Azure Weekly

Issue #188 - 19th August 2018

As it's peak vacation time, this week's issue is a relatively quiet one. The highlights this week are as follows:

Azure Functions Runtime 2.0 breaking changes - you'll need to take action if you have v2 Functions deployed in Azure.
Azure HDInsight Apache Phoenix now supports Zeppelin
New AzureCAT Guidance: High performance computing on Azure: Migration guide for A8 to A11 VMs
Azure API Management – VSTS extension v2.0 release - for easy APIM deployments
Ten tools to analyze big data faster
Azure CosmosDB reference solution: Visualizing real-time data analysis with change feed
Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.2.0 has been released – Now run IoT Edge modules with simulator
Chirp (an audio equivalent of QR codes) your device into Azure IoT Central Internet of Things Show
Visual Studio 2017 15.8 update - which brings lots of productivity improvements.

Finally, it seems that a number of people (me included) are migrating old projects to the new Common Project System project format used by .NET Standard / .NET Core. Scott Hanselman has written a post covering his experiences Upgrading an existing .NET project files to the lean new CSPROJ format from .NET Core.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

.NET Rocks, episode 1572 covers AI for Earth with Jennifer Marsman
On TechNet, Chris Walden explains how to Build a bot in under 3 minutes in Azure
Also on TechNet, Franck Mercier (@FranmerMS) discusses Azure Custom Vision in action

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) covers Azure HDInsight Interactive Query: simplifying big data analytics architecture and announces that Azure HDInsight Apache Phoenix now supports Zeppelin
On the Azure blog, Omid Mola describes How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) lists the Top 5 Reasons You Should Be Excited About Power BI Composite Models, covers Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 115 – Circle KPI Gauge and discusses Power BI Monthly Digest – August 2018
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Charticulator And Power BI Custom Visuals and covers Creating Sparklines And Small Multiples In Power BI Using The Google Image Charts API
On the MSSQL Tips site, Esat Erkec writes about Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing Lowess approach in Power BI
The Azure Updates Team discusses Improvements to meter names and impacts to Power BI content pack reporting
Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) discusses Background Images not appearing in Power BI Desktop Dashboard in a Day Training Update
On the Power BI blog, Kay Unkroth walks through Working with PowerShell in Power BI, talks about Power BI Report URL filter improvements and Amanda Cofsky blogs about Power BI Report Server Update – August 2018
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) explains how to Make R speak
On Channel 9, Christina Warren Allison Cordle talks about Distributed Systems, Demystified: Cassandra, DataStax demo and FAQ The Open Source Show
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) writes about Ten tools to analyze big data faster

🖥️ Compute

The Azure Updates Team highlight Azure Functions Runtime 2.0 breaking changes. If you currently have v2 Functions deployed into Azure, you need to take action for them to continue working.
On the Kloud blog, John Downs walks through Deploying Azure Functions with ARM Templates
Also on the Kloud blog, Asish Padhy covers Provisioning complex Modern Sites with Azure Functions and Flow – Part 2 – Create and Apply Template
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) delves into Azure Tips and Tricks Part 148 - Share Business Logic between Azure Functions
The Serverless360 blog features an article covering Azure Serverless Architecture Considerations
On MSDN, Pratyaydeep Chanda talks about RDP not working for my cloud service
Also on MSDN, the Service Fabric Team announce their Azure Service Fabric Troubleshooting Guides
Ed Price - discusses Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure – Part 1: Overview
Also from Ed Price NEW AzureCAT GUIDANCE: High performance computing on Azure: Migration guide for A8 to A11 virtual machines
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) covers Azure Design patterns: Self-Healing & Transient fault handling
Naveen Baliga blogs about IIS on Nano server in a Hyper-V Virtual machine
On Channel 9, Brian Peek & Cecil Phillip talks about Building games with Unity and Azure On .NET

🚢 Containers

On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson discuss Episode 266 Azure Cloud News, Containers, CosmosDB
On MSDN, Marcin Kosieradzki talks about Service Fabric and Kubernetes comparison, part 1 – Distributed Systems Architecture
Also on MSDN, Marc Goodner - discusses Using MSVC in a Docker Container for Your C++ Projects
Razi Rais (@razibinrais) discusses Part II – Kubernetes DevOps : Introduction to Helm
Rong Lu writes about C++ development with Docker containers in Visual Studio Code

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Devki Trivedi Serena Davis Pascal Habineza provide a Azure CosmosDB reference solution: Visualizing real-time data analysis with change feed
On MSDN, Kaduk Frantisek talks about CosmosDB change feed monitoring
On Code Project, Sarathlal Saseendran writes about Angular 6 Application with Cosmos DB and Web API 2
Jim Toland talks about Azure Database Migration Service – August 2018 Updates
On the Azure blog, Mark Bolz announces VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL

