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The Weeks Top Links

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

• Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the 6th year via Emma Jones
• GitHub CoPilot puts Microsoft in hot water due to a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit via Sharron Bennet
• GitHub introduces ‘Hey, GitHub!’ experiment to allow voice-based interaction with Copilot via Sharron Bennet
• Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview via Jessie Jia
• Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs via Alex Ellis
• Report: Elon Musk is Considering Putting Twitter Behind a Paywall via Laurent Giret
• Mass layoffs at Twitter begin now, thanks to Elon Musk via Joe Rogun
• .NET 7 is Now Available via Paul Thurrott
• Arm64 Visual Studio now officially available to entire developer community via Sharron Bennet
• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition via Joe Rogun

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)

• New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring via Mark Russinovich
• Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs via Alex Ellis
• Manage Azure Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI from Azure via Thomas Maurer
• Announcing more Azure VMware Solution enhancements via Ram Gowrishankar
• Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview via Jessie Jia
• Security Baseline for Azure Arc enabled Servers and Arc Kubernetes #AzureHybrid #Security via James van den Berg
• Speaking at Cloud Brew 2022 about Azure Arc via Gregor Reimling

DevOps / SRE

• GitHub introduces ‘Hey, GitHub!’ experiment to allow voice-based interaction with Copilot via Sharron Bennet
• All Azure DevOps REST APIs now support PAT scopes via Barry Wolfson
• Building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps with Kubernetes and Helm providers via Thomas Thornton
• ‘Hey, GitHub!’ will let programmers code with just their voice via Tom Warren
• GitHub CoPilot puts Microsoft in hot water due to a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit via Sharron Bennet

Data

• Enable near real-time analytics over operational data using Synapse Link via RK Iyer

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Azure Sphere – Image signing certificate update coming soon via jamesscott

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Announcing ML.NET 2.0 via Luis Quintanilla

Development

• Arm64 Visual Studio now officially available to entire developer community via Sharron Bennet
• A quick look at Azure App Configuration and the Python Provider via Geert Baeke

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)

• Building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps with Kubernetes and Helm providers via Thomas Thornton
• Security Baseline for Azure Arc enabled Servers and Arc Kubernetes #AzureHybrid #Security via James van den Berg

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• Simplify privacy protection with Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests via Christine Barrett
• Security Baseline for Azure Arc enabled Servers and Arc Kubernetes #AzureHybrid #Security via James van den Berg
• Identifying cyberthreats quickly with proactive security testing via Christine Barrett

Azure Stack

• Manage Azure Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI from Azure via Thomas Maurer

Learning / Training / Certification

• .NET Interactive Notebooks is now Polyglot Notebooks! via Claudia Regio

Hardware

• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition via Joe Rogun
• Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (Intel) review: this is the one to buy via Monica Chin

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality

• Enable near real-time analytics over operational data using Synapse Link via RK Iyer

Other

• Defenders beware: A case for post-ransomware investigations via Paul Oliveria
• Microsoft Starts Testing Task Manager Improvements with Beta Channel Insiders via Laurent Giret
• Twitter Employees Now Have to Work From Office 40 Hours Per Week via Laurent Giret
• Surface Special Edition merges new and classic designs with Windows 11 Bloom and Liberty via Athima Chansanchai, Writer
• Microsoft threat intelligence presented at CyberWarCon 2022  via Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team
• Google One VPN desktop apps for Windows and Mac are now available via Sharron Bennet
• Google One’s VPN is Now Available on Windows and macOS via Laurent Giret
• Microsoft Brings Certificate-Based Authentication for AAD to Mobile via Paul Thurrott
• Azure comes to Dallas for Supercomputing via Rachel Pruitt
• Improve your energy and carbon efficiency with Azure sustainability guidance via Alysa Taylor
• Google is bringing its VPN to Mac and Windows PCs via Tom Warren
• Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services via Christine Barrett
• .NET 7 is Now Available via Paul Thurrott
• EU Announces In-Depth Investigation of Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Deal via Laurent Giret
• Accelerate your cloud-native journey with Azure Monitor via Farzana Rahman
• The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright via James Vincent
• EU opens ‘in-depth investigation’ into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition via Tom Warren
• Report: Elon Musk is Considering Putting Twitter Behind a Paywall via Laurent Giret
• Why you need a Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and probably a WAF too! via Stephen Thair
• Elon Musk Sees “Massive” Ad Revenue Drop at Twitter via Laurent Giret
• Elon Musk Reportedly Plans to Cut Twitter’s Workforce in Half via Laurent Giret
• Mass layoffs at Twitter begin now, thanks to Elon Musk via Joe Rogun
• Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the 6th year via Emma Jones
• Stopping C2 communications in human-operated ransomware through network protection via Katie McCafferty

Videos

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

• Intro Assessment Tooling for Oracle Database Migrations to Azure Database for PostgreSQL & Azure SQL via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Learn Live – Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Learn Live – Test your Bicep code by using GitHub Actions via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Learn Live – Authenticate your Azure deployment workflow by using workload identities via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• LunchBytes – GraphQL on Azure via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• What was Microsoft’s first Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? #Shorts via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• SQL Insider Series: Architect your Azure Data Estate with Well-Architected Framework | Data Exposed 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:

• Podcast: This company thinks TinyML will be big via Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
• Cloud Scaling from the Trenches with Meg Gotshall via .NET Rocks!
• Zero Trust Security and the HashiCorp Cloud Platform via The New Stack
• Episode 307 – Office connections to online services FUD via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• 159 – Celebrating 3 years of Ctrl+Alt+Azure via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
• Healthcare in Microsoft Power Platform | A Girl in Love with Tech Podcast via Paul Joseph Swider -`ღ´-
• Dave McKinstry: The Evolution of DevOps – Episode 218 via Azure DevOps Podcast
• Microsoft Defender for Threat Intelligence via The Azure Security Podcast
• Episode 306 – Testing Azure Arc using Azure VMs via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• Episode 445 – SAP for Azure Landing Zone Accelerator via The Azure Podcast

Azure Service Updates

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

• Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
• Public preview: Azure Maps Creator feature – Wayfinding
• Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration
• Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
• Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022
• Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement
• Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in new China regions
• General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
• Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
• General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
• Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB
• General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
• Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now Supports Node 18
• Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
• Public preview: Rotate SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools
• Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
• General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal
• General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones
• Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
• Generally available: Block domain fronting behavior on newly created customer resources
• Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
• Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now fully supports .NET 7
• Generally available: New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution
• General availability: Virtual Machine software reservations
• Public preview: Exporting ISE and Consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU
• General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
• Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
• General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

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