Azure Weekly
Issue #116 - 26th March 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Tom Fitzmacken reveals the Azure Resource Manager template reference is now available and Ashish Gangwar announces that Azure Site Recovery is available in five new regions.
Dan Hadari explains how to analyze your data with Application Insights Analytics while Parakh Jain unveils Azure AD B2C Access Tokens are now in public preview.
Christine Avanessians shares support for multi-member consortium Blockchain networks on Azure and Dilip Lukose announces the general availability of Geographic Routing capability in Azure Traffic Manager.
🔎 Analytics
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) shares a quick tip on working with multiple Power BI subscriptions/accounts.
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) explains how to hive Metastore in HDInsight.
Jason Venema (@jasonvenema) covers getting started with Azure Data Lake.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) blogs about U-SQL defined.
On the Azure blog, George Iordanescu talks about a data simulator for Machine Learning.
Matthew Thomson (@Mattytee81) discusses 40TiB of advanced in-memory analytics with Azure and ActivePivot.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta (@siddhumehta) explains how to add cascading parameters in a SSRS Report using MDX and SSAS Multi-Dimensional.
On MSDN, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) invites you to learn about Azure Analysis Services at the Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2017
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) writes about an introduction to Azure Analysis Services on Microsoft Mechanics.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) compares Azure to AWS.
Vaclav Turecek announces Azure Service Fabric 5.5 and SDK 2.5.
Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) offers tips on DC/OS with the Azure Container Registry.
On the Azure blog, Anurag Mehrotra announces application consistent backup for Linux VMs.
On the Azure blog, Christine Avanessians announces support for multi-member consortium Blockchain networks on Azure.
🛠️ Developer Tools
Andy Dawson (@W4050) talks about deploying Visual Studio 2017 using Configuration Manager.
On the Azure blog, Dan Hadari explains how to analyze your data with Application Insights Analytics.
🔌 Integration
Simon Timms (@stimms) blogs about MassTransit on RabbitMQ in ASP.NET Core and shares some clarity on his thoughts on NServiceBus.
On MSDN, John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) blogs about using Service Bus Client Performance Counters.
On TechNet, Courtenay Bernier explains Azure Active Directory + O365 Conditional Access scenarios.
Tim Macaulay writes about Azure AD Connect Sync Security Groups and the Precedence sync rules.
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) explores using Azure AD with ASP.NET Core.
Parakh Jain unveils Azure AD B2C Access Tokens are now in public preview.
On the Tallan blog, Tallan Partner walks through safeguarding your cloud resources with Azure Security Services.
💡 Internet of Things
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) talks about extending Azure Function to support thieves alarm.
On Channel 9, Blain Barton (@blainbar) talks about how Azure IoT helps Costa Farms increase revenue and profitabilty.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Ashish Gangwar announces that Azure Site Recovery is available in five new regions.
Tom Fitzmacken reveals the Azure Resource Manager template reference is now available.
On MSDN, Anton Babadjanov (@antonbaa) explains groups and named values can now be managed from the Azure Portal.
On Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about Telemetry for the Bot Framework.
On TechNet, Paul Latham shares free Azure credit.
🌐 Networking
John Savill reveals the maximum amount of time an Azure Network Watcher pack capture can run.
On the Azure blog, Dilip Lukose announces the general availability of Geographic Routing capability in Azure Traffic Manager.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers how to read or import an Azure SQL Auditing Blob file.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen discusses the StorSimple 5000/7000 Series software update.
Chris Testa-O’Neill (@ctesta_oneill) discusses data warehousing in the cloud.
On the Database Journal site, Arshad Ali covers getting started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (part 3).
On the Azure blog, Linda Wang reveals that Azure Data Factory offers SAP HANA and Business Warehouse data integration.
Prem Prakash (@premp2006) announces that Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available in 29 regions worldwide.
Saurabh Sensharma introduces Backup pre-checks for Backup of Azure VMs.
Xiaochen Wu blogs about the Azure SQL hybrid data movement.
🔗 Web
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) walks through using Azure Logic Apps.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains how to deploy an ASP.NET Core 1.1 application to an Azure App Services Web App using Visual Studio 2017.
On MSDN, Cory Fowler (@cfowlerMSFT) shares an Azure App Service Web, API, Mobile, ASE & Azure Functions SKU Comparison Matrix.
On MSDN, Thomas Denney (@thomasdenney3) uses F# to write serverless Azure functions.
Vittorio Bertocci (@vibronet) tells you how to tweak sign in messages with the ASP.NET OWIN middleware.
Martin Andersen (@Martin4ndersen) answers "What's for lunch?" using Azure Functions, F# and Slack.
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) covers Azure Functions improvements with WebPack.