Azure Weekly
Issue #112 - 19th February 2017
Highlights from this week: Beckylin Orooji writes about reliability and performance improvements in Azure Application Insights JavaScript SDK and there's also an article about richer exception details in Application Insights with custom exceptions.
Julia White discusses safeguarding your cloud resources with Azure security services, while Swaroop Krishnamurthy covers what's new in Azure Active Directory B2C.
Josh Caplan explains how to connect Excel to an Azure Analysis Services server, Rimma Nehme welcomes MongoDB users to DocumentDB, and Lee Stott highlights some interesting content about Deep Learning on Azure using Docker with Azure Batch Shipyard
Scott Hanselman follows up on a very popular previous post about Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Running and Managing LOTS of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service
One of the better hidden gems is the free Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer which has just been updated to include the ability to version with Blob Snapshots. Another tool worth checking out is Azure Key Vault Explorer, which provides a GUI over Key Vault.
Finally, on the analytics front there's an interesing walkthrough for predicting Hospital Length of Stay using SQL Server 2016 with R Services
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Anunay Tiwari blogs about HDinsight, and how to perform Bulk Load with Phoenix.
Bharath Sankaranarayan (@bharathsank) predicts hospital length of stays using SQL Server 2016 with R Services.
Bharath Sreenivas discusses building advanced analytical solutions faster using Dataiku DSS on HDInsight.
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) shares his notes for getting started with Power BI Embedded.
On the Tallan blog, Gabriel Gomez covers driving Power BI adoption in your organization.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) explains how to connect Excel to an Azure Analysis Services server.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about Deep Learning using CNTK, Caffe, Keras, Theano, Torch and Tensorflow on Docker with Microsoft Azure Batch Shipyard.
Marco A Bicca (@mbicca) covers Azure Linux Extensions and a Custom Script for Linux.
Subhasish Bhattacharya discusses deploying IaaS VM Guest Clusters in Azure.
On TechNet, Paulo Marques looks at deploying a virtual machine based on a generalized custom image using the Azure Portal.
Also on TechNet, Taehee Lee talks about resetting a password or making new access credentials when recreating a Linux VM.
On Channel 9, Luis Vargas (@LuisVargas_SQL) explains what's new with the SQL Server in an Azure VM.
On the .NET Curry blog, Jorge Gaona talks about creating a scalable WCF service for Azure Service Fabric.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On MSDN, Helge Mahrt (@helgemahrt) writes about richer exception details in Application Insights.
On the Azure blog, Beckylin Orooji (@beckylino) writes about reliability and performance improvements in Azure Application Insights JavaScript SDK.
🔌 Integration
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen discusses Azure Key Vault Explorer.
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) describes how to create a PowerShell FIM/MIM Management Agent for AzureAD groups using differential sync and paged imports.
On MSDN, Manoj Sehgal explains how to recover KEK from Azure Key Vault.
Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes about Security Incident in Azure Security Center.
On the Azure blog, Julia White (@julwhite) writes about safeguarding your cloud resources with Azure security services.
Swaroop Krishnamurthy (@swaroop_kmurthy) covers what's new in Azure Active Directory B2C.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Dave The Engineer talks about IoT starter kits for Azure.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) asks why are you not using Azure Resource Explorer (Preview)?
On TechNet, Graham Davies talks about configuring PaaS and SaaS monitoring from Operations Management Suite.
Nick Eales discusses Azure Automation Webhook parameter passing.
On the .NET Curry blog, Subodh Sohoni (@subodhsohoni) blogs about using VSTS release management to create an Azure VM from an ARM template.
James van den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) shares the System Center 2016 Management Pack for Microsoft.
On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) explains why Tikit has moved top legal service Carpe Diem onto Microsoft's Azure Cloud.
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) blogs about getting Windows Azure Pack websites via PowerShell.
📦 Storage
On the SQL Authority blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) walks through removing old SQL Database Backup files from Azure Storage.
On MSDN, Meet Bhagdev reveals an early technical preview of Microsoft Drivers 4.1.6 for PHP on Windows for SQL Server has been released.
On TechNet, Gavin Payne (@GavinPayneUK) covers storing and exploring mountains of data.
On the Azure blog, Evan Boyle (@_Evan_Boyle) tells you how to add Azure Search to DocumentDB collections with a click of a button.
Rimma Nehme welcomes MongoDB users to DocumentDB.
Pallavi Joshi shares key updates to the Azure Backup Server.
James van den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) writes about Azure Storage Explorer version with Blob Snapshots.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, David Burg Goes deeper with Flat File schema authoring for BizTalk and Azure Logic Apps Flat File encode-decode action.
Freist Li explains how to send an email to the subscription's admin in Logic Apps.
On Channel 9, Adrian Hall (@FizzyInTheHall) talks about connecting to the Cloud with Visual Studio Mobile Center.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) shows you how to run and manage lots of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service.