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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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Newly created Azure SQL databases will be encrypted at rest by default
- General availability: On-premises data gateway in Azure
- General availability: Azure Network Watcher in all public regions
- Azure DevTest Labs: Use Azure CLI to create and manage environments with multiple VMs or PaaS resources
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- How to Compare Azure VM Pricing Across Azure Regions by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft to open up about its Cortana Skills Kit at Build via ZDNet
- Now Generally Available: On-premises data gateway in Azure by Dimah Zaidalkilani
- Threat Detection in Azure SQL Database is now Generally Available by Ron Matchoro
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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)
- Empowering digital transformation together at Red Hat Summit by Julia White
- Azure Backup and Site Recovery verfügbar / available in Azure Germany by RalfWi
- Custom Autoscale for ARM Virtual Machines in Azure Government by keydet
- Copy Managed Images by Michael Collier
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- End to End SSL with Azure Application Gateway by Jason Boeshart
- Enable PHP error logging in App Service by mksunitha
- Resetting FTP password, using Publish Profile credentials, Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure App Service: Manually collect memory dumps by Kaushai Kumar Panday
- Azure App Service: How to read & parse connection strings via PHP by Kaushai Kumar Panday
- In-order delivery of correlated messages in Logic Apps by using Service Bus sessions by Aprana Seth
- Logic Apps Release Update 2017-05-05 by Jeff Hollan
- Binding Multiple Sites With Single SSL Certificate by Enamul Kh-MSFT
- April 2017 App Service update by Byron Tardif
- Scale an App Service from FREE to SHARED BASIC STANDARD or PREMIUM using PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins
- Enabling Azure CDN from Azure web app and storage account portal extension by Mailing Zhang
Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- A static website and some little tricks with Azure Functions Proxies by Frank Boucher
- Azure Functions updates by Benjamin Perkins
- Build a Serverless MBaaS with Azure Functions by Adrian Hall
Database / Big Data
- This blog post describes how to use Jupyter notebooks and Pandas with Azure Data Lake Store. Using Jupyter notebooks an… by Amit R. Kulkarni
- More storage for Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database by Morgan Oslake
- Monitoring Petabyte-Scale AI Data Lakes in Azure by Reed Umbrasas
- New Power BI content pack for Azure Enterprise users by Anand Edwin
- SCP.Net with HDInsight Linux Storm clusters by Ravi Peri
- Video guide on deploying ready-made Power BI content into PowerBI.com by Milinda Vitharana
- HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse April updates by Jenny Jiang
Internet of Things (IoT)
- End-to-End IoT with Azure Services by Greg Duncan
- Azure IoT Hub Server TLS Leaf certificate renewal – May 2017 by Arjmand Samuel
- The real-time difference: How IoT is poised to transform your inventory management system via Microsoft IoT
- Data driven troubleshooting of Azure Stream Analytics jobs by Samantha Chandrashekar
- Precision Agriculture with IoT, Machine Learning, Drones, and Networking Research by jennmar
Machine Learning
Development
- Zero-downtime deployments using VSTS and Azure by j.niesen
- Understanding performance and usage impact of releases using annotations in Application Insights by Mike Gresley
- Auto generate Azure deployment templates by Benjamin Perkins
Certification / Learning
- Exam prep for Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, 70-534 by Omer Amin
- Limited Time Offer: 25% off MCP Exams by Liberty Munson
- Opsgility Spotlight: Andres Nava via Opsgility
Containers
- Kubernetes – Overview by Fabricio Sanchez
Events
- Why Azure for HPC? Academic workshop A Deep Dive Workshop into HPC and Azure at University of Oxford 10.00am – 4.00pm, 13th June 2017 by Lee Stott
- Meet with the API Management product team during //build! by Miao Jiang
Other
- Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login by Sanganak
- IaC on Azure – How to get started with ARM Template by Ryan Kia Zhi Tang
- Automating Role Assignment in Subscriptions & Resource Groups by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Azure Gov April Meetup Replay: Enhancing Government Services Through Advanced Analytics by Karina Homme
- 1400 Compatibility Level in Azure Analysis Services by Christian Wade
- Announcing preview of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers by Anand Edwin
- Journey To The Cloud (Part 1) by Dean Suzuki
- SAP on Azure: General Update for Customers & Partners April 2017 by Cameron
- Azure AD — Overview of Libraries by Andreas Helland
- Reacting to maintenance events… before they happen by Ziv Rafalovich
- Introduction to Progressive Web Applications (PWA) by Pam Lahoud
- Azure AD Groups, Claims and the Graph API. by Dave The Engineer
- Apple Enrollment is now available in the Azure Portal by Ronni Pedersen
- Pro Tip: Use Ctrl+Alt+D from the Azure Portal to get performance information by Ronni Pedersen
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Windows IoT Core Walkthrough via Channel 9
- Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Networking and Innovation via Channel 9
- Azure Networking New Features Demo Snapshot via Channel 9
- Azure Government via Azure Friday
- Build global-scale mobile apps in minutes | Microsoft Data Amp 2017 by Kirill Gavrylyuk
- End-to-End Scenarios Enabled by the Data Science Virtual Machine: Webinar Video via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- Tuesdays with Corey – Welcome to Deis | 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:
- Episode 177 – Partner Spotlight – HashiCorp via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 191 | Office 365, GCP, AWS and DockerCon News + Client Side Dev with Mark Rackley via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter by Jeffrey Burt
- Hajime malware is turning 300,000 IoT devices into zombies by Ryan Matthew Pierson
- 6 ways that IoT is reshaping today’s insurance proposition by Charles Juniper
- Red Hat Gears Up OpenShift For Developers by Jeffrey Burt
- Introducing Docker’s new CEO by Ben Golub
- Does big data today keep the doctor away? via ReadWrite
- Cluster Management for Distributed Machine Learning at Scale by Nicole Hemsoth
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