Azure Weekly

Issue #190 - 2nd September 2018

Here are this week's announcements and updates:

Also in this week's issue, Xiaoyong Zhu, Nile Wilson, Ben Cutler, and Lucas Joppa talk about Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning, Patrick van Kleef writes about Exploring the City of Amsterdam with Azure Durable Functions and the Custom Vision Service, and, for all the Go developers out there, there is a 7-part series on Channel 9 hosted by Erik St. Martin to sink your teeth into. Here's the first to get you going: Go on Azure: Part 1—Build Go apps with Visual Studio Code with Ramya Achutha Rao. You'll find the rest below.

Finally, Microsoft have announced a change in direction for Azure Datacentres in Germany.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) blogs about Using Azure Cognitive Services Language Text Translation with PowerShell
On the Azure blog, David Starr talks about Accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare using Microsoft Azure blueprints
Also on the Azure blog, Tara Jana describes how to Turn your whiteboard sketches to working code in seconds with Sketch2Code
Also on the Azure blog, Xiaoyong Zhu, Nile Wilson, Ben Cutler, and Lucas Joppa write about Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning
Also on the Azure blog, Kate Baroni writes Two seconds to take a bite out of mobile bank fraud with Artificial Intelligence
On MSDN, Martin Kearn (@MartinKearn) writes about the Bot Framework v4 with Luis
Patrick van Kleef (@patkleef) describes Exploring the City of Amsterdam with Azure Durable Functions and the Custom Vision Service

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Abhishek Narain describes Sharing a self-hosted Integration Runtime infrastructure with multiple Data Factories
On MSDN, Ed Price (@UserEd_) writes about the Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog 2: On-demand big data analytics
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Data moving to/from Azure Storage using Azure Data Factory and Copy Activity
On the Power BI blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) writes about the New monitoring capabilities for Power BI Premium Capacities and Nimrod Shalit writes the Power BI Developer community August update
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) describes Using Html.Table To Extract URLs From A Web Page In Power BI/Power Query M
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 117 – Multi KPI
On the MSSQL Tips site, Esat Erkec blogs about Creating a Rolling Average Graph with Power BI

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Brett Tanzer talks about Microsoft Azure, the cloud for high performance computing
On MSDN, Vaclav Turecek writes about Service Fabric - Open source updates and more ahead
Also on MSDN, Paul Edwards describes how to Autoscale Azure Batch pools when running MPI applications
Also on MSDN, Sander Rossel (@SanderRossel) writes about Azure Functions and Serverless Computing

🚢 Containers

Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) describes Deploying AKS with ARM Template – Network integration
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 244 - Azure Container Instances with Justin Luk

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team writes about the Public preview: Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure VMs
James Serra (@JamesSerra) describes Azure SQL Database disaster recovery
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) writes about Counting Array Entries in a Cosmos DB Document
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks 152 - Get the Record Count in Cosmos DB
On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar writes that Microsoft Azure Data welcomes attendees to VLDB 2018

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Josh Gavant writes about Helping Go developers build better cloud apps faster
On Channel 9, Erik St. Martin presents a 7-part series, Go on Azure: Part 1—Build Go apps with Visual Studio Code with Ramya Achutha Rao, Part 2—CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes with VSTS with Jessica Deen, Part 3—Go on Web Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service with Josh Gavant, Part 4—Cloud-native Go apps with Josh Gavant, Part 5—Build apps with the Azure SDK for Go with Joel Hendrix, Part 6—Events and messaging with David Justice and Part 7—Build a Go app with Buffalo and deploy to Azure with Martin Strobel
On the Visual Studio blog, Allison Buchholtz-Au writes about Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor
Christine Alford highlights the Azure Marketplace new offers: July 16-31
On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko explains Why it is important to create Azure support requests

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Edward Fry writes that Kanban Board Tools Extension Now Available
Also on MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.24
Also on MSDN, Gregg Boer asks Team Foundation Server (TFS) Reporting – Which reports do you use?
Also on MSDN, Julian Atanasoae explains How to build a VSTS assistant – The Life and Times of a Kanban bot – Part 3

