Azure Weekly Issue 200: 11th November 2018
I had no idea that back on the 2nd November 2014 that the newsletter would keep going for so long, or have so many thousands of subscribers around the world. In the very first edition Azure was a very different ecosystem; there were 9 categories (we now have 19), "PaaS" was very much the buzzword, and there wasn't a hint of Machine Learning or AI. What a difference 4 years makes. I'm sure Azure in 2022 will have evolved into an equally different landscape.
- Power BI delivers dataflows, enterprise reporting, and major updates to Power BI Desktop
- Public Preview of Paginated Reports in Power BI Premium Now Available
- Cognitive Services Bing Local Business Search now available in public preview
- General availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
- Azure Container Instances now available in Canada Central
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse introduces new productivity and security capabilities
- 'Row-Level Security is now supported for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse'
- Source Control for Data Science – using Azure DevOps / VSTS with Jupyter Notebooks
- Azure IoT Edge 1.0.4 release
- Microsoft Azure portal November 2018 update
- ASDK Syslog Client Meets Log Analytics
- Power BI Paginated Reports also available in Power BI Mobile Apps preview
- Using Shared Access Signatures in Azure Templates
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Azure Batch AI, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API
- On the Azure blog, Mahesh Balachandran writes about Cognitive Services Bing Local Business Search now available in public preview
- On MSDN, JS Tan describes Batch scoring on Azure for deep learning models
- On Channel 9, Noelle Lacharite (@NoelleLaCharite) talks about Building a Bot in Minutes with QnA Maker
- On the Trailhead blog, Valeriy Kovalenko describes Vision Framework for Face Landmarks detection using Xamarin.iOS
Analytics
Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog
- On the Azure blog, Shubha Vijayasarathy announces General availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
- On Channel 9, Shubha Vijayasarathy talks about Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka Azure Friday
- On the Power BI blog, Christopher Finlan (@cmfinlan) talks about Public Preview of Paginated Reports in Power BI Premium Now Available
- Also on the Power BI blog, Swati Gupta explains how to Paginated report metrics and dataflow metrics now available in Premium Capacity Metrics app
- On the Power BI blog, Nikhil Gaekwad blogs about Power BI Service and Mobile September & October Feature Summary
- Also on the Power BI blog, Arun Ulag (@arunulag) covers Power BI delivers dataflows, enterprise reporting, and major updates to Power BI Desktop
- Also on the Power BI blog, Adi Regev (@adi_regev) writes about Power BI data prep with dataflows
- On the DragonSpears blog, Zachary Sersland talks about Benefits and Drawbacks of Power BI
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) describes The CredentialQuery Option For Web.Contents() In Power BI Custom Data Connectors and writes that Azure Data Studio Should Support Analysis Services And Power BI Premium Capacities
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
- On MSDN, Juergen Thomas talks about SAPS ratings on Azure VMs – where to look and where you can get confused
- On the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) covers an Introduction to Azure Durable Functions
- On the Kloud blog, John Downs describes how to Integration Test Precompiled v2 Azure Functions
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) blogs about Mocking HttpRequest Body Content When Testing Azure Function HTTP Trigger Functions
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) walks through Getting Started with Containers on Service Fabric
- Glenn Colpaert talks about Service Fabric: Serialization error while deleting Reliable Actors and their state
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes about SAP on Azure in Plain English Part 1 and SAP on Azure in Plain English Part 2
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Container Instances are now available in Canada Central
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Deploying and Managing Containers on Azure
- Richard Seroter (@rseroter) blogs about Deploying a platform (Spring Cloud Data Flow) to Azure Kubernetes Service
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) writes about Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS – Parametrized values
Databases
Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL
- On the Azure blog, John Macintyre announces that Azure SQL Data Warehouse introduces new productivity and security capabilities
- Also on the Azure blog, Kavitha Jonnakuti announces that 'Row-Level Security is now supported for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse'
- Also on the Azure blog, Estienne Granet writes about Static Data Masking for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
- Also on the Azure blog, Debbi Lyons (@debbilyons) describes Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for MySQL at PASS SUMMIT
- Also on the Azure blog, Harini Gupta writes about Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MySQL monitoring and writes about Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for PostgreSQL monitoring
- Also on the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo writes two blogs about SQL Data Warehouse Workload insights into SQL Data Warehouse delivered through Microsoft Azure Monitor diagnostic logs and Azure SQL Data Warehouse provides frictionless development using SQL Server Data Tools
