Azure Weekly
Issue #105 - 25th December 2016
This week on the endjin blog, Richard Kerslake talks about t-shirt sizing and optional resources in advanced Azure Resource Manager template patterns.
On the Azure blog, Ye Gu discusses Azure Redis Cache diagnostic improvements, and Sam George talks about Kafka Connect for Azure IoT Hub.
Borko Novakovic announces that Query Store ON is the new default for Azure SQL Database, while Dwyane George shares Telemetry Platform Features in Azure Media Services.
Adarsh Solanki reveals there's Japanese support, punctuation improvements and no more time limits in Azure Media Indexer 2, and Josh Caplan covers creating your first data model in Azure Analysis Services.
🔎 Analytics
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes about One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R, walks through Visualizing taxi trips between NYC neighborhoods with Spark and Microsoft R Server, explains How the State of Indiana uses R and Azure to forecast employment, blogs about Predicting flu deaths with R and writes about Mixed Integer Programming in R with the ompr package
- On the Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) discusses SQL SERVER – Performance Analysis of Backup to Azure
- On MSDN, 365blog blogs about Relevance Search is now available in Dynamics 365 online
- Also on MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) blogs about Azure Support Academy Spanish: SQL Server, Next Station Azure
- Also on MSDN, sajibmahmood explains how to Spark Debugging on HDInsight 101
- On TechNet, Azure Blog Japan covers Azure DocumentDB The Walking Dead: No Mans Land 1
- Also on TechNet, J.C. Hornbeck talks about Support Tip: WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard task Delete computers that have not contacted the server in 30 days or more fails with connection error
- Also on TechNet, Jaliya Udagedara describes TNWiki Article Spotlight – SQL Azure Database: Understanding Transactional Replication Step by Step
- On Channel 9, AUTHOR talks about Tuesdays with Corey: Internal use of Azure Bot Framework to improve support engineering Tuesdays With Corey
- Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman Rob Caron talks about Introducing Azure Analysis Services Azure Friday
- Also on Channel 9, Scott Klein (@SQLScott) talks about Interactive Spark on Azure Data Exposed
- On the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Erika Morphy covers Quantifind's Signum Impact Measures ROI of Campaigns, Sponsorships
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Joanna Schloss explains how to Let's Resolve the Data Analytics Conflict in 2017
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Jos Villacis explains How Analytics and BI Shaped the Modern Organization
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Ryan Phelan writes about Those 'Death of Email' Stories Consider Them Fake News
- On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR covers Using a SQL Server Explain Plan to View Cached Query Plan Parameters in Management Studio, covers Use a CrossJoin to Calculate Multiple Pearson Correlation Coefficients in T-SQL, blogs about Run SQL Server vNext CTP1 as a Docker Container on a Mac, talks about Overview of Intelligence Pillar in the Cortana Intelligence Suite, explains how to Generate T-SQL Scripts for all SQL Server Databases and all Objects using PowerShell, explains how to Does updating SQL Server statistics cause blocking, describes Data Sampling in SQL Server Integration Services and walks through Pointing a SQL Server Linked Server to Different Data Sources
- On the .NET Curry blog, Vikram Pendse (@VikramPendse) describes Azure Elastic Database Pools for SaaS Applications
- On The R-Bloggers site, Daniel Lakens writes about Why Type 1 errors are more important than Type 2 errors if you care about evidence
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Datacamp Blog writes about An Interview With David Robinson, Data Scientist at Stack Overflow and writes about New Course: Data Visualization in R
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, David Smith (@revodavid) writes about One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R, describes Visualizing taxi trips between NYC neighborhoods with Spark and Microsoft R Server, describes How the State of Indiana uses R and Azure to forecast employment, covers Predicting flu deaths with R and writes about Mixed Integer Programming in R with the ompr package
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Florian Teschner describes Image description with Microsofts Cognitive Services and R
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Forester writes about Recursively search for text in R scripts.
