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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 187 – Create a back end for your next native iOS application via Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 186 – Easily add real-time web functionality to applications with Azure SignalR Service via Michael Crump
AzCopy support in Azure Storage Explorer now available in public preview via Catherine Wang
Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps — Part 3 via Andreas Helland
Heat Maps and Image Overlays in Azure Maps | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9

Azure 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)

Simplify disaster recovery with Managed Disks for VMware and physical servers via Mayuri Gupta
Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability via Yatharth Gupta
Create a transit VNet using VNet peering via Anavi Nahar
SAP on Azure High Availability Systems with Heterogenous Windows and Linux Clustering and SAP HANA via GoranCondric
Azure Stack Infrastructure Backup Configuration via Kristopher Turner
Azure Stack IaaS – part four via Hector Linares

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Azure Data Factory and Azure Stack blob storage copy via Mark Scholman
AzCopy support in Azure Storage Explorer now available in public preview via Catherine Wang

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Writing and Testing Azure Functions with Function Monkey – Part 3 via James
Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: March 11, 2019 via Gautam
Writing and Testing Azure Functions with Function Monkey – Part 2 via James
Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: March 11, 2019 via Gautam

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Lightweight Geospatial in Dynamics 365 for Phones via Geoff Innis
A Microsoft Flow for sending appointment reminders to customers via text for appointments created in Dynamics 365 via 365blog

Database and Big Data

Now available for preview: Workload importance for Azure SQL Data Warehouse via Ron Ortloff
Hardware innovation for data growth challenges at cloud-scale via Kushagra Vaid
Azure Data Factory and Azure Stack blob storage copy via Mark Scholman
Microsoft open sources algorithm, hardware and source code for Azure data compression via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 1: An Overview via Tyler Fox
Who logged into my #Azure SQL Database? via Bill Wilder
Creating a Backup Solution for Cosmos DB using change feed via Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability via Yatharth Gupta
Lesson Learned #79: Connecting to Azure SQL Database just using the port 1433 without redirection via Jose M Jurado – MSFT
Microsoft Releases 12 million Canadian building footprints as Open Data via Bing Team
Azure Data Box family now enables import to Managed Disks via Sunil Sanjeev
Identify log write limits on Azure SQL Managed Instance using QPI library via Jovan Popovic (MSFT)
Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver via Jovan Popovic (MSFT)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Read Azure IoT Hub device-to-cloud messages from the built-in and custom endpoints via Jun Han
IoT in Action: Thriving partner ecosystem key to transformation via Shirley Strachan
Easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge C modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) 0.3.1 via Erich(Renyong) Wang
Happy Pi Day with Docker and Raspberry Pi via paulofrazao
Adding Devices to an Azure IoT Hub via David Giard
IoT in Action: A more sustainable future for farming via Ranveer Chandra
Will it cluster? k3s on your Raspberry Pi via Alex Ellis

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How to keep human bias out of AI | Kriti Sharma via contact@ted.com (TED)
Maximize existing vision systems in quality assurance with Cognitive AI via Diego Tamburini
Integrating ML Capabilities Slides via Cameron Vetter
Microsoft Wants to Help Business Leaders Learn About AI via Mehedi Hassan

DevOps and Development

Azure Devops – Release Gates via Gregor Suttie
Friday Five: Enforce Budgets with Azure Automation, Visual Studio 2019 via MVP Award Program
Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps — Part 4 via Andreas Helland
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.15 via Edward Thomson
Configuring Azure Active Directory for Azure DevOps Utopia via WouterDeKort
Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps — Part 3 via Andreas Helland
Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability via Yatharth Gupta
Approve Azure Pipelines deployments from Slack via Atin Bansal
Accelerating enterprise digital transformation through DevOps via Christine Alford

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric

Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway via Tobias Zimmergren
Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps — Part 4 via Andreas Helland
Happy Pi Day with Docker and Raspberry Pi via paulofrazao
Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps — Part 3 via Andreas Helland
Azure Service Fabric 6.4 Refresh Release via Service Fabric Team

Security, Identity, and Privacy

Configuring Azure Active Directory for Azure DevOps Utopia via WouterDeKort

Azure Stack

Azure Stack User Defined Routes: 0.0.0.0/0 and your firewall appliance via Bas Wassenaar
Azure Data Factory and Azure Stack blob storage copy via Mark Scholman
Azure Stack Infrastructure Backup Configuration via Kristopher Turner
Azure Stack IaaS – part four via Hector Linares

Government

Other

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 187 – Create a back end for your next native iOS application via Michael Crump
ONNX Runtime integration with NVIDIA TensorRT in preview via Manash Goswami
Join Microsoft at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference via Talal Alqinawi
Achieve more with Microsoft Game Stack via Microsoft Azure
Simplifying your environment setup while meeting compliance needs with built-in Azure Blueprints via Lily Kim
Azure Search REST API via David Giard
Microsoft packages a bunch of its apps and Azure services as ‘Game Stack’ via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Visualizing Cold Starts via Mikhail Shilkov
Microsoft Azure portal March 2019 update via Leon Welicki
Microsoft Build 2019 Conference: May 6-8 @ Seattle via Deva [MSFT]
System Center 2019 now generally available! via Thomas Maurer
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 33 via Christine Alford
Spinning up cloud-scale analytics is even more compelling with Talend and Microsoft via Ewan Dalton
Economist study: OEMs create new revenue streams with next-gen supply chains via Jaishree Subramania
Stay informed about service issues with Azure Service Health via Stephen Baron
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 186 – Easily add real-time web functionality to applications with Azure SignalR Service via Michael Crump
Run your code and leave build to us via Josh Gavant
Azure.Source – Volume 73 via Rob Caron
Reasons To Use A Third Party Firewall In Azure via AFinn

Videos

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

One Dev Question – What new HoloLens and Azure products were released in Barcelona? via Channel 9
Azure Pipelines multi-cloud support and integration with DevOps tools | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
Azure Pipelines multi-cloud support and integration with DevOps tools via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Azure Pipelines multi-cloud support and integration with DevOps tools | Azure Friday via Channel 9
What’s New for Visual Studio 2019 Integrations with Azure Boards | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | The Open Source Show via Channel 9
Heat Maps and Image Overlays in Azure Maps | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9

Podcast

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:

Podcast appearance on CloudSkills.fm via Azure Greg
ProdCast: Becoming a better Microsoft Team’s player via CRM Audio — The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
Episode 270 – Hammer and Nail via The Azure Podcast
Episode 116 – Azure Sentinel via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 294 | Catching up on the Latest News from the Cloud via Microsoft Cloud Show
Cloud Commercial Communities webinar and podcast newsletter–March 2019 via Microsoft Azure Blog

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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.