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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 183 – Optimize what you spend on the cloud with Azure Cost Management via Michael Crump
Azure IoT Edge runtime available for Ubuntu virtual machines via Greg Manyak
Third Party IoT solution Accelerators via Microsoft Developer
Service Fabric Customer Architecture: ZEISS Group via AzureCAT
Migrating your existing on-prem SQL Server database to Azure SQL DB via Angelos Petropoulos

Azure 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)

Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier! via Rajani Janaki Ram
Protect Azure Virtual Machines using storage spaces direct with Azure Site Recovery via Ashish Gangwar
Azure IoT Edge VM on Azure Marketplace via Microsoft Developer
Azure IoT Edge runtime available for Ubuntu virtual machines via Greg Manyak
Azure Stack IaaS – part one via David Armour
Using the Data Science VM within your classes via Lee Stott
Join me for a Azure IaaS Masterclass Webinar! via Thomas Maurer

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

How to: Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) via Tobias Zimmergren

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: Feb 18, 2019 via Gautam
Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Migrating Azure Functions from v1 (.NET) to v2 (.NET Standard) via Jeremy Likness
Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: Feb 11, 2019 via Gautam
Logic Apps AS2 Decode: MIC algorithm is required for signed MDN via David Burg

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Microsoft Teams Is Down and Users Aren’t Happy via Mehedi Hassan

Database and Big Data

Experiencing Data Access issue in Azure and OMS portal for Application insights in SUK – 02/18 – Resolved via Azure Monitoring Services Health Status
NEW REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE: Batch scoring of Spark models on Azure Databricks via AzureCAT
Everything You Need for Coding with Node and Cosmos DB in 60 Seconds-ish via John Papa
Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services via Tobias Zimmergren
Azure Instance Metadata Service updates for attested data | Azrue Friday via Microsoft Developer
Migrating your existing on-prem SQL Server database to Azure SQL DB via Angelos Petropoulos
Building Microservices, Disaster Recovery with Data Export Service and More, on The Friday Five! via MVP Award Program
Azure Content Spotlight – Azure Data Factory via Sjoukje Zaal
Connecting #Azure WordPress, #HubSpot data for analyzing data in #PowerBI for a small business #CRM via Jen Stirrup
Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation via Oded Sacher
Using the Data Science VM within your classes via Lee Stott
Get started quickly using templates in Azure Data Factory via Gaurav Malhotra

Internet of Things (IoT)

Third Party IoT solution Accelerators via Microsoft Developer
Easily build and debug IoT Edge modules on your remote device with Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.9.0. via Xin Shi
Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available via Ed Nightingale
Learn how to build with Azure IoT: Upcoming IoT Deep Dive events via Pamela Cortez
Introducing Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code via Xin Shi
New year, new experience and new sample for Azure IoT Device Workbench via Liya (Liki) Du
Azure IoT Hub Toolkit 2.1.0: Great performance optimization, more code generation templates and UX improvement via Jun Han
Azure IoT Edge VM on Azure Marketplace via Microsoft Developer
Azure IoT Hub Java SDK officially supports Android Things platform via Yi Zhong
Azure IoT Edge runtime available for Ubuntu virtual machines via Greg Manyak
NEW GUIDE: IoT Temperature Logger with Analog Devices ADT7410, Feather and Adafruit IO @digikey @ADI_News @adafruitio via brent

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics via Krishna Mamidipaka
Building Applications from Scratch with Azure and Cognitive Services via Microsoft Developer
Machine Learning – Building a Pet Detector in 30 minutes using Tensorflow via Deva [MSFT]
Cloud AI/ML APIs, How easy is it to deploy these on the Edge via Lee Stott