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Gavin L. Simpson writes about Simultaneous intervals for smooths revisited and talks about Pangaea and R and open palaeo data
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, John Mount talks about The Case For Using - In R, talks about magrittrs Doppelgnger and writes about helplet, packagereplyr
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Jonathan Regenstein writes about Reproducible Finance with R: Pulling and Displaying ETF Data and writes about Reproducible Finance with R: A Shiny ETF Map
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Joshua Kunst writes about interactive and styled middle earth map
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Liang-Cheng Zhang describes Learning how to extend RStudio by reading books
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Mattdancho.com - Articles discusses Speed Up Your Code: Parallel Processing with multidplyr
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Nicole Radziwill describes Taking a Subset of a Data Frame in R
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Peter&039s Stats Stuff - R covers Air quality in Indian cities
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, R on Guangchuang Yu blogs about ggtree version of plotTree
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Scott Stoltzman covers Seinfeld Characters – A Post About Nothing
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Shirin&039s Playground describes How to build a Shiny app for disease- & trait-associated locations of the human genome
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Tal Galili discusses R Jobs for R users – 17 jobs from around the world 2016-12-14
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, Thinking Inside The Box writes about anytime 0.1.2: Another bugfix and covers nanotime 0.0.1: New package for Nanosecond Resolution Time for R
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, tomaztsql blogs about R graphs and tables in Power BI Desktop
- On the Forbes site, Julian Mitchell Contributor writes about Ali Shaheed Talks 'We Got It From Here', Longevity And The Power Of Collaboration
- On the Azure blog, Aravind Ramachandran (@arkramac) announces that Introducing Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB
- Also on the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) writes about Latest update of Azure Analysis Services preview brings scale up and down
🖥️ Compute
- On MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) covers Service Fabric node fails to read DNS conf and fix
- Also on MSDN, markga talks about Changing VM Sizes in Azure
- On TechNet, Jef King covers Cloud4Good: Extracting Data from the Twitter API through Azure Functions
- Also on TechNet, Jesper Osgaard talks about Email Engagement in Dynamics 365 CRM
- Also on TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko talks about N-series – first Azure VMs with GPU
- Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) discusses The Cloud tradeoff from a business quality attribute perspective.
🎭 Identity
- On MSDN, Kalpit Singh describes How to protect an API in Azure APIM using Azure Active Directory.
- Also on MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) blogs about Azure Batch: Server failed to authenticate the request
- On TechNet, Chad Cox describes Powershell: Copy ObjectGuid to MS-DS-ConsistencyGiud
- Also on TechNet, Issei Onogawa writes about 2016/12/13
- Also on TechNet, Preston K. Parsard explains how to Convert a Federated Domain in Azure AD to Managed and Use Password Sync – Step by Step
- Also on TechNet, Regan Murphy talks about Use PowerShell & azcopy to copy files from one Azure Storage account to another
- Also on TechNet, TechNet covers Exchange Server 2013
- On the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Joshua Pittman describes How to Create an Account-Based Sales Strategy in 5 Easy Steps
- John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) describes Force synchronization with Azure AD Connect
- On the Tallan blog, Jason Zandri talks about Introduction to Windows Server Active Directory Domain Services and Active Directory Health
- Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) blogs about Service Principals in Microsoft Azure
🔌 Integration
- On MSDN, KayUnkroth talks about Introducing a Modern Get Data Experience for SQL Server vNext on Windows CTP 1.1 for Analysis Services
- Also on MSDN, Lee Stott describes Microsoft Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform product that enables organisations to deliver Azure services from their own datacenter
- On TechNet, Issei Onogawa writes about 2016/12/14
- On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) blogs about Batch completion with multiple receivers on Azure Service Bus and writes about Complete messages where they came from with Azure Service Bus
- On the Azure blog, Harsha Kiran Kanna announces that StorSimple as a Backup Target
- Also on the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo explains how to Enhanced loading, monitoring, and troubleshooting experience for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Chris Webb (@Technitrain) blogs about Power BI Model Size Bloat And Auto Date/Time Tables
- On MSDN, Bruno Terkaly (@BrunoTerkaly) writes about My Take on an Azure Open Source Cross-Platform DevOps Toolkit–Part 2
- Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) talks about Holiday giving by the Power BI Community
- Also on MSDN, FreddyDK writes about So, you want to import your Office 365 users, huh
