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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Logic Apps available in UK regions
- Azure Data Lake Analytics now supports new policies to manage compute resources (AUs)
- Logic Apps is ISO, HIPAA, CSA STAR, PCI DSS, SOC, and EU Model Clauses compliant
- Azure Site Recovery available in Korea
- Azure Backup available in Korea
- Improvements to blob upload blade in Azure portal
- Azure SQL DB: Generate scripts by using mssql-scripter
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Troubleshoot with the Resource Health check
- Azure Active Directory B2C UI change
- Azure Automation available in Brazil South region
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Open Source at Microsoft by Lee Stott
- Baidu will use Microsoft Azure services for self-driving cars via ZDNet
- Running MacOS using Virtual Box in Azure by Simon J.K. Pedersen
- Azure Stream Analytics now available in UK West, Canada Central and East by Krishna Mamidipaka
- Announcing the Cognitive Services White Glove Program for All Azure Government Customers by Julie Glixon
- Windows 10 virtualization available from Microsoft cloud partners starting this fall via ZDNet
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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)
- Instant File Recovery from Azure VM backups is now generally available by Kartik P V R
- Windows Server 2016 – Nano Server and how it has changed already by Andrew Nathan
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- General availability of Storage Service Encryption and “Secure transfer required” by Kyle Deeds
- Azure Content Spotlight – Azure Mobile App by chilberto
- Add Routes to an Azure Web App Integrated with a VNET by Jeremy Brooks
- Mapping a custom naked domain to your Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure Application Gateway Anatomy by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Using Azure Functions, Cosmos DB and Powerapps to build, deploy and consume Serverless Apps by Srikantan
- Calling Azure Cosmos DB Graph API from Azure Functions by Srikantan
- Calling Azure Functions from XSLT map in Logic Apps by Vinay Singh
- Azure Logic Apps Release Update 2017-07-14 by Jeff Hollan
- Commuting Stats with Azure Functions and Azure Data Lake by Andreas Helland
- Using TypeScript in Azure Functions via AzureServerless
Command Line
Azure Stack
- Microsoft Azure Stack Development Kit by Lee Stott
- Deploy Azure Stack Development Kit on an Azure VM by Florent Appointaire
Database / Big Data
- Artificial Intelligence tunes Azure SQL Databases by Veljko Vasic
- Tableau and Azure SQL DB, a match made in the cloud by Joseph Sack
- Resumable Online Index Rebuild is in public preview for Azure SQL DB by Mirek Sztajno
- Database Scoped Global Temporary Tables in public preview for Azure SQL DB by Mirek Sztajno
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 1: Introduction by John Papa
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 2: Node.js and Express by John Papa
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 3: Angular and Express APIs by John Papa
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 4: Creating and Deploying Cosmos DB by John Papa
- MEAN and Cosmos DB – Part 5: Querying Cosmos DB by John Papa
- Building Azure Stream Analytics Resources via ARM Templates – Part 2 – The Template. by Dave The Engineer
- Using External data with Azure Jupyter Notebooks by Lee Stott
- Managing Loan Credit Risk using Microsoft R Server by Bharath Sankaranarayan
- Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) July updates by Jenny Jiang
- Getting started with R by Lee Stott
- How to check connectivity to Azure SQL DB by Yochanan Rachamim
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Bing Map v8 available in Azure IoT Suite Remote Monitoring preconfigured solution by Sam George
- ‘Raspberry Pi Web Client Simulator’ Running on Microsoft @Azure | #IoTuesday via Adafruit Industries
- Book Review – IoT Solutions in Microsoft’s Azure IoT Suite (Apress) by Ken Cenerelli
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft Azure – Artificial Intelligence Data Science Stack by Lee Stott
- Getting Started with Data Science using Cortana Intelligence Solutions Templates by Lee Stott
- Build custom video AI workflows with Video Indexer and Logic Apps by Anika Zaman
- Setting Up Continuous Integration for Azure Bot Service by Abhijit Jana
Development
- Using React and building a web site on Azure by Lee Stott
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 15: BotBuilder features – LUIS Dialog 101 by Kenichiro Nakamura
- How to Track Impediments in VSTS by Pam Lahoud
- Linking Team Services (VSTS) accounts with your Azure account for Continuous Integration by Abhijit Jana
- Walkthrough–Add Azure Web App to Visual Studio Team Services by Jeff Sanders
- Improved package support in Team Build by Alex Mullans
- Extending MSTest V2 by Pratap Lakshman
- Moving workflows to Visual Studio Code by Lee Stott
- The fastest path to a new Team Services extension by Will Smythe
Certification / Learning
- Microsoft Professional Program data science capstone: students helping students via Microsoft Learning
Containers and Service Fabric
- Docker on Windows Webinar Q&A by Elton Stoneman
- Docker Containers and Windows by Lee Stott
Events
- Microsoft BizTalk Server Webinar Series – Configuring BizTalk 2016 with SQL Always On Cluster on Azure by Shailesh Agre
Security
- How Azure Security Center helps protect your servers with Web Application Firewall by Hayden Hainsworth
- Sharing Power BI Apps with AAD Security Groups by Charles Sterling
Other
- Use Microsoft Graph API to reach on-premises, cloud users of hybrid Exchange 2016 by Deva
- Introducing the Azure Analysis Services web designer by Bret Grinslade
- Introducing Enterprise Smart Contracts by Marley Gray
- Microsoft Flow the Concept – Industrial Project Summary by Lee Stott
- Azure Cyber Analytics Program for Power and Utilities Customers by Larry Cochrane
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Azure Analysis Services with Azure SQL DB and Data Warehouse via Azure Friday
- DEVintersection Countdown Show on the Evolution of the Cloud with Scott Guthrie | The DEVintersection Countdown Show by Cameron Tomisser
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 188 – Ready via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 204 | Azure Stack, Microsoft Reorg, Microsoft 365 and More News! via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Windows Containers with Steve Lasker via .NET Rocks!
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide – Get it NOW! by John Sonmez
- With hundreds of choices, how can you pick an IoT platform? by Cate Lawrence
- Live Coding on Twitch for a year with Suz Hinton via Hanselminutes
- Microsoft’s ‘commercial cloud’ services gain steam via ZDNet
- Protected: SUSE’s Linux distros for WSL now available in the Windows Store by Rich Turner
- A Windows 10 smart thermostat is coming from Johnson Controls via ZDNet
- CircuitPython 1.0.0! via Adafruit Industries
- On The (Perceived) Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let’s Encrypt by Troy Hunt
- How to become known within your Industry: Show Up. Contribute. Share. via Sonia Cuff
- The best way to learn Docker for Free: Play-With-Docker (PWD) by Victor Coisne
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