DevOps and Development

Azure Container Instances – C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry via Tobias Zimmergren
New Basic Process Available in Azure DevOps via Dan Hellem
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.15 via Edward Thomson
Easily build and debug IoT Edge modules on your remote device with Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.9.0. via Xin Shi
Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update via App Center Team
Using Azure DevOps from the Command Line via George Verghese
Welcome to the new DevOps blog! via Anisha Pindoria
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q1 via Gloridel Morales
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.01 via Edward Thomson
Adding caching to Azure Pipelines via Alex Mullans
What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 146 Update via Anisha Pindoria
Microsoft DevOps blog has moved! via Anisha Pindoria
Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack via Atin Bansal
Open Source DevOps in Azure Government via Steve Michelotti
Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update via Jayme Singleton [MSFT]
Introducing Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code via Xin Shi
Azure IoT Hub Java SDK officially supports Android Things platform via Yi Zhong
Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers via Microsoft Developer
Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack via Atin Bansal

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric

Azure Container Instances – C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry via Tobias Zimmergren
How to: Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) via Tobias Zimmergren
Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services via Tobias Zimmergren
We’ve Got ❤️ For Our First Batch of DockerCon Speakers via Jenny Burcio
Service Fabric Customer Architecture: ZEISS Group via AzureCAT

Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Blockchain based registries via Microsoft Developer
Ethereum Name Service via Microsoft Developer

Security, Identity, and Privacy

Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2 via James Baker
How Azure Security Center helps you protect your environment from new vulnerabilities via Ram Pliskin
Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers via Microsoft Developer

Azure Stack

Azure Stack User Defined Routing Problem via Danny McDermott
Azure Stack IaaS – part one via David Armour
Managed Images on Azure Stack via Kristopher Turner

Government

Open Source DevOps in Azure Government via Steve Michelotti

Other

Azure.Source – Volume 70 via Rob Caron
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 183 – Optimize what you spend on the cloud with Azure Cost Management via Michael Crump
Moving WordPress websites between Azure Subscriptions via Jen Stirrup
NEW: Mainframe Migration on the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework via AzureCAT
Monitor at scale in Azure Monitor with multi-resource metric alerts via Snehith Muvva
Integration Down Under | February 14, 2019 | How we are using Microsoft Integration features and related Azure technologies to improve our processes via Sandro Pereira
Introducing Spatial operations for Azure Maps via Microsoft Developer
Azure for Student – Access to GPU resources via Lee Stott
Microsoft’s LinkedIn to launch its own live-streaming video platform via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Microsoft Accessibility Sessions Slated for CSUN 2019 via Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Help us make the .NET Architecture guides better for you! via Nish Anil
Actuating mobility in the enterprise with new Azure Maps services and SDKs via Chris Pendleton
PyTorch on Azure: Deep learning in the oil and gas industry via Anupam Sharma
S/4H Installation in Azure – SETUP AND CONFIG IN ONE DAY via SachinGhorpade
How to avoid overstocks and understocks with better demand forecasting via Sidney Higa
Using Pytorch with Azure via Lee Stott
Maximize throughput with repartitioning in Azure Stream Analytics via Sasha Alperovich
AZ 203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Study Guide via Premier Developer
Azure.Source – Volume 69 via Rob Caron

Videos

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

Azure Instance Metadata Service updates for attested data via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Azure Instance Metadata Service updates for attested data | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Anomaly detection using machine learning in Azure Stream Analytics | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers | The Open Source Show via Channel 9
Anomaly detection using machine learning in Azure Stream Analytics via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Azure IoT Edge VM on Azure Marketplace | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Quickly build data integration pipelines using templates in Azure Data Factory via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Building Applications from Scratch with Azure and Cognitive Services | On .NET via Channel 9
HashiCorp Vault on Azure via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Using HashiCorp Vault with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Quickly build data integration pipelines using templates in Azure Data Factory | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Podcast

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 266 – Azure Kubernetes Service via The Azure Podcast
CRM Audio 107: Power Platform in the Real World via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
AYS: What’s new in Field and Customer Service via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
Episode 112 – Azure Front Door (aka Having Honey With Your Pizza) via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Power BI & More: Data Science with Matt Lamb via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
Episode 290 | The Great Share-Off: OneDrive v. Dropbox v. GDrive via Microsoft Cloud Show

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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.