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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:

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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)

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

NEW WHITEPAPER: Example Azure Implementation for Government Agencies by Ed Price

Events

Join the Bing Maps team at Microsoft Inspire 2018 in Las Vegas via Bing Team

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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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.