- Also on MSDN, IsaiahWilliams talks about Reseller Storefront
- Also on MSDN, James Tabor writes about Hello World
- Also on MSDN, John Molesky Azure writes 'Azure Blueprint is now available for the FedRAMP High Baseline'
- Also on MSDN, Samuel Lester - describes Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 2 – LinkedIn Connections, blogs about Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 3 – Create your own Pinterest Viewer, covers Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 4 – Map of Countries Visited, covers Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 5 – Amazon.com Order History Dashboard, discusses Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 6 – Meetup.com Dashboard and discusses Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 7 – Disk Usage Dashboard
- Also on MSDN, Teju Shyamsundar covers Configuration Manager 1610 – Cloud Management Gateway Setup guide
- Also on MSDN, Thomas W Shinder - blogs about Tom Shinder Discusses Cloud Security at CloudAdminCon 2016, covers Boost Azure Security Center with Integrated Vulnerability Assessment and explains how to Get Threat Intelligence Reports with Azure Security Center
- Also on MSDN, Varsha G writes about Hello world Welcome to AzureCAT Guidance
- On the Perficient blog, George Chang describes Sitecore 8.2u1 Azure Resource Manager Templates
- On TechNet, Florian Eiden Dpsa blogs about Relationships in Power BI: Fixing One of the columns must have unique values error message
- Also on TechNet, HostingBlog writes about This month on Cloud Elevate: Jump-start your cloud business with Microsoft Azure
- Also on TechNet, Terry Stein (@TerryStein_MSFT) covers Project LeadGen–Pricing and Designing Azure Solutions
- Also on TechNet, the Enterprise Mobility + Security Team writes about Conditional Access now in the new Azure portal
- On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about Last Week on Channel 9: December 12th - December 18th, 2016
- Also on Channel 9, Haishi Bai Chris Risner talks about Episode 221: Azure CLI with Jason Shaver Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
- On the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Anita Brearton writes about 5 Challenges Marketers Must Face in 2017
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Barry Schaeffer writes about 4 Basic Steps to Getting Results From Tech Investments
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Claudine Bianchi delves into Customer Expectations vs. Customer Service: A Grand Canyon-Sized Gap
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Cmswire Staff describes Introducing Our New Digital Workplace Experience Conference, More News
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com David Roe explains how to What's the Catalyst for True Digital Transformation, describes Google Revises Gmail Scanning Policy, More News, blogs about Nuxeo's LTS 2016 Release Promises to Unlock the Value of Digital Assets and discusses Europeans Love Slack, Office 365, Bitglass Reports
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Dom Nicastro covers Lionbridge to Go Private in $360M Deal With H.I.G Capital, talks about Pitcher, Xero, Boxyn: Whats in a Name, covers Drive Digital Transformation With a Hyperscale Platform, blogs about DNN Evoq 9 Embraces a Decoupled, Headless Architecture and covers CMSWire's DX Summit: Tahzoo Digital Artist Captures a Unique View of the Conference
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Emily Kolvitz writes about 10 Gift Ideas for the DAM Manager in Your Life
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Erika Morphy discusses Salesforce LiveMessage Adds 2-Way Messaging to Service Cloud
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Frank Palermo discusses IBM Watson Points the Way to Our Cognitive Business Future
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Gerry McGovern writes about Without Fairness, Societies Will Fail
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Gregory Zelfond writes about 5 Reasons to Love the New Microsoft Office 365 Delve
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Ivan Seselj explains how to Make 2017 the Year You Master Process Management
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Kaya Ismail writes about 2016 Was a Very Good Year ... For WCM and DX Platforms and blogs about Governor: A Cloud-Based CMS Designed for Developers
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Laurence Hart covers Ace the RFP Process Now or Risk Repeating in a Year
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Lorraine Schumacher covers Call Center Employees: The Superheroes of Customer Experience
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Martin White writes about Why People Search: 3 Use Cases
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Noreen Seebacher writes about Save the Date for Digital Workplace Experience, Our Unique New Conference DWEXP17 and explains how to Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Computer Programmers
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Petr Passinger blogs about HR Managers: Boost Hiring Processes With These Digital Marketing Tips
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Pierre DeBois writes about When Should Analytic Software Be Replaced
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Sam Marshall writes about 7 Foolproof Ways to Make Your Meeting Rooms Suck
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Shana Smith writes about Face-to-Face Meetings Have Big Benefits: Here Are Some to Attend Dec. 14, 2016 to Jan. 31, 2017
