Azure Weekly

Issue #168 - 1st April 2018

It's a huge edition of Azure Weekly this week, so brace yourselves.

Some particularly interesting announcements: there is now Virtual Machine Serial Console access, Deployment Groups in VSTS/TFS is now generally available, and Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs is now in public preview.

Now for the other announcements, which I've put in the order of the newsletter's categories:

If you're into game development, there has been an influx of videos on Channel 9 from the Level Up show in the past week. View them all on the Level Up channel.

There is an article describing how to Accelerate Your GDPR compliance with Microsoft Cloud, a wide-spanning video on how to Build a Company in Azure, and Tony Smith writes: So you want to run an Azure Hothouse?

In another interesting article, we're told how to Use the power of Azure Functions and Cognitive Services to collect Geolocation information by Patrick van Kleef.

Finally, a gentle reminder about the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018. Do get involved!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On MSDN, Buck Woody gives an Introduction to the Microsoft AI Platform
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez talks about Operationalization of ML model using Azure ML and Kubernetes cluster with Parashar Shah Part 4/4 AI Show
Also on MSDN, Jamie Dalton describes YOLO on Azure Deep Learning Virtual Machine Windows
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) explains how to Generate image captions with the Computer Vision API
Also on MSDN, Greg Oliver walks through Using Microsoft Azure Video Indexer
On MSDN, Natalie Afshar explains How to build a chat bot in 10 minutes

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces that Azure Data Factory now supports Azure AD authentication
On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar delves into Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark
Also on the Azure blog, John Macintyre describes how to Unlock your data's potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Databricks
Also on the Azure blog, Matt Goswell discusses Implementation patterns for big data and data warehouse on Azure
On MSDN, Wesley Backelant (@WesleyBackelant) writes Modernizing "Did my dad influence me?" – Part 2
On the Power BI blog, Adam Wilson blogs about Microsoft Power BI achieves HITRUST CSF certification
Also on MSDN, Natalie Afshar blogs about Analytics on the go with Power BI
On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta (@siddhumehta) explains how to Integrate data driven Visio diagrams in Power BI Reports
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) posts Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 95 – VitaraCharts–MicroChart and Module 96 – Enlighten Waffle Chart
On the Tallan blog, Kenneth Philcox introduces the Calendar by Tallan Power BI Custom Visualization

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) writes about Virtual Machine Serial Console access, on Channel 9, talks about Azure Serial Console with Hariharan Jayaraman and Scott Hanselman also talks about Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console with Hariharan Jayaraman on Azure Friday
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces the General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
Also on MSDN, Mahesh M Kshirsagar discusses Running ASP.Net Core 2.0 web application on Windows Azure Virtual Machine Scaleset VMSS
Patrick van Kleef describes how to Use the power of Azure Functions and Cognitive Services to collect Geolocation information
On Github, Chris Gillum (@cgillum) describes the Azure Functions Durable Extension Beta 3.1 release
John Savill describes how to Use an Application Image from the Azure Marketplace using PowerShell
On TechNet, Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) shares some Lessons learned deploying Azure MarketPlace Virtual Machine
On the Kloud blog, AJ Bajada writes Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed
On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri writes Terraform and Azure Better Together! Deploying Azure Function via Terraform
Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) posts some Blockchain Azure samples and resources for building interesting Blockchain projects and solutions

🚢 Containers

On Microsoft + Open Source, Greg DeRenne discusses Deploying a Java application on Azure Container Service and Cosmos DB
On Channel 9, Alena Hall (@lenadroid) presents Part 3 of 4: Create a Web App for Containers and set up a web hook The Open Source Show
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Serverless Media Processing with Azure Container Instances
On MSDN, Andreas Helland writes Building Microservices with AKS and VSTS – Part 1

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Ayo Olubeko announces that Azure SQL Data Warehouse now generally available in all Azure regions worldwide
Also on the Azure blog, Kuber Sharma explains How Catania secures public data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
On Capside, José Luis Martínez describes Using Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DataWarehouse with Perl
Also on the Azure blog, Alice Kupcik writes Preview: SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption with Azure Key Vault configuration checklist
On MSDN, Gennady Kostinsky explains how to Migrate SQL Server databases from a Google Cloud Engine instance to Azure SQL Database using the Azure Database Migration Service
Also on MSDN, Mohamed Baioumy describes how to Export Azure SQL Database to local path
Also on MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) posts Lesson Learned #33: How to make “cliconfg” to work with SQL Alias (on-premises) to Azure SQL Azure (PaaS), Lesson Learned #34: Does Azure SQL Database support OPENJSON? and Lesson Learned #35: How to transfer the login and user from OnPremise to Azure SQL Database
Also on MSDN, Andr Csar Rodrigues walks through Migrating data On-Premises to Azure with the new Azure Database Migration Service VPN Site-to-Site
Also on MSDN, Gennady Kostinsky writes Troubleshoot Site-to-Site VPN Connectivity Issues with On-Premises Source DB for Azure Database Migration Service
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Martin provides an Introduction to Azure SQL Database Managed Instances
On the .NET Curry blog, Shreya Verma writes about the New SQL Graph Features in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2017
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team and guest Andrew Liu present Episode 221 - Graph API
On the Xamarin blog, Matt Soucoup describes Performing Geospatial Calculations with Azure CosmosDB
On Channel 9, James Montemagno and Brandon Minnick talk about Scalable + Secure Data with CosmosDB for Mobile on The Xamarin Show
On Code Project, Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan describes Utilizing Azure Redis Cache as backend for chat app
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner writes Exploring Azure Table Storage with PowerShell

