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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: The end result by WouterDeKort
- Debugging C# (.NET Core) Azure Functions with VS Code by Christos Matskas
- Open Source Book: Programming the Blockchain in C# by Chris Pietschmann
- Compliance assessment reports for Azure Stack are now available by Filippo Seracini
- Microsoft cuts Azure Standard support from $300 to $100 per month via ZDNet
- Accelerated Spark on GPU-enabled clusters in Azure by JS Tan
- Connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Storage Explorer by using Connection String by Abhijit Jana
- Microsoft Shields Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Users from Patent Trolls by Christine Hall
- Working with Azure IoT data in Azure SQL Database by Jovan Popovic
- Monitoring issues on Stack Overflow with serverless, CosmosDB and Teams by Shayne Boyer
- Zone Redundant Virtual Machine Scale Sets now available in public preview by Neil Gat
- Announcing integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience by Trinadh Kotturu
- Launching the Azure Storage Solution showcase by Karl Rautenstrauch
- Getting Started with Ethereum using Azure Blockchain by Mike Finley
- These 6 Female MVPs Talk About The Power Of Networking via MVP Award Program
- Serious about cloud security? Check out this new training on Azure Security Center by Matthew Calder
- Microsoft DevOps tools win Tool Challenge @ Software Quality Days by Gerwald Oberleitner
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- New region for App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers
- New Python solutions for Web App for Containers
- General availability: Azure DNS in Microsoft Azure Government
- Azure Standard support plan: price drop and faster initial response time
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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)
- Accelerated Spark on GPU-enabled clusters in Azure by JS Tan
- Zone Redundant Virtual Machine Scale Sets now available in public preview by Neil Gat
- Announcing integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience by Trinadh Kotturu
- Comprehensive monitoring for Azure Site Recovery now generally available by Bharath Sivaraman
- Start replicating in under 30 minutes using Azure Site Recovery’s new onboarding experience by Anoop K. Vasudavan
- Keeping your environment secure with Update Management by Zach Alexander
- Azure-Linux VM Can’t SSH by Tzachi Elkabatz
- Azure-Linux VM -Configure A Partition Larger Then 2 TB. by Tzachi Elkabatz
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 86 – Deleting an item from a Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
- Moving files into blob storage by Simon Foster
- TLS on Azure App Services by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 84 – Reading an item from an Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
- Launching the Azure Storage Solution showcase by Karl Rautenstrauch
- Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview by Dinesh Murthy
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 85 – Updating an item from a Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 83 – Adding an item to a Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 82 – Creating your first Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Import directive and Logic Apps SOAP connector by David Burg
- Original Run Vs Resubmitted Run in Logic apps by Shashidharan Krishnan
- Debugging C# (.NET Core) Azure Functions with VS Code by Christos Matskas
- Azure Storage for Serverless .NET Apps in Minutes by Jeremy Likness
- Azure Media Functions (Server-less Functions) by k.moussa
- Monitoring issues on Stack Overflow with serverless, CosmosDB and Teams by Shayne Boyer
- Savill’s FAQs: Exploring Azure Files Sync Features by John Savill
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- How can PowerApps and Microsoft Flow allow your Power Users to quickly build Enterprise Mobile Apps video and slides are available at Integration Monday by Sandro Pereira
- Cannot get Microsoft Teams @mentions to work? by ChengBinTham
- The Director Role and Offloading Authentication in Skype for Business 2015 by Byron Spurlock
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- PowerShell to list all Azure AD Apps with expiration dates by Srinivas Varukala
- Azure Web App with Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Powershell Automation by Michael S. Hansen
- Powershell to delete deployments from the Azure Resource Group by Nikita Agarwal
- What Root Certificates exist on an Azure App Service, CA Root by Benjamin Perkins
Database / Big Data
- Integrate Power BI Dashboards, Reports and Tiles into a WPF Application by Rob Reilly
- Azure Notebooks Overview with Shahrokh Mortazavi Free hosted Jupyter Python/R/F# REPL for learning by Lee Stott
- From unstructured data to dashboard with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake by Matt Basile
- Connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Storage Explorer by using Connection String by Abhijit Jana
- Azure Cosmos DB Performance – Throughput by Howard Edidin
- Working with Azure Storage Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB by Abhijit Jana
- How to restore Azure SQL DW GeoBackup across Azure subscriptions.. by Visual Studio Geeks
