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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- 4 month retirement notice: Access Control Service by Anna Barhudarian
- Understanding Containers – the layer between the operating system’s kernel and the application by Lee Stott
- Microsoft Acquires Machine Learning Platform Bonsai by Mehedi Hassan
- Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics by Arindam C
- Microsoft buys machine-learning startup Bonsai via ZDNet
- Traffic Analytics now generally available by Yajvendra Gupta
- Column-Level Security is now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Kavitha Jonnakuti
- Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview by Mitra Sinha
- Introducing the redesigned Security Center Overview dashboard by Oren Parag
- We’re Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password by Troy Hunt
Azure Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- New App Service apps deployed with TLS 1.2 by default from June 30
- Public preview: Immutable storage for Azure Storage blobs
- Modernizing the UI—VSTS Sprint 136 Update
- Column-level security is now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- General availability: Metrics in Azure Traffic Manager
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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)
- Connecting Azure DevTest Lab environments to the Lab Virtual Network by Roger Best
- Azure Event Hubs is now offering support for Availability Zones in preview by Justin Conway
- Azure Service Bus is now offering support for Availability Zones in preview by Justin Conway
- Disaster Recovery solution for Azure IaaS applications by Sujay Talasila
- Traffic Analytics now generally available by Yajvendra Gupta
- SAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018 by Cameron
- Network Performance Monitor’s Service Connectivity Monitor is now generally available by Abhave Sharma
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 134 – Use Run-From-Zip to deploy a site to Azure Web Apps or Functions by Michael Crump
- Programmable Cloud: Provisioning Azure App Service with Pulumi by Mikhail Shilkov
- Terminate w3wp.exe process without stopping website by Prashant Pratap
- Bing Maps Location Recognition API Now Generally Available by Bing Team
- Maven: Deploy Java Apps to Azure with Tomcat on Linux by Yitao Dong
- Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview by Mitra Sinha
- Remote debugging Azure App Services by Chris Westbrook, Susan Leighton
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 132 – Increase the timeout of ASP.NET Core 2.0 API hosted in Azure App Service by Michael Crump
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 133 – Use the Azure Portal for Durable Functions Development by Michael Crump
- Flow’s to the help: How to extend SmartDocumentor OCR receive processing points (or locations) easily with Microsoft Flow by Sandro Pereira
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations – What information and data to provide when logging a performance case with Support by Claes Norell
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell by Chev Bryan
- Cost Reporting ARM APIs across subscriptions for EA customers by Vinod Kurpad
- Find outdated Azure ARM QuickStart Templates on GitHub by Martin Brandl
- Azure App Services: Setting Diagnostic logs in Azure WebApps Using PowerShell by akashkhandelwal
Database / Big Data
- SAP on SQL Server on Azure – How to Bypass Proxy Server During Backup to URL by Cameron
- Event trigger based data integration with Azure Data Factory by Gaurav Malhotra
- Resumable Online Index Create is in public preview for Azure SQL DB by Mirek Sztajno
- Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics by Arindam C
- Announcing the general availability of Azure SQL Data Sync by Xiaochen Wu
- Column-Level Security is now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Kavitha Jonnakuti
- Cosmos DB Configuration Management by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Azure Data ingestion made easier with Azure Data Factory’s Copy Data Tool by Ye Xu
- Top 8 reasons to choose Azure HDInsight by Alicia Li
- Siphon: Streaming data ingestion with Apache Kafka by Thomas Alex
- Structured streaming with Azure Databricks into Power BI & Cosmos DB by Giuliano Rapoz
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Healthcare on 5G by David Houlding
- Custom Vison AI on Azure IoT Edge #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi via Adafruit
- Online Learning Resources for Students and academics around AI and IOT by Lee Stott
- Microsoft tops Navigant Research’s IoT platform vendor leaderboard by Microsoft IoT
- Location and Maps in Azure IoT Central powered by Azure Maps by Miriam Berhane Russom
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Getting started with Windows IoT Episode #3 by Robert Green
