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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:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Distributed Availability Groups extended by Clads Hortien
Point-to-Site (P2S) connection using OpenVPN infrastructure by Simone Savi

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 33 – Prevent Changes to Resources in Azure App Service by Michael Crump
Easily Create a SAS to Download a File from Azure Storage–Using Azure Storage Explorer by Jeff Sanders
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 32 – Using Application Insights with Azure App Service by Michael Crump
Retirement of the PHP 5.5 runtime from App Service by Jennifer Lee
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 31 – Setting up Email Alerts with Azure App Services by Michael Crump
Announcing Azure Files share snapshots public preview by Rena Shah
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 30 – Working with Log Stream and Azure App Services by Michael Crump
September 2017 App Service Update by Byron Tardif
Setup SMTP in Drupal 8 on Azure Webapp by Yi Wang

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Functions Proxies – Part 4 – A very lightweight API Management by Toon Vanhoutte
Expanding Azure Functions to the Cosmos by Jeremy Likness
Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement by Chris Anderson

Command Line and ARM Templates

Manage Blob Storage with the Azure CLI by SoundCode
Create and Configure a VM with the Azure CLI by SoundCode

Database / Big Data

Put your databases on autopilot with a lift and shift to Azure SQL Database by Lindsey Allen
Audit SQL Server Jobs by Thomas LaRock
Data Mining CosmosDB with Power BI by Jeremy Likness
Lift & Shift your SSIS Package Execution to the Cloud on Azure today! by Jimmy Wong
New pricing tier for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Announcing Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL availability in Canada and Brazil by Sunil Kamath
Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database ranked #1 Database as a Service for developer satisfaction by SlashData by Rohan Kumar
SQL Vulnerability Assessment by Thomas LaRock
Mapping a login to a user in Azure SQL Data Warehouse by JK(Joon Kyu) Lee

Internet of Things (IoT)

Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub by Eustace Asanghanwa
Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health by Ashita Rastogi
Breaking down the IoT journey | A holistic approach to IoT via Microsoft IoT

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Using Microsoft Cognitive Emotion API with Android App Studio by Lee Stott
Microsoft Cognitive Services – How Content Moderator helps to boost online safety by Sanjeev Jagtap
Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft by Ana Visneski
AWS and Microsoft Announce Gluon to Simplify Deep Learning for Developers via aws@amazon.com
Utilising Azure Notebooks for learning new programming languages (like Python) by Lee Stott
Learn Data Science from the experts by Lee Stott
Scale up your deep learning with Batch AI preview by Alex Sutton
The Microsoft Team Data Science Process (TDSP) – Recent Updates by Xibin Gal, Wei Guo, Brad Severtson, Debraj GuhaThakurta

Development and DevOps

Investigating Socket exception for ASP.NET applications in Azure App Service by Kaushal Kumar Panday
Visual Studio 2017 Service Fabric Tools 2.0 Preview via Service Fabric Team
Great MSDN Blogs for Testers Using VSTS by Christopher Witte
Event Hubs Client for Java 0.15.0 is now live by Shubha Vijayasarathy
ADAL.NET 3.17.0 released by Jean-Marc Prieur
.NET: Manage availability zones and more by Asir Selvasingh
DevOps trick – Provision Azure Active Directory Apps in a highly controlled way – step by step by Stephane Eyskens
Using Azure Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Core and Angular by Mahesh Sabnis
Git and Visual Studio 2017 part 12 : Compare your items in Git by Kenichiro Nakamura
DevOps with Azure and VSTS: Videos from Ignite 2017 by Edward Thomson

Containers and Service Fabric

Push Docker images to Azure Container Registry by Arm Koukia
Create Docker container images to host in Azure Container Service by Arm Koukia
Service Fabric 6.0 Refresh Release for Windows Server Standalone, Azure and .NET SDK via Service Fabric Team
Unifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service by Saurya Das
Integrating Azure Container Registry for Container Image management by rotatachar

Security

Keeping your data secure: Why companies can feel confident in the cloud via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Securing Azure Functions calls to Dynamics 365 secured by Azure AD! by Ali Mazaheri
Hardening Azure Analysis Services with the new firewall capability by Kay Unkroth
How Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack by Greg Cottingham
How Azure Security Center uses machine learning to enable adaptive application control by Ben Kliger
Developing an Azure AD B2C multi-tenant application by Pam Lahoud

Learning / Certification

Big 70-534 Exam Updates Coming with Exam 70-535 by Chris Pietschmann
70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Professional Program Now Offers 5 Different Online Degrees by Chris Pietschmann
My Journey into the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data by Samuel Lester
Exploring Big Data: Course 1 – Microsoft Professional Orientation: Big Data by Samuel Lester
Accelerate your career path with Microsoft Azure cloud skills via Microsoft Learning

Events

Microsoft EDU Moments by Jose Kingsley Davies
Join the Journey from Device to Action at the IoT Virtual Bootcamp by Greg Duncan
Service Fabric Community Q&A 17th Edition via Service Fabric Team
Enterprise Mobility + Security @ Ignite 2017 – Wrap Up by Andrew Conway
Security & Data Announcements at Ignite 2017 by Tom Kerkhove

Azure Government

Data Science Virtual Machines are now available on Azure Government Cloud by Gerardo Saca
Azure Government Los Angeles Hackfest + Training Recap by Steve Michelotti

Other

Quarterly Microsoft Azure SOC reports: Compliance at warp speed by Alice Rison
Monitoring Azure Resources – Tools and Technology by Eric W. DeBord
Building an Assignment Bot with Microsoft Bot Framework by Lee Stott
Send your Azure alerts to ITSM tools using Action Groups by Kiran Madnani
Add a new user to my Azure Subscription by Benjamin Perkins
Microsoft: We’ll have two-thirds of Office users in the cloud by fiscal 2019 via ZDNet
Hosting your Unity game on Azure by Lee Stott
Dynamics CRM: Failed to delete audit data from one or more of the specified partitions by Kiran Belliappa

Videos

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

ILB ASE and Application Gateway | Azure Friday via Channel 9
New video: Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework by Kim Spilker
Jenkins Plugins for Kubernetes | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Azure Instance Metadata Service 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 199 – Blockchain Update via The Azure Podcast
Episode 220 | VSTS DevOps with Donovan Brown and Gopinath Chigakkagari via Microsoft Cloud Show
AI Panel from DevIntersection Europe! via .NET Rocks!

General Cloud / Related

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

Videos series: Modernizing Java Apps for IT Pros by Sophia Parafina
Why LTE-M is a game changer for IoT via ReadWrite
Serverless Kubernetes home-lab with your Raspberry Pis by Alex Ellis
Want to Ditch Social Security Numbers? Try Blockchain via SuperSite for Windows
Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Tip: Docker Extension for VSCode by Tobias Zimmergren
The Forgotten Roles in an Agile Transformation by Tuan Nguyen
Black Marble uses Microsoft HoloLens to help revolutionise Crime Scene Investigation with tuServ by Leila Martine
Jeremy Clark on Social Developers by David Giard

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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.