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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Update: In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database Premium
- Public preview: Azure Active Directory B2C supports 36 languages
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Azure CLI 2.0: Quickly Start / Stop ALL VMs by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft buys security-automation vendor Hexadite via ZDNet
- Microsoft realigns its cloud, AI, data organizations via ZDNet
- New Big Data and Web Dev Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) Tracks Open for Enrollment by Chris Pietschmann
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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)
- Running OpenBSD on Azure by Kylie Liang
- Migrating Datacenter to Azure – Part 1 by Rob van der Ent
- Azure Gov May Meetup Replay: Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov by Karina Homme
- Introducing the new Data Science Virtual Machine on Windows Server 2016 by Udayan Kumar
- Red Hat releases partner Azure Blueprint for OpenShift on Azure Government by John Molesky
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Azure App Services authentication to a foreign Azure Active Directory by Jeff Sanders
- Pick the right data solution for Azure App Service by mksunitha
- Finding that Perfect Home: Web App Hosting in the Azure Cloud by Pam Lahoud
- Azure App Service: Using Easy Auth to query Facebook information via Graph API by Kaushai Kumar Panday
- MySQL in-app feature for Web Apps on Linux by mksunitha
- Azure App Service – What is taking my disk space for my Azure Web App ? by PuneetG
- Remote debug your Azure App Service 2017 including ASP.NET Core by Benjamin Perkins
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Twitter Automation using Azure Logic Apps and Custom API by Pushkar Dudhal
Command-Line Tools
- Uploading Static Web Content to Azure Blob Storage with PowerShell and AzCopy via SoundCode
- Using CLI 2.0 with the Azure German Cloud by Benjamin Perkins
- Get all Azure DTL nested resources programmatically with AzureRm PowerShell via Visual Studio Geeks
- Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government by Premier Developer
Database / Big Data
- Managing Your Azure Data Lake Analytics Compute Resources (Overview) by Yan Li
- Managing Your Azure Data Lake Analytics Compute Resources (Job-level Policy) by Yan Li
- Managing Your Azure Data Lake Analytics Compute Resources (Account-level Policy) by Yan Li
- Power BI Streaming Datasets Hands On Lab by Charles Sterling
- Azure #CosmosDB: Case study around RU/min with the Universal Store Team by Arnaud Comet
- Optimizing Performance of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with SentryOne by Kevin Ngo
- Analyze your data in Azure Data Lake with R (R extension) by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
- Azure Database for MySQL – Can’t restore database with error “Got error 1 from storage engine” by Cameron Battagler
- Embedding a PowerApp application into a Power BI Dashboard by Charles Sterling
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure IoT Toolkit vNext with Device Explorer for VS Code: New UX design, new developer experience by formulahendry
- Try Azure IoT with an online Raspberry Pi simulator by Xin Shi
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Announcing Microsoft Machine Learning Library for Apache Spark by Xiaoyong Zhu
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Talks from Leaders Paris 2017 by jennmar
- Announcing Microsoft Machine Learning Library for Apache Spark by Roope Astala, Sudarshan Raghunathan
- Microsoft AI – Now Serving Critical Care Patients, Water-Insecure Populations in Africa, Bank Customers in New Zealand & Many More via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Development
- Configure Visual Studio Team Services in Visual Studio, deploy to Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates by Jenny Jiang
Certification / Learning
- New Big Data and Web Dev Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) Tracks Open for Enrollment by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Certification – The joy I get out of coming to work each day! by Sarah Arnold
- MCP Journey: 6 lessons from a cloud MCP via Microsoft Learning
Containers
- Hosting multiple externally accessible ASP.NET Core applications in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
Events
- Announcing Microsoft Build Tour Sydney by esthergergis
- Introducing the Microsoft Summit 2017 by markleigh@outlook.com
Other
- Top 5 mistakes when people talk about Azure by Saverio Guardato
- Announcing Storage Service Encryption with Customer Managed Keys limited preview by Lavanya Kasarabada
- Forrester report: What tech leaders are saying about cloud adoption via Microsoft Azure Blog
- New language support for Azure Media Indexer v2 by Adarsh Solanki
- Azure Post Exploitation Techniques by Sacha Faust
- Identity and Rights Management in CSP model – Part 2 by Rob van der Ent
- Database as a Service (DaaS) Solution by Jim Toland
- Diagnose sudden changes in your app behavior with a click! by Sharon Nakibly
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Virtual Data Center | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Part 2: Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London | Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London 2017 via Channel 8 and Scott Guthrie
- Tuesdays with Corey: Rendering the next blockbuster on Azure | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Azure Hybrid Networking 201 | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Part 3: Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London | Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London 2017 via Channel 9 and Scott Guthrie
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 182 – Cloud and Proud via The Azure Podcast
- Azure Service Fabric and Microservices with James Sturtevant via .NET Rocks!
- Episode 198 | Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Artificial Intelligence News via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- dotnet CLI Tab completions now available in 2.0 by Shayne Boyer
- Intel seemingly hints of potential patent infringement around x86 emulation on ARM via ZDNet
- Trying .NET Core on Linux with just a tarball (without apt-get) by Scott Hanselman
- Cloud computing guide for researchers – Cloud technology for high-energy physics computing by Dr Kenji Takeda
- SSH for Windows Powershell by Armin Reiter
- Docker Enterprise Edition enters FIPS certification process by Andrew Weiss
- Measuring IoT pulse widths with new GPIO APIs by Seth Juarez
- .NET and Docker by Scott Hanselman
- Python Coils Around FPGAs for Broader Accelerator Reach by Nicole Hemsoth
- Today meetup … “Open sourcing the IoT : running EnMasse on Kubernetes” by ppatierno
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