Azure Weekly

Issue #142 - 17th September 2017

There were three big announcements this week, firstly Azure confidential computing, and secondly B-Series - new burstable VM size, and finally Azure AD Managed Service Identity which helps keep credentials out of code (yay).

Alessandro Segala shares Seven reasons why so many Node.js devs are excited about Microsoft Azure, Olivier Martin covers Azure Black Belt Networking and Security's Microsoft Networking Academy while Hector Linares talks about Protecting applications and data on Azure Stack.

Clemens Vasters covers Events, Data Points, and Messages - Choosing the right Azure messaging service for your data and OP Ravi explains how Perspective View makes deeper analyses easy in Azure Time Series Insights.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Kloud blog, Qazi Mobeen describes How LUIS can help BOTs in understanding natural language
On MSDN, Lee Stott walks through Recognizing celebrities on pictures with Azure Computer Vision API and Azure Notebooks
On Channel 9, Greg Duncan Seth Juarez Christina Warren talks about TWC9: Ice Cream Thursday, Edge Web Summit, Ultimate C Tools, ARKit + HoloLens and much more... This Week On Channel 9

🔎 Analytics

On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) provides A new EdX course on building Artificial Intelligence Applications
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller discusses Adding weather forecasting information to Microsoft OMS and talks about Adding Solar City electricity generation information to Microsoft OMS
On MSDN, Abhijit Annaldas explains how to Redirect
Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) blogs about Presenting with Kelly Kaye at the Washington Procurement Conference
On the Hortonworks blog, Piet Loubser covers Strata Data Conference New York – Powering business outcomes with data science
On the Azure blog, Shilpi Gautam announces that New Power BI Connector for Azure Enterprise users
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) describes Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 68 – Dynamic Tooltip MAQ Software

🖥️ Compute

On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) blogs about Online textbook on data visualization with the ggplot2 package, talks about Trending topics on cable news: the newsflash package, walks through Working with data frames in SQL Server R Services and describes Microsoft R Open 3.4.1 now available
On the Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) talks about SQL SERVER – How to Create Linked Server to SQL Azure Database
On MSDN, Dimitri Furman blogs about Instant Log Initialization for SQL Server in Azure
Also on MSDN, Lee Stott describes Azure Virtual Machine auto-shutdown
On TechNet, Japan Office Official Blog writes about
Also on TechNet, Kazzan covers Semin: Bezpenost z pohledu Microsoftu
Also on TechNet, the Intune Team blogs about Simplifying transition from Hybrid MDM ConfigMgr+Intune to Intune standalone
On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR describes Fixing error Failed to mount cd: devices when installing SQL Server tools on SUSE Linux Server, blogs about Internals of a Desired State Configuration DSC Resource, walks through Using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to Diagnose Performance Issues and discusses Using SQL Server In-Memory Tables Within ETL Architecture
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) delves into Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 - Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell, describes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 - Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell and blogs about Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 - Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses STEM Job Tracks Need to Do More to Attract Prospective Students
On InfoQ, Adrian Trenaman talks about Presentation: Removing Friction in the Developer Experience
Also on InfoQ, Seth Earley blogs about Article: The Problem With AI
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) announces that Introducing B-Series, our new burstable VM size
Also on the Azure blog, Mark Russinovich walks through Introducing Azure confidential computing
Also on the Azure blog, Sudheer Sirivara, Director Azure Media Services, talks about Microsoft Azure announces new capabilities and partnerships at IBC 2017
On the New Relic blog, Richard Duong writes about New Support for Microsoft .NET Core and Azure Integrations
On Channel 9, Greg Duncan (@gduncan411) talks about Last Week on Channel 9: September 4th - September 10th, 2017
Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman Rob Caron talks about Azure Service Health Azure Friday
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon describes How to know where a Service is Available in Azure
On Opsgility, Natalie Nelms covers Opsgility Blog Spotlight – Gerry Le Canu

🚢 Containers

Alex Ellis blogs about Multi-OS Serverless functions with Docker
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell Chris Johnson discusses Episode 211 Microsoft Cloud Show at Ignite 2017 and Azure News
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) describes Sumo Logic Cloud Study Highlights Linux, NoSQL and Docker and covers Oracle Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation in Kubernetes Push
On InfoQ, Daniel Bryant discusses NGINX Releases Microservices Platform, OpenShift Ingress Controller, and Service Mesh Preview, discusses Migrating GitHub's Web and API to Kubernetes Running on Bare Metal and discusses Oracle Joins CNCF, and Releases Kubernetes on Oracle Linux and Terraform Kubernetes Cloud Installer
Elton Stoneman writes about Weekly Windows Dockerfile 7
On Channel 9, Jeffrey T. Fritz Bri Achtman talks about Create a Simple .NET Application in Docker

