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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)

Why Azure Availability Zones by Igor Pagliai
Using Postman to call the Graph API using Azure Active Directory (AAD) by SoftwareSimian
VNET Service Endpoints for Azure SQL & Storage by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Virtual Network Service Endpoint – Hello World by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
How to run desktop applications in Azure X11 Linux virtual machines by Ed Price
Announcing new Azure VM images: SQL Server 2017 on Linux and Windows by Michael Blandea
How to troubleshoot slow performance after moving to azure due to network latency by DDZ-sql

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 29 – Cloning Web Apps Using and Azure App Services by Michael Crump
Learning about the F# SAFE stack – Suave.io, Azure, Fable, Elmish by Scott Hanselman
How to see the cipher suites on an Azure App Service by Benjamin Perkins
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 28 – Configure a Backup for your Azure App Service and Database by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 27 – Working with App Settings and Azure App Services by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 26 – Load Testing web apps with Azure App Services by Michael Crump

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Call Dynamics CRM from Azure Logic App over Web API by Michal Chmielus
Azure Function Triggered by Azure Event Grid by Mikhail Shilkov
Microsoft adds support for Java to its Azure Functions serverless-computing service via ZDNet
Announcing the preview of Java support for Azure Functions by Nir Mashkowski
Dynamics 365 Connector for Flow and Logic Apps: An update by 365blog
Azure Function Proxies – Part 2: Easily enable hybrid integration. by Toon Vanhoutte

Command Line and ARM Templates

Manage your Azure VM backups with Azure CLI 2.0 – Preview by Kartik P V R
Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell by Jeremy Likness
Create an Azure App Service Web App using PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins

Database / Big Data

Tracking Azure SQL Data Sync Service data changes by Ianlb
Qubole customers now gain insights from Azure Data Lake by Cathy Palmer
Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL Summer 2017 Updates: Introducing GZip on OUTPUT, Catalog Views, Major updates to Cognitive Libraries, Tool support to create your EXTRACT statement and much more! by MRys
Using the new Azure based Power BI Premium Embedded Sku’s to solve Enterprise Purchasing by Charles Sterling
Building Petabyte scale Interactive Data Warehouse with Azure HDInsight Interactive Query by Ashish Thapliyal
HDInsight enterprise grade monitoring with Azure Log Analytics by Ashish Thapliyal
General availability of HDInsight Interactive Query – blazing fast queries on hyper-scale data by Ashish Thapliyal
Introducing HDInsight integration with Azure Log Analytics Preview by Ashish Thapliyal
Embed Stunning Visuals into your Apps with Power BI Embedded- Generally Available by Megan Assarrane
Using Certificates in Azure SQL Database : Backup by Vitor Pombeiro
Data Integrity in Azure SQL Database by Peter Carlin
Understanding Big Data on Azure–Structured, Unstructured, and Streaming by Aidan Finn

Internet of Things (IoT)

Order Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) on Amazon with FREE Shipping by Chris Pietschmann
Azure IoT Developer Kits (AZ3166) Have Arrived by Chris Pietschmann
Rockwell Automation revolutionizes manufacturing decision-making with Microsoft IoT technology by Jerry Lee
Securing the Intelligent Edge by Eustace Asanghanwa

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Simple trix: Deploy Azure ML Workbench – trained model to Raspberry Pi by petsablog

Development and DevOps

Git and Visual Studio 2017 part 10 : Share your work with remote with VS by Kenichiro Nakamura
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.06 by Willy-P. Schaub
Integrating VSTS, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, and ASP.NET by David Giard
Java: Manage availability zones and more by Asir Selvasingh
Configuring Automatic Deployment from VSTS to an Azure Web App by David Giard
Visual Studio Toolbox: VSTS Work Item Rules by Robert Green
Announcing the general availability of Azure Application Insights SDK for Node.js 1.0 by Arunesh Chandra
Git and Visual Studio 2017 part 8 : Saving your temporary work by Kenichiro Nakamura
Access an Azure AD secured Api with Asp.Net Core 2.0 by Gianluca Bertelli
Microsoft Azure allies with nearForm for Node.js Developer Migration and Support Services by Gaurav Seth
Creating a Team Project in Azure by David Giard

Containers and Service Fabric

Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Services by Arm Koukia
[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your VMSS by Larry Wall
Azure Log Analytics Container Monitoring solution for Linux Service Fabric by The Scripting Guys
2 New Azure Service Fabric Customer Profiles for Ignite: ABBYY & FunRock by Ed Price
Provision on-demand Spark clusters on Docker using Azure Batch’s infrastructure by JS Tan
Service Fabric 5.7.221 / 2.7.221 Refresh Release for Standalone, Windows and .NET SDK via Service Fabric Team

Security

Secure your on-premises network outbound connection to Azure SQL Database by locking down target IP addresses by Kun Cheng
Use PowerShell to Enable Azure Analysis Services Firewall by Carlos Mendible

Learning / Certification

Two Weeks Of Learning Coming To An End by Aidan Finn
Exam Retirement Update for October 2017 by Liberty Munson
Upcoming Events- Microsoft Training Academies by Kristy Hill

Events

Microsoft announces next Azure OpenDev: October 25, 2017 by Ashley McNamara
Azure is the Enterprise Cloud – highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017 by Julia White
Join us for the Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour by Jeff Sandquist
Azure AD – Ignite 2017 Announcement Summary by Mike Duddington

Azure Government

Tableau Server now available in Azure Government Marketplace by Sarah Weldon

Other

Announcing Azure Building Blocks by Peter Taylor
Microsoft opens up testing of Azure Data Box, its Amazon Snowball rival via ZDNet
Get alerts faster with near real-time alerting for Azure platform metrics by Kiran Madnani
Learn the latest on Azure Analysis Services by Josh Caplan
Decoupling the browse gallery from the display / edit forms in PowerApps by Carlos Figueira
Announcing CSV format support for Usage Details API for Enterprise Azure customers by Shilpi Gautam
Achieve better savings with best-in-class cost management on Azure by Arpan Shah
Azure Log Analytics: Cross Workspace Query by CliveW
Azure Marketplace API to programmatically review and accept publisher agreement/EULA by Arsen Vladimirskiy

Videos

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

TWC9: Live’ish Magic from Ignite! | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Experimental cmdlets in Azure PowerShell via Azure Friday
Episode 30: Xamarin University Training with Adrian Stevens | The Xamarin Show by James Montemagno
Azure App Service with Hybrid Connections to On-premises Resources 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 198 – IoT Hub in Action via The Azure Podcast
Open Source Development on the Microsoft Stack with Dylan Beattie via .NET Rocks!
Episode 219 | Catching up with Show Listeners on a Drive via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

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

Intel Takes Its 8th Generation Processors to the Desktop by Paul Thurrott
Build a Serverless Golang Function with OpenFaaS by Alex Ellis
Now Available – Microsoft SQL Server 2017 for Amazon EC2 by Jeff Barr
AWS Database Migration Service Adds Amazon S3 and Azure SQL Database as Sources via aws@amazon.com
Amazon EC2 instances now support Microsoft SQL Server 2017 via aws@amazon.com
Microsoft Explains Microsoft Edge for Android and iOS to Developers by Paul Thurrott
What you need to know: Kubernetes and Swarm by Alex Ellis
Intel Gears Up For FPGA Push by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Machine Learning for the Modern Web Developer by Gabriele Marcantonio
What is a Cloud Developer Advocate? by Jeremy Likness

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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.