Azure Weekly Issue 187: 12th August 2018
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Here are this week's announcements and updates:
- General availability of instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
- Announcing general availability of Azure SQL Database reserved capacity
- General availability: Azure Automation in Korea Central and West US 2 regions
- Power BI: Enable your team with new workspace experiences preview
- New Azure CosmosDB JavaScript SDK 2.0 now in public preview
- Combined registration for Azure AD MFA and Self Service Password Reset plus two other cool updates now in public preview
- the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service
- Azure Data Factory Visual tools now supports GitHub integration
- Power BI Desktop August 2018 Feature Summary
- Ethereum Proof-of-Authority on Azure
- Azure Data Factory/Azure Cosmos DB connector now supports UPSERT
- The Developer's Guide to Microsoft Azure eBook - August update is now available
- Azure IoT Toolkit 1.2.0: Quickly build your Azure IoT application in VS Code with Node.js, Python or REST API
- Review summarized test results - VSTS Sprint 138 Update
- Make your Visual Studio Team Services dashboard part of your conversation in Microsoft Teams
- Automatic user provisioning and deprovisioning now available for more apps
- Now Available: Azure Sphere technical documentation
- New locations for Azure CDN now available
- Azure API Management update August 3
- .NET Framework 4.7.2 update coming to Azure App Service apps
Elsewhere: Ty Balascio has pointed to some playbooks which simulate attacks on cloud resources by cybercriminals in the blog Enhance your DevSecOps practices with Azure Security Center's newest playbooks, Raghu Ramakrishnan describes How Microsoft drives exabyte analytics on the world's largest YARN cluster and Daniel Rubiolo points towards a Whitepaper on modeling for AS tabular scalability.
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Azure Batch AI, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes In case you missed it: July 2018 roundup
- On MSDN, Russ Williams blogs about Bots in Azure Government
- Also on MSDN, Microsoft Translator (@mstranslator) explains how to Communicate with customers in their language using multilingual bots
Analytics
Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog
- On the Azure blog, Raghu Ramakrishnan explains How Microsoft drives exabyte analytics on the world’s largest YARN cluster
- Also on the Azure blog, Gaurav Malhotra announces that Azure Data Factory Visual tools now supports GitHub integration
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains Why to use Azure Databricks to run your Apache Spark Notebooks
- On MSDN, Courtney Thurston walks through Processing compressed event streams with Azure Stream Analytics
- Also on the Azure blog, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) writes about Azure HDInsight Interactive Query: Ten tools to analyze big data faster
- On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Siphon on HDInsight Kafka with Thomas Alex
- Also on MSDN, Daniel Rubiolo points out the Whitepaper on modeling for AS tabular scalability
- On the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky writes the Power BI Desktop August 2018 Feature Summary
- Also on the Power BI blog, Lukasz Pawlowski explains how to Enable your team with new workspace experiences preview
- Also on the Power BI blog, Charles Sterling (@chass) writes about the 8/16/18 Webinar: Building a KPI Scorecard with Custom Visuals in Power BI with Reid Havens and writes about the 2018 Power BI World Tour – Powered by Your Local User Group
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about Power BI : Dataflows
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) blogs about the Analysis Services Import Performance Improvements In The August 2018 Release Of Power BI and writes that Colour Names Supported In Power BI Conditional Formatting
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 114 – Overview by CloudScope
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
- On the Azure blog, Cody Born announces Ethereum Proof-of-Authority on Azure
- Also on the Azure blog, Manish Shukla announces the General availability of instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
- On TechNet, Luke Brennan discusses the VMScaleSetCannotReferenceLoadbalancerWhenLargeScaleIsEnabled error
- On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 241 - Service Fabric & Service Fabric Mesh with Deep Kapur
- On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team talks about the OS Update Required on Windows Clusters and highlights the Service Fabric Community Q&A 27th Edition
- On the Kloud blog, Asish Padhy walks through Provisioning complex Modern Sites with Azure Functions and Microsoft Flow – Part 1 – Architecture
- Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) asks Why does my Azure Function sometimes stop being triggered? and wonders Where are my Azure Functions, dissappeared
- Also on MSDN, Maxime Rouiller (@MaximRouiller) explains how to Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes
- Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) blogs about the dotnet new templates for serverless functions
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes how to Run Azure Functions in a Docker Container
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
- Also on MSDN, Michael S. Hansen describes Generating and Loading Synthetic Patient to FHIR Server using Azure Container Instances
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AKS using HashiCorp Terraform with Anubhav Mishra
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes how to Access Azure Key Vault from your Kubernetes Pods
Databases
Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL
- The Azure updates team writes that the Azure Data Factory/Azure Cosmos DB connector now supports UPSERT
- On MSDN, Kaduk Frantisek covers Logging in CosmosDB change feed processor
- On Code Project, Jeremy Likness (@jeremylikness) writes What the Shard? Partitioning Azure Cosmos DB with the Mongo DB .NET Driver
- On the Azure blog, Lindsey Allen announces the general availability of Azure SQL Database reserved capacity
- On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht blogs about the Azure SQL Database Business Continuity Enhancements
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) demystifies Azure SQL DTUs and vCore
- Also on MSDN, Jim Toland explains how to Identify the best Azure SQL Database SKU for your on-premises database by using the Database Migration Assistant
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Azure Tips and Tricks Part 146 - Rename an Azure SQL database and Part 147 - Run TSQL on an Azure SQL database with Azure Functions
