Azure Weekly
Issue #123 - 14th May 2017
Lots of content from Microsoft Build 2017 this week!
On the Azure Blog this week, Cale Teeter reveals the Waves platform is now available on Azure and Tom Keane explains why Azure Government is the most secure & compliant cloud for defense with new compliance and service offerings.
Xiaoying Guo shares Azure DevTest Labs updates from Build 2017 while David Stephens writes about New tools for understanding user behavior with Application Insights.
Catherine Wang announces the Application Insights Profiler for the Azure App Service, and finally Thomas Roettinger explains that a Management Pack for Microsoft Azure Stack is now available.
🔎 Analytics
On TechNet, Sriram Ganapathy offers Cortana Intelligence Suite solution templates.
The Cortana Intelligence And ML Blog Team talk about optimizing intelligent apps using Machine Learning in SQL Server.
On the Tallan blog, Tallan Partner covers how Microsoft is accelerating modern BI adoption with Power BI Premium.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) offers a lesson on Power BI Custom Visual Narratives.
On the Azure blog, Kay Unkroth covers using modern data sources in Azure Analysis Services.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Marco A Bicca (@mbicca) writes about how to delete and re-deploy a VM from VHD.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) shares a quick review of key Azure announcements at Build 2017.
On the Microsoft Cloud Show, Vesa Juvonen (@vesajuvonen) chats about the new SharePoint Framework capabilities announced at Build.
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell and covers Container news from Build 2017.
On the Azure blog, Kamaljit Bath announces Azure CLI 2.0 and new commands and features in Azure Cloud Shell.
Mark Scurrell (@mscurrell) discusses Batch computing at a fraction of the price.
Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) writes about More GPUs, more power and more intelligence.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On MSDN, Jenny Jiang discusses Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code.
Pam Lahoud (@SQLGoddess) explains how to add Application Insights to an Angular SPA.
On Channel 9, Kendra Havens (@gotheap) talks about .NET Core and Visual Studio for Mac.
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) blogs about PowerShell for Visual Studio Code 1.0.
On the Azure blog, Catherine Wang announces the Application Insights Profiler for the Azure App Service.
David Stephens writes about New tools for understanding user behavior with Application Insights.
Xiaoying Guo (@gxy001) shares Azure DevTest Labs updates from Build 2017.
🔌 Integration
On TechNet, Amit Bapat (@amitbapat) blogs about Azure Key Vault recovery options.
Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) discusses updates for the new Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell module.
Michael Frommhold demystifies Privileged Access Management.
Peter Dempsey talks about removing inactive computer objects from Surface Hub and Active Directory.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains how secrets and keys are stored in Azure Key Vault.
On the Azure blog, Thomas Roettinger announces that a Management Pack for Microsoft Azure Stack is now available.
On Opsgility, John Adams writes about consistent key naming between .NET Core user secrets and Azure Key Vault.
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) covers Azure Security Center Dashboard updates.
Sarah Weldon writes about the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtualized next-generation firewall.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) Introduces Azure IoT.
Zhong Chen writes about the SU Utilization Metric.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Millie Stevinson discusses upcoming and on-demand webinars.
keydet (@devkeydet) discusses contributing to Azure Quickstart Templates for Azure Government.
John Savill asks if Azure Site Recovery will use ExpressRoute to replicate traffic.
On the Azure blog, Tom Keane explains why Azure Government is the most secure & compliant cloud for defense with new compliance and service offerings.
Cale Teeter (@Windozer) reveals the Waves platform is now available on Azure.
Armin Reiter (@arminreiter) shares all Azure Invoice API downloads.
🌐 Networking
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon discusses URL routing with Azure Application Gateway.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Karan Gulati shares a Azure Data Factory learning path.
On Channel 9, Casey Karst talks about loading data into Azure SQL DW using Polybase.
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) discusses creating a Storage account.
On the Azure blog, Alexander Sasha Nosov announces the Azure SQL Database now supports transparent geographic failover of database groups.
Lavanya Kasarabada announces general availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure File Storage.
John Savill explains how to deploy an SQL cluster to Azure IaaS.
On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar explains how Microsoft has extended Azure managed database services with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Dharma Shukla offers a technical overview of Azure Cosmos DB expain's why its the industry's first globally-distributed, multi-model database service.
Wynn Johnson reveals the Azure Database Migration Service announcement at Build.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) talks about how to deploy from GitHub using someone else's repository and what to do if you've failed to deploy from GitHub to an Azure App Service Web App because of a missing project reference.
Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) discusses how to run classic ASP on Azure Web Apps.
Kaushal Kumar Panday writes about generating memory dumps on first chance exception using Procdump.
On TechNet, Katharine Bale invites you to a two-day Azure Migration Workshop.
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about the Azure App for iOS and Android.
Simon J.K. Pedersen shows you how to build a URL shortener with Azure Functions in less than 100 lines of code.
On the Azure blog, Andrew Westgarth introduces the Azure Functions Runtime preview.
On the Azure blog, Apurva Joshi previews the Web App on Linux.
shwin Kamath explains how to manage your business needs with new enhancements in Azure Autoscale.
On Channel 9, Chris Anderson talks about Azure Functions at Build 2017.