Azure Weekly

Issue #202 - 25th November 2018

Welcome to this week's edition of Azure Weekly. Things seem to have died down during this week. We hope that everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving had a lovely time.

Let's take a look at this week's announcements:

Elsewhere, Steef-Jan Wiggers has written a helpful blog on Getting Familiar with Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka, and Stefan Stranger has described how to use the Windows Graph API to set Service Principal as owner of Service Principal.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes about Cognitive Services in Containers and provides an AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: November 2018
On MSDN, Marc Plogas describes Computer Vision for Augmented Reality
On Channel 9, Noelle Lacharite (@NoelleLaCharite) announces Microsoft AI for Accessibility
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 174 - Machine Learning with ML.NET and Azure Functions - Part 1 of 2 and Part 175 - Machine Learning with ML.NET and Azure Functions - Part 2 of 2
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 255 - Chatbots with Péter Bozsó

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Uri Barash describes how Taboola improves customer experiences with Azure Data Explorer
On the Codit blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) writes about Getting Familiar with Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) writes Understanding Azure Data Lake
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure HDInsight: New Spark UI extensions for better job performance analysis with Maxim Lukiyanov
On MSDN, Karan Gulati discusses Azure Data Factory V2– Pipeline Functional Testing
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about 20 Years Of Analysis Services, blogs about Implementing Basic Query Folding On A Web Service In Power Query/M And Power BI and discusses Using Function.ScalarVector To Optimise Calls To M Functions
On the Power BI blog, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the Webinar 11/27: Paginated reports for Power BI Report Server -Meet the team and ask them anything
Also on the Power BI blog, Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer announces that the On-premises data gateway November update is now available

🖥️ Compute

On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) discusses Scaling VMs in IaaS in Azure
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) talks about Faster, more accessible edge HPC with Avere vFXT for Azure with Scott Jeschonek

🚢 Containers

Jessica Deen (@jldeen) covers Kubernetes Ingress Controllers and Certificates: The Walkthrough
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) talks about Understanding simple HTTP Ingress in AKS
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) blogs about Kubernetes network policies on Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure NPM
Julien Corioland (@jcorioland) describes how to Secure an Azure Kubernetes cluster with Azure Active Directory and RBAC
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) talks about Building and Running Container Images with ACR, ACI and the Azure CLI

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Luis Bosquez explains how to Visualize your Cosmos DB Gremlin API graph data with Linkurious enterprise
Also on the Azure blog, Rafat Sarosh describes How to develop secure applications using Azure Cosmos DB
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) describes how to Bulk insert entities into Cosmos DB using Python
On MSDN, Walter Novoa (@warnov) talks about Replacing Keen.io functionalities with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes how to Stream SmartThings data to Cosmos DB and PowerBI Part 4 - A Cheaper Alternative
Also on the Azure blog, Parikshit Savjani (@talktosavjani) writes about Real-time event processing with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Event Grid integration
Also on MSDN, Bashar Hussein describes How to Scale up Azure Database for MySQL from Basic Tier to General Purpose Tier, writes about Understanding Performance in Basic Tier for Azure Database PostgreSQL and MySQL and writes that Azure Database for MySQL server has gone away

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Daniel Roth writes that Razor support in Visual Studio Code now in Preview
On the Visual Studio blog, John Montgomery (@JohnMont) highlights that Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 now available
David O'Brien (@david_obrien) explains How to install Azure Service Fabric SDK
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about How the Azure ML Data Prep SDK Will Make Your Life Better
On the Azure blog, Christine Alford highlights the Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 25
On Channel 9, Peng Lyu (@njukidreborn) answers One Dev Question - How did VSCode come together?
Also on Channel 9, Ramya Achutha Rao (@ramyanexus) answers One Dev Question - How is VSCode built and maintained?
Also on the Azure blog, Eustace Asanghanwa announces that Simplifying confidential computing: Azure IoT Edge security with enclaves – Public preview
Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) explains that Qualcomm LTE for IoT SDK integrates Azure IoT with Nagaraju Naik and Murali Bharadwaj

