Azure Weekly
Issue #103 - 27th November 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Jon Beck reveals the new A_v2-Series VM sizes and Sam George introducies the Azure IoT Hub IP Filter.
Sarvashrestha Paliwal discusses building micro-service architecture based cloud applications on Azure, whilst Jos de Bruijn writes about the in-memory OLTP in the Azure SQL Database.
Anil Murching announces a new pricing model for encoding with Azure Media Services is coming in January 2017, and Manling Zhang explores token authentication with Azure CDN.
Finally, Microsoft Cognitive Services now available in portal.azure.com and the Azure Datamarket is closing.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) unveils Microsoft Cognitive Services are now available in portal.azure.com.
On TechNet, Liliam Cristiman queries Data Store size cleanup retention.
On the Azure blog, Jos de Bruijn (@jdebruijn) writes about the in-memory OLTP in the Azure SQL Database.
On the Tallan blog, Lu Li talks about Azure ML tips and tricks.
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) invites you to a Power BI webinar on November 29th.
Mike Martin (@techmike2kx) discusses the end of Azure Datamarket.
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Jon Beck announces that New Av2-Series VM sizes and Corey Sanders writes about the 4 TB for SAP HANA, Single-Instance SLA and Hybrid Use Benefit Images
On Channel 9, Josh Lane (@jplane) explores serverless computing on Azure.
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo manages dependencies in Azure Functions.
On MSDN, Mahesh M Kshirsagar discusses choosing between Azure Container Service, Azure Service Fabric and Azure Functions.
Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) explains how to specify VNet details when creating New-AzureBatchPool compute nodes.
Tom Hollander covers dumping details of Azure Virtual Machines to CSV/Excel.
🎭 Identity
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks if accounts replicate from on-premises to Azure AD, are they limited to 16 character passwords and writes about using an Azure AD account with Cortana in Windows 10 Anniversary.
On the Insider Technologies blog, Silvio Di Benedetto talks about Azure AD Connect version 1.1.343.0.
🔌 Integration
James van Den Berg looks into the Microsoft AzureStack documentation website for Azure in your Datacenter Cloud.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Xiaoying Guo (@gxy001) announces that auto-shutdown for VMs using Azure Resource Manager and on MSDN, Lee Stott talks about saving your Azure $ by auto shutting down your services
Thomas W Shinder shares Azure IaaS security best practices, a Security Center podcast with Sarah Fender and a tip on Azure Security Center email alerts.
Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) shows you how to find the template code of an Azure Resource and introduces an Azure Resource Manager training video series.
Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) discusses using the Azure ARM REST API and shows an end to end example (part 2).
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Anil Murching reveals a new pricing model for encoding with Azure Media Services is coming in January 2017.
On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang explores token authentication with Azure CDN.
🌐 Networking
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) walks through creating a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service.
Sarvashrestha Paliwal discusses building micro-service architecture based cloud applications on Azure.
Kaushal Kumar Panday talks about connecting to the Kudu site of a specific instance.
Rakesh Vemula explains publishing a Web App to Azure via Visual Studio.
On Channel 9, Kevin Lam (@kevinlam_msft) talks about Logic Apps management and tooling.
On the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) introducies the Azure IoT Hub IP Filter, writes about general availability and enhancements for Azure IoT Hub device management, and explains how to connect your things with the Azure IoT Gateway SDK.
Richard Fennel (@richardfennell) tells you why there are now no excuses for not using Continuous Delivery from VSTS for Azure Web Apps.