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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Microsoft did not announce any Azure service updates over this last week. Hopefully we’ll see more updated next 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:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Make practical use of NSG Flow Logs for troubleshooting by James R Tabor
Tracking configuration changes for your Azure VM by Jenny Hunter
Migrating to SAP HANA on Azure by Michiel van Otegem
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 2 by Greg Oliver
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 3 by Greg Oliver
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 4 by Greg Oliver
Send Telemetry to Splunk Enterprise from Azure Resources via Azure Monitor, Part 5 by Greg Oliver
Azure Site Recovery – VMWare to Azure – Best Practises by j.niesen
OMS now in the UK Azure region by CliveW

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Bind a custom domain to your Azure App Service, 2 steps by Benjamin Perkins
Azure App Service vs Web Hosting by IrvingH
Autoscaling Azure Web Apps by Holger Sirti
Application Insights Performance Profiler by Bart
Get Azure PaaS Endpoint IPs by James R Tabor
How to Develop and Host a Proof-of-Concept Prototype on Azure App Services for Web Apps by Lee Stott

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Securing an Azure Functions App with EasyAuth and AD B2C by SoundCode
Converting XML to JSON with Azure Logic Apps by Michiel van Otegem
Serverless computing with Azure Function in a DevOps Model by Ganesh Shankaran

Command Line

The Azure PowerShell session has not been properly initialized. by jftl6y_007

Database / Big Data

Spatial Data Analysis with R by Lee Stott
APS Polybase to Azure Blob Store by Charl Roux
Azure SQL Data Sync Test Drive and First Impressions by Igor Pagliai
Handling data encoding issues while loading data to SQL Data Warehouse by Matt Goswell
Super Charge Power BI with Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan

Internet of Things (IoT)

Security Features on IoT Core via Channel 9

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision Made Easy with Cognitive Services by Andrew Kanieski

Development

Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 9: BotBuilder features – FormFlow 101 by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 10: BotBuilder features – FormFlow 201 FormBuilder by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 11: BotBuilder features – Global Message Hanlders by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 12: BotBuilder features – Implementing Proactive Messsaging by Kenichiro Nakamura
Compliance on Azure Government by Steve Michelotti
Announcing public preview of Wiki in Visual Studio Team Services by Sandeep Chadda

Certification / Learning

Overcoming negative experiences and stereotypes in computer science education via Microsoft Learning
Education Technology – The transformational potential of Microsoft Azure by Millie Stevinson

Containers and Service Fabric

Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – SSH Authorized Keys by Lior Kamrat
Using PerfView with Azure Service Fabric Event Source Messages by Mark Eisenberg

Events

Missed Azure OpenDev? Watch the videos on-demand now! by John Gossman

Security

How Azure Security Center detects DDoS attack using cyber threat intelligence by Jessen Kurien
Analyze your Check Point logs with OMS Security by The Scripting Guys
AADConnect – Multi Forest Synchronisation Planning by Mike Duddington

Other

Top 10 resources I use to keep up to date with new innovations on the Azure Platform by esthergergis
Tips and Tricks to Save money when using Azure by Lee Stott
Microsoft Analytics Aims to Analyze Worker Habits, Point to More Productivity via SuperSite for Windows
HelloWorld Chef on Windows, Knife, Cookbook, IIS, Windows Azure & everything in between… via Visual Studio Geeks

Videos

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

Azure Mobile App – Under the Hood via Azure Friday
Azure Mobile App Overview via Azure Friday
Episode 231: Azure Functions Local Debugging and More with Donna Malayeri | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
Azure Functions in Two Minutes by John Papa

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 186 – Azure Mobile App via The Azure Podcast
Episode 202 | Azure and AWS 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:

The Small Micro:bit Makes it Big in the US and Canada by Greg Duncan
Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino is now open sourced! by Zhidi Shang
Closing the gap between TFS and Scrum by Alexei Govorine

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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.