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Service Updates

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

Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Support for mssql-scripter

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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)

New Azure VPN Gateway SKU’s provide much higher bandwidth for hybrid workloads by Manuel Garriga
Adding OMS agent to multiple computers by CliveW
Log results from Azure Automation Runbooks directly to OMS by James R Tabor
Azure Site Recovery now supports managed disks by Poornima Natarajan
Managing updates for your Azure VM by Ravi Kiran

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Custom hostnames with App Service by akurmi
Migrate WordPress content to Azure blob storage by Yi Wang
Azure Service Bus, Azure Resource Manager, And This Character “/” by Justin Conway
HTTP to HTTPS redirect for Azure Web App on Linux by Yi Wang

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Processing Feedback Evaluations (paper) with OCR, Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Power BI by Jeff Hollan

Azure Stack

Riding the Azure Stack opportunity by Monu Bambroo
Avanade, Huawei to sell Microsoft Azure Stack appliances via ZDNet

Database / Big Data

Azure Database for PostgreSQL team hosts Ask Me Anything session by Shantanu Kurhekar
Running BigDL Apache Spark Deep Learning Library on Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine by Gopi Kumar, Sergey Ermolin
Microsoft R Server 9.1 on HDInsight is available! by Xiaoyong Zhu
Protecting deletions of Azure SQL Resources by Nicholas Lopez

Internet of Things (IoT)

Getting Started with Azure IoT by Greg Duncan

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning for Developers – How to Build Intelligent Apps & Services by Daniel Grecoe
Cognitive Services: Building Natural Language Analyzer with LUIS(Language Understanding Intelligent Service), using Prebuild Domains by a y a k o
Data Virtualization: Unlocking Data for AI and Machine Learning by Robert Alexander
Predictive maintenance using PySpark by Katherine Lin
Loading a Trained Model Dynamically in an Azure ML Web Service by Ahmet Gyger

Development

Example Python Program Reading SQL Azure Blob Auditing Data by Cameron Battagler
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 2: Get your appointment from Microsoft Graph and OAuth 2.0 with AuthBot by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 3: Unit Testing with Moq, AutoFac and Fakes by Kenichiro Nakamura
Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 4: Continuous Integration – Build Definition by Kenichiro Nakamura
Java: Manage Azure Container Service, Cosmos DB, Active Directory Graph and more by Asir Selvasingh
Build your own Web API protected by Azure AD v2.0 endpoint with custom scopes by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
CQRS in Azure – Part 4 by chilberto
Visual Studio Code integration with Azure Application Insights by Christos Matskas
On-premise TFS to VSTS Migration Whitepaper by Deepak Khare
Enable client side monitoring in Azure with Application Insights by Beckylin Orooji
Android Development with Azure Mobile App Services by Lee Stott

Certification / Learning

Cloud Computing & Skills for a Digital Workforce by Lee Stott

Containers and Service Fabric

ASOS: How they migrated from local monolith to microservices in Azure by Jeremy Chapman
Running Spring Boot Java application as a Microservice in Service Fabric – Part 1 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Running Spring Boot Java application as a Microservice in Service Fabric – Part 2 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Running Spring Boot Java application as a Microservice in Service Fabric – Part 3 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Running Spring Boot Java application as a Microservice in Service Fabric – Part 4 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Docker Blog Series Part 2 – Build & Deploy ASP.NET Core based Docker Container on Service Fabric by Pam Lahoud
Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service by atulm
Setting up CI/CD for Docker Container Running in Kubernetes using VSTS by Monu Bambroo
Build and deploy hybrid applications in Azure using Docker Enterprise Edition by Dee Kumar
Running Web API using Docker and Kubernetes by Monu Bambroo
Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Architecture and CI/CD Flow by Lior Kamrat

Events

Microsoft Data Insights – Digital Transformation with Power BI for the CEO by Jen Stirrup

Other

Using ADFS as an Identity Provider for Azure AD B2C by Andreas Helland
Building an Azure Analysis Services Model for Azure Blobs — Part 3 by Kay Unkroth
Azure Media Services announces support for AAD and deprecation of ACS authentication by John Deutscher
Cloud Identity Overview – Part 1 (Authentication) by Mike Duddington
Cloud Identity Overview – Part 2 (Authorisation) by Mike Duddington
Cloud Identity Overview – Part 3 (Synchronisation) by Mike Duddington
Use AAD authentication to access Azure Media Services API with REST by William Zhang
Azure Media Player support for audio-only and video-only streams by David Bristol
Registering your application in the new Application Portal by Sjoukje Zaal
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Learn how to use Microsoft Azure for research and data science by Dr Kenji Takeda
Putting custom links to your Azure Portal Dashboard by Wriju Ghosh
GDPR Questions? Azure has answers. by Alice Rison
Azure Marketplace Test Drive by Shankar Sivadasan

Videos

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

Episode 230: Azure Batch and Low Priority VMs via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Introducing Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Friday
SQL Server Database Unit Testing in your DevOps pipeline | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
Azure SQL Database Geographic Failover at Scale | Data Exposed by Scott Klein

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:

Data Science with Angela Bassa via Hanselminutes
Episode 200 | The Listener Show via Microsoft Cloud Show
The Azure Mobile App with Jakub Jedryszek and Michael Flanakin 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:

The Biggest Shift in Supercomputing Since GPU Acceleration by Nicole Hemsoth
How Monsanto protects crops with artificial intelligence by David Curry

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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.