🛠️ Developer Tools

Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) walks through Upgrading an existing .NET project files to the lean new CSPROJ format from .NET Core
On MSDN, Chuck Walbourn - writes about VS 2017 15.8 update
Also on MSDN, Dan Taylor discusses Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
On the Azure podcast, Alex Uy discusses Episode 242 - Azure FastTrack
On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton explains how you can Attend A .NET Conf Event Near You

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.17
Also on MSDN, Sjoukje Zaal (@SjoukjeZaal) covers Azure Content Spotlight – Secure DevOps Kit for Azure AzSK and on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman Rob Caron talks about Getting started with the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure AzSK Azure Friday

🎭 Identity

Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) discusses the Azure Active Directory Deep Dive presentation from a recent The Nashville Microsoft Azure Users Group meetup.
Andrei Dzimchuk talks about Implementing hybrid authentication in Azure
On TechNet, Aaron Guilmette highlights an Update to the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions Tool
Also on TechNet, Cesar Hara explains how to Skip MFA for intranet users in Office 365

🔌 Integration

On the Serverless360 blog, Nadeem Ahamed describes Azure Integration in Production with Logic Apps and more
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) blogs about Moving APIs to .NET Core with a focus on upgrading some ServiceBus code.

💡 Internet of Things

On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Chirp your device into Azure IoT Central Internet of Things Show
On MSDN, Xin Shi discusses Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.2.0 has been released – Now run IoT Edge modules with simulator
Also on MSDN, Laurent Ellerbach talks about Azure IoT Edge support for Raspbian 8.0/Debian 8.0
Liya Liki Du highlights that Azure IoT Workbench now supports ESP32 devices
Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) covers how to connect Windows 10 IoT Core device to the Microsoft Azure cloud
On the Azure blog, Nicole Berdy (@nberdy) discusses Installing certificates into IoT devices

⚖️ Management and Governance

Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) describes Escape Double Quotes For Strings in ARM Templates
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) covers RBAC and role assignment using ARM Templates
On Code Project, Sander Rossel (@SanderRossel) describes ARM Templates to Deploy your Resources to Azure
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure Application Insights warned me of failed dependent requests on my site
On MSDN, Azure Monitoring Services Health Status walks through a number of recent issues Experiencing Data Latency Issue in Azure and OMS portal for Log Analytics in South UK Region- 08/13 – Resolved, and Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure and OMS portal for Log Analytics – 08/15 – Resolved, and Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure and OMS portal for Log Analytics – 08/16 – Resolved, and Experiencing Alerting failure issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 08/18 – Investigating and Experiencing Alerting failure issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 08/18 – Resolved
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman Rob Caron talks about Monitor Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite OMS on Azure Friday
The Azure Updates Team writes about Comma-delimited .csv reports for new Azure consumption and charges APIs now available
On the Azure blog, Sujay Talasila covers Azure Site Recovery powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery for DR
On TechNet, Japan Manageability And Security covers Azure Intune and describes Azure Intune
Also on TechNet, the Intune Support Team covers Move from Hybrid Mobile Device Management to Intune on Azure
On the Azure blog, Christine Alford talks about Azure Marketplace new offers: July 1–15
On MSDN, Brian Christopher Harrison (@briancharrison) blogs about Azure 101: Governance

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to install and manage Azure Stack Updates
On the Tallan blog, Jeff Bolton talks about Microsoft Cloud-Hybrid Integration Roadmap Announcement
On MSDN, Andrew Westgarth highlight the Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 3 Released
Also on MSDN, the Azure Gov Team announces Azure Stack for Azure Government customers to enable IT modernization and tactical edge scenarios

🚌 Migration

On the Azure blog, Sneha Agrawal writes about New customizations in Azure Migrate to support your cloud migration

📱 Mobile

On Channel 9, Laurent Bugnion & James Montemagno talk about .NET Standard and Xamarin.Forms for the .NET Developer The Xamarin Show

🌐 Networking

Thuan Soldier discusses Azure Firewall Public Preview Automation – Part 3
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Episode 78 covers Azure Firewall and Azure Virtual WAN

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Stephane Eyskens talks about Azure API Management – VSTS extension v2.0 release
On the Codit blog, Toon Vanhoutte discusses Using liquid templates in Azure API Management
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) blogs about Azure Tips and Tricks Part 149 - Use PowerShell to quickly see if your Deployment Slot Swapped Successfully
On MSDN, Angelos Petropoulos discusses Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web developers