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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:

Why is the Azure Portal a Web App? by Chris Pietschmann
Azure Region Interactive Map by Chris Pietschmann
Bletchley – release & roadmap – Cryplets deep dive by Marley Gray
Microsoft delivers version 1 of ‘Bletchley’ Azure blockchain as a service middleware by Mary Jo Foley
White Paper-Microsoft Cloud Germany-Compliance in the cloud for organizations in EU/EFTA W by Thomas W Shinder
Microsoft Azure Storage samples – cross platform quick starts and more by Dinesh Murthy
Umbraco uses Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools for thousands of CMS tenants in the cloud by Guy Haycock
Getting Started with Docker and Container Services by Lee Stott
Integrate Azure logs to Radar by Namgyal Nanglo
Azure ServiceBus Queue – reading query results from Stream Analytics by Prashant Pratap
Azure Function Apps – reading events from ServiceBus and writing to Redis Cache by Prashant Pratap
IIS web-servers running in Windows Azure may reveal their private IP for certain requests via MSDN Blogs
How can I connect my premises or data center to my Azure subscription? by Gaurav Hind
How do I start learning or using Azure? by Gaurav Hind
Service Bus client 3.4.0 and EPH 2.2.6 is now live by John Taubensee
Deep Learning, Simulation and HPC Applications with Docker and Azure Batch by Fred Park
Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL and Loop Better Together! Part II by Ali Mazaheri
Azure Content Spotlight – Azure Log Analytics via MSDN Blogs
Creating a custom Virtual Machine for deployment on Azure by Lee Stott
Migrating Azure Services between different Azure Subscriptions by Lee Stott
Ladies and gentlemen, start you logging by Matias Quaranta
DBCC CHECKDB Fails on a Database with files in Azure Blob Storage by Carlos Reyes Garcia
Remote debug your Azure App Service Web App by Benjamin Perkins
Using Azure AD to authenticate public clients to SQL Azure by SailingRock
Microsoft Research: How we operate Deep Neural Network with Log Analytics by Kris Zentner
Azure Stream Analytics support for IoT Hub Operations Monitoring by Ryan CrawCour
Azure ML, as Part of the IoT Suite, Now Available in Azure Germany by Ted Way
Execute Transactions from Azure Mobile App API (node.js) by Jeff Sanders
Riding the Big Data Tiger by Omid Afnan
How to deny HTTP methods (or verbs) in Azure Web Apps by Jeff Sanders
Data Factory supports multiple web service inputs for Azure ML Batch Execution by Harish Kumar Agarwal
How to Use Storage Explorer with Microsoft Azure for Government by Nicole Welch
Project Bletchley – Blockchain infrastructure made easy by Christine Avanessians
Announcing the release of Azure Mobile Apps Node SDK v3.0.0 by Adrian Hall
Get notified at any time with Real time alert from Azure CDN by Manling Zhang
5 Cloud AI Innovations at the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit by Joseph Sirosh
Azure Data Centers and Regions by Lee Stott
Azure Government adding F-Series VMs to USGov Iowa by Zach Kramer
Create an Office 365 dev/test environment in Azure by Joe Davies
Build cloud apps at warp speed by James Staten
Refreshing user logins in App Service Mobile Apps by Mimi Xu
Using Redis as ADAL token cache by SailingRock
Unable to connect to SQL Server on azure VM due to an extra NSG applied to subnet by JackLi
Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees this week, largely in Redmond, London by Mary Jo Foley

Events

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

Join Us at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta by Jane Louis
Join us for “Open Source PostgreSQL on Microsoft Azure” meetup in Islamabad by Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed
Getting Started with PowerApps webinar Sept 29th by Charles Sterling
Windows Store for Business at Microsoft Ignite conference by Jan Kalis
Coding for the cloud could win you $1,000 via Student Developer Evangelism Team

Videos

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

Hockey App and Azure App Insights with Evgeny Ternovsky and Josh Weber via Microsoft Cloud Cover Show
Azure Functions and the evolution of web jobs via Azure Friday
Microsoft Ignite keynote viewing choices! via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey: More Azure Portal stuff with Vlad via Channel 9
Upcoming: Secrets of R and Spark at MS Data Science Summit | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Maxim Lukiyanov

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:

Java on Azure | Episode 145 via The Azure Podcast
Latest Cloud News & Podcasting Plans for Microsoft’s Ignite Conference | Episode 147 via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud

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

Free eBook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms by Chris Pietschmann
VSCode? IoT? Yes! by Greg Duncan
Pushing Database Scalability Up and Out with GPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Apple Acquires Machine Learning Startup Tuplejump by Juli Clover
Running Scripts in a Docker Container from Windows by Steve Lasker
Creating new value from an existing IoT solution by Jerry Lee

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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.