Azure Weekly Issue 132: 9th July 2017
On the Azure blog, Dushyant Gill announces the Azure Service Health preview.
John Gossman shares Azure OpenDev videos on-demand, and Jessen Kurien covers How Azure Security Center detects a DDoS attack using cyber threat intelligence.
Lior Kamrat looks at Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between, plus SSH Authorized Keys.
Mike Wasson discusses Design patterns for microservices, while Jenny Hunter shows you how to Track configuration changes for your Azure VM.
And finally, Andres Juarez unveils a new set of Azure Services in the UK.
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Azure Batch AI, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API
Analytics
Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog
On All Things Cloud, Roberto (@soyroberto) blogs about Doing Graphics with PowerBI.
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) discusses Data Privacy Settings In Power BI/Power Query, and Disabling Data Privacy Checks.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) shows you how to Super Charge Power BI with Azure Analysis Services.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) teaches a Power BI Custom Visuals Class on Drilldown Choropleth.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
James Serra (@JamesSerra) explains that 4TB disk sizes for Azure IaaS VMs available.
On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces a new set of Azure Services in the UK.
Jenny Hunter shows you how to Track configuration changes for your Azure VM.
Mike Wasson discusses Design patterns for microservices.
On MSDN, Mark Eisenberg blogs about Using PerfView with Azure Service Fabric Event Source Messages.
Ganesh Shankaran writes about Serverless computing with Azure Function in a DevOps Model.
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat covers Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between, plus SSH Authorized Keys.
Databases
Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) goes from Zero to MySQL in less than 10 minutes with Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Web Apps.
On MSDN, Igor Pagliai (@igorpag) covers the Azure SQL Data Sync Test Drive and First Impressions.
Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki walks through the Azure Cosmos DB Graph Gremlin.
Ravikanth Chaganti (@ravikanth) talks about the Inaugural Session on Cosmos DB.
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
On TechNet, Black Marble write about leading the way with DevOps.
On the Azure blog, John Gossman shares Azure OpenDev videos on-demand.
On the Visual Studio Magazine website, Michael Domingo (@vsmag_mdomingo) talks about how Microsoft have committed to Three More Azure OpenDev Events.
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
On the Kloud blog, David Lee Resolves the Double Auth prompt issue in ADFS with Azure AD Conditional Access MFA.
On MSDN, David Nissimoff blogs about Using Fiddler to simulate AAD failures with ADAL.js.
On TechNet, Beatris A. Mendez Gandica blogs about Azure AD July 2017 webinars.
On TechNet, Jeff Gilbert (@jeffgilb) has a blog for those who are New to Azure AD or have getting started questions.
Robin Granberg covers AD Object Detection and detecting the undetectable.
The Intune Team write about Intune and Azure Active Directory teaming up to improve user access.
On the Azure blog, Jessen Kurien covers How Azure Security Center detects a DDoS attack using cyber threat intelligence.
On MSDN, Kim Spilker talks about the ebook deal of the week, which is the Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure.
On the Microsoft site, Reporter (@MicrosoftUK) explains that Microsoft have unveiled a key weapon in the fight against hackers.
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
On MSDN, Michiel van Otegem (@MichielvOtegem) walks through Converting XML to JSON with Azure Logic Apps.
On codeit, Toon Vanhoutte explains Service Bus can Claim Check API App for Logic Apps.
Freek Berson (@fberson) writes about Real time logging your Microsoft RDS environment using PowerShell.
Sean Feldman covers Azure Service Bus Plugins.
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
On MSDN, Xin Shi reveals MXChip IoT DevKit board package v1.0.0 is now available.
Zhidi Shang explains that Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino is now open sourced.
Management and Governance
Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications
On MSDN, Bart discusses the Application Insights Performance Profiler.
CliveW reveals OMS is now in the UK Azure region.
On the Azure blog, Dushyant Gill announces the Azure Service Health preview.
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht talks about Implementing Azure SQL Data Sync in the Azure Portal.
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
On MSDN, James R Tabor explains how to Get Azure PaaS Endpoint IPs and how to Make practical use of NSG Flow Logs for troubleshooting.
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
On MSDN, Charl Roux covers moving APS Polybase to Azure Blob Store.
On MSDN, RalfWi reveals Azure Disk Encryption is available in Azure Germany.
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) talks about Setting up Storage Replica in Azure.
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
On the Azure podcast, Jakub Jedryszek (@JakubJedryszek) talks about Azure Mobile Apps.
Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) discusses Binding a custom domain to your Azure App Service in 2 steps.
Gaurav Patole writes about Capturing dumps on multiple instances automatically using procdumphelper.
Holger Sirtl covers Autoscaling Azure Web Apps.
Fangfang Hu shows you how to Develop and Host a Proof-of-Concept Prototype on Azure App Services for Web Apps.
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