Azure Weekly

Issue #174 - 13th May 2018

Welcome to the largest volume of Azure Weekly EVER. We hope everyone that attended/interacted with Build had a fantastic time. Now's the time to attempt to digest some of the huge updates and announcements that came out of it - and there certainly were some biggies. If you missed some Azure talks, take a look here at the Microsoft Build Azure sessions.

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The announcements/updates section this week is pretty much a newsletter in itself, and for that reason, we thought we'd structure it as such. Let's begin!

AI + Machine Learning:

Analytics:

Compute:

Containers:

Databases:

Developer Tools:

DevOps:

Integration:

Internet of Things:

Management Tools:

Media:

Build 2018: What's new in Azure video processing and video AI

Migration:

Mobile:

Networking:

Azure Networking May 2018 announcements

Security:

Azure confidential computing

Storage:

Shared Image Gallery now in limited public preview

Web:

And breathe...

Aside from Build content, David Burt has written a helpful blog on GDPR: In case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars, there is a helpful blog on Azure training, and Bill Zack has provided an updated version of his Recipe for a Successful Azure User Group.

We hope you enjoy this week's newsletter!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Joseph Sirosh (@josephsirosh) writes about the Azure AI Platform announcements: New innovations for developers
Also on the Azure blog, Andy Hickl writes that Microsoft empowers developers with new and updated Cognitive Services
Lili Cheng writes that Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots
On TechNet, Matt Conners and Neta Haiby write about the Azure Machine Learning Packages for Vision, Text and Forecasting in Public Preview
On the official Microsoft blog, Frank X. Shaw talks about Advancing the future of society with AI and the intelligent edge
On the AI blog, Allison Linn writes about Real-time AI: Microsoft announces preview of Project Brainwave
At Build 2018, Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) introduces Project Kinect for Azure
Also on the Azure blog, Nayer Wanas writes about the Full-integrated experience simplifying Language Understanding in conversational AI systems
On the Tech Radar site, Kevin Lee writes that Microsoft wants to empower people with disabilities through AI for Accessibility and writes Microsoft Azure opens its eyes to AI
Tim Anderson (@timanderson) talks about Microsoft Build: Azure-powered Drones, another go with Kinect, and other key announcements
Also at Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Azure Machine Learning with Matt Winkler and talks about Cognitive Services - Language (LUIS) with Ahmed Ashour
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) blogs about Open-Source Machine Learning in Azure
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) has been busy, presenting: Teach a Bot with Project Conversation Learner with Jason Williams, What's New with Cognitive Services with Noelle LaCharite, What's New with Cognitive Services Speech SDK and Speech Devices SDK with Rob Chambers, Project Personality Chat for Bot Developers with Ron Owens, Meet the New Bot Framework Emulator with Tony Anziano, Bing Visual Search with Ravi Theja Yada, Easy Site Search Solutions with Bing Custom Search with Mahesh Balachandran, Vision Cognitive Services Updates with Kelly Freed and What’s New with Language Understanding Service (LUIS) with Ahmed Ashour
On MSDN, Enes Uysal writes about the Language Understanding Intelligent Service LUIS – 401 Access denied due to invalid subscription key. Make sure to provide a valid key for an active subscription
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Create a QnA Maker Azure Service and Connect with Knowledge Base KB Service
Also on MSDN, Enes Uysal writes about the Azure Cognitive Services Authentication Error – HTTP 401, Access denied due to invalid subscription key. Make sure to provide a valid key for an active subscription
On Channel 9, Anna Thomas and Rodrigo Souza talk about the LearnAI-Bootcamp for Emerging AI Developers: Integrating Services with BotBuilder SDK v4 Part 2/2 AI Show

