The Build Azure Weekly series brings a single, consolidated source for the current weeks Microsoft Azure news, blogs, service updates, and other links. The Azure ecosystem is constantly changing, with new features coming all the time. It can be difficult to keep up with, and the Build Azure Weekly series is an attempt to help you stay up-to-date with all that is latest with the Azure platform / ecosystem.

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Azure Service Updates that were announced by Microsoft for the week:

• New DocumentDB throughput calculator
• Preview update: DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB
• Azure Redis Cache: General availability of support for Resource Manager-based virtual networks

Blog Articles

Here’s a bunch of blog articles from the community and Microsoft over the week:

• Tutorial: Create Minecraft Server in Azure on an Ubuntu VM by Chris Pietschmann
• Azure and the Modern Data Center by David Giard
• Users with RBAC enabled in the new Azure Portal may encounter errors in the classic portal by John Taubensee
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 29: Post-Processing Files with Azure Functions by Adrian Hall
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 28 File Handling (v2) by Adrian Hall
• 30 Days of Zumo.v3 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 27: File Handling (v1) by Adrian Hall
• Microsoft Azure Certification 70-532 by Cesar Younes
• Azure Marketplace: BlogEngine.NET by Chris Pietschmann
• Need to estimate your DocumentDB throughput requirements? New calculator available by Stephen Baron
• Multi URL performance test with App Service by Byron Tardif
• StorSimple supports cool Blob storage by Mike Emard
• Copy Local Files to an Azure Windows VM with New Azure Portal by Mike McKeown
• Azure Redis Cache May 2016 update by Pranav Rastogi
• Preview update: DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB by Stephen Baron
• RFM: A Simple and Powerful Approach to Event Modeling via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog by Gal Oshri
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse introduces Premium Storage for greater performance predictability by Kevin Ngo
• Announcing the Availability of Azure ML Hands-on Lab Content by Mustafa Kasap
• Service Bus turns ten by Clemens Vasters
• What does identity mean in today’s physical and digital world? by Yorke Rhodes III

Videos

Here are some videos on various Azure topics that were published over the week:

• Decoding Brainwaves with Azure Machine Learning by Frank La Vigne
• Making an ARM Template from SCRATCH via Channel 9
• Tuesdays with Corey: SQL Bring Your Own License – OH MY! via Channel 9

Audio / Podcasts

Here are some audio / podcasts published over the week:

• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 131: Microsoft’s Andrew Liu on DocumentDB’s Improvements on Pricing, Scale and MongoDB Support via Microsoft Cloud Show

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