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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)

Connect Windows 10 Clients to Azure VPN by Admin Reiter
Have you ever lost your job because of an outage? by Dan Patrick
Azure Security Center adds Context Alerts to aid threat investigation by Ian Hellen
Introducing Modern Backup Storage with Azure Backup Server on Windows Server 2016 by Maanas Saran
Protect Windows Server 2016 and vCenter/ESXi 6.5 using Azure Backup Server by Maanas Saran
Load Balancer Template with multiple Health probes and Load Balancing rules by Sonam Rastogi

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Configuration of client certificates, delegated authentication and repository now available in new Azure Portal by Anton Babadjanov
May 2017 App Service update by Byron Tardif
Troubleshooting Azure App Services Web App, Mobile App or API App 500s by Benjamin Perkins

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts by brandewinder
Deploying Visual Studio 2017 Function Projects with VSTS by Donna Malayeri
Microsoft Teams Custom Bots with Azure Functions by Simon J.K. Pedersen

Command-Line Tools

Azure CLI 2.0: Make Bash Output More Readable by Chris Pietschmann
Azure CLI 2.0: Reset / Change Azure VM Password by Chris Pietschmann

Database / Big Data

HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates by Jenny Jiang
Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh by Joshua Gnanayutham
Azure SQL DW Learning, Expanding by JoeMVP
Higher database eDTU limits for Standard elastic pools in Azure SQL Database by Morgan Oslake
Run massive parallel R Jobs in Azure, now at a fraction of the price by JS Tan
HDInsight : BUILD Hive Lab is available now by Ashish Thapliyal
Connecting Power BI to your Visual Studio Team Services Account by Charles Sterling

Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT Hub message routing: now with routing on message body by Nicole Berdy

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

GA of Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 – Microsoft’s Open Source, Enterprise-Ready, TensorFlow-Outperforming AI Toolkit by Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Delivering AI with data: the next generation of Microsoft’s data platform by MSDNBlogAdmin
Data Cleansing Tools in Azure Machine Learning by Chervine

Development

Azure Cosmos DB: Build a .NET application using the Table API by Benjamin Xue
Fix: Error Deploying Azure ARM Template from Visual Studio Project by Chris Pietschmann
Developing Stream Analytics Jobs in Visual Studio by MutazAG
How to integrate Application Insights monitoring in your Team Services extension by mikaelkrief
Using GitHooks with Visual Studio Team Services on Windows via Visual Studio Geeks
Testing Bots with Microsoft Fakes by Donovan Brown
Securing Azure Storage Tables with SAS authentication and CORS in .NET by Christos Matskas

Certification / Learning

Two New Tracks of the Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) Now Open for Registration by Keith Boyd

Containers

Docker for AWS and Azure: Secure By Default Container Platform by Riyaz Faizullabhoy
Re-iterating communication options in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
Streamlining Kubernetes development with Draft by Gabe Monroy
Setting up CI/CD for Docker Container Running in Kubernetes using VSTS by ddeeb
Web API with Docker and Kubernetes by ddeeb

Events

Part 1: Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London | Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour London 2017 by Scott Guthrie

Other

Talk: When NOT to use PowerShell with Azure by Bill Wilder
Upcoming Changes To ACS Enabled Namespaces by Justin Conway
Protect Windows Server System State to cloud with Azure Backup! by Saurabh Sensharma
Azure AD B2C — Kicking it up a notch with support for AAD as IdP by Andreas Helland
Azure Government, Supporting Critical Missions with the NIST CSF by Matt Rathbun
Getting started with the Video Indexer API by Anika Zaman
Building an Azure Analysis Services Model for Azure Blobs — Part 2 by Kay Unkroth
Role Based Access Control and Azure Subscription GUID by Lee Stott
Industrial Scale Onboarding in Microsoft Azure by Tom Hollander
Industrial Scale RBAC in Microsoft Azure by Tom Hollander

Videos

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

TWC9: VR, MR, Always-Connected at Computex, Building a Chat Bot, A Tale of Two Kernels and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Spark Performance Tuning – Part 1 | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Azure Hybrid Networking 201 via Azure Friday
KEYNOTE: Azure Stack – It’s More Radical Than You Think | DEVintersection 2017 Orlando by Jeffrey Snover, Don jones
Tuesdays with Corey: M-Series and Nested Virtualization on Azure | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Episode 229: Azure Time Series Insights | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9

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 181 – AAD DS via The Azure Podcast
Episode 197 | The State of Cloud Computing with Ben Kepes via Microsoft Cloud Show
Security Nightmares with Troy Hunt 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:

ToDo – Voice Activated IoT RPi ToDo List by Herve Roggero
Intel Announces Core X-Series, “Coffee Lake,” Compute Cards, More by Paul Thurrott

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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.