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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- There weren’t any Service Updates announced for Microsoft Azure this week.
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Announcing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage by Lavanya Kasarabada
- Announcing Azure Blob storage events preview by Chris Brooks
- Integrate Azure Stack into your datacenter by Thomas Roettinger
- SMB Version 1 disabled Azure Gallery Windows operating system images by Tom Shinder
- Cosmos DB & Graph with Gremlin – Getting Started by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- (Cross-Post) Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering via Windows Azure Storage
- Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases by Joseph Sack
- Announcing Azure Data Lake Store Capture Provider for Event Hubs Capture by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- Preview: SQL Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key support by Rebecca Zhang
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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 VM Sizes Missing When Resizing by Aidan Finn
- Create your own pfSense on Azure by Hongjlang Zhang
- How I Upgraded This VM To Azure Resource Manager by Aidan Finn
- Azure VM Extension for Dependency Agent by The Scripting Guys
- Hortonworks extends IaaS offering on Azure with Cloudbreak by Paige Liu
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Upsert into Azure Table Storage from BizTalk in 10 minutes by michaelstephensonuk
- Announcing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage by Lavanya Kasarabada
- How to import a Postman collection into your Azure API Management by Sandro Pereira
- Announcing Azure Blob storage events preview by Chris Brooks
- (Cross-Post) Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering via Windows Azure Storage
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Functions: Are They Really Infinitely Scalable and Elastic? by Mikhail Shilkov
- Microsoft Flow Buttons Integration by Sriram Hariharan
- Azure Functions Visual Studio 2017 Tooling vai SoundCode
- New Azure Feature Pack Release Strengthening ADLS Connectivity by Lingxi Li
- Creating distributed workflows with Azure Durable Functions by Tamir Dresher
Command Line
Database / Big Data
- Azure Content Spotlight – Reactive event programming with Azure Event Grid by chilberto
- Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming by Sujit D’Mello
- New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database by Morgan Oslake
- Stream Processing Changes: #Azure #CosmosDB change feed + Apache Spark by Judy Hanwen Shen
- Update! Azure Service Bus Presence On The Classic Azure Portal by Justin Conway
- Cosmos DB & Graph with Gremlin – Getting Started by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Power BI Desktop and “The Case of the Missing Taskbar Icon” by Samuel Lester
- Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases by Joseph Sack
- Announcing Azure Data Lake Store Capture Provider for Event Hubs Capture by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- Preview: SQL Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key support by Rebecca Zhang
- Directly store streaming data into Azure Data Lake with Azure Event Hubs Capture Provider by Sachin C Sheth
- Debug Spark Code Running in Azure HDInsight from Your Desktop by Jenny Jiang
- Importing data with Microsoft R Server by Babber Prashant
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Handy Tool When You Develop With Azure IoT by Zhidi Shang
- IoT Tools for Learner, Hobbyist and Professional by Greg Duncan
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics by Samartha Chandrashekar
- E-Book Sentiment using Azure Cognitive Services by mihansen
Development and DevOps
- Upgrade to MSTest V2! by Pratap Lakshman
- Be prepared for downstream failures by implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern by Andrei Dzimchuk
- Git forks now in public preview by Matt Cooper
- Getting hands on with Visual Studio for Mac, containers, and serverless code in the cloud via Visual Studio Blog
- Azure Management Libraries for Java – v1.2 by Asir Selvasingh
- Enabling communication traces in C# application for Azure AD authentication with SQL DB using token-based mechanism with Multi-factor authentication (MFA) by Mirek H Sztajno
- What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: August 2017 Digest by Buck Hodges
Containers and Service Fabric
- Re-iterating communication options in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
- Hosting multiple externally accessible ASP.NET Core applications in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
- Free ebook: Introduction to Windows Containers by Kim Spilker
- Announcing Deploy to Kubernetes & Azure Container Service and Container Agent plugins by Pui Chee Chan
- Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric via Visual Studio Blog
Security
- Utilizing Key Vault to create credentials for automation. by Troy Ault
- SMB Version 1 disabled Azure Gallery Windows operating system images by Tom Shinder
Azure Stack
- Integrate Azure Stack into your datacenter by Thomas Roettinger
Events
- Real Time Labs are ALIVEEEEE at Microsoft Ignite 2017 by Natalie Nelms
- Want an Inside Track on the Very Latest in Data Science, Machine Learning & AI? via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Azure Government Sacramento HackFest + Training Recap by Steve Michelotti
Learning / Certification
- Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications (free video course) by Jeffrey Richter
Other
- Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join the Microsoft MVP Award Program via MVP Award Program
- Formatting fields in PowerApps data tables by Carlos Figueira
- Automating Azure Analysis Service Processing using Azure Automation Account by Krishnakumar Rukmangathan
- Azure Tools and Technologies Cheat Sheet by Jen Stirrup
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Low-Priority Virtual Machines in Azure Batch | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Episode 234: Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk – Last Episode! | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
- App Service on Linux | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Episode 234: Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk – Last Episode! via Channel 9
- App Service on Linux via Azure Friday
- Low-Priority Virtual Machines in Azure Batch via Azure Friday
- Azure Site Recovery 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 209 | Total Eclipse, Container News and Azure Event Grid 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:
- OpenFaaS accelerates serverless Java with AfterBurn by Alex Ellis
- SHA-256 Self Signed Certificate for Windows Server 2012 R2 by Mayur Patankar
- Toggle Raspberry Pi GPIO Pins with ASP.NET Core 2.0 by Carlos Mendible
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Great post.
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“Create your own pfSense on Azure by Hongjlang Zhang”