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:
- Batch send notifications to device tokens using Notification Hubs
- Azure Search: Update to the Search Traffic Analytics dashboard in Power BI
- Azure Site Recovery: Scout 8.0.1 Update 3 is available
- New capabilities available on the Azure Batch service
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