- Enabling Smart Manufacturing with Edge Computing by Diego Tamburini
- The Growing Importance of Data Security for IoT by Roberta Rottigni
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Building a Diabetic Retinopathy Prediction Application using Azure Machine Learning by Anusua Trivedi, Patrick Buehler, Dr. Sunil Gupta, Jocelyn Desbiens
- Microsoft Acquires Machine Learning Platform Bonsai by Mehedi Hassan
- Cloud Computing and Data Science at Chicago AI & Data Science Conference by David Giard
- AI Lab: Learn to Code with the Cutting-Edge Microsoft AI Platform by Shankar Jana
- Using Azure Container Instances to host Azure ML models by MarkusMS
- Machine Learning using ML.NET and its integration into ASP.NET Core Web application by Lee Stott
- Creating and Deploying a Predictive Web Services with Azure ML Studio by David Giard
- Microsoft buys machine-learning startup Bonsai via ZDNet
- How to Do Distributed Deep Learning for Object Detection Using Horovod on Azure by Mary Wahl, Xiaoyong Chu, Siyu Yang, Wee Hyong Tok
- Building a first project using Microsoft Azure’s Language Understanding Intelligent Services by Lee Stott
Development and DevOps
- Supercharging the Git Commit Graph by Derrick Stolee
- Azure DevOps Project with Azure SQL Server Database for Web Applications by Abhijit Jana
- New Work Hubs by Aaron Bjork
- What’s new in VSTS Sprint 135 Update by Alex Nichols
- Quick Navigation using VSTS Keyboard Shortcuts by Abhijit Jana
- New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services by Jeremy Epling
- How to read, unable to read appsettings.json values ASP.NET Core by Benjamin Perkins
- How to change a work item type in VSTS? by Abhijit Jana
- Queries Hub Updates Generally Available by Lauren Brose
Containers / Service Fabric
- Understanding Containers – the layer between the operating system’s kernel and the application by Lee Stott
- Implementing Service auto scaling in Azure Service Fabric by Srikantan Sankaran
Blockchain / Smart Contracts
- Azure Content Spotlight – Blockchain Workbench by chilberto
- 7 tips about building smart contract on NEO by Michael Lee2
- Dive into blockchain for healthcare with the HIMSS blockchain webinar by David Houlding
- Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.1.0 extends capabilities and monitoring by Zeyad Rajabi
Security / Privacy
- 4 month retirement notice: Access Control Service by Anna Barhudarian
- Deploying Azure AD Password protection for Windows Server Active Directory by Mike Duddington
- Passwordless Windows and Azure (mini) Questions and Answers by Andreas Helland
- Introducing the redesigned Security Center Overview dashboard by Oren Parag
Learning / Certification
- Microsoft Bolsters Education Efforts with Flipgrid Acquisition by Paul Thurrott
Azure Government
Events
Azure Stack
- Backup your applications on Azure Stack with Azure Backup by Aditi Gangwar
Other
- Silicon development on Microsoft Azure by Mujtaba Hamid
- Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard by Abhijit Jana
- How to add custom HTML to Azure Portal Dashboard? by Abhijit Jana
- With Games, Microsoft Already Has its Head in the Clouds by Paul Thurrott
- Customer 360 Powered by Zero2Hero now available on Azure Marketplace by Christine Alford
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Using JFrog Artifactory with Azure Kubernetes Service via Azure Friday
- Azure CLI Extensions via Azure Friday
- Cross Platform for Azure PowerShell | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Kubernetes integration with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- More info on Azure Container Instances | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- DevOps for Data Science | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
- Building distributed applications with Orleans | On .NET via Channel 9
- Tim Reilly on Blockchain via David Giard
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 234 – Migrations via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 70 – Catching up on Office 365 News via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Episode 260 | Visual Studio Team Services Live from Build via Microsoft Cloud Show
- The Evolution of the .NET Framework with Kathleen Dollard 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:
- Top 10 Actionable Ways To Optimize mCommerce with Artificial Intelligence in 2018 by Kapil Arora
- CircuitPython Release Candidate 0 by Scott
- A Cloud-Based Indoor Air Quality Monitor @Hacksterio @Particle via Adafruit
- Former Microsoft Midori team members launch Pulumi, an open-source cloud development company via ZDNet
- How Close Are We to Building a Quantum Computer? via Adafruit
- Will AI Prevent You From Having A Heart Attack? by Frank Landman
- Cray Bolsters HPC to AI Crossover Appeal by Nicole Hemsoth
- We’re Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password by Troy Hunt
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