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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)

First steps with Bitnami WordPress in Azure VM by Edison Garcia
Azure enables cutting edge Virtual Apps, Desktops and Workstations with NVIDIA GRID by Karan Batta

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Use SaaS patterns to accelerate SaaS app development on SQL Database by Bill Gibson
Hybrid Connection Shows “Connected”, but Application Fails to Connect by Jim Cheshire

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Getting Started with Azure Serverless – a Roadmap for Getting up to Speed by Steve A Lee

Command-Line Tools

Install Azure CLI 2.0 on macOS by Chris Pietschmann
Coming Soon – PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell via PowerShell Team
Azure CLI 2.0: Generate SAS Token for Blob in Azure Storage by Chris Pietschmann

Database / Big Data

SQL Azure Blob Auditing Basic Power BI Dashboard by Cameron Battagler
How to use Power BI alerts and Flow to send alerts to different groups based on the value of the alert by Charles Sterling
Azure Cosmos DB for the rest of us: 5 part blog series by Jen Stirrup
Provision HBase cluster with Azure Data Lake Store in a few easy steps by AshishThapliyal
Azure Data Lake, and The Multi-Clustered Shared Storage Architecture by Sean_Mikha

Internet of Things (IoT)

[Sample Of May. 27] How to get started for using Azure IoT Hub and DocumentDB by OneCode Team
Connecting vehicles for the long haul with IoT by Jerry Lee
IoT and Retail: Microsoft Geeks Out in a Hackfest with Blue Dynamic by Matthew Calder
Microsoft and Cisco enable Azure IoT Suite to connect to Cisco Fog Deployments by Sam George
Building IoT Solutions Hands-on Labs by Lee Stott
Get Started with Azure IoT today by Xin_Shi
Microsoft MakeCode.com Perfect for inspiration and starting a development journey by Lee Stott

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Get Started with the Cortana Skills Kit by Greg Duncan
“Serving AI with Data” – Recap of the Microsoft AI Immersion Workshop by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Deploy Cognitive Toolkit model to Azure Web Apps by Ilia Karmanov
Neural networks and deep learning with Microsoft Azure GPU by Lee Stott
Azure Craft A hack for kids and parents to learn AI Programming by Richard Conway

Development

Downloading an Azure blob storage container – Python by brijraj singh
What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: May 2017 Digest by Buck Hodges
Priority Queues with Azure Service Bus by SoundCode
Avoiding Code Pollution when using Application Insights SDK by Pam Lahoud

Certification / Learning

Driving Learning as a Service through the open edX on Azure Platform by Carolyn Lesser
Know it. Prove it. is over, but there are many more ways to pick up new skills via Microsoft Learning
Microsoft Press Round Up for May, 2017 by spilks

Containers

Deployment of Pre-Trained Models on Azure Container Services via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Kubernetes in action: How orchestration and containers can increase uptime and resiliency by Brendan Burns

Events

Keynote: Azure – The Intelligent Cloud | Techorama 2017 by Scott Guthrie

Other

Microsoft Technical Guru – April 2017 by Ken Cenerelli
Opsgility Spotlight: Ram Barrola by Natalie Nelms
New 400GB and 200GB caches available on Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan
Customer story: BizTalk management through PowerApps via BizTalk Team
Solution targeting in public preview by The Scripting Guys
How Azure DevTest Labs makes nested ARM template deployments easier for testing environments by Xiaoying Guo
Azure Analysis Services new modeling and tooling features by Christian Wade
Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government by smrtRock

Videos

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

Episode 229: Azure Time Series Insights via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Azure Hybrid Networking 101 via Azure Friday
Building Search Apps with Azure Search and AzSearch.js | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Cloud Shell demo (AzureCLI + Powershell) | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
KEYNOTE: Developing with the Cloud | DEVintersection 2017 Orlando by Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown

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 180 – HPC/Batch & Bright Computing via The Azure Podcast
Episode 196 | Azure and Office News and Recapping the SharePoint Virtual Summit via Microsoft Cloud Show
Azure Functions with Yochay Kiriaty via .NET Rocks!
Episode 179 – Dev Test Labs via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Setup Raspberry Pi with Windows 10 IoT Core by Chris Pietschmann
A new Powershell experience with Visual Studio Code by Christos Matskas
Using IoT to solve the problems of the freight industry by Cate Lawrence
Under The Hood Of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters by Timothy Prickett Morgan
FPGA Startup Gathers Funding Force for Merged Hyperscale Inference by Nicole Hemsoth
Wisconsin creates committee on autonomous cars and connected vehicles by David Curry
Google’s Firebase taps server less Cloud Functions by Paul Krill

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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.