Azure Weekly

Issue #160 - 4th February 2018

Interesting news this week when Microsoft reported the results of second quarter of fiscal year 2018 Azure revenue nearly doubled, and marks the tenth straight quarter of reports that Azure revenue grew 90% or more on a year-over-year basis.

On the training front, Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Second Edition is out, and there's a new Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI.

A number of new services and features have reached General Availability this week: Azure Event Grid, Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage, Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot, Stream Analytics: sub-streams, query compatibility, Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP, and finally Microsoft Graph APIs for Intune.

If you haven't been watching the AI Show on Channel 9, it covers some really interesting topics; this week it focuses on one of the hidden gems in Azure: Machine Learning with Azure Notebooks. Other highlights of the week are: Lambda Architecture using Azure CosmosDB: Faster performance, Low TCO, Low DevOps, enhancements to Azure Budgets API supporting Resource Groups and Usage Budgets, Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets, and finally Jenkins on Azure: from zero to hero

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On Channel 9, Paige Bailey and Lois Smith talk about Machine Learning with Azure Notebooks AI Show
On the Azure blog, Milan Gada writes How is AI for video different from AI for images
On Channel 9, James Montemagno talks about Custom Vision – Machine Learning Made Easy with Jim Bennett on The Xamarin Show
On TechNet, Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) explains how to Find real Emotions using Emotion API
On the .NET Curry blog, Gerald Versluis describes Adding Artificial Intelligence AI to your Xamarin Apps

🔎 Analytics

Also on Channel 9, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) talks about AtScale on Azure HDInsight on Data Exposed
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon writes Azure Databricks – Transforming Data Frames in Spark
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes Speed up R with Parallel Programming in the Cloud
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) talks about Using SSAS Multidimensional As A Data Source For Power BI Video
On MSDN, Rob Reilly explains how to Integrate Power BI Dashboards, Reports and Tiles into a WPF Application
Also on MSDN, Buck Woody writes 'Analytics is Width. Feature Selection is Depth.'
On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta (@siddhumehta) describes Schedule analysis using Gantt chart in Power BI Desktop
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 88 – Pulse Chart

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure podcast Nir Mashkowski, Product Management Director for various Azure PaaS services talks about Functions Microservices
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders and Jeff Hollan talk about Azure Functions and Logic Apps on Tuesdays With Corey
On MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) covers How to login Azure Linux VMs using SSH key pair

🚢 Containers

On Channel 9, Robert Green and Erika Ehrli talks about SmartHotel360 Demo App Overview and Maria Naggaga talks about SmartHotel360 Demo App Web Site
On MSDN, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) describes Working with ACR Geo-replication notifications

🗄️ Databases

Also on the Azure blog, Mark Kromer writes about the New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI
On the Azure blog, Denny Lee describes Lambda Architecture using Azure CosmosDB: Faster performance, Low TCO, Low DevOps
On the Kloud blog, John Downs writes Cosmos DB Server-Side Programming with TypeScript – Part 4: Triggers
On MSDN, Julien Oudot covers Designing a Cosmos DB database
Also on the Azure blog, Leon Hao covers Using EXPLAIN to profile slow queries in Azure Database for MySQL
Also on the Azure blog, Sean Li describes Using the MySQL sys schema to optimize and maintain a database

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Gregg Boer announces that Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets
Also on MSDN, Nilay Shah blogs about VSTS CI to Build and Test Node.js app with Gulp and Mocha
Also on MSDN, Rui Melo writes about the VSTS Gems- Three ways to beef up your boards
On Channel 9, James Montemagno and Damian Brady talk about Real World Mobile DevOps with VSTS and App Center
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen describes the Team Foundation Server 2015 CI/CD Pipeline for Web App in Azure Government
On the Azure blog, Pui Chee Chan blogs about Jenkins on Azure: from zero to hero
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) covers Setting Up Service Principals to Use the Azure Management APIs
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) walks through Debugging C .NET Core Azure Functions with VS Code
On Channel 9, Donovan Brown and Kylie Liang talk about Running Ansible on Azure Azure Friday
Also on the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) provides A great developer experience for Ansible

🎭 Identity

On the Kloud blog, Kieran Jacobsen describes Using Intune and AAD to protect against Spectre and Meltdown
On MSDN, Justin Marks writes about VS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD and describes Supporting AzureAD Conditional Access Policy across VSTS
Also on MSDN, Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) writes AAD How to create Service Principal through CLI
Also on MSDN, Srinivas Varukala describes the PowerShell to list all Azure AD Apps with expiration dates
Also on MSDN, Ganesh Shankaran talks about Security: Test automation From Build and Release pipe using Secrets in Key vault
On the Azure blog, Brijesh Desai describes Managing Azure Secrets on GitHub Repositories
Also on the Azure blog, Miri Landau describes how to Integrate Azure Security Center alerts into SIEM solutions

🔌 Integration

On TechNet, Dave Randall announces that Microsoft Graph APIs are generally available for Intune
On MSDN, Ch. Wolf explains How to setup alerts on the new metrics for Azure Service Bus
Sean Feldman delves into Azure Service Bus with Managed Service Identity
Also on MSDN, Shashidharan Krishnan writes about the Logic apps Service bus connector not honoring Maximum message count
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) discusses Sending Your Azure Application Insights Alerts to Team Sites using Azure Logic App
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Setup an Azure Stack Cloud Operator and Developer Workstation Environment

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) announces the general availability of Azure Event Grid
Also on the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka announces New in Stream Analytics: General availability of sub-streams, query compatibility, and more
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch talks about Serverless and Internet of Things with Bahram Banisadr, talks about Azure IoT Hub Integration with Azure Event Grid with Ashita Rastogi and talks about Machine Learning in IoT solutions with Ted Way on the Internet of Things Show

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller walks through Creating dashboards with content spanning Log Analytics, Application Insights and Azure
On MSDN, the Application Insights Service Team writes that All octets of IP address will be set to Zero
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) discusses Choosing an Approach to Work with Azure REST APIs
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) covers Recommendations on using Terraform to manage Azure resources

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Abhishek Pathak announces that the Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot is now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Alan Stephenson and Anitha Adusumilli announces that Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi describes the Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplification
Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) writes about One VNET to Multiple On-Premises environments with Different Gateway Types

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Sercan Guler announces that Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Kartik P V R writes Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Russell Reynolds
On MSDN, Mike Lapierre describes How to shrink a managed disk
Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) writes Zone Redundant Storage Preview v/s Classic–Compared & Contrasted
On TechNet, Srinath Vasireddy writes Troubleshooting Backup/Restore failures when using Azure Files Backup
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 86 - Deleting an item from a Azure Storage Table, Part 87 - Avoid Bad Request Errors in Azure Storage Table, Part 88 - Whats the purpose of ETag in Azure Storage Table and Part 89 - Shared Access Tokens with Azure Storage Blob Containers

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) discusses The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. 404.63.0
Also on MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) covers Azure Mobile Apps: Disable Swagger
Also on MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) discusses the Azure App Service error: AADSTS50011: The reply address http://.azurewebsites.net/signin-oidc does not match the reply addresses configured for the application:
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) explains how to Restrict public access to your Azure Web Apps with the IPSecurityRestrictions option