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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure DevTest Labs: Set tags on labs for improved cost tracking
- Manage stored access policies for storage accounts from within the Azure portal
- Public preview: Azure AD DS support for Resource Manager virtual networks
- General availability: App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers
- General availability: Critical Update 5.0 for StorSimple 8000 Series
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Try Azure Cosmos DB for Free via Azure Friday
- Compare VM Performance with Azure Compute Units (ACU) by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Resource Manager: Microsoft IT shares lessons learned deploying production workloads by Matthew Calder
- Microsoft, Adobe advance partnership with new cross-cloud productivity integrations via ZDNet
- A Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Queues, Event Grid, IoT Hub, and More) by Chris Pietschmann
- Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers: now in preview by Ruchi Chopra
- An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich by Mark Russinovich
- Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux by Apurva Joshi
- General availability of App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers by Nir Mashkowski
- Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service is now in public preview via Microsoft IoT
- Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack by Charlie Satterfield
- Azure Low Cost “Burstable” CPU Virtual Machines by Aidan Finn
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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)
- Microsoft Publishes Some Details on the New Azure B-Series VMs by Aidan Finn
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 12 – Easily Start, Restart, Stop or Delete Multiple VMs by Michael Crump
- Create an Azure Managed Disk from a VHD Blob by Aidan Finn
- Restore an Azure Virtual Machine’s Hard Disks by Aidan Finn
- Compare VM Performance with Azure Compute Units (ACU) by Chris Pietschmann
- Creating BizTalk Server 2016 Developer from Azure Gallery Image (updated) by Bill Chesnut
- Azure Low Cost “Burstable” CPU Virtual Machines by Aidan Finn
- How I Got Started with Azure Machine Learning by Kathi Kellenberger
- Azure VM Could Not Start–Missing Boot Diagnostics Storage Account by Aidan Finn
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Things You Should Know: Web Apps and Linux by Jim Cheshire
- Prototyping your Frontend: How to mock responses in API Management? by Sandro Pereira
- Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux by Apurva Joshi
- General availability of App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers by Nir Mashkowski
- Microsoft’s Azure App Service developer platform now available on Linux via ZDNet
- Moving files between Azure Storage and RHEL by Nicole Welch
- How to make an App Setting or Connection String sticky by Benjamin Perkins
- Database connection string when swapping between App Servers slots by Benjamin Perkins
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Logic Apps – An Overview by Sanjeev Assudani
- How to bind Dynamics CRM with Azure Logic Apps by MichalCh
- Talk: Logic Apps & Functions at Granite State SharePoint Users Group by Bill Wilder
- Talk: Logic Apps at Boston Azure by Bill Wilder
- Integration Patterns In Azure – Message Router Using Logic Apps by Eldert Grootenboer
Command Line and ARM Templates
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 11 – Access Cloud Shell from within Microsoft Docs by Michael Crump
- Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions by Kristian Nese
- Introducing the Azure CLI by SoundCode
Database / Big Data
- Try Azure #CosmosDB for free by Rimma Nehme
- Public preview of Azure Event Grid by Francois Smith
- Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time insights by Krishna Mamidipaka
- Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB by Fernando Oliveira
- How to get more information about failed import to Azure SQL DB by Yochanan Rachamim
- A Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Queues, Event Grid, IoT Hub, and More) by Chris Pietschmann
- Common ISV application patterns using Azure SQL Data Warehouse by John P Hoang
- Automated Installation of BigDL Using Deploy to Azure & DSVM by Lee Stott
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse Workload Patterns and Anti-Patterns by Murshed Zaman
- Using Azure Analysis Services on Top of Azure Data Lake Storage by Kay Unkroth
- Run Hortonworks clusters and easily access Azure Data Lake by Cathy Palmer
- Hacking: accessing a graph in Cosmos DB with SQL / DocumentDB API by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- R is fun & easy with R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) by Lee Stott
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) Manufacturing Delayed, Shipping pushed to Sept 21 by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration! by Sam George
- Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service is now in public preview via Microsoft IoT
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Searchable Sentiment Analysis Archive by mihansen
- How to Train & Serve Deep Learning Models at Scale, Using Cognitive Toolkit with Kubernetes on Azure by Wee Hyong Tok
Development and DevOps
- How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release. by Ashok Kiria
- Azure Management Libraries for .NET – v1.2 by Asir Selvasingh
- Using Test Hub in VSTS to run Automated Tests on Web applications by Gouri Sohoni
Containers and Service Fabric
- Windows Authentication in Service Fabric and ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Alessandro Avila
- Serverless Logging & Alerting with Service Fabric & Azure Event Grid by Dan Toomey
Security
- Using Azure Key Vault to secure data exchange (Java) by Srikantan Sankaran
- Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest by Aaron Hallberg
- Swagger Authentication against Azure AD B2C by ishagupta
Azure Stack
- Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack by Charlie Satterfield
Events
- TechBash 2017 Is Only 26 Days Away… by Alvin A.
- Microsoft at PostgresOpen 2017 by Rohan Kumar
- Free Microsoft Webinar on Interactive Price Analytics, Now Available on Azure via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Azure Government
- Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in Azure Government by Sarah Weldon
- Announcing General Availability of Blob Storage (Hot/Cool) in US Gov Virginia by Kyle Deeds
Other
- Building multilingual apps in PowerApps by Carlos Figueira
- How to Build a Chat Bot Using Azure Bot Service and Train It with LUIS by Lee Stott
- Microsoft aims to take the work out of data wrangling with coming ‘Pendleton’ tool via ZDNet
- Azure Resource Manager: Microsoft IT shares lessons learned deploying production workloads by Matthew Calder
- Microsoft, Adobe advance partnership with new cross-cloud productivity integrations via ZDNet
- Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers: now in preview by Ruchi Chopra
- Wanting Azure at your institution by Lee Stott
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Try Azure Cosmos DB for Free via Azure Friday
- An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich by Mark Russinovich
- Azure Log Analytics 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 194 – Microservices & Containers Discussion via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 210 | News in Equal Measure from Across the Clouds, Outage Madness, 20TB RAM & More! 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:
- Experiments in Open Source: Exploring vcr-sharp for Http record and playback by Scott Hanselman
- Configuring LetsEncrypt for ASP.NET Core and IIS by Rick Strahl
- Welcome to the New Blog Template for ASP.NET Developers by Mads Kristensen
- Getting Started with Windows Containers by Alina Popa
- What is Web Endpoint and how it can be monitored? by Venitta Priya
- Installing Redis on Windows using Docker Containers by Aram Koukia
- Should I Use Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code For My Next Angular Application? by Wael Kdouh
- Role Based Access Control in ASP.NET MVC by Monu Bambroo
- IIS Dynamic Compression and new Dynamic Compression features in IIS 10 by friis
- Building a WebAPI Service With .NET Core 2.0 by Jeremy Bytes
- Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper by Scott Hanselman
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