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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)

Azure VMs – Active Directory members and getting time sync (ntp) right by James R Tabor
Configure App Service Certificate to Azure Virtual machine with Windows OS by mksunitha
One-click replication for Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery by Sujay Talasila
Fv2 VMs are now available, the fastest VMs on Azure by Corey Sanders
Cloning Azure VMs by Andrei Dzimchuk
Cray Supercomputers are coming to Azure by Jason Zander
Microsoft Azure customers now can run workloads on Cray supercomputers via ZDNet

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Run PHP Webjob on Azure App Service (Windows) by Yi Wang
How to map an Azure App Service Web App virtual directory to Azure Storage Containter by Benjamin Perkins
Failed to update App Service Plan the sites exceed maximum number of slots by Benjamin Perkins

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Getting started with Java Azure Function Apps by Dave Glover
Posting messages to the Graph API from Microsoft Flow by SoftwareSimian
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 40 – Upload Files from a URL with Azure Logic Apps by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 39 – Setup an HTTP Request Trigger that is used in an Azure Logic Apps by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 38 – Create a JSON Schema to be used in a Azure Logic Apps by Michael Crump

Command Line and ARM Templates

Use Powershell to Enable and Automate Azure Analysis Backup by Carlos Mendible
Connect a Web App to a SQL Database with the Azure CLI by SoundCode
Getting Productive With Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell by Timothy Warner
Backup and Restore a SQL Database with the Azure CLI by SoundCode
How to Create a Logic App Connector in an ARM Template by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Database / Big Data

Highlighting 3 New Features in Azure Data Factory V2 by Mark Kromer
Cosmos DB Performance with Geospatial Data by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Create your own database with all PASS Summit 2017 Sessions using SQL Server 2017 ML Services (Python) by Arvind Shyamsundar
Microsoft R by BuckWoody
Metrics in Azure Monitor (preview) released by Ch. Wolf
Transactional replication to Azure SQL Database is now generally available by Xiaochen Wu
Top Questions from New Users of Azure SQL Database by Dimitri Furman

Internet of Things (IoT)

Get the Azure IoT Developer Kit Now… by Greg Duncan
Deep dive into Azure IoT Hub notifications and Device Twin by Andrei Ilnitskii
Azure powers the industrial Internet by Sam George

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Anaconda and Microsoft partner to offer Python and R for powerful machine learning by Nagesh Pabbisetty
AI for Education: Individualized Code Feedback for Thousands of Students by Matthew Calder, Ke Wang
The Five Minute* Guide to Machine Learning by BuckWoody
The Microsoft Business Analytics and AI Platform – What to Use When by BuckWoody
Don’t learn to be a Data Scientist by BuckWoody
The Keys to an Effective Data Science Project – Part 1: The Team Data Science Process by BuckWoody
The Keys to Effective Data Science Projects – Part 2: The Question by BuckWoody
The Keys to Effective Data Science Projects – Part 3: Import the Initial Data by BuckWoody
Prepping for learning Data Science by BuckWoody

Development and DevOps

ANNOUNCING: Dynamics 365 DevOps on GitHub by keydet
Image Factory – Part 2! Setup VSTS and Factory Lab to Create VMs by Peter Hauge
Cloud Computing + Modern DevOps == Productivity Gains by Omer Amin
VSTS SSH on Azure’s Global Network by Kayla Ngan
Using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) DevOps Features for CICD of a Java Web App by Subodh Sohoni
JavaScript Unit Test Intergration in VSTS Build Pipeline by Wu Shuai

Containers and Service Fabric

Enabling AKS in your Azure subscription by Ali Mazaheri
Windows Container App Compat: Access host COM ports from a Windows Server container by Rafael Rivera
Microsoft introduces a free, dedicated Azure Container Service for Kubernetes via ZDNet
Introducing AKS (managed Kubernetes) and Azure Container Registry improvements by Gabe Monroy
Docker Blog Series Part 4 – Managing Secrets inside Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service by Pam Lahoud
My experiment and observation on Service Fabric Communication Stacks by Premier Developer

Security

Getting the best out of Azure AD by Mike Duddington
Detect the latest ransomware threat (aka Bad Rabbit) with Azure Security Center by Tim Burrell
Azure AD and Group-based authorization by Gianluca Bertelli
Threat trends & tactics from latest Security Intelligence Report by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Failed to save Auth settings Easy Auth Azure Authentication by Benjamin Perkins
How Azure Security Center automates the detection of cyber attack by Rob Mead

Learning / Certification

Energize your career with Microsoft Exam Replay! by Chris Pietschmann

Events

Last week in Azure: Cloud Service Map, Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour, & more by Rob Caron

Azure Government

Azure Gov Meetup Replay: Intersection of Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation for Gov by Karina Homme

Blockchain

BlockApps STRATO Suite upgrade now available on Azure by Cale Teeter
Blk.io brings an ERC-20 token service using Quorum to Azure by Cale Teeter
Truffle 4.0 beta 2 now available on Azure by Cale Teeter

Other

How to build a user interactive bot with Microsoft Bot Framework by Lee Stott
Microsoft Cloud Push Gains Ground on Azure, Office 365 via SuperSite for Windows
Azure Content Spotlight – Cloud Service Map for AWS and Azure by chilberto
Azure Analysis Services web designer adds new DAX query viewer by Josh Caplan
Azure GDPR resources: Unmatched focus on customer compliance needs by Stevan Vidich
Talk: SharePoint Saturday Burlington – Gentle Introduction to Azure by Bill Wilder

Videos

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

TWC9: Azure OpenDev, Azure Cray, Azure Container Services, MR Capture Studio, Linuxbrew and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb) via Azure Friday
Azure Container Registry Geo-replication via Azure Friday
Container Orchestration Simplified with Managed Kubernetes in Azure Container Service (AKS) 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 201 – Quantum Computing via The Azure Podcast
Episode 222 | Office 365, SharePoint and OneDrive News with Omar Shahine and Adam Harmetz via Microsoft Cloud Show
Pratap Ladhani on PowerApps by David Giard

General Cloud / Related

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

How to Build a Kubernetes Cluster with ARM Raspberry Pi then run .NET Core on OpenFaas by Scott Hanselman
Build .NET Core apps for Raspberry Pi with Docker by Alex Ellis
MetLife Uses Docker Enterprise Edition to Self Fund Containerization by Betty Junod
New – Amazon EC2 Instances with Up to 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs (P3) by Jeff Barr
Hello Buck – I’d like to work at Microsoft by BuckWoody
What does the WPA2 vulnerability mean for IoT? by Cate Lawrence
How we’ll earn money in a future without jobs | Martin Ford via TED Talks
Why Your Bank Hates You For Loving Bitcoin by Liam Adelson
Lock-down OpenFaaS for the public Internet by Alex Ellis

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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.