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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Get Started with Terraform on Azure via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: Deploy to Multiple AWS Accounts in Single Project via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: Code Project Organization Strategies (based on team, workload, or monolithic) via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: Import Existing Azure Resource Group via Chris Pietschmann
• Best Practices: 7 Key Benefits of Automated Infrastructure Deployment via Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft and OpenAI: Extended Partnership Announcement for ChatGPT, Azure, and more via Chris Pietschmann
• How to create availability tests for App Service using Bicep via Will Velida
• Microsoft Teams and Outlook back online after a four-hour outage via Tom Warren
• GitHub is Now Being Used by Over 100 Million Developers via Laurent Giret
• Cloud Spending To Top $1 Trillion In Four Years via Timothy Prickett Morgan

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)

• Windows Server Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) cloud learning for Windows Server professionals via Thomas Maurer
• Best Practices: 7 Key Benefits of Automated Infrastructure Deployment via Chris Pietschmann

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• How to create availability tests for App Service using Bicep via Will Velida

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• CI/CD for serverless SQL Pools resources via Kevin Chant

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• How to add Microsoft Azure blob object storage repositories in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 via Cary Sun
• Report: EU to Launch Antitrust Case Against Microsoft Teams via Paul Thurrott
• Microsoft Teams and Outlook back online after a four-hour outage via Tom Warren

DevOps / SRE

• Terraform: Deploy to Multiple AWS Accounts in Single Project via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Cloud Adds Dynamic Provider Credentials for Vault and Official Cloud Providers via Mitchell Ross
• Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit via Emma Roth
• Learn Azure DevOps from Zero to Hero via April Edwards
• Terraform: Code Project Organization Strategies (based on team, workload, or monolithic) via Chris Pietschmann
• GitHub is Now Being Used by Over 100 Million Developers via Laurent Giret
• Azure Native New Relic Service Provides Full Stack Observability To Boost Digital Transformation via Rabia Noureen
• Running Custom .NET code in GitHub Actions via Damir Arh
• Terraform: Import Existing Azure Resource Group via Chris Pietschmann
• Event-Driven Access Controls with HashiCorp Boundary and Vault via Rob Barnes
• Digital event highlights new features in Microsoft Purview via Christine Barrett

Data

• Armchair Architects: Is Big Data Turning into Dark Data? via EricCharran
• CI/CD for serverless SQL Pools resources via Kevin Chant
• Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service provides seamless, secure data storage via Aadithya Hosabettu

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Does your Azure IoT (Edge) Ubuntu device survive the Baltimore certificate migration? via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide General-Purpose Computer Vision AI Software Platform 2022 Vendor Assessment via John Montgomery
• Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit via Emma Roth
• From Teams to PowerPoint: 10 ways Azure AI enhances the Microsoft Apps we use everyday via Andy Beatman

Development

• GitHub is Now Being Used by Over 100 Million Developers via Laurent Giret
• Running Custom .NET code in GitHub Actions via Damir Arh

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• Skilling up on Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity: Quarterly recap via ShirleyseHaley
• 2023 identity security trends and solutions from Microsoft via Christine Barrett
• Microsoft Security reaches another milestone—Comprehensive, customer-centric solutions drive results via Christine Barrett
• Microsoft Security innovations from 2022 to help you create a safer world today via Christine Barrett
• How to Get Started Filling 3.4 Million Cybersecurity Jobs via Jennifer Riggins

Learning / Training / Certification

• Seven things you should know about Microsoft Learn via GitaSharma

Government

• Azure Policies for Automating Azure Governance – Choosing Policies via AmyColyer

Software

• From Teams to PowerPoint: 10 ways Azure AI enhances the Microsoft Apps we use everyday via Andy Beatman

Linux

• Does your Azure IoT (Edge) Ubuntu device survive the Baltimore certificate migration? via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker

XBox / xCloud / Gaming

• Microsoft Q2 2023: Windows, devices, and Xbox down as cloud holds strong via Tom Warren

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality

• AltSpaceVR shutdown, MRTK and HoloLens layoffs reflect Microsoft’s significant MR/VR business changes via Sharron Bennet

Other

• Microsoft named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide via Naga Surendran
• Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure via Kevin Ferguson
• Modern Indentity powered by Azure via Daniel Krzyczkowski
• 196: The Cloud Pod plays with all the stuff it found in the cleanroom via Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Peter Roosakos
• Model interpretability with Azure OpenAI via Valentina Alto
• The Quantified Worker with Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa via scott@hanselman.com (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing kernel sanitizers on Microsoft platforms via Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence – Editor
• Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? via Elizabeth Lopatto
• Cloud Spending To Top $1 Trillion In Four Years via Timothy Prickett Morgan
• Microsoft: recent widespread outage caused by an update, not cyber-attack via Sharron Bennet
• Boundary KMS (Key Management Service) Root Key Migration via Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn
• Using Command Binding in Windows Forms apps to go Cross-Platform via Klaus Loeffelmann
• Microsoft Earnings Release FY23 Q2: 2% revenue increase, 12% profit decrease via Sharron Bennet
• Azure Logic App issues: The template language expression ‘triggerBody()?[‘…’]’ cannot be evaluated. via Sandro Pereira
• Deploying Azure Managed Prometheus with AzAPI via Heyko Oelrichs
• Cloud to Edge for efficient, agile, and sustainable retail via Tony Shakib
• Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes via Vikas Singhvi
• Armchair Architects: Architecture and Ambiguity via EricCharran
• Microsoft and OpenAI: Extended Partnership Announcement for ChatGPT, Azure, and more via Chris Pietschmann

Videos

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

• Automating Azure infrastructure changes with Bicep and GitHub Actions via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Detecting objects with the ONNX Runtime, Azure and a Raspberry Pi via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• What’s New in Visual Studio Extensions for SSAS and SSRS | Data Exposed via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Learn Live – Automate Azure infrastructure change reviews by using Bicep and GitHub via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Creating and Managing Power Pages with Power Platform CLI 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:

• Episode 452 – Streamlining DevOps with Bicep via The Azure Podcast
• Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• 170 – Can we ignore certificates and PKI in cloud era? With Mika Seitsonen via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
• Stephanie Herr: Database DevOps with Stephanie Herr – Episode 229 via Azure DevOps Podcast

Azure Service Updates

Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:

• Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
• Chaos studio – Public preview updates for January 2023 
• Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage
• Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
• General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
• General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
• General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob

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