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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:

Overview of the Azure Resource Manager Template Development Workflow by Lee Stott
New and Improved Azure Security Information Site by Thomas W Shinder
The Santa Cloud by Joe Davies
One NAV 2017 on Azure – Loaded please… by FreddyDK
HDInsight HBase/Phoenix FAQ by Ashish Thapliyal
OMS Search Query Command “Display” by Rafaela Brownlie
Developing Custom Artifacts for DevTest Labs: Tips and Tricks by Josh Garverick
Power BI Dashboard in A Day by Ray Fleming
How to create an immutable Azure VM image for an application using packer and ansible by Maninderjit Bindra
Continuous integration and deployment to Azure Container Service by John Stallo
URL Authorization Rules by Chris Gillum
Build Custom API on Microsoft Flow and PowerApps with Authentication by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
SCP.Net with HDInsight Linux Storm clusters by Ravi Peri
Preview: Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code by Saveen Reddy
Azure Data Lake Store is now generally available by Amit R. Kulkami
Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL database service in 2016 by Kirill Gavrylyuk
R Server for HDInsight now generally available by Oliver Chiu
Kafka for Azure HDInsight now public preview by Oliver Chiu
Analytics integrated help through IntelliSense by Not Kuperberg
Redaction Preview available globally by Richard Li
Relay Hybrid Connections .NET Core support – 0.1.2-preview release by John Taubensee
Four simple steps to Backup VMware VMs using Azure Backup Server by Maanas Saran
Azure Container Registry User Accounts; Single, Multi, Admin and Service Principals by Steve Lasker
Public Preview: Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) by Jenny Jiang
Use Operations Management Suite to monitor containers on Azure Container Service with Mesosphere DC/OS by Keiko
Azure ML Available in Japan East and US East 2 by Ted Way
Azure Data Lake Store now generally available by Oliver Chiu
OMS – Longer retention of up to 2years by CliveW
Sending events to IOT Hub over HTTP via REST by Chris Mitchell
The Intelligent Data Lake by Joseph Sirosh
Application Insights: Three of the latest features in Visual Studio by David Stephens
The Next Generation Database & Data Lake from Microsoft via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Maintenance Mode for OMS Alerts by Rafaela Brownlie
A big week in Data Science and AI– BOTS, Functions, GPU by Lee Stott
Keep on improving OMS Security advanced detections – now available for European customers via OMS Blog
Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support by Aravind Ramachandran
Azure Elastic Database Pools for SaaS Applications by Vikram Pendse
Microsoft Translator launching Neural Network based translations for all its speech languages via Microsoft Translator
Dive into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Microsoft Azure by Jose Miguel Parrella
CognitiveToolkit – CNTK on Microsoft Azure by Lee Stott
Azure Security Center now available in UK by Andres Juarez
Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps via Microsoft Azure
App Service on Linux now supports Containers and ASP.NET Core by Nazim Lala
Azure Backup security capabilities for protecting cloud backups by Pallavi Joshi
Dynamics NAV 2017 as an App in Azure Management Portal by navteam
Jupyter notebooks on Azure with Notebooks.azure.com by Lee Stott
Training Deep Neural Networks on ImageNet Using Microsoft R Server and Azure GPU VMs via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Announcing integration of Azure Backup into VM management blade by Trinadh Kotturu
Making Azure Functions more “serverless” by Chris Anderson
How to create a Kubernetes cluster on Azure in minutes ! by Fabien Dibot
IBM and Microsoft Azure support Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum LSF by Matthew Thomson
Visualizing weather information in Power BI with data from Microsoft OMS via OMS Blog
Driving agility in the cloud with Pivotal Cloud Foundry in Azure by Sean McKenna
Using Azure Resource Manager Templates with the Azure Portal–Automation Scripts by Lee Stott
Deploy Node and MongoDB app to Azure Web App on Linux and DocumentDB by Harry Chen
Creating Azure Resources with ARM Templates Step by Step by Scott Semyan
Building an Azure DevTest environment from the command line by Dave The Engineer
Running Azure Automation runbooks from IFTTT tasks by Brian Farnhill

Videos

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

DocumentDB Updates: Local Emulator and .NET Core Preview SDK via Azure Friday
Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps via Azure Friday
Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Active Directory Domain Services | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Azure Migration from ASM to ARM 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:

Episode 165 | Interview with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Plus News from Kubecon and Connect via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 153 – Key Vault via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud

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

Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Microsoft’s SQL Server Next for Linux, Windows hit public preview via Microsoft
Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better – with extensions by Scott Hanselman
Containers in Enterprise: Basics, DevOps and Orchestration by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
My Experience Completing the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science by Samuel Lester
Run compiled language (C, C++, Java) in Visual Studio Code by formulahendry

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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.