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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- New look for Azure Storage overview blade in the portal
- General availability: Instant file recovery from Azure VM backups
- Azure Cosmos DB: Change Feed Processor NuGet package now available
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Announcing App Service Isolated, more power, scale and ease of use by Stella Lin
- Azure App Service Premium V2 in Public Preview by Daria Grigoriu
- Microsoft joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation by John Gossman
- Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances by Corey Sanders
- Announcing the preview of App Service domain by Sunitha Muthukrishna
- Azure IoT Developer Kit Preview Started Shipping by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications by Lily Kim
- App Service Environment v2 release announcement by Christina Compy
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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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