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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Redefines Leadership in Top 100 Global Technology Leader list by Thomson Reuters by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0 by Chris Pietschmann
- What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a continuous delivery and cloud world or how to deploy on Monday morning by WouterDeKort
- Serverless Twitter Analytics with CosmosDB and Logic Apps by Jeremy Likness
- Exciting New Features in App Service Diagnostics by Jennifer Lee
- Microsoft to drop its HealthVault Insights apps via ZDNet
- Resolve to Get Certified in 2018: Firebrand Announces Top 10 Certifications for 2018 by Liberty Munson
- Azure Data Factory: Visual Tools enabled in public preview by Gaurav Malhotra
- Improved Stream Analytics output support in Visual Studio by Jie Su
- Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL Database by Joseph Sack
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- General availability: Service tags for NSGs
- Change in Mercury DB and Titan DB service plans
- Region expansion: Global VNet Peering
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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)
- Azure VMs–Block Outbound Traffic to the Internet (Updated) by Aidan Finn
- Microsoft’s newest Windows Server test build adds new storage, failover clustering updates via ZDNet
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Demystifying the magic behind App Service OS updates by Oded Dvoskin
- Exciting New Features in App Service Diagnostics by Jennifer Lee
- Why is my Azure App Service down? by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 80 – Adding Metadata to a file inside Azure Storage Blob Container by Michael Crump
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 79 – Creating an Azure Blob Hierarchy by Micheal Crump
- How to handle data type issues of data from Azure Storage blobs by pkirchner
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 78 – Copy Azure Storage Blobs and Files via C# by Michael Crump
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Serverless Twitter Analytics with CosmosDB and Logic Apps by Jeremy Likness
- How to install custom dependencies on Azure Functions on Linux by Julian Atanasoae
- Azure Function Apps: Organizing the Azure Function Apps under same Consumption Plan by Amit Agarwal
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Get started with Microsoft Teams @ Microsoft Training Academy, BETT 2018 by Kristy Hill
- Why did we build a web based BizTalk Admin Console? by Saravana Kumar
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- Adding Azure Monitor Performance Alerts Using PowerShell by Aidan Finn
- Azure CLI Image Copy Extension – allows you to copy virtual machine images between regions with just one command. by Lee Stott
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 81 – Working with AzCopy and Azure Storage by Michael Crump
- Managing Github URLs for Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments by Michael S. Hansen
Database / Big Data
- Getting started with VueJs, NodeJs and Azure CosmosDB by Aram Koukia
- DevOps for Data Science – Application Performance Monitoring by BuckWoody
- Combining data from multiple sources in Azure Search by Christos Matskas
- Azure Databricks – RDD – Resilient Distributed Dataset by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Azure Data Factory: Visual Tools enabled in public preview by Gaurav Malhotra
- Debugging Azure Data Lake Job Failures Made Easy (part 2) – Efficiently troubleshoot anomalies in recurring jobs by Yanan Cai
- Improved Stream Analytics output support in Visual Studio by Jie Su
- Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL Database by Joseph Sack
- Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation by Yochanan Rachamim
- Indexing and searching SQL Server data with Azure Search by Christos Matskas
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0 by Chris Pietschmann
- Announcing IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0 by Chrissie Chi
- Azure Internet of Things Edge Development Resources by Lee Stott
- Accelerate your business revolution with IoT in Action by Olivia Burgess
- New Azure IoT services supported by IoT DevKit by Liya (Liki) Du
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Learning & Computer Vision in the Microsoft Azure Cloud by Adrian Rosebrock
Development and DevOps
- What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a continuous delivery and cloud world or how to deploy on Monday morning by WouterDeKort
- January 2018 VSTS Hosted Agent Image Updates by Chris Patterson
- Getting Azure App Services Publishing Profile inside Visual Studio itself by Abhijit Jana
Azure Stack
- Announcing the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure Stack by Natalia Mackevicius
Security
- Serious about security? Check out Azure Security Center by Kim Spilker
- Azure Administrator Account Security by Jason Boeshart
- How Azure Security Center helps analyze attacks using Investigation and Log Search by Ajeet Prakash
- Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments by Miri Landau
Learning / Certification
- Resolve to Get Certified in 2018: Firebrand Announces Top 10 Certifications for 2018 by Liberty Munson
- Introductory computing class using Microsoft Azure Notebooks Service powered by the Jupyter by Lee Stott
- Embracing Cloud Learning at Guilsborough Academy by Andrew Robertson
- Get trained for free with the Microsoft Educator Community @ Microsoft Training Academy, Bett 2018 by Kristy Hill
Azure Government
- Using Azure Commercial AAD Authentication and Graph API in Azure Government Web App – PowerShell Automation by Michael S. Hansen
Blockchain
Events
- Show off your skills with #AzureTrivia via Microsoft Azure Blog
- Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour by FitGeekGirl
- Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud Red Shirt Tour by Lee Stott
Other
- Microsoft Redefines Leadership in Top 100 Global Technology Leader list by Thomson Reuters by Chris Pietschmann
- Last week in Azure: WAF integrates with Azure Security Center, and more by Rob Caron
- A Microservices implementation journey — Part 1 by Aram Koukia
- Microsoft Integration (Azure and much more) Stencils Pack v3.0.0 for Visio by Sandro Pereira
- Microsoft to drop its HealthVault Insights apps via ZDNet
- Why did we build monitoring for IBM MQ, MSMQ, Azure Service Bus Queue? by Saravana Kumar
- High-traffic WordPress migration for MySchleppApp (HESA Solutions GmbH) by pkirchner
- Q&A: MVP Rie Irish Talks To Us About Highlighting Female Voices In Tech by Rie Irish
- Azure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and more by Christian Wade
- How do I know that Resource Monitor isnt just retaining a handle to the terminated process? by Raymond Chen
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Azure Backup via Azure Friday
- PyMLadies – The Back Story | AI Show via Channel 9
- Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 via Azure Friday
- Creating custom applications on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- StreamSets on Azure HDInsight | 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 212 – Planning for Reliability via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 234 | North American Collaboration Summit via Microsoft Cloud Show
- OpenAPI.NET with Darrel Miller via .NET Rocks!
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Beta for Docker Enterprise Edition with Kubernetes Integration Now Available by Vivek Saraswat
- Datacenters Brace For Spectre And Meltdown Impact by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Apache Kafka on Kuberneted and OpenShift : Barnabas is died … long life to Strimzi ! by ppatierno
- Tip: Make Sure Your PC is Safe from Meltdown and Spectre by Paul Thurrott
- The Promise of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled IoT by Olivia Burgess
- Hanselminutes: Raspberry Pi clusters and Serverless by Alex Ellis
- Streamlining Data Breach Disclosures: A Step-by-Step Process by Troy Hunt
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