview by Dan Taylor
- Azure Application Insights – behind the scenes by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
- Azure Automation with ARM and Azure Deploy – build the UI by Wriju Ghosh
- Auto Shutdown Test VM by Wriju Ghosh
- Azure Virtual Machine Auto Shutdown saves money by Wriju Ghosh
- Installing R package in Azure Machine Learning by Gaurav Agarwal
- Controlling how dates are displayed in a PowerApps application. by Charles Sterling
- Forcing PowerApps to a specific Language by Charles Sterling
- Deploying Azure Functions Automatically by Adrian Hall
- Data science in 5 steps with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning by Lee Stott
- Top 14 Updates and New Technologies for Deploying SAP on Azure by Cameron
- Unable to connect to SQL Server AlwaysOn Listener on Azure due to misconfigured subnet mask by JackLi
- BCP in Azure Functions by Prashant Pratap
- Configure Azure and create dynamics 365 apps using OAuth, WebAPI by apurvhai
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Introducing the Database Experimentation Assistant | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- Posture Recognition with Kinect, Azure IoT, ML and WebVR by Greg Duncan
- Azure DocumentDB Elastic Scale – Partitioning via Azure Friday
- Azure Support Academy: How to troubleshoot connectivity issues in Azure SQL DB – Part 1 by Jose M Jurado
- Big Data explained, with Seth and Datameer’s Andrew Brust via Channel 9
- Azure DocumentDB Elastic Scale – Partitioning | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
- Episode 219: Visual Studio Mobile Center with Thomas Dohmke via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
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 155 – DevOps via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 168 | More News from Connect();, OpenAI Picks Azure and more Cloud News via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Building an Azure Search Engine with Anthony Brown via DotNetRocks!
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Calm, cruel and connected: November’s best and worst of IoT by Cate Lawrence
- The FPGA Accelerated Cloud Push Just Got Stronger by Nicole Hemsoth
- Integrated Marketplace in Visual Studio Code by formulahendry
- No VM Necessary: Run NodeJS via ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’ via Adafruit
- Docker on a Synology NAS – Also running ASP.NET and .NET Core! by Scott Hanselman
- Nvidia CEO’s “Hyper-Moore’s Law” Vision for Future Supercomputers by Nicole Hemsoth
- Meet the two hackers behind October’s big DDoS attack by Matthew Pierson
- Amazon unveils Greengrass for AWS IoT developers by David Curry
- Never too early for a Christmas IoT by Alex Ellis
Featured Product
A few weeks back i posted about the Microsoft IoT Grove Kit that is aimed at making hardware prototyping with the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 easier for developers. Since it’s release it has been a bit difficult to get your hands on since it keeps selling out! The Microsoft IoT Grove Kit is a Microsoft branded package of basically what’s in the GrovePi+ Starter Kit, but with slightly different components. For example the GrovePi+ Starter Kit doesn’t come with the HDMI display, but it’s still the same GrovePi+ Plug-n-Play board that can be used with a Raspberry Pi and Windows 10 IoT Core.
If you can’t wait for the Microsoft IoT Grove Kit, then you should consider getting the GrovePi+ Starter Kit, you can purchase it here for approx. $90 USD, plus free shipping! This would also make a great holiday gift for your favorite Geek too!
Also, the kit doesn’t come with a Raspberry Pi, so you’ll want to purchase one of those too! You an purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 (the latest version!) here for approx. $35, plus free shipping!
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