Azure Weekly

Issue #181 - 1st July 2018

Just as I was preparing this edition I received an email notifying me that my MVP award has been renewed for another year; I'm pretty pleased about that.

There are quite a few announcements this week; the main being about Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. We're HUGE Data Lake fans; we've built a number of large Data Lake solution across different industries based on our Modern Data Platform Blueprint, but even I let out a slight groan when I read that it was a new implementation based on blob storage rather than an evolution of the existing Data Lake Storage implementation. I'm hoping there will be an automated way to migrate from Gen1 to Gen2 and assert that all the security boundaries have also been migrated correctly. I can feel the need to write a blog post on the cost of keeping up with the Azure Service Arms Race!

In this week's announcements:

Finally an interesting blog post on highligting Microsoft Research Open Data - a new data repository in the cloud dedicated to facilitating collaboration across the global research community. It offers datasets representing many years of data research which were used in published research studies.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On TechNet, Eduard Davidzhan talks about Microsoft AI resources
On the Kloud blog, Darren Doc Robinson discusses Using your Voice to Search Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 1
On MSDN, Sjoukje Zaal (@SjoukjeZaal) discusses Azure Content Spotlight – Microsoft Research Open Data

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway blogs about Azure simplifies cloud analytics
Also on the Azure blog, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) announces that Enterprises get deeper insights with Hadoop and Spark updates on Azure HDInsight
Also on the Azure blog, Mark Kromer announces that Azure Data Factory V2 new capabilities are now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Sandy Winarko describes Lift SQL Server Integration Services packages to Azure with Azure Data Factory
Also on the Azure blog, Giuliano Rapoz explains how to Structured streaming with Azure Databricks into Power BI & Cosmos DB and then on TechNet, delves into a more detailed, step-by-step example
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) blogs about OData Performance Improvements In The June 2018 Power BI Desktop Release
On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta writes about Anomaly Detection without any coding using Power BI
Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) explains how to Analyze Twitter tags using Sentiment Analysis and Visualize in Power BI
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) blogs about Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 109 – as Timeline
Episode 235 of the Azure podcast, covers an AI, Blockchain and Big Data discussion

🖥️ Compute

On MSDN, Alex Karcher talks about Function Proxies now Available in Functions Version 2.x
Also on MSDN, 'esseemme' highlights Azure for Architects and Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook free ebooks and O'Reillys Designing Distributed Systems free ebook
On TechNet, Moti Bani talks about Automating Azure Just In Time VM Access
Also on MSDN, Mikkel Mrk Hegnhj covers Service Fabric 6.2 Refresh Release CU3

🚢 Containers

On Microsoft + Open Source, Sean McKenna announces Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates
Megan Meyer covers Accessing Certificates in Service Fabric Hosted Windows Containers
On MSDN, Srikantan Sankaran talks about Implementing Service auto scaling in Azure Service Fabric
Also on MSDN, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) covers Key Differences between VM and Container Vulnerability Scanning
James van Den Berg highlights a Great Microservices E-book about Architecture for Containerized dotnet Apps Docker Kubernetes Containers
Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) explains how to Publish a Container Image to Azure Container Registry and explains how to Create an Instance of the Container Image in ACI
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) walks through Configuring Azure Kubernetes Service via the Terraform OSS Azure Resource Provider to use a custom DNS server for domain specific name resolution
Zachary Sersland talks about Powering Kubernetes: Benefits and Drawbacks of Azure vs. AWS
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about .NET Core and Docker

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Srini Acharya describes Azure Elastic Database jobs is now in public preview
the Azure updates team writes about General availability: Zone-redundant Azure SQL databases and elastic pools, writes about General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL 4-TB server storage and writes about General availability: Azure Database for MySQL 4-TB server storage
Tim Anderson (@timanderson) writes about Inside Azure Cosmos DB: Microsofts preferred database manager for its own high-scale applications
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) covers Cosmos DB Stored Procedures – handling continuation
On MSDN, Joon Kyu Lee describes How to create user-defined restore points on Azure SQL Data Warehouse and describes How to create user-defined restore points on Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Also on MSDN, Jovan Popovic writes about Point-in-time restore of a database on Azure SQL Managed Instance using AzureRm.Sql PowerShell library

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Visual Studio Blog writes about Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3 which contains a number of new Azure features.

