Azure Weekly
Issue #158 - 21st January 2018
Tip of the Day: Ultimate Guide to Windows Server on Azure
Using Python inside SQL Server
Episode 212 - Planning for Reliability
Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 Azure Friday
Azure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and more
Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Visual Studio Team Services
IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0
🔎 Analytics
- On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) announces that Azure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and more
- Chris Webb (@Technitrain) blogs about Using Your Own SQL Queries For Tables With Modern Data Sources In SSAS 2016+ And Azure Analysis Services
- On Channel 9, Donovan Brown and Gaurav Malhotra talk about how to Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 on Azure Friday
- On MSDN, Yanan Cai writes Debugging Azure Data Lake Job Failures Made Easy part 2 – Efficiently troubleshoot anomalies in recurring jobs
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) provides A simple way to set up a SparklyR cluster on Azure
- On Channel 9, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) talks about StreamSets on Azure HDInsight and Bharath Sreenivas describes Creating custom applications on Azure HDInsight on Data Exposed
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon blogs about Azure Databricks – RDD – Resilient Distributed Dataset
- Also on MSDN, Adlène Sifi writes Innovation at your fingertips
- Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) posts an article published by the University of Cambridge Engineering department about the Introductory computing class using Microsoft Azure Notebooks Service powered by Jupyter
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, Le Zhang and Graham Williams writes about the Services and tools for building intelligent R applications in the cloud
- Also on MSDN, Buck Woody writes DevOps for Data Science – Application Performance Monitoring
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Nat Sundar (@SQLNat) describes how to Analyze UK Petition Data Using Power BI and Siddharth Mehta talks about Segmentation analysis using Mekko Charts in Power BI Desktop
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) delves into Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 85 – Image Grid
🖥️ Compute
- On MSDN, Julian Atanasoae describes How to install custom dependencies on Azure Functions on Linux
- Also on MSDN, Amit Agarwal Amagar covers Azure Function Apps: Organizing the Azure Function Apps under same Consumption Plan
- On Channel 9, Donovan Brown and Xiaokai He talk about how to Remote debug Azure Functions written in Java using VS Code on Azure Friday
- Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about the Azure CLI Image Copy Extension – allows you to copy virtual machine images between regions with just one command.
- On TechNet, Alex Bennett writes Purchase a VM with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances RIs
- Also on TechNet, Willem Kasdorp writes Azure Batch for the IT Pro – Part 1 and Azure Batch for the IT Pro – Part 2
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) writes part 1 & 2 in his Ultimate Step to Remote Desktop Services HTML5 on Azure QuickStart Deployment
🗄️ Databases
- On the Kloud blog, John Downs writes Cosmos DB Server-Side Programming with TypeScript – Part 3: Stored Procedures
- On MSDN, 'knethteo' writes a Quick Guide on Importing Data from SQL Server or SQL Azure to Cosmos DB
- Also on MSDN, Yochanan Rachamim describes Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Managed Instances - Closing the gap between Azure SQL Database and Azure VM with SQL Server
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Columns, Tim Patrick writes How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Visual Studio Team Services
- Tomas Restrepo (@tomasrestrepo) talks about ARM Extensions for Visual Studio Code
🎭 Identity
- On the Azure blog, Miri Landau writes that Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments
- Also on the Azure blog, Ajeet Prakash explains How Azure Security Center helps analyze attacks using Investigation and Log Search
- On MSDN, Kim Spilker introduces a new Azure Security Center course on Microsoft Virtual Academy with the blog: Serious about security? Check out Azure Security Center
- On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) describes Detecting attempts to run untrusted code by using trusted executables in Azure Security Center and writes about the Azure Advisor Integration with Azure Security Center
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) gives some Tips and Tricks of Setting up Azure Security Center
- Also on MSDN, Jason Boeshart (@jboeshart) writes about Azure Administrator Account Security
- Also on TechNet, Courtenay Bernier writes Microsoft Flow and Azure AD – lets automate
- Also on TechNet, Sean McLaren and Imad Balute describe How to enable Bitlocker and escrow the keys to Azure AD when using AutoPilot for standard users
- On the risual blog, Matthew Clarke writes about Modern Authentication Tokens
- Donovan Brown describes How to copy a SSH key from Windows to a Subsytem
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Chrissie Chi announces the IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0
- On MSDN, Liya (Liki) Du writes about the New Azure IoT services supported by IoT DevKit
- Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about the Azure Internet of Things Edge Development Resources
- Also on MSDN, Jie Su writes about the Improved Stream Analytics output support in Visual Studio
- On Siliconvalve, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) describes Easy Filtering of IoT Data Streams with Azure Stream Analytics and JSON reference data
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On MSDN, Michael S. Hansen walks through Managing Github URLs for Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments
- On TechNet, John Knightly (@johnaknightly) discusses Using Azure Automation, OMS and Storage Tables to capture Configuration Data of Azure VMs Part Two
- Also on TechNet, Srinath describes Troubleshooting No latest App Consistent Snapshot issues for Hyper-V to Azure when using Azure Site Recovery
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Joe Gavin explains how to Create an Alert in Microsoft Azure Log Analytics
🌐 Networking
- On MSDN, Michael S. Hansen writes Ensuring HTTP Strict Transport Security HSTS Compliance without System Modification – Powershell Automation
- Also on MSDN, Will IV describes how to Move a VMs Primary NIC from one VNET to another
📦 Storage
- On MSDN, Peter Kirchner describes How to handle data type issues of data from Azure Storage blobs
- On TechNet, Srinath addresses: The backup could not be started because of an unexpected error in virtual disk service 0x80070057 0x086C6, walks through Troubleshooting Backup failures when using Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent and blogs about Updating Azure Backup agents
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 78 - Copy Azure Storage Blobs and Files via C, Part 79 - Creating an Azure Blob Hierarchy, Part 80 - Adding Metadata to a file inside Azure Storage Blob Container and Part 81 - Working with AzCopy and Azure Storage
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Kelly Anderson talk about Azure Backup on Azure Friday
🔗 Web
- On MSDN, Jennifer Lee writes about the Exciting New Features in App Service Diagnostics
- Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) writes Why is my Azure App Service down?
- Also on MSDN, Oded Dvoskin writes Demystifying the magic behind App Service OS updates
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) writes about Getting Azure App Services Publishing Profile inside Visual Studio itself
- K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) writes The Cloud is a Small World
- Also on MSDN, Wu Shuai describes How to Start Spring Boot with Azure Media Service
- Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) describes Indexing and searching SQL Server data with Azure Search and blogs about Combining data from multiple sources in Azure Search