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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:
- Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in France Central, Korea Central, North Europe
- Public preview: Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center
- Support for virtual network peering in Azure Security Center
- Azure Security Center adaptive application control updates
- Azure Security Center: Regulatory compliance dashboard in public preview
- Azure Security Center: Secure score impact changes
- Azure Security Center policy migration to Azure Policy
- Azure Security Center update: Secure score for compliance metrics
- Azure Security Center update: Azure App Service recommendation improvements
- Azure portal March 2019 update
- Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
- Workload importance (preview) for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Azure Log Analytics is now General Available in Australia East and in Australia Central
- Service Map available in Central Canada and UK South
- Application Insights is now available in France Central and Korea Central
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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
- Microsoft Azure Government is First Commercial Cloud to Achieve DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization, General Availability of DoD Regions via Tom Keane
- The Azure Government blog is moving to a new platform via Azure Gov Team
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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