Azure Weekly

Issue #195 - 7th October 2018

A significantly quieter week this week in the Azure space, as everyone is presumably still digesting the myriad of announcements which came from Ignite last week. We hope you all found all the new information easier to navigate with the help of our newsletter.

Back to our normal format of announcements/updates this week. Here they are:

Some other interesting content this week: Erich Anderson announces that Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions, Christie Chan and Jeffrey Chang introduce a nifty little tool called "Snip Insights" - An open source cross-platform AI tool for intelligent screen capture, and we've been told that #Fuel My Awesome is back, so get your entries in for your chance to win some prizes!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Minna Xiao writes about the World-class PyTorch support on Azure
On TechNet, Barbara Borrowman blogs about Making the most of AI for your Business Applications practice
On Channel 9, Christie Chan and Jeffrey Chang introduce “Snip Insights” An open source cross-platform AI tool for intelligent screen capture

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Dhruv Goel writes Bring Your Own Keys for Apache Kafka on HDInsight (PP)
Also on the Azure blog, Omid Mola discusses HDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Shirley Wang writes Cloud Scale Analytics meets Office 365 data – empowered by Azure Data Factory
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes how to Get cloud-scale analytics of Office 365 data with Azure Data Factory with Gaurav Malhotra
On TechNet, Melissa Christensen explains how to Familiarize yourself with new services within Data & AI
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 118 – Stacked Bar Chart by Akvelon
Also on the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar talks about the Spark + AI Summit Europe - Developing from cloud to the edge

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Jing Xu writes that the Ephemeral OS Disk in limited preview
Also on the Azure blog, Cale Teeter (@Windozer) writes that GoChain blockchain available on Azure
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) presents Episode 87 – The Business of Azure Blockchain with Paul Swider
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team provides the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 6.3 Second Refresh Release Notes
On the Kloud blog, Asish Padhy walks through Provisioning complex Modern Sites with Azure Functions and Flow – Part 3 – Post Provisioning Site Configuration and describes how to Set up Accounts and secure passwords to run automation workloads in Azure Functions
On the Serverless360 blog, Mohan Nagaraj writes an Azure Functions Monthly Update – Sept 2018
Also on MSDN, Oded Dvoskin (@odeded) writes about the Twitter AMA with the Azure Functions team #FunctionsAMA! (2018-10-11)
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 161 - Change the Azure Function runtime version after Deployment

🗄️ Databases

On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht provides an Overview of In-Memory Technologies of Azure SQL Database
On the Azure blog, Ellis Butterfield writes about Enabling real-time data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Also on the Azure blog, Bryan Dsouza announces that Announcing Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL for Azure Government customers (GA)
The Azure updates team provides a number of updates: General availability: Move MySQL servers to new resource groups and subscriptions, General availability: Move PostgreSQL servers to new resource groups and subscriptions, Deprecation of preview API versions for Azure Database for MySQL, Deprecation of preview API versions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Public preview: Azure Database for MariaDB and Azure SQL Database Managed Instance name change and GUID migration
On MSDN, Jovan Popovic writes Analysing inventory of Managed Instances using T-SQL
On TechNet, Eduard Davidzhan asks Are you ready for SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support?

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Christine Alford highlights the Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 20
On the Visual Studio blog, Angel Zhou writes about the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about What's new in the IoT Toolkit extension for VS Code with Liya Du
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 160 - The BEST of Azure Tips and Tricks is now available as a FREE ebook
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson present Episode 273 | Live from Microsoft Ignite 2018 with Julia White
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) talks about An Updated Cloud Patterns and Architecture Course
Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) explores the Docker Extension for VS Code and .NET Core