🎭 Identity

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) announces that Azure AD B2B Collaboration support for Google IDs is now in public preview
Also on MSDN, Mike Duddington (@Dudders1) covers Using Azure AD B2B collaboration support for Google IDs and Conditional Access
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) discusses Automating Azure AD B2B Guest Invitations using Microsoft Identity Manager
On MSDN, Frank Hu explains How to Add an Azure AD Role to a Enterprise Application Service Principal
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag present Episode 80 – Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks 153 - How to get the Azure Account Tenant Id

🔌 Integration

On the Serverless360 blog, serverless360 blogs about Implementing IP Address Filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus
Also on the Serverless360 blog, Surya Venkatasubramanian provides an Azure Service Bus Overview
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson present Episode 268 | LIVE at SharePoint Fest Seattle

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Ashita Rastogi announces the General availability of Azure IoT Hubs integration with Azure Event Grid
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Azure IoT Hub and Azure Event Grid with Ashita Rastogi
On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) provides an Azure IoT Hub Overview
On MSDN, Jason Giordano blogs about Azure Maps Simplified

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Kartik P V R describes how to Monitor all Azure Backup protected workloads using Log Analytics
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller describes some Techniques to make Azure Monitor alerts from Log Analytics more useful: Creating custom alerts with Azure Automation
On TechNet, Mike Dzikowski provides a PowerShell DSC – Multi-Home Log Analytics Agents
Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) covers Performance Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 5: Alerting
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about Azure Log Analytics – Get Windows Event Description
The Azure updates team writes that OMS portal is moving to Azure portal and writes about the New log experience in the Azure portal
On PowerShell Magazine, Jan Egil Ring (@janegilring) walks through Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) for runbooks in Azure Automation
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure Automation with Jenny Hunter
Also on Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about Azure Site Recovery between Regions with Sujay Talasila
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) provides a Platform Image Azure Policy Definition Example and writes about Demystifying Azure Policies with ARM Templates
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about Deploying Resource Groups with ARM Templates
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about Understanding Tenants, Subscriptions, Regions and Geographies in Azure
The Azure Updates Team highlights the Updates to file support and Windows services tracking in Change Tracking and Inventory

🎬 Media

On MSDN, Geoff Innis talks about Phone Call Transcription and Insights with Video Indexer and Dynamics 365 (Part 2)

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, Ellen Ernstberger provides A quick take on the State of Hybrid Cloud survey

🚌 Migration

On MSDN, Raj Pochiraju announces the Public Preview Availability of Azure SQL Database Online Migration in Azure Database Migration Service
Also on MSDN, Shau Phang describes the Online migration from AWS RDS MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL
On TechNet, Rob Davies (@rodavies) writes Act now! Migrate your customers running Windows Server and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 to Azure
Also on TechNet, the Map Toolkit Team writes that the MAP Toolkit 9.9.12 is Now Available

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Maddy Leger discusses Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox
On the DragonSpears blog, Craig Kaneshiro blogs about Overcoming Application Modernization Issues During a Xamarin Upgrade
On Channel 9, Robert Green talks about Telerik & Kendo UI with Sam Basu and Ed Charbeneau

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team announces some new ways to Troubleshoot connectivity issues in a virtual network

🔐 Security

The Azure Updates Team provides the Azure Security Center update August 29
On the Azure blog, Pradeep Nair discusses Protecting privacy in Microsoft Azure: GDPR, Azure Policy Updates
On TechNet, Stanislav Belov highlights the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News August, 2018
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) discusses Azure Certifications and Compliance
Kevin Hagenaars describes Securing your Azure Key Vault secrets within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline

📦 Storage

On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) describes how to Automactically move data from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Blob Storage
Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) provides a (SOLUTION) Azure File Sync–Tiering & Synchronisation Won't Work

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team highlights the Azure API Management update August 28
On MSDN, Kruthi Villivalam describes Debugging Node.js applications on Azure App Services Linux/containers and describes Configuring node.js application on Azure App Service with Azure Blob Storage
Also on MSDN, Sachin Dubey explains How to configure TLS versions in App Service and Functions apps in Azure Government
On TechNet, Martin Schvartzman provides a script to Remove Azure Hybrid Connection objects
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) walks through Using an external email provider with Episerver DXC environment inside Azure