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Service Updates

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

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

AT&T IoT Starter Kit with Azure IoT Suite Support by Chris Pietschmann
Migrate Between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server by Chris Pietschmann
Cortana Intelligence Suite Services Workshop by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Trying out Docker for Azure (Beta) by Jomit Vaghela
How to: Using Microsoft Azure Key Vault from Web/Cloud application by Deva
Deploy ADFS Infrastructure in Azure by Eric W. DeBord
Building Deep Neural Networks in the Cloud with Azure GPU VMs, MXNet and Microsoft R Server by Max Kaznady
Azure Portal + Azure AD Management in Public Preview by Chris Pietschmann
Announcing Update 3.0 for StorSimple 8000 series by Sharath Suryanarayan
Azure DocumentDB powers the modern marketing intelligence platform by Arvin Ramachandran
IMP: Upgrade your application to a newer version of the ADAL library for it to continue to work on iOS 10 by Swaroop Krishnamurthy
Visual Studio 2015 update for Logic Apps by Jon Fancey
Introduction: Get VMs ready in minutes by setting up an image factory in Azure DevTest Labs by Peter Hauge
Azure Active Directory Labs Series – AD Connect by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Microsoft Azure Government: ITAR compliant by Zach Kramer
Restore your AD FS farm the easy way! by Samuel Devasahayam
SQL Server Connector support for private Azure clouds by Rebecca Zhang
Azure Event Hubs Archive is now in public preview, providing efficient micro-batch processing by Shubha Vijayasarathy
Microsoft Dynamics 365 pricing to start at $50 per user per month for Business Edition by Mary Jo Foley
StorSimple Virtual Array – ROBO Scenario by Sharath Suryanarayan
StorSimple Virtual Array – File Server or iSCSI Server? by Sharath Suryanarayan
Why Azure for Government is your best choice – the most comprehensive CJIS compliance by Tom Keane
Recent Updates to the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine by Gopi Kumar
Assessing Operational and Technical Risk of Azure Solutions by Christian Reddington
Quick overview of Azure VM Specifications by Lee Stott
Announcing the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest by Lavanya Kasarabada
Announcing Face Redaction for Azure Media Analytics by Richard Li
Azure ServiceBus: working with data time filters by Armin Reiter
Choosing the most appropriate Azure Virtual Machine Specification by Lee Stott
Learning Guide for Azure Stream Analytics by Dave The Engineer

Events

Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.

Join the Microsoft Azure Stack Meetup @ Ignite 2016 by David Armour
Microsoft OMS + System Center product meetup at Ignite 2016 by Trinadh Kotturu
Sept 20th Webinar: Power BI and Azure ML webinar

Videos

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

Azure App Service Best Practices for Large Scale Applications | Episode 213 via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Azure Web Jobs has a new UX via Azure Friday
Azure Redis Cache Administration options via Azure Friday
Visual Studio Docker Tools for building ASP.NET Core Web Apps – The September Release via Channel 9
Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrating Power BI Into Your Web Applications by Robert Green
Service Fabric Series (3 of 3) – Service Fabric on Linux via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
Tuesdays with Corey: The Azure Bots built on Microsoft Bot Framework via Channel 9

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:

DASH | Episode 144 via The Azure Podcast
Continuous Integration and deployment using Visual Studio Team Services with Gavin Barron via Microsoft Cloud Show
Cloud Foundry | Episode 143 by The Azure Podcast

General Cloud

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

Ten Million Pi’s! via Channel 9
Microsoft and Opensource – Scripting with powershell by Lee Stott
Getting Feet Wet with Internet of Things (IoT) by Jeremy Hurley
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning Inference With New Pascal GPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan

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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.