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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

Announcing ML.NET 0.3 by Cesar de la Torre
Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces by Visual Studio Blog
Introducing Dev Spaces for AKS by Gabe Monroy
Microsoft Azure launches tamper-proof Azure Immutable Blob Storage for financial services by Alan Ross
Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
New Azure #CosmosDB Explorer now in public preview by Kirill Gavrylyuk
Azure Security Center Preview now available in Azure Government by Azure Gov Team
Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview by Justin Conway

Azure 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:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Read-Scale Availability Group Setup by Ryan J. Adams
Save time by leveraging auto-filled fields at virtual machine creation by Tanmayee Kamath
Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in UK South region by Ajay Gummadi
Agile SAP development with SAP Cloud Platform on Azure by Sarabjit Singh Dua
Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview by Justin Conway

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

How to add annotations in Application Insights Charts by Abhijit Jana
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 138 – Host a Static Website with Azure Storage by Michael Crump
How create a static website on Azure Storage by Frank Boucher
Publish SMART on FHIR OAuth2 URLs using Azure API Management by Michael S. Hansen
Microsoft Azure launches tamper-proof Azure Immutable Blob Storage for financial services by Alan Ross
Azure storage: working with containers and SAS keys by sendmarsh
Open EMR in Azure PaaS (Commercial and Government) by Michael S. Hansen
Azure Search – Announcing the general availability of synonyms by Liam Cavanagh
Generally Available – Application Insights Integration by Miao Jiang

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Use serverless functions and CDN to speed up API data calls by Shayne Boyer

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Microsoft’s plan to put Dynamics 365 CRM/ERP on a twice-yearly update schedule via ZDNet
Microsoft Will Release a Dark Mode for Outlook.com by Paul Thurrott

Command-Line / ARM Templates

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 139 – Prevent AzCopy Uploads from maxing out Internet Connection Speed by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 137 – Export Azure Resources to CSV files with PowerShell by Michael Crump

Database / Big Data

Power BI Embedded dashboards with Azure Stream Analytics by Krishna Mamidipaka
Deploy Azure SQL Managed Instance network environment using ARM by Jovan Popovic
Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on Azure Virtual Machines with MSDTC by Ryan J. Adams
Mixing Standard and Premium Service Bus with VNet Service Endpoints by Dan Rosanova
IP filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus by Shubha Vijayasarathy
How to get Azure Data Factory connecting to your data on a VNet (or internal network) by nrogoff
New Azure #CosmosDB Explorer now in public preview by Kirill Gavrylyuk
Azure Databricks provides the best Apache Spark™-based analytics solution for data scientists and engineers by Yatharth Gupta
Monitor Azure Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite by Gaurav Malhotra

Internet of Things (IoT)

What’s new in Azure IoT Central by Cameron Greene

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Announcing ML.NET 0.3 by Cesar de la Torre
Lessons from big box retail by Howard Bush
Azure Content Spotlight – Video Indexer by Sjoukje Zaal
Connecting Azure Bot Services with an existing Application Insights by Abhijit Jana
Spoken Language Identification in Video Indexer by Shay Ben-Elazar

Development and DevOps

Universal Packages bring large, generic artifact management to VSTS by Alex Mullans
Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces by Visual Studio Blog
Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms by Derrick Stolee
Supercharging the Git Commit Graph II: File Format by Derrick Stolee
Create GitHub Issues for App Insights Telemetry from Visual Studio by Abhijit Jana
Moving from Hosted XML process to Inheritance process – Private Preview by Dan Hellem
Angular 6 application hosted on Azure Storage Static website by Martin Brandl

Containers / Service Fabric

Introducing Dev Spaces for AKS by Gabe Monroy
Preparing for Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam and how it compares to CKA by Arsen Vladimirskiy

Security / Privacy

Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Azure – Just in Time VM access by Thomas Maurer
Securing the connection between Power BI and Azure SQL Database by Keith Burns

Learning / Certification

Chris Pietschmann Awarded 2018 Microsoft MVP Award by Chris Pietschmann
2018-2019 Microsoft MVP renewal by Ken Cenerelli
Microsoft MVP 2018-2019! by Ronni Pedersen
Microsoft MVP Award, Year 8 by Troy Hunt
Thanks! Awarded as Microsoft Azure MVP 2018-2019 by Sandro Pereira

Azure Government

Azure Gov DC Meetup recap: How Cloud Can Drive #GovInnovation + Solution Showcase by Karina Homme
Azure Security Center Preview now available in Azure Government by Azure Gov Team
Open EMR in Azure PaaS (Commercial and Government) by Michael S. Hansen

Other

Azure Marketplace new offers June 1–15 by Christine Alford
How to reset Azure Portal Dashboard to default state? by Abhijit Jana

Videos

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

John Azariah on Quantum Computing by David Giard
Unified alerts in Azure Monitor | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Provisioning IoT devices at scale – The Demo | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Azure App Service Web Apps | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Azure Databricks by David Giard
Episode 21: Five Things Kubernetes Can Do for You | Five Things via Channel 9
Building an Intelligent Bot: Conference Buddy | AI Show 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 72 – SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business with Omar Shahine via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 236 – Where to run my app? via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Jabil Enables a Global Software Supply Chain with Docker Enterprise Edition by Sergio Pineda
Create an IoT sensor with NodeMCU and Lua by Alex Ellis
AI Security Camera: The Future of Surveillance Will Be Automated by Zay
micro:bit motion sensor hardware change @microbit_edu #microbit by Phillip Torrone
How AI and Tech Personal Assistants Will Make Your Life Easier by Frank Landman
History of the Internet Part 11: Apple and Steve Jobs by Kevin O’Shaughnessy
Using Computer Vision to Ferment the Perfect Sourdough Yeast #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi by Ben
Cool Hacks Spotlight: Gloo Function Gateway by Patrick Chanezon
Microsoft HoloLens: Visualizing the next mission to Mars. by Microsoft HoloLens

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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.