Azure Weekly

Issue #186 - 5th August 2018

Let's take a look at this week's announcements:

It's time to get our monthly round-up of all the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences team's content:

Retail

Manufacturing

Health

Banking

Enrich customer relationships with Intelligent Sales Advisor

Insurance

IoT: the catalyst for better risk management in insurance

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On MSDN, Brian Christopher Harrison (@briancharrison) writes about Best Practices: Collaborative Approach to ChatBot Design using Bot Framework Tools

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar writes that Microsoft Azure Data welcomes Data Platform Summit attendees
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about HDInsight: Fast Interactive Queries with Hive on LLAP with Murali Krishnaprasad and describes how to Execute Jars and Python scripts on Azure Databricks using Data Factory with Gaurav Malhotra
Also on Channel 9, Nishant Thacker introduces Introducing ML Services 9.3 in Azure HDInsight with Katherine Kampf, talks about the Azure Data Factory new features and integration with Azure Databricks with Gaurav Malhotra and tells us that Azure Databricks introduces R Studio Integration with Yatharth Gupta
On TechNet, Chris Testa-O’Neill (@ctesta_oneill) walks through Orchestrating data movement with Azure Data Factory
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Invoke Azure Data Factory Pipeline from another pipeline and writes about 8 Azure Data Factory Tips & Tricks that you should know
The Azure updates team announces that the Power BI Developer Center is live
On the Power BI blog, Nimrod Shalit provides a Power BI Developer community July update
The Azure updates team writes about the Power BI Embedded API for programmatic control of visual headers and writes that Power BI Embedded available in Azure China cloud
James Serra (@JamesSerra) writes about the Power BI new feature: Composite models
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the Webinar 8/10: Derive actionable insights using real-world visualizations to your Power BI dashboards using Visio with Shakun Grover and the Webinar 8/16: Building a KPI Scorecard w/ Custom Visuals in Power BI with Reid Havens
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 113 – Small Multiple Line Chart

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Manish Shukla announces the General availability of instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
Also on the Azure blog, Kay Singh (@singhkays) announces that Managed Disks migration now available in the Azure Portal
On Code Project, Rahul Rajat Singh describes the Design for Virtual Machines with High Availability
On MSDN, Bob German writes about Building SharePoint Site Designs with Themes and Azure Functions

🚢 Containers

James van Den Berg blogs about Installing Joomla Web App on your Azure Kubernetes Cluster and describes how to Scale and Upgrade your Azure Kubernetes Cluster
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes Building ARM-based container images with VSTS and Azure Container Registry Build

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo writes about the Automatic intelligent insights to optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
On the MSSQL Tips site, Douglas Correa describes How to setup and use a SQL Server Stretch Database
On MSDN, David Engel announces the JDBC Driver 7.0 RTW
Also on MSDN, Ronit Reger blogs about the Azure SQL Vulnerability Assessment – now with PowerShell support
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 145 - Easily reset the Administrator password for an Azure SQL database
Also on the Azure blog, Ravinder Gairola, Arvind Rao and Sneha Gunda write about the Responsibilities of a partner/system integrator in managing Azure Cosmos DB
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) points out 8 Azure Cosmos DB Tips & Tricks that you should know

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Yanan Cai introduces U-SQL database projects – U-SQL database development and deployment made easy public preview
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Learn Azure by following Learning Paths

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27
Also on MSDN, j.seghers covers Using node-tail to Stream VSTS Log Output
On Code Project, T.Umarani explains how to Deploy Console Application as an Azure WebJob Using VSTS
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes Copying Widget across Visual Studio Team Services Dashboards
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes about Experiences migrating TFS XML Team Project Templates to Inherited Team Project Templates

🎭 Identity

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) writes about A new way to manage roles and administrators in Azure AD and announces that Azure AD Connect configuration for PingFederate is now generally available
On Code Project, HR Rony blogs about Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Azure Active Directory and OpenID Connect
Thomas Janetscheck discusses Azure AD login for Linux VMs from a security perspective

