Azure Weekly
Issue #196 - 14th October 2018
It's been a pretty quiet week this week in the Azure space. Let's begin by looking at the announcements and updates:
- Re-define analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 tier now generally available
- 'b2clogin.com is now generally available'
- Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing
- Power BI Developer community September update
- POLITICO Europe bets on Microsoft Power BI to report on the European Union Elections
- Improved governance experience with Ethereum Proof-of-Authority 1.2
- Azure Container Instances now available in Central India and South Central US
- Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release
- Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source
- Azure Lab Services: Easy and Guided Lab Creation Flow
- Send your Azure Active Directory data to Azure Log Analytics
- Azure IoT Edge 1.0.3 release
- Enabling intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions for government
- Azure Portal October update
- Azure Backup available in Australia Central regions
- ServiceNow Digital Workflows coming to Azure Government customers
- Azure API Management update October 11
Elsewhere, Kate Baroni introduces a A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function, Dan Stillwell provides some tips regarding Data models within Azure Analysis Services and Power BI, and Troy Hunt describes Breaking Azure Functions with Too Many Connections.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Tara Jana introduces Snip Insights – Cross-platform open source AI tool for intelligent screen capture
- On Channel 9, Anil Kumble introduces the Spektacom “Power Bat"
🔎 Analytics
- On the Azure blog, Kate Baroni talks about A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function
- Also on the Azure blog, Dan Stillwell describes Data models within Azure Analysis Services and Power BI
- Also on the Azure blog, Sid Ramadoss describes how to Supercharge your Azure Stream Analytics queries with C# code
- On the Power BI blog, Nimrod Shalit blogs about Power BI Developer community September update, Arun Ulag talks about POLITICO Europe bets on Microsoft Power BI to report on the European Union Elections, Ranin Salameh writes about Deep dive in the organizational custom visuals and Charles Sterling explains how to See Power BI Preview Features in action at the Power BI World Tour and highlights the upcoming Webinar on 10/16: Build Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI with Avi Singh
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) asks Can You Use Power Query In Power BI Or Excel To Write Data To A Data Source
- On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell talk about Embedding Power BI with Peter Myers
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Cody Born writes about the Improved governance experience with Ethereum Proof-of-Authority 1.2
- On the Serverless360 blog, Mohan Nagaraj summarizes the Azure Functions Ask Me Anything – Oct 2018
- Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) explains Breaking Azure Functions with Too Many Connections
- On TechNet, Melissa Christensen describes how to Accelerate Azure infrastructure modernization deployments
- On TechNet, Tim Tetrick writes about the Windows Virtual Desktop
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) writes that Generation 2 Virtual Machines Make Their First Public Appearance in Microsoft Azure
🚢 Containers
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure Container Instances now available in Central India and South Central US
- On MSDN, Atul Verma blogs about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Azure AD SAML based Single Sign on to secure Elasticsearch and Kibana and securing communications in ELK
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) writes About Ingress in Azure Kubernetes Service AKS
🗄️ Databases
- On the Azure blog, Kuber Sharma describes how to Re-define analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 tier now generally available
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On MSDN, Dan Taylor discusses Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release
- On the Azure blog, Erich Andersen writes that Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source
🔩 DevOps
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) covers Features branching strategy using Git and Azure DevOps
- On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.12 and talks about Remediating the October 2018 Git Security Vulnerability
- Also on MSDN, Mitch Denny blogs about Getting started with Universal Packages
- Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) discusses Microsoft Azure DevOps for ASP .NET Core Web apps
- Also on MSDN, Stephane Eyskens blogs about Enhancing the security of Azure Automation Webhooks in an Azure DevSecOps context
- Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath blogs about Azure Lab Services: Easy and Guided Lab Creation Flow
🎭 Identity
- The Azure updates team explains how to Send your Azure Active Directory data to Azure Log Analytics
- Thuan Soldier writes about the Log Analytics Integration support on Azure AD
