Azure Weekly
Issue #141 - 10th September 2017
On the Azure blog this week, Kristian Nese explains how to Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions.
Charlie Satterfield writes about Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack, and Yorke Rhodes III discusses Microsoft joining IC3 in advancing blockchain enterprise readiness.
Ruchi Chopra previews Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers, while Sam George talks about Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration.
And Krishna Mamidipaka blogs about how Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time insights.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
On Programming For Fun, Prashant Khandelwal writes about Extracting Text From Images Using Computer Vision API And Azure Function
🔎 Analytics
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) shares an Impact Bubble Chart.
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) covers Power BI Custom Data Connector For Language Detection, Key Phrase Extraction And Sentiment Analysis.
🖥️ Compute
On TechNet, John Knightly (@johnaknightly) writes about Customizing, Exporting and Importing Azure VM Diagnostic Settings.
Michael Crump Shares Azure Tips and Tricks on Using the Table Parameter in the Azure CLI, Configuring the Azure CLI to set Output Defaults and more, Connecting to Windows VMs with RDP and Connecting to a Linux VM with SSH.
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) talks about Building Azure Scale Set Images with Packer and DSC.
On Opsgility, Chris Pietschmann (@crpietschmann) explains how to Compare VM Performance with Azure Compute Units.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) asks if RDP connection is open by default for VMs inside Azure.
🚢 Containers
On MSDN, Jim Cheshire talks about Things You Should Know for Web Apps and Linux.
🗄️ Databases
On MSDN, John P Hoang writes about a Common ISV application patterns using Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Murshed Zaman (@MurshedAzurecat) talks about Azure SQL Data Warehouse Workload Patterns and Anti-Patterns.
On the Azure blog, Fernando Oliveira discusses Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB.
Rimma Nehme (@rimmanehme) explains how to Try Azure CosmosDB for free.
Rohan Kumar talks about Microsoft at PostgresOpen 2017.
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon discusses Hacking to access a graph in Cosmos DB with SQL / DocumentDB API.
🛠️ Developer Tools
On MSDN, Aaron Hallberg writes about Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest.
Sandeep Chadda reveals Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more.
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) discusses how to Use Azure availability tests and load tests to analyze the decoupling needs of your system (handson).
On the .NET Curry blog, Gouri Sohoni walks through Using Test Hub in VSTS to run Automated Tests on Web applications.
🎭 Identity
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) walks through Configuring Remote PowerShell to a Remote Active Directory Forest for FIM/MIM GalSync.
On MSDN, Isha Gupta blogs about Swagger Authentication against Azure AD B2C.
On TechNet, Bruno Gabrielli writes about the Active Directory Federation Service Management Pack, Addendum.
On the Azure blog, Charlie Satterfield writes about Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack.
🔌 Integration
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers Mixing Parameters in Logic Apps with ARM Template.
On MSDN, Michal Chmielus explains How to bind Dynamics CRM with Azure Logic Apps.
Bill Wilder blogs about Logic Apps at Boston Azure and Logic Apps & Functions at Granite State SharePoint Users Group.
Yorke Rhodes III discusses Microsoft joining IC3 in advancing blockchain enterprise readiness.
💡 Internet of Things
On the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka blogs about how Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time insights.
Sam George (@samjgeorge) talks about Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Kloud blog, John Downs covers Monitoring Azure Storage Queues with Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller blogs about UI Changes after converting a Log Analytics workspace to the new query language and explains How to configure Power BI to regularly update data from an upgraded Log Analytics workspace.
On MSDN, Shailesh Agre talks about the Microsoft BizTalk Server Webinar Series.
On TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) explains How to use Azure SDK for Go by example for terraform contributor (Part 1).
On the Azure blog, Kristian Nese explains how to Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions.
On Cloud Administrator, Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) Shares a Free E-book: on OMS.
Andy Thomas blogs about Azure housekeeping with bash and CLI 2.0.
On the Azure blog, Ruchi Chopra previews Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers.
Mark Heath Introduces the Azure CLI.
🌐 Networking
Sarah Weldon reveals that Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in Azure Government.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Kay Unkroth walks through Using Azure Analysis Services on Top of Azure Data Lake Storage.
Kyle Deeds announces the General Availability of Blob Storage (Hot/Cool) in US Gov Virginia.
Nicole Welch discusses Moving files between Azure Storage and RHEL.
On the Azure blog, Cathy Palmer explains how to Run Hortonworks clusters and easily access Azure Data Lake.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen shares some Online training for Azure Data Lake.
🔗 Web
On the Kloud blog, Bradley Smith walks through Building websites with Ionic Framework, Angular and Microsoft Azure App Services.
Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) explains how to Make Your Azure WebJobs Unit Testable Again.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains How to make an App Setting or Connection String sticky and talks about the Database connection string when swapping between App Servers slots.
Gabe Shapiro covers a PowerShell script to save a list of folder and file contents & file sizes to a csv file in App Service.
On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh covers Azure Management Libraries for .NET - v1.2.
Apurva Joshi shares an Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux.
Nir Mashkowski writes about the General availability of App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers.