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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure DocumentDB supports IP-based access controls for restricting database access
- DocumentDB: Expanded geospatial support, including automatic indexing of Polygon and LineString objects
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Azure Security Best Practices by Thomas W Shinder
- New Azure Government Documentation! by Ryan GH
- Azure Certified for IoT expands to help customers choose the right IoT device by Hector Garcia Tellado
- Azure IoT Web Client by formulahendry
- Announcing Azure Analysis Services preview by Bret Grinslade
- Azure Government – 3x Growth in 2016 and over 75 new capabilities in the last 90 days by Tom Keane
- Azure is Gold: CSA STAR Certification achieved by Alice Rison
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Azure Functions portal and host improvements by Donna Malayeri
- Add life to your Line of Business Apps using Microsoft Bot Framework by Srikantan
- Azure IoT Toolkit for Visual Studio Code via formulahendry
- Learnings From a Recent Large Cloud Migration Project by Cameron
- Healthcare Analytics with Cortana Intelligence by Shaheen Gauher
- Rules (Filter) and Actions for Subscription using Resource Manager Templates by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- A Fixed-Width Extractor for Azure Data Lake Analytics by Bryan C Smith
- General availability for Azure Search S3, S3 High Density, and new regions by Ashish Makadia
- Protect Azure SQL Databases with Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Protect Azure SQL Databases with Azure Security Center by Thomas W Shinder
- Speeding Up Azure ML Web Services Containing R or Python Modules by Daniel Kirsanov
- Building an IoT Solution by Chris Clayton
- Introducing the Security Program for Azure IoT via Microsoft IoT
- Microsoft showcases latest IoT innovations at IoT Solutions World Congress 2016 by Sam George
- Check Azure Resource Manager (ARM) VM Core & Storage Usage using PowerShell by Madan
- Azure Security Center–Data Collection and Storage by Thomas W Shinder
- Setting up software for the Adafruit Feather M0 Wifi using the Arduino IDE and C Code, for Remotely Monitoring pH Sensors in Microsoft Azure (Article 2 of 2) by Blain Barton
- Chain joins the Azure Ecosystem by Marley Gray
- How to Train a Deep-Learned Object Detection Model in the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit by Patrick Buehler
- Backup to remote Azure URL failed due to throttling at VM level by JackLi
- Announcing support for Files in the Storage Client Library for C++ by Sercan Guler
- Microsoft releases beta of version 2.0 of its Cognitive Toolkit to ‘democratize AI’ by Mary Jo Foley
- Update tags on Azure Virtual Machines by Sonam Rastogi
- No Azure SQL V2 (or as called sometimes V11) anymore by Yochanan Rachamim
- Welcome to our Azure Marketplace and ISV partners in Azure Government! by Megan Yount
- Troubleshooting Tips on Getting Started with Azure Service Fabric Application Development by Benjamin Xue
- Connect Azure SQL Database from Node.js Application by Wriju Ghosh
- Announcing Azure Storage Client Library GA for Xamarin by Dinesh Murthy
- ASR and Azure Hybrid Use Benefit make application migration to Azure even more cost-effective by Bharath Sivaraman
- Geo-filtering available for Akamai Standard profiles by Richard Li
- Riverbed expands to deliver solutions in Azure Government by Brenda Lee
- Get started on Splunk® Enterprise, now supported in Azure Government Cloud! by Sarah Weldon
- Virtual Machine with 2 NICs by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Separating environments in Azure Data Catalog by Michael van Otegem
- Securing your enterprise applications and virtual workspace with Citrix solutions and Microsoft Azure Government by Megan Yount
- Introducing Microsoft Certification Badges by Sarah Arnold
- The Capabilities of Red Hat VM Images in a Pay-as-you-go Model for Azure Government by Brenda Lee
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Episode 217: Azure Active Directory B2C with Swaroop Krishnamurthy via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
- Introduction to Azure Enterprise and Subscription Management by Eric W. DeBord
- Does Azure Media Services Support Offline Mode? by William Zhang
- Latency and Durability with SQL Server 2016 | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- Using Microsoft Graph with Cortana via Channel 9
- Tuesdays with Corey: Microsoft Philanthropies | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Azure Logic Apps General Availabilty via Windows 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 150 – DDOS Discussion via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 162 | Kubernetes with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Qualcomm buys NXP to bolster its IoT future by Amanda Razani
- The State of Enterprise Machine Learning by Nicole Hemsoth
- Testing High Availability of Docker Swarm on a Raspberry Pi Cluster via Docker Pirates
- ARM Carves Path to IoT Driven Cloud Business by Nicole Hemsoth
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