Azure Weekly
Issue #192 - 16th September 2018
A relatively quiet week before the Ignite conference kicks off on the 24th of September. The big news of the week is the rebranding of Visual Studio Team System to Azure DevOps, the ability to use key features independantly of each other: Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Artifacts, Azure Repos and Azure Test Plans. and that Open Source projects can use
Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes. Great move Microsoft!
Announcements:
- New connectors in Azure Data Factory: Oracle Service Cloud and Google AdWords
- Power BI Embedded feature: Customize end users error experience for embedded reports
- Power BI Embedded integration with Azure Diagnostics
- Power BI Embedded feature: Hide the Power BI logo during visualization load
- Power BI Embedded: New QPU metric
- Dashboard Comments in Power BI: Your new hub to discuss data and collaborate with others
- Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary
- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2
- General availability: Event Hubs for Go
- Application Insights improvements for Java and Node.js
- the New Auto Healing Experience in App Service Diagnostics
Other Interesting articles this week include: AI helps troubleshoot an intermittent SQL Database performance issue in one day, a postmortem of the VSTS 4 September 2018 outage, and a decision tree for Azure Networking.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, David Starr explains how to Kickstart your artificial intelligence/machine learning journey with the Healthcare Blueprint and walks through Customizing Azure Blueprints to accelerate AI in healthcare
- Also on the Azure blog, Siyu Yang describes How to extract building footprints from satellite images using deep learning
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck talks about Query Folding in Power Query to Improve Performance
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Rob Caron talk about Unlocking petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with aggregations in Power BI Azure Friday
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) provides the Power BI Monthly Digest – September 2018
- On the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky provides the Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) writes about Sending logs from the Azure Kubernetes Service master endpoint to Log Analytics
- On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the 9/27 webinar: Using SVG Images in Power BI with David Eldersveld
- Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta explains how to use Faceted Search and Filtering in Power BI Reports
- Also on the Power BI blog, Nikhil Gaekwad announces Dashboard Comments in Power BI: Your new hub to discuss data and collaborate with others
- Also on the Power BI blog, Justyna Lucznik explains how to Connect with the Microsoft Power BI AI Team at Microsoft Ignite
- Also on the Power BI blog, Kay Unkroth writes about the Power BI Management cmdlets in Azure Cloud Shell
- The Azure updates team writes a number of updates: New connectors in Azure Data Factory: Oracle Service Cloud and Google AdWords, Power BI Embedded feature: Customize end users error experience for embedded reports, Power BI Embedded integration with Azure Diagnostics, Power BI Embedded feature: Hide the Power BI logo during visualization load and Power BI Embedded: New QPU metric
🖥️ Compute
- On MSDN, Daniel Amadei blogs about Adding Guest Diagnostic Extension to an Existing VM Scale Set
- Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath: Users may experience artifact installation failures during lab VM creations
- Also on MSDN, the Service Fabric Team highlights the Service Fabric Community Q&A – 28th Edition
🚢 Containers
- On MSDN, Jeff Chilberto (@JChilberto) discusses Docker in Azure VM
- James van Den Berg describes Upgrading Azure Kubernetes Cluster and Set Azure monitor Alerts on AKS
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) blogs about Sending logs from the Azure Kubernetes Service master endpoint to Log Analytics
🗄️ Databases
- On the Azure blog, Danimir Ljepava explains how AI helps troubleshoot an intermittent SQL Database performance issue in one day
- On MSDN, Diego B Vega announces the Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 2 and the preview of the Cosmos DB provider and spatial extensions for EF Core
- Also on MSDN, Ed Price (@UserEd_) writes about the AzureCAT Whitepaper: SQL Server database files and backups on Azure Storage for SAP workloads
- Also on MSDN, Steve Michelotti discusses Cosmos DB on Azure Government
- Also on MSDN, Ronit Reger talks about SQL Audit logs in Azure Log Analytics and Azure Event Hubs
- Also on MSDN, Idit Izak explains how to Connect to SQL Managed instance
- Also on MSDN, Kaduk Frantisek presents: CosmosDB change feed processor 2.1 released (monitoring enhancements)
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On MSDN, Angel Zhou announces Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2
- On the Azure blog, Jenny Jiang announces HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Integrations with Azure Account and HDInsight Explorer
- The Azure updates team writes about General availability: Event Hubs for Go
- Also on MSDN, Glenn Wester announces Extension-less XCUITest Support in Visual Studio App Center Test for iOS 12
- Also on MSDN, Mike Francis explains how to Make your app available only to the intended device families
