Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing!The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:- Azure Kung Fu Toolkit via Dan Patrick
- Host Private Video Meetings in Azure with Jitsi via Chris Pietschmann
- Tip 259 – How to use Azure App Service managed certificates via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Azure Failover Cluster with Shared Disk – Step by Step via Pantelis Apostolidis
- AZ-900 Exam: Azure IoT Product Overview from Tim Warner via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Naming Convention and Discoverability via Chris Pietschmann
- Byte Conversion Calculator from KB, MB, GB, TB, PB via Chris Pietschmann
- Checking out the Azure CLI Interactive Mode via Michael Crump
- Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions via Tom Warren
- Microsoft works with healthcare organizations to protect from popular ransomware during COVID-19 crisis: Here’s what to do via Eric Avena
- Microsoft Cancels Ignite, Embraces All-Digital Experiences via Paul Thurrott
- Tutorial: Use Azure Functions to process real-time data from Azure Event Hubs and persist to Azure Cosmos DB via Abhishek Gupta
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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 Failover Cluster with Shared Disk – Step by Step via Pantelis Apostolidis
- The CloudPod opens the Azure front door – EP65 via Jonathan Baker
- Announcing server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks via Raman Kumar
- General availability of new Azure disk sizes and bursting via Yuemin Lu
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Tip 259 – How to use Azure App Service managed certificates via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Running a 64 bit node Web App in Windows Azure App Service via jldeen
- March 30, 2020 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS via Gautam
Power Platform
- GCast 80: Conditional Logic in Power Automate via David Giard
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Let’s Get this Bread! Using Azure Functions to Make Sourdough via Chloe Condon 🎀
- Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions via Tobias Zimmergren
- I’ve noticed three types of serverless compute platforms. Let’s deploy something to each. via Richard Seroter
- Using the new Gradle plugin for Azure Functions to deploy Spring Boot serverless applications via Julien Dubois
- Tutorial: Use Azure Functions to process real-time data from Azure Event Hubs and persist to Azure Cosmos DB via Abhishek Gupta
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Slack Launches Microsoft Teams Calls Integration via Mehedi Hassan
- Slack launches call integrations for Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and more via Tom Warren
- Microsoft rebrands Office 365 consumer subscriptions to M365; adds more new features for same price via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Microsoft to rebrand some Office 365 commercial plans as ‘Microsoft 365’ via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Extending the power of Azure AI to Microsoft 365 users via John ‘JG’ Chirapurath
- Microsoft Announces Consumer Version of Microsoft 365 via Mehedi Hassan
- Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions via Tom Warren
Command-Line (CLI) / ARM Templates
- Azure Kung Fu Toolkit via Dan Patrick
- 1-Click Deployment of Cognitive Services with ARM Templates via Maxime Rouiller
- Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Naming Convention and Discoverability via Chris Pietschmann
- Eclipse Theia Offers a ‘True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code’ via Mike Melanson
- Checking out the Azure CLI Interactive Mode via Michael Crump
Big Data / Database
- Data Platform Tips 87 – Azure SQL Analytics via noreply@blogger.com (Anupama Natarajan)
- Tutorial: Getting started with MongoDB on Azure using Go via Abhishek Gupta
- Modeling and visualizing discrete IoT data using Azure Time Series Insights via Featured Blog
- Tutorial: Use Azure Functions to process real-time data from Azure Event Hubs and persist to Azure Cosmos DB via Abhishek Gupta
Internet of Things (IoT)
- AZ-900 Exam: Azure IoT Product Overview from Tim Warner via Chris Pietschmann
- Modeling and visualizing discrete IoT data using Azure Time Series Insights via Featured Blog
- Quickly train your AI model with MXChip IoT DevKit & Edge Impulse via Benjamin Cabé
Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 1-Click Deployment of Cognitive Services with ARM Templates via Maxime Rouiller
- Making Sense of the Senses- Our Top 5 Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Combos! via Chloe Condon 🎀
- Quickly train your AI model with MXChip IoT DevKit & Edge Impulse via Benjamin Cabé
- Corona Face Mask Detection with Custom Vision and Tensorflow.js via PythicCoder
- Extending the power of Azure AI to Microsoft 365 users via John ‘JG’ Chirapurath
- Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions via Tom Warren
DevOps / Development
- Azure AD Token Generator using .NET Core via Sanganak – Authority
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.04.03 via Steven Murawski
- Secure app development with Azure AD, Key Vault and Managed Identities via Christos Matskas
- Remoting into DevOps via Emily Freeman
- A Brief History of git in Numbers via Lawrence E Hecht
- Interesting Azure DevOps Extension workaround via Kevin
- Microsoft Cancels Ignite, Embraces All-Digital Experiences via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft to take most of its external and internal events for the next year digital-only via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Women Dev Summit 2020: Dicas e Truques com Visual Studio Code by Loiane Groner via Glaucia Lemos
- Eclipse Theia Offers a ‘True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code’ via Mike Melanson
- Delivering Automated Terraform CI/CD with Azure DevOps via Saumilkumar Shah
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)
- Attack matrix for Kubernetes via Todd VanderArk
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Azure AD Token Generator using .NET Core via Sanganak – Authority
- Secure app development with Azure AD, Key Vault and Managed Identities via Christos Matskas
- Scan your Azure Container Registry container images with Azure Security Centre via Pixel Robots.