🔩 DevOps

K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) shares some Thoughts on Azure DevOps
The Azure DevOps team writes about the Pipeline compliance and security validations - Sprint 141 Update
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) describes Using Paths in PR Triggers on an Azure DevOps Pipelines Builds
On Channel 9, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) presents S02 E01: Five Things About Azure DevOps with Damian Brady
On MSDN, Mitch Denny describes Getting started with Universal Packages
Also on MSDN, Gregg Boer writes that Analytics will be available on TFS 2019 RC1 – Want to help us test it?
Tobias Zimmergren writes Solved: is not compatible with netcoreapp2.1 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.1). supports: netstandard2.0 (.NETStandard,Version=v2.0)
Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath writes about Azure Lab Services: Enable multi-VM environments through nested virtualization

🎭 Identity

On the Azure blog, Jay Lu provides a One month retirement notice: Access Control Service
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 249 - Managed Identities with Arturo Lucatero
On TechNet, Tino Donderwinkel (@tdonde) talks about Using Azure AD Device Code Flow with PowerShell
On MSDN, Vikram Kakumani writes Analyzing Facebook's recent access token exploit impact on Azure AD B2C customers

🔌 Integration

On MSDN, Jason Venema (@jasonvenema) talks about Azure AD App Tracking with Logic Apps
On the Serverless360 blog, Sean Feldman writes about Azure Messaging Crossroads
On TechNet, the Intune Support Team walks through Choosing the right Terms solution for your organization
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mayunk Jain writes Sneak peek: Public preview of Win32 application deployment using Microsoft Intune
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag present Episode 86 – What Microsoft 365 Admins Need to Know about Azure Live from Microsoft Ignite

💡 Internet of Things

On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) has an Azure Sphere Architecture Discussion with Ed Nightingale
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) writes about IoT Home Automation Alarm System Integration

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Kylie Liang talks about Ansible 2.7: What's new for Azure
The Azure updates team writes that the Log Analytics language documentation site has moved, discusses Disaster recovery for Azure Disk Encryption–enabled virtual machines and highlights that Azure Backup now supports Standard SSD Managed Disks
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes about Subscription Level Deployment Schema
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) explains how to Explore Azure Resources with Resource Graph
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Full-stack end-to-end monitoring with Azure Monitor with Rahul Bagaria
On TechNet, Shitanshu blogs about System Center Configuration Manager Infrastructure Lift and Shift Migration to Azure
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) provides an Azure Blueprints – Overview
On Microsoft + Open Source, Eugene Chuvyrov provides a Use case: Modern service discovery with Consul on Azure (Part 1)

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Tim Anderson (@timanderson) writes about Microsoft Azure Stack: a matter of compliance
On MSDN, Wu Shuai describes How to Call Azure Stack API via Client Credential Grant

🚌 Migration

On MSDN, Shau Phang writes Expanding to more Azure regions for online migration
On the Hanu blog, the Hanu team writes SAP and Azure Cloud Powering Enterprises

📱 Mobile

On MSDN, Slava Chernikoff blogs about Testing Xamarin Applications with Visual Studio App Center
On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton highlights the Mobile Developer Events in October
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Conversational UI for Bots with Sam Basu

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Tamer Salman explains how to Provide feedback on detected threats in Azure Security Center (PP)
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Gagan Gulati announces the availability of information protection capabilities to help protect your sensitive data
Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Tal Maor describes How Azure Advanced Threat Protection detects the DCShadow attack
On TechNet, Kevin McKinnerney writes AIP Scanner Express Fully (Functional in 10 minutes)
On MSDN, Steve Michelotti presents Secure Development on Azure Government with Paul Fisher and Joseph Bloom – Part 2

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Ron Matchoro announces that Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage now in public preview
The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Managed Disks GUID migration and name changes

🔗 Web

On MSDN, Andrew Stanton-Nurse announces ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 1
Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) blogs about ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER
Also on MSDN, Daniel Roth writes that the Blazor 0.6.0 experimental release now available
Also on MSDN, Andrew Hall (@AndrewBrianHall) describe how to Use Hybrid Connections to Incrementally Migrate Applications to the Cloud
Also on MSDN, Jennifer Lee highlights the PHP Minor Version Update for November 2018
Also on MSDN, Yi Wang MS Oss writes about RewriteRule sample for WordPress in subdirectory