Azure Weekly
Issue #104 - 4th December 2016
Lee Stott announces Azure Batch Shipyard - a tool to help provision and execute batch-style Docker workloads on Azure Batch. Naeem Khedarun shares optimal HttpClient DNS settings for Azure Cloud Services and Traffic Manager.
Sercan Guler needs your help to shape Azure Storage client libraries and tools, while Cristy Gonzalez provides a Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer: November update and summer recap.
Dan Taylor shares the Application Insights diagnostics preview, and Rajani Janaki Ram talks about Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Server 2016.
Jon Gallant describes How To Deploy a GitHub Pages Site to an Azure Web App, while Massimo Crippa explains the BFF pattern with Azure API Management, and Gaurav Agarwal shares how to install R package in Azure Machine Learning, and the latest episode of Azure Friday covers DocumentDB Elastic Scale Partitioning.
Finally, in the identity space, the New AzureAD Access Panel is now Generally Available, and Jan Vidar Elven writes about Protecting Norwegian National ID Number with Azure Information Protection and RMS
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Gaurav Agarwal covers installing an R package in Azure Machine Learning.
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about the Azure DocumentDB Elastic Scale and partitioning.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) develops an NoSQL .NET Core using a local Azure DocumentDB emulator.
On the Azure blog, Liam Cavanagh (@liamca) shares the general availability of preview features and new APIs in Azure Search.
Rahul Venkatraj uveils a leaderboard to recognize the most valuable Database Systems contributors on MSDN.
🖥️ Compute
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) blogs about Azure Batch Shipyard -a tool to help provision and execute batch-style Docker workloads on Azure Batch
On MSDN, Premier Developer (@MicrosoftPSfD) writes about An Introduction to Azure Functions, on the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo blogs about Debugging Azure Functions in Our Local Box and Simon Waight discusses Azure Functions: Send email using SendGrid
On the Microsoft UK site (@MicrosoftUK), you can see how London's police officers are using Azure to fight crime and learn why Microsoft believes Azure is perfect for financial firms.
On TechNet, Christi Jastram covers getting started in infrastructure modernization.
On the Azure blog, Ashvin Sanghvi covers the digital transformation with SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances.
Shahid Aziz walks through creating a Linux VM on Azure with multiple NICs using PowerShell.
🎭 Identity
Jan Vidar Elven (@skillriver) writes about protecting Norwegian National ID numbers with Azure Information Protection and RMS.
On TechNet, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) reveals the new AzureAD Access Panel is generally available.
On the Kloud blog, David Minnelli (@dminnelli) covers using AuthoritativeNull in a Sync Rule in Azure AD Connect.
Richard Fennel (@richardfennell) explains what to if you have a problem adding an external AAD user to a directory-backed VSTS instance.
🔌 Integration
On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) tells you why latency to Azure Service Bus matters, explains how to defer message completion on Azure Service Bus and tries batch completion of messages on Azure Service Bus.
Richard Seroter (@rseroter) looks at using Concourse to continuously deliver a Service Bus-powered Java app to Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure.
Sean Feldman shows you how to bend message deduplication on Azure Service Bus to your will.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Dan Taylor discusses Application Insights Diagnostics Preview and Noa Kuperberg introduces the time picker in Application Insights Analytics
On MSDN, Ken R. Ward explains how to use Azure QuickStart Templates for Azure Government.
Leonardo Villar (@Villarleovillar) covers Azure Management Certificates and the Publishing Setting file with CSP Subscriptions.
On TechNet, Rhoderick Milne discusses Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager
Manoj Sehgal shows you how to encrypt an Azure Resource Manager IaaS VM using KEK.
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder - writes about 10 Security Issues You Can Fix with Azure Security Center and on the Azure blog, Yair Tor announces Integrated Vulnerability Assessment with Azure Security Center
Xiaoying Guo (@gxy001) announces Azure DevTest Labs support for creating environments with ARM templates.
🌐 Networking
On TechNet, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) walks through calculating the gateway subnet address space for Azure virtual networks.
Naeem Khedarun (@NaeemKhedarun) covers HttpClient DNS settings for Azure Cloud Services and Traffic Manager.
📦 Storage
Cristy Gonzalez shares a November update and summer recap for Azure Storage Explorer.
Sercan Guler needs your help to shape Azure Storage client libraries and tools.
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) explains how to migrate a Storage Account to Azure Resource Manager.
On the Azure blog, Rajani Janaki Ram talks about Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Server 2016.
On the Azure blog, Vivek Darera announces that StorSimple Data Transformation preview, Manu Aery describes Managing StorSimple virtual arrays in the new Azure portal and Anoob Backer walks through Transitioning your StorSimple Virtual Array to the new Azure portal
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Kalpit Singh explains how to detect backend API response latency using the APIM policy.
On the codit blog, Massimo Crippa (@mas_que_crippa) explores the BFF pattern with Azure API management.
On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about posture recognition with Kinect, Azure IoT, ML and WebVR.
Joshua Drew (@jdruid) looks into real-time communication to the Xamarin App via SignalR and Azure API App Services.
Jon Gallant (@jongallant) shows you how to deploy your GitHub pages site to an Azure Web App.
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) looks at the features of the Azure App Service Plan and covers session management in a Load Balancing environment Using Redis Cache.