Azure Weekly

Issue #177 - 3rd June 2018

Onto the Azure news: after the torrent of updates in the last few weeks, there is a bit of a lull in this issue:

This week I wanted to focus on highlighting the work of the new Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences team, led by General Manager Paul Maher. The team currently focuses on the following industries: Health & Life Sciences, Retail, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Banking & Capital Markets. In the last few weeks they have published a number of interesting articles and solutions worth highlighting:

Health & Life Sciences:

Retail:

Insurance:

Manufacturing:

Banking & Capital Markets:

We'll continue to feature the work from this team, as they publish more content and solution guides over the coming months, as guidance for how you take the myriad of Azure Services and make them relevant to industry is vital for increased cloud adoption.

Finally, this week we're excited to welcome back our ex-employee Carmel, who has decided (after a brief tour of the world) that endjin is the place for her. Read about her first week in her blog: From collection vans to collection interfaces – my first week back at endjin. Stayed tuned to our blog for more updates on the progress of our apprentices and all of our their work.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) describes Analyzing images using Azure Cognitive Services and announces that he is Speaking about Computer Vision at Riga Dev Days 2018
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Azure Custom Vision: How to Train and Identify Unique Designs or Image Content with Ruth Yakubu
On MSDN, Sheri Gilley explains how to Build Your Own Image Similarity Model
On the Microsoft site, a reporter writes that A UK company that specialises in face-scanning is helping the US control its borders

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) describes how to Gain application insights for Big Data solutions using Unravel data on Azure HDInsight
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) covers HDInsight HBase: Migrating to new HDInsight version
Also on MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) describes How to use DBeaver with Azure HDInsight
On the Azure blog, Deepsha Menghani writes about the Webinar: Getting started with Apache Spark on Azure Databricks
On MSDN, Ajeta Singhal explains how to Get started with U-SQL: Its easy
Richard Seroter (@rseroter) describes How to use the Kafka interface of Azure Event Hubs with Spring Cloud Stream
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) walks through Implementing & Automating Azure Stream Analytics Pipeline
James Serra (@JamesSerra) describes Getting value out of data quickly
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) provides A Few More Power BI Roadmap Details From The Dynamics 365 Release Notes
Also on MSDN, Chris Mitchell (@sqlbulldog) describes Connecting to Blob Storage with a Shared Access Signature in Power BI
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) posts Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 105 – Text Wrapper MAQ Software

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) announces that M-Series certified for SAP HANA and available worldwide
Also on the Azure blog, Venkat Gattamneni writes that Microsoft continues to be a leader in Gartner's Cloud IaaS MQ
On MSDN, Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj writes about the Service Fabric 6.2 Refresh Release (CU2)
On MSDN, Guru Satish Piduru and Mahendar Madhavaram walk through Running .NET Core 2.0 applications in a Linux Service Fabric Cluster on Azure
Also on MSDN, Pratyaydeep Chanda explains how to Install .NET Core in Linux using Azure Batch Start Task
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) describes how to Use Azure AD to login to Azure Linux virtual machines
Also on MSDN, Calvin Hsia blogs about Getting more disk space, Symbolic Links and Azure Virtual Machines
On Code Project, Brandon H (@bc3tech) walks through Creating an XML JSON Converter in Azure Functions, describes Azure and Alexa, Creating Conversation with Ease and explains how to Make Serverless Music – Orchestrate your workflow with Azure Part 3 – Azure Functions
Also on Code Project, Yawer Iqbal (@yaweriqbal) blogs about Azure Functions: Can't connect when clock wrong

🚢 Containers

On MSDN, Michael S. Hansen explains how to Get Started with Kubernetes in Azure Government and blogs about Kubernetes Ingress in Azure Government

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Mark Bolz announces that VNet service endpoints for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL in preview
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team highlights the Name changes: Azure SQL Database long-term backup retention for Australia
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains How to backup SQL Server Named Instance to Azure Blob Storage

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Cristy Gonzalez writes about the New Updates for Azure Development in Visual Studio and Christine Ruana writes about the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 2
On Channel 9, Robert Green talks about The Present and Not-too-distant Future of Visual Studio Part 1 with Amanda Silver, Kendra Havens and Anthony Cangelosi
Also on Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about mFractor: Visual Studio for Mac's Best Friend with Matthew Robbins
On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell discuss Azure Tooling for Visual Studio with Paul Yuknewicz and Andrew Hall
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Create a Project from Existing Code Files in Visual Studio, explains how to Keep Visual Studio debugger ON when the browser is closed, describes how to Quickly navigate through Visual Studio IDE, describes how to Quickly Move Between Methods in Visual Studio and writes about Azure Logic Apps with Visual Studio Cloud Explorer
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes The year of Linux on the Windows Desktop - WSL Tips and Tricks
On Code Project, Rebaï Hamida provides an Azure Blockchain Workbench Guide
Also on the Azure blog, Yi Zhong explains how to Make Azure IoT Hub C SDK work on tiny devices
Also on Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about Deploying Node.js Applications from VS Code to Kubernetes with Brendan Burns
On TechNet, Linda Lee Chapman writes about the Microsoft Official Certification Site and Azure Exams and Free Training
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes Are Free Tier Cloud Services Worth The Cost?

