Azure Weekly

Issue #185 - 29th July 2018

We'd like to start off this week's newsletter with a huge congratulations to the winners of this year's Imagine Cup, smartARM. They have created a robotic hand prosthetic (backed by Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Cloud Storage in Azure) which calculates the most appropriate grips for objects. Read about it more here.

You also may notice some slight tweaks to the colour scheme of this week's newsletter. After receiving an email from Steve Lee from OpenDirective, we tweaked the colour scheme to align with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Thanks Steve!

Let's dive into this week's announcements:

A few other articles worth taking a look at this week: Michael Hansen talks about running the Open Source project Gadgetron in Kubernetes in Azure, Joseph Sack highlights an interesting Azure SQL Database case-study in Pearl Abyss: Massive Scale using Azure SQL Database, and John Downs conquers a problem that may have affected quite a number of us, with the blog Avoiding Cosmos DB Bill Shock with Azure Functions.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On MSDN, Steve Michelotti describes Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight with Yujin Hong
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) talks about Export Azure Application Insights Data
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) shares a video: A quick tour of AI services in Azure
On Channel 9, Rich Lander (@runfaster2000) talks about Detecting unwanted content using machine-assisted content moderation with Sanjeev Jagtap
Also on Channel 9, John Papa (@John_Papa) talks about Episode 24: Five Things About NLP with Brian Clark
Also on MSDN, Jennifer Marsman (@jennifermarsman) writes about the Computer Vision talks at ICML 2018

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Omid Mola describes how to Build secure Oozie workflows in Azure HDInsight with Enterprise Security Package and explains How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints
James Serra (@JamesSerra) covers Power BI new feature: Composite models
Also on the Azure blog, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) explains how to Avoid Big Data pitfalls with Azure HDInsight and these partner solutions
On MSDN, Yanan Cai explains how to Build hybrid cloud analytics solutions with ADLA Task in SSIS
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Event-based data integration with Azure Data Factory with Gaurav Malhotra
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains How to schedule trigger for Azure Data Factory ADF Pipeline, describes how to Trigger Azure Data Factory Pipeline when a Blob is created or deleted and blogs about Getting the Azure Data Factory Service Identity
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Azure Stream Analytics: Managing timelines and coding on IoT Edge with Jean-Sébastien Brunner
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) announces V2 Of The Planning A Power BI Enterprise Deployment White Paper
On the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky talks about Power BI Desktop July 2018 Feature Summary
Also on the Power BI blog, Christopher Finlan talks about Public Preview of Multi-Geo for Power BI Premium and covers Power BI and SharePoint – the road ahead
Also on the Power BI blog, Kay Unkroth writes about the APIs and PowerShell Cmdlets for Power BI Administrators
On the Kloud blog, Cecilia Gutierrez (@cecyarmida) talks about Power BI: Using anonymous authentication on Web data sources with a API key in URL
Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the 8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps with reports they need by Daniel Christian
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents the Power BI Monthly Digest – July 2018 with Manuel Quintana and presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 112 – Acterys Matrix Light
Jen Stirrup discusses Tableau Prep, Power Query and Power BI – Good together

🖥️ Compute

On MSDN, the Azure Gov Team announces the launch of Azure M-series VMs with up to 4TB RAM in USGov Arizona region
Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) writes about New to Azure
Also on MSDN, Tzachi Elkabatz writes Azure-Linux VM -Restart and Recover a non-responding SSHD
On TechNet, Luke Brennan blogs about Azure – Virtual machine scale set does not support disk encryption
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) talks about Episode 238 - Serial Console with Craig Wiand
The Azure updates team highlights the Name change: End of Dv2-series VMs promotion
On Ably, the Ably team (@ablyrealtime) provides a Reactor Events Tutorial: Azure Function

🚢 Containers

On MSDN, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) talks about ACR Build (Preview) Now Supported In All Public Regions
James van Den Berg describes Installing Joomla Web App on your Azure Kubernetes Cluster AKS Containers DevOps
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about ACR Build: Automate Docker builds with OS and framework patching with Steve Lasker
On the Azure blog, Brian Redmond writes Orchestrating production-grade workloads with Azure Kubernetes Service
Also on MSDN, Kenneth Teo blogs about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure AD
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen blogs about Running Gadgetron in Kubernetes in Azure
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) explains how to Build Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with bring your own Virtual Network on Azure
Tomas Restrepo (@tomasrestrepo) writes about AKS and Azure Files Permissions, writes about AKS Service Principal Credentials, writes about the AzureFile Persistent Volumes Retain Issue and describes the Issues when deleting azureFile dynamic volumes in Kubernetes

