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Service Updates

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

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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)

Azure Logging and Auditing–Turn Chaos into Order by Thomas W Shinder
Running Matlab on Azure – Provision a MATLAB Distributed Computing Server using Azure VMs by Lee Stott
Azure Site Recovery now supports Ubuntu by Bharath Sivaraman
Transitioning from On-Premise Virtual Machines to More Cost Effective Azure Cloud Models by Arian Nugara
Aggregation of OMS Data from across Azure Subscriptions by Srikantan
Deploy Web Application to Azure VM Scale Sets using Packer and Team Services by Srikantan
Bright Cluster Manager now integrates seamlessly with Azure HPC capabilities by Felipe Ayora
Using ADFS as an Identity Provider for Azure AD B2C by Andreas Helland
Azure VM SLA and high availability confusion by Sanganak – Authority

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

June 2017 App Service update by Byron Tardif
Things You Should Know: Web Apps and Hybrid Connections by Jim Cheshire
Enhanced app usage monitoring and investigative features in Azure Application Insights by Rahul Bagaria
FAQ : Azure marketplace for Web Apps by mksunitha
New troubleshooting and diagnostics for Azure Files Storage mounting errors on Windows by Rena Shah
Installing public certificates in App Service by akurmi
“Secure transfer required” is available in Azure Storage account by Francis Yu

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

When to use Logic Apps vs BizTalk Server by Gautam

Command Line

Using PowerShell as an Azure ARM REST API Client by Igor Pagliai

Azure Stack

Q&A: Jeffrey Snover discusses PowerShell on Linux, Azure Stack snags by Tom Walat
Avanade, Huawei to sell Microsoft Azure Stack appliances by Mary Jo Foley

Database / Big Data

End to End Loan ChargeOff Prediction Built Using Azure HDInsight Spark Clusters and SQL Server 2016 R Service by Shau Phang
Identity now available in SQL Data Warehouse by Ellis Butterfield
Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication in Public Preview by Ye Gu
Using Azure Data Lake and R for Fraud Detection by Yiwen Sun, Esin Aka, Shravan Matthur
Gain business insights using Power BI reports for Azure Backup by Pallavi Joshi
Event Hubs Capture (formerly Archive) is now Generally Available by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Run H2O.ai in R on Azure HDInsight by Xiaoyong Zhu
GRANT SUPER privilege on Azure Database for MySQL by Cameron Battagler
Which Azure Database Should I Use for My Serverless Application? by SoundCode

Internet of Things (IoT)

MXChip IoT DevKit board package v1.0.0 is now available by Xin_Shi
Certificate between IoT hub and devices connection by Han Xia
Security Features on IoT Core via Channel 9

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Using a Recommendation System in an Application by Ankit Asthana
Text Analytics API now supports analyzing sentiment in 16 languages by Ollie Newth
Cognitive Services on Azure Government – Intelligent Mission by Steve Michelotti
Microsoft’s Custom Vision Cognitive Service by Richard diZerega
Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark by Mark Hamilton, Rhetick Sengupta, Roope Astala
Microsoft Cognitive Services hack: Line Messenger by Ankur Badhwar
Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning by Ankit Asthana

Development

Release Candidate for Microsoft Drivers v4.3.0 for PHP for SQL Server Released! by Meet Bhagdev
Servicing Update for ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux and macOS Released by Meet Bhagdev
Announcing the Solution Template for Jenkins on Azure by Pui Chee Chan
.NET: Manage Azure Container Service, Cosmos DB, Active Directory Graph and more by Asir Selvasingh
Power BI Embedded with the JavaScript SDK | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 7: BotBuilder features – Dialog 101 by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 8: Dialog 201 – Make conversation easier with DialogPrompt by Kenichiro Nakamura
Step by step: .NET Core and Azure Cosmos DB by Carlos Mendible

Certification / Learning

Exam Preparation Guide: 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions by SuhasRao

Containers and Service Fabric

Docker Swarm and Secret support with OMS Insight and Analytics – container monitoring solution by The Scripting Guys
VS 2017 and Service Fabric project template not showing by Jamie Dalton
Microservices == Microdatabases by Bart
Docker Blog Series Part 3– Deploy IIS based applications to Service Fabric using Docker Containers by Monu Bambroo
Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Security & Docker Engine Installation by Lior Kamrat

Events

Azure Compute Reddit AMA – July 2017 by Neil Gat

Other

Microsoft is Retiring Windows App Studio by Paul Thurrott
Azure Content Spotlight – ASOS: How they migrated from local monolith to microservices in Azure by chilberto
ISVs find their cloud footing on Azure via Microsoft ISV Team
Creating enterprise grade BI models with Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan
ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK launches in Azure Marketplace today! by Hugo Salcedo
Guest Post James Kavanagh: ASD certifications boost cloud opportunities for Microsoft partners by Rudolf Wagenaar
Threat Intelligence: Protecting Yourself Against Cyberattacks by Dean Suzuki

Videos

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

Episode 231: Azure Functions Local Debugging and More with Donna Malayeri via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Introducing Azure DB for PostgreSQL via Azure Friday

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 185 – The Azure TAM via The Azure Podcast
Episode 201 | Sponsor Highlight – Codeship via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 184 – A Good Migration Story via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Speed of dotnet run vs the speed of dotnet for published apps (plus self-contained .NET Core apps) by Scott Hanselman
Kubernetes on bare-metal in 10 minutes by Alex Ellis
Announcing Docker 17.06 Community Edition (CE) by Docker Core Engineering
Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 by Jeffrey T. Fritz
How do we get started with DevOps? by Donovan Brown
Microsoft’s Nano Server: What to expect this fall via ZDNet
Exploring CQRS within the Brighter .NET open source project by Scott Hanselman
Machine Learning and the Language of the Brain by Nicole Hemsoth
Ship Serverless FaaS functions with ease by Alex Ellis
Two SUSE Linux Environments Come to Windows 10 Insider Preview by Paul Thurrott

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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.