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This is the Build 2017 edition of Build Azure Weekly. This week we’re packed with tons of service announcements, articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, and more! This was a really big week with all the amazing stuff Microsoft announced at the Build 2017 conference. I’m sure you’ve seen some of it, but have to seen everything? I’m not sure I saw everything. There sure is a ton of announcements to look through. It’s a very exciting week, and I hope this weeks digest helps you too.

Build 2017 Highlights

Here are some of the most notable links around announcements made at the Microsoft Build conference last week:

Get Started with Azure IoT Technical Training for Developers by Chris Pietschmann
A technical overview of Azure Cosmos DB by Dharma Shukla
Build sets the stage for developers in 2017 via Premier Developer
Azure CLI 2.0: new commands, features; available now in Azure Cloud Shell by Kamaljit Bath
Azure Database Migration Service announcement at //build by Wynn Johnson
Azure Portal goes Native on iOS and Android by Chris Pietschmann
New innovations at Microsoft Build 2017: Helping developers achieve more by Scott Guthrie
Microsoft extends Azure managed database services with introduction of MySQL and PostgreSQL by Rohan Kumar
Microsoft makes Visual Studio for Mac generally available by Mary Jo Foley
Announcing Azure IoT Edge by Chris Pietschmann
Waves platform now available on Azure by Cale Teeter

Here are some highlighted Sessions and Videos from Build 2017:

You can view all the sessions and videos over an the Build 2017 archive on Channel 9.

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)

Announcing AzCopy on Linux Preview by Sercan Guler
OMS, one of the most asked for features ITSM, is now in Public Preview by CliveW
Azure CLI from Browser by Wriju Ghosh
Azure DevTest Labs updates at Build 2017 by Xiaoying Guo
Azure Government – The most secure & compliant cloud for defense with new compliance and service offerings by Tom Keane
Manage your business needs with new enhancements in Azure Autoscale by Ashwin Kamath
IT Service Management Connector Public Preview by The Scripting Guys
More GPUs, more power, more intelligence by Corey Sanders

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

How To: Azure WebJob calling a Web Page using Powershell by Jeff Sanders
New tools for understanding user behavior with Application Insights by David Stephens
Announcing Application Insights Profiler for Azure App Service now generally available by Catherine Wang
How to run classic ASP on Azure Web Apps by Jeff Sanders
See what’s new for Azure App Service – Web App on Linux (Preview) by Apurva Joshi
Announcing Try App Service: Web App on Linux (Containers) by Apurva Joshi
Connect Azure App Service to Azure database for MySQL and PostgreSQL via SSL by mksunitha
Create Django Web app with PostgreSQL by mksunitha
Introducing Azure App Service Support Center by Apurva Joshi
Failed to deploy from GitHub to Azure App Service Web App, missing project reference by Benjamin Perkins
Deploy GitHub source code repositories to an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
How to deploy from GitHub using someone elses repository by Benjamin Perkins
Encrypt Secrets With A Certificate In Azure Websites by Ben Martens
URL Routing with Azure Application Gateway by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure App Service: Generating memory dumps on first chance exception using Procdump by Kaushai Kumar Panday
Machine Keys on an Azure App Service, machineKey multiple instances Azure by Benjamin Perkins

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions by Andrew B Hall
Application Insights integration with Functions now in preview by Chris Anderson
What’s new for Serverless at Microsoft Build 2017 by Raman Sharma
Introducing Azure Functions Runtime preview by Andrew Westgarth
Build and certify your PowerApps, Flow & Logic Apps Connector by Asavari Tayal
How to configure GitHub or VSTS for use with an Azure Function by Benjamin Perkins
Introduction to Azure Functions Deployment Slots by Christos Matskas
Azure Function App Error: We are not able to retrieve the runtime master key by Jeff Sanders

Database / Big Data

CosmosDB: The New DocumentDB NoSQL Database in Microsoft Azure by Chris Pietschmann
Public previews for mySQL, POSTgreSQL DBs as a Service by Omer Amin MS
Allowing multiple users to access R Server on HDInsight by Xiaoyoung Zhu
Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) General Availability by Jenny Jiang
Azure SQL Database now supports transparent geographic failover of database groups by Alexander (Sasha) Nosov
Batch computing at a fraction of the price by Mark Scurrell
Azure Cosmos DB: The industry’s first globally-distributed, multi-model database service by Dharma Shukla
Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a superset of its DocumentDB service by Mary Jo Foley
Using modern data sources in Azure Analysis Services by Kay Unkroth

Internet of Things (IoT)

Microsoft Announces Windows 10 IoT Core Improvements by Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Azure IoT Edge – Extending cloud intelligence to edge devices by Sam George
Microsoft launches Azure IoT technical training, developers can start quickly with IoT by Ilias Tsigkogiannis
Microsoft IoT & AI Insider Lab by Sven Scharmentke
Flying with IoT & the Cognitive Services by Juan M. Server Bondroit
Understand Different Connection Strings in Azure IoT Hub by Erich(Renyong) Wang

