Azure Weekly
Issue #13 - 14th February 2015
The big news in the wider Microsoft ecosystem this week was the arrival of CoreCLR as an open source repo on GitHub. Scott Hanselman covers the event with a blog examining the repo using the Power BI preview. The blog uses Power BI's ability to connect to external data services (GitHub), search using natural language to reveal stats such as open issues from last year, and average time to close an issue.
In general Azure news this week, there's a new ebook from the Microsoft Press in the Azure Essentials series: Fundamentals of Azure by Michael Collier and Robin Shahan.
On the Azure Podcast, David Crook talks about the ways that Startups and Students are using Azure.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Prashasti Gupta provides a Q&A with instructions for carrying out diagnostics while load testing applications in Azure
On the Azure blog, Alex Stable writes about managing OnPremises Systems with Azure Automation, by setting up a proxy VM which will be used to invoke commands on other machines
Trevor Sullivan explains what might cause the error 'CannotUpgradeDeploymentToNewRoleSize' when provisioning a VM via PowerShell
Dushyant Gill describes the PowerShell Client for Azure Resource Manager, including installing ARMPowerShell, starting a session and calling the ARM REST APIs
From the Docker blog - DockerCon US 2015 Tickets are now available. The conference takes place in San Francisco on 22 - 23 June
Alexandre Brisebois describes how to save Azure Resource Manager templates as JSON files on disc
🖥️ Compute
Ravi Ashok of the Remote Desktop Services Team blogs about about the RemoteApp user experience, with videos covering the experience compared to a local machine, multi-platform support and performance
Bulent Ozkir explains the difference between an Update Domain and a Fault Domain
Robert Smit explains how to build a G5 GSeries Azure VM SQL Server 2014 Cluster with shared cloud storage
In part 4 of his series on Azure Cloud Services, Sandrino Di Mattia covers lifecycle management and customization of an Azure VM
🌐 Networking
On the Azure blog, Joe Davies introduces a new set of guides describing how to create various hybrid cloud test environments, including a SharePoint intranet farm in a hybrid cloud, a web-based LOB application, and Office 365 directory syncronisation
💡 Internet of Things
Sara Silva describes how to use Entity Framework Code First Migrations in Azure Mobile services to create and update the database based on the model
On the Azure blog, Andrew Westgarth announces the release of Azure Websites HttpPlatformHandler module for IIS 8 and IIS 8.5 which allows you to host Java apps in your local IIS server
Alex Sanséau describes how to Create Your Own Private NuGet Server in Windows Azure
Sacha Barbs writes about libraries to help with Transient Exception Handling for cloud and other services
On the Azure blog, Josh Twist announces the introduction of Azure API Management Premium which provides 1 billion API calls, 5x the throughput of the standard service, a 5GB cache, and support for additional regions
On Channel 9, Chris Risner, Haishi Bai and Donovan Brown describe how to use Release Management to control and automate the release of solutions into Azure
On the SQL Authority blog, Kevin Hazzard explains how to invoke a stored procedure from Azure Mobile Services
⚙️ Data and Analytics
On the Azure blog, Liam Cavanagh describes how the new 'tag' scoring function can be used to personalise search results for Azure Search
On the Azure Blog, Stephen Baron announces new regions for DocumentDB, an increase in the number of capacity units per account and an increase in supported document size
On Channel 9, Scott Klein talks to Joachim Hammer of the SQL Server team about the introduction of Row Level Security for Azure SQL Database
Richard Fennell shares a fix for timeout exporting a SQL Azure DB using PowerShell or SQLPackage.exe
📦 Storage
Robin Shahad continues a series on Azure Blob storage, covering blob properties, and the properties of blob properties in detail
Marcin Policht writes about Managing Azure SQL Database Authorization, explaining the similarities with and differences between Azure SQL database and SQL Server when it comes to securing data
Alexandre Brisebois shows how to upload content to Azure blobs using PowerShell
🎬 Media
Azure Media services' use in live streaming the 'the big game' to over 800,000 viewers per second is covered by Sudheer Sirivara on the Azure Blog, who reports a use of under 10% of provisioned capacity
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
On the computing website, Danny Palmer provides a case study on about HarperCollins' use of Azure ExpressRoute and Equinix Cloud Exchange
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
Kurt Mackie covers a talk by Brad Anderson, Microsoft's Corporate VP for Enterprise Mobility, and Alex Simons from the Active Directory team about the Active Directory Service's use of machine learning to prevent attacks
Bo Song provides a sample to write Service Principal Name to a Computer/User object in Active Directory