🔩 DevOps

On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) discusses Azure DevOps Project with Azure SQL Server Database for Web Applications, talks about Import an existing Git Repository in your VSTS, explains How to add custom HTML to VSTS dashboard and describes Creating Code Repositories from Existing one in VSTS
James van Den Berg explains how to Build your Own Azure DevOps Project Pipeline Cloud Azure DevOps Pipeline
On Channel 9, Kit Merker talks about Using JFrog Artifactory with Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Friday
Peter Hauge covers how to improve Logs in Visual Studio Team System VSTS with special tags

🎭 Identity

On the Azure blog, Yitao Dong covers Use Azure Active Directory with Spring Security 5.0 for OAuth 2.0
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen discusses Azure Active Directory Proxy for SMART on FHIR
On TechNet, Aaron Guilmette explains How to find Staleish Azure B2B Guest Accounts
On Channel 9, Arturo Lucatero joins Donovan Brown to discuss Azure AD Managed Service Identity Azure Friday

🔌 Integration

On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri describes Updating QnA Maker knowledge base via SharePoint Online using Logic Apps
Also on MSDN, Aseem Bansal (@aseembansal) blogs about Ability to sign the service bus message in a VSTS task
David Burg (@david_burg) covers Logic App SAP connector all the logs to capture for troubleshooting and requesting support and covers Understanding Logic App Custom Connectors configuration
Justin Conway describes IP Filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus and discusses Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus Virtual Network Service Endpoints in preview

💡 Internet of Things

On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch & Cameron Tomisser talk about Azure IoT Edge - ready for enterprise-grade, scaled deployment Internet of Things Show
on the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) announces that Azure IoT Edge generally available for enterprise-grade, scaled deployments
On MSDN, formulahendry (@formulahendry) describes Azure IoT Toolkit for Visual Studio Code generally available for managing Azure IoT Hub and Devices with ease
On the Azure blog, Chipalo Street discusses Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Channel 9, Dmitry Lyalin talks about Windows IoT 4: Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central Integration for Windows IoT Getting Started Series Visual Studio Toolbox
On the Azure blog, Chrissie Chi writes about Automatic device management, module identity, and module twin are now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Koichi Hirao covers Expanding Azure Certified for IoT program for the intelligent edge
Mark Russinovich blogs about Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes How to add custom HTML to Azure Portal Dashboard and explains How to export the list of Azure Resources to Excel
Peter Rombouts covers ARM Outputs in VSTS pipelines
On MSDN, Scott Semyan (@scott_semyan) explains how to Terraform for the ARM Template Developer
Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) talks about Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard
On Channel 9, Vinod Kurpad joins Lara Rubbelke to talk about Managing costs with the Azure Budgets API and Action Groups Azure Friday
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) covers Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard and explains How to start or stop multiple Azure App Services together

🎬 Media

On the Azure blog, Ella Ben-Tov explains how to Get video insights in even more languages

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell Chris Johnson talks about Azure Stack with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover
On the Azure blog, Aditi Gangwar announces that Backup your applications on Azure Stack with Azure Backup

🚌 Migration

This week on the Azure podcast, Episode 234 looks at Azure Migrations with Bill Zack

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas describes Whats New In the Xamarin Android Designer
On MSDN, James S White talks about The Ship List: Visual Studio App Center June Update

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Ashish Jain writes about New zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute gateways now in public preview
Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) describes Building a Rational Microsoft Azure Network Architecture
The Azure updates team talks about Azure Web Apps Analytics and Azure Network Security Group Analytics available and covers Azure DNS SLA: Updated to 100%
On TechNet, Amit Bapat (@amitbapat) announces Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Key Vault preview

🔐 Security

On MSDN, CalvinH writes about solving the problem of Visual Studio slowdown because Virus & Threat protection Windows Defender Antivirus is scanning this file
Also on MSDN, Olga Guzheva explains how to Updated ARM Template to deploy server with Auditing and Threat Detection turned ON

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Jason Hogg announces that A closer look at Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
On Channel 9, James Baker joins Lara Rubbelke to talk about Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 overview Azure Friday
James Serra (@JamesSerra) covers Azure Data Lake Store Gen2
Also on the Azure blog, Michael Hauss announces that Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Upasana Dixit describes Autocomplete in Azure Search now in public preview
On MSDN, Matthew Henderson - announces General Availability and Sovereign Cloud Support of Managed Service Identity for App Service and Azure Functions
Also on MSDN, Prashant Pratap talks about PowerShell script to execute commands in SCM website on all instances
Also on MSDN, Prashant Pratap talks about PowerShell script to list all running processes in your Azure AppService w/Computer name