Azure Weekly

The Cortana Intelligence And ML Blog Team talks about Moving eBird, the citizen science project, to the Azure Cloud.

On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) shares Christian Wade's preview of Azure Analysis Services. 

On MSDN, Amit Banerjee (@banerjeeamit) provides a walkthrough of Loan Classification using SQL Server 2016 R Services. 

Patrick El-Azem (@netgain) explains how to get started with Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL DB.

Holger Linke joins tables from different Azure SQL Databases.

James Serra (@JamesSerra) explains how to create quick queries with SSAS in Azure.

On Channel 9, Kirill Gavrylyuk (@kirillg_msft) talks about Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB developers. 

On TechNet, Karen Moen discusses using Power BI with Dynamics 365.On the Tallan blog, Iu-Wei Sze talks about adding Datasets using the Power BI API.

On the Azure Podcast (@AzurePodcast), there's a talk on the Service Fabric way. 

On MSDN, Jimmy Wong talks about running SSIS on Azure VM IaaS and doing more with less money, and John Savill askis if all Azure VMs in a bandwidth category have the same bandwidth.

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) describes how to create an Azure Function App to Simultaneously start-stop all Virtual Machines in a Resource Group. 

On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) asks if Azure Functions over Web API are beneficial, and on TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio talks about storage migration from Google Cloud to Azure using Azure Functions. 

On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht introduces SAP HANA on Azure.

On MSDN, Chris Clayton covers using Key Vault secrets in PowerShell and discusses creating a Key Encrypting Key.

Rohit Minni blogs about encryption using the Azure Key Vault. 

MSDN, John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) writes about Service Bus, .NET Standard, and Open Source

On MSDN, Pete Rodriguez walks through moving the Azure temporary disk to a different drive letter on Windows Server and explains how to install SQL Server onto an Azure VM using PowerShell DSC. 

On MSDN, saxenark looks into MyOrder Insights from Application Insights and Ross Smith walks through retrieving a distinct count of PageViews in Application Insights using parseurl. 

Thomas W Shinder explains how to get hands-on experience with OMS Security with OMS Suite Experience Center.

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) covers listing all RBAC permissions for all resources in Azure. 

On the Azure blog, Alice Rison announces Microsoft Azure achieves HITRUST CSF Certification.

On MSDN, Julia Jauß writes about a self-contained Azure Media Service (AMS) end-to-end scenario with dynamic AES128 encryption

On the Azure Blog, Dwyane George writes about the Azure Media Services Video Subclipper open-source release

Microsoft Reporter writes that Microsoft now offers private internet connections to its UK data centres

Jeff Fisher (@jeffrey_fisher) highlights KEMP Partner Spotlight on Azure Networking Fridays

On MSDN, Brian Christopher Harrison (@briancharrison) covers getting started with Azure's Backup Vaults & Policies.

Sarah Weldon announces features for Backup and Site Recovery Services OMS Suite with Resource Manager.

On the Azure blog, Poornima Natarajan talks about protecting and recovering Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp using Azure Site Recovery. 

On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains how to enable System.Net tracing on the Azure App Service.

Gabe Shapiro covers Umbraco logging in Azure App Service, talks about using the Azure ARM SDK for Node to get Site Metrics for your App Service and shares samples for using the App Service Kudu REST API to programmatically manage files in your site.

Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about the Azure IoT Hub and message priority.

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) explains how to invoke Azure LogicApp over HTTPS with HTTP triggers.

Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about batches and batches of Bots.