The Azure Weekly series from BuildAzure.com brings a consolidated source for the weeks Azure news, blogs, and service updates. There is an incredible amount of things changing in the Microsoft Azure platform and ecosystem on a regular basis. The goal of this weekly list is to help keep up on all that keeps changing.

Service Updates

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

Blog Articles

Here’s a bunch of the blog posts from Microsoft and the community at large over the week:

Azure Security Information Site on Azure.com by Thomas W. Shinder
Improve Security by Migrating from Azure Service Management to Azure Resource Management by Thomas W. Shinder
Azure CDN highlights from Akamai release by Manling Zhang
Azure Marketplace: WordPress via Chris Pietschmann
Azure Marketplace: RedHat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine by Chris Pietschmann
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 is now available in Azure Marketplace by Boris Baryshnikov
Predicting Traits from Genomic Data Using the Microsoft Azure Linux Data Science VM by Mary Wahl
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 26: Relationship Advice by Adrian Hall
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 25: The Push to Sync Pattern by Adrian Hall
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 24 – Push with Tags by Adrian Hall
Achieving regulatory agility in the era of cloud computing by Matt Rathbun
Insights on Container Security with Azure Container Service (ACS) by Thomas W Shinder
Keeping your migration (and business) on course by Eduardo Kasher
Turning on Windows features using PowerShell DSC extension and Azure CLI by Kirpa Singh
Diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting by Ritesh Garodia
Easily bring your SQL Server licenses to Azure VMs by Khalid Mouss
How to add custom claims to Azure Mobile App authentication by Stan Tarnovskiy
Azure Features and Regions, Oh My!? by Chris Pietschmann
SharePoint Server 2016 dev/test farm in Azure by Joe Davies
Announcing general availability of Azure DevTest Labs by Xiaoying Guo
Solving for the cloud by James Staten
I’m speaking at a Free AzureCraft event in London on June 3rd by Scott Guthrie
Migrating, managing and more: Real IT pros, Real advice via Microsoft Azure blog
Continuous integration and delivery of web apps from Atlasssian Bitbucket by Mohammad Jalloul
Digging into network health using Application Insights extensibility by Tom Moore
Storage specific enhancements in Azure Site Recovery by Poornima Natarajan

Videos

Here are some videos about Azure features that were released this week:

RW Q&A: Sam George, director of Microsoft’s Azure IoT via readwrite
Developer Support Series: Service Fabric – Next-Generation cloud application platform for Hyper Scale, stageful and stateless micro services via Channel 9
Cloud Cover Episode 206: Bot Framework with Mike Hall via Channel 9
Cloud Cover Episode 207: Netflix Spinnaker on Azure with Andy Glover, Richard Guthrie, and Arun Chandrasekhar via Channel 9
Release Management with VSTS & integration with Azure, Chef and Octopus Deploy via Channel 9
DevOps Dimensions episode 8: Docker Best Practices & Industry Future via Channel 9

Audio / Podcasts

Here’s some audio and podcasts that discuss Azure from this week:

TWC9: Happy 25th VB, Azure DevTest Labs available, Fetch, Why SQL Server 2016 Rocks and more… via Channel 9
DotNetRocks episode 1299: Identity as a Service with Vittorio Bertocci
Episode 129 – Azure Backup & Site Recovery via The Azure Podcast
TechDays Online: Nano Satellite Project via Channel 9

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.