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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:

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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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.