Azure Weekly
Issue #127 - 4th June 2017
First up, in the area of Serverless, Simon Waight reflects on a year with Azure Functions.
For those interested in API Management, Anton Babadjanov says that configuration of client certificates, delegated authentication and repository now available in new Azure Portal.
The Azure Roadmap section of the Azure website has been revamped with a new look
In the second part of the series, Monu Bambroo demonstrates how to build & deploy ASP.NET Core based Docker Container on Service Fabric
The preview of Azures Largest Disk sizes has been announced.
If you're interested in HDInsight, you may be interested to know that the Hive Lab is available now
Helping an enterprise adopt Azure has some challenges; the Industrial Scale Onboarding in Microsoft Azure article makes an interesting read.
GDPR seems to be at the top of every CTO/CIO/IT Director risk list, if your organisation is heavily dependent on sharing data via email it's worth giving Azure Information Protection Scenarios a watch.
Finally, if you have an interest in the R programming language and it's usage in the Finance Sector you can watch presentations from recent R in Finance 2017 conference
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) blogs about HDInsight : BUILD Hive Lab is available now
Also on MSDN, JennyJiang describes HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates
On the Hortonworks blog, Tom Hastain blogs about Mitsubishi Fuso Selects Hortonworks to Power Real-Time Analytics
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) blogs about Data Privacy Settings In Power BI/Power Query, Part 2: Preventing Query Execution
Also on MSDN, Brenda Y Lee writes about ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Gov by Esri now available
On TechNet, Thomas C. Finney writes about Quick Tip: View the Power BI Adoption content pack for Office 365 in Microsoft Teams
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) blogs about Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 53 – Play Axis
On the MSSQL Tips site, Nat Sundar discusses Calculating MTD, QTD, YTD, Running and Cumulative Total in Power BI
On MSDN, Kay Unkroth describes Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage—Part 2
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes Reflections on ROpenSci Unconference 2017, watch presentations from R/Finance 2017, describes Python and R top 2017 KDnuggets rankings and explains how to Teach kids about R with Minecraft
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, JS Tan discusses Run massive parallel R Jobs in Azure, now at a fraction of the price
Simon J.K. Pedersen talks about Microsoft Teams Custom Bots with Azure Functions
Also on the Azure blog, Yuemin Lu announces that Announcing the preview of Azures Largest Disk sizes
On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz writes that Microsoft Readies Cross Region DR Service for Azure VMs, on the Azure blog, Rochak Mittal announces that Announcing public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines and Thomas Maurer blogs about Disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines using ASR
Also on MSDN, Sachin Ghorpade blogs about End to End Setup for SAP HANA Large Instances
Also on MSDN, the Service Fabric Team describes Release of Service Fabric for Windows Server package version 5.6.220
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) writes about What is the CentOS version Im running
🚢 Containers
Also on MSDN, ddeeb covers Setting up CI/CD for Docker Container Running in Kubernetes using VSTS
Also on MSDN, Monu Bambroo blogs about Build & Deploy ASP.NET Core based Docker Container on Service Fabric
🗄️ Databases
James van Den Berg blogs about CosmosDB - Globally Distributed Multi-model Database Service
Also on TechNet, the OneScript Team talks about list all databases in Azure Cosmos DB by PowerShell
On MSDN, Benjamin Xue describes Azure Cosmos DB: Build a .NET application using the Table API
Also on the Azure blog, Joshua Gnanayutham announces that Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh
On the Azure blog, Morgan Oslake announces Higher database eDTU limits for Standard elastic pools in Azure SQL Database
On MSDN, JoeMVP talks about learning Azure SQL DW
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton writes about New & Upcoming Xamarin Dev Days
Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) talks about Connecting Power BI to your Visual Studio Team Services Account
Also on MSDN, Robert Green - Mfst writes about Visual Studio Toolbox: Database DevOps with Redgate DataTools
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Choice amongst cross-platform .NET IDEs - VS Code, Visual Studio for Mac, JetBrains Rider
On MSDN, Omer Amin describes Exam prep for Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, 70-534
🎭 Identity
Also on TechNet, Courtenay Bernier describes Azure AD Connect Pass-Through Authentication – tracking sign-on activity with event viewer and Microsoft OMS
Also on TechNet, Jeff Patterson - explains how to Enable remote access to Work Folders using Azure Active Directory Application Proxy and describes Work Folders updates for Windows 10 version 1703, Android and iOS
Also on TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) talks about Respond to advanced threats with Azure Active Directory identity protection
On the Azure blog, Ian Hellen covers Azure Security Center adds Context Alerts to aid threat investigation
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) covers Azure Information Protection Scenarios
🔌 Integration
On the Azure podcast, Azure PM Arturo Lucatero talks about Azure AD Domain Services in Episode 181
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) describes Notes for Logic Apps around Webhook Actions
On codeit blog, Toon Vanhoutte walks through Working with collections in Logic Apps
Also on MSDN, Justin Conway discusses Upcoming Changes To Service Bus / Event Hubs & Relay - ACS Enabled Namespaces
Also on MSDN, Tom Hollander writes about Industrial Scale Onboarding in Microsoft Azure
On MSDN, Anton Babadjanov (@antonbaa) talks about Configuration of client certificates, delegated authentication and repository now available in new Azure Portal for API Managment
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Mutaz blogs about Developing Stream Analytics Jobs in Visual Studio
⚖️ Management and Governance
In episode 197 of the Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson talks about The State of Cloud Computing with Ben Kepes
On MSDN, Marcus Fernandez explains how to Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government
Bill Wilder talks about Talk: When NOT to use PowerShell with Azure
Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Role Based Access Control and Azure Subscription GUID
Also on MSDN, Tom Hollander writes about Industrial Scale RBAC in Microsoft Azure
On TechNet, Matt Hester talks about Check it Out: Azure Roadmap with a new look
John Savill explains how to Find naming rules for Azure resources
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Sonam Rastogi talks about Load Balancer Template with multiple Health probes and Load Balancing rules
On TechNet, the US Partner Team talks about Azure Partners: Introduction to Azure Network Watcher
Armin Reiter (@arminreiter) explains how to Connect Windows 10 Clients to Azure VPN
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Maanas Saran announces that Introducing Modern Backup Storage with Azure Backup Server on Windows Server 2016
Also on the Azure blog, Maanas Saran explains how to Protect Windows Server 2016 and vCenter/ESXi 6.5 using Azure Backup Server
Also on the Azure blog, Saurabh Sensharma explains how to Protect Windows Server System State to cloud with Azure Backup
🔗 Web
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) provides A Year with Azure Functions
Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes Troubleshooting Azure App Services Web App, Mobile App or API App 500s
On TechNet, kjustin1996 describes the benefits of Azure Application Insights
On TechNet, Andrew Harris describes Setting up Damn Vulnerable Web App DVWA on Ubuntu in Azure