- Welcoming a more diverse workforce into cybersecurity: expanding the pipeline via Todd VanderArk
- Microsoft Cloud App Security and Sensitivity Labels via Joanne Klein
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack Hub Use Cases via lisaattheedge
Learning / Training / Certification
- AZ-900 Exam: Azure IoT Product Overview from Tim Warner via Chris Pietschmann
- AZ-900 Study Guide: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2020 via Thomas Maurer
XBox / xCloud
- Amazon Takes on xCloud, Teams Takes on the Consumer via Brad Sams
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
- Microsoft works with healthcare organizations to protect from popular ransomware during COVID-19 crisis: Here’s what to do via Eric Avena
- Microsoft to take most of its external and internal events for the next year digital-only via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Software
- Microsoft outlines more new features coming to its Chromium-based Edge browser via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Other
- Host Private Video Meetings in Azure with Jitsi via Chris Pietschmann
- BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts: Unzip File Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server 2020 via Sandro Pereira
- Apache Kafka Applications Can Work Without Apache Kafka Cluster? via Lena Hall
- Adding subtitles to your videos the easy way via Bernd Verst
- Report: Apple to Launch New iPhone SE This Month via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft Azure European Regions Starting to Hit Capacity Limits via Russell Smith
- Full Operational Shutdown—another cybercrime case from the Microsoft Detection and Response Team via Todd VanderArk
- Installing tenant attach with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Update 2002 #MEMCM #MEMAC #ConfigMgr via Robert Smit [MVP]
- Lanzamiento: ¡Version Preview del Live Share en el navegador! via Glaucia Lemos
- New Azure RTOS collaborations with leaders in the semiconductor industry via Sam George
- The Need for A Cloud Native Tunnel via Alex Ellis
- Managing critical service resources during COVID-19 capacity prioritisation via Richard Cheney
- Using Application Insights in Azure for Monitoring health of Web Apps via Subodh Sohoni
- Azure Unblogged – Microsoft Feedback and Customer engagement programs via Thomas Maurer
- Microsoft Praises Washington State Stance on Facial Recognition via Paul Thurrott
- What are Azure resource providers and why should you care via Tidjani Belmansour, Ph.D.
- Byte Conversion Calculator from KB, MB, GB, TB, PB via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Kung Fu Toolkit via Dan Patrick
- Regex in JS – how YOU can learn it and learn to like it via Chris Noring
- Microsoft partners with the industry to unlock new 5G scenarios with Azure Edge Zones via Yousef Khalidi
- Making it easier for your remote workforce to securely access all the apps they need, from anywhere via Todd VanderArk
- Microsoft to enable new 5G edge computing scenarios with Azure Edge Zones, now in private preview via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge via Jeffrey Burt
- Optimizing for stability during the global health pandemic via Gloridel Morales
- Update your Azure profile information via Tidjani Belmansour, Ph.D.
- Microsoft Previews Its New Consumer-Focused Version of Teams via Mehedi Hassan
- Microsoft: 40 Million People Are Now Using Skype Daily via Mehedi Hassan
- Incredible Spike in Azure and Related Services – Here are 8 tips to secure services! via Rick Vanover
- Microsoft sees Nearly 800% Increase for Cloud Services via Brad Sams
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:- Go serverless: Serverless operations with Azure DevOps via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Go serverless: Big data processing with Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Go serverless: Big data processing with Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Go serverless: Serverless operations with Azure DevOps | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Intro to PowerShell notebooks for Azure SQL | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- AIShow | Azure Cognitive Search Overview via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Azure Cognitive Search Overview | AI Show via Channel 9
- Microsoft France: About the MVP Program | CodeStories via Channel 9
- Introducing Dynamics 365 Remote Assist for HoloLens 2 and mobile devices via Microsoft HoloLens
- Bot Framework – Using custom adapters to surface your bot anywhere (Part 3 of 3) | AI Show via Channel 9
- Adding an Azure Function to list all the Urls for the budget-friendly Url-Shortener project via Frank Boucher
- Zero Downtime Deployments with Azure PaaS | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
- Go serverless: Real-time applications with Azure SignalR Service | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Remote Patient Monitoring with Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Digital ecosystems deep dive: Developer experience on alternative ledgers – VS Code via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
Podcast
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:- SQL Down Under Podcast 79 with Guest Mark Brown via The Bit Bucket
- Episode 171 – Working from home with Sarah Lean via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- 023 – The basics of Azure CDN, and how you can protect it via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
- Episode 353 | Trying to Focus on the Less Viral News via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Joseph Landes and Amol Dalvi on Windows Virtual Desktop – Episode 82 via Azure DevOps Podcast
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Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:- Azure IoT SDK for Python—Significant connection resiliency improvements now available
- The preview version of Event Hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now available
- Azure Machine Learning available in US Gov
- New Azure RTOS Collaborations with Semiconductor Industry Leaders
- Azure Kinect DK is now available in Japan, Germany, and the UK
- Direct Upload of Azure Managed Disks is generally available
- Azure Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available
- Azure Cognitive Services—Neural Text to Speech has new voice styles
- Azure SQL Database—Subnet delegation enforcement for managed instances
- FastTrack for Azure expanding to Central and Eastern Europe
- IPv6 for Azure Virtual Network is now generally available
- Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available
- Azure Ultra Disks—Shared disk capability is now in preview
- Azure Managed Disks—Incremental snapshots are now available
- New Azure Disk sizes and bursting support are now available
- Azure Backup solution for SAP HANA databases is now available
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Logical decoding and wal2json for change data capture
- Azure DevTest discounts are now available
- Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks is generally available
- New additions to the Azure Archive Storage partner network
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