Azure Weekly
Issue #120 - 16th April 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Kay Singh writes about the availability of migration of ExpressRoute for Classic to Resource Manager IaaS migration.
Sergey Kanzhelev discusses integrating Application Insights into a modular CMS and a multi-tenant public SaaS, and Gerardo Saca announces the general availability of Europe-based Azure AD B2C directories.
Olivier Martin covers networking to and within the Azure Cloud (part 1), while Josh Caplan reveals Azure Analysis Services are now available in West India.
Finally, Matt Hernandez previews Azure SDK for Node.js 2.0.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) goes over using Flow and Power BI to track social listening through Twitter.
Xiaoyong Zhu talks about using H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) reveals Azure Analysis Services are now available in West India.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Marco A Bicca (@mbicca) explains how to add SWAP to Linux VMs on Azure.
On TechNet, Matt Hester writes about price reductions on L Series and next generation hyper-threaded virtual machines.
Shannon Gowen discusses Azure IP Advantage.
Drew Robinson talks about changing the default RDP port 3389 on an Azure Windows ARM VM to a high range port.
On Channel 9, James Montemagno covers deploying the Realm Object Server to an Azure Linux VM.
On the Azure blog, Hariharan Jayaraman announces the public preview of the Instance Metadata Service.
Tom Keane reveals global customer access and additional services are now available for Azure in India.
Kamaljit Bath reveals Azure CLI Shell and more Azure CLI 2.0 commands are now generally available.
Mike Schutz shares new Azure Migration resources and tools.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) shows you how to use Azure for free.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton writes about new Xamarin Dev Day cities.
On MSDN, Gabe Shapiro explains how to add Application Insights telemetry to your Azure Function for TrackTrace and TrackException.
On TechNet, Jeff Gilbert (@JeffGilb) writes about your first DevTest Labs artifact.
Shannon Gowen blogs about Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer 0.8.9.
On the Azure blog, Sergey Kanzhelev discusses integrating Application Insights into a modular CMS and a multi-tenant public SaaS.
🔌 Integration
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) covers joining Identities between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory using Microsoft Identity Manager and talks about adapting to the changes in the AzureAD Preview PowerShell Module ADAL Helper Library.
On TechNet, Tim Macaulay covers what to if your passwords stop synchronizing and working.
Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) blogs about gaining visibility and control of cloud infrastructure security.
Ian Farr blogs about using PowerShell to list Active Directory Extended Rights.
On Channel 9, Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) talks about Azure Active Directory identity protection.
Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) shares some random thoughts on the use of breach data for protection of accounts.
On the Azure blog, Gerardo Saca (@gsacavdm) announces the general availability of Europe-based Azure AD B2C directories.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Zhidi Shang provides a happy path to learning IoT development on Azure.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, James R Tabor talks about extracting Azure ARM resource counts and quota information.
On TechNet, Anthony Watherston writes about continuous deployment to Azure Automation DSC - part 1, part 2 and part 3.
On the Azure blog, Kay Singh (@singhkays) writes about the availability of migration of ExpressRoute for Classic to Resource Manager IaaS migration.
John Savill blogs about controlling services shown on the Azure portal menu.
🌐 Networking
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about when to use Azure Load Balancer or Application Gateway.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen covers Network performance monitoring and diagnostics service for Azure.
On the Azure blog, Olivier Martin covers networking to and within the Azure Cloud (part 1).
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Meet Bhagdev shares the preview of Microsoft PHP Drivers 4.1.8 for the SQL Server.
Roberto Cavalcanti (@rocavalc) talks about Azure SQL Database auditing and moving from Azure Table Storage to Blob Storage.
Jack Li (@jackli8898) writes about being unable to restore a backup.
On the Azure blog, Arnaud Comet discusses Azure DocumentDB Service Level Agreements.
Eric Chen walks through Azure Data Factory new features.
Matt Hernandez previews Azure SDK for Node.js 2.0.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) writes about Azure Data Lake for super-developers.
🔗 Web
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) discusses Azure Application Certificates.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains how to add assembly references to an Azure Function App and how to make a simple DLL as an assembly reference just for fun.
David Burg covers AS2 connector disaster recovery.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about Ruby on Rails on Azure App Service websites with Linux and Ubuntu on Windows 10.
On the Azure blog, Berni Torres Garayar announces new search analytics for Azure Search.
On the Azure blog, Karthik Bharathy talks about using Azure Media Services with PowerApps.
The Azure Team (@Azure) invite you to infuse some AI into your Azure apps at a hands-on Seattle workshop.
Aditya Sharma unveils the get started tile is now live on Azure Stack.
On Channel 9, Donna Malayeri (@lindydonna) has an Azure Functions Proxies extravaganza.
On Visual Studio Magazine, Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) introduces Serverless C# with Azure Functions.