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Vlad Vinogradsky posts some API Management Release notes – March 28, 2018
Also on MSDN, Roopesh Nair announces that VSTS Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more
Also on MSDN, Alex Nichols describes Whats new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update
Also on MSDN, Sandeep Chadda writes about the Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains how to Provide non-admin users with read-only access to Service Endpoints in VSTS
Also on MSDN, Justin Marks writes that Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD
Also on MSDN, Shmulik Ahituv writes VSTS Gems- Release gates
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) carries on the Azure Tips and Tricks series, with Part 106 - Introducing Azure Tips and Tricks Video. Also, carrying on with the 'An end to end scenario with Azure App Service, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD' sub-series, we have Part 107 - Day 6, Part 108 - Day 7 and Part 109 - Day 8
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and James Montemagno present Azure + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Great Mobile Apps
James van Den Berg writes that Microsoft Azure DevTest LAB is Great for Education and DevOps
Also on Channel 9, Donovan Brown talks about Using Habitat in Azure with Nick Rycar on Azure Friday
On the .NET Curry blog, Sandeep Chadda discusses Microsoft's Devops story
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces that Azure SDK for Go v15 is available

🎭 Identity

On MSDN, Latha Natarajan and Sujith Nair explain how to Accelerate Your GDPR compliance with Microsoft Cloud
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes Exploring the Identity & Access dashboard in Azure Security Center and talks about Going beyond the signature with behavior analytics in Azure Security Center
Also on TechNet, 'Kemckinn' describes Easy Configuration of the Azure Information Protection Scanner
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) covers Adding users to an Azure Active Directory domain and walks through Adding groups to an Azure Active Directory domain
Also on MSDN, 'SailingRock' writes about Multi-tenant apps and Azure AD
On TechNet, Matt Soseman points to numerous Azure Active Directory Resources

🔌 Integration

On the Codit blog, Sagar Sharma describes Installing and Configuring on-premise data gateway for Logic Apps
On MSDN, David Burg explains how to Enable SAP NCo library logging/tracing for Azure On-Premises Data Gateway and the SAP Connector
Also on MSDN, Justin Conway writes about the Important Updates About Us and Access Control Service

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Sabee Grewal announces that Azure Event Hubs integration with Apache Spark now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces the Public preview: Event Hubs for Go
Also on MSDN, Shubha Vijayasarathy writes that Azure Event Hubs Geo-DR configurations, now enabled in all Azure regions
On Channel 9, Rich Lander and Bahram Banisadr talk about Cloud scale events with Azure Event Grid On .NET
On MSDN, Jie Su writes Now in Public Preview: Visual Studio tools for Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson present Episode 244: Developer Surveys & Azure Stream Analytics
On the Kloud blog, Darren Doc Robinson describes Building a Teenager Notification Service using Azure IoT an Azure Function, Microsoft Flow, Mongoose OS and a Micro Controller
On TechNet, Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) writes Connect Your IoT Devices to Cloud with Azure IoT Hub
Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch talks about TPM Based Authentication For IoT Devices with Tony Ercolano on the Internet of Things Show and talks about the Azure IoT Hub features for device management with Chris Green

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Anirudh Cavale announces the Azure Monitor–General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
Also on the Azure blog, Arun Chandrasekhar announces the Terraform availability in the Azure Marketplace
Also on the Azure blog, Dushyant Gill announces the Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts today
On Channel 9, the Azure team posts an Introductory video on Azure Service Health
Also on the Azure blog, Vinod Kurpad announces that Support for tags in cost management APIs is now available
Martynas Valkunas blogs about Azure Subscription Management with Resource Providers
On MSDN, Peter Groenewegen describes Deployment Pipelines For Versioned Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments
Callon Campbell describes How to Lock Azure Resources and Prevent Unexpected Changes or Deletions
Also on MSDN, Ganesh Alalasundaram provides a Beginner's Guide to Azure Automation
John Savill covers Writing to files with Azure Automation
Callon Campbell talks about Getting Started with Application Insights for ASP.NET Core and explains How to Disable Azure Application Insights in ASP.NET Core
On the Clear Pointe blog, Clear Pointe point out their upcoming Azure Log Analytics Webinar
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about the Azure Cloud Shell Button WordPress Plugin
Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) writes about the Azure Mobile App

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On TechNet, Robert Kuehfus describes how to Drive consistency with Azure Stack and CSP

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Subra Sarma announces that Azure DNS Private Zones now available in public preview
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team writes about the General availability: Disable BGP route propagation for virtual network routes
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces the General availability: Standard Load Balancer and on the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi writes about the The new Azure Load Balancer – 10x scale increase
On MSDN, Igor Pagliai (@igorpag) describes the Azure Load Balancer – A new Standard SKU for Premium Capabilities
Also on MSDN, David Sanchez writes that Azure Application Gateway uses the Load Balancer
John Savill describes how to Easily create multiple subnets in an Azure Virtual Network
On the Insentra blog, Richard Young posts a video: The Citrix Summit Series: Aaron Parker and Nabeel Youakim

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Michael Hauss announces that Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview
Also on the Azure blog, Rena Shah announces the General availability of Azure Files share snapshot

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Michael S. Hansen describes VSTS/TFS Continuous Deployment to App Service Environment ASE after Disabling TLS 1.0 and talks about Azure Active Directory Authentication Easy Auth with Custom Backend Web API
On MSDN, Vijetha Marinagammanavar blogs about Getting started with Azure App Services Development