There is an incredible amount of new informations around Microsoft Azure, as well as Service updates every single week. This can be extremely difficult to keep up with. The new “Azure Weekly” series here on BuildAzure.com provides a great way to stay up to date on the latest Azure Updates, news and other information from a single source.

Below is a list of this weeks Azure news, updates and other cool information links.

Service Updates

This is the list of Azure Service Updates announced by Microsoft:

• Resource lock management available in the portal
• Azure Data Lake update announcement
• General availability: Azure SQL Database elastic pools
• Public preview: Media Analytics for Azure Media Services
• Public preview: Speaker Recognition API for Microsoft Cognitive Services
• General availability: Azure in Canada
• Test-drive feature is now available on Azure Marketplace
• General availability: Azure Content Delivery Network from Akamai is now available
• API Management adds new cmdlets for managing Git configuration, Properties, and Loggers
• Announcing Azure Mobile Services transition to Azure App Service
• General Availability: SQL Database Advisor and Performance dashboard
• Public preview: More preview enhancements for Azure Active Directory B2C
• Azure DocumentDB: Expire data automatically with “time-to-live” setting
• Azure Scheduler: P10 and new P20 Premium plans
• Public preview: Windows 10 Enterprise State Roaming preview via Azure Active Directory Premium is now available in Asia
• Public preview: Azure Active Directory Domain Services new available in Australia
• General Availability: New Azure SQL databases will default to compatibility level 130 in June 2016
• Public preview: Platform-supported migration of IaaS resources
• General Availability: Announcing support for PHP 7.0 in Azure App Service

Blog Articles

There are many people posting blog articles on doing great stuff with Microsoft Azure. Some are official Microsoft blogs, while many more are from the Azure community.

• Using Azure Portal with HoloLens by Chris Pietschmann
• Halo 5: Guardians uses Log Analytics in Microsoft Azure for Operational Intelligence by Joseph Chan
• Four stops on your journey to the cloud: Experiment, migrate, transform, repeat by Eduardo Kassner
• Microsoft Cloud accelerates in Canada and expands to South Korea by Takeshi Numoto
• Availability of STAR-CCM+ on Microsoft Azure by Tejas Karmarkar
• Announcing Azure Mobile Services transition to Azure App Service by Adrian Hall
• Microsoft announces General Availability of Azure CDN from Akamai by Sudheer Sirivara
• Azure SQL Database elastic pools now generally available by Tracy Daugherty
• Evolving Microsoft Enterprise Integration Services via Azure Blog
• Namespace-level tier selection enabled for Notification Hubs by Mimi Xu
• Deploy your hybrid scenarios and solutions in Microsoft’s cloud by Joe Davies
• Matt Rathbun Discussing FedRAMP at the CSA Federal Summit by Matt Rathbun
• Data movement made faster in Azure by Harish Kumar Agarwal
• General availability of Recovery Services vault – Azure Backup support for ARM VMs by Trinadh Kotturu
• Azure Site Recovery now has a simplified experience plus support for ARM and CSP by Manoj Kumar Jain
• Check out Azure Test Drives in preview by Bryon Surace
• Platform supported migration of IaaS resources form Classic to Resource Manager via Azure Blog
• Incremental update to Azure Stack PaaS services: Web Apps via Azure Blog
• Trying out Backup and Site Recovery (OMS): Lessons Learned by Edward Dake
• Automate finding a unique Azure storage account name (ARM) by Steve Ross
• Update on Operations Management Suite (OMS) Security by Thomas Shinder
• Azure continues to be the best place for Software as a Service by Tiffany Wissner

Videos

One of the many different content types from various sources is video. This includes content from Microsoft on Channel 9 or Azure Friday, but also more content from the Azure community as well.

• Tour of Microsoft Azure via Channel 9 with Scott Hanselman
• Why customers love Azure Stack via Channel 9
• Azure Web Apps introduces Local Cache via Azure Friday with Scott Hanselman and Aarthi Saravanakumar
• Intellisense Extensions for Microsoft Azure PowerShell via Channel 9 with Trevor Sullivan
• Student Competition (Ireland/Northern Ireland): Activate Azure for DreamSpark – you could win an Xbox One via Channel 9
• DevOps Dimension: DevOps & Deployment Automation Best Practices via Channel 9 with David Tesar and Damian Brady
• What is Azure DevTest Labs? via Channel 9
• How to set VM policies in DevTest Labs via Channel 9
• Tuesdays with Corey – Azure VM Backup and Oh Canada, eh? via Channel 9 with Corey Sanders
• Azure Deployment with VSTS Build via Channel 9 with David Giard
• Live from Build 2016: Cognitive Services via Channel 9 with Jennifer Marsman and Anna Roth
• Microsoft Azure Stack TP1 POC Hybrid VM Deployment via Channel 9
• Setting up an Azure Website with Microsoft WebMatrix 3 via Channel 9 with Stephen Howell
• The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land game built on DocumentDB via Microsoft Azure YouTube channel
• Azure Monitoring & Diagnostics: Gain Deep Insights + Take Intelligent Actions via Microsoft Azure YouTube channel from Build 2016 with Ashwin Kamath
• Mesosphere on Microsoft Azure via Microsoft Azure YouTube channel

 

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