Azure Weekly
Issue #136 - 6th August 2017
Raman Sharma explains how to Build apps faster with Azure Serverless.
Alice Rison talks about Microsoft Azure Enabling Secure Rendering with services and certs at SIGGRAPH 2017, and Shilpi Gautam announces the General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers.
Arsen Vladimirskiy talks about Teradata Bolstering Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure, while Saveen Reddy writes about Online training for Azure Data Lake.
And Josh Caplan reveals the August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
A nice overview of what "cloud first" actually means in Mapping Strategy to Microsoft Azure Services
If you're in the UK Microsoft are running an Azure roadshow in Reading, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham & Manchester, also if you're in the UK the First Hyperscale CSP with Graphic-Intensive Supportable VMs in UK
Azure the Azure Batch team make it easier to run workloads on the platform they announced thepublic preview of Azure Batch Rendering and a new cross platform tool called BatchLabs.
Finally, an interesting feature of CosmosDB has been exposed: introducing the Azure CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library
🔎 Analytics
On the Kloud blog, Qazi Mobeen writes about Sharing a report using a Power BI app.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) reveals the August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
Marcel Zehner discusses OMS welcoming the new Azure Analytics Query Language.
On the Azure blog, Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) talks about Teradata Bolstering Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure.
🖥️ Compute
David McGhee (@drmcghee) discusses Mapping Strategy to Microsoft Azure Services.
On TechNet, Micah McKittrick covers Troubleshooting a Broken Azure VM using Nested Virtualization in Managed Disk, RDFE and ARM.
Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) talks about Using Azure Custom Script Extension to execute scripts on Azure VMs.
On the Microsoft + Open Source site, Jose Miguel Parrella tells you Three reasons to deploy Red Hat workloads to the Azure cloud.
On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces that Microsoft Azure's G/GS/LS/H/N-series is now available in UK South.
Dave Fellows announces the public preview of Azure Batch Rendering.
Michael S. Collier (@MichaelCollier) explains How to Setup NVIDIA Driver on NV-Series Azure VM.
🚢 Containers
On MSDN, David Gristwood discusses Getting up and going with Windows Containers on Microsoft Azure.
William Eastbury looks into Getting Started with Windows Containers and Docker.
On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat covers Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service.
On Opsgility, John Adams explains How Azure Container Instances completes the PaaS hosting spectrum at last.
On the Kloud blog, Hector Maldonado talks about SSL Tunneling with socat in Docker to safely access Azure Redis on port 6379.
🗄️ Databases
On the Azure blog, Jason Anderson walks through Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL.
Judy Hanwen Shen Introduces the Azure CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library.
On MSDN, Robin Lester talks about SQL Server to Azure SQL Database data movement options and considerations with changing schemas and triggered refreshes.
🛠️ Developer Tools
Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) Highlights Visual Studio Team Services Widget Catalog
🎭 Identity
On TechNet, Beatris A. Mendez Gandica shares details on Azure AD August 2017 webinars.
Larry Zhang (L.) blogs about the Azure Stack WAP Connector (Part 1).
💡 Internet of Things
On TechNet, Kevin Martins shares somes IoT Projects for Anyone, including Power BI Streaming Dataset Setup, Collecting and Streaming Data with Raspbian Operating System and Designing IoT Microsoft Power BI Dashboard.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Shilpi Gautam announces the General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers.
On TechNet, Neil Bird covers Azure Resource Manager and Automating Installation of VM Extensions using PowerShell and JSON.
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about Dynamic ARM Templates with Inline Logic Operators.
Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) blogs about Testing Azure Resource Manager template functions.
🌐 Networking
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks if an Azure VM can be moved between virtual networks.
📦 Storage
Also on TechNet, Rachel Mason writes about a New option to learn about Azure Site Recovery & Backup that's now available on-demand or via a live webcast.
On the Azure blog, Saveen Reddy (@saveenr) writes about Online training for Azure Data Lake.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Finbar Ryan (@FinVamp1) writes about ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Application Restarts on the Azure App Service.
Sunitha Muthukrishna explains how to Assign an App Service domain to a Azure VM or Azure Storage.
Yi Wang covers the HTTP to HTTPS redirect for WordPress on Azure Web Apps on Linux.
On the Azure blog, Raman Sharma explains how to Build apps faster with Azure Serverless.