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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Mobile Apps iOS SDK v3.3.0 released
- Parse Server on Azure App Service updated
- Public preview: Interactive query experience for SQL databases
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Secondary indexes on column store now available
- Web Apps available only in the Azure portal from February 1
- Azure Storage Data Movement Library 0.5.0 release
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code by Jenny Jiang
- Easily Manage Azure Web App Connection Strings using PowerShell by Chris Pietschmann via Opsgility
- Azure Web Apps only in Current Portal from February 1, 2017 by Chris Pietschmann
- Preview API Apps Deprecation by Alex Karcher
- Announcing the availability of Clear Linux* OS in Azure Marketplace by Jose Miguel Parrella
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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 Logic App Updates January 2017 by Chris Pietschmann
- Get Hands-On Experience with OMS Security with OMS Suite Experience Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Azure App Service – Force redirect from HTTP to HTTPS the easy way! by nrogoff
- How to delete an Azure Active Directory (ADD) Tenant by nrogoff
- HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse December Updates by Jenny Jiang
- Using Machine Learning in Finance by meechao
- Debugging Azure Funtions in Visual Studio by Benjamin Perkins
- Using code package environment variables in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
- Building an Experimental Stock Trading System using Machine Learning and Python by meechao
- Automated Partition Management with Azure Analysis Services by Christian Wade
- Revisiting Windows Azure Pack Web Sites V2 Support Lifecycle Dates by Andrew Westgarth
- Azure Mobile Apps iOS SDK v3.3.0 Released by Adrian Hall
- Azure Archive Storage by Gautam
- Azure recipes by Sergey Babkin
- OMS Security malware assessment adds support for more antimalware vendors via The Scripting Guys
- Automated backups configuration fails when configured from Azure portal by Ujjwal Patel
- Automate SQL server backup file removal/deletion from Azure blob storage by Ujjwal Patel
- Add-AzureAccount issue: Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired by Maheshk
- Parse Server on Azure App Service Updated by Adrian Hall
- Processing Configurable Threshold Based Rules in Azure Stream Analytics by Zhong Chen
- Joining an ARM Linux VM to AAD Domain Services by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Collaboration and federation: Azure Service Bus Messaging on-premises futures by Clemens Vasters
- Data Retention Option is now available in Azure portal by martynas
- Notification Hubs Java SDK Improvements – Direct Send, Cancel Scheduled Pushes, Get Telemetry by Mimi Xu
- Failure Anomalies alert now detects dependency failures by Yossi Yossifon
- Can blockchain secure supply chains, improve operations and solve humanitarian issues? by Yorke Rhodes III
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Secondary indexes on column store now available by Shivani Gupta
- Azure Machine Learning Now Available in West Central US by Ted Way
- How to integrate a new Azure Container Service cluster into an existing virtual network using ACS Engine by Julien Corioland
- Azure multi-tenant documentation by Jamie Dalton
- Announcing Data Science Utilities Version 0.11, for the Team Data Science Process by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
- copy data to and between clouds by RalfWi
- Embedding Power BI Reports using REST APIs and Silent authentication via Azure Active Directory by Rajat_Singhai
- Deploying Azure Functions with ARM templates and the Kudu REST API by Christos Matskas
- Azure Functions custom logging with AppInsights by Christos Matskas
- Deploying Functions with ARM templates and inline code by Christos Matskas
- Delete Empty Load Balancers with No Virtual Machines by Sonam Rastogi
- Enable Azure resource metrics logging using PowerShell via The Scripting Guys
- Where does the Microsoft Intelligent cloud fit into your curriculum by Lee Stott
- What Microsoft Azure Service do I choose? by Jose Paulo Pendao
- SSH tunnel to endpoints in Azure VNet from Windows by Paige Liu
- Azure Automation available in UK and West Central US regions by Andres Juarez
- [Sample Of Jan. 16] How to Use Azure Media Service RESTful API in Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 via OneCode Team
- Use Bot Framework Emulator Correctly to Test Your Bots by Benjamin Xue
- Working with DocumentDb by Adrian Hall
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Episode 221: Azure Analysis Services with Josh Caplan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
- Azure Analysis Services Programmability and Automation via Azure Friday
- Tuesdays with Corey: Cloud Foundry is Generally Available on Azure | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Automate your expense tracking with AgitareTech and Azure Technologies via Channel 9
- Amanda Lange on the Microsoft Bot Framework and LUIS via David Giard
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 162 – Partner Spotlight – Cloudhouse Technologies via The Azure Podcast
- Azure Key Vault with Sumedh Barde via .NET Rocks
- Episode 176 | 2017 Predictions, Wishes and Goals via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Monitoring your Azure App with Tom Kerkhove 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:
- Visual Studio 2017 brings Docker Home by Usman Ur Rehman
- HPE Gets Serious About Hyperconverged Storage With SimpliVity Buy by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Pioneer Behind “Internet of Oysters” Now Looking to Sustainably Feed the Planet via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
- On Premises Object Storage Mimics Big Public Clouds by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Why we badly need standardization to advance IoT by Shahid Mansuri
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Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft’s new PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering for building large-scale, distributed cloud applications. The service is expected to be previewed in late 2015 and be released in 2016. With Azure Fabric Service, you can: 1) rapidly develop and update microservice-based applications, accelerating delivery of new functions, 2) operate reliable hyper-scale services enabling in-place upgrades, automation, and application lifecycle management, and 3) deploy the same application code on public, hosted or private clouds as needed by using the consistent platform services and the same application model across Azure and on-premises and hosted datacenters.
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