Azure Weekly
Issue #163 - 25th February 2018
New Azure GxP guidelines help pharmaceutical and biotech customers build GxP solutions
Patch Orchestration Application now available for Ubuntu Linux Service Fabric clusters.
Introducing backup for Azure file shares
Getting started in Machine Learning: Google vs Databricks vs AzureML vs R
Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid
Spring Security Azure AD: Wire up enterprise grade authentication and authorization
Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin
Strategies to realizing Cost Savings in Azure
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Jen Stirrup writes Getting started in Machine Learning: Google vs Databricks vs AzureML vs R
- On MSDN, Buck Woody discusses The Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Landscape – And What to use When
- On the Azure blog, Milan Gada talks about Using AI to automatically redact faces in videos
- Also on MSDN, Johannes Goslar discusses Mission Hack- Cognitive Services, Bots, IOT and gaming fun and Shu Ishida covers Computer Vision Workshop using Microsoft Computer Vision API, Customvision.ai and Cognitive Tool CNTK+KERAS
- On the Azure blog, Joseph Sirosh (@josephsirosh) and Riham Mansour blog about LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding
- On the Xamarin blog, Prashant Cholachagudda writes Use CoreML And Azure To Create Simple Xamarin.iOS Apps
🔎 Analytics
- Tony Smith (@tpsmith99) and Alice Kupcik cover Solving GDPR Discovery via Azure Data Catalog
- On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team and guest Pranav Rastogi present Episode 216 - HDInsights, Big Data & Open Source
- On MSDN, Samuel Lester writes Help I cant close the Power BI Desktop Splash Screen and blogs Understanding the differences between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Desktop Optimized for Power BI Report Server
- On TechNet, Chris Walden describes Using Power BI to visualise your data
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) posts Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 91 – Smart Filter by OKViz
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta (@siddhumehta) coers Performance Analysis using Ribbon Charts in Power BI Desktop and Scott Murray gives an Introduction to Power BI Report Server
🖥️ Compute
- On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team announces that the Patch Orchestration Application now available for Ubuntu Linux Service Fabric clusters.
- On the Azure blog, Ben Cotton writes about Cray in Azure for weather forecasting
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes Discover Managed Disk Snapshots
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about the Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk on Azure Friday
- On the Kloud blog, John Downs writes Cosmos DB Server-Side Programming with TypeScript – Part 6: Build and Deployment
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains How to audit an Azure Cosmos DB
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Quickly connect Azure Cosmos DB with your applications using Visual Studio Connected Services
- On Code Project, Tom Ling describes Creating a Serverless REST API with Cosmos DB on Azure
- On the Azure blog, Anitah Cantele tells us to Get started with Azure Cosmos DB through this technical training series
- Also on the Azure blog, Joseph Sack talks about Migrating to Azure SQL Database with zero downtime for read-only workloads
- Also on the Azure blog, Xiaochen Wu describes how to Sync SQL data in large scale using Azure SQL Data Sync
- Jen Stirrup writes about Dynamic Data Masking in Azure SQL Datawarehouse
- On MSDN, Scott Epperly writes about the SET IMPLICITTRANSACTIONS Behavior On Azure SQL Data Warehouse and APS
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Haroon Ashraf writes about Basic Database Continuous Integration and Delivery CI/CD using Visual Studio Team Services VSTS
- On MSDN, Sriram B talks about Data source bindings for TFS/VSTS REST APIs
- On the .NET Curry blog, Gouri Sohoni describes a Custom Build Task in Visual Studio Team Services VSTS
- On Channel 9, Damian Brady talks about Deploying to On-Premises Servers with VSTS with Abel Wang on The DevOps Lab
- Also on MSDN, Hamid Shahid writes Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Rangers VSTS Extensions Work Stream
- Also on MSDN, Dan Hellem writes about the New VSTS Messaging Extension for Microsoft Teams
- Also on MSDN, Shmulik Ahituv writes VSTS Gems- Identify stale branches
- On the Azure blog, Yaron Prigal describes Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno talks about Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Laurent Bugnion on The Xamarin Show
