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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:

9 IoT Sessions from Ignite 2016 – Watch On-Demand by Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) Open Enrollment by Chris Pietschmann
Redgate delivers efficient migrations for Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Matt Usher
Add Microsoft Antimalware to Azure Service Fabric Clusters by Thomas W Shinder
HockeyApp replacing App Insights…definitely not… by Brian Swiger
Dashboard your next IoT project with Power BI by Greg Duncan
Backup and Restore Cassandra on Azure by Paige Liu
Set expiration date for VMs in Azure DevTest Labs by Raman Kumar
Distributed Tracing in Service Fabric using Application Insights by Jomit Vaghela
New resource blade for Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Matt Usher
Microsoft Cloud in India by Tom Keane
Azure Machine Learning Tutorial using Phyton, API and Excel by Lee Stott
How I use Azure Logic App, API App and Function App in my life by Frank Boucher
Azure DocumentDB SDK updates include Python 3 support by Mimi Gentz
Azure Service Fabric – Common Networking Scenarios by Kevin Williamson
Comments on – Manage Hadoop clusters in HDInsight using Azure PowerShell by CraigGu
Create SQL Login and SQL User on your Azure SQL DB by Yochanan Rachamim
Create an SSL enabled Web server farm with VM Scale Sets by Scott Semyan
Design for cloud/hybrid identity by Kim Spilker
SAP in Microsoft Azure Germany by RalfWi
Introduction to Azure API management (part 2) by Armin Reiter
Storing and using secrets in Azure by Bertrand Le Roy
Open Source Software on Azure Fridays with the Azure black belts by Ron Abellera
Required practice for applications integrating with Azure Active Directory by Gerardo Saca
Automating database migration to SQL Azure by Chris Mitchell
SnelStart uses Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools to rapidly expand its business services by Guy Haycock
BMI calculator in Azure notebook by Sethu Srinivasan
Azure is part of the 4th industrial revolution! by Michael
Leveraging Azure Functions for MIT AppInventor Web Interactions by Daniel Cazzulino
Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot by Benjamin Perkins
Step by Step approach to Copy data from Azure Data Lake to Azure SQL data warehouse using Azure Data Factory by Anindita-MSFT

Events

Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.

Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit and Ignite: Recap by Joseph Sirosh
ICYMI – Ignite 2016 Hybrid Cloud Announcements by Mark Harrison
The Artificial Intelligence track at Future Decoded 2016 by Martin Kearn
OMS TECH Fridays – Fall 2016 season by Roan Daley

Videos

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

AzureBot with Thiago Almeida via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Predict the value of your house using Azure Machine Learning via Channel 9
R and Spark as Yin and Yang of Scalable Machine Learning in Azure HDInsight | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 via Channel 9
Scary, I can hear your thoughts – What will Azure AD do for me? | UK TechDays Online September 2016 via Channel 9
Managing Your Microsoft Cloud Services with Yunboard via Channel 9
Building the Future of Healthcare with Siemens teamplay and Microsoft Azure via Channel 9
Connected Eyes: Will Machine Learning Give Us Better Eyesight? via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Data Science for Absolutely Everybody | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Brandon Rohrer

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 147 – Kudu via The Azure Podcast
Episode 159 | Microsoft Ignite Recap & Interview with Jeff Teper, Microsoft CVP SharePoint and OneDrive via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud

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

Here’s how I deal with managed platform outages by Troy Hunt
Demystifying Container-related Terminology by Bruno Terkaly
Server Encryption With An FPGA Offload Boost by Timothy Prickett Morgan

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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.