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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)

Using OMS to Alert on Azure Service Outages by Nicole Welch
Instant File Recovery from Azure Linux VM backup using Azure Backup – Preview by Kartik P V R
Announcing DSv2-Series and Fs-Series VMs in US Gov Virginia by kydeeds
VNET Peering Key Points by Michael McKeown
Using templates to customize restored VMs from Azure Backup by Trinadh Kotturu
Disaster recovery for applications, not just virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery by Gaurav Daga
Now Supported in Cloud Foundry: Azure Blob Storage and Managed Disks by Ning Kuang
Setting up more than 18 GPU Instances on Azure using VMs or Containers by Lee Stott

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Accessing Azure App Services using Azure AD Bearer token by Jeff Sanders
How to access resource in Express Route VNET from Azure Web App by Showkat Hassan Lone
AS2 agreement – MDN Issue in Azure Logic Apps by EPSLAB Team
Azure App Services: How to determine if the client certificate is loaded by Karan Singh
Node.Js Express 4 Application in Visual Studio 2017 and Azure Web Apps by Adam Koukia
Quickly test connectivity from Azure Website to SQL DB by Vitor Faria Tomaz
Microservices primer with Azure Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
How to get a System.Net trace of your C# Web Job by Jeff Sanders
How to change app settings Azure App Service Bot Service by Benjamin Perkins
Logic App Integration Account Swagger with full examples on GitHub by David Burg
Azure App Service Authentication–AAD Groups by Jeff Sanders

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Publishing a .NET class library as a Function App by Donna Malayeri
Azure Functions F# support is now generally available by Chris Anderson
Azure Functions : NLog and Database by Prashant Pratap
Using Azure Functions as a lightweight API Gateway by Andreas Helland
Enabling CORS for Testing Azure Functions Locally by SoundCode

Database / Big Data

How to use BigDL on Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight by Xiaoyon Zhu
Connect to Azure Event Hub in browser ( using AMQP over WebSockets ) by michaeljqzq
DocumentDB: API for MongoDB now generally available by Andrew How
Announcing new capabilities of HDInsight and DocumentDB at Strata by Dharma Shukla
Spark for Azure HDInsight by Lee Stott
Planet scale aggregates with Azure DocumentDB by Aravind Ramachandran
Power BI solution templates now support Azure Analysis Services by Richard Tkachuk
Setting up availability monitoring for Power BI Publish to Web Results by Charles Sterling
Where can I put my Data In Azure by Frank Boucher
Azure Data Lake Analytics and Data Lake Store now available in Europe by Oliver Chiu

Internet of Things (IoT)

agroNET IoT technology transforms the fruits of farmers’ labors by John Haynsworth
Manage IoT Hub Devices in Browser by Sneezry
Secure Provisioning of IoT device using Azure IoT Hub device SDK by Elon Fliess
Connect to Azure IoT Hub in browser ( using AMQP over WebSockets ) by michaeljqzq

Machine Learning

How can I get started with Azure Machine Learning? by markga
Take Advantage of Scalable Cloud Compute Directly from Your R Session, with doAzureParallel via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Microsoft Cognitive Services – Computer Vision by Admin Reiter
Microsoft Data Amp – New Online Event, on April 19th via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Microsoft AI Immersion Workshop in Seattle – May 9th, 2017 via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team

DevOps

Getting started with Powershell on Windows Azure by martynas
Powershell Authentication to Classic Azure portal by martynas
Leverage the Azure CLI with these examples by Brian Benz
Building Azure Stream Analytics Resources via ARM Templates – Background info by Dave The Engineer

Certification

70-464 Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann

Other

Azure Architecture Center by Lee Stott
Parallel File Systems for HPC Storage on Azure by Ed Price
Security Update Guide ushers in a new era of Microsoft updates by Thomas W Shinder
doAzureParallel: Take advantage of Azure’s flexible compute directly from your R session by JS Tan
Single or Multiple Resource Groups? by Michael McKeown
Announcing general availability of Update 4.0 for StorSimple 8000 series by Harsha Kanna
Add Azure Active Directory B2B users to your Visual Studio Team Services by SoftwareSimian
Notice for developers using Azure AD B2C tenants configured for Google sign-ins by Gerardo Saca
Building a simple photo album using Azure Blob Storage with .NET Core by Premier Developer
Setting up Azure subscription and resources at your institution by Lee Stott

Videos

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

Episode 224: Developing and Debugging Azure Mobile Apps with Adrian Hall by Thiago Almeida, Chris Risner
Extending the Common Data Service Base Schema in PowerApps via Azure Friday
Easy Push Notifications with Azure App Service via Azure Friday
Microsoft Azure Notification Hub with UWP and Xamarin via Channel 9
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Bot Developers with LUIS by Tom Morgan

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 170 – Disaster Recovery using OMS and DevOps via The Azure Podcast
Episode 184 | News from Microsoft Office, AWS S3 Outage, Google, Docker Enterprise and More! via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Serving Up Serverless Science by Nicole Hemsoth
Learn Docker with our DockerCon 2017 Hands-On Labs by Mike Coleman
Getting started with Windows Internet of Things (Windows IoT) by CalvinH
Docker to donate containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by Solomon Hykes
Take the Xamarin Challenge! by Paul Thurrott

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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.