Build Azure Weekly is a regular series that brings you the latest news, blogs, videos, and other content around the Microsoft Azure ecosystem from the week. The links shared include those from the community as well as from Microsoft as well. The goal of Build Azure Weekly is to help you keep up to date in the latest news and general happenings surrounding Microsoft Azure for the week.

Service Updates

Here’s the list of Azure Service Updates that have been announced by Microsoft over the week:

Blog Articles

This is a collection of blog articles from Microsoft and around the community from the week:

Azure Marketplace: F5 WAF Solution by Chris Pietschmann
How to leverage the cloud to improve customer satisfaction by James Staten
Updated Azure business continuity technical guidance by Adam Glick
Adjusting the HTTP Request with Azure Mobile Apps by Adrian Hall
Backup cloud assets on Azure Premium Storage virtual machines by Giridhar Mosay
Introducing Project Bletchley and elements of blockchain born in the Microsoft Cloud by Marley Gray
Application Insights: Work item integration with Visual Studio Team Services by Mike Gresley
Microsoft builds on Azure Blockchain as a Service with Project Bletchley via ZDNet
Microsoft Azure Data Center Energy Efficiency by Chris Pietschmann
Exchange 2016 dev/test farm in Azure by Joe Davies
Notification Hubs enabling APNS priority for pushes to iOS devices by Mimi Xu
Batch send notifications to device tokens using Notification Hubs by Mimi Xu
Announcing SQL Server 2016 Developer image in the Azure Gallery by Luis Vargas
Three new and easy ways to get started with Java on Azure by Brian Benz
Developers: Jump-Start Your Foray into ML with the Cortana Intelligence Gallery by Amy Nicholson
HDInsight tool for IntelliJ is generally available by Jenny Jiang
Update on transitioning Mobile Apps from Application Insights to HockyApp by Shiva Sivakumar
Fun with Azure Functions and the Emotion API by Martin Abbott
Power BI and Azure ML – Better Together via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Configure WinRM to execute PowerShell script on a remote Azure machine with ARM by Subodh Sohoni
Deploy DACPAC to SQL Server on Azure VM using VSTS by Subodh Sohoni

Videos

These are videos that have been posted from over the week:

Episode 208: Blockchain with Tom Lindeman and Yorke Rhodes via Azure Cloud Cover Show
Scaling Azure Container Service via Azure Friday
Azure Virtual Machines – Scaling VM Scale Sets via Azure Friday

Audio / Podcasts

These are links to audio / podcasts that have been posted on Azure topics over the week:

Episode 134: Special Father’s Day Episode via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 133: Application performance and user reporting in the cloud with Raygun.io founder JD Trask via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 131: Hacking the Bot Framework via The Azure Podcast

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.