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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:

Cloud Scale, means Out, not Up by Chris Pietschmann via Opsgility
Rapid Development of Intelligent Bot Using Azure Bot Service by Abhijit Jana
Add Intelligence to Any SQL App, with the Power of Deep Learning via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
Managing Azure Government directories with Powershell by Kyle Deeds
New Features in Microsoft Flow by Lee Stott
Sample: Joining tables from different Azure SQL Databases by Holger Linke
Moving eBird to the Azure Cloud via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
Protection and recovery of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp using Azure Site Recovery by Poornima Natarajan
Blockchain Basics & Partner Strategy by Wendy Spies
Install SQL Server onto an Azure VM using PowerShell DSC by Pete Rodriguez
MyOrder Insights from Application Insights by saxenark
Running SSIS on Azure VM (IaaS) – Do more with less money by Jimmy Wong
Azure SQL Elastic Pool – Database Size by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Enable System.Net tracing on Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
Still Using Windows Server 2003? by John Taubensee
Get Hands-On Experience with OMS Security with OMS Suite Experience Center by Thomas W Shinder
Using Postman to call Azure REST APIs by Benjamin Perkins
Azure Functions preview versioning update by Chris Anderson
November 2016 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN by Rahul Venkatraj
Move the Azure temporary disk to a different drive letter on Windows Server by Pete Rodriguez
Troubleshooting: Azure Auto-scale profile does not change by Souvik Das (CIE)
Create and deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API to Azure Windows by Benjamin Perkins
Creating a Key Encrypting Key (KEK) by Chris Clayton
Get started with Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL DB by Patrick El-Azem
Using Key Vault Secrets in PowerShell by Chris Clayton
Using the Azure ARM SDK for Node to get Site Metrics for your App Service by Gabe Shapiro
Samples for using the Azure App Service Kudu REST API to programmatically manage files in your site by Gabe Shapiro

Videos

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

DocumentDB: Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB Developers via Azure Friday
Getting Started with Azure – Backup Vaults & Policies by Brian Harrison
SQL Server on Linux: The HOW | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Christian Wade explains the preview of Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan
Hashicorp with Azure 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 160 – The Service Fabric Way via The Azure Podcast
Episode 174 | Azure Storage and Office Visio News 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:

IoT spending to reach $1.3 trillion by 2020 on hardware investment by Donal Power
Helping automakers drive innovation through connected cars via Microsoft IoT
Visual Studio Toolbox: SQL Server Extension for Visual Studio Code by Robert Green
What are Microservices and Why Should You Care? by ddeeb
Functions as a Service (FaaS) by Alex Ellis

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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.