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

At Build, Microsoft expands its Cognitive Services collection of intelligent APIs via Microsoft Cognitive Services Team
Cortana, as a new Microsoft Bot Framework Channel by Arm Koukia
Using IoT Sensors to Up Your Game by Patty Ryan, Hang Zhang, Mustafa Kasap
AI Announcements at the Build Day 1 keynote by jennmar
Now Serving: More AI with Your Big Data via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
The Bot Framework: My Favorite Samples by jennmar
Optimizing Intelligent Apps Using Machine Learning in SQL Server via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Microsoft’s Chris Bishop Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team

Development

Contributing to Azure Quickstart Templates for Azure Government by keyed
Add Application Insights to an Angular SPA by Laurie Atkinson
Optimize your apps for your business with Azure Application Insights by Shiva Sivakumar
Start writing applications TODAY with the new Microsoft Authentication SDKs by Vittorio Bertocci
Visual Studio 2017 for Mac is Now Generally Available by Paul Thurrott
Azure Functions API development updates by Matthew Henderson
Demonstrating the power Xamarin, Azure and HockyApp to fight Youth Homelessness by Omar Kouatly
Consistent key naming between .NET Core user secrets and Azure Key Vault by John Adams
Building a URL Shortener with Azure Functions in less than 100 lines of code by Simon J.K. Pedersen

Certification / Learning

Opsgility expands Microsoft Visual Studio partnership to Professional and Enterprise subscribers by Michael Washam
The Azure Education Series: Upcoming and On-demand Webinars by Millie Stevinson

Containers

From a Docker container to MySQL as a Service in Azure in 5 minutes by Frank Boucher
Announcing Windows Server Container orchestration with Azure Service Fabric by Mark Fussell
Monitoring containers running on Service Fabric with OMS Insights and Analytics – Container Monitoring Solution by The Scripting Guys

Azure Stack

Management Pack for Microsoft Azure Stack now available by Thomas Roettinger
How the Azure Stack brings the cloud to you by Jeff Deverter

Events

Build 2017 Main Keynote Highlights by Sascha Corti
Build 2017 Day 2 Keynote by FitGeekGirl
Build 2017 Keynote 1 by FitGeekGirl
Build 2017 Session Catalog via Channel 9

Other

Education Technology – Reviewing the success of the Microsoft Cloud by Millie Stevinson
Massive-scale cloud rendering with Autodesk on Azure by Corey Sanders
Introducing Video Indexer, a cloud service to unlock insights from your videos by Milan Gada
Announcing general availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure File Storage by Lavanya Kasarabada
Azure Security Center Dashboard Updated by Thomas W Shinder
ARM Template – combining Application Gateway and enabling diagnostic logging into OMS by gpillai
Azure Invoice API – download all invoices by Admin Reiter
AZ CLI: How to delete and re-deploy a VM from VHD by Marco A Bicca

Videos

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

Windows Weekly 517: Live From Build 2017 via TWiT.tv with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley
Using Azure CLI 2.0 from Docker via Azure Friday
Create a SQL Database from Azure CLI 2.0 via Azure Friday
Build and Deploy Web Apps from Azure CLI 2.0 via Azure Friday
Azure Cloud Shell with Azure CLI inside Azure Portal by Chris Pietschmann
Loading Data into Azure SQL DW using Polybase | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
Tuesdays with Corey – Talks about all the Microsoft BUILD goodness! | Tuesdays With Corey 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:

RavenDB, the open source NoSQL Database for .NET with Adi Avivi via Hanselminutes
Episode 193 | Vesa Juvonen on New SharePoint Framework Capabilities Announced at Build via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 194 | Microsoft Build – Day 1 Keynote Recap via Microsoft Cloud Show
Deploying Apps using Chef with Robb Schiefer via .NET Rocks!
Episode 192 | Microsoft Azure News & Build Plans – Win a Surface Book or XBOX! via Microsoft Cloud Show
Serverless Azure with Jeff Hollan 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:

VS Code Function Keys in the MacBook Touchbar by John Papa
Hello World .NET Core Pi by Greg Duncan
Welcome to the Windows Bluetooth Core Team blog! by Aruna [MSFT]
Visual Studio for Mac by Lee Stott
Can IoT prevent gun violence across America’s cities? by Cate Lawrence
Nvidia’s Tesla Volta GPU Is The Beast Of The Datacenter by Timothy Prickett Morgan
GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Report predicts 95% of US cars will be autonomous by 2030 by Matthew Pierson
Building a Service in the Cloud by Adrian Hall
Crunching Machine Learning And Databases Together On GPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan

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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.