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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Announcing the Azure API Management roadmap
- Mobile Apps: Supporting IPv6 and the Apple submission process
- Azure AD Application Proxy new connector version
- Service Fabric SDK and Runtime for version 5.2 released
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Watch Microsoft Ignite 2016 Streaming Online – Keynotes, Sessions, and More! by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Functions in practice by Troy Hunt
- Microsoft Ignite: Azure Stack technical sessions by Charlie Satterfield
- Microsoft Ignite: Learn about Azure Stack infrastructure operations and management by Vijay Tewari
- Microsoft Azure Germany now available via first-of-its-kind cloud for Europe by Tome Keane
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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Man, I love this weekly post. Please keep up the good work.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!