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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

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

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.