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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)

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

Optimization tips and tricks on Azure SQL Server for Machine Learning Services by Ke Huang

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

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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About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP (Azure & IoT) and HashiCorp Ambassador (2021) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to Fortune 100. He is also a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect and developer, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and Cloud Advocate. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.