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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:- Tip 233 – Getting started with GitHub Actions for Azure via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Azure Sphere General Availability (GA) coming Frebruary 2020 by Chris Pietschmann
- Microsoft Explains the Future of the Windows 10 App Platform via Paul Thurrott
- Secure your Azure App Service using free SSL / TLS Certificates via Martin Brandl
- The Microsoft HoloLens 2 ships today for $3,500 via Adi Robertson
- Surface Pro X teardown confirms it’s easier to repair than any other Surface or iPad via Chaim Gartenberg
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Top 10 Azure Governance and Adoption Best Practices via AFinn
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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)
- Microsoft Explains the Future of the Windows 10 App Platform via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Deliver Highly Available Secure Web Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Delivering Services Privately in Your VNet with Azure Private Link via AFinn
- Accelerating customer success with Azure migration via Jeremy Winter
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Windows Server on Azure Overview, Lift-and-Shift Migrations for Enterprise Workloads via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Building and Managing Distributed Micro-Perimeters With Azure Firewall via AFinn
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Secure your Azure App Service using free SSL / TLS Certificates via Martin Brandl
- Setting up a free HTTPS certificate in Azure App Service via Joonas Westlin
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Serverless for the enterprise with Microsoft Azure via Jeff Hollan
Command-Line (CLI) / ARM Templates
- Enumerating registered WSL distributions via Rafael Rivera
- Quickstart: Send telemetry from a device to an IoT hub and monitor it with the Azure CLI via Featured Blog
Big Data / Database
- Introducing Bot Framework Adaptive Dialogue and How To build database driven chatbots via jamie_maguire
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics via John Macintyre
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure Sphere General Availability (GA) coming Frebruary 2020 by Chris Pietschmann
- Quickstart: Send telemetry from a device to an IoT hub and monitor it with the Azure CLI via Featured Blog
- Azure Sphere 19.10 release is live in Retail feed via Featured Blog
Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
DevOps / Development
- Tip 233 – Getting started with GitHub Actions for Azure via Azure Tips and Tricks
- C# 8 Interfaces: Public, Private, and Protected Members via Jeremy
- Sharing the DevOps journey at Microsoft via Ori Zohar
- Delivering increased productivity for bot development and deployment via Lili Cheng
- Review Apps in Azure Pipelines via Atul Malaviya
- VSCode Snippets: Speed up Coding with Shortcuts via Shane O’Neill
- Accelerating cloud-native application development in the enterprise via Gabe Monroy
- Secure software supply chain with Azure Pipelines artifact policies via Vishal Jain
Blockchain / Smart Contracts
- Accelerating blockchain adoption in the enterprise via Matthew Kerner
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Securing Your Cloud Perimeter With Azure Network Security via AFinn
- New Azure Security Center and Azure platform security capabilities via Gilad Elyashar
- Microsoft Cloud Security solutions provide comprehensive cross-cloud protection via Todd VanderArk
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
- First Ring Daily 713: HoloLens Phones Home via Brad Sams
- HoloLens 2 is Now Available via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft starts shipping HoloLens 2 via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- The Microsoft HoloLens 2 ships today for $3,500 via Adi Robertson
Government
Hardware
- Microsoft’s Surface Pro X now steers you away from buying apps that don’t work via Jay Peters
- Microsoft’s Surface Pro X Is the Most Repairable Surface Ever via Mehedi Hassan
- Surface Pro X teardown confirms it’s easier to repair than any other Surface or iPad via Chaim Gartenberg
- Surface Pro X Gets Firmware Update to Improve Battery Life via Mehedi Hassan
Software
- Microsoft reveals the future of OneNote and it’s all about Fluid and desktop via Tom Warren
- Microsoft Edge to Launch Without Key Features via Paul Thurrott
Events
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Deliver Highly Available Secure Web Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Top 10 Azure Governance and Adoption Best Practices via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Delivering Services Privately in Your VNet with Azure Private Link via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Extending Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure’s Control Plane via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite – Day 3 Roundup via Thomas Thornton
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Windows Server on Azure Overview, Lift-and-Shift Migrations for Enterprise Workloads via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Securing Your Cloud Perimeter With Azure Network Security via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Building and Managing Distributed Micro-Perimeters With Azure Firewall via AFinn
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Global Transit Network Architectures With Azure Virtual WAN via AFinn
Other
- New with Azure Artifacts: public and project-scoped feeds via Addie Andreeva
- New with Azure Artifacts: public and project-scoped feeds via Addie Andreeva
- Behind the Scenes: Ignite 2019 – Premium via Brad Sams
- 10 user experience updates to the Azure portal via Leon Welicki
- Sort of Live From Ignite – Windows Weekly 646 via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft bet against Intel with its new Surfaces — and lost via Chaim Gartenberg
- What is The Next FPGA Platform? via Nicole Hemsoth
- Use Azure Monitor to get Network Insights and Storage Insights via Tobias Zimmergren
- What’s new with Azure Monitor via Shiva Sivakumar
- A Sprint Burndown widget with everything you’ve been asking for via Gregg Boer
- A Sprint Burndown widget with everything you’ve been asking for via Gregg Boer
- Bill Gates thinks Windows Mobile would have beaten Android without Microsoft’s antitrust woes via Tom Warren
- Secure and compliant APIs for a hybrid and multi-cloud world via Skyler Hartle
- Warm storage now available in Azure Time Series Insights via Featured Blog
- Success in the cloud: Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure via Evelyn Padrino
- 003 – Let’s dive into the latest Microsoft Azure announcements! via Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine
- Microsoft wants to manage your meeting rooms via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:- How to keep your apps healthy with Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- How to keep your apps healthy with Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Working with Entity Framework & Docker | On .NET via Channel 9
- Azure Pipelines – Release | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- Azure Machine Learning Pipelines | AI Show via Channel 9
- Azure Machine Learning Pipelines via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Overview: Intelligent Query processing in SQL Server 2019 | 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:- Episode 304 – Cloud Economics via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 333 | Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Microsoft Teams With Microsoft’s Karuana Gatimu via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 332 | Microsoft Ignite 2019 Short – Project Cortex With Microsoft’s Chris McNulty via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- WinUI 3.0 with Ryan Demopoulos via .NET Rocks!
- CloudSkills.fm Podcast – Azure Arc and Hybrid Cloud Management via Thomas Maurer
- Episode 330 | Microsoft Ignite 2019 Short – Catching Up With Microsoft’s Mikael Svenson via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 331 | Microsoft Ignite 2019 Short – Catching Up With Sympraxis Consulting’s Marc Anderson and Julie Turner via Microsoft Cloud Show
Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:- Azure Kinect DK coming to Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- Public and project-scoped feeds for Azure Artifacts
- Azure DevOps roadmap update
- Enforce artifact policies for Azure Pipelines – Preview
- Update 19.10 for Azure Sphere now available
- Azure Active Directory B2C now supports monthly active users billing
- Azure HDInsight—Autoscale is now generally available
- Azure Data Lake Analytics U-SQL runtime upgrade
- Azure Shared Image Gallery now available in Azure Government and Azure China
- Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview
- New deployment strategies and caching for Azure Pipelines
- HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes is now generally available
- Azure HDInsight now enables you to customize Azure SQL Database for Ambari
- Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN
- Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New languages added to sentiment analysis
- Azure SQL Database—Billing for managed instance backup storage is now in effect
- Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Database managed instance is now generally available
- Azure Database for MySQL support for intelligent performance is now available
- Azure Database for MariaDB support for intelligent performance is now available
- Azure Stream Analytics—Extensibility with C# custom code UDFs
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