Build Azure Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build Azure Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build Azure Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing!

The Weeks Top Links

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

How much does Microsoft Certification cost? via Chris Pietschmann
IBM Closes Its $34 Billion Acquisition of Red Hat via Paul Thurrott
Detect and Handle a Twitter Outage via Chris Pietschmann
ServiceNow says it will run its full SaaS platform on Microsoft’s Azure plus its own cloud via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start? via Chris Pietschmann

How to Build Azure

The latest addition to BuildAzure.com is the all new “How to Build Azure” guides! This is a new section of BuildAzure.com that hosts “How to” style guides to help you be more productive working in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Here’s a few of the latest guides in the How to Build Azure archive:

The new “Guide” content type in BuildAzure.com is designed to provide “How to” or “Lab” style guides on how to do things in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Rather than “lab guides” that are step-by-step learning resources, How to Build Azure is meant to help you be more productive in your day-to-day job. How to Build Azure is a productivity booster resource to go along with all the Articles posted on the site; from certifications to architecture, developer, devops, and beyond. These guides can be found in the “Guides” header menu item of BuildAzure.com, and displayed in the sidebar of the website.

Azure Service Updates

Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Building on Bitcoin via Microsoft Developer

Security, Identity, and Privacy

How to Use Azure Managed Service Identity via Gregor Suttie
Two ways to share Azure Advisor recommendations via Kaitlyn Corazao
July Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server via Erin Dormier
July Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server via Erin Dormier

Learning and Certification

How much does Microsoft Certification cost? via Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start? via Chris Pietschmann
Databricks pt 3: Creating an Azure Databricks Notebook via David Giard
Mapping Microsoft 70-xxx Exams to New Role-based Certifications via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)

XBox and xCloud

Microsoft Just Patented Potential Mobile Xbox Controllers for xCloud via Mehedi Hassan

Other

Understanding How Azure Application Gateway Works via AFinn
How to target a different Azure subscription without changing every task via Donovan Brown
How to Use Azure Role Based Access Control via Gregor Suttie
Exploring the Microsoft Healthcare Bot partner program via Adam Walker
Detect and Handle a Twitter Outage via Chris Pietschmann
Enhancing Microsoft’s commercial marketplace for partners via Charlotte Yarkoni
We’ve Released New Bird’s Eye Imagery! via Bing Team
Microsoft is making Windows 10 passwordless via Tom Warren
Dealing with Application Base URLs and Razor link generation while hosting ASP.NET web apps behind Reverse Proxies via Scott Hanselman
Microsoft adds new ‘passwordless’ sign-in option with latest Windows 10 20H1 test build via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Microsoft is reorging its field sales team, laying off some ‘Modern Desktop’ salespeople via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Health of Tech: Azure to Windows from ShiftHappens via Brad Sams
CGG speeds geoscience insights on Azure HPC via Kanchan Mehrotra
Previewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards via Peter Marcu
Side Project Balancing Act via Untitled RSS Feed
101 Tips For Being A Great Programmer (& Human) via Emma Wedekind ✨
Enable receipt understanding with Form Recognizer’s new capability via Nikhil Kamath
Azure Marketplace new offers–Volume 40 via Christine Alford
Scale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts via Ananth Radhakrishnan

Videos

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

Secure traffic between pods using network policies in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Share data simply and securely using Azure Data Share via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Share data simply and securely using Azure Data Share | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Advanced operational analytics with Azure Time Series Insights | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9

Podcast

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 287 – Cognitive Services Updates via The Azure Podcast
Episode 133 – We Still Have All Of Our Fingers via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 310 | Slow News Day via Microsoft Cloud Show

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Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft MVP – Azure
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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.