Azure Weekly
Issue #153 - 3rd December 2017
Microsoft and SAP announce partnership to help more companies digitally transform
Launching preview of Azure Migrate
Azure WebJobs vs. Azure Functions
Elastic database tools for Java
Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management
Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs
Announcing Azure Location Based Services public preview
ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code VSCode supports Python & R Programming
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell discuss Artificial Intelligence and the Future with Joseph Sirosh
🔎 Analytics
- On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) announces the Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs and writes about the Server aliases for Azure Analysis Services
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) gives Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 79 – Venn Diagram MAQ Software
- Also on MSDN, Buck Woody discusses DevOps for Data Science – Infrastructure as Code
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Shon Shah writes about the Launching preview of Azure Migrate
- On MSDN, Devendra Tiwari Principal PM Director Azure Engg introduces Azure Disk Encryption with EncryptFormatAll feature for Data disks on Linux IaaS VM
- Also on MSDN, keydet (@devkeydet) talks about Using Azure Functions with Dynamics 365
- Also on MSDN, Prashant Pratap describes how to Scale up AppServicePlan from Azure Function App
- On Stackify Blog, Simon Timms (@stimms) compares Azure WebJobs vs. Azure Functions
- Sacha Barber gives an Azure Service Fabric Demo
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon discusses Serverless compute with Azure Functions – Getting Started
- Andrei Dzimchuk describes Moving Azure VM with managed disks to another subscription
🚢 Containers
- On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about Understanding Azures Container PaaS Capabilities
- On MSDN, 'FreddyDK' answers the question: Can I run NAV 2015 and earlier on Docker?
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Azure Tips and Tricks Part 58 - Continuous Deployment with Docker and Web App for Containers, and Part 60 - Use Visual Studio 2017 with Docker Support
- On the Azure podcast, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik and Sujit D'Mello present Episode 206 - Kubernetes
🗄️ Databases
- On the Azure blog, Danimir Ljepava writes that Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management
- Also on the Azure blog, Anum Jang Sher announces that Elastic database tools for Java
- On MSDN, Samuel Lester continues his "Exploring Big Data" course, with Course 8 – Orchestrating Big Data with Azure Data Factory
- On Channel 9, Dmitry Lyalin and Jeremy Likness talk about CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer Visual Studio Toolbox
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Azure blog, Jenny Jiang reveals that ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code VSCode supports Python & R Programming
- On MSDN, Yanan Cai - writes about the Ad-hoc query support in Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio
- Also on MSDN, Michael Hansen discusses Team Foundation Server in Azure Government
🎭 Identity
- On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) describes Using Azure Activity Log to query security alerts originated by Azure Security Center
- Armin Reiter (@arminreiter) explains how to Get started with Azure key vault
🔌 Integration
- On MSDN, David Burg lists some Logic Apps resources
- On the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton announces the Azure Location Based Services public preview
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Eamon O'Reilly announces the Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Shawn Tabrizi explains how to Get notified when Azure service incidents impact your resources
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes Azure Log Analytics – Cross Workspace Query Resolve Workspace ID
🌐 Networking
- On Stefan Johner's blog, Stefan Johner (@JohnerStefan) writes about Circuits, Peerings, Pricing, Latency… All you need to know about Azure ExpressRoute
- On MSDN, Wu Shuai explains how to Manage Azure CDN Endpoint by SPN in Node.js
🔗 Web
- On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only
- Also on MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) describes a fix to: Image files do not deploy when I add them to ASP.Net project
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Four Ways to Deploy an ASP.NET Core 2 Website in Azure
- On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes Drag and drop deployment to an Azure App Service, quick, for simple small changes