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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.

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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

Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and PowerShell by Christian Wade

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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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.