Azure Weekly
Issue #113 - 5th March 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Nitin Soneji shares the public preview of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware.
Buck Hodges covers what's brewing in Visual Studio Team Services in March and Matt Rathbun announces that Azure Blueprint supports the UK Government's Cloud security principles.
Samartha Chandrashekar unveils real-time geospatial analytics in Azure Stream Analytics, while Sam George explains the Azure IoT Suite has added device management capability updates.
Finally, Pranav Rastogi reveals the preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Lingxi Li writes about how the new Azure Feature Pack release is updating HDInsight support.
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) writes about easily creating histograms of measures in Power BI.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses Azure Machine Learning and loading external data sets into your experiment.
On the Azure blog, Jaya Mathew explains how to optimize rolling feature engineering for time series data.
Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) explains how to connect Tableau to an Azure Analysis Services server.
Also on the Azure blog, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) announces the preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) brings you a Power BI Custom Visuals Class on Long Text Viewer.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Brijraj Singh (@brijrajsingh) walks through installing Azure CLI 2.0 on Windows.
Mahesh M Kshirsagar explains how to implement rolling updates in Azure Container Service with Docker Swarm using VSTS.
Steven Edouard (@sedouard) describes how to schedule Azure VMs to resize.
Christine Hall (@BrideOfLinux) talks about how Docker ups its game with 'Enterprise Edition'
On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) talks about how Azure Blueprint slashes the time it takes to move to the cloud from weeks to hours and explains how Azure changes will put hybrid customers on cloud nine.
On the Azure blog, Chelsea Carter reveals Azure has brought 5 new services to Canada.
Kamaljit Bath reveals Azure Command Line 2.0 is now generally available.
Jeffrey Snover (@jsnover) writes about Azure Stack TP3 delivering hybrid application innovation and introducing a pay-as-you-use pricing model.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen blogs about an Azure VM single instance SLA.
On Channel 9, Matt McSpirit (@mattmcspirit) talks about using Stack to bring Azure Services on-premises.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about securing your VSTS release management Azure VM deployments with NSGs and PowerShell.
On MSDN, Helge Mahrt (@helgemahrt) blogs about reducing the volume and cost of data sent to Application Insights.
On Channel 9, Michael Stonis (@michaelstonis) talks about ReactiveUI.
On the Azure blog, Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) covers what's brewing in Visual Studio Team Services in March.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) explores the new DevOps - Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI).
🔌 Integration
Rik Hepworth covers setting Enroll Permissions on ADCS Certificate Template using DSC.
Also on MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) describes how to retrieve Key Vault secrets using C# code.
On TechNet, Elliott Fields Jr covers domain joining servers to Azure AD Domain Services.
Karim Buzdar covers migrating your Active Directory Domain Controller from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016.
On MSDN, Wen-Jun Zhang explains how to check if there are a great deal of deferred messages in Service Bus container DB generated by your workflow.
Richard Hay covers Windows Defender and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
On the Azure blog, Matt Rathbun announces that Azure Blueprint supports the UK Government's Cloud security principles.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Daniel Meixner covers talking to Azure IoT Hub from VSTS.
Formulahendry (@formulahendry) explains the Azure IoT Toolkit supports Event Hub now.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about the Internet of Things with Azure.
On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about IoT Azure starter kits.
On the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) explains the Azure IoT Suite has added device management capability updates.
Samartha Chandrashekar announces real-time geospatial analytics in Azure Stream Analytics.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen announces auto-shutdown for VMs using Azure Resource Manager.
On the Azure blog, Nitin Soneji shares the public preview of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware.
🌐 Networking
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about the cool new functionality of Azure Network Watcher.
📦 Storage
On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko discusses StorSimple in CSP.
On Channel 9, Steve Lindsay (@MicrosoftTE) talks about using REST with DocumentDB.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) compares Azure Data Factory and SSIS.
On the Azure blog, Joshua Gnanayutham blogs reveals an Azure Data Sync update.
On the Tallan blog, Tallan Partner discusses how Microsoft's SQL Platform continues to lead the market with advanced data security.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) talks about Troubleshooting an Azure App Service WebJob and explains how to run a WebJob when the Web App isn't running.
Edison Garca explains how to enable PHP LDAP in Azure Web Apps.
Nick Pinheiro (@nickpinheir) writes about 7 steps to getting started with Facebook App development.
On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces that Azure Search is now available in the UK.
Marley Gray (@HiroMarleyG) discusses the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) talks about how Blockchain banking gets a boost from Azure.