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Tim Howell explains How to Make User Generated Content Work When Youre Not Coca-Cola
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Virginia Backaitis explains how to SAP Acquires Abakus to Boost Hybris Chops, describes Microsoft, IBM, Jive, Salesforce Lead Forrester's Enterprise Collaboration Wave and writes about Free of Teradata, Aprimo Is Back and Poised for Growth
- Also on the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Wiebke Reile explains how to Captivate Your Customers With an Amazing E-Commerce Site
- On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR blogs about Using Azure to store and process large amounts of SQL data, explains how to Automate field selection from SSAS Tabular Models in Power View reports and blogs about Auditing and Improving Security with SQL Secure
- On The R-Bloggers site, Derek Jones writes about Automatically generated join-the-dots images
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, hrbrmstr talks about Minding the zookeeper with R
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, tobias discusses ShinyProxy 0.8.0
- John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) covers Resource: Microsoft Azure Cloud Adoption Test Lab Guides
- On the Forbes site, Alan Ohnsman Forbes Staff covers Google Spins Off Self-Driving Car Unit As 'Waymo'
- Also on the Forbes site, Ollie Barder Contributor discusses 'Valkyria: Azure Revolution' Is Coming Westward With A Name Change And A New Platform
- Also on the Forbes site, Robb Mandelbaum Contributor writes about Two Firms Stymied By The I.R.S. One Went To Market. The Other, To Congress
- Tim Anderson (@timanderson) writes about Amazon Web Services opens London data centers
- On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces that Several New Azure Services now available in UK
- Also on the Azure blog, David Molnar covers Scaling Up Project Springfield using Azure
🎬 Media
- On the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com Steve Bynghall blogs about Bringing Intranet Radio out From the Shadows
- Jon Gallant (@jongallant) talks about Power BI Custom Visual Tip: How to Render an SVG or PNG
- On the Azure blog, Dwyane George announces that Azure Media Services Video Subclipper open-source release
🌐 Networking
- On TechNet, Christi Jastram talks about Start Your Technical Journey for Data Platform Modernization
- Also on TechNet, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) writes about Ten new training sessions on Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365
- On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR explains how to Configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group on a Multi-Subnet Cluster
- On the Kemp Technologies blog, Richard Hicks (@richardhicks) describes DirectAccess Load Balancing in the Cloud
- Rahul Gangwar writes about What are Networks
- On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) talks about Microsoft now offers private connections to its UK data centres
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Nitin Soneji announces Exclude Disk Support for Hyper-V VMs with ASR
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) talks about Azure File Storage Add Directory and Upload Files, blogs about Azure Storage – File Share – Introduction and explains how to Mount Azure File Share from an On Premise Virtual Machine
🔗 Web
- On the Azure podcast, AUTHOR describes Episode 157 - Partner Spotlight - Stackify
- On MSDN, Andrew Robertson - Edu writes about Why Azure is the default choice for Microsoft in Education partner Capita SIMS
- Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) discusses Capture and Analyze Brain Waves using Azure, Part 2
- Also on MSDN, Bruno Terkaly (@BrunoTerkaly) writes about My Take on an Azure Open Source Cross-Platform DevOps Toolkit
- Also on MSDN, the Onecode Team shares a Sample Of Dec. 13 How to embed a Power BI report into a web page by Javascript
- On TechNet, Sharon J Lee writes about Three resources to help you get started with Xamarin and Microsoft Azure
- On Channel 9, Dmitry Lyalin Robert Green talks about Exploring our newest sample app, BikeSharing360 Visual Studio Toolbox
- Also on Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about Dial into Debugging with the Surface Dial
- Chris Risner (@chrisrisner) discusses Getting Realm to Build Xamarin Apps with VSTS
- On the CMS Wire site, Prcmswire.com David Roe writes about Why Content Analytics Still Hasn't Hit the Big Time
- Jon Gallant (@jongallant) covers Introducing Azure IoT Hub Routes - A new feature that allows you to route messages to alternate endpoints
- On the .NET Curry blog, Mahesh Sabnis (@maheshdotnet) discusses Using Connected Services in Visual Studio with ASP.NET Core and Azure Storage
- On The R-Bloggers site, Markus Gesmann discusses R in Insurance 2017
- Also on The R-Bloggers site, MeanMean discusses The Statisticians Apprentice: An Introduction to the SWP Operator
- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) blogs about Connecting my Particle Photon Internet of Things device to the Azure IoT Hub
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Azure Functions integration with Visual Studio and CI, talks about Azure Functions - Features Review and talks about IoT Home Project Part 1 - Initial Setup
- On the Azure blog, Frank Weigel (@FrankWeigel) writes about New Azure Logic Apps innovation – general availability of cloud-based Enterprise Integration Pack
- Also on the Azure blog, Nicole Berdy (@nberdy) discusses Azure IoT Hub message routing dramatically simplifies IoT solution development