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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)

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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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.