Azure Weekly
Issue #111 - 12th February 2017
Starting off on a note of self-publicity - we're running a free 1 day workshop with the Azure App Service Black Belt team in the UK, at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on Feb 27th; lots of people are talking about "Digital Transformation", but are vague on the details of what this actually means, so we're going to examine it through the lens of the API Economy, Modern Data Platform & DevOps. and will be talking about what a Modern Cloud Business Architecture looks like and how you build it on Azure. Register using this link to book your place. If you can't make it, don't fret, as we're looking to record a version of the content that we can share online.
Casey Karst unveils SQL Data Warehouse now supports seamless integration with Azure Data Lake Store, and Harsha Kiran Kanna reveals the release of StorSimple Virtual Array Update 0.4.
Orsolya Gal covers automating Azure Analysis Services processing with Azure Functions, whilst Sam George explains the Azure IoT Hub Connector to Cassandra is now available.
Sarah Fender previews the new enhancements to the Azure Security Center, and Andres Juarez announces that Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are now available in UK.
Corey Sanders Announces the general availability of Managed Disks and larger Scale Sets, Venkat Gattamneni reveals new lower prices on Azure Virtual Machines and Blob Storage.
Finally, Adam Pedley takes a look at the Cognitive Services Language Understanding Intelligent Service.
🔎 Analytics
On Azure Mobile Help blog, Adam Pedley (@adpedley) covers the Language Understanding Intelligent Service.
On the Azure blog, Orsolya Gal covers automating Azure Analysis Services processing with Azure Functions.
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) discusses the Power BI Publish to Web Iframe stealing focus, covers Status Icons in Power BI Tables and talks about Power BI, Flow and PowerApps Webinars.
Premier Developer (@MicrosoftPSfD) shares a Power BI case study to end homelessness.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) discusses Power BI Custom Visuals and Gap Analysis.
🖥️ Compute
Venkat Gattamneni writes about new lower prices on Azure Virtual Machines and Blob Storage.
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) announces the general availability of Managed Disks and larger Scale Sets, Aaron Roney shares CLI support for Managed Disks, Asir Selvasingh talks about .NET Managed Disks and covers Java Managed Disks.
On MSDN, Mahesh M Kshirsagar writes about common workloads on Azure Service Fabric.
On TechNet, Paulo Marques walks through creating an Ubuntu Server 16.10 specialized image on Azure and deploying a new VM based on this image using Azure CLI 2.0.
On Channel 9, Olivia Klose (@OliviaKlose) talks about Azure Compute for Games and Stacey Haffner covers getting started with SadConsole.
On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) reveals Cisco UCS is to Join Microsoft's Azure Stack Roster.
🛠️ Developer Tools
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) shows you how to provision AWS Resources with a VSTS release pipeline.
On the .NET Curry blog, Gouri Sohoni talks about Service Hooks Integration with VSTS and Azure Functions.
🔌 Integration
Herve Roggero (@hroggero) introduces the Azure Key Vault.
On the Azure blog, Sarah Fender (@sarahfender) previews the new enhancements to the Azure Security Center.
On TechNet, Ian Farr blogs about enabling and disabling MFA on an Azure AD Admin Account.
Bill Kral explains how to convert a managed domain in Azure AD to a Federated Domain using ADFS for on-premises authentication.
Tim Macaulay describes how to deprovision an Azure AD CS object.
💡 Internet of Things
On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about an IoT virtual bootcamp.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) pits the IoT Hub against the Event Hub.
On the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) reveals the Azure IoT Hub Connector to Cassandra is now available.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Richard Hay shares the news that Microsoft offers Intellectual Property Protection for Azure Cloud customers.
On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces that Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are now available in UK.
On TechNet, Lynne Taggart (@MSFTZombie) discusses the Microsoft System Center 2016 Management Pack for Azure.
On MSDN, Mohamed Ahmed Baioumy explains how to automate Export Azure SQL DB to blob storage.
Shannon Gowen explains Azure has achieved CSA STAR Certification.
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) explains what to do if your Azure Traffic Manager probe is degraded due to 401 from Azure Web App.
On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang announces custom domain HTTPS support with Azure CDN.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Sachin C Sheth explains how to uncover insights rapidly from petabytes of data in Azure Data Lake Store with SQL Data Warehouse PolyBase support.
On the Azure blog, Arnaud Comet announces the DocumentDB entry point for partitioned collections is now 75% cheaper and Rimma Nehme writes about 10 GitHub samples with DocumentDB you shouldn't miss.
Casey Karst unveils SQL Data Warehouse now supports seamless integration with Azure Data Lake Store.
Ron Matchoro announces that Azure SQL Database threat detection general availability is coming in April 2017.
Harsha Kiran Kanna reveals the release of StorSimple Virtual Array Update 0.4.
Murali K Keloth reveals StorSimple Virtual Array is available for Cloud Solutions Provider partners.
Kartik P V R covers instant file recovery from the Cloud using Azure Backup.
🔗 Web
Karan Singh blogs about automating Application restart using Web Job.
On the codeit blog, Massimo Crippa (@mas_que_crippa) discusses Azure API Management, Logic Apps and ARM.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains how to enable logging for your Hybrid Connection Manager.