Azure Weekly
Issue #107 - 15th January 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Jan Engelsberg shares how Azure SQL Database is increasing read and write performance and Jenny Jiang tells you the December updates for HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse.
Dwyane George announces the Azure Media Services Live Monitoring Dashboard open-source release, while Olivier Martin brings you the Winter 2017 edition of Azure Networking Fridays.
Sarah Fender tells you how Azure Security Center has extended support for Windows Server 2016, and Tom Keane announces Microsoft Azure Government is the first commercial cloud to achieve DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization, and general availability of DoD Regions.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Premier Developer (@MicrosoftPSfD) covers parsing folders in Power BI and adding the folder name as a column in the Power Query.
Samuel Lester (@SQLSamLester) talks about the Power BI Parameter Error – Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
Silviu Guea shows you how to achieve exactly-once delivery for SQL output.
On Channel 9, Scott Klein (@SQLScott) talks about HDInsight compliance.
On the Azure blog, Jenny Jiang tells you the December updates for HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Larry Wall blogs about securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster with Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal.
The Service Fabric Team talk about OS patching for VMs running Service Fabric.
Lee Stott covers GPU for DataScience and academic activities such as cloud rendering.
On Channel 9, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) explains Kubernetes support in Azure Container Services.
On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) reveals Citrix have launched a Windows 10 Service on Microsoft's Azure Cloud.
On the Azure blog, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) looks into designing Azure infrastructure services to host a multi-tier LOB application.
Yunus Mohammed discusses Azure Virtual Machine Internals, part 1 and part 2.
On CloudRac.es, Ed Elliott compares the Azure F and H Series Virtual Machines.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On MSDN, Rosana Araya explains what to do if you're unable to connect Visual Studio to the Azure subscription for Development.
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about the coolness of Visual Studio Azure Functions Tools.
Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) discusses Roslynator and Roslynator Refactorings for Visual Studio 2017.
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) writes about real time telemetry for your BoT using Application Insights.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Puneet Ghanshani (@ganshani) covers Azure AAD B2C integration with web and mobile platforms.
On TechNet, Rohit Minni (@rohit_minni) talks about authenticating to services by storing credentials in Azure Key Vault.
On MSDN, Brian Christopher Harrison (@briancharrison) talks about backing up VMs
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, formulahendry (@formulahendry) writes about awesome Azure IoT.
On the Azure blog, Cenk Dingiloglu announces new Auto-Scaling standard streaming endpoint and enhanced Azure CDN integration.
Dwyane George announces the Azure Media Services Live Monitoring Dashboard open-source release.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Sergey Babkin describes how to upload a machine cert to Azure.
Steven Edouard (@sedouard) explains how to schedule Azure VM startup and shutdown.
On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko writes about quickly deploying RDS 2016 in Azure.
On the Azure blog, Sarah Fender (@sarahfender) tells you how Azure Security Center has extended support for Windows Server 2016.
Tom Keane announces Microsoft Azure Government is the first commercial cloud to achieve DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization, and general availability of DoD Regions.
Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) covers installing OMS agent with Powershell.
🌐 Networking
On the Azure blog, Olivier Martin brings you the Winter 2017 edition of Azure Networking Fridays.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Meet Bhagdev shares a preview of ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux.
Orsolya Gal talks about the ARM template and turning on blob auditing.
Raghda Aldeen walks through accessing Azure SQL DB from Azure VM using a static Public IP adress.
Umachandar Jayachandran blogs about why SQL Server R Services were built.
On the Azure blog, Jan Engelsberg shares how Azure SQL Database is increasing read and write performance.
Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) unveils Azure Analysis Services are now available in Southeast Asia and East US 2.
On the Azure blog, Lutful Khandker discusses SoftNAS Cloud on Azure, and Cloud NAS Storage made easy.
Sercan Guler covers the Storage Queues new feature, Pop-Receipt on Add Message and writes about larger block blobs, incremental copy, and more.
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) blogs about configuring security using a shared access signature.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) discusses sending email from an Azure App Service using an O365 SMTP server.
Richard Seroter (@rseroter) discusses using Azure API Management with Cloud Foundry.
Malte Lantin (@MalteLantin) explains how to create you first ASP.NET Core App and host it in a Linux Docker container on Microsoft Azure: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) talks about a holistic approach to DevOps with Azure Functions.