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) announces that Azure Event Hubs for Kafka Ecosystems in public preview
Also on the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka announces that 4 new features are now available in Azure Stream Analytics
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team posts a number of updates: Data Factory supports wildcard file filters for Copy Activity, New connectors available in Azure Data Factory, Data Factory Lookup activity supports a rich set of connectors, Data Factory GetMetadata activity supports more sources and metadata options, Custom report tooltips and Q&A explorer available for Power BI Embedded, Azure Memory metric available for Power BI Embedded, Azure Memory Thrashing metric available for Power BI Embedded, QPU High Utilization metric available for Power BI Embedded and Azure alerts available for Power BI Embedded
Deepsha Menghani writes about the Spark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft Azure Databricks
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) answers What is Azure HDInsight?
At Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Big Data and Analytics with Shubha Vijayasarathy
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) provides a Power BI Monthly Digest – May 2018 with Manuel Quintana, covers Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 102 – Slim Data Bar KPI Visual and speaks about the PASS Summit 2018 Pre-con: Digital Storytelling with Power BI with Mitchell Pearson and Brian Knight
On the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky provides a Power BI Desktop May Feature Summary, Miguel Martinez writes that Excel announces new data visualization capabilities with Power BI custom visuals, Lukasz Pawlowski writes that Esri ArcGIS Online and Plus subscription organizational purchase are now available for ArcGIS Maps for Power BI and Nikhil Gaekwad provides a Power BI Service and Mobile April Feature Summary
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) explains How To Tell Whether Query Folding Is Taking Place When Importing Data From Analysis Services In Power BI And Excel Power Query
On Geeks with Blogs, Kevin Shyr talks about Power BI Presenting JSON data from SQL 2014 Table

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Matthew Kerner blogs about Simplifying blockchain app development with Azure Blockchain Workbench
At Build 2018, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure Blockchain with Brenda Lee and talks about Azure Service Fabric with Matthew Snider
Chacko Daniel writes about Azure Service Fabric at Microsoft Build 2018
Juergen Thomas announces that Azure M-series VMs are now SAP HANA certified
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team highlights the GUID Migration: E64i VM series
On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wrijugh) blogs about Bulk VM creation from CSV using Azure PowerShell
Eduardo Laureano describes how to Break through the serverless barriers with Azure Functions
At Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Azure Functions with Chris Gillum
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) writes about Why you should use Durable Functions sub-orchestrations
On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri walks through Building a simple Azure Function using Visual Studio Code and Bot framework Direct Line for a custom Alexa skill
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Create Azure Functions using Visual Studio and deploy it to Azure and discusses Using Deployment slots for Azure Function
On TechNet, the Intune Support Team covers Automating delivery of Message Center posts to Teams and Outlook using an Azure function

🚢 Containers

On the Azure blog, Gabe Monroy blogs about Kubernetes on Azure: Industrys best end-to-end Kubernetes experience
Also on the Azure blog, Keiko Harada talks about Monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Monitor container health (preview)
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) explains how to Get Started with Kubernetes (AKS) in Azure and describes Understanding identities in Azure AKS / Kubernetes
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – The best place to host your containers
On Microsoft + Open Source, Anand Chandramohan writes about the New hands-on labs: Create containerized apps with Kubernetes in Azure
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson present Episode 251 | Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Dev Spaces Live from Build
At Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Sean McKenna and talks about Azure Container Instances with Justin Luk
Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) announces that Azure Container Registry makes geo-replication generally available, adding lifecycle management capabilities
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team highlights the GUID migration: Container Instances
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) describes how to Auto-Deploy Container Images as Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes Azure Container Hosting Demystified
Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) talks about OpenShift on Azure: The easiest, fully managed OpenShift in the cloud

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Govind Kanshi, Anitha Adusumilli and Sumeet Mittal write that Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure CosmosDB is now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Rimma Nehme (@rimmanehme) describes Sharing provisioned throughput across multiple containers in Azure CosmosDB and writes about Azure CosmosDB @ Build 2018: The catalyst for next generation apps
Also on the Azure blog, Ramnandan Krishnamurth introduces the Azure CosmosDB Bulk Executor library
Kirill Gavrylyuk announces the new Async Java SDK for Azure CosmosDB
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht provides an Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB Security
Igor Stanko announces that Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports automatic creation of statistics
Kevin Ngo describes how to Extract management insights from SQL Data Warehouse with SQL Operations Studio
The Azure updates team writes about the Name changes: Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen1 and Gen2
At Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Data Platform Modernization with Kevin Farlee
On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar writes that The Microsoft data platform continues momentum for cloud-scale innovation and migration
On MSDN, Dimitri Furman covers Azure SQL DB Managed Instance – sp_readmierrorlog
On MSDN, Dimitri Furman talks about CPU and Memory Allocation on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
On MSDN, Lukas Steindl explains how to Connect Node.js to SQL Azure with Tedious
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) provides an Azure SQL Database Table Partitioning Example
On MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) writes Lesson Learned 46: Showing hidden Azure SQL Database types in the Portal, Lesson Learned 47: Do you have connectivity issues to Azure SQL DB from your PC, Lesson Learned 48: Does Azure SQL Database Managed Instance support Resource Governor and Lesson Learned 49: Does Azure SQL Database support Azure Active Directory connections using Service Principals
Mohamed Baioumy writes about the Export Azure SQL DB Error: "Missing the required 'administratorLogin' parameters for ImportExport operation."

