Azure Weekly
Issue #131 - 2nd July 2017
After 2 years and several thousand downloads, we've updated our very popular Azure Technology Selector poster. It's based on one of the activities we run as part of our cloud migration workshops; helping customers to understand how to translate their workload requirements onto the myriad of different services available on the Azure platform. In this version we've garnered feedback from the product groups to ensure the advice is as accurate as possible. You can download your copy of the poster by clicking on this link.
Back to the world of Azure - Rahul Bagaria walks through Enhanced app usage monitoring and investigative features in Azure Application Insights.
Bharath Sivaraman reveals Azure Site Recovery now supports Ubuntu, while Pui Chee Chan announces the Solution Template for Jenkins on Azure.
Hugo Salcedo explains that ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK has launched in Azure Marketplace, and Felipe Ayora writes about Bright Cluster Manager now integrating seamlessly with Azure HPC capabilities and the Azure Team discuss Petya ransomware prevention & detection in Azure Security Center.
Finally, yesterday I was awarded Microsoft MVP for Azure for a second year; once is an incident, twice is a coincidence - I wonder if next year will make a pattern?
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
On MSDN, Steve Michelotti (@smichelotti) covers Cognitive Services on Azure Government.
🔎 Analytics
Xiaoyong Zhu explores Running H2O.ai in R on Azure HDInsight.
Ankit Asthana covers the Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) looks at Creating enterprise grade BI models with Azure Analysis Services.
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) talks about Getting Started with PowerBI.
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) discusses Data Privacy Settings In Power BI/Power Query and The Formula.Firewall Error and talks about Power BI, DAX, Data Science & DevOps Training In London This Autumn.
Charles Sterling (@chass) talks about Running the Power BI Refresh APIs Headless.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) runs a Power BI Custom Visuals Class on Infographic Designer.
Pallavi Joshi shows you how to Gain business insights using Power BI reports for Azure Backup.
On MSDN, Andrew Robertson blogs about How Microsoft Power BI is helping Swalcliffe Park School safeguard students.
Mark O'Shea (@intunedin) writes about Important Updates To Power BI For Hybrid Usage Scenarios.
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Neil Gat invites you to an Azure Compute Reddit AMA in July.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Running Matlab on Azure and Provision a MATLAB Distributed Computing Server using Azure VMs.
Felipe Ayora writes about Bright Cluster Manager now integrating seamlessly with Azure HPC capabilities.
Jeremy Chapman looks at the Next Games global online gaming platform on Azure.
On MSDN, Jamie Dalton shows you what to do if your VS 2017 and Service Fabric project template are not showing.
The Microsoft news site, features a customer case study about Centrica becoming latest blue-chip company to choose Microsoft Azure
🚢 Containers
On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh covers using .NET to Manage Azure Container Service, Cosmos DB, Active Directory Graph and more.
Lior Kamrat walks through Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between, Plus Security & Docker Engine Installation.
🗄️ Databases
On the Xamarin blog, Mayur Tendulkar (@mayur_tendulkar) talks about Going Global with Xamarin and Azure Cosmos DB.
On MSDN, Cameron Battagler covers GRANT SUPER privilege on Azure Database for MySQL.
Clive Challinor discusses Troubleshooting Connectivity Common Scenarios.
Meet Bhagdev shares the Servicing Update for ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux and macOS.
On the Azure blog, Ellis Butterfield explains that Identity is now available in SQL Data Warehouse.
Ye Gu shares the Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication in Public Preview.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On the Xamarin blog, Lacey Butler writes about how Aggreko Provides Power and Temperature Control Apps for a Global Audience with Xamarin and Azure.
On MSDN, Srikantan explains how to Deploy a Web Application to Azure VM Scale Sets using Packer and Team Services.
On the Azure blog, Hugo Salcedo announces that ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK has launched in Azure Marketplace.
Pui Chee Chan announces the Solution Template for Jenkins on Azure.
On MSDN, Kenichiro Nakamura provides a Release Definition for Creating a Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 6 and Continuous Deployment.
🎭 Identity
Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) shares Azure Security Center updates for June.
On the Azure blog, the Azure Team (@Azure) discuss Petya ransomware prevention & detection in Azure Security Center.
On the risual blog, Thomas Roper explains that Vulnerability in Azure AD Connect Could Allow Elevation of Privilege.
Andy Dawson (@W4050) talks about Azure AD Self-Service Password Reset Issues and the Azure AD Connect–Upgrade to 1.1.533.0 and Change of Source Anchor to mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid.
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) Turns Chaos into Order with Azure Logging and Auditing and shares the Azure Network Security Whitepaper/Article.
On TechNet, Chad Cox looks at Powershell and Useful Azure AD queries using the AzureAD Module.
Nick Eales blogs about Getting a private certificate from Key Vault.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Igor Pagliai (@igorpag) walks through Using PowerShell as an Azure ARM REST API Client.
💡 Internet of Things
On the Azure blog, Shubha Vijayasarathy annouces the Event Hubs Capture, formerly Archive, is now Generally Available.
On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) discusses Mobike launches smart bike share service in UK using Microsofts cloud service Azure
On MSDN, Han Xia discusses the Certificate between IoT hub and devices connection.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Richard Hay (@WinObs) talks about Microsoft Adding Cloudyn to their Portfolio for Cloud Analytics and Usage Optimization on Azure
On MSDN, the Application Insights Service Team share an Application Insights Advisory.
On the Azure blog, Rahul Bagaria walks through Enhanced app usage monitoring and investigative features in Azure Application Insights.
On TechNet, Brandon Wilson talks about Extending OMS with SCCM Information.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks if the OMS agent can talk to multiple OMS workspaces.
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) offers a Quick Post on Azure Updates & Roadmap.
🌐 Networking
On TechNet, Dishan Francis (@rebeladm) shares a Step-By-Step Guide to Configuring a site-to-site VPN Gateway between Azure and On-Premise.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks What is Web Application Firewall and can I peer virtual networks using different subscriptions, and delves into adding additional virtual networks to the ExpressRoute circuit.
📦 Storage
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen Introduces Microsoft Azure Backup Server v2.
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) talks about Backup Reports in Azure Backup with Log Analytics and PowerBI.
On the Azure blog, Francis Yu unveils "Secure transfer required" is available in the Azure Storage account.
Rena Shah writes about New troubleshooting and diagnostics for Azure Files Storage mounting errors on Windows.
On the Azure blog, Bharath Sivaraman reveals Azure Site Recovery now supports Ubuntu.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Gaurav Patole offers a solution to the Sitefinity based Azure App Service affected after .NET Framework 4.7 update
Jim Cheshire covers Things You Should Know About Web Apps and Hybrid Connections.
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) covers Azure CDN Core Analytics with OMS for Akamai and Verizon.