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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)

Find unused Managed Disks by Wriju Ghosh
VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available by Dhruv Malik
Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor – public preview by Abhave Sharma
Azure-to-Azure Site Recovery Fails – Connection Cannot Be Established by Aidan Finn
Cray in Azure for weather forecasting by Ben Colton
Replicate VM Managed Disks Between Azure Regions by Aidan Finn

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Introducing backup for Azure file shares by Vishnu Charan TJ
Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin by Visual Studio Blog
How to delete your Azure App Service deployment credential by Benjamin Perkins
What is the current .NET version on an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
Monitoring applications using Application Insights by Amit Kumar Parida

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Durable Functions in F# by Mikhail Shilkov
Azure Functions and App Service Authentication by stuartle

Software as a Service (SaaS)

New VSTS Messaging Extension for Microsoft Teams by Dan Hellem

Command-Line / ARM Templates

Quick Tip while working with Azure PowerShell by Wriju Ghosh
az webapp new – Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or nodejs site in one command by Scott Hanselman
Azure PowerShell Login “Remember Me” by Wriju Ghosh
How to move Azure Resources from one Azure Subscription to another? by Abhijit Jana

Database / Big Data

Get started with Azure Cosmos DB through this technical training series by Anitah Cantele
Unlock Query Performance with SQL Data Warehouse using Graphical Execution Plans by Kevin Ngo
Sync SQL data in large scale using Azure SQL Data Sync by Xiaochen Wu
Migrating SQL Server databases from AWS EC2 to Azure SQL Database using the Azure Database Migration Service by Jim Toland
Azure Event Grid: Glue for the Internet by Jeremy Likness
Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid! by Ch. Wolf
Migrating to Azure SQL Database with zero downtime for read-only workloads by Joseph Sack
Introducing SQL Information Protection for Azure SQL Database and on-premises SQL Server! by Gilad Mittelman
SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS Behavior On Azure SQL Data Warehouse and APS by Scott Epperly
Dynamic Data Masking in Azure SQL Datawarehouse by Jen Stirrup
Understanding the differences between “Power BI Desktop” and “Power BI Desktop Optimized for Power BI Report Server” by Samuel Lester

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 96 – Getting up and started with Azure IoT MXChip by Michael Crump

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Diving deep with conversational bots using Azure Bot Service by Nanduri Ramanujam
Using AI to automatically redact faces in videos by Milan Gada
Getting started in Machine Learning: Google vs Databricks vs AzureML vs R by Jen Stirrup
22 Minutes to 2nd Place in a Kaggle Competition, with Deep Learning & Azure by Adrian Rosebrock
LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding by Joseph Sirosh, Riham Mansour
Microsoft readies Python, Java support for its bot-building framework via ZDNet

Development and DevOps

Introduction to Git Version Control Workflow by Chris Pietschmann
Using VSTS Service Hooks in Release Management to add resource cleanup resilience by Lou Sawyer
Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one by Yaron Prigal
Visual Studio App Center: A Year in Review by joemellin
Quickly connect Azure Cosmos DB with your applications using Visual Studio Connected Services by Abhijit Jana
Data source bindings for TFS/VSTS REST APIs by Sriram B
Add DevOps Project Tile to Azure Portal Dashboard by Donovan Brown
Custom Build Task in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) by Gouri Sohoni
CI-CD with VSTS for Node.js project by Amit Kumar Parida
Continuous-Deployment to Azure by Amit Kumar Parida
TFS to VSTS migration using TFS Migrator-tool by Amit Kumar Parida

Blockchain

Etheroscope: A Smart Contract Visualiser by Lee Stott

Containers / Service Fabric

Azure Container Services (AKS) – Getting Started with AKS and a private Azure Container Registry by Tobias Zimmergren
Azure Container Services (AKS) – Upgrading your Kubernetes cluster by Tobias Zimmergren
Patch Orchestration Application now available for Ubuntu Linux Service Fabric clusters. by Service Fabric Team
Deploying Angular apps to Azure using Docker by Ravi Kiran

Security

Spring Security Azure AD: Wire up enterprise grade authentication and authorization by Yitao Dong
Troubleshooting Tools for App Service Certificate by mksunitha

Learning / Certification

How to become a Microsoft MVP by Chris Pietschmann
How to Claim Your Digital Badge—and Why by Selina Winter

Azure Government

Azure App Service Environment Available in Azure Government via Michael S. Hansen
VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available in Azure Government by Mike Ketchum
Azure Automation–Using Sample Runbooks in Azure Government by Nicole Welch
Networking Features Recently Made Generally Available in Azure Government by Mike Ketchum
Announcing Azure US Government regions on Azure Status page by Sachin K Dubey

Events

Delivering My First “Cloud Mechanix” Azure Training Course Today by Aidan Finn
Speaking at Cloud & Datacenter Conference Germany in May by Aidan Finn

Other

There Are Now 730 Hours In An Azure Month by Aidan Finn
Use Azure Policy to help enforce compliance standards for your Azure deployments by Manuel Garriga
Cost Optimization on Azure by Jason Boeshart
3 ways the cloud is improving the quality of healthcare via Microsoft Cloud Perspective Blog Team
Strategies to realizing Cost Savings in Azure by gpillai
New Azure GxP guidelines help pharmaceutical and biotech customers build GxP solutions by Linda Simovic
Troubleshooting Azure Runbooks with Azure Resource Explorer by Martynas Valkunas
Setting up Azure for your Enterprise by Wriju Ghosh
Know your Azure Subscription Quota and Usage by Wriju Ghosh

Videos

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

Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday via Channel 9
TWC9: Go SDK for Azure, PWA tips, important AI papers, and more | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Friday
Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Laurent Bugnion | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
Dave Tillman and Zach Brown – Resilient Microservices with Steeltoe | On .NET via Channel 9
Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
Getting started with Azure IoT Edge development | Internet of Things Show 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 217 – Video Indexer & Custom Speech Service via The Azure Podcast
Episode 51 – An Introduction to Microsoft 365 via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Teaching Software Development with Maria Naggaga via .NET Rocks!
Episode 239 | GCP Cloud TPUs, Cloud Wars & Plans for Upcoming Conferences 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:

AMD Gets Zen About The Edge by Timothy Prickett Morgan
I’m going to be working on OpenFaaS full-time by Alex Ellis
SpaceX Launches Imaging Satellite Plus Own Broadband Demos by Bloomberg
Lenovo Sees Expanding Market for Dense Water-Cooled HPC by Jeffrey Burt
‘Talking With The Eyes’: This MVP Teamed Up With An Old Friend To Test Window 10’s New Eye Control Feature by Juan Alvarado, Juan Ruiz
Intel Announces 5G-Connected Windows 10 PCs Coming Next Year by Mehedi Hassan
Marketing Cloud Services: What Agencies Need to Know About Security by Nicole Henderson
I’ve Just Launched “Pwned Passwords” V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download by Troy Hunt
Why multi-cloud is the new cloud via IT Pro

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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.