Azure Weekly

On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) explains how to tank your Power BI performance.

Devin Knight (@knight_devin) shares a Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 36 – Box and Whiskers). 

On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) talks about connecting Power BI to an Azure Analysis Services server.

Xiaoyong Zhu explains how to distribute Deep Learning on HDInsight with Caffe on Spark. 

On the Azure blog, Ashish Makadia (@_ashmaka) discusses Azure Search, Dynamics 365 and multitenancy at scale. 

On MSDN, Shijimol AK talks about OS and Data disk encryption of Azure IaaS Windows VMs. 

John Bruno announces that Microsoft Azure Germany expands services and boosts compliance.

Shankar Sivadasan discusses the new Azure Marketplace experience. 

On Channel 9, Kirill Gavrylyuk (@kirillg_msft) talks about DocumentDB for Xamarin developers. 

On the Azure blog, Adam Pickersgill talks about Azure invoices emailed direct to your inbox. 

Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) talks about what's brewing in Visual Studio Team Services. 

On TechNet, Chirag Harendra says the Innovate IT camps are back. 

Alex Bennett writes about why developers need Microsoft Azure skills in 2017.

On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) explains why the Duke of York wants UK kids to have the best digital skills in the world, and how Microsoft Azure is helping him.

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks if an Azure co-administrator has rights over Azure AD.

Vincent-Philippe Lauzon covers authenticating to Azure AD non-interactively, blogs about using the Microsoft Graph API to interact with Azure AD and writes about automating Azure AD.

Also on MSDN, Wen-Jun Zhang explains why SharePoint WorkflowQuotaExceededException is caused by Service Bus deferred messages.

On MSDN, Dr Kenji Takeda (@ktakeda1) shares a cloud computing guide for researchers, and Azure IoT for Croke Park Smart Stadium.

Sascha Corti (@TechPreacher) looks at how Chip-ing uses an Azure solution to keep track of your golf ball while improving your play. 

On the Azure blog, Chipalo Street explains how to connect industrial assets with ProSoft, powered by the Azure IoT Gateway SDK.

John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) reveals Event Hubs .NET Standard client is now generally available.

Krishna Mamidipaka announces that new features in Azure Stream Analytics, including geospatial functions, custom code and lots more.

On TechNet, Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) talks about his PowerShell Azure Functions lessons learned. 

On the Azure blog, Jan Kalis (@MeetJKalis) walks through understanding Azure troubleshooting and support. 

Yochanan Rachamim walks through using your SQLPackage to import or export Azure SQL DB.

On the Azure blog, Ninar Nuemah (@NinarNuemah) unveils the SQL Database Query Editor is available in Azure Portal.

Shivani Gupta blogs about how SQL Server 2016 innovations power Azure SQL Data Warehouse to deliver faster insights.

Ninar Nuemah (@NinarNuemah) discusses enhanced automated backup for SQL Server 2016 in Azure Virtual Machines.

Anoob Backer discusses expanded subscription offers for StorSimple Virtual Array.

On TechNet, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) writes about Azure Storage Encryption at Rest.

On MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) shows you how to determine the outbound IP addresses of your Azure App Service and how to get a full memory dump in your Azure App Service.

On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) writes about a Visual Studio tool for Azure Functions.