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the VS Code blog, Amanda Silver (@amandaksilver) reveals the Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview and, on MSDN, introduces Visual Studio IntelliCode
At Build 2018, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Visual Studio Live Share with Jon Chu
John Montgomery (@JohnMont) announces the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1
Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) talks about Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond
On Geeks with Blogs, Richard Jones writes about Visual Studio Code - On Mac Talking to SQL Server
On Channel 9, Chris Lauren talks about Style Transfer
James van Den Berg explains how to Deploy Azure WebApp with Visual Studio Code and Play with Kudu and App Service Editor and VSC

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Shashank Bansal describes the Release Gates – Enable Progressive Exposure and Phased Deployments
Also on MSDN, Atul Malaviya (@AZooInMyLuggage) writes about Azure DevOps Project: New feature additions
Also on MSDN, Erin Dormier announces that the Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 is now available
Michael S. Hansen covers Team Foundation Server and GitHub Enterprise in Azure
On the Azure blog, Nat Friedman reveals the New Integrations for GitHub Developers
On the Visual Studio site, the VSTS team writes Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using DevOps Projects - VSTS Sprint 134 Update
New Azure Lab Services on Azure
At Build 2018, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about VSTS - Agile and VSTS - CI/CD with Abel Wang and talks about VSTS - Git and TFVC with Edward Thomson
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team presents Episode 228 - Live from Build with Donovan Brown, Damian Brady and Mark Bloodworth
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about Multi-environment deployments for Compiled C# Azure Functions with VSTS Release Management
On the .NET Curry blog, Gouri Sohoni covers Load Testing with Azure and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
On MSDN, Matthew Mitrik describes how to Shift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration
Also on MSDN, Rui Melo writes about the VSTS Gems – Analytics Extention 1 – Analytical widgets
Also on MSDN, Wael Kdouh (@waelkdouh) describes Integrating Angular Unit Tests With Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Using Headless Chrome and Puppeteer
Also on MSDN, Willy-P. Schaub lists the Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.04

🎭 Identity

On TechNet, Mark O'Shea (@intunedin) writes about the New Microsoft 365 Business Capabilities – Identity Enhancements
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about the Developer toolkit for working with Azure AD B2C JWT-protected APIs
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes How to create a new Azure Active Directory
Also on MSDN, Frank Hu talks about Receiving AADSTS90094: The grant requires admin permission.

🔌 Integration

On the Azure blog, Bahram Banisadr writes about the Better integrations and higher productivity with Azure Event Grid
Also on the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) announces the first-class support for CloudEvents on Azure
On MSDN, David Burg (@david_burg) writes about the Azure Logic App SAP Connector: troubleshooting 504 BadGateway Request to SAP server timed out. and explains how to Validate and troubleshoot Azure Logic App WebHook trigger pattern for API connector
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen walks through Loading Synthea FHIR Data with Logic Apps and Functions in Azure Government
On TechNet, Dirk Brinkmann blogs about Creating Logic App API connection to query a Log Analytics workspace via ARM template
Ed Price (@UserEd_) writes about the Azure Virtual Datacenter: New Portal and Presentation Deck
Jeffrey Harness writes about Common problems related to using third-party IDPs with Azure and Office365

