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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Managed Service Identity support for App Service and Azure Functions

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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)

Uploading and creating a Custom Azure VM from .VHD by ShahidAziz
How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Windows VMs using ARM by Dirk Sc
Azure Virtual Machine auto-shutdown by Lee Stott
Restore An Azure VM to an Availability Set From Azure Backup in the Azure Portal by Aidan Finn
How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Windows VMs using ARM by Dirk Sc
More Affordable Azure VMs with “Burstable” B-Series by Chris Pietschmann
Introducing B-Series, our new burstable VM size by Corey Sanders
Create a New VM From An Existing Managed Disk by Aidan Finn

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

How to Separate Tomcat Logging Per Instance in Azure Web App by Wu Shuai
August 2017 App Service update by Byron Tardif
How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): “50 records” limit and lazy loading by Sergiy Baydachnyy
A route named ‘*’ is already in the route collection, Azure Web App by Benjamin Perkins
Publishing BizTalk SOAP Services as REST with Azure API Management by Bill Chesnut
Azure Web Apps for Containers–Simple Walkthrough of Node.JS app deployment by Jeff Sanders
How-to : For WordPress on App Service (Windows/Linux ) by mksunitha
Working with Application Insights and NLog in Console apps (.NET) by Christos Matskas

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Function Proxies adds Mock APIs to the Portal by Alex Karcher
Using Microsoft Flow to automate common education tasks quickly by Lee Stott
Azure Functions by Simon Foster

Command Line and ARM Templates

“The provided value for the template parameter is not valid” in ARM template deployments by Brian Farnhill
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 15 – Underlying Software in Azure Cloud Shell by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 – Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell by Michael Crump
Azure Resource Manager Template for an Azure Dashboard with Log Analytics Tiles by MarcoDias
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 13 – Demystifying storage in Cloud Shell by Michael Crump
PowerShell script to save a list of folder and file contents & file sizes to a csv file in App Service by Gabe Shapiro

Database / Big Data

How to change Azure SQL DB LTR Recovery Service Vault ? by Raghda_Aldeen
Perspective View makes deeper analyses easy in Azure Time Series Insights by OP Ravi
Using Azure Analysis Services with Azure Data Lake Store by Bret Grinslade
Events, Data Points, and Messages – Choosing the right Azure messaging service for your data by Clemens Vasters
Connecting Data Explorer to Cosmos DB: where and what is my connection string? by David Weinstein
New Power BI Connector for Azure Enterprise users by Shilpi Gautam
Instant Log Initialization for SQL Server in Azure by Dimitri Furman
Simplifying The Use of Azure Data Science Virtual Machine with R by Zhang Le
Hacking: changing Cosmos DB Portal experience from Graph to SQL by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) Manufacturing Delayed, Shipping pushed to Sept 21 by Chris Pietschmann

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Custom Vision Service introduces classifier export, starting with CoreML for iOS 11 by Anna Roth

Development and DevOps

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 – Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure by Michael Crump
IntelliJ Community Edition: 1-Click to Run Java Containers on Azure by Yitao Dong
Lessons learn when deploying multiple databases to Azure with VSTS by Frank Boucher
Visual Studio Marketplace is moving to a new markdown parser by Divya Vaishnavi
Seven reasons why so many Node.js devs are excited about Microsoft Azure by Alessandro Segala
Deploying Your Angular Application To Azure Using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) by Wael Kdouh
How to build a Xamarin App connected to Azure by Lee Stott

Containers and Service Fabric

Service Fabric Reverse Proxy Port discovery by GianlucaBertelli

Security

Keep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service Identity by Stuart Kwan
How to Enable Your Users to Access Office 365 with AWS Microsoft Active Directory Credentials by Darryn Hendricks
Introducing Azure confidential computing by Mark Russinovich
Integrating Azure Security Center Into Your Workday by Timothy Warner

Azure Stack

Protecting applications and data on Azure Stack by Hector Linares

Learning / Certification

Free edX Course – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog

Events

Microsoft Tech Summit is back – register for a free event near you! via Microsoft Azure Blog
Join the Bing Maps team at IGNITE 2017 via Bing Team
Live from LA: Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America via Microsoft Azure Blog
Azure Black Belt Networking and Security Presents Microsoft Networking Academy – Fall 2017 by Olivier Martin

Other

How to know where a Service is Available in Azure by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Microsoft Bot Framework Part 4: Natural Language AI, LUIS by Sarah Jeanne Sexton
Azure GAHP Server for HTCondor by Rangarajan Srirangam, Rakesh Patil
Microsoft Video Indexer expands functionality unlocking more video insights by Milan Gada
Mail Flow Round Trip test using Azure Automation and Azure Log Analytics by MarcosDias
Microsoft Azure announces new capabilities and partnerships at IBC 2017 by Sudheer Sirivara

Videos

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

Debug .NET Apps in Production with the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights via Azure Friday
Azure Service Health 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 195 – ML & AI via The Azure Podcast
Windows Template Studio with Clint Rutkas via .NET Rocks!
Episode 211 | Microsoft Cloud Show at Ignite 2017 and Azure News 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:

Why we’re using AWS, not Azure, to store our OSS releases by Willy-P. Schaub
Announcing SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Glenn Condron
Small Basic + micro:bit by Ed Price
Jump-Start: Swaggerizing ASP.NET Core by Pam Lahoud
Preview: Linux Containers on Windows by Rolf Neugebauer
Multi-OS Serverless functions with Docker by Alex Ellis

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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.