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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:

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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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.