- Also on MSDN, Visual Studio Blog presents: How can I pause my code in Visual Studio? Breakpoints FAQ and announces Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) presents Push Notifications Made Easy with App Center
- On the Kloud blog, Asish Padhy explains how to Deploy and Install SharePoint Apps using SharePoint CSOM and PnP PowerShell
- Also on the Azure blog, Christine Alford talks about Azure Marketplace new offers - Volume 19
- Also on MSDN, Jennifer Lee writes about New Price Drops for App Service on Linux
🔩 DevOps
- On the Azure blog, Jamie Cool introduces Azure DevOps
- Also on the Azure blog, Jeremy Epling announces Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about the Free Azure Build Pipelines for Open Source Projects
- Also on the Azure blog, Aaron Bjork presents a Deep dive into Azure Boards
- Jakob Ehn writes Meet Azure DevOps – formerly known as VSTS
- Also on MSDN, Dave Harrison blogs about DevOps Stories – An Interview with Brian Blackman of Microsoft Premier
- Also on MSDN, Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) writes a Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018
- Also on MSDN, Remi Lemarchand describes The case of the stunted recovery
- Also on the Azure blog, Omar Khan describes the Five habits of highly effective Azure users
🎭 Identity
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) talks about Using Managed Identity to Securely Access Azure Resources
- On Channel 9, Rob Caron, Lacey Butler and Allison Cordle present Open Source Community Health: Your Guide to Continuous Community Improvement The Open Source Show
- On TechNet, Tim McMichael writes about Office 365: Stale Information in the Offline Address Book and Individual Contact Cards
💡 Internet of Things
- On Channel 9, Dmitry Lyalin and Suz Hinton talk about Windows IoT #6 – Taking your Windows IoT Core Smart Device Further
- Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) blogs about Motion detector – automatic SMS alerts with Windows IoT Core and Microsoft Azure cloud
- Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) presents iotz: a new approach to IoT compile toolchains
- Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch and Cameron Tomisser present: Join IoT in Action to Build Transformational IoT Solutions
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Nik Molnar (@nikmd23) blogs about the Application Insights improvements for Java and Node.js
- On MSDN, Clément Olivier describes Monitoring Dynamics 365 front to backend activities with Azure Application Insights
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman talks about the Azure State Configuration experience with Michael Greene
- Also on MSDN, Azure Monitoring Services Health Status highlights Experiencing Alerting failure issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 09/12 – Resolved and Data Lagging issues for Log Analytics Service in WCUS regions- Mitigated
- On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson talks about Episode 270 | Azure's Meltdown of September 4, 2018
- Also on MSDN, Clive Watson blogs about Azure Log Analytics: A little more on Parse and Print and Azure Log Analytics: Do you need some demo data
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks 155 - Archive the Azure Activity Log
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Yvette O'Meally explains Visualize CMPivot results in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1809
- On the Azure blog, Jeremy Hollett describes Azure preparedness for Hurricane Florence
🎬 Media
- On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway writes: From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending IBC Show 2018 – Welkom in Amsterdam!
- Also on the Azure blog, Ella Ben-Tov covers Video Indexer – General availability and beyond
- Also on the Azure blog, Sudheer Sirivara, Director Azure Media Services, writes Microsoft Azure Media Services and our partners Welkom you to IBC 2018
- On the Azure podcast, Evan Basalik presents Episode 246 - South Central US outage discussion
🚌 Migration
- On MSDN, Jim Toland walks through Upcoming Public Preview Availability of PostgreSQL Online Migration in Azure Database Migration Service
📱 Mobile
- On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton describes How to watch the .NET Conf Live
🌐 Networking
- On MSDN, David Sanchez provides A decision tree for Azure Networking
🔐 Security
- On TechNet, Kevin Martins provides an Email Phishing Protection Guide – Part 13: Update Your User Identity Password Strategy
- Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) describes Cloud Security via Security Center
- Nicolas Bonnet explains how to Configure an AIP Scanner
- On the Azure blog, Ajeet Prakash explains How Security Center and Log Analytics can be used for Threat Hunting
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Automate Cloud Backup Integration In DPM With AzureBackup And PowerShell SCDPM AzureBackup
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Jeff King writes about Real-time data analytics and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers Getting Started With CloudBerry Explorer PRO For Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
🔗 Web
- On MSDN, Jennifer Lee announces the New Auto Healing Experience in App Service Diagnostics
- Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains How to list all App Services within an App Service plan using PowerShell
- On the Kloud blog, Edmond Guo describes how to Use AppKey to change WebApps default DNS settings since ASE App Services don't inherit vnets DNS settings