- On MSDN, Sam Mak writes that 'b2clogin.com is now generally available'
- Also on MSDN, Marius Rochon describes Federation patterns using Azure AD
🔌 Integration
- On the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) writes about the Challenges you may face in implementing cloud-native integration solutions
- On MSDN, S Gern writes about INTUNE – Intune and Autopilot Part 3 – Preparing your environment
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Julia White (@julwhite) writes about Enabling intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions for government
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure IoT Edge 1.0.3 release
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes some Azure IoT Edge 1.0.2 update issues
- On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) blogs about Azure IoT - Good Security Practice
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Azure IoT Edge CLI tooling with Jon Gallant and provides an Azure Digital Twins Introduction with Daniel Escapa
- On the Codit blog, Glenn Colpaert describes how to Automatically configure Azure IoT Hub to emit events to Azure Event Grid via ARM
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Peri Rocha and Leon Welicki provide an Azure Portal October update
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure Backup available in Australia Central regions
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Backup Windows 10 to Microsoft Azure Backup
- On MSDN, Yujin Hong blogs about Utilizing PaaS services and ARM deployment templates on Azure Government
- Also on MSDN, the Azure Gov Team writes that ServiceNow Digital Workflows coming to Azure Government customers
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) talks about Azure Monitor – Combine Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics Data in Grafana
- Also on MSDN, Shawn Gibbs and Nanette Ray provide a NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Web Application Monitoring on Azure
- Also on MSDN, Ben Martens writes about Getting Started with the Kusto Query Language KQL
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 162 - ARM Templates Demystified
- Also on MSDN, Eric W. DeBord highlights the Azure Education Governance Series
- On the Serverless360 blog, the serverless360 team covers Consumption vs Dedicated Billing Models, which One is for me
⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes a few blogs about Azure Stack – Deploy Azure Stack on Azure VM, Azure Stack Development Kit Post Deployment and Azure Stack Development Kit Azure Registration
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure blog, Sneha Agrawal explains how to Identify your move-groups and target sizes for migration with Azure Migrate
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) presents Episode 89 – Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about the New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features with Jérémie Laval
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Columns, Peter Vogel describes Debugging Xamarin Android Apps
- On the Xamarin blog, Bill Leach explains how to Protect your Xamarin.Android Apps at Runtime with Dotfuscator
🌐 Networking
- On MSDN, Brian Christopher Harrison (@briancharrison) provides an Azure 101: Networking Part 1
- On TechNet, Euclides Miguel answers the question Is ExpressRoute for me?
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about Static IP Ranges with Azure Public IP Prefixes
- Also on TechNet, Dan Cuomo provides some Notes from the Field: Microsoft SDN Software Load Balancers
🔐 Security
- On the Azure blog, Christine Avanessians explains how to Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing
- Thuan Soldier provides A note behind Get-AzureKeyVaultSecret
- On the Catapult Systems blog, David Broussard writes Unified Labeling Goes Live and Scares the Heck Out of Me
- On MSDN, Karina Homme (@karinalhomme) writes Join us: Women Leading Government Cybersecurity – Oct. 24 in Washington, DC
📦 Storage
- Tobias Zimmergren describes how to Secure your Azure Storage Accounts with restrictions based on public IP addresses and how to Secure your data in Azure Storage Accounts using RBAC Role-Based Access Control
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) writes about the HTTP 409 code when you use CreateIfNotExists with Azure Tables
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team provides an Azure API Management update October 11
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) intoduces the new Azure API Management capabilities with Miao Jiang
- On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 250 - SignalR Service with Anthony Chu
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 163 - Provide Static Values to ARM Template
- On MSDN, Yi Wang explains how to Restrict access to login for the WordPress running on Azure web app container
- On Code Project, Peter Sun talks about Building a C# WPF Twitter Reader with REST API
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Columns, Peter Vogel describes how to Speed Up Your Application with SQL Server In-Memory Tables