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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)

Using OMS and Runbooks to update VMs when they’re down by James R Tabor
Running a simulation on 20 low priority Azure VMs for a cost of $0.02 by Lee Stott

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

FAQ : App Service Certificates by mksunitha
Failed to update App Service plan by Benjamin Perkins
Networking Related Commands for Azure App Services by Jeremy Brooks

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Getting started with Enterprise Integration Pack for Logic Apps by Gautam
Logic App, B2B diagnostics logging, monitoring and alerting documentation newly expanded by David Burg
Go serverless with R Scripts on Azure Function by Thomas Delteil

Command Line

How to configure auto scaling for an Azure App Service with PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins
How to delete an Azure App Service Plan using Azure PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins
Azure Cloud Shell, Python, and Container Instances by sendmarsh
Getting started with Azure Container Instances on Bash on Ubuntu for Windows by AzureServerless

Database / Big Data

Enhance Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance with new monitoring functionality for Columnstore by Shivani Gupta
Want to learn how to light up Big Data Analytics using Apache Spark in Azure? by Jen Stirrup
Introducing the Power BI solution template for Credit and Collections by Milinda Vitharana
Best Practices for Azure SQL DataSync 2.0 tasks by lanlb
HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse June updates by Jenny Jiang
IP Address Mapping in Power BI by Samuel Lester
Deploy Azure SQL Server for hosting Entity Store Database by TJ Vassar
Publish the Entity Store database on Azure SQL Server by TJ Vassar
Lesson Learned #27: We would like to access tables from a database to another database by Jose M Jurado
Azure Learning #1 Connectivity errors from External Network to Azure database by Kurt D Mehta
Azure Learning #2 Using Azure Data Warehouse Migration Utility by Kurt D Mehta
Adding AD Users and Security Groups to Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Matt Usher

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure IoT Developer Kit Preview Started Shipping by Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Australia Partner Awards: Up close and personal with the Optimise Your Operations Award by Sarah Arnold
Automatic Plant Watering with Microsoft Azure IoT by Jan Helmich
Extend Your IoT Learning with these Extended IoT Scenarios by Greg Duncan

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Lessons Learned From Benchmarking Fast Machine Learning Algorithms by Miguel Fierro, Mathew Salvaris, Guolin Ke, Tao Wu
How Microsoft plans to turn Azure into an ‘AI cloud’ via ZDNet
Understanding Data Science and Machine Learning by Lee Stott

Development and DevOps

Deploying your code to production doesn’t have to hurt by Christos Matskas
Improved user settings in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) by Whitney Jenkins
Velocity Widget available for Analytics Extensions by Gregg Boer
being introduced to Progressive Web Apps by drmcghee
TFS 2017 Update 2 RTM by Brian Harry
Scaling Scrum with Nexus in VSTS by Pam Lahoud

Certification / Learning

70-473 Cloud Data Platform Solutions Exam – June 2017 Update by Chris Pietschmann
70-475 Big Data Analytics Exam – Feb 2017 Update by Chris Pietschmann
779: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Excel Now in Beta! by Liberty Munson
778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI Beta Exam Now Available by Liberty Munson
Why I’m Learning Data Science by Thomas LaRock

Containers and Service Fabric

Modernize Traditional Applications by Docker Webinar Recap by Nick Harvey
Microsoft previews new Azure Container Instance service on Linux via ZDNet
New Azure Container Registry SKUs by Steve Lasker
Building Blockchain DApp’s on Service Fabric by Jomit Vaghela
Getting started with Azure Container Instances by Christos Matskas
Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service by Lior Kamrat
Deploying Docker Images from the Azure Container Registry to Azure Container Instances by Steve Lasker

Security

Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Detect Function by Matt Rathbun

Other

Best Practices for Azure based applications and Workloads by Vikram Pendse
More resource policy aliases by Mike Chen
Model comparison and merging for Azure Analysis Services by Christian Wade
Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications by Alice Rison
Limit access to just Visual Studio Team Services using Azure Active Directory Premium by Trevor Hancock
How to change associate an Azure Active Directory to a Subscription by Benjamin Perkins

Videos

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

Security and Horsepower with App Service: The New Isolated Offering via Azure Friday
SQL Unplugged – July 2017 Edition | SQL Unplugged via Channel 9
Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools and Elastic Jobs | Data Exposed via Channel 9
DEVintersection Countdown Show on the Fundamentals of DevOps with Robert Green | The DEVintersection Countdown Show via Channel 9
Research in Focus: Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization through Quantum Computing | Microsoft Research via Channel 9
Using Azure Scheduled Events to Prepare for VM Maintenance | Azure Friday via Channel 9

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 189 – Partner Spotlight – CloudMonix via The Azure Podcast
Episode 205 | Azure news for Containers, Nested Virtualization & new VM sizes for Azure and AWS via Microsoft Cloud Show
ASP.NET Core 2.0 with Damian Edwards and David Fowler via .NET Rocks!
Preparing a city for self-driving cars with Leslie Caceda via Hanselminutes

General Cloud / Related

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

Adobe to Kill Flash in 2020 by Paul Thurrott
Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft Active Directory Domains via Amazon
How dangerous are the threat of kill chain attacks on IoT? by Ofer Amitai
‘Free Security Ebooks’ Currently Available from @OReillyMedia | #infosec #ebook by nicknormal
Latest Report Has Augmented Reality Market to be Worth $61 Billion by 2023 by Rebecca Hills-Duty
Get Started with F# as a C# developer by cartermp
Small Basic – Graduate with VS2017 by Nonki Takahashi
dotnet sdk list and dotnet sdk latest by Scott Hanselman
Hologram announces world’s largest cellular IoT network by David Curry
Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg’s AI understanding is “limited” by David Curry
Windows Subsystem for Linux is Out of Beta by Paul Thurrott
ARM: One trillion IoT devices by 2035, $5 trillion in market value by David Curry

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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.