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The Weeks Top Links

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

• Azure Firewall Basic now in preview via Mark Gakman
• Azure Bicep: Deploy a virtual machine with Office pre-installed via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️
• Upgrading Azure Load Balancer from Basic to Standard SKU via Alan Kinane
• Terraform locally run from Windows with State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean
• Cybersecurity awareness tips from Microsoft to empower your team to #BeCyberSmart via Veronica Sun
• Microsoft Adds SSO and Passwordless Authentication Support to Azure Virtual Desktop via Rabia Noureen
• Microsoft CEO is “Very Confident” About Activision Blizzard Deal via Laurent Giret
• Future-ready IoT implementations on Microsoft Azure via Moe Tanabian

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 Firewall Basic now in preview via Mark Gakman
• Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6 via Siavash Fathi
• Upgrading Azure Load Balancer from Basic to Standard SKU via Alan Kinane
• Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall via Mark Gakman
• Azure Bicep: Deploy a virtual machine with Office pre-installed via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️
• How to Install VirtualBox on Windows 10 via Nicholas Xuan Nguyen

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Terraform with Azure Cloud Shell & State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean
• Terraform locally run from Windows with State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6 via Siavash Fathi

DevOps / SRE

• GitHub Actions information using the GitHub connector in Power BI via Kevin Chant
• My 1st Microsoft Article: Build and deploy apps on AKS using DevOps (GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD) via sbuchanan
• Azure Bastion: Upgrade Basic SKU to Standard SKU with Azure PowerShell via wmatthyssen
• Azure CLI | Disable SSL Certification Verification via zigmax
• How to import an Azure DevOps Git repository… From another Azure DevOps organization? via Antti K. Koskela
• Terraform with Azure Cloud Shell & State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean
• Terraform locally run from Windows with State file in Azure Storage via Marc Kean
• Terraform Enterprise Adds Run Metrics, Versioned Docs, and More via Jenna Degaust

Data

• Microsoft and INT deploy IVAAP for OSDU Data Platform on Microsoft Energy Data Services via Kadri Umay
• Easier way to perform CI/CD for Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 via Kevin Chant
• EPAM and Microsoft partner on data governance solutions with Microsoft Energy Data Services via Kadri Umay
• Cegal and Microsoft break down data silos and offer open collaboration with Microsoft Energy Data Services via Kadri Umay

Internet of Things (IoT)

• MS Ignite 2022, IoT related sessions via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker
• General Availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09 new and updated features via AzureSphereTeam
• [Updated] General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 26 via AzureSphereTeam
• Future-ready IoT implementations on Microsoft Azure via Moe Tanabian

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps—introducing AiDice via Mark Russinovich

Development

• Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6 via Siavash Fathi
• Work around localhost unsecured HTTPS access for Development Sites in Edge via Rick Strahl
• Microsoft introduces Arm64 support for Visual Studio extensions via Joe Rogun

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)

• My 1st Microsoft Article: Build and deploy apps on AKS using DevOps (GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD) via sbuchanan
• Apply configuration changes to the default node pool in AKS via Bicep via danielstechblog
• Running Ethereum’s Execution & Consensus Nodes on Azure Kubernetes Service via Itay Podhajcer

Blockchain / Smart Contracts

• Running Ethereum’s Execution & Consensus Nodes on Azure Kubernetes Service via Itay Podhajcer

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• Cybersecurity awareness tips from Microsoft to empower your team to #BeCyberSmart via Veronica Sun
• How one product manager builds community at Microsoft Security via Christine Barrett
• Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall via Mark Gakman
• CSO perspective: Why a strong IAM strategy is key to an organization’s cybersecurity approach via Christine Barrett

Learning / Training / Certification

• Azure CLI | Disable SSL Certification Verification via zigmax

Government

• EPAM and Microsoft partner on data governance solutions with Microsoft Energy Data Services via Kadri Umay

Events

• MS Ignite 2022, IoT related sessions via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker

Other

• Microsoft’s early Windows 8 concepts shown in new video via Tom Warren
• Microsoft’s Industry Clouds: More than just a bunch of services bundles via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• Microsoft will disable Legacy Authentication 1st of October 2022 – What this means and what you have to do via Gregor Reimling
• The value of having a Third-party Monitoring solution for Azure Integration Services via Steef-Jan Wiggers
• Cost Management updates—September 2022 via Michael Flanakin
• Ensure zone resilient outbound connectivity with NAT gateway via Aimee Littleton
• ZINC weaponizing open-source software via Katie McCafferty
• Intel’s RTX 3060 competitor is priced at just $289 via Tom Warren
• Intel Announces its 13th Gen Core Desktop CPUs via Laurent Giret
• Azure Cost Optimisation via Marc Kean
• New Azure for Operators solution accelerator offers a fast path to network insights via Jason Hogg
• Microsoft Adds SSO and Passwordless Authentication Support to Azure Virtual Desktop via Rabia Noureen
• Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs with new Ada Lovelace Architecture, DLSS 3 via Sharron Bennet
• Microsoft CEO is “Very Confident” About Activision Blizzard Deal via Laurent Giret
• Malicious OAuth applications abuse cloud email services to spread spam via Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team
• Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm via Timothy Prickett Morgan

Videos

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

• Learn Live – Azure Networking Fundamentals via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Ask the Expert: Serverless September: Azure Container Apps (APAC) via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Learn Live – Azure Governance via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Why should I participate in a hackathon? #Shorts via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Full Text Indexing Basics with Azure SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• SQL Server 2022 @ PASS Data Community Summit | Data Exposed Exclusive 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 301 – Git comes to Power Apps via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• Episode 440 – Azure and SAP – Better Together! via The Azure Podcast
• Developing .NET on AWS with Isaac Levin via .NET Rocks!
• Episode 439 – APIM Self Hosted Gateway V2 via The Azure Podcast
• Mark Miller: The Science of Great UI in Software – Episode 212 via Azure DevOps Podcast
• Episode 300 – Friends don’t let friends buy M365 from GoDaddy via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

Azure Service Updates

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

• Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
• Generally available: Query Store hints Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in China North 3
• Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
• Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022
• General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
• Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Support for PostgreSQL 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) ends on 9 November 2023
• The application insights Java 2.X SDK will be retired on 30 September 2025
• DevOps Starter is being retired. Use Azure Developer CLI for quick-start deployments to Azure
• Azure CycleCloud 7 will be retired on 30 September 2023
• Azure Static Web Apps support for Node 12 ends on 3 December 2022
• Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023
• Support for Azure API Management self-hosted gateway version 0 and version 1 ends 1 October 2023
• Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
• Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow alerts will be retired on 30 September 2025
• Action required: Migrate to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server by 16 September 2024
• Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
• App Service support for Ruby is ending 12 April 2023 
• Upgrade your Azure Cache for Redis instances to use Redis version 6 by 30 June 2023
• Migrate to conversational language understanding before Language Understanding (LUIS) is retired on 1 October 2025
• Update your Azure SDK libraries for .NET and Golang by 30 September 2023
• Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature – custom styling
• Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
• General availability: ExpressRoute FastPath support for Vnet peering and UDRs
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for late September 2022
• General availability: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late September 2022
• General availability: Backup and restore in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Public preview: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
• Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
• Generally available: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model
• Public preview: Java 17 Support in Azure Functions
• Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3
• Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service
• Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift landing zone accelerator
• Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive
• General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09
• General availability: Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files

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