🔩 DevOps

On the Azure blog, Jamie Cool introduces Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC1
James van Den Berg describes the Installation of AzureDevOps Server 2019 RC1 for your Team Work
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes about Azure Functions Continuous Deployment with Azure Pipelines: Part 8 - Using Gates to Run Smoke Tests on Deployed Function Apps
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes Just released a new Azure Pipelines Extension to update Git based WIKIs
On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.16
Also on MSDN, Freddy Kristiansen (@freddydk) walks through Developing Business Central Extensions part 5 – YAML
Ravikanth Chaganti (@ravikanth) writes about Azure DevOps Server – Downloading Setup Media Using Web Installer
On Microsoft + Open Source, Elena Neroslavskaya provides a Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git

🎭 Identity

On TechNet, Michael Niehaus discusses Trying out Windows Autopilot User-Driven Hybrid Azure AD Join
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Kim Kischel writes that MCAS brings its real-time CASB controls to on-prem apps
Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) describes Using the Windows Graph API to set Service Principal as owner of Service Principal

🔌 Integration

The Azure updates team highlights the Service Bus name changes
On MSDN, Ashish Chhabria writes about Enforcing TLS 1.2 use with Azure Service Bus
On Code Project, Leszek Koc writes about the Automatic Subscription of Azure Functions to Event Grid
Also on MSDN, David Burg (@david_burg) writes about the Logic Apps X12 connector control of Group Header field GS08 aka Version Release Identifier
On the Serverless360 blog, Kent Weare blogs about Managing Secrets in Azure Logic Apps using Managed Identities
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Brad Anderson, Microsoft's Corporate VP for Enterprise Mobility, describes Intune's journey to a highly scalable globally distributed cloud service

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, the Azure team writes Meet the Microsoft Azure IoT on Serverless Hackathon winners
Also on the Azure blog, Vivian Liu explains how to Connect devices from other IoT clouds to Azure IoT Central
On MSDN, Wu Shuai explains how to Get Started with Cognitive Service Container in IoT Edge

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Shikher Saluja walks through Understanding health criteria in Azure Monitor for VMs
On MSDN, Clive Watson blogs about Azure Log Analytics: Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Part 1, Part 2 and writes A little more on Parse and Print
On TechNet, Kevin Justin explains how to Gather Log Analytics/MMA agent version
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) covers Azure Update Management using Windows Admin Center
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Site Recovery supports firewall-enabled storage accounts
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) writes about Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 1 and Part 2
Also on MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wrijugh) highlights the New Azure Audit Reports

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, Ricardo Mendes writes about What you need to know when writing hybrid applications
Also on the Azure blog, Thomas Roettinger highlights that Extension Host is coming to Azure Stack with the next update 1811
On MSDN, Ed Price (@UserEd_) blogs about Hybrid Cloud Architecture on Azure – Portal

🚌 Migration

On MSDN, Ed Price (@UserEd_) talks about Mainframe Migration to Azure – Portal
On Code Project, Vivek Johari describes How to Migrate SQL Database to Azure SQL Database using SSMS Export/Import
James van Den Berg discusses Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design: (3 of 4) Data Migration

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas blogs about Android Build Performance and Reliability
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) talks about Developing Samsung TV Apps with .NET - Getting Started
On MSDN, Nilofer Rajpurkar announces the iOS App Extension and watchOS Support in Visual Studio App Center
Also on MSDN, the App Center Team writes Thanks, HockeyApp. Visual Studio App Center Will Take It From Here

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team writes about the Enhancements to NSG flow logs for Azure Network Watcher
On MSDN, Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) blogs about Azure VNet Peering across Azure Active Directory tenants using Service Principal authentication

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team highlights the Security Center Workload Protection for App Service name changes
On TechNet, Kevin Martins adds to the Email Phishing Protection Guide – Blog 19: Email Phishing Protection Security Checklist, Part 20: Recommended Security and Anti-Phishing Training from Microsoft Ignite 2018 and Part 18: Increase Security with Microsoft Secure Score

📦 Storage

The Azure updates team highlights the Blob storage Germany resource GUID and name changes
On MSDN, Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil discuss Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure – Part 4: BeeGFS on Azure

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team highlights the Azure SignalR Service GUID changes