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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:

IoT in Action with Microsoft Virtual Bootcamp 28th-30th March 2017 by Lee Stott
My Microsoft Azure Certification Revision Sheets by Nicholas Rogoff
How to Send Daily SMS Reminders Using C#, Azure Functions and Twilio by Brent Schooley
How To Build Planet Scale Mobile App in Minutes with Xamarin and DocumentDB by Kirill Gavrylyuk
Intro to Azure PowerShell cmdlets by Steven Fowler
Enable Failed Reuqest Tracing for an Azure App Service Web App by Benjamin Perkins
Automated CI/CD for your Xamarin App using VSTS, Bitrise and HockeyApp by Gerald Versluis
Announcing Version 1.0 of SonarQube ARM Template by Kevin D Mack
Updating AzureApp Service certificates from Key Vault by Christian Reddington
Azure subscription rights challenge in CSP by Kirill Kotlyarenko
Lesson Learned #20: What happen with my connection inside Azure when SQL Auditing is enabled? by Jose M Jurado
Our journey on building the Go SDK for Azure by Kirthi Krishnamraju
Experiencing a Real-World Security Investigation with OMS Security by Yuri Diogenes
Setting up HTTPS endpoints in ASP.NET Core services in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
Loading data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse just got easier by Casey Karst
DevOps for IoT (Part 1) by Daniel Meixner
Build IoT Solutions on top of Microsoft technology stack: Azure IoT and Windows IoT by formulahendry
How to: Schedule Azure VM Shutdown based on CPU, Disk, Network Usage by Steven Edouard
Manage App Service, SQL Database, and more – Azure Management Libraries for .NET by Asir Selvasingh
Azure Analysis Services now available in North Central US and Brazil South by Josh Caplan
Optimizing your emails using Microsoft Flow by Christo Lolov
Modern Data Warehousing with Continuous Integration by Mohit Chand
ClearDB maintenance for Mercury databases on Microsoft Azure by mksunitha
Inserting data into a PowerBI Dataset via Flow and the REST APIs by Charles Sterling
Connect to your Azure SQL DB behind MsAccess web application by Yochanan Rachamim
HDInsight: How to find Long Running Queries by Karan Gulati
Change OMS Log Analytics Retention Period in the Azure Portal by Rafaela Brownlie
Azure Analysis Services unable to add security group by Haidong Huang
Securing ASP.NET Core application settings using Azure Key Vault by Christos Matskas
Azure Analysis Services cross tenant access by Haidong Huang
Manage App Service, SQL Database, and more – Azure Management Libraries for Java by Asir Selvasingh
Create Azure Event Hub for IoT via PowerShell by Steven Fowler
Event Hubs Dedicated Offering by Justin Conway
Azure Site Recovery : How to protect your on-prem physical machines by Shijimol AK
Microsoft delivers awaited OneDrive for Business-SharePoint sync via ZDNet
Understanding R for non-scientists with Power BI by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
Part 3: Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors by Toni Pohl
Microsoft turns on Office 365 in its managed German datacenters via ZDNet
My Cloud Saturday Atlanta 2017 Azure Session on IoT by Steven Fowler
Azure App Service: Using cURL for deployment by Kaushal Kumar Panday
A Plethora of Microsoft Training Options on AI, Machine Learning & Data Science, including MOOCs by Kristin M. Tolle
Azure Blueprint helps DoD Mission Owners accelerate compliance with L5 security controls by John Molesky
How can you associate your Office 365 Azure AD to an existing Azure Subscription? by markga
Automated backups configuration fails when configured from Azure portal by Pradeep Adiga
Automate SQL server backup file removal/deletion from Azure blob storage by Pradeep Adiga
Azure Application Insights – An essential part of Microsoft DevOps Strategy by Subodh Sohoni
Lesson Learned #19: How to obtain the deadlocks of your Azure SQL Database? by Jose M Jurado
Azure Relay Namespace Separation by Justin Conway

Videos

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

Scott Guthrie – Morning | AZGroups – Scott Guthrie 2017 by Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie – Morning Session B | AZGroups – Scott Guthrie 2017 by Scott Guthrie
Using and Maintaining a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Services via Azure Friday
SQL Server on Linux: The HOW – PART 2 | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Getting started with the Azure Analysis Services Preview via Channel 9
Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Stack update with Jeffrey Snover | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Big Data Partner Program | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Glenn Block on Serverless Computing 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 163 – VM Internals via The Azure Podcast
Episode 177 | Geek Out on Cutting the Cord 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:

FPGAs Focal Point for Efficient Neural Network Inference by Nicole Hemsoth
Managing Cloud Resources with CAPS by Jeff ramnani
Making it easier to get started with IoT via Microsoft IoT
Azure4Research program announces winning IoT solutions via Microsoft IoT
Introducing Docker 1.13 via Docker Core Engineering

Featured Inspiration

To provide something a little unique this week, I thought I’d share a really interesting video from Scott Hanselman, Kendra Havens, Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi, Kasey Uhlenhuth, and Donovan Brown. In this special “How to get started with technical public speaking!” they get into the details of how they first started, as well as many tips for how they prepare and delivery their own talks today. Not one of them has the same tips or the same origin, and this video should help give you some insight to get over the #1 fear people have: The fear of public speaking.

Have you given a talk to a local user group, or just a group of fellow employees at work? If not, then I really encourage you to push yourself to the next level and start sharing your own knowledge with groups of people that are willing to learn.

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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.