- On the Xamarin blog, Adam Hartley explains how to Create and Host tvOS TVML Apps with Azure and Xamarin
- Also on MSDN, Craig Dunn and Rajen Kishna present Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin
- Donovan Brown explains how to Add DevOps Project Tile to Azure Portal Dashboard
- Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) describes how to Extract Azure Icons from Azure Portal
- On MSDN, Doug Owens covers Enabling ALM Tooling in the Cloud for PubSec Customers
🎭 Identity
- On the Azure blog, Yitao Dong describes Spring Security Azure AD: Wire up enterprise grade authentication and authorization
- On the Kloud blog, Darren Doc Robinson talks about Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager v2, k-Anonymity and Have I Been Pwned
- K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) discusses Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core with Azure AD Groups and describes Managing Azure AD Group Claims in ASP.NET Core
- On TechNet, Michael Niehaus writes Afraid of Windows 10 with Azure AD join Try it out (part 2)
- Also on TechNet, Theo Browning explains how to Add an application to Azure Active Directory so your application can gain access to resources through APIs.
- John Savill describes how to Quickly check who are Global Admins in your Azure AD with PowerShell
- Also on TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes about Testing Azure Security Center Detections Capabilities
🔌 Integration
- On MSDN, Christian Wolf reveals that Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid
- Also on MSDN, Shubha Vijayasarathy explains how to Enable Service Bus Geo-DR configurations using PowerShell
- Also on MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) describes Setting up Azure for your Enterprise
- On TechNet, Courtenay Bernier explains how to Scan file servers, network shares, and SharePoint with Azure Information Protection Scanner
💡 Internet of Things
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch talks about Getting started with Azure IoT Edge development and Optimizing Azure IoT Edge development with VS Code and the IoT Edge Dev Tool with Jon Gallant on the Internet of Things Show
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 96 - Getting up and started with Azure IoT MXChip
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On MSDN, Girish discusses Strategies to realizing Cost Savings in Azure
- On MSDN, Sachin K Dubey announces that Azure US Government regions on Azure Status page
- On TechNet, Theo Browning describes how to Check all Resources in a Resource Group for the presence of a configured Alert Rule with PowerShell. and how to Edit/Update an Azure Alert Rule: Part 1 Using Azure PowerShell Cmdlets.
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains How to move Azure Resources from one Azure Subscription to another
- Also on MSDN, Nicole Welch writes about Azure Automation–Using Sample Runbooks in Azure Government
- Also on MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) writes Azure PowerShell Login Remember Me
- Assaf Neufeld (@assaf__) writes about Monitoring and Scaling your Azure Functions
- Also on MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) explains how to Know your Azure Subscription Quota and Usage
🌐 Networking
- On MSDN, Mike Ketchum writes about the Networking Features Recently Made Generally Available in Azure Government
- On the Azure blog, Dhruv Malik and Anitha Adusumilli writes about the VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database
- On TechNet, Daniel Mauser describes how to Use AzureRMAppGWCert to list certificate details of Azure App Gateway
- Also on TechNet, Richard Spitz writes Just enough BGP to get your Azure dual-redundancy, active-active VPN gateways up and running
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Vishnu Charan TJ writes Introducing backup for Azure file shares
- Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) writes Oops I Deleted My Blobs What Can I Do
🔗 Web
- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about az webapp new - Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or nodejs site in one command
- On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes How to delete your Azure App Service deployment credential, writes What is the current .NET version on an Azure App Service and explains How to check the version of .NET Core on an Azure App Service
- Also on MSDN, Stuart Leeks (@stuartleeks) talks about Azure Functions and App Service Authentication
- On TechNet, Yasintha Perera describes How to host WordPress site on Microsoft Azure