Azure Weekly
Issue #140 - 3rd September 2017
Highlights this week include Buck Hodges talking about What's been brewing in Visual Studio Team Services in August 2017, while Thomas Roettinger explains how to Integrate Azure Stack into your datacenter.
Samartha Chandrashekar talks about Machine Learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics, Jenny Jiang explains how to Debug Spark Code Running in Azure HDInsight from Your Desktop, and Christian Wade writes about the Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and PowerShell.
A big announcement for any organisation that has PII data it wants to move into Azure - a SQL Transparent Data Encryption TDE with Bring Your Own Key support has been released in preview. Yay!
Finally, Prashant Khandelwal has recorded a 20 minute video tutorial demonstrating how to enable Multi Factor Authentication for users in Azure Active Directory.
It's the endjin summer party today - we're all off to Meatopia 2017!
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
On TechNet, Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) Introduces Cognitive Services and explains how to Identify faces using Face API in it.
🔎 Analytics
Kay Unkroth talks about Supporting Advanced Data Access Scenarios in Tabular 1400 Models.
Samuel Lester (@SQLSamLester) covers Power BI Desktop and The Case of the Missing Taskbar Icon.
Also on TechNet, Sam McNeill measures The Impact Of PowerBI via Usage Analytics By User.
On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) writes about the Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and PowerShell.
Jenny Jiang explains how to Debug Spark Code Running in Azure HDInsight from Your Desktop.
Samartha Chandrashekar talks about Machine Learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics.
Jen Stirrup shares an Azure Tools and Technologies Cheat Sheet.
🖥️ Compute
On TechNet, Jeff Stoffel explains how to Get the latest with the Azure Webinar Series.
Shannon Gowen Nested Virtualization in Azure and the Public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines.
Stephen Cleary (@aSteveCleary) discusses Azure Functions SPA.
On the Azure blog, Paige Liu announces that Hortonworks has extended its IaaS offering on Azure with Cloudbreak.
🚢 Containers
On MSDN, Aseem Bansal (@aseembansal) explains How to use VSTS docker task to push to AWS registry.
Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) explores multi-stage Docker builds for Angular apps.
Also on the Azure blog, Pui Chee Chan announces Deploy to Kubernetes & Azure Container Service and Container Agent plugins.
🗄️ Databases
On MSDN, Holger Linke blogs about PolyBase export of datetime values not using DATE_FORMAT.
On the Azure blog, Joseph Sack talks about Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases.
Judy Hanwen Shen talks about Azure CosmosDB change feed and Apache Spark.
On the Azure blog, Morgan Oslake covers the New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database.
Rebecca Zhang previews SQL Transparent Data Encryption with Bring Your Own Key support.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On MSDN, The Visual Studio Team explain how to Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric and Get hands on with Visual Studio for Mac, containers, and serverless code in the cloud.
On the Azure blog, Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) talks about What's been brewing in Visual Studio Team Services in August 2017.
Mark Heath blogs about Azure Functions Visual Studio 2017 Tooling.
🎭 Identity
Prashant Khandelwal has recorded a 20 minute video tutorial demonstrating how to enable Multi Factor Authentication for users in Azure Active Directory
On MSDN, Holger Linke explains How to create an Azure AD application in PowerShell.
Troy Ault discusses Utilizing Key Vault to create credentials for automation.
On the Perficient blog, Jane Louis asks if you're Considering an Azure Active Directory Hybrid Identity Solution.
On TechNet, Bruno Gabrielli writes about the Active Directory Management Pack and an Addendum for Trust Monitoring.
Paul Jones writes about Dynamic Group Membership in Azure Active Directory, Part 1 and Part 2.
On the Azure blog, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) discusses SMB Version 1 disabled Azure Gallery Windows operating system images.
Thomas Roettinger explains how to Integrate Azure Stack into your datacenter.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Justin Conway explains how to Update Azure Service Bus Presence On The Classic Azure Portal.
On TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) talks about a Azure Go Library Documentation Project.
💡 Internet of Things
On MSDN, Sachin C Sheth writes about Directly storing streaming data into Azure Data Lake with Azure Event Hubs Capture Provider.
Zhidi Shang writes about a Handy Tool When You Develop With Azure IoT.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Troy Ault blogs about Automating Lab Environments with LabInaBox on Prem or in the Cloud.
On TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) covers Searching Log Analytics using Azure SDK with New Simpler Library "Fluent".
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) talks about ARM Templates for Service Map Dependency Agent Deployment.
🌐 Networking
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains how to Configure Traffic Manager and Web Apps over SSL HTTPS using a custom domain.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) provides A number of FAQs dealing with advanced networking with Azure IaaS VMs.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Lingxi Li writes about New Azure Feature Pack Release Strengthening ADLS Connectivity.
The Azure Storage team announces the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering.
On the Azure blog, Chris Brooks shares the Azure Blob storage events preview.
Lavanya Kasarabada announces Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage.
Shubha Vijayasarathy writes about the Azure Data Lake Store Capture Provider for Event Hubs Capture.
🔗 Web
Also on MSDN, Sergiy Baydachnyy (@sbaidachni) explains How to cook Azure Mobile Apps node.js, Xamarin and .NET Standard.
Jeff Chilberto (@JChilberto) blogs about Reactive event programming with Azure Event Grid.
On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh covers Azure Management Libraries for Java (v1.2).