Azure Weekly

On TechNet, Sam McNeill describes how to keep your data fresh with PowerBI gateways. 

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) blogs about monitoring enterprise agreement Azure spend with Power BI.

On Channel 9, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) talks about Azure Analysis Services and Christian Wade talks about Azure Analysis Services programmability and automation.

On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) talks about automated partition management with Azure Analysis Services. 

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) reveals Cloud Foundry is generally available on Azure.

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to understand default metrics for Azure IaaS VMs.

On the Azure blog, Jose Miguel Parrella announces the availability of Clear Linux OS in the Azure Marketplace.

Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) blogs about configuring static IP addresses in VMs. 

On MSDN, Sudhir Rawat (@rawatsudhir) walks through building chat assistance using Q&A Maker and Xamarin. 

Also on MSDN, Ujjwal Patel explains what to do if automated backups configuration fails when configured from Azure portal.

On MSDN, Rajat Singhal covers embedding Power BI peports using REST APIs and silent authentication via Azure Active Directory.

Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) writes about the new Deployment Kit for a DirSync server in Azure.

On the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) discusses Azure Service Bus messaging on-premises futures. 

Vincent-Philippe Lauzon covers joining an ARM Linux VM to AAD Domain Services.

On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) introduces the MultiProducerConcurrentConsumer for Azure Service Bus message completion.

On MSDN, Zhong Chen covers processing configurable threshold based rules in Azure Stream Analytics. 

On Channel 9, Luis Valencia (@levalencia) asks how cold is it, right now?

On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller talks about visualizing Azure Automation job information in Microsoft OMS, and Mick Monk walks through deploying to Azure with ARM templates.

On TechNet, Rohit Minni (@rohit_minni) blogs about remoting into Azure ARM Virtual Machines using Powershell.

On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez reveals Azure Automation is available in UK and West Central US regions.

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) covers deploying Functions with ARM templates and inline code.

On the Unigma site, Kirill Bensonoff (@prankstr25) blogs about billing for Azure CSP. 

On MSDN, Paige Liu discusses setting up SSH tunnels to endpoints in Azure VNet from Windows. 

On the Perficient blog, Brian Ball discusses Adobe Experience Manager on Azure (Virtual Networks). 

On the endjin blog, Alice Waddicor discusses creating a PowerBI report with DirectQuery and multiple SQL Database sources using Elastic Query.

On MSDN, Jose M Jurado explains how to obtain the deadlocks of your Azure SQL Database.

Kalai Elumalai asks if usability and security is an oxymoron. 

Pradeep Adiga (@PradeepAdiga) explains how to automate SQL server backup file removal/deletion from Azure blob storage.

On TechNet, Saad Mahmood (@saadmeh) covers what to do if there's no CodeIgniter template on Azure. 

On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about ASP.Net Web API and Alexa skills.

On Opsgility, Chris Pietschmann (@crpietschmann) writes about easily Managing Azure Web App Connection Strings using PowerShell.

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) covers Azure Functions custom logging with Application Insights.

On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) talks about testing precompiled Azure Functions. 

On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) discusses how Microsoft pitches Blockchain to help troubled retail supply chains. 

Michael S. Collier (@MichaelCollier) explains the need for Office.js.