🔌 Integration

On Code Project, Roman Kiss writes about the Azure Event Grid Tester
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Chris Johnson presents Episode 265 | Teams and Skype Convergence and the News
On the Azure blog, Christine Alford highlights the Azure Marketplace consulting offers: April

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Roopesh Manda announces the public preview of Azure IoT Hub manual failover feature
On the Azure blog, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Getting started with IoT: what do you do with all that data?, on Channel 9, presents IoT In Action with Tom O'Reilly - Powering Energy Efficiency with Azure IoT and talks about Azure IoT Inception and Vision with Sam George
Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) blogs about the Azure Maps Service – real time location in UWP application

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Rich Thorn announces that Azure management groups now in general availability
Tomas Restrepo (@tomasrestrepo) writes about Defining RBAC Role Assignments in ARM Templates
The Azure updates team highlights the General availability: Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation, describes Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 27 and writes that Log Analytics workspaces must be created in the Azure portal
On the Azure blog, John Kemnetz discusses Azure Monitor: Route AAD Activity Logs using diagnostic settings
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller writes about some Techniques to make Azure Monitor alerts from Log Analytics more useful: Cleaning up the query
On Github, José Rodas (@jorodas) delves into Kusto Queries
On the Azure blog, Ken Thompson writes about Ansible 2.6: What's new for Azure
On Microsoft + Open Source, Kylie Liang provides a Tutorial: Using Azure REST API in Ansible to automate Azure resources
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) describes how to Automate Azure Resources with Ansible with Kylie Liang
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 240 - Extreme Azure Automation with Gautam Shah
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Export Azure Application Insights Data
The Azure updates team writes about the System Center Operations Manager Management Pack to configure Operations Management Suite and announces that the OMS Linux Agent July 2018 release now available

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas writes about the Xamarin.Android 9.0 (P) Preview
Also on the Xamarin blog, Sophie Tagar discusses Visual UI tests on iOS simulator using Xamarin and Appium
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton highlights the Xamarin and .NET Developer Events in August
On the .NET Curry blog, Gerald Versluis provides a Xamarin.Forms 3 - Cheat sheet
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Advanced Controls for Xamarin.iOS with Aaron Melamed from Syncfusion
On MSDN, Girish Nedungadi explains how to Publish Enterprise Apps with Visual Studio App Center and Intune

🌐 Networking

On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) writes about the Azure ExpressRoute Public and Microsoft peering changes, notes from the field
Richard M. Hicks (@richardhicks) writes about the Always On VPN Multisite with Azure Traffic Manager
On Code Project, Rahul Rajat Singh (@rahulrajatsingh) writes about Understanding Azure Load Balancing Solutions - Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Traffic Manager
On MSDN, Susie Adams and Diego Lapiduz provide some Trusted Internet Connection guidance for Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team provides an Azure Security Center update July 22
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) describes Using Azure Monitor to send an Email Notification for Azure Security Center Alerts
On the Azure blog, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center provide Expert tips on hardening security with Azure security
On MSDN, Stephane Eyskens blogs about Azure Connectors, the DMZ 2.0

📦 Storage

On MSDN, Tom Rose writes that Nasuni supports Azure Government for more scalable file storage and improved cross-office collaboration
On the Kloud blog, John Downs talks about Deploying Blob Containers with ARM Templates

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Jennifer Lee announces the Linux on App Service Environment General Availability and highlights the PHP Minor Version Update for September 2018
Also on MSDN, Pratyaydeep Chanda writes about the Azure API Management Troubleshooting Series: Scenario 1 – API returning blank response, Scenario 2 – SOAP based API returning 404 and 500 HTTP status codes, Scenario 3 – Receiving unauthorized errors 401 while invoking APIs, Scenario 4 – Performance hit in API calls and Scenario 5 – Request throttling problems and HTTP 403 – Forbidden issues
On TechNet, Martin Schvartzman describe how to Set the minimum TLS version to 1.2 on your AzureRM AppServices
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 144 - Swiftly understand what versions of .NET are supported on Azure App Service
On Code Project, Mukesh Kumar (@MukeshKumarTech) writes Azure Web App: Create, Connect and Deploy using FTP