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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Azure Media Services October 2017 updates

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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)

Azure Content Spotlight – Project Olympus by chilberto
Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available by Saurabh Sensharma
Announcing automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets by Guy Bowerman
Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana by Ashwin Kamath
Disaster Recovery with VM Scale Sets & Geo-Replicated DBs by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute in preview by Ajay Gummadi
FAQs: Data Copy and Backup in Azure; Future Service Packs by John Savill
Microsoft’s Project Olympus delivers cloud hardware innovation at scale by Kushagra Vaid
Microsoft introduces new secure firmware spec via the Open Compute Project via ZDNet
Microsoft Azure Low-priority Virtual Machines – take advantage of surplus capacity in Azure. by Lee Stott
TierPoint adds Azure Site Recovery to its DraaS offerings by Mayank Nayar

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

How to access KUDU SCM for an Azure App Service Environment (ASE) by Benjamin Perkins
Using Azure Storage for ClickOnce Deployment Windows Desktop application by Wriju Ghosh
Open outbound port requirements and IP address whitelisting by Ch. Wolf
Running a popular Content management solution on Web App for Containers by mksunitha
Linux FUSE adapter for Blob Storage by Sercan Guler
High Trust provider Apps (On-Premise environment) won’t publish when Azure App Proxy enabled in web application service application proxy Association by Spses
Deploying Azure WebApps with Kudu Zip API by SoundCode

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure F#unctions Talk at FSharping Meetup in Prague by Mikhail Shilkov
Logic Apps Management solution updated – search runs by tracked properties, bulk re-submit and more… by Sumit Kumar

Command Line and ARM Templates

Azure CLI – Getting Started by SoundCode
Setting up my WSL Environment – Azure CLI, Docker and .NET by Shayne Boyer

Database / Big Data

Handling High volume events with Azure Event hub by Renee Saluja
Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview by Jenny Jiang
SQL Server 2017 and Azure Data Services – The ultimate hybrid data platform by Rohan Kumar
Azure SQL Database: Ingesting 1.4 million sustained rows per second with In-Memory OLTP & Columnstore Index by Perry Skountrianos
Automatic tuning will be a new default by Jeljko Vasic
A few CosmosDB query limitations by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT solutions monitor holiday stock, shoppers for retail insights via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
BTT Uses Microsoft IoT to Detect Brain Disease via Microsoft IoT
Azure IoT DevKit: Upgrade Firmware – MXChip, AZ3166 by Chris Pietschmann
Azure IoT DevKit: Configure Wifi Connectivity – No Wifi? by Chris Pietschmann
Device provisioning: Identity attestation with TPM by Nicole Berdy

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Batch AI Service – Train & test machine learning models, on pools of GPU machines. by Lee Stott

Development and DevOps

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code via Visual Studio Blog
Application Insights: VSTS dashboard chart widget now available by Mike Gresley
DevOps for Data Science – Defining DevOps by BuckWoody
Visual Studio Team Services in Hong Kong by Brian Harry
Visual Studio Team Services is in East Asia! by Aaron Hallberg
Monitoring Team Foundation Server 2018 by Aaron Hallberg
Continuous delivery of infra to Azure | Microsoft Azure OpenDev 10.2017 by Tyler Troy

Containers and Service Fabric

Creating a Minimal ASP.NET Core Windows Container by Jeffrey T. Fritz
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 48 – Pushing a Container Image to a Docker Repo by Michael Crump
[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your VMSS by Pam Lahoud
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 47 – Creating a Container Image with Docker by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 46 – Run an app inside a Container Image with Docker by Michael Crump

Security

What does success look like in cybersecurity? by Matthew Calder

Learning / Certification

Are Microsoft Certifications Worth More Money? by Liberty Munson
Two New IT Salary Surveys Now Open by Selina Winter
Exploring Big Data: Course 5 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud by Samuel Lester
5 reasons why I invest in me by SCuffinOz

Events

Free Webinars in November – Learn from Big Data & Machine Learning Applications in Healthcare via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Join Microsoft at Supercomputing 17 by Ben Cotton
Part 3 Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour NYC 2017 | Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour NYC 2017 by Scott Guthrie

Azure Stack

General availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack by Stella Lin

Blockchain

Accelerating the adoption of enterprise blockchain by Pablo Junco

Other

New offers in Azure Marketplace – October 2017 by Christine Alford
Why Microsoft offers uncapped indemnification for open source in Azure by Jim Ross
Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan
Last week in Azure: Capacity growth in China, Managed Applications, and more by Rob Caron

Videos

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

Java in Azure Functions via Azure Friday
TWC9: Connect(); Next Week, Picking the Right Azure VM, Star Wars Video Cards, Life After the Uniform and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Greg Duncan, Christina Warren
Azure DDoS Protection Service via Azure Friday
Track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities with SQL Vulnerability Assessment | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Azure Batch Rendering Service via Azure Friday

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:

DevOps for Everyone with Donovan Brown and Damian Brady via .NET Rocks!
Episode 224 | Azure Kubernetes Service and more Azure and Outlook.com News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Building VSTS using VSTS with Dan Hellem and Rogan Ferguson via .NET Rocks!
Episode 203 – DevCon3 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:

Nvidia Breaks $2 Billion Datacenter Run Rate by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The six best-paid IoT programming languages by Elena Ruchko
Hello World: The Film – Kickstarter by Shawn Wildermuth
HPE Developing its Own Low Power “Neural Network” Chips by Nicole Hemsoth
Market for Mixed Reality To Be Worth $187m By 2025 by Rebecca Hills-Duty
Indie Dev Podcast – Sarah Sexton via Sarah Jeanne Sexton
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Computing Is Bigger Than The Datacenter by Jeffrey Burt
How IoT is Revolutionizing Workplace Safety? by Clayton Jacobs
Zest labs brings IoT and blockchain to the fresh food supply chain by Cate Lawrence
Red Hat Wraps OpenStack In Containers by Jeffrey Burt

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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.