- Also on the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo describes how to Automatically discover workload insights for advanced performance tuning directly in Azure portal
- Also on the Azure blog, Parikshit Savjani (@talktosavjani) describes how to Run your LOB applications with PostgreSQL powered by the plv8 extension
- On MSDN, Sergio Fonseca (@FonsecaSergio) describes how to Change the collation of existing Azure SQL databases
- On Code Project, Srinivasa Dinesh Parupalli explains how to Migrate Data from SQL Server to Azure Cosmos DB
- Also on MSDN, Paul King details Azure Cosmos DB Pricing
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
- K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) writes that REST Client is the Best Client
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes about Remote Debugging Azure Functions V2
- On Channel 9, Sam Basu (@samidip) talks about Visual Studio Toolbox: Blazor part 1 and Blazor Part 2
- On MSDN, Dan Taylor describes Python in Visual Studio Code and covers Data Science with Python in Visual Studio Code
- On Code Project, Lee P Richardson writes that Code Coverage is Finally Easy in .Net Core
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
- On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Source Control for Data Science – using Azure DevOps / VSTS with Jupyter Notebooks
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, Hong Ooi write about AzureR: R packages to control Azure services
- Also on MSDN, Martin Kearn (@MartinKearn) discusses Processing Github Webhooks with Azure Functions
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) talks about Azure Functions Continuous Deployment with Azure Pipelines: Part 1 - Overview and Azure Functions Continuous Deployment with Azure Pipelines: Part 2 - Getting Started
- On Channel 9, Donovan Brown & Rob Caron talks about SAP HANA infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible Azure Friday and on the Azure blog, Tobias Niekamp covers Automating SAP deployments in Microsoft Azure using Terraform and Ansible
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
- On MSDN, Ben Martens describes a Client App Calling An Azure Function With AAD
- Also on MSDN, Frank Hu explains How to Use the ADAL .NET library to Call the Microsoft Graph API in a Console Application
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
- On the Serverless360 blog, the serverless360 team introduces Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE)
- On the Kloud blog, Olaf Loogman walks through Building deployment pipelines for Azure Function proxies and Logic Apps
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
- The Azure updates team announces Azure IoT Edge 1.0.4 release and blogs about Upcoming Azure Sphere 18.11 release
- On the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton describes IoT for Smart Cities: New partnerships for Azure Maps and Azure Digital Twins
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Getting started with Azure Digital Twins
- On MSDN, Ray Fang provides A Workaround to Run Azure IoT Edge on ARM64 Devices
Management and Governance
Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications
- On the Kloud blog, John Downs walks through Creating Azure Storage SAS Tokens with ARM Templates
- Also on the Kloud blog, John Downs talks about Deploying App Services with Run From Package, Azure Storage, and Azure Pipelines
- On the Azure blog, Peri Rocha covers Microsoft Azure portal November 2018 update
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
- On the Azure blog, Gabriel Dorta describes The importance of Azure Stack for DevOps
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about Azure Stack – ASDK Syslog Client Meets Log Analytics
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- On MSDN, Larry Mead blogs about Demystifying mainframe to Azure migration
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- On the Xamarin blog, Leonardo Rodriguez blogs about Gorilla Player: A Tool to Craft Beautiful XAML UIs for Xamarin.Forms
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Beautiful UI for Apps with Telerik UI for Xamarin The Xamarin Show
- On the Power BI blog, Maya Shenhav announces that Power BI Paginated Reports are also available in Power BI Mobile Apps preview
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
- On the Azure blog, Omid Mola writes about Securing incoming traffic to HDInsight clusters in a virtual network with private endpoint
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
- On the Azure blog, Russell McDonald describes Usuing Azure Security Center to detect when compromised Linux machines attack
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Protect Your HyperV Virtual Machines With Azure Site Recovery In Windows Admin Center AzSiteRecovery ServerMgmt
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
- On TechNet, Shannon Gowen announces that Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now generally available
- On the Azure blog, Mine Tokus talks about Mission critical performance with Ultra SSD for SQL Server on Azure VM
- Michael S. Collier (@MichaelCollier) describes Using Shared Access Signatures in Azure Templates
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) covers Premium blob storage
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
- The Azure updates team highlights Azure API Management updates
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