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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)

Installing Azure CLI 2.0 on Windows by Brijraj Singh
Implementing Rolling Updates in Azure Container Service (ACS) with Docker Swarm using VSTS by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
How to: Schedule Azure VMs to Resize by Steven Edouard
Azure AD Developer Tips & Tricks — Part 3 by Andreas Helland
Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware by Nitin Soneji
Azure Data Sync update by Joshua Gnanayutham
Storage Spaces Direct: An Overview by Anton Kolomyeytsev, Tony Champion
Azure Managed Disk–Overview by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Backup Managed Disk VMs using Azure Backup by Vijay Sandra Sistla
My Common ARM Templates by Christian Reddington
Azure Service Fabric – Brings More Power to Age of Ascent (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) by Ed Price

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Troubleshooting an Azure App Service WebJob by Benjamin Perkins
Failed to run WebJob by Benjamin Perkins
Reducing the volume (and cost) of data sent to Application Insights by Helge Mahrt
Deploying Node.js apps in Azure App Service using private npm feeds from Visual Studio Team Services by Jeff Wilcox
Logic Apps Release Update 2017-03-03 by Jeff Hollan
Custom Domain in App services by midixid

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Creating a JSON-Friendly Azure Logic App That Interacts with Functions, DocumentDB and Service Bus by Richard Seroter
Tyler Explains… Serverless Architecture by Tyler Evert
Serverless Architecture with Azure by Christos Matskas

Certification

70-398 Planning for and Managing Devices in the Enterprise by Chris Pietschmann
70-762 Developing SQL Databases Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann

Development

How to enable PHP LDAP in Azure Web Apps by Edison Garcia
[Sample Of Mar. 3] How to configure multiple Azure Application Insights endpoints in one project via OneCode Team
How to access Azure Resource with Certificate programmatically (without interactive Login UI) by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
Azure App Service Authentication in an ASP.NET Core Application by Adrian Hall
[AzureKeyVault] How to retrieve Keyvault secrets using C# code by Maheshk
What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: March 2017 Digest by Buck Hodges

Database / Big Data

New Azure Feature Pack Release Updating HDInsight Support by Lingxi Li
Announcing real-time Geospatial Analytics in Azure Stream Analytics by Samartha Chandrashekar
Connect Tableau to an Azure Analysis Services server by Josh Caplan
Announcing preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1 by Pranav Rastogi
Wiring your older Hadoop clusters to access Azure Data Lake Store by Amit R. Kulkami

Internet of Things (IoT)

DevOps for IoT (Part 3 – Talking to Azure IoT Hub from VSTS) by Daniel Meixner
Sparking, Seeding and a some Pie – IoT Azure Starter Kits by Greg Duncan
Azure IoT Suite adds device management capability updates by Sam George
Internet of things with Azure by Lee Stott
Azure IoT Toolkit supports Event Hub now! by formulahendry

Machine Learning

Azure Machine learning and loading external data sets into your experiment by Lee Stott
Talking about Cognitive Services on the Eat Sleep Code podcast by David Giard
Cortana Intelligence Suite Retail Industry Solution How-to Guides by ShiSh
The Data Science Process with Azure Machine Learning by Chervine

Azure Stack

Microsoft Azure Stack reaches final preview before its mid-2017 debut via ZDNet
Azure Stack TP3 Delivers Hybrid Application Innovation and Introduces Pay-as-you-Use Pricing Model by Jeffrey Snover
Configure TP3 to be available on your own network / internet by Mark Scholman
Azure Stack TP3 is out! My quick review and update by Mark Scholman
Increase the usable storage space in your Azure Stack environment by Ruud Borst

Other

My recent Azure Training Courses on Opsgility.com by Chris Pietschmann
Announcing general availability of Upgrade Readiness via Operations Management Suite Blog
Service Fabric Customer Profile: Digamore Entertainment GmbH via Service Fabric Team
What Azure content would you like to see? by Ed Price
Azure Blueprint supports the UK Government’s Cloud Security Principles by Matt Rathbun
Designing and moving applications to cloud by Wriju Ghosh
Optimizing rolling feature engineering for time series data by Jaya Mathew
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance by Marley Gray
Azure brings 5 new services to Canada by Chelsea Carter
Azure Search now available in UK by Andres Juarez
VSTS, The open orchestrator – Releasing ARM Templates from GitHub by Christian Reddington
OMS Network Performance Monitor is now generally available via Operations Management Suite Blog

Videos

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

Using REST with DocumentDB | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Azure CLI 2.0 | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Improving user engagement with Windows and Cortana Skills | Windows Developer Day – Creators Update via Channel 9
Episode 140: Broadway Tech & IoT with Bill Berry | MS Dev Show via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey with cool new functionality of Azure Network Watcher | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
DEVintersection Countdown Show on DevOps with Donovan Brown | The DEVintersection Countdown Show via Channel 9
Bryan Soltis on Azure Search 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 168 – Global Apps with Azure PaaS via The Azure Podcast
Episode 182 | AWS Chime, Azure AD and Storage Updates, Microsoft Flow and Container News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Container Strategies with Michele Bustamante 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:

For Big Banks, Regulation is the Mother of GPU Invention by Nicole Hemsoth
Introducing the Docker Certification Program for Infrastructure, Plugins and Containers by Dan Powers
Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition by Michael Friis
Building a 64bit Docker OS for the Raspberry Pi 3 via Docker Pirates
Windows as a Service by Omer Amin
Making Remote NVM-Express Flash Look Local And Fast by Jeffrey Burt
Cloud vs Hosting / Outsourcing by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Why I use Visual Studio Code to write PowerShell by Trevor Sullivan
Xamarin .NET Workbooks – Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool by Scott Hanselman

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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.