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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:

VNET Peering generally available for Azure Government by jawalte
A New Beta Exam Opportunity! 774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning by Liberty Munson
Updating Documents in DocumentDb by Adrian Hall
Azure Content Spotlight – Blockchain Basics by chilberto
Automating Azure AD by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
How to protect your web site using WAF-enabled Application Gateway by Gautam
Distributed Deep Learning on HDInsight with Caffe on Spark by Xiaoyong Zhu
Azure Search and Dynamics 365: Multitenancy at scale by Ashish Makadia
Creating Documents in DocumentDB with Azure Functions HTTP API by Adrian Hall
Expanded subscription offers for StorSimple Virtual Array by Anoob Backer
Enhanced Automated Backup for SQL Server 2016 in Azure Virtual Machines by Ninar Nuemah
Azure AD B2C user profile editing issues with ASP.NET Core by Andrei Dzimchuk
Event Hubs .NET Standard client is now generally available by John Taubensee
How to get a full memory dump in Azure App Services by Jeff Sanders
Visual Studio Tool for Azure Functions by Benjamin Perkins
Create a memory dump for your slow performing Web App by Benjamin Perkins
Create a VNET and access an Azure VM hosted within it from an App Services Web App by Benjamin Perkins
Connect industrial assets with ProSoft, powered by the Azure IoT Gateway SDK by Chipalo Street
Home Appliances, Vending Machines – Even Cruise Ships – Get an Infusion of Cortana Intelligence & Machine Learning via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Connecting Power BI to an Azure Analysis Services server by Josh Caplan
New in Azure Stream Analytics: Geospatial functions, Custom code and lots more! by Krishna Mamidipaka
How do I determine the outbound IP addresses of my Azure App Service by Jeff Sanders
How to Build Lightning Bolts With Azure Functions by Nat Thompson
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Azure IoT for Croke Park Smart Stadium by Dr Kenji Takeda
Now available: Azure invoices emailed direct to your inbox by Adam Pickersgill
SQL Server 2016 innovations power Azure SQL Data Warehouse to deliver faster insights by Shivani Gupta
Understanding Azure troubleshooting and support by Jan Kalis
Using SQLPackage to import or export Azure SQL DB by Yochanan Rachamim
Using Microsoft Graph API to interact with Azure AD by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Microsoft Azure Germany expands services and boosts compliance by John Bruno
Calling a Logic App from an HTML form by Jeff Hollan
Microsoft and Tierion collaborate on attestations & Blockchain proofs by Cale Teeter
How to Check Database Availability from the Application Tier by Dimitri Furman
Chat Bots — Designing Intents and Entities for your NLP Models by Brijraj Singh
OS and Data disk encryption of Azure IaaS Windows VMs by Shijimol AK
Authenticating to Azure AD non-interactively by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Logic Apps – Post to Twitter by chilberto
Migrating your TFS to the Cloud by Lee Stott

Videos

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

1 Overview | Gaming Services on Azure via Channel 9
Geospatial Functions in Azure Stream Analytics | Azure Friday via Channel 9
The Xamarin Show 14: DocumentDB with Kirill Gavrylyuk | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
R Services in SQL Server 2016 | Data Exposed 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 164 – Licensing and Pricing via The Azure Podcast
Data and Docker with Stephanie Locke via DotNetRocks!
Episode 178 | Microsoft Cloud News and Azure Functions for SharePoint with Doug Ware via Microsoft Cloud Show

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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.