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo announces the Accelerated and Flexible Restore Points with SQL Data Warehouse
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) writes about 8 Azure Cosmos DB Tips & Tricks that you should know
On PowerShell Magazine, Jovan Popovic describes Configuring Azure environment to set up Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview)
On Code Project, Debendra Dash walks through Working with Azure Redis Cache With MVC Application
On MSDN, Dimitri Furman delves into Storage performance best practices and considerations for Azure SQL DB Managed Instance (General Purpose)
Also on MSDN, Joseph Sack talks about Pearl Abyss: Massive Scale using Azure SQL Database
On the MSSQL Tips site, Esat Erkec describes How to use the Azure SQL Database DTU Calculator
Also on MSDN, Bob Taylor writes Next on the Menu – event file target for Azure SQL Database
Also on MSDN, David Engel writes that Microsoft Drivers 5.3.0 for PHP for SQL Server Released
On the Kloud blog, John Downs describes Avoiding Cosmos DB Bill Shock with Azure Functions
On TechNet, Theo van Kraay describes Simplified Lambda Architecture with Cosmos DB and Databricks
Matthew Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) writes Gimme the Data Cosmos DB Permissions
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) covers Using Azure Cosmos DB Explorer and explains how to Connect to Azure Cosmos DB from Explorer
Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Daniel Calbimonte covers Exam material for Microsoft exam 70-777, Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Beta

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Sercan Guler explains how to Build richer applications with the new asynchronous Azure Storage SDK for Java
On the Azure podcast, AUTHOR covers Episode 239 - Kubernetes Developer Tooling
Also on the Azure blog, Zeyad Rajabi writes about the Top feature requests added with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.2.0
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) writes about .NET & C – Back to Basics Series
On MSDN, Dan Taylor writes that Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code
On the .NET Curry blog, Damir Arh writes about .NET Core Application Development in Visual Studio Code VS Code
On Code Project, Rebaï Hamida explains how to Deploy a New Application in Azure Blockchain Workbench
On the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas announces Xamarin.Android 9.0 P Preview
Also on MSDN, Jun Han (@formulahendry) writes that Azure IoT Toolkit 1.1.0 for VS Code released: Welcome page, generate SAS token, deploy Edge device at scale and more
On TechNet, Kamlesh Kumar lists the Top Contributors Awards Deploy a new application in Azure Blockchain Workbench and many more
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 142 - Quickly edit files within Cloud Shell using Code
On Channel 9, Christina Warren talks about TWC9: Imagine Cup Winners, Visual Studio IntelliCode for Python, Knative in Azure, and more This Week On Channel 9
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 239 - Kubernetes Developer Tooling with Michelle Noorali
On Code Project, Passion4Code explains how to Learn Python : VS Code – Part 1
On the Azure blog, Christine Alford recaps the Marketplace news from Inspire 2018 describes the Azure Marketplace new offers: June 16–30
On TechNet, Linda Lee Chapman writes that Microsoft added new Azure certification exams
Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) writes New to Azure

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Alex Nichols describes What's new in VSTS Sprint 137 Update
Ravikanth Chaganti (@ravikanth) blogs about PowerShell SHiPS at Bangalore IT Pro + PowerShell User Group
Also on MSDN, Justin Marks blogs about Enabling administrators to revoke VSTS access tokens
Ravikanth Chaganti (@ravikanth) blogs about PowerShell SHiPS at Bangalore IT Pro + PowerShell User Group
Also on MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.20
On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27
On the DragonSpears blog, Craig Kaneshiro writes about Why TFS to VSTS Migration is a Low-Risk Approach to Starting DevOps
Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen explains how to Automated Deployment of Gadgetron Workstation in Azure
Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath writes about Azure DevTest Labs: Configure mandatory artifacts for your lab
Also on MSDN, Visual Studio Team Services describes Builds using hosted agents may experience delayed starts or failures due to VSTS internal errors in West Europe – 07/27 – Mitigated

🎭 Identity

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) blogs about the Public preview for conditional access information in Azure AD Sign-ins report and writes that Azure AD Activity Logs in Azure Monitor Diagnostics now in public preview
On the Kloud blog, AgneshH delves into Azure AD Connect: How to run custom Sync scheduler with multiple on-premise AD connectors
On TechNet, Ian Farr describes how to Use Azure AD PowerShell to Check Synchronised On-Premises AD extensionAttributes 1-15
Also on TechNet, Aaron Guilmette describes the Update: AAD Connect Network Test Tool

