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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API

Top Links

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

• Azure Management Libraries for .NET generally available now by Asir Selvasingh
• Grove IoT Commercial Gateway Kit from Seeed by Chris Pietschmann
• Azure IoT Suite “Connected Factory” solution is ready by Faruk Celik
• Announcing new Azure Services in the UK by Andres Juarez

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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)

• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Lift and Shift vs App Services – When a VM in the Cloud isn’t what you want by Scott Hanselman
• Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 3 by Olivier Martin
• Add Azure Antimalware Extension to a VM Scale Set by Pam Lahoud
• Azure IaaS and Architecture Training – Coming to a city near you! by Sarah Arnold

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• IIS Azure Web App – Force HTTPS AlwaysOn ping should return 200 for FastCGI sites by Jeff Sanders
• ASP.NET Core Logging with Azure App Service and Serilog by Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Has Azure Mobile Apps reached the end? by Adrian Hall
• Azure Mobile Apps Quickstart Samples available as GitHub repositories by Adrian Hall

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Introducing the Serverless Framework for Azure Functions by Christos Matskas
• Article: ‘Serverless’ computing: a technology trigger by Sandeep Alur
• Functioning Private Visual Studio Gallery via Azure Functions by Greg Duncan

Database / Big Data

• Data Factory Scheduling by Robin Lester
• HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse April Updates by Jenny Jiang
• Azure Data Lake U-SQL April 25 2017 Updates: Introducing Packages, UNPIVOT INCLUDE NULLS, fast file set preview flag, R extension returns dataframes, exporting your cluster database with sample data to your local run and more! by MRys
• Graph Database in SQL Server by DataPlatJP
• Using Microsoft’s Deep Learning Toolkit with Spark on Azure HDInsight Clusters by Miruna Oprescu

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Sock IoT with this Azure Connected System-on-a-chip Project by Greg Duncan
• Azure IoT Gateway SDK packages now available by Mohammed Furqan
• Scenario-based tutorials to learn IoT development with Azure and Azure IoT Hub by Xin Shi

Machine Learning

• Creating Bots in the Microsoft Bot Framework using Node.js by Arm Koukia
• Azure Cognitive API in action by shupadh

Development

• Team Services Extensions Roundup – April by Joseph Bourne
• Setup continuous deployment to MS Azure Government using Visual Studio Team Services by Shashank Bansal
• Dev/Test in the Cloud by Arm Koukia
• How to git push from VSTS build by Donovan Brown
• Azure management libraries for Java generally available now by Asir Selvasingh

Certification / Learning

• How to Create Your Own Know it Prove it Challenge Playlist by Matthew Calder

Containers

• Speed up Service Fabric development with the new Refresh Application debug mode by Service Fabric Team

Azure Stack

• MAS – Azure Stack Infrastructure Roles by gpillai

Events

• Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour ’17 by FitGeekGirl
• AZURE event 25th May 2017 with Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. by Lee Stott
• DockerCon 2017: The Top Rated Sessions by Victor Coisne
• Microsoft Azure at NAB Show 2017 by Sudheer Sirivara
• See what’s next for Azure at Microsoft Ignite via Microsoft Azure
• Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 by Andrei Dzimchuk
• How to make a movie the secure way at NAB Show 2017 by Alice Rison
• Check us out at Virtual Azure Gov Discovery Day! by Spenser Bullock

Other

• Tips on Azure Resource Groups by Arm Koukia
• Continuously publish your PowerShell module to PowerShell Gallery by using GitHub and VSTS by Kenichiro Nakamura
• Azure Billing REST API sample postman request by Maheshk
• Installing Azure CLI 2.0: workaround for error installing pyyaml by Peter Kirchner
• Post your harddrive for upload to the Azure Cloud by Lee Stott
• Send email from Azure SendGrid using PowerShell by Sanganak
• Backup and restore your Azure Analysis Services models by Josh Caplan
• Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API by Vikram Desai
• Now announcing: Azure Media Player v2.0 by Saili Race
• Monetizing your content with Azure Media Player by Saili Raje
• How Azure Security Center detects a Bitcoin mining attack by Jessen Kurien

Videos

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

• Azure Monitor Notifications via Azure Friday
• Tuesdays with Corey – DockerCon Announces | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code | Data Exposed via Channel 9
• Azure Marketplace via Azure Friday
• Episode 2: Germany – Interview with Dominick Baier | The MVP Show via Channel 9
• Episode 2: Germany Part II – Modern Authentication Architecture | The MVP Show via Channel 9
• Keynote- Joseph Sirosh | Microsoft Data Amp 2017 via Channel 9

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 176 – Networking Discussion via The Azure Podcast
• Today’s Cloud, Containers, and Architecture with Kelsey Hightower via Hanselminutes
• DevOps Readiness Assessment with Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren via .NET Rocks!
• Episode 190 | News update on Office 365, Docker, Azure Functions, Azure Search and More Azure! via Microsoft Cloud Show
• Mobile Games using Xamarin Forms and Azure Service Fabric with Jon Peppers 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:

• Create a security system with cameras on your Windows IOT Raspberry Pi by CalvinH
• Intel Moves Xeons To The Moore’s Law Leading Edge by Timothy Prickett Morgan
• Alfred V.1 – Voice Controlled, IoT, Bluetooth, Servant Robot Using Arduino and Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi by Ben
• Raspberry Pi Network Speed Test: RPi2, RPi3, Zero, Zero W (LAN & WiFI) #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi by Jessica
• Reckon you’ve seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer… by Troy Hunt
• Companies join Linux Foundation to build open IoT edge framework by Cate Lawrence
• IoT Analytics report: The journey towards successful IoT solutions via ReadWrite
• Watch Artificial Intelligence Lose Its Mind While Watching Bob Ross #ArtTuesday via Adafruit

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