Azure Weekly

Chris Webb (@Technitrain) covers Configuring Power BI Gateway Data Sources For Files And Folders.

On MSDN, Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki explains how to Embed Power BI in ISV application and Walks Through the New Embed Model. 

Vijay Korapadi explains how to Generate Unique Identifiers in U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics. 

Devin Knight (@knight_devin) delivers a Power BI Custom Visuals Class on Drilldown Cartogram. 

On MSDN, Devendra Tiwari looks at Applying updates to an encrypted Azure IaaS Red Hat VM using the Yum Update. 

Greg Oliver (@GoLiveMSFT) covers Sending Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub. 

Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) shows you Five steps to achieve Event aggregation and collection using EventFlow in Service Fabric. 

K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) shares some Thoughts on Azure Functions and Serverless Computing.

On the Azure blog, Guy Bowerman (@gbowerman) and Anavi Nahar share New networking features in Azure scale sets. 

Joy Fan discusses Nested Virtualization in Azure. 

Mark Fussell invites you to the 14th Service Fabric Community Q&A. 

Mark Scurrell (@mscurrell) covers Running Azure Batch jobs using the Azure CLI, with no code required. 

Yousef Khalidi announces Linux and Windows networking performance enhancements. 

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) explains how to Deploy your ASP.NET Core app to Azure Service Fabric. 

On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat blogs about Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between, plus Deploying DC/OS on VMware vSphere. 

Also on the Azure blog, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) reveals Azure Container Registry has added individual identity, webhooks, and delete capabilities. 

On MSDN, Cameron Battagler (@AzureSQLSupport) blogs about an Azure Data Warehouse Health Check Query. 

On TechNet, Gavin Payne (@GavinPayneUK) covers Migrating to Azure SQL Database.

On the Azure blog, Joseph Sack shares the Public Preview of compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases. 

Rohan Kumar reveals Azure SQL Data Warehouse is previewing 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage. 

On the MSSQL Tips site, Simon Liew discusses the SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup Preference Setting.

On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) writes about Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio Azure App Service

Jenny Jiang looks at the latest Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code updates. 

On the Azure blog, Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) shares What's brewing in Visual Studio Team Services. 

On the Kloud blog, Hugh Badini discusses the Security Vulnerability Revealed in Azure Active Directory Connect.

On MSDN, Mike Duddington (@Dudders1) talks about Getting Ready for Microsoft Cloud Identity. 

On TechNet, Jason Krause writes about Built-In Administrator Account Lockout.

Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) covers Power BI and the AAD Activity Logs App, and what to do if the credentials provided for the AAD Data source are invalid. 

On the Azure blog, Jean-Marc Prieur reveals ADAL .NET 3.14.1 has been released. 

Mike Neil shares the news that Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to order now.

Sameera Perera covers Enabling Disk Encryption in a Azure VM and Using Certificates in Azure Key Vaults

On MSDN, Justin Conway talks about Azure Service Bus Plugins. 

On MSDN, Alan Liang shows you how to Find What You Want to Learn about IoT with Our Extended IoT Scenarios. 

Greg Oliver (@GoLiveMSFT) writes about Sending Diagnostic Monitoring Data from a Windows IaaS VM to an Event Hub (Part 2). 

Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) discusses Near real-time analytics for IoT Technicians from the field.

On MSDN, Mike Duddington (@Dudders1) offers an Azure Site Recovery Overview. 

Srikantan explains how to Orchestrate a fail over of Web Applications in Azure VMs to a DR Site using ASR.

The Application Insights Service Team share a notice for Application Insights Planned Maintenance. 

On TechNet, Shannon Gowen writes about Creating metric alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure services and Introduces the Public Preview of DR for Azure VMs using ASR. 

On the Azure blog, Ashish Gangwar delves into Azure Site Recovery support for Storage Spaces and Windows Server 2016.

Poornima Natarajan explains Azure Site Recovery now supports large disk sizes in Azure.

Tom Keane announces that New government datacenter regions are available in Arizona and Texas.

On TechNet, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) shares the Updated Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects poster. 

Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about OMS and Disconnecting your Azure Storage Account from Workspace. 

On the Azure blog, Maanas Saran covers Protecting Windows Server 2016 using Azure Backup.

On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains how to Deploy a PHP site to Azure Web Apps using Dropbox. 

On MSDN, Jeremy Brooks walks through Creating a Seal for an Azure Web App Certificate Purchased through the Azure Portal.

Steve Michelotti (@smichelotti) unveils Azure Media Analytics are Now Available on Azure Government. 

On the Azure blog, Gaurav Bhatnagar talks about Azure Managed Applications.