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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Standard streaming endpoints and Azure Content Delivery Network integration

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Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Azure Networking Fridays with the Azure Black Belt Team – Winter 2017! by Olivier Martin
Announcing: New Auto-Scaling Standard Streaming Endpoint and Enhanced Azure CDN Integration by Cenk Dingiloglu
How to integrate a new Azure Container Service cluster into an existing virtual network using ACS Engine by Julien Corioland
Azure WCF Relay DNS Support by Justin Conway
How to: Schedule Azure VM Startup and Shutdown by Steven Edouard
Export Azure Usage data to CSV with C# and Billing API by Armin Reiter
Awesome Azure IoT by formulahendry
Create you first ASP.NET Core App and host it in a Linux Docker container on Microsoft Azure (Part 1/3) by Malte Lantin
Create you first ASP.NET Core App and host it in a Linux Docker container on Microsoft Azure (Part 2/3) by Malte Lantin
Create you first ASP.NET Core App and host it in a Linux Docker container on Microsoft Azure (Part 3/3) by Malte Lantin
Lesson Learned #16: How to change the default language of Azure SQL Database by Jose M Jurado
New Azure Storage Release – Larger Block Blobs, Incremental Copy, and more! by Sercan Guler
how to upload a machine cert to Azure by Sergey Babkin
Microsoft Azure attains DoD PA at Level 5 by Adam Soh
Azure Analysis Services now available in Southeast Asia and East US 2 by Josh Caplan
Lesson Learned #15: Securing our Azure SQL Datawarehouse by Jose M Jurado
how to connect raspberry pi to azure storage by ejarvi
NAV 2017 CU2 on Azure by FreddyDK
How Adobe, Dallas Zoo and Financial Fabric Are Using Microsoft Cognitive Services and the Azure Data Platform via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Azure Virtual Machine Internals – Part 2 by Yunus Mohammed
How to add missing resource types in azure by mabira
How to fix, the namespace name is previously used in another project and has been deleted less than one week. by Abhinav Ranjan Since Jee
Part 1: Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors by Stephane Eyskens
Some Billing and purchases VSO Licensing considerations. Troubleshooting Scenario:Unable to connect Visual Studio to the Azure subscription for Development by Rosana Araya
ARM template – turning on blob auditing by Orsolya Gal
Sending email from an Azure App Service using an O365 SMTP server by Benjamin Perkins
Authorization call back function in Azure by Gouri Sohoni
Azure Mobile Apps .NET SDK Releases by Adrian Hall
generating self-signed certificates with keyvault by ejarvi
Displaying a specific report page with Power BI Publish to web by Charles Sterling
Creating a weather app using PowerApps by CarlosAg
HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse December Updates by Jenny Jiang
Deleting all resources, created in one Resource Group in #Azure by Aram Koukia
Real Time Telemetry for your BoT using Application Insights by Abhijit Jana
Azure AAD B2C integration with Web and Mobile platforms by Puneet Ghanshani
Join the OMS Log Analytics Customer Panel via Operations Management Suite Blog
OS patching for VMs running Service fabric via Service Fabric Team
Quickly deploy RDS 2016 in Azure by Kirill Kotlyarenko
[Service Fabric] Securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster with Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal by Larry Wall
Precompiling Your Azure Functions by Andreas Helland
Using Cloud Explorer with a Sovereign Cloud by Benjamin Perkins
How to access KUDU using your Publishing Profile by Benjamin Perkins
Logic App to detect sentiment and extract key phrases from your text by Gautam
Azure Security Center extends support for Windows Server 2016 by Sarah Fender
SoftNAS Cloud® on Azure – Cloud NAS Storage made easy by Lutful Chandler
Design Azure infrastructure services to host a multi-tier LOB application by Joe Davies
Azure Storage Queues New Feature: Pop-Receipt on Add Message by Sercan Guler
Troubleshooting NSGs using Diagnostic Logs by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Lesson Learned #14: Is it possible to upload a SQL server backup to an Azure database by Jose M Jurado
Accessing Azure SQL DB from Azure VM using a static Public IP adress by Raghda Aldeen
Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Moving databases across pools using PowerShell by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Functions, Blob Triggers and Timers by Martin Abbott
Connect Azure App Service to Virtual network by Admin Reiter

Videos

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

Getting Started with Azure – Backing Up VMs by Christopher Harrison
Kubernetes Support in Azure Container Services via Azure Friday
Tuesdays with Corey: Coolness of Visual Studio Azure Functions Tools! | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
HDInsight Compliance | 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 161 – MVP & RD Spotlight – Vishwas Lele via The Azure Podcast
Migrating to Azure with Christos Matskas via .NET Rocks
Episode 175 | Microsoft PowerApps and Flow with Laura Rogers 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:

SQL Server R Services – Why we built it by Umachandar Jayachandran
Connect VSCode to Azure SQL Database from everywhere by Frank Boucher
Hardware & IoT, Programming, Data, and More: 243 Free E-Books from @OReillyMedia | #ebook via Adafruit Industries

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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.