Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post 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:
- Azure DevTest Labs: Attach additional data disk to your lab VM
- General Availability: Azure portal updates for Azure Stream Analytics
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft says still on track to hit $20 billion commercial cloud run rate by Mary Jo Foley
- At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, our IoT partners power a world of innovation via Internet of Things by Microsoft IoT
- Increase the reach of your SaaS business apps with Microsoft AppSource by Satish Thomas
- Microsoft Azure Storage: Service version removal update by Francis Yu
- Microsoft unveils business-focused, free Stream video service by Mary Jo Foley
- Upcoming Azure Active Directory certificate rollover: August 15, 2016 by Gerardo Saca
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Azure Security Center, now generally available, proven to improve security by Sarah Fender
- Overcoming the three most common challenges to IoT adoption by Jerry Lee
- Azure Security Center Ushers in a New Age in Cloud Security by Thomas W Shinder
- Update: Mobile and Desktop app telemetry experience in Application Insights and HockeyApp by Evgeny Ternovsky
- Azure Diagnostic Logs can now be streamed to Event Hubs by John Kemnetz
- Introducing MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch by Manoj Soni
- Microsoft Dynamics 365: New roadmap, licensing details revealed by Mary Jo Foley
- Your Guides to Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Azure CLI 0.10.2 release update (5th July 2016) via Azure Linux Team Blog
- Microsoft Azure log integration – Preview by Namgyai Nanglo
- Microsoft Azure Security Response in the Cloud by Thomas W Shinder
- Service Bus and the New Azure Portal by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- Threat Detection in Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- New POPs available for all CDN integrated Azure Media Services customers by Manling Zhang
- Microsoft Azure at Siggraph 2016 by Karan Batta
- Application Insights: New grid control at your service by Dan Hadari
- Microsoft is almost done moving its Skype consumer service to Azure by Mary Jo Foley
- Ingest data from Apache Cassandra, Salesforce and Data Management Gateway 2.0 release by Cobbie Yang
- Unified proactive diagnostics in Application Insights by Rakefet Galazan
- Announcing Azure Storage Node.js GA by Dinesh Murthy
- Azure ML Now Supports Multiple R & Python Versions, Including Microsoft R Open & Python 3 by Rope Astala
- Service Bus Premium Messaging: How fast is it? by John Taubensee
- Announcing EpiServer CMS in Azure Marketplace by Sunitha Muthukrishna
- How Azure Security Center Secures Your Azure Security Center Data by Thomas W Shinder
- CJIS Implementation Guidelines for Microsoft Government Cloud by Thomas W Shinder
- Free eBook: Planning and Preparing for Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft’s Dynamics 365: Understanding the Common Data Model by Mary Jo Foley
- DevTest Labs in Microsoft Azure by Vikram Pendse
- Deploying a NixOS VM on Microsoft Azure via Azure Linux Team Blog
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Mobile DevOps with HockeyApp via Channel 9
- Internals Behind Bringing Docker and Containers to Windows Server – DockerCon 16 Session
- Tuesdays with Corey – Highlights from his keynote at Chef Conf via Channel 9
- DockerCon 16: Workflows for Dev, Debugging and Deploying Containerized Apps by Microsoft via Channel 9
- DockerCon 16: It Takes an Ecosystem to Build a Production Application via Channel 9
- Laurent Ellerbach on an IoT Garden via David Giard
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:
- High Performance Compute via The Azure Podcast
- Geek Out on JavaScript Dev Tool Chain with Marc Anderson via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- As oil flags, Middle Eastern capital flowing to IoT, smart cities by Donal Power
- For tomorrow’s cities, IoT is the name of the game by Mary Goldspink
- 6 benefits of IoT for hospitals and healthcare by Kevin Patel
- Exploring dot net new with .NET Core by Scott Hanselman
- @SoftBank is acquiring @ARMHoldings $32B acquisition #IoT via Adafruit
- Building Secure Apps for Windows IoT Core by Artur Laksberg
- Build, ship and run ASP.NET Core on Microsoft Azure using Docker Cloud by Laurent Kempe
- Are ARM Virtualization Woes Overstated? by Nicole Hemsoth
- Working Around the Missing Real Time Clock in Windows IoT by Joel Ivory Johnson