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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

Azure Bastion: VM RDP & SSH Access within Azure Portal via Chris Pietschmann
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 202 – Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning service with Visual Studio Code via Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 201 – Creating Custom VM Images in Azure using Packer via Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 199 – What are Azure CLI Extensions? via Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 200 – Build your own Azure CLI Extensions via Michael Crump

Azure Service Updates

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 Tips and Tricks Part 201 – Creating Custom VM Images in Azure using Packer via Michael Crump
Azure Bastion: VM RDP & SSH Access within Azure Portal via Chris Pietschmann
Three things to know about Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM via Maxim Lukiyanov
Virtual machine memory allocation and placement on Azure Stack via Kirtana Venkatraman
Generation 2 VM support on Azure – and why should I care? via Thomas Maurer
Azure Stack IaaS – part nine via David Armour
Customize your automatic update settings for Azure Virtual Machine disaster recovery via Rajani Janaki Ram

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

June 10, 2019 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS via Gautam
Azure Front Door with App Service via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
June 10, 2019 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS via Gautam
Sync Folder with Azure Blob Storage via Thomas Maurer
June 3, 2019 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS via Gautam

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Microsoft outlines new features for its Wave 2 Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP refresh via ZDNet | microsoft RSS

Command-Line and ARM Templates

Azure NSG security rule management like a boss with PowerShell and CSVs via Lucian Franghiu
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 199 – What are Azure CLI Extensions? via Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 200 – Build your own Azure CLI Extensions via Michael Crump
Empowering clinicians with mobile health data: Right information, right place, right time via David Houlding

Database and Big Data

Make your data science workflow efficient and reproducible with MLflow via Roope Astala
Reactive Azure Service Bus Messaging with Azure Event Grid via Filip W
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 3: Performance and resource utilization via Tyler Fox
Compute and stream IoT insights with data-driven applications via Diego Tamburini
Microsoft FHIR Server for Azure extends to SQL via Heather Jordan Cartwright
How to delete or purge Azure Application Insights data via Sanganak – Authority
Empowering clinicians with mobile health data: Right information, right place, right time via David Houlding
Announcing self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters via Rui Xu
Symantec’s zero-downtime migration to Azure Cosmos DB via Nikisha Reyes-Grange

Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT Developments and its Effects on the Job Market via Nida Shahid
How one Azure IoT partner is building connected experiences via Tony Shakib
Learn by example: How IoT solutions transform industries via Justin Slade
Accelerating smart building solutions with cloud, AI, and IoT via Matthew Vogel
Over-the-air software updates for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io via Microsoft Developer
Update IoT devices connected to Azure with Mender update manager via Chris Green
Compute and stream IoT insights with data-driven applications via Diego Tamburini
Visual Studio Code Remote Development over SSH to a Raspberry Pi is butter via Scott Hanselman
Interknowlogy mixes Azure IoT and Mixed Reality via Microsoft Developer

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 202 – Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning service with Visual Studio Code via Michael Crump
Make your data science workflow efficient and reproducible with MLflow via Roope Astala
Accelerating smart building solutions with cloud, AI, and IoT via Matthew Vogel
Three things to know about Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM via Maxim Lukiyanov
Calling Cognitive Service OCR service from JavaScript via David Giard
Build more accurate forecasts with new capabilities in automated machine learning via Nilesh Acharya
Using the Cognitive Services OCR Service via David Giard
A look at Azure’s automated machine learning capabilities via Sujatha Sagiraju
IT + OT + ML = Intelligent Manufacturing via Industry Team

DevOps and Development

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 202 – Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning service with Visual Studio Code via Michael Crump
Bootstrapping Azure DevOps extensions with Yeoman via Matisse Hack
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.14 via Edward Thomson
Modernizing WCF Services with containers and Visual Studio via Shayne Boyer
IoT Developments and its Effects on the Job Market via Nida Shahid
Streamlining Azure DevOps extension development via David Hathaway
Calling Cognitive Service OCR service from JavaScript via David Giard
May 2019 update of “The Developer’s Guide to Azure” ebook via esseemme
Visual Studio Code Remote Development over SSH to a Raspberry Pi is butter via Scott Hanselman
Passing variables from stage to stage in Azure DevOps release via Donovan Brown
Azure Pipelines – Git checkout step fails with cannot lock ref error via Utkarsh Shigihalli
Clever little C# and ASP.NET Core features that make me happy via Scott Hanselman
Improving Azure DevOps cherry-picking via Begona Guereca