- Azure Databricks – Spark SQL – Data Frames by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Accelerate innovation with Microsoft Azure Databricks by Will Mendoza
- Accessing The Power BI APIs in a Federated Azure AD Setup by Andreas Helland
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Working with Azure IoT data in Azure SQL Database by Jovan Popovic
- Farmers improve management and crop yields with IoT by Jerry Lee
- New Features in Visual Studio Code IoT Edge Extension 0.1.3 & IoT Toolkit 0.5.0 by Xinyi Zhang
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Services – Availability of SDKs for the latest Bing Search APIs by Ronak Shah
- Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework Errata by Kim Spilker
- No response from bot emulator after the new update to Bot Framework/Azure Bot Service? by ChengBinTham
- Finding QnAKnowledgebaseId and QnASubscriptionKey to configure the new Azure Bot Service by knethteo
- Custom Vision Service: Code-Free Automated Machine Learning for Image Classification via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Care and Feeding of Predictive Maintenance Solutions via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Data Science Virtual Machine | AI Show via Channel 9
- CustomVision.AI: Code-free automated machine learning for image classification by Joseph Sirosh
- Machine Learning: An Introduction by Rahul Sahasrabuddhe
Development and DevOps
- What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: The end result by WouterDeKort
- GitHub Issues – As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management by Visual Studio Geeks
- DevOps for Data Science – Load Testing and Auto-Scale by BuckWoody
- A Microservices implementation journey — Part 2 by Aram Koukia
- Microsoft DevOps tools win Tool Challenge @ Software Quality Days by Gerwald Oberleitner
Azure Stack
- Compliance assessment reports for Azure Stack are now available by Filippo Seracini
- Microsoft Shields Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Users from Patent Trolls by Christine Hall
Security
- Accessing The Power BI APIs in a Federated Azure AD Setup by Andreas Helland
- Savill’s FAQs: Azure Files Sync and Change Control for Group Policy by John Savill
- Serious about cloud security? Check out this new training on Azure Security Center by Matthew Calder
- Why did we built User Access Policy to Manage BizTalk Server Security? by Saravana Kumar
Learning / Certification
- Microsoft Professional Program Adds IT Support for 6 Tracks to Choose! by Chris Pietschmann
- New book: Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, Second Edition by Kim Spilker
Containers and Service Fabric
- New eBook: Kubernetes objects on Microsoft Azure by Ed Price
Blockchain
- Open Source Book: Programming the Blockchain in C# by Chris Pietschmann
- Getting Started with Ethereum using Azure Blockchain by Mike Finley
- Blockchain IoT Security: The Enduring Importance of Trust by Brian Buntz
- Blockchain IoT Security: An Interview with Xage’s CEO by Brian Buntz
Events
Other
- Improving On-Demand Data Protection with the Public Cloud via IT Pro
- Azure Standard support now offers the highest value support for production workloads amongst major cloud providers via Microsoft Azure Blog
- Microsoft cuts Azure Standard support from $300 to $100 per month via ZDNet
- ITSM Connector for Azure is now generally available by Shankar Sivadasan
- Azure Search enterprise security: Data encryption and user-identity access control by Liam Cavanagh
- Understanding and Configuring Azure Communications by Jeff Sanders
- Last week in Azure: New visual tools for Data Factory, and more by Rob Caron
- Data Connector SDK and Partner Center by Isaiah Williams
- Solution SLAs in Azure by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Machine Learning in IoT solutions | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- H20.ai on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Part 2/8 An introduction to Azure IoT through the new Remote Monitoring Preconfigured Solution | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Corey Talks with Microsoft Solutions Providers: Datacom Systems, Hanu and New Signature | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Cask CDAP on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Spring Boot with VS Code and Azure | Azure Friday by Donovan Brown, Rob Caron
- Azure Notebooks | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- IoT extension for Azure CLI | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Spring Boot with VS Code and Azure via Azure Friday
- Jim Christopher on Data Science by 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 213 – Azure Dev using Windows Subsystem for Linux via The Azure Podcast
- Programming for Girls with Jennifer Wadella via .NET Rocks!
- Episode 235 | GCP & Office 365 Cloud News Catchup 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:
- Startup Builds GPU Native Custom Neural Network Framework by Nicole Hemsoth
- It’s About Time For Time Series Databases by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- These 6 Female MVPs Talk About The Power Of Networking via MVP Award Program
- Enterprises will spend $7 trillion on digital transformation by 2021 by John Koetsier
- Get storage for your Severless Functions with Minio & Docker by Alex Ellis
- Google’s Vision for Mainstreaming Machine Learning by Jeffrey Burt
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