Azure Weekly
Issue #118 - 2nd April 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Ashwin Kamath announces the general availability of Azure Monitor and Justin Conway unveils Azure Relay Hybrid Connections is generally available.
Greg Cottingham explains how Azure Security Center helps reveal a cyberattack, while Yousef Khalidi reveals the Azure Web Application Firewall is generally available.
Josh Caplan shares the news that Azure Analysis Services are now available in Japan East and UK South, and Xiaoyong Zhu covers using BigDL on HDInsight Spark for distributed Deep Learning.
🔎 Analytics
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) walks through performing OCR with Azure Cognitive Services and HTML5 Media Capture API.
On the Azure blog, Xiaoyong Zhu covers using BigDL on HDInsight Spark for distributed Deep Learning.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) reveals Azure Analysis Services are now available in Japan East and UK South.
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Alice Rison talks about adding offerings, the UK Region and Azure rolling deep with PCI DSS v3.2.
Cale Teeter (@Windozer) reveals Syscoin have joined the Azure Ecosystem.
Matthew Thomson (@Mattytee81) unveils TIBCO DataSynapse has launched its Cloud Adapter for autoscaling in Azure.
Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) discusses performance tuning for the Azure Container Registry.
On TechNet, Brandon Wilson covers how to secure an ARM-based Windows Virtual Machine RDP access in Azure.
Paulo Marques talks about adding an Azure Virtual Machine that uses a managed disk into an availability set.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) puts Custom Scrips against Custom Images in VM creation.
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon discusses sizing & pricing Virtual Machines in Azure.
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) shares an Azure services overview.
🔌 Integration
On TechNet, Beatris A. Mendez Gandica talks about Azure AD April webinars.
On MSDN, Pam Lahoud (@SQLGoddess) covers protecting secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault.
On TechNet, Courtenay Bernier discusses Azure AD Geolocation by sign-in activity using Power BI.
Mark O'Shea talks about Azure Active Directory SaaS App integration in the Azure Portal.
On the Azure blog, Greg Cottingham explains how Azure Security Center helps reveal a cyberattack.
Justin Conway announces Azure Relay Hybrid Connections is generally available.
James van den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) blogs about protecting Enterprise workloads with Cloud First Azure Backup.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Vinay Singh explains how to get started with the Azure Event Hubs connector.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Ashwin Kamath announces the general availability of Azure Monitor.
Oren Rosenbloom announces Azure Advisor, Monitor, and resource health are general availability.
On Channel 9, Mike Chen talks about Azure Resource Policy.
John Kemnetz talks about Azure Monitor.
James van den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) explains how to install Azure CLI 2.0 and run a script for VM with Operations Management Suite Agent.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about ARM scripts and the extending t-shirt size concept.
Ruturaj Dhekane writes about one-click disaster recovery of applications using Azure Site Recovery.
On TechNet, Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) blogs about Azure Automation's new Microsoft Flow service.
On MSDN, William Eastbury talks about Azure Function to authenticate Azure PowerShell into the ARM APIs.
🌐 Networking
On Channel 9, Telmo Sampaio (@telmo_sampaio) talks about deploying Network Virtual Appliances for high availability.
On MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) talks about how to purge CDN content from C# code.
On the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi announces that the Azure Web Application Firewall is generally available and talks about Azure Network Security.
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez shares the news that Azure Data Factory's Data Movement is now available in the UK.
On MSDN, Chris Skorlinski talks about what to do if a Transaction Log wont truncate when using Snapshot Replication to Azure SQLDB.
Peter Kirchner (@peterkirchner) explains how to solve the error in the TDS datastream with i-net MERLIA driver connecting to Azure SQL database.
Shreesh Dubey discusses Azure Backup's cloud-first approach and why it matters.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri explains why Azure Functions and Logic Apps are better together.
David Burg shares an Azure Logic App template for X12 connector control numbers replication for disaster recovery published on quick start.
Simon J.K. Pedersen writes about using Azure Functions as a Proxy.
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) talking about creating a Queue Trigger with Azure Functions.
Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) blogs about publishing an API App that doesn't appear in the portal.
On TechNet, Sam McNeill writes about Azure Media Analytics and searching everything in your videos.