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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:

MCSD: App Builder Certification by Chris Pietschmann
DocumentDB updates in the Azure Portal: New metrics blade and improved collections management by Kirill Gavrylyuk
Jump Start Your Analytics with Cortana Intelligence Solutions via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
What’s New in Azure Security Center? by Thomas W Shinder
Emerging from the depths, Godzilla G-series VMs for Azure Government by Dan E. Price
F5 Now Available in Microsoft Azure’s US Gov Cloud by Sarah Weldon
PowerShell cmdlets to manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Virtual Machines by Felipe Senso
Exploring Application Insights for disconnected or connected deep telemetry in ASP.NET Apps by Scott Hanselman
Azure network security by Kim Spilker
Legacy apps to Azure with PowerShell DSC and CI + CD by Janne Mattila
Two New Utilities to Boost Your Data Science Productivity via Cortanan Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
It’s time to seriously consider Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solutions (such as Azure AD B2C) for user authentication by Cristian Satnic
Using Cask Data Application Platform on Azure HDInsight by Bharath Sreenivas
AzCopy – Unable to connect to the remote server by Ahmed Farag
The most trusted Government Cloud for mission critical workloads – check the facts by Tom Keane
9 Things You Should Know About SQL Azure Databases by Victor Moreno
Application Insight Analytics: Schema updates by Dan Hadari
The Power of Human-in-the-Loop: Combine Human Intelligence with Machine Learning by Yunling Wang
VMSS, and ARM VM series offerings for Azure Government by Dan E. Price
Build new web and mobile solutions for your customers with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow by Peter A Jensen
What’s the Difference Between an Azure Security Center Alert and a MSRC Notification by Thomas W Shinder
Create an ACS Docker Swarm Cluster by Vittorio Franco Libertucci
Working with Azure Table Storage and Excel by Armin Reiter
Free Data Sets for Azure Machine Learning by Lee Stott
Common problems when using Azure Resource Groups and RBAC by Ahmed Farag
Azure Blueprint: Architecting Azure Solutions Just Got Easier by Matt Rathbun
Create an ACS Docker Swarm Cluster by Vittorio Franco Libertucci
Release preview of Microsoft System Center and Application Insights integration by Vitaly Gorbenko
How to use Azure Powershell SDK? by Ahmed Farag
How to list all available VM sizes in a region using .NET (ARM endpoint) by Maheshk
ArcGIS for Server on Microsoft Azure Government by Brenda Lee
Azure Virtual Machine Unique ID by Wasim Bloch
Azure App Service Companion preview now available for iOS by Byron Tardif
Project Bletchley: Blockchain infrastructure updates by Christine Avannesians
Integrating PolyBase with Cloudera using Active Directory Authentication by Ajay

Events

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

C+E University – Cloud Application Development Online Sales Training by Sarah Arnold

Videos

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

Tuesdays with Corey: Website speed with Azure Storage and Azure CDN | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Azure App Certificate via Azure Friday
Triggering with Azure Functions via Azure Friday
Azure App Service Companion via Azure Friday
Azure Functions Integration 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:

Migrating Legacy Apps to Docker with Elton Stoneman via DotNetRocks
Episode 161 | Kubernetes with Google’s Kelsey Hightower via Microsoft Cloud Show
Serverless Architecture with Ben Godwin via DotNetRocks
Episode 149 | IoT Hub via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud / Related

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

Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 – Free eBook via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Here’s how I handle online abuse by Troy Hunt
What is Windows 10 IoT Core? via Channel 9

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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.