- On the Hanu blog, Darryl Brown covers Unlocking Your SQL Databases with Microsoft's Azure Cloud
- Also on MSDN, Allan Miller and Scott Epperly write about Login Problems with my Azure Active Directory Account to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
- On the Azure blog, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes about The Developer's Guide to Microsoft Azure eBook - August update is now available
- Also on the Azure blog, Deborah Chen (@ChenDeborah) announces that the New Azure CosmosDB JavaScript SDK 2.0 now in public preview
- On MSDN, Jun Han (@formulahendry) presents Azure IoT Toolkit 1.2.0: Quickly build your Azure IoT application in VS Code with Node.js, Python or REST API
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) covers Azure Dev Spaces - A free tool for developing app on top of AKS
- Jose Moreno writes about the Azure Batch Python SDK and Jupyter Notebooks
- Also on the Azure blog, Grace Sturman provides some Speech Devices SDK and Dev Kits news (August 2018)
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
- The VSTS team writes Review summarized test results - VSTS Sprint 138 Update
- Also on MSDN, Romi Koifman explains how to Make your Visual Studio Team Services dashboard part of your conversation in Microsoft Teams
- On Channel 9, Dmitry Lyalin talks about Improved User Experience in Visual Studio Team Services VSTS & Azure DevOps Projects demo with Jeremy Epling
- On Code Project, Sander Rossel (@SanderRossel) writes about Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services and .NET Core
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) explains how to Combined registration for Azure AD MFA and Self Service Password Reset plus two other cool updates now in public preview and writes about Automatic user provisioning and deprovisioning now available for more apps
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
- On the Serverless360 blog, Sean Feldman walks through How to deal with large Service Bus messages
- Also on the Serverless360 blog, Eldert Grootenboer (@egrootenboer) writes about Getting started with Azure Event Grid
- On the Codit blog, Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) walks through Writing tests for Azure Event Grid
- On the Microsoft site, a Microsoft reporter (@MicrosoftUK) writes In the new Azure Blueprint, Microsoft works harder while you enjoy the cloud
- On TechNet, Matt Soseman writes Who owns what? The shared responsibility model of cloud and compliance HIPAA, GDPR, NIST,ISO
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
- On the Azure blog, Ed Nightingale announces that the Azure Sphere technical documentation is now available
- Also on the Azure blog, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) writes about Getting started with IoT: driving business action through analytics and automation, and on Channel 9, talks about IoT In Action - The Next Agricultural Revolution with Tom O'Reilly and talks about IoT Developers and the MVP Program wtih Ranga Vadlamudi
- On Code Project, Joel Ivory Johnson blogs about Streaming Engine Data to Azure with Windows IoT
- Also on Code Project, Khatal Vishal explains How to Create IoT Hub on Azure
Management and Governance
Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications
- The Azure updates team writes about the General availability: Azure Automation in Korea Central and West US 2 regions
- On TechNet, Kevin Justin covers Azure Log Analytics Service Map Planning and Pre-reqs
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes that Azure Linked Subscription Level Template Deployment Requires Location
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Mark Azure Subscription Directory as favorite, writes about User Flows in Application Insights, walks through Sharing Application Insights User Flows and describes Excluding Events from User Flows in Application Insights
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
- On MSDN, Wu Shuai describes How to Deploy Marketplace VMs in Azure Stack by ARM template
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko covers Moving Windows Server and SQL Server licenses from SPLA to CSP
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- On the Xamarin blog, David Ortinau writes about Adaptive Mobile Designs with FlexLayout
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about the FlexLayout for Xamarin.Forms Explained with David Ortinau
- On the Xamarin blog, Tom Opgenorth talks about Securing network traffic with TLS 1.2
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, Peter Vogel discusses Switching Your Xamarin Project to Standard Class Projects
- On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway writes about Microsoft Azure at SIGGRAPH 2018
- On TechNet, Courtenay Bernier covers Android Kiosk Enrollment and Microsoft Intune
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
- On the Kloud blog, Manish Shroff writes about Hub-Spoke communication using vNet Peering and User Defined Routes
- Thuan Soldier writes Azure Firewall (Public Preview) Automation – Part 1 and Part 2
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
- On the Azure blog, Ty Balascio explains how to Enhance your DevSecOps practices with Azure Security Center's newest playbooks
- On the Azure blog, Jeremy Hollett provides a Security Bulletin for August 2018
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
- On the Azure blog, Maxwell Gattuso announces that New locations for Azure CDN now available
- The Azure updates team provides an Azure API Management update August 3
- Also on the Azure blog, Andrew Westgarth announces the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service and on MSDN, blogs about the Windows Containers on Azure App Service Public Preview
- Armin Reiter (@arminreiter) provides a WordPress Blog on Azure – full setup guide
- The Azure updates team writes about the .NET Framework 4.7.2 update coming to Azure App Service apps
- Also on MSDN, Kruthi Villivalam walks through Debugging Node.js apps on Azure App Services
- Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) writes that Redis Cache on Azure App Service is slow, describes How to optimize Azure App Service AlwaysOn, cold start, warm up request and writes about the error Resource move validation failed. Cannot move Azure App Service
- Also on MSDN, Oded Dvoskin (@odeded) highlights the upcoming Twitter AMA with the App Service Team
- On Channel 9, Cecil Phillip and Anthony Chu talk about Going real-time with ASP.NET Core SignalR and the Azure SignalR Service
- Also on MSDN, Andrei Ghita discusses Querying the Office 365 Management APIs using Postman
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