🗄️ Databases

On MSDN, David Weinstein talks about Connecting Data Explorer to Cosmos DB: where and what is my connection string
On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR discusses Supercharge your Data Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes - Webinar QandA and writes about What technologies are available in SQL Server to support ETL

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Divya Vaishnavi writes about Visual Studio Marketplace is moving to a new markdown parser
Also on MSDN, Lee Stott describes How to build a Xamarin App connected to Azure
Also on MSDN, Raghda Aldeen explains How to change Azure SQL DB LTR Recovery Service Vault
Also on MSDN, Shahid Aziz walks through Uploading and creating a Custom Azure VM from .VHD
Also on MSDN, Tapas Sahoo describes Analyzing Search in Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Also on MSDN, Visual Studio Team Services describes Performance Issues with Visual Studio Team Services – 09/14 – Investigating and discusses Issues with Visual Studio Team Services – 09/14 – Mitigated
Also on MSDN, Wael Kdouh (@waelkdouh) discusses Deploying Your Angular Application To Azure Using Visual Studio Team Services VSTS
Also on MSDN, Willy-P. Schaub writes about Why were using AWS, not Azure, to store our OSS releases and lists the Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.15
On TechNet, Ian Farr discusses PowerShell in the Azure Portal Almost
Also on TechNet, Silvana Deac describes OMS Portal issues – HTTP Error 400
Stephen Cleary (@aSteveCleary) writes about Happy Birthday Async
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses DevOps Data Insight Analytics Tools Added to ElectricFlow 8.0
On InfoQ, Manuel Pais blogs about Article: Q&A with Steve Thair on Evolution and Challenges for DevOps on Windows
On the Azure blog, Alessandro Segala writes about Seven reasons why so many Node.js devs are excited about Microsoft Azure
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) blogs about OMS Analytics Portal Can Now Display Results In Your Local Time Zone
James van Den Berg describes Use Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell for Management Azure CLI Powershell
On Channel 9, Beth Massi Rich Lander Cameron Tomisser talks about On.NET Special Episode: NET Conf teaser with Beth Massi On .NET
Also on Channel 9, Miguel de Icaza Scott Hunter Mads Torgersen talks about Keynote .NET Conf 2017

🎭 Identity

On the Azure podcast, AUTHOR discusses Episode 195 - ML & AI
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) writes about Quickly creating and using an Azure Key Vault with PowerShell
On MSDN, ktackett covers Management Agent Configuration – Part 5: Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service Management Agent
Also on MSDN, Nick Lopez - walks through Providing the server name explicitly in user names for Azure SQL DB
On TechNet, Aaron Guilmette discusses Use AAD Connect to disable accounts with expired on-premises passwords
Also on TechNet, Courtenay Bernier talks about Azure AD Premium Conditional Access and Session Controls
Also on TechNet, Luke Brennan covers PowerShell – Get-Credential and certificates
Also on TechNet, Mark O'Shea (@intunedin) explains how to Ignite 2017 – Azure Hybrid Scenario Session
Also on TechNet, mzbowe talks about AzureStack Security aka.ms/AzureStack/Security
Also on TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) discusses Updates in Azure Security Center – September 2017 and talks about Updates in Azure Security Center – September 2017 – Part 2
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about The scope of a PoC
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) describes VMworld 2017 Europe Briefing: VMware Enhances Multiple Cloud Management in VRealize Suite 2017
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) covers Speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2017
On the Azure blog, Hector Linares covers Protecting applications and data on Azure Stack
Also on the Azure blog, Olivier Martin covers Azure Black Belt Networking and Security Presents Microsoft Networking Academy - Fall 2017
Also on the Azure blog, Stuart Kwan announces that Keep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service Identity

