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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)

Azure Regions and Availability Zones by Chris Pietschmann
Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability by Tom Keane
On-premises Azure Files access on Linux update and new troubleshooter by Rena Shah
Use Case: Region to Region Azure Site Recovery by Pishoy B
Extending Microsoft Azure IP Advantage to China by Erich Andersen
More and more fun with Terraform on Azure by Corey Sanders
EDNS Client Subnet support in Azure Traffic Manager by Dilip Lukose
NVidia P40 & P100 GPU now available in PREVIEW on Azure Cloud by Lee Stott
Differentiating between Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by Fidelis Ekezue

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Announcing larger, higher scale storage accounts by Dinesh Murthy
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 20 – Working with Files in Azure App Service by Michael Crump
Using AES with token authentication for Media Services by David Bristol

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Local Debugging with the Azure Functions CLI by SoundCode
Friday Five: Insight Into ASP.NET, Azure Functions, Hololens And More via MVP Award Program
Logic App: Json serialization issue when receiving message from Service Bus by Shashidharan Krishnan
Processing 100,000 Events Per Second on Azure Functions by Paul Batum
10 Differences between Azure Functions and Logic Apps by Toon Vanhoutte

Command Line and ARM Templates

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 19 – Deploy an Azure Web App using only the CLI by Micael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 17 – Use PowerShell with Azure Cloud Shell by Michael Crump
Using Queries with the Azure CLI by SoundCode

Database / Big Data

Creating a SQL Data Warehouse user with a specific resource class by Matt Usher
Pausing Azure SQL Data Warehouse using an Automation Runbook by Allan.Miller
Installing Python Packages to Azure Notebooks by Lee Stott
Managing Pipeline & Recurring Jobs in Azure Data Lake Analytics Made Easy by Yan Li
Azure HDInsight training resources – Learn about big data using open source technologies by Bhanu Prakash
Migrating On premise SQL database to Azure SQL database using DMA v3.2 by Don Castelino

Internet of Things (IoT)

How Microsoft helps IoT pros take action to overcome challenges via ReadWrite
Route IoT device messages to Azure Storage with Azure IoT Hub by Nicole Berdy
Azure’s IoT Hub global expansion: Newly available in 8 regions by Andres Juarez
NEW PRODUCT – Microsoft Hackster.io Virtual IoT Pack by Daniel Nosonowitz via Adafruit

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Invoking Azure ML Web Services from Excel, Using Power Query by Amita Gajewar

Development and DevOps

What’s new in TFS 2017 Update 3 RC by Alex Nichols
Visual Studio Team Services is in Canada! by Aaron Hallberg
DevOps trick – Provision Azure Active Directory Apps in a highly controlled way by Stephane Eyskens
Writing and Deploying a Database-Backed Website in Less Than 10 Minutes by mihansen
DevOps with Containers by Pam Lahoud

Containers and Service Fabric

Service Fabric Customer Profile: FunRock by Adam Tibbing
Docker Blog Series Part 4 – Managing Secrets inside Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service by Monu Bambroo
Service Fabric – Watchdog connector by SoftwareSimian
Installing Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 in a Docker container by Heath Stewart
Yo Team, meet Azure Container Instances by Donovan Brown

Security

Part 3: Secure your Logic App with Azure Active Directory using Azure API Management by Sjoukje Zaal
Information Protection approach for a hybrid environment by Vaibhav G
Azure Storage Account Security by Jason Boeshart
Deleting Azure AD Tenant – Unable to delete all Enterprise Applications by Boxify
Simplifying OPC UA security for everyone by Sam George

Azure Stack

Azure Stack Finally Takes Microsoft Public Cloud Private by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Servicing Azure Stack using the Update resource provider by Justin Incarnato
Azure Stack available for everyone!!! by NinadK-MSFT

Learning / Certification

New Courses from Opsgility – September 2017 by Michael Washam
Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Responsible Use by Matthew Calder
Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine Tutorials by Lee Stott

Events

We’re getting ready for Microsoft Ignite 2017! by Anisha Pindoria via MS DevOps Blog
Our top recommended Azure security and operations management sessions at Ignite 2017! by The Scripting Guys
Docker at Microsoft Ignite 2017 by Betty Junod
Going to Ignite 2017 & Azure Architect Bootcamp by Aidan Finn

Azure Government

Azure Analysis Services now available in Azure Government by Bret Grinslade
Region to Region preview is now available in Azure Government by Zach Kramer
Azure Active Directory Premium is now in limited preview in Azure Government by Zach Kramer

Other

Ignite 2017 Preview: Coming Azure Changes by Chris Pietschmann
View Designer and Workspace Settings coming to Azure by The Scripting Guys via OMS Blog
New offers in Azure Marketplace by Walter Harp
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 18 – Use Tags to quickly organize Azure Resources by Michael Crump
September updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer by Josh Caplan
Microsoft Azure 1st Hyperscale Cloud Computing Platform to Enable UK Law Enforcement Community by Alice Rison
Cloud Design Patterns – Availability by John Tran
Azure Log Analytics: Using Perfmon data by CliveW
Azure Log Analytics: Using the Parse operator by CliveW
Ask us anything about the new Azure Log Analytics language by Noa Kuperberg
Microsoft Integration (Azure and much more) Stencils Pack v2.6 for Visio 2016/2013: Azure Event Grid, BizMan, IoT and much more by Sandro Pereira
Azure CSP Documentation released by Kirill Kotlyarenko
New System Center Virtual Machine Manager Analytics solution by The Scripting Guys

Videos

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

Azure Cosmos DB: Get the Most Out of Provisioned Throughput | Azure Friday via Channel 9
HashiCorp Terraform on Azure via Azure Friday
Profiling Live Azure Web Apps with Application Insights via Azure Friday
Virtual Machine Planned Maintenance 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 196 – Serverless Computing and Event Grid via The Azure Podcast
Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova via .NET Rocks!
Episode 212 | Hurricane Irma, Voitanos Launch, Ignite Plans, Teams External Access and 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:

Bing Maps .NET Spatial Data Services Toolkit Made Open Source via Bing Team
Hackers Using iCloud’s Find My iPhone Feature to Remotely Lock Macs and Demand Ransom Payments by Juli Clover
Build your own security token service! by Matthew Calder
Monitor your Raspberry Pi cluster with Prometheus by Alex Ellis
Docker Official Images are now Multi-platform by Michael Friis

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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.