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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)

Stale screenshot in Azure VM Boot Diagnostics by Craig Landis
Protect machines using managed disks between Azure regions using Azure Site Recovery by Poornima Natarajan
ExpressRoute monitoring with Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is now generally available by Abhave Sharma
Walk-through of using SSH to connect Azure VM Jump Servers by Pam Lahoud
Azure for AWS Professionals by Todd Whitehead
Sending Email from Web App using On-Prem SMTP Server and Storage Queue Relay by Michael S. Hansen
New reference architecture for Jenkins on Azure by Larry Brader
Application consistent backup for Linux VMs using Azure Backup is generally available by Anurag Mehrotra
Infrastructure as Code via MVP Award Program
Enterprise Data Protection with Backup and Disaster Recovery to the Azure Cloud via IT Pro

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Preview of Log Alerts feature for Application Insights by Shankar Sivadasan
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 95 – Access all files from an Azure Storage Blob Container by Michael Crump

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Functions at University of Oxford by Johannes Goslar
Getting Key Vault Secrets in Azure Functions by Jeff Hollan
How to get rid of /api in Azure Function’s route? by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 94 – Customize an Azure Functions Endpoint in Seconds by Michael Crump
Detect and suspend duplicate AS2 messages in Logic App by Sumit Kumar
Serverless in South Florida by Jeremy Likness

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Microsoft Teams- One stop digital collaboration and communication tool by Kristy Hill

Command-Line / ARM Templates

AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by Jessica Deen
Enable Service Bus Geo-DR configurations using PowerShell by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Configure Azure Cloud Shell to use a profile hosted on GitHub by Martin Brandl
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Allan Miller
Azure Data Lake Command-line Quickstart using Azure Cloud Shell by Matthew Hicks
Preventing Azure Resource Deletion or Unexpected Changes using Locks by Abhijit Jana
Rename Azure Storage Blob using PowerShell by Martin Brand

Database / Big Data

Data Science and Standard Patterns by BuckWoody
Q&A: MVP Chiayi Yen Is On A Mission To Make Data Science More Diverse via MVP Award Program
Simplify cloud adoption with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Datometry by Kuber Sharma
How do you know if your org is ready for Data Science? Starting your journey with Azure Databricks by Jen Stirrup
Setting up global replication of your Azure Cosmos DB database using the Azure portal by Abhijit Jana
Microsoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science breakthroughs by Vani Mandava
Azure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available by Ye Gu
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview by Jenny Jiang
PolyBase – How SQL Server does Big data! by Nayan Patel

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure IoT SDKs released new Long-Term Support branch by Yi Zhong
Another look: Johnson Controls transforms the thermostat with IoT via Microsoft IoT
Deploy Azure IoT Edge (preview) on a simulated device with Visual Studio Code by formulahendry

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft updates Cognitive Services terms by Microsoft Cognitive Services Team
Smart solutions 4: Integrate NAV with an Azure Machine Learning Model in less than 10 steps by navteam
Applying NLP in Sentiment Classification & Entity Recognition Using Azure ML and the Team Data Science Process by Muhammad Raza Khan, Akshay Mehra
Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience! by Olia Gavrysh
LUIS & Speech API Integration by Pam Lahoud
ICYMI: Recent Microsoft AI Updates, Including in Custom Speech Recognition, Voice Output, and Video Indexing via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team

Development and DevOps

Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream by Hamid Shahid
Build and improve apps intelligently with the right development tools by teresa
Guest Blog | Solving “What the Bug?” with the Visual Studio App Center Crashes Service by Miguel Cervantes
Build Go apps for Azure with the Go SDK, now generally available by Josh Gavant
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 93 – Part 4 – Searching an index with Azure Search with C# by Michael Crump
How to Make Deployment with Ansible Azure Modules by Wu Shuai

Blockchain

Building and Running an Auditing Solution on Blockchain by Premier Developer

Security

How can you change your default Azure AD in your subscription? by markga

Learning / Certification

Free eBook: Python Data Science Handbook by Chris Pietschmann

Azure Government

Enabling ALM Tooling in the Cloud for PubSec Customers by Doug Owens
Resources for building your Government CSP practice by Todor Batchvarov

Events

Microsoft Build Conference Coming May 7 – 9, 2018 by Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Virtual Security Summit 2018 by Chris Pietschmann
Create tomorrow today with emerging tech at Microsoft Build via Microsoft Build Team

Other

2018 Cloud Growth Profiled in RightScale State of the Cloud Report by Chris Pietschmann
Azure Marketplace new offers in January 2018 by Christine Alford
Microsoft targets startups with $500 million in Azure-related resources via ZDNet
Last week in Azure: Living the serverless life, Kubernetes, and more by Rob Caron

Videos

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

Connect real devices to Microsoft IoT Central | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Deep Learning for Music Generation – The Code | AI Show via Channel 9
What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Friday
Microsoft IoT Central intro walkthrough | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Episode 5: Five Things About Docker | Five Things via Channel 9
Peter Marcu – Raspberry Pi and Arm 32 | On .NET 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 216 – HDInsights, Big Data & Open Source via The Azure Podcast
Mr. Robot Disassembled with Ryan Kazanciyan via Hanselminutes
Episode 50 – The Office 365 CLI with Waldek Mastykarz via Microsoft IT Pro Podcast
Security for Non-Profits with Cameron Birge and Tarek Dawoud via .NET Rocks!
Episode 238 | Geek Out: SpaceX Falcon Heavy via Microsoft Cloud Show
Amazon Machine Learning with Kesha Williams 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:

Run your blog with Ghost, Docker and LetsEncrypt by Alex Ellis
Dell EMC Designs New VxBlock Converged Infrastructure “for All Workloads” by Christine Hall
What to Know About 3 Cloud Computing Companies Acquired This Week by Nicole Henderson
Microsoft Finally Documents the Limitations of Windows 10 on ARM by Paul Thurrott
The Top 10 Serverless Links of 2017 ⚡ by Za’e Johnson
Is Open Source RISC-V Ready to Take on Intel, AMD, and ARM in the Data Center? by Christine Hall
Oracle Cloud Services Double Down on Machine Learning by Nicole Henderson
Google Boots Up Tensor Processors On Its Cloud by Jeffrey Burt
At the Cutting Edge of Quantum Computing Research by Nicole Hemsoth

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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.