Do you find it difficult to keep up-to-date on the frequent updates and changes in the Microsoft Azure cloud? If so, Build Azure Weekly is the solution you’ve been looking for! Build Azure Weekly is a weekly newsletter that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.

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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Storage Service Encryption support for Managed Disks
• Scheduled runbooks will use the latest modules in your automation account
• General availability: Fast Failover and TCP Probing in Azure Traffic Manager

Top Links

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

• Gartner names Microsoft Azure as a leader in the Cloud IaaS MQ by Venkat Gattamneni
• Announcing large disk sizes of up to 4 TB for Azure IaaS VMs by Yuemin Lu
• Azure Service Fabric Powers Azure PaaS by Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft joins Cloud Foundry Foundation by Corey Sanders
• Azure Subscription Resource Limits and Quotas 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)

• Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs by Craig Landis
• Azure TLS Certificate Changes by Thomas W Shinder
• DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure via Visual Studio Geeks
• New Azure VPN Gateways now 6x faster by Yousef Khalidi
• Azure AD user management scripts by Shijimol AK

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Announcing Storage Service Encryption for Azure Managed Disks by Raman Kumar
• Changing the maxLogFileSizeKB on an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
• Azure App Service: Understanding TLS Mutual Authentication with Web App by Kaushal Kumar Panday

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Deployment Slots Preview for Azure Functions by Daria Grigoriu

Command-Line Tools

• Use PowerShell to Enable Logging for Azure RM Web Apps by Calos Mendible

Azure Stack

• Azure Stack Getting started resources by Premier Developer

Database / Big Data

• Automatic Long Term Retention for Azure SQL Backup – Cloud Recipes by Shimail Gillani
• Announcing public preview of Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed disks by Raghav Mohan
• Presto querying data in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Store by Arsenal Vladimirskiy
• May 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN by Rahul Venkatraj
• Event Hubs Auto-Inflate, take control of your scale by Shubha Vijayasarathy
• Azure SQL databases in logical servers, elastic pools, and managed instances by Jovan Popovic

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Raspberry Pi Online Simulator and Azure IoT by Greg Duncan
• Creating Azure IoT Edge Custom Modules in C# – send and receive data from IoT Hub by Pam Lahoud

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

• Data Science Walkthrough with SQL Server 2017 and Microsoft Machine Learning Services by Xibin Geo, Wei Guo, Gebraj GuhaThakurta
• Microsoft Uses AI to Beat Ms. Pac-Man by Paul Thurrott

Development

• Deploying Angular to Azure by John Papa
• Secure Azure ARM templates with Key Vault and VSTS by Christos Matskas
• Solve Node.js issues faster with Application Insights for Node.js by Josh Gavant
• Azure Automation Graphical Editor from a Coder’s Perspective by Brian Christopher Harrison

Certification / Learning

• New MVA learning paths for IT pros and developers via Microsoft Learning
• Using Azure Stack to teach DevOps and IT skills by Lee Stott
• “Helping ARM” – Azure Resource Manager step-by-step training by attila.macskasy

Containers

• Azure Service Fabric Application Insights working sample by SoftwareSimian
• [Azure Service Fabric] How to launch Local cluster manager without Visual Studio by Maheshk

Events

• Microsoft Announces Virtual Event: Azure OpenDev on June 21st by John Gossman

Other

• Cloud SOLID Part I: Cloud Architecture and the Single Responsibility Principle by Ed Price
• Service Map Machine Groups by The Scripting Guys
• Using Azure Management APIs to Get Data About Your Deployed Resources by Ed Price
• Transition Azure Automation schedules from one Runbook to another by James R Tabor
• Azure Enterprise Agreement changes, transfers, and consolidation by Premier Developer
• Embed Video Indexer insights in your website by Ori Ziv
• Invite guest users to your Azure Analysis Services by using B2B by Josh Caplan
• Enable Azure Subscription without using a Credit Card by Ronni Pedersen

Videos

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

• TPC-H Benchmarking with SQL Server on Linux | Data Exposed via Channel 9
• Azure DB for MySQL | Azure Friday via Channel 9
• Tuesdays with Corey: The Magic of Scheduled Maintenance | Tuesdays With Corey 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 183 – IoT, Stream Analytics and other Big Data Stuff via The Azure Podcast
• Episode 199 | Azure CosmosDB with Microsoft’s Rimma Nehme via Microsoft Cloud Show
• Build Recap with Rocky Lhotka via .NET Rocks!

General Cloud / Related

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

• Docker Explorer for Visual Studio Code: Your favorite Docker Administrator by formulahendry
• eleven-x marches its low-power IoT network across Canada by Ryan Matthew Pierson
• FPGAs, OpenHMC Push SKA HPC Processing Capabilities by Nicole Hemsoth
• Alpha Testers Wanted for Progressive Web App Tools for VS Code by John Papa

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