Azure Weekly
Issue #126 - 28th May 2017
Eagle-eyed readers may notice a few changes in this issue of Azure Weekly; as there were many big announcements at BUILD, I thought it would be worth revisiting the taxonomy of the newsletter to align it more with the Azure product offerings as they stand now. This means we have a new "Containers" section, as well as "AI + Cognitive Services". I've also separated "Security + Identity" from "Enterprise Integration". Hopefully this all makes sense!
It seems a relatively quiet week after the tidal wave of news that accompanied the BUILD conference. My picks from this weeks articles are:
As we at endjin are particularly interested in all things Big Compute (it was nice to get a call out from the Batch product team last week), first up are two Batch/GPU related articles: the latest Azure Podcast covers Batch / HPC workloads: Episode 180 - HPC/Batch & Bright Computing while Yannis Assael from Oxford University talks about Neural networks and deep learning with Microsoft Azure GPU.
Next, Shahed Chowdhuri shows how to get up and running with your Azure Functions Dev Workflow
Sam Cogan digs a little deeper into one of the announcements at BUILD that makes life for anyone who authors ARM templates a whole lot better: Conditions in ARM Templates – The Right Way
Scott Hanselman explores the preconfigured browser-based Linux Cloud Shell built into the Azure Portal
We've spent most of this year creating modern data platforms based on Azure Data Lake and think it's one of the hidden gems in the Azure Ecosystem; at BUILD it was announced that you could provision HBase cluster with Azure Data Lake Store in a few easy steps.
In Container-Land, there's a great in-depth article by Péter Márton, about how you can pack a Kubernetes Microservices App with Helm on Azure Container Service.
One of the most exciting announcements at BUILD was Cosmos DB; Paulo Marques shows how the Azure RM Storage Tables PowerShell module now includes support for Cosmos DB Tables.
Finally, two interesting articles about using Power BI to visualise data you can obtain from Azure: SQL Azure Blob Auditing Basic Power BI Dashboard, and Visualize DSC Reporting with PowerBI
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about Neural networks and deep learning with Microsoft Azure GPU
On TechNet, Syedshanu - talks about Face Detection and Recognition with Azure Face API
Also on the Azure blog, Ilia Karmanov explains how to Deploy Cognitive Toolkit model to Azure Web Apps
🔎 Analytics
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) discusses Data Privacy Settings In Power BI/Power Query, Part 1: Performance Implications
On MSDN, Cameron Battagler - talks about SQL Azure Blob Auditing Basic Power BI Dashboard
Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) describes How to use Power BI alerts and Flow to send alerts to different groups based on the value of the alert
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) blogs about Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 52 – Bowtie Chart and discusses Power BI – Problem, Design, Solution Concatenated Tooltip
Also on MSDN, Millie Stevinson describes painting pictures with data
On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) announces that Azure Analysis Services new modeling and tooling features
Also on the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) announces that New 400GB and 200GB caches available on Azure Analysis Services
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure podcast, Evan Basalik covers Episode 180 - HPC/Batch & Bright Computing
Also on the Azure blog, Karan Batta (@Karan_Batta) blogs about Azure enables cutting edge Virtual Apps, Desktops and Workstations with NVIDIA GRID
Shahed Chowdhuri (@shahedC) covers Azure Functions – Dev Workflow
Also on MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) covers Azure Service Fabric Use of EnableDefaultServicesUpgrade property
Also on TechNet, Micah McKittrick explains How to Perform an In-Place-Upgrade in Azure Windows and describes How to delete a VM and attach the OS disk as a Data Disk to a Recovery VM RDFE
John Savill covers Key workloads to use in Azure IaaS guest clusters
🚢 Containers
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) walks through Running Docker as PaaS in Azure
Also on Microsoft + Open Source, Pter Mrton covers Packing a Kubernetes Microservices App with Helm on Azure Container Service
On the Azure blog, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) talks about Kubernetes in action: How orchestration and containers can increase uptime and resiliency
🗄️ Databases
On TechNet, Paulo Marques discusses Azure RM Storage Tables PowerShell module now includes support for Cosmos DB Tables
Also on TechNet, the Onescript Team describes Script Of May. 25 How to query Azure Cosmos DB resources using the REST API by PowerShell
On the Database Journal site, Arshad Ali covers Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 5
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Azure podcast, Evan Basalik announces Episode 179 - Dev Test Labs
On MSDN, Robert Green - Mfst writes about Visual Studio Toolbox: SQL Server Data Tools in your DevOps pipeline
On TechNet, Chris Walden describes Developer and administrator tools for Microsoft Azure
🎭 Identity
On TechNet, Micah McKittrick describes How to Remote PowerShell to Azure VM DIP to DIP
Also on TechNet, Sam McNeill covers Azure AD B2B – Simplifying Collaboration With Users Outside Your Organisation
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) provides A quick start guide to leveraging the Azure Graph API with PowerShell and oAuth 2.0 and describes How to access Microsoft Identity Manager Hybrid Report data using PowerShell, Graph API and oAuth2
🔌 Integration
On the Kloud blog, Scott Scovell describes Service Bus Message retry patterns in Azure Functions
On MSDN, David Burg discusses Logic Apps, VNET and other network connectivity
Also on MSDN, Jim Cheshire solves the Unable to Create Classic Hybrid Connections problem.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, the Onecode Team shares a sample of how to get started for using Azure IoT Hub and DocumentDB
On MSDN, Xin Shi explains how to Get Started with Azure IoT today
On the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) announces that Microsoft and Cisco enable Azure IoT Suite to connect to Cisco Fog Deployments
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Pam Lahoud (@SQLGoddess) describes Using Application Insights SDK in Aspect-oriented programming AOP style with .NET
On MSDN, Marcus Fernandez explains how to Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government
On TechNet, John Knightly covers RDP not working over Azure S2S VPN with Palo Alto and describes Using Azure Automation with Multiple Subscriptions
On TechNet, Micah McKittrick describes How to Rebuild from an Existing Managed Disk
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) covers Exploring the preconfigured browser-based Linux Cloud Shell built into the Azure Portal
On the Azure blog, Hemant Mahawar announces that Sneak Peek - PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) describes How To Detect And Protect Yourself From WannaCry
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) covers Conditions in ARM Templates – The Right Way
On TechNet, Raimund Andre explains how to Visualize DSC Reporting with PowerBI
On the Azure blog, Alice Rison writes that We're all about the quality: Azure achieves ISO 9001:2015 certification
🌐 Networking
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) describes How to create and auto update route tables in Azure for your local Azure datacentre with Azure Automation, bypassing firewall appliances
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) blogs about Provision HBase cluster with Azure Data Lake Store in a few easy steps
Also on MSDN, Brijraj Singh (@brijrajsingh) talks about Downloading an Azure blob storage container – Python
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) discusses Securing Azure Storage Tables with SAS authentication and CORS in .NET
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Edison Garca writes about First steps with Bitnami WordPress in Azure VM
Also on MSDN, Sam Betts delves into Introduction to MySQL & PHP on Azure App Services WIMP