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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:

Saving your Azure $ by auto shutting down your services by Lee Stott
Lessons learn while trying to deploy a Docker container in Azure by Frank Boucher
Microsoft Azure Data Science Virtual Machine with Theano and Keras by Lee Stott
Azure Disk Encryption – How to recover BEK file from Azure Key Vault by manojsehgal
Primer on Azure Monitor by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Disk Encryption – How to Encrypt Azure Resource Manager IaaS VM using KEK by manojsehgal
Deep Learning Toolkit on the Data Science Virtual Machine by Lee Stott
How to specify VNet details when creating New-AzureBatchPool compute nodes by Maheshk
Publishing Web App to Azure Via Visual Studio… by Rakesh Vemula
Powershell cmd to know the supported resource providers by location… by Rakesh Vemula
Public preview of Azure Advisor by Ninadk-MSFT
Deploy Java 8 Spring Boot API to Azure App Service by Harry Chen
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) – Find the template code of an Azure Resource by Wriju Ghosh
Provisioning an HDInsight Spark Cluster by Lee Stott
In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database by Jos de Bruijn
Building a micro-service architecture based cloud applications on Azure by Sarvashrestha Paliwal
Announcing token authentication with Azure CDN by Mailing Zhang
New A_v2-Series VM sizes by Jon Beck
Tip of the Day: Azure Security Center Email Alerts by Thomas W Shinder
Azure Symbols and Visio Stencils by Wriju Ghosh
Exporting details of Azure Virtual Machines to CSV/Excel by Tom Hollander
New metric measurement alert rule type in Public Preview! by The Scripting Guy
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template Using Visual Studio by Wriju Ghosh
GEO REPLICATION FAIL OVER TESTING USING REST API by Suhas
Writing Azure Functions in F# by Monster Simon Timms
New: Azure IaaS Security Best Practices by Thomas W Shinder
Building the trustworthy cloud: Protect your users’ privacy by James Staten
With general availability, enhancements abound in Azure IoT Hub Device Management by Sam George
Announcing the private preview out of the new SAP Connector for Logic Apps via BizTalk Team
Microsoft Introduces Enhancements to Azure IoT Gateway SDK and Azure IoT Hub device management in general availability; new Azure IoT IP Filter via Microsoft IoT
Connect your things with the Azure IoT Gateway SDK by Sam George
Introducing the Azure IoT Hub IP Filter by Sam George
How to deploy to Azure Functions using GitHub via They Call Me Mister James
Azure App Service: How to connect to the Kudu site of a specific instance by Kaushal Kumar Panday
Get notified if OMS Log Analytics usage is higher than expected via OMS Suite Blog
Choosing between Azure Container Service, Azure Service Fabric and Azure Functions by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service by benjaminperkins

Videos

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

Logic Apps Management and Tooling | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
Introducing Microsoft Stream via Azure Friday
Transition your Mobile Services to App Service via Azure Friday
Azure Resource Manager Training Video Series by Wriju Ghosh
Azure App Services: Free Online Video Training by Wriju Ghosh
Tuesdays with Corey: Demystifying SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Azure Data Lake GA! | Data Exposed 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 167 | Sponsor Highlight – Rencore via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 154 – Simpler Management Libraries via The Azure Podcast
Episode 166 | Office365Mon with Steve Peschka via Microsoft Cloud Show
Azure Security Center Podcast with Sarah Fender by Thomas W Shinder

Events

Here’s a couple links to some upcoming events:

Free Technical Workshop on Internet of Things, Microsoft Azure, Raspberry Pi & UWP by Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed
Microsoft Virtual Academy FREE training on Cortana Intelligence Suite by Lee Stott
Microsoft continues Azure IoT Suite integration with OPC UA and partners at SPS IPC Drives 2016 via Microsoft IoT

General Cloud

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

FPGAs Give Microsoft a “Von Neumann Tax” Break by Nicole Hemsoth
Visual Studio Docker tools support for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 by Steve Lasker
Let’s Encrypt Everything by Jeff Atwood
Intel Edison ‘matchbox-sized 10-core wifi cluster’ #IoT #IoTuesday via Adafruit

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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.