🔌 Integration

On the Azure blog, Bahram Banisadr writes about Improving the development experience worldwide with Event Grid
Nicolas Bonnet explains how to Deploy certificate with Microsoft Intune and explains how to Deploy Email profile
Sean Feldman walks through the second part of Processing Azure Services EventGrid events with NServiceBus

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Reza Sherafat walks through Feeding IoT device telemetry data to Kafka-based applications
On Channel 9, Rob Caron Lara Rubbelke talks about Azure Stream Analytics: Managing timelines and coding on IoT Edge Azure Friday
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Kafka Integration with Azure IoT Hub with Reza Sherafat, takes a First look at Maps in Azure IoT Central with Miriam Berhane Russom and talks about Azure IoT Hub Manual Failover with Roopesh Manda

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Kaitlyn Corazao writes about the New recommendations in Azure Advisor
On MSDN, Azure Monitoring Services Health Status blogs about Experiencing Data Latency issue in Azure Portal for Metric Data in Europe West region – 07/27 – Resolved and blogs about Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure and OMS portal for Log Analytics – 07/28 – Resolved
Also on the Azure blog, Gaurav Bhatnagar writes Announcing availability of Azure Managed Application in AzureGov
The Azure updates team writes Run signed runbooks in Azure Automation
On the Kloud blog, Edmond Guo writes about Scheduled Runbook Tasks at background to automatically back up VMs with tagbackup true
The Azure updates team writes that the Free course on the Log Analytics query language KQL now available
On TechNet, Laura Park provides A high-level comparison of monitoring Active Directory with SCOM / OMS Log Analytics and Azure AD Connect Health
On the Insentra blog, Richard Young blogs about Ansible & Azure
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller writes a Step-by-step: replacing a Log Analytics mobile solution with Power BI
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) presents Episode 264 | Microsoft Teams Free SKU & Azure App Insights Behavior Analytics
On MSDN, Deepesh writes Application Insights – Advisory 07/20
The Azure updates team writes that All Analytics custom logs are now grouped under the schema “Custom Logs” category and writes about the Public preview: Metric alerts for logs

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about the Azure Stack Readiness Checker – AzsReadinessChecker

🚌 Migration

On the Database Journal site, Anoop Kumar describes the Steps to Migrate Oracle Database to Azure SQL Database
On the DragonSpears blog, Ckaneshirodragonspears.com Craig Kaneshiro writes about Why TFS to VSTS Migration is a Low-Risk Approach to Starting DevOps

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Jimmy Garrido describes Previewing Files Inside Your Xamarin.iOS App
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) covers Azure Tips and Tricks Part 144 - Swiftly understand what versions of .NET are supported on Azure App Service
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Xamarin.Forms 3.1 & Platform Specifics for Tuning the UI with David Ortinau
On Geeks with Blogs, Celin Smith asks What are the Important Tools for Xamarin App Development?

🌐 Networking

On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) discusses Azure ExpressRoute Public and Microsoft peering changes, notes from the field
Also on MSDN, Stephane Eyskens talks about Azure Firewall, a step towards a managed VNA
Thuan Soldier discusses Azure Firewall Monitoring 101 and covers Azure Firewall Role-Based Access Control

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Ben Kliger covers Security Center's adaptive application controls are generally available
the Azure updates team describes Azure Security Center update July 22
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) provides a Recap of Microsoft Inspire + Ready
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) explains how to Protect Azure Key Vault Resources

📦 Storage

On MSDN, Greg Oliver (@GoLiveMSFT) writes about Project FlashCast – upload and consume blobs simultaneously
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) talks about Using Storage Explorer in the Azure Portal and explains how to Recover Azure Blob Storage Data by enabling Soft Delete

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Vlad Vinogradsky writes the Azure API Management release notes – July 20, 2018
On MSDN, Pratyaydeep Chanda talks about Scenario 3 – Receiving unauthorized errors 401 while invoking APIs, blogs about Scenario 2 – SOAP based API returning 404 and 500 HTTP status codes, delves into Scenario 1 – API returning blank response, describes Azure API Management Troubleshooting Series, talks about Scenario 4 – Performance hit in API calls and talks about Scenario 5 – Request throttling problems and HTTP 403 – Forbidden issues
On the Azure blog, Joaqun Vano writes that Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux
On Code Project, MukeshKumarTech blogs about Azure Web App: Create, Connect and Deploy using FTP
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 143 - Keep your Azure Web App Hydrated and Responsive
Also on MSDN, David Barrett describes Azure Daemon Application using EWS with OAuth
Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) writes about Named Pipes and Azure App Services