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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

There are no new Azure service updates this 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)

Renaming Virtual Machine Disks by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Windows Server, version 1709 is now available on Azure by Sue Hartford
Azure Virtual Machines Anatomy by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification by Chris Pietschmann
Zip Push Deployment for Web Apps, Functions and WebJobs by Nick Walker

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Logic App X12 replacing separator characters in payload by David Burg
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 37 – Parse Emails to be used in a Azure Logic Apps by Michael Crump
Invoking a Stored Procedure from a partitioned CosmosDB collection from Logic Apps by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 36 – Quickly Renew or Revoke Azure Functions Keys by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 35 – Work with the Azure Functions File System using the Console by Michael Crump

Command Line and ARM Templates

Require License Acceptance Support in PowerShellGet by Fareha Rashid
Managing Storage Queues with the Azure CLI by SoundCode
Getting Productive With Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell by Timothy Warner
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 34 – Working with the Azure CLI using a Mac by Michael Crump
Detecting drift between ARM templates and Azure resource groups by Tom Hollander

Database / Big Data

Azure Event Grid – Making the Cloud Reactive by SuhasRao
Desired State Configuration(DSC) for SQL Server ***Update 2 by Troy Ault
Issue Modifying search_path Parameter for Azure Database for PostgreSQL by Josh Villareal
Simple database copies with the Azure Data Lake Database Export Wizard by Yanan Cai
Azure Data Factory V2: visual monitoring added to public preview by Gaurav Malhotra
Understanding Azure Cosmos DB Billing by Ansar Khan
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Geo-disaster recovery preview released by Christian Wolf
Troubleshoot Recurring Job Problem with Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio by Yanan Cai
Azure Event Grid now supports Event Hubs as a destination by Dan Rosanova
Lift and shift your SSIS packages to run on Azure with Azure Data Factory v2 by Faruk Celik
Configure Azure Storage for SQL Database backups by Jovan Popovic
Azure Service Bus Geo-disaster recovery (preview) released! by Ch. Wolf
Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview by Jenny Jiang
Restoring Deleted Database to Specific Point in Time by Nick Lopez
Enabling Geo-DR with Event Hubs (preview) by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Azure Service Bus Geo-disaster recovery (preview) released! by Ch. Wolf

Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT in Action! Boston, October 30th by Greg Duncan
ICYMI: Modernizing business for the cloud & a big leap for IoT via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Breaking down the IoT journey | The ROI of IoT by Microsoft IoT
Benefits of using the Azure IoT SDKs, and pitfalls to avoid if you don’t by Yi Zhong

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Announcing the Data Science Virtual Machine in Batch AI Service by Paul Shealy
1 Million predictions/sec with Machine Learning Server web service by Pratik Palnitkar
Microsoft Student Partner Team gewinnt Agorize AI Challenge in Paris by Sven Scharmentke

Development and DevOps

Integrating VSTS for DevOps with privately hosted Azure App Service by Visual Studio Geeks
Friday Five: DevOps, Mixed Reality, NodeServices And More via MVP Award Blog
Using Azure Storage in ASP.NET Core by Shawn Wildermuth
Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates by Jenny Jiang

Containers and Service Fabric

Run your application in Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service by Aram Koukia
New Azure Service Fabric Customer Profile from Azure CAT and CSA: Alaska Airlines by Ed Price
Create a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service by Arm Koukia
Service Fabric sessions at Ignite 2017 via Service Fabric Team
Service Fabric Customer Profile: Alaska Airlines via Service Fabric Team

Security

A simple approach for strengthening the security of your Microsoft account by Laurentiu Cristofor
User accounts made easy with Azure by Andrew B Hall
How to safeguard SQL Server on Linux from OOM-Killer by Venu Cherukupalli

Learning / Certification

[Linux] LFCS prep and easy way to remember commands by Maheshk
Exam 70-535 to Replace 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions on November 30 – Here’s What You Should Know by Selina Winter
Free Azure learning resources for Customers and partners by CliveW
Azure Learning Path by Wriju Ghosh
Accelerate your career path with Microsoft Azure cloud skills! by Sarah Arnold

Events

The San Francisco/Bay Area Serverless Tour 2017 by Jeremy Likness
Azure is the Enterprise Cloud – highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017 by Julia White
Free Webinars on Cognitive Toolkit with Batch AI, DSVM & Document Collection Analysis by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
Meet the Azure Analysis Services team at PASS Summit 2017 by Josh Caplan
AI Services at Future Decoded 2017 by Martin Kearn

Azure Government

Azure Government DC Hackfest + Training Recap by Steve Michelotti
Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads by Karina Homme
Win10 Enterprise Now Available on Azure Government! by Sarah Weldon
Microsoft to expand Azure Government Secret cloud option for handling classified data via ZDNet
Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads by Tom Keane
Department of Justice Issues a FedRAMP High ATO for Azure Government by Matt Rathbun

Other

Cloud Service Map for AWS and Azure Available Now by Michael Crump
How we got to enforce DMARC for sub-domains of Microsoft’s largest consumer email brands by tzink
Connecting to Azure Analysis Services using Service principal or User token by Wilson Reddy
AF: AppFabric Invalid Version Error by Purna Chandra Panda
Get Started with Microsoft Graph API by Dolga Rares
Azure Log Analytics workspace upgrades in progress by The Scripting Guys
Bing Search API v7 and Bing Custom Search are now generally available by The Microsoft Cognitive Services Team
Azure Log Analytics workspace upgrades are in progress by Yossi Yossifon

Videos

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

Webinar Recording: Introduction to Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure by Chris Pietschmann
Azure API Management: New Admin UI and Mocks via Azure Friday
Hybrid Storage with Azure File Sync 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 200 – SQL on Linux via The Azure Podcast
Episode 221 | Azure and Office 365 News while Riding Scorpions via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

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

Bing Maps V8 Web Control SDK October 2017 Update via Bing Team
Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code by Benjamin Perkins
Extending Docker Enterprise Edition to Support Kubernetes by Banjot Chanana
Beta Docker for Mac and Windows with Kubernetes by Michael Friis
Docker Platform and Moby Project add Kubernetes by Solomon Hykes
NEW GUIDE: Arm-based IoT Kit for Cloud IoT Core – Getting Started #AdafruitLearningSystem via Adafruit Industries
KRACK, the WPA2 exploit that kills Wi-Fi security, and what you need to know right now by Jerry Hildenbrand
Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Now Available for Pre-Order by Tommy Palladino

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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.