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric 6.5 release via Service Fabric Team
Elton Stoneman on Docker via David Giard
GCast 51: Creating an Azure Container Instance via David Giard

Security, Identity, and Privacy

Azure NSG security rule management like a boss with PowerShell and CSVs via Lucian Franghiu
Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel via Gilad Elyashar

Azure Stack

Virtual machine memory allocation and placement on Azure Stack via Kirtana Venkatraman
Azure Stack IaaS – part nine via David Armour

Learning and Certification

Azure Certification Exams Passed via Gregor Suttie
Learn by example: How IoT solutions transform industries via Justin Slade
Three things to know about Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM via Maxim Lukiyanov
May 2019 update of “The Developer’s Guide to Azure” ebook via esseemme
MCT Microsoft Certified Trainer 2019 via Thomas Maurer

Other

What are the different types of containers and usages? | One Dev Question via Microsoft Developer
Azure Architect Expert Study Notes via Gregor Suttie
What can be used for free in Azure? via Joe Carlyle
Be more Productive by using Inline Code in your Azure Logic App via Frank Boucher
Three ways to get notified about Azure service issues via Stephen Baron
BizTalk Server 2020… is coming at the end of CY 2019 via Sandro Pereira
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 via Daniel Roth
Join Microsoft at ISC2019 in Frankfurt via Kevin Raines
Simplify B2B communications and free your IT staff via David Houlding
Smarter edge, smarter world: Discover the autonomous edge via Jaishree Subramania
Windows Terminal alpha is available and it is awesome #OpenSource @Microsoft @shanselman via Mike Barela
Microsoft Launches a Simplified Look for Teams for Education via Mehedi Hassan
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 38 via Christine Alford
Azure.Source – Volume 86 via Microsoft Azure
CRM Audio : Not the Microsoft Business Application Summit via CRM Audio: Network Feed
Azure Shared Image Gallery now generally available via Akshay Joshi
Announcing Mobility service for Azure Maps, SDKs updates, and more via Outi Nyman
How to optimize your Azure environment via Kaitlyn Corazao
Using Text Analytics in call centers via Raymond Laghaeian
Ask Me Anything – “Network” with teams from Azure Networking! via Tim Meyer
Azure Best Practices via Gregor Suttie
Building a better asset and risk management platform with elastic Azure services via Howard Bush
Apple Launches iPadOS With App Expose, Multi-Instance Apps, More via Mehedi Hassan
What’s better than ILDasm? ILSpy and dnSpy are tools to Decompile .NET Code via Scott Hanselman

Videos

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

Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Five Things You Can Do with Serverless | Five Things via Channel 9
Endpoint zone 1906 – co-management vs co-existence | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson via Channel 9
Willow is the digital twin for the built world | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Over-the-air software updates for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Using Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum | Block Talk via Channel 9
Blazor in the cloud: Hosting a C# SPA app as a static website in Azure Storage | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Becoming the ASP.NET Architect with David Fowler | Careers Behind the Code via Channel 9
Azure IoT Edge Security Model | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Microservices and more in .NET Core 3.0 | On .NET via Channel 9
Bring DevOps to Your Open Source Projects: Top 3 Tips for Maintainers | The Open Source Show via Channel 9
Interknowlogy mixes Azure IoT and Mixed Reality | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Adding a Wiki to your Azure DevOps Project | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9

Podcast

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 306 | Microsoft Search with Bill Baer via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 283 – .NET and Azure via The Azure Podcast
Episode 129 – The Latest and Greatest in Azure and Office 365 via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 128 – Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 282 – Azure Front Door Service via The Azure Podcast
Episode 305 | Power (Solar, Batteries) Geekout via Microsoft Cloud Show

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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.