🔩 DevOps

On the Visual Studio site, the VSTS team describes how to Visualize release progress—VSTS Sprint 135 Update
On MSDN, Willy-P. Schaub (@wpschaub) lists the Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.25
Also on MSDN, Rui Melo writes about the VSTS Gems – Preview Features
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) provides A workaround for the error TF14061: The workspace ws118Project Collection Build Service does not exist when mapping a TFVC workspace
On Channel 9, Damian Brady talks about Continuous Availability Deepak Saini and Vinod Kumar - LIVE at Build 2018
Also on MSDN, Elizabeth R Maher covers Troubleshooting VM and Environment Creation Failures for DevTest Labs

🎭 Identity

On the Kloud blog, Bruce Albany explains how to Prevent double-app-loading behaviour with ADAL.js
Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) explains how to Disable Already Removed Azure AD Connect and How To Remove Orphaned “Synced” Users/Groups From Azure AD
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) posts Two new videos on Azure AD – Conditional Access and Tokens

🔌 Integration

On MSDN, Ryan Berry writes Cloud Simplified: A practical webcast to demystify Azure features

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) writes about Digging in with Azure IoT: Our interactive developer guide, and, on Channel 9, presents: COPA-DATA tells us about integrating IoT solutions in manufacturing and public sector with Johannes Petrowisch and talks about Azure IoT Hub automatic device configuration with Chris Green
On MSDN, Wu Shuai describes how to Bring Custom Vision into Azure IoT Edge
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 126 - Getting Started with Azure IoT Central

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller describes How to send any data you want to Log Analytics without code and writes some Tips when debugging sub-queries in the New Query Language For Log Analytics
On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team discusses Log Analytics query language recommendations for Summarize and Join operators
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) discusses Azure Log Analytics – Testing JOINs Part 1 and Part 2
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) gets Hands on with the Azure Resource Manager Terraform Provider
Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) discusses Azure Management Groups
On MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) explains how to Create Service Principal in Linux for Azure Automation
James van Den Berg explains how to Protect your HyperV Virtual Machines from Windows Admin Center with Azure Site Recovery WAC ASR
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 127 - Mount a drive and upload files to Cloud Shell
On TechNet, Senthilkumar Pandurangan writes about Intune: How to Schedule Reboot for Windows 10 & Surface Hub devices enrolled to Intune

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about the 70-537 exam: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack

📱 Mobile

On Channel 9, Nikola Metulev talks about Mixed Reality + Azure with Neil Roodyn
On Code Project, Suchit R. Khunt explains How to fetch contacts in Xamarin iOS
On the Visual Studio Magazine, Greg Shackles (@gshackles) talks about Styling Xamarin.Forms Apps with CSS
On the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas describes Contributing to Xamarin.Android
Also on the Xamarin blog, Rob Gibbens posts Xamarin University Presents: Guest Lectures from Industry Luminaries

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) writes about Receiving and handling HTTP requests anywhere with the Azure Relay

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Avi Ben-Menahem writes about 3 reasons why Azure's infrastructure is secure
Also on the Azure blog, Ram Pliskin writes that Azure Security Center can identify attacks targeting Azure App Service applications

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Michael Hauss announces that Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs generally available
Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team writes about the Refresh 2 release for Azure File Sync preview
On TechNet, Luke Brennan covers Azure – PowerShell setting Blob Tiers

🔗 Web

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) describes Implementing Azure API Management with the Lithnet Microsoft Identity Manager Rest API
Also on the Kloud blog, Edmond Guo describes how to Back up API Management Service to blob storages by calling Azure API from .Net App
On MSDN, Miao Jiang writes about the Potential change to API Management IP addresses
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) covers Securing an Azure App Service Website under SSL in minutes with Let's Encrypt
On Code Project, Arkadeep De (@ArkadeepDe) explains how to Deploy your site to Azure App service from Visual Studio
On TechNet, Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) explains how to Create and Host your Node.js API in Azure