Azure Weekly
Issue #130 - 25th June 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Poornima Natarajan explains that Azure Site Recovery now supports managed disks and Beckylin Orooji shows you how to Enable client side monitoring in Azure with Application Insights.
Shankar Sivadasan explains how you can monetize your solutions on Azure Marketplace by using the Test Drive feature to allow potentials customers to trial your solution, while Alice Rison talks about how Azure has Answers to Your GDPR Questions.
Lior Kamrat writes about Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between and Asir Selvasingh covers Java and Managing Azure Container Service, Cosmos DB, Active Directory Graph and more.
An updated Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows, which is GPU-enabled and has Docker support, and Microsoft R Server 9.1 on HDInsight is available.
Finally, Victor Kiselev shares a helpful tool to find and compare the cost of Azure VMs in different regions.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
UDig Blog, Jeff Crenshaw, in the first part in a series, blogs about creating a bot application using the Microsoft Bot Framework
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Xiaoyong Zhu unveils Microsoft R Server 9.1 on HDInsight is available.
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) shares aWhite Paper On Planning A Power BI Enterprise Deployment.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Nat Sundar (@SQLNat) talks about Design Patterns for Calculated Tables in Power BI and Koen Verbeeck blogs in part 2 of his series scenarios for Using Calculated Tables in SSAS Tabular 2016 or Power BI Desktop
On TechNet, Sammy Krosoft delves into using PowerBI to visualize Message Tracking log stats and as a User Profile Analyzer.
🖥️ Compute
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) talks about the Updated Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and how it's GPU-enabled with Docker support.
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses Using Shibboleth and Domain Connecting your Data Science Virtual Machine.
Mahesh M Kshirsagar explains how to Run a Spring Boot Java application as a Microservice in Service Fabric.
Also on the Azure blog, Jeremy Chapman explains How ASOS migrated from local monolith to microservices in Azure.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes about Nested virtualization in Azure.
Ravi Kiran discusses Managing updates for your Azure VM.
Kunal Chandratre (@kunalchandratre) talks about Azure VM SLA and high availability confusion.
On the Azure Price website, Victor Kiselev (@Gaploid) shares A helpful tool to find and compare Azure VMs, shows you how to Find the cheapest Azure VM price by region and explains how to Find the most valuable VM price and performance.
🚢 Containers
On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh covers Java and Managing Azure Container Service, Cosmos DB, Active Directory Graph and more.
On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat writes about Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between.
Pam Lahoud (@SQLGoddess) covers Building & Deploying an ASP.NET Core based Docker Container on Service Fabric.
🗄️ Databases
Harald Schult Ulriksen (@hsulriksen) talks about Default indexing in Cosmos DB.
On MSDN, Tim Salch blogs about PDW Performance and Investigates InconsistentQuery Execution Times.
On the Database Journal site, Arshad Ali covers Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Part 6).
On MSDN, Shimail Gillani writes about Automatic Long Term Retention for Azure SQL Backup.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Kloud blog, Gary Needham talks about how Azure Building a Pipeline using ARM Templates and Visual Studio Team Services.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) blogs about Azure DevTest Labs.
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) writes about Visual Studio Code integration with Azure Application Insights.
If you're looking to monetize your Azure solutions, Shankar Sivadasan explains how the Azure Marketplace Test Drive feature works.
🎭 Identity
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) shares New Azure Security Whitepapers.
On the Azure blog, Alice Rison explains how Azure has Answers to Your GDPR Questions.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki explains how to Build your own Web API protected by Azure AD v2.0 endpoint with custom scopes.
💡 Internet of Things
On the Microsoft Blog, Jerry Lee shares a case study How ZPMC transforms the world’s ports using IoT
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, James R Tabor covers Logging results from Azure Automation Runbooks directly to OMS.
Justin Conway writes about Azure Service Bus, Azure Resource Manager, And This Character "/".
On the Azure blog, Beckylin Orooji (@beckylino) explains how to Enable client side monitoring in Azure with Application Insights.
Poornima Natarajan explains that Azure Site Recovery now supports managed disks.
Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) talks about Installing the OMS and Service Map agents through PowerShell.
On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) discusses Putting custom links to your Azure Portal Dashboard.
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Manuel Garriga explains how the New Azure VPN Gateway SKUs provide much higher bandwidth for hybrid workloads.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) blogs about Connectivity with peered networks connected to ExpressRoute connected networks.
📦 Storage
On the SQL Authority blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) explains what to do if The Specified URL Points to a Block Blob. Backup and Restore Operations on Block Blobs are not Permitted and covers Removing Old SQL Database Backup Files From Azure Storage.
Yi Wang MS explains how to Migrate WordPress content to Azure blob storage.
On the Azure blog, Kay Unkroth walks through Building an Azure Analysis Services Model for Azure Blobs (Part 3).
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Isaac Hutt covers Android Development with Azure Mobile App Services.
Yi Wang explains How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS from .htaccess for Azure Web Apps on Linux on Apache.
On the Azure blog, John Deutscher announces that Azure Media Services support for AAD and deprecation of ACS authentication and on MSDN, William Zhang blogs about using AAD authentication to access Azure Media Services API with REST
On the Xamarin blog, Adam Hartley explains how to Add Push Notifications to iOS Apps with Azure Notification Hubs.