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:- Change in ourselves helps drive change in the world – a letter from Satya Nadella
- Tip 266 – Build 2020 – Application Developer on-demand videos list via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Using Loops and Conditions in ARM Templates via samcogan.com
- Building an Azure Static Web App With GraphQL via Posts on LINQ to Fail
- Create an Azure AD protected API that calls into Cosmos DB with Azure Functions and .NET Core 3.1 via Christos Matskas
- Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
- How Azure Durable Functions scale via Joonas Westlin
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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)
- How To: Get Consumer GPUs Working In Hyper-V Virtual Machines via Rafael Rivera
- Speaking about Azure Arc at the Azure Singapore Virtual Meetup via Thomas Maurer
- Hyper-V prevented starting virtual machine because it is prepared for failover fix via Thomas Thornton
- Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Create an Azure AD protected API that calls into Cosmos DB with Azure Functions and .NET Core 3.1 via Christos Matskas
- How Azure Durable Functions scale via Joonas Westlin
- Introducing Serverless360 Resource Map for Azure via michaelstephensonuk
Software as a Service (SaaS)
DevOps
- CI/CD on Windows with the Azure DevOps Starter Kit (Video Tutorial) via Jay Gordon
- swapp – A CLI for managing App Settings in Azure Static Web Apps via Burke Holland
- Using Loops and Conditions in ARM Templates via samcogan.com
- Setting up Azure DevOps for Node.js Apps using Azure DevOps Project via Abhijit Jana
- Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
- Fix: Azure DevOps “An image does not exist locally with the tag” via Sean Killeen
Data
- Create an Azure AD protected API that calls into Cosmos DB with Azure Functions and .NET Core 3.1 via Christos Matskas
- Create sample data for Cosmos DB with .NET Core via Christos Matskas
Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Development
- Tip 266 – Build 2020 – Application Developer on-demand videos list via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Create an Azure AD protected API that calls into Cosmos DB with Azure Functions and .NET Core 3.1 via Christos Matskas
- Create sample data for Cosmos DB with .NET Core via Christos Matskas
- GCast 87: Logging to Azure Application Insights from a Java Spring Boot Application via David Giard
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)
- Kafka on Kubernetes, the Strimzi way! (Part 1) via Abhishek Gupta
- Using Azure Policy for Kubernetes via Daniel
- Modernizing your application with containers via Jay Gordon
- Skylines Summer Sessions – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via Pixel Robots.
- Use Azure RBAC to define access to kubeconfig in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via Pixel Robots.
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Create an Azure AD protected API that calls into Cosmos DB with Azure Functions and .NET Core 3.1 via Christos Matskas
- Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
- Azure Security Training Day via zigmax
Events
- Tip 266 – Build 2020 – Application Developer on-demand videos list via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Speaking about Azure Arc at the Azure Singapore Virtual Meetup via Thomas Maurer
- Microsoft Build, a Look Back via LINQ to Fail
XBox / xCloud / Gaming
- Xbox Series X Japanese launch is confirmed for this year via Lewis White
Other
- Tip: Using the latest TLS version with Azure Cache for Redis via Abhishek Gupta
- Introducing Live Video Analytics from Azure Media Services – Now in preview via Featured Blog
- Quickly Access all Shared Dashboard in Azure Portal via Abhijit Jana
- TF221122: An error occurred running job Work Item Tracking Warehouse Sync for team project collection via Dan Hellem
- Change in ourselves helps drive change in the world – a letter from Satya Nadella (cross-post) via Chris Pietschmann
- Automatically Export Azure Subscription Cost Analysis Report via Abhijit Jana
- In letter to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pledges $1.5 million to social justice organizations, real action via Surur
- Clone Dashboard in Azure Portal via Abhijit Jana
- Manage Views for Resources and Resource Groups in Azure Portal via Abhijit Jana
- Building an Azure Static Web App With GraphQL via Posts on LINQ to Fail
- Setting up a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure via Sivaramakrishnan Arumugam
- Building an Azure Static Web App with GraphQL via Aaron Powell
- Connecting Azure Hub-And-Spoke Architectures Together via AFinn
- Building an Azure Static Web App With GraphQL via LINQ to Fail
- Episode 72: 13 Reasons Why This Episode is Better Than the Last One via jbrodley
- Choose Default Mode for the Azure Portal menu via Abhijit Jana
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:- Live Video Analytics on Azure IoT Edge via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Indoor Maps with Azure Maps via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Stream 100 – Updating all dependencies of AzUrlShortener. Are we ready for v0.5? via Frank Boucher
- Stream 99 – Azure Url Shortener – PR Review, and experimentation for new feature via Frank Boucher
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 333 – TLS 1.0 Deprecation via The Azure Podcast
- Frans Bouma on .NET Data Access – Episode 92 via Azure DevOps Podcast
- Episode 180 – JSON All The Things! via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Testing Blazor Apps with Egil Hansen via .NET Rocks!
- 032 – Favorite announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
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Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:- Azure DevOps Services now simplifies Azure Artifacts integration with other services
- A new consolidated API version in Azure Monitor Logs is now available
- Azure Database for MySQL support for encryption at rest using customer-managed keys now in preview
- Data Factory adds management hub, inline datasets, and support for CDM in data flows
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 46—June 2020
- Minimal TLS version setting is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB
- Minimal TLS version setting is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Minimal TLS version setting is now available for Azure Database for MySQL
- HBv2-Series VMs now available in West US 2
- New Azure Virtual Machines with high-performance local SSD are now generally available
- Azure Dedicated Hosts now support additional Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure IoT Edge Moby engine security update for CVE-2020-13401
- Azure Shared Image Gallery—New features are now available in preview
- Azure Shared Image Gallery features are now available
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Chris Pietschmann
Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.
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