Do you find it difficult to keep up-to-date on the frequent updates and changes in the Microsoft Azure cloud? If so, Build Azure Weekly is the solution you’ve been looking for! Build Azure Weekly is a weekly newsletter that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.
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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Preview: Azure Service Health
- General availability: StorSimple 8000 series in the Azure portal
- PHP updates to latest versions
- Preview: Azure Backup reports through Power BI
- Azure Batch updates
- Public preview: Connectivity check in Azure Network Watcher
- General availability: Event Hubs Capture (formerly Archive)
- General availability: Azure Relay Hybrid Connections
- Azure Network Watcher: Blob storage path update for NSG flow logs
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to Purchase! by Chris Pietschmann
- Introducing the new Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes by Jon Beck
- Nested Virtualization in Azure by Joy Fan
- Azure Media Analytics Now Available on Azure Government by Steve Micholotti
- Getting Started with Ethereum Tutorials on Azure by Peter Kirchner
- Public Preview of compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases by Joseph Sack
- New government datacenter regions available in Arizona and Texas by Tom Keane
- Azure Managed Applications by Gaurav Bhatnager
- Microsoft 365 is Microsoft as a Service by Paul Thrust
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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)
- Join a Virtual Machine to Existing Domain with Key Vault and ARM templates by Kirk Evans
- Microsoft Azure: Send Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub, Part 2 by Greg Oliver
- Azure Site Recovery Overview (Azure to Azure) by Mike Duddington
- Getting Ready for Microsoft Cloud Identity – AAD Connect by Mike Duddington
- Applying updates to a encrypted Azure IaaS Red Hat VM using Yum Update by Devendra Tiwari
- Deprecating Azure disk encryption preview extension for Linux IaaS VMs by Devendra Tiwari
- Start Stop Multiple Azure VMs on schedule using Azure Automation by Sanganak
- Azure Site Recovery support for Storage Spaces and Windows Server 2016 by Ashish Gangwar
- Azure Site Recovery now supports large disk sizes in Azure by Poornima Natarajan
- Linux and Windows networking performance enhancements | Accelerated Networking by Yousef Khalidi
- Protecting Windows Server 2016 using Azure Backup by Maanas Saran
- New networking features in Azure scale sets by Guy Bowerman
- Announcing StorSimple 8000 series in the new Azure portal! by Anoob Backer
- Orchestrate fail over of Web Applications in Azure VMs to a DR Site using ASR by Srikantan
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Creating a Seal for an Azure Web App Certificate Purchased through the Azure Portal by Jeremy Brooks
- Push your images to Azure CDN on publish with gulp by Shayne Boyer
- (Cross-Post) Azure Service Bus Plugins by Justin Conway
- WordPress Plugin: App Service Assistant for Windows App Service Web Apps by Mangesh Sangapu
- Azure Web App PHP updates by Donna Malayeri
- Accelerate websites with Azure CDN using Dynamic Site Acceleration by Richard Li
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Function – take it to the limit, scale it up by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure Functions, Node.js and Environment Variables by Christos Mastics
Command Line
- Running Azure Batch jobs using the Azure CLI – no code required by Mark Scurrell
- Installing the Azure CLI 2.0 on macOS by John Papa
Azure Stack
- Use public / trusted certificates for your Azure Stack Development Kit by Mark Scholman
- Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to Purchase! by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to order now by Mike Neil
- Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to order from Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo via ZDNet
Database / Big Data
- Azure Data Warehouse Health Check Query by Cameron Battagler
- Azure SQL DB in 1. 2. 3. by Eric W. DeBord
- Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) July updates by Jenny Jiang
- HDInsight: Scale Horizontally by Carlos Mendible
- Generate Unique Identifiers (UID) in U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics by Vijay Korapadi
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage by Rohan Kumar
Internet of Things (IoT)
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- How Microsoft Bot Framework Can Help You Choose A Restaurant, And More On This Week’s Friday Five by Shaden Mar’i
- Microsoft Cognitive Services updates – Bing Entity Search API and Project Prague via Microsoft Cognitive Services Team
- Announcing Cortana Intelligence Solution Evaluation Tool by Avi Bathula, Jamie Olson
Development
- Getting Started with Java on Azure by Derrick Sharpe, Andrea Martini
- ADAL .NET 3.14.1 released by Jean-Marc Prieur
- Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
Certification / Learning
- New 70-745 Implementing a Software-Defined Datacenter Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
- 776: Performing Big Data Engineering on Microsoft Cloud Services Beta Exam Now Available by Liberty Munson
Containers and Service Fabric
- Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS on VMware vSphere by Lior Kamrat
- Deploy a collectd agent in a Kubernetes cluster on Azure by Ed Price
- Azure Container Registry adds individual identity, webhooks, and delete capabilities by Steve Lasker
- [Azure Service Fabric] Five steps to achieve Event aggregation and collection using EventFlow in Service Fabric by Maheshk
- Deploy your ASP.NET Core app to Azure Service Fabric by Christos Mastics
Events
- Join us: Advancing Digital Government in the Cloud — July 26 by Karina Homme
- Service Fabric Community Q&A 14th Edition by Mark Fussell
- Inspire 2017: New cloud services for partners to enable digital transformation by Julia White
Security
- Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Protect Function by Matt Rathbun
Other
- What does it take to migrate to Azure Government? by Steve Michelotti
- Florida finalizes CJIS Technical Audit on Microsoft Government Cloud Services by Rochelle M. Eichner
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 13: BotBuilder features – Testing Proactive Messsaging by Kenichiro Nakamura
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 14: BotBuilder features – Intercept messages by Kenichiro Nakamura
- Enterprise Cloud Strategy, 2nd Edition by Eduardo Kassner
- Microsoft announces Project Olympus support for new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors by Kushagra Vaid
- New Operations Management Suite Solutions Available by Sarah Weldon
- Getting Ready for Microsoft Cloud Identity – Directory Preparation by Mike Duddington
- Microsoft Azure Government Now Available from Six US Datacenter Regions by Tome Keane
- Introducing cloud-native integration (and why you should care!) by Richard Seroter
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Azure Network Watcher | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Tuesdays with Corey – Managed Applications | Tuesdays With Corey 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 187 – CosmosDB via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 203 | Voitanos + Hyperfish updates and Microsoft AI Overview with Paul Stubbs 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:
- How to learn Kubernetes ? “Kubernetes in action” the answer ! by ppatierno
- Visual Studio Code Your Arduino by Greg Duncan
- What’s next on Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Dynamics integration list via ZDNet
- Setting up SQL Server High-Availability between Windows and Linux with SQL Server 2017 | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- All about Microservices by Wriju Ghosh
- Micro:bit: the ‘All-in-one’ device that you have been missing out on by Ana-Marie Nicolaie
- China Tunes Neural Networks for Custom Supercomputer Chip by Nicole Hemsoth
- Check out our definitive IoT market participant landscape by Maya Rao
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