🔌 Integration

On MSDN, Pam Lahoud talks about Jump-Start: Swaggerizing ASP.NET Core
Also on MSDN, Shawn Leonard (@grndryl12) talks about Office 365 usage report APIs in preview
Also on MSDN, Webdav101 explains how to Want to set Retention tags with EWS
Nino Crudele (@ninocrudele) writes 'BizTalk Server is finally engaging the open source community – What we can do now.'
On the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) describes Events, Data Points, and Messages - Choosing the right Azure messaging service for your data
On the New Relic blog, Yannina Pacis writes about Digital Intelligence Platform Fall Launch: Applied Intelligence, Expanded Cloud Support, and Enterprise DevOps
On Channel 9, Mark Russinovich Seth Juarez talks about Inside Coco Framework, the Foundation of Blockchain for Enterprise with Mark Russinovich

💡 Internet of Things

On the 'Brosteins' blog, Mike Branstein discusses Integrating an Azure IoT Hub into the Particle Cloud
On the Azure blog, OP Ravi blogs about Perspective View makes deeper analyses easy in Azure Time Series Insights

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Kloud blog, Robin Frousheger writes about Easier portability of the FIMAutomation powershell snap-in
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller describes How to use Power BI to span multiple custom log types from Log Analytics
On MSDN, Bernarldo Ellis blogs about Identity Guidance for Azure Government Apps Now Available
Also on MSDN, Brian Farnhill (@BrianFarnhill) talks about The provided value for the template parameter is not valid in ARM template deployments
Also on MSDN, Dirk Sc - describes How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Windows VMs using ARM
Also on MSDN, MarcoDias talks about Azure Resource Manager Template for an Azure Dashboard with Log Analytics Tiles and talks about Mail Flow Round Trip test using Azure Automation and Azure Log Analytics
Also on MSDN, the Application Insights Service Team covers Application Insights Planned Maintenance – 09/14 – Initial Notice
On TechNet, Mark O'Shea (@intunedin) explains how to Ignite 2017 – Windows 10 and OMS Sessions
Also on TechNet, mzbowe describes Azure Resource Manager aka.ms/Azure/ARM
Also on TechNet, YongRheeMSFT. describes Microsoft Tech Talk: Irvine, CA., USA office: Oct 5, 2017: Operations Management Suite OMS Protection and Recovery
On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR talks about Permissions to Schedule an SSIS Package from SQL Server Agent and the File System, explains how to Create SQL Server Disk Space Report for All Servers and covers Processing text files with PowerShell
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) provides A number of PowerShell related tips and tricks. and discusses Microsoft Adds Cloud Security to Keep Out Hackers -- and Government Snoops
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) discusses Storage Spaces Direct S2D Management Solution for OMS V2
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman Rob Caron talks about Debug .NET Apps in Production with the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights Azure Friday
Also on Channel 9, Scott Klein talks about Enterprise HDInsight Monitoring with Operations Management Suite Data Exposed

🌐 Networking

On TechNet, Sbs Bloggers describes How to configure ASR in Windows Server Essentials 2016
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) talks about List of IPs used by each Azure Resource service
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) describes OU Management in AD & Azure tips related to Azure Series & Network Connectivity with ExpressRoute and describes Tips for moving VMs with Managed Disks Accelerated Networking Azure Datacenter Addresses
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) describes Step by Step Azure network security groups NSG – Security Center Azure NSG Network

📦 Storage

On the MSSQL Tips site, AUTHOR covers SQL Server 2017 Transaction Log Backup Improvements
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Azure Tips and Tricks Part 15 - Underlying Software in Azure Cloud Shell, blogs about Azure Tips and Tricks Part 15 - Underlying Software in Azure Cloud Shell and talks about Azure Tips and Tricks Part 15 - Underlying Software in Azure Cloud Shell
On the Azure blog, Bret Grinslade (@bretgr) describes Using Azure Analysis Services with Azure Data Lake Store

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Sergiy Baydachnyy (@sbaidachni) describes How to cook Azure Mobile Apps node.js: 50 records limit and lazy loading
Also on MSDN, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) writes about .NET and MultiStage Dockerfiles
Also on MSDN, Sunitha Muthukrishna writes about How-to : For WordPress on App Service Windows/Linux
Also on MSDN, Wu Shuai explains How to Separate Tomcat Logging Per Instance in Azure Web App
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) covers Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 - Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure and talks about Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 - Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Containerization without a microservices approach
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses Nanoport Aims to Bring Improved Haptics to Smartphones
On the Azure blog, Milan Gada announces that Microsoft Video Indexer expands functionality unlocking more video insights
Also on the Azure blog, Yitao Dong announces that IntelliJ Community Edition: 1-Click to Run Java Containers on Azure
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) discusses Working with Application Insights and NLog in Console apps .NET
Simon Foster discusses Azure Functions