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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)

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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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.