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton announces Azure Maps
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Search in Azure Maps, What's new for Search in Azure Maps with Julie Kohler, Traffic in Azure Maps with Julie Kohler and Time Zones in Azure Maps with Julie Kohler, talks about Designing with Azure Maps with Shan Foisy, and talks about Routing with Azure Maps and Visualizing Data with Azure Maps Web Map Control with Ricky Brundritt
On the Azure blog, Arjmand Samuel talks about What's new with Azure IoT Edge?
Also on the Azure blog, Henry Jerez blogs about Accelerating AI on the intelligent edge: Microsoft and Qualcomm create vision AI developer kit
Also on the Azure blog, Hector Garcia Tellado writes that Azure IoT solution accelerators bring the next wave of innovation
On the Microsoft blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) writes Unlocking the IoT promise—from the intelligent cloud to the intelligent edge
On the Microsoft site, a Microsoft reporter (@MicrosoftUK) writes that DJI and Microsoft partner to bring advanced drone technology to the enterprise
Scott Guthrie writes that New Azure innovations are helping developers write code today for tomorrows technology challenges
Marc Goodner describes Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio
At Build 2018, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure Sphere with Caitie McCaffrey and talks about Azure IoT Central with Miriam Berhane Russom
Also at Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Azure IoT Edge with Olivier Bloch
Also on the Azure blog, Venkat Yalla explains how to Manage Azure IoT Edge deployments with Kubernetes
On MSDN, Enes Uysal talks about when the Azure Iot Hub shows an cloud image with a single blue raindrop

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Simon Davies introduces the Azure Terraform Resource Provider
Also on the Azure blog, Catherine Wang writes about the Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger
At Build 2018, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Monitoring and Application Insights with Shankar Sivadasan
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about Azure Log Analytics – Get Data Types
Also on the Azure blog, Anurag Mehrotra writes about the Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Somerset County Council
Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) writes about when the Azure Template DSC Never Starts
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Double-click on Azure Portal dashboard to change the theme, writes Azure Portal Tip: Check deployments of Azure resources from the Resource Group and writes Azure Portal Tip: Quickly create Azure services from the Saved List

🎬 Media

On the Azure blog, John Deutscher writes about Build 2018: What's new in Azure video processing and video AI

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On TechNet, Charity Shelbourne writes about the Azure Stack Identity: Choosing the right Azure Stack Identity Model

🚌 Migration

On the Azure blog, Raghavendran Gururajan announces that Azure Database Migration Service now generally available
On the Microsoft site, a Microsoft reporter (@MicrosoftUK) writes that A new cloud tool lets you move millions of books-worth of data to Azure incredibly quickly
Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) talks about Azure Migrate – Discovery, Azure Migrate – Assessment and Azure Migrate – Dependency Monitor

📱 Mobile

On the Azure blog, Ilse Terrazas Ortega announces that the Azure mobile app is now generally available
On MSDN, Patrick Nikoletich (@null_pat) writes about the App Center: API-First CI/CD for iOS and Android App Development
Also on MSDN, Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) announces the Hyper-V Android emulator support
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Azure Blob Storage for Mobile with Brandon Minnick
On the Xamarin blog, David Ortinau explains how to Try the Latest Release of Xamarin.Forms 3.0
On MSDN, Ayushmaan Seth writes about Augmented Reality for children at Great Ormond Street Hospital

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi writes about the Azure Networking May 2018 announcements

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Mark Russinovich describes Azure confidential computing
Also on the Azure blog, David Burt writes In case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes about the Azure Security Center Integration with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Servers
On MSDN, Najib Zarrari describes Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Chetan Agarwal announces that Shared Image Gallery now in limited public preview
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes that Microsoft quietly released Azure Storage Explorer 1.0.0

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Daniel Gicklhorn announces Microsoft's own Content Delivery Network
Also on the Azure blog, Pablo Castro announces Cognitive Search: Azure Search + cognitive capabilities
On Channel 9, Brian Smith and Corom Thompson talk about the JFK Files – Cognitive services
Also on the Azure blog, David Fowler announces the Azure SignalR Service, a fully-managed service to add real-time functionality
Also on the Azure blog, Nir Mashkowski writes about App Service: Adding multi-container capabilities and Linux support for App Service Environment
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team highlights the Name changes and GUID migration in Azure App Service on Linux Standard plan, Azure App Service on Linux Premium plan and Azure App Service on Linux Basic plan
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team highlights the June 2018 version updates to PHP
At Build 2018, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure App Service with Stefan Schackow
On MSDN, Jim Cheshire writes about the Things You Should Know: Web Apps and SSH
Also on MSDN, Thad Kittelson writes that Web Apps making changes to FTP deployments
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen covers HAPI FHIR in Azure PaaS and writes about the FHIR Server with Azure API Management
Also on MSDN, Frank Hu describes Receiving CORS Redirection Error when Signing into App Service using Azure AD
Also on MSDN, Joseph Fultz describes Automating Process Dump for Azure Functions using Kudu and Alerts