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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Functions portal and host improvements
- General availability: Azure cool blob storage in additional regions
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- What is Serverless Architecture? by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Developer Exam (70-532) Gets ARM Refresh by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Infrastructure Exam (70-533) Gets ARM Refresh by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Architecture Exam (70-534) Gets ARM Refresh by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Relay – cross-platform, open-protocol connections by Clemens Vasters
- Azure Blueprint takes takes on DoD Level 4 by Nate Johnson
- Azure DocumentDB updates: quick start experience, backup and restore, and firewall support by Kirill Gavrylyuk
- New Additions to the Data Science Virtual Machine – Test Drive, Community Forums, Deep Learning by Paul Shealy
- Project Bletchley – Blockchain comes to Azure Marketplace by Christine Avanessians
- Creating and Debugging Azure Functions Locally by Adrian Hall
- New Azure Government Documentation by Lily Kim
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Fix Cloud Services “IISExpress Development Certificate is Not Installed” Error on Localhost by Chris Pietschmann
- Routing Network Traffic to Stateful Services in Service Fabric by John Adams
- 9 Things You Should Do To Optimize HBase Performance in HDInsight via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Image in the Azure Gallery by freddyk
- Microsoft Azure Government and Booz Allen Announce Virtual Cloud Defense by Derek Stausbaugh
- Connect to Azure SQL Database by Using Azure AD Authentication by Michael Collier
- Webinar 11/7: Announcing Microsoft Flow General Availability by Charles Sterling
- Close Common Security Holes with Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Announcing the Winners – Women’s Health Risk Assessment Competition by Hai Ning
- Azure Blueprint takes ATO processes to the next level by Nate Johnson
- Azure Search and Backup available in Canada by Chelsea Carter
- Recommendation API now available through Microsoft Cognitive services by Akshey Gupta
- Refer azure runbook activity output in PowerShell expression by Jebarson J
- How to determine the installed .NET version in Azure App Services by Jeff Sanders
- General availability: Azure cool blob storage in additional regions by Michael Hauss
- Microsoft Power BI – Choosing the Offering that Meets Your Needs by Benjamin Xue
- What is Microsoft Bot Framework Overview by Lee Stott
- Azure Storage REST API: Authenticate with C# by Tobias Zimmergren
- Port limit for an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- Introducing Custom Modules in the Cortana Intelligence Gallery by Roopali Kaujalgi
- Azure Backup supports encrypted Azure virtual machines using Portal and PowerShell by Pallavi Joshi
- Memory metrics for an Azure Web App and App Service Plan by Benjamin Perkins
- Moving an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
- Microsoft Azure Goes Back To Rack Servers With Project Olympus by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- [Sample Of NOV. 01] How to get registrations from Azure Notification Hub by Baidu channel in Java via OneCode Team
- Power BI – Comparing Date Selection Visuals – Slicer vs Timeline by Samuel Lester
- Azure SQL Database: Now supporting up to 10 years of Backup Retention (Public Preview) by Alexander (Sasha) Nosov
- How Does Azure Security Center Help Microsoft IT? by Thomas W Shinder
- PowerApps, Flow and Common Data Service General Availability announcements by Ragnar Heil
- Applying Deep Learning at Cloud Scale, with Microsoft R Server & Azure Data Lake via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- Microsoft reimagines open source cloud hardware by Kushagra Vaid
- Automated notifications from Azure Monitor for Atlassian JIRA by Paul Bouwer
- Create a memory dump of your App Service when it consumes too much memory by Benjamin Perkins
- Connecting Azure Data Lake Analytics/Storage with Azure HDInsight Clusters by Anindita
- OMS Data Collector API and Twitter Sentiment Demo (Part 1) by Rafaela Brownlie
- Goofing around with the Cognitive Services Translator API by Bryan C Smith
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Getting Started with Azure Security Center via Channel 9
- Episode 218: DDD and CQRS on Service Fabric with Media Valet via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
- HBase Architecture , Use cases & Best practices in HDInsight by AshishThapliyal
- Virtual Network (vNet) Peering via Azure Friday
- Azure Site Recovery Video Series by Eric W. DeBord
- More with SQL Server on Linux | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Building a physical bot using the BotFramework – FreddyTheFishBot @FutureDecoded 2016 by Jamie Dalton
- Provide client SDKs for your APIs with APIMATIC and Azure API Management by MiaoJiang
- PowerBI Embedded GA | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
- The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson [1610] [October] | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson via Channel 9
- Episode 217: Azure Active Directory B2C with Swaroop Krishnamurthy | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
- Build Social Sentiment Analysis Solution using Microsoft Azure Services by sudhirblog
- What’s new in Azure DocumentDB? 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 151 – Azure Security Center via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 163 | New Microsoft and Google Products and Update on what AC’s Up To via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Azure API Management with Vishwas Lele via .NET Rocks!
General / Related
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Microsoft launches its Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams via ZDNet
- Overview of DDoS Attacks by Barclay Neira
- Introducing Visio Online Public Preview via Visio Team
- Mainstreaming Machine Learning: Emerging Solutions by Nicole Hemsoth
- Visualize your Raspberry Pi containers with Portainer or UI for Docker via Docker Pirates
- Will graphene radios unlock IoT access to terahertz band? by Matthew Pierson
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