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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.6.220 and Runtime 5.6.220 refresh for Windows
- Release of Service Fabric SDK Preview 0.9.0.0 and Runtime Preview 5.6.3.6 for Linux
- IDENTITY now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft buys cloud-monitoring vendor Cloudyn via ZDNet
- Azure Network Security Whitepaper/Article Released by Thomas W Shinder
- Deciding PaaS or SaaS for Building IoT Solutions in Microsoft Azure by Chris Pietschmann
- Petya ransomware prevention & detection in Azure Security Center by Tim Burrell
- Designing Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Identify Function by Matt Rathbun
- How we built it: Next Games global online gaming platform on Azure by Jeremy Chapman
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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
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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