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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Backup policy management for Azure VM backup in a Recovery Services vault
- Large instances of SAP HANA on Azure
- General availability: Azure DNS
- Accelerated Networking is in preview
- IPv6 for Azure VMs available in most regions
- Public preview: Azure Service Fabric for Linux
- General availability: Service Fabric for Windows Server
- Public preview: Application Gateway web application firewall
- General availability: VNet peering
- Microsoft Operations Management Suite releases Update Management
- Azure Security Center enhancements
- Azure Key Vault Certificates helps simplify and automate tasks for SSL/TLS certificates
- Improved automatic tuning boosts Azure SQL Database performance
- Generally available: Azure Premium Storage in an additional region
- Generally available: Storage Service Encryption for Azure Storage
- Generally available: Azure Disk Encryption for Windows and Linux for Standard and Premium IaaS virtual machines
- H-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines now available
- Go faster with DocumentDB .NET SDK 1.10.0
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Certification Changes and Goodbye to MCSD Azure Solutions Architect by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Certification: Where to Start? 2016 Edition by Chris Pietschmann
- New MCSA: Cloud Platform Certification by Chris Pietschmann
- The New MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Certification by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft publishes compliance guidelines for the German Cloud by Alice Rison
- Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server now GA by Mark Fussell
- Availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure by Tejas Karmarkar
- Announcing the second technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack by Microsoft Azure Stack Team
- Announcing the public preview of Azure Monitor by Ashwin Kamath
- Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview by Jason R Shaver
- Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2016 by Yourself Khalidi
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Azure CDN Endpoint Interactive Map by Chris Pietschmann
- Cloud-load testing service is hyper-scale ready: lessons from generating 1M concurrent user load by Prachi Bora
- Proxy settings & backup to URL (Azure blob storage) by JackLi
- Data science track of the Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) by Lee Stott
- Microsoft creates new combined AI, Research group by Mary Jo Foley
- New security, performance and ISV solutions build on Azure HDInsight’s leadership to make Hadoop enterprise-ready for the cloud by Tiffany Wissner
- How to identify/review PHP errors on Azure Web Apps using Log Stream service by Edison Garcia
- Why “SQL Server Configuration” section on my Azure Virtual Machine is not available? by JackLi
- Windows Server 2016: End Of One Era, Start Of Another by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- The Power of JSON Templates by Eric W. DeBord
- Azure Media OCR Simplified Output by Adarsh Solanki
- Resize Azure Resource Manager (ARM) VM OS & Data disk using Azure Portal by Madan
- Installing Microsoft Antimalware extension in Azure Gov’t VM using PowerShell by Madan
- Windows Server 2016, Azure, ARM, JSON, AzureStack and Ignite by Michael
- SQL Azure Tip! – Failures importing Bacpac by chilberto
- Red Hat’s Cloud Access enabled for Microsoft Azure Germany by Pradeep Ayyappan Nair
- Build Your Custom Visuals in Power BI (Step-by-Step) by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
- Setting up Port Forwarding into Azure Container Services with Ubuntu Bash on Linux Subsystem on Windows 10 by Daniel Meixner
- Azure Disk Encryption for Linux VMs and VMs with Premium Storage reaches General Availability by Devendra Tiwari
- Strengthen your cloud security posture with new capabilities from Azure Security Center by Sarah Fender
- ISO 22301 highlights Azure’s unmatched business continuity & disaster recovery preparedness by Adam Glick
- Microsoft Cloud is first CSP behind the Privacy Shield by Alice Rison
- Improving Developer / IT Collaboration with Application Insights Connector for OMS Log Analytics by Dale Koetke
- SAP in Microsoft Azure Deutschland by RalfWi
- Cleveland Clinic to Identify At-Risk Patients in ICU using Cortana Intelligence by Shaheen Gauher and Fidan Boylu Us
- Azure Disk Encryption for Linux VMs and VMs with Premium Storage reaches General Availability by Devendra Tiwari
- Running a container image in Azure Container Service from Visual Studio Team Services by Daniel Meixner
- Improve ROI by building your IoT solution in phases by Jerry Lee
- 5 Industries Being Transformed by Big Data & Machine Learning in the Cloud by Herain Oberoi
- Machine Learning Moves the Needle on Neural Science by Chirag Dhull and Hang Zhang
- Introduction to Azure API management (part 1) by Armin Reiter
- Azure SQL DB MAXSIZE – what can I do with that? by Yochanan Rachamim
- Azure SQL Database v12 has landed in Azure Government by Megan Count
- Cloud innovations empowering IT for business transformation by Jason Zander
- Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Summary of key announcements for Office 365, SharePoint and Azure from Day 1 by Tobias Zimmergren
- Announcing Azure DNS General Availability by Jonathan Tuliani
Events
Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.
- Register Now: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Partner Training by Sarah Arnold
- Upcoming Microsoft Azure and Dynamics CRM Online Training from Opsgility via Opsgility
- October 29, 2016: MKE DOT NET – one-day development conference in Milwaukee, WI area via Centare
- October 19, 2016: Gettin’ SaaSy with PaaSy – How iMoneza Developed a SaaS on PaaS from Scratch via Milwaukee Azure
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- TWC9: On-Demand Ignite, an AI Journey, Uber Selfies, Fuzzy Cloud and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
- Keynote Session: Dr. Edward Tufte – The Future of Data Analysis | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Dr Edward Tufte
- Taming the Data Science Monster with U-SQL: A preview | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Michael Res
- Available Now: Videos from the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit in Atlanta via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
- Windows Weekly 485: Live From Microsoft Ignite by Paul Thurrott
- Azure Stack – Integrated Hardware Video & links to TP2 by CliveW
- Ignite 2016 Session: Learn about Microsoft IoT Vision by Chris Pietschmann
- Tuesdays with Corey: Session not to miss from Microsoft Ignite | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
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 146 – Infrastructure as Code via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 156 | Ignite Wire – Microsoft Graph Updates with Yina Arenas via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 157 | Ignite Wire – Harmon.ie with CEO Yaacov Cohen via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 158 | Microsoft Service Fabric with Mark Fussell via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 155 | Ignite Wire – Windows Containers goes GA in Windows Server 2016 with Taylor Brown via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 154 | Live Episode from Ignite 2016! via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 153 | Ignite Wire – Azure Functions & Azure App Service with Jeremy Thake via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 152 | Ignite Wire – SharePoint Framework, Hybrid & Hosted SharePoint with Randy Drisgill & John Ross via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 151 | Ignite Wire – PowerBI with Jason Himmelstein & John White via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 150 | Ignite Wire – SharePoint Framework & Azure App Service Dev Exp with Todd Baginski via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 149 | Recapping & Thoughts from Day 1 at Microsoft Ignite 2016 via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 148 | Ignite Wire – AzureAD with Vittorio Bertocci 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:
- Microsoft seeks testers for ‘Project Springfield’ bug-detection service by Mary Jo Foley
- Amazon Gets Serious About GPU Compute On Clouds by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Building Optimized Docker Images with ASP.NET Core by Steve Lasker
- Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris via TED
- SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged by Bob Ward
- Microsoft to Plug Renault-Nissan Cars Into The Cloud via SuperSite for Windows
- Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 by Kim Spilker
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