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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- 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
- How Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack by Greg Cottingham
- Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft by Ana Visneski
- Distributed Availability Groups extended by Clads Hortien
- Data Science Virtual Machines are now available on Azure Government Cloud by Gerardo Saca
- Retirement of the PHP 5.5 runtime from App Service by Jennifer Lee
- Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database ranked #1 Database as a Service for developer satisfaction by SlashData by Rohan Kumar
- Integrating Azure Container Registry for Container Image management by rotatachar
- Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub by Eustace Asanghanwa
- Microsoft: We’ll have two-thirds of Office users in the cloud by fiscal 2019 via ZDNet
- Expanding Azure Functions to the Cosmos by Jeremy Likness
- Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement by Chris Anderson
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure DevTest Labs: Data Science and Bitnami images available in your lab
- General availability (Windows) and preview (Linux): Accelerated Networking
- Auto-renewal of SSL certificates in App Service
- Azure DevTest Labs: Set access rights to an environment resource group
- Retirement of the PHP 5.5 runtime from App Service
- Preview: Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation
- Public preview: Azure Batch AI
- Azure Batch updates
- General availability: Service Fabric 6.0 on Linux
- Public preview: Azure Availability Zones
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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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