Azure Weekly

Issue #207 - 13th January 2019

Not a great deal of announcements to share:

Here's some other content to take a look at this week: Suneet Nangia and Mark Fussell walk through Running Minecraft on Service Fabric Mesh, Kees Schollaart provides a new Azure Cost Insights ADO extension, and Christoph Siegert answers some questions on data residency and compliance in Microsoft Azure.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes In case you missed it: December 2018 roundup
Also on the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) highlights that AzureR packages now on CRAN
On Channel 9, Noelle Lacharite (@NoelleLaCharite) talks about What's New? A Single Key for Cognitive Services AI Show

🔎 Analytics

Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers ODBC Data Sources, The SqlCapabilities Option And Power Query/Power BI Data Refresh Performance and highlights that the Updated Power BI Video Training Course Now Available
On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta explains how to Read and Import Data from PDF Files using Power BI
On the Power BI blog, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the Webinar 1/8: How to effectively tell a story with your data and Power BI with Ruth Pozuelo Martinez and blogs about Jan 10 Webinar: Text Recognition (OCR) using Cognitive Service, Microsoft Flow, and Power Apps by Leila Etaati
Also on the Power BI blog, Lukasz Pawlowski describes how to Easily embed secure Power BI reports in your internal portals or websites
On MSDN, the AzureCAT team provides an Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog 9: Extract, transform, load ETL

🖥️ Compute

On MSDN, Suneet Nangia and Mark Fussell blog about Running Minecraft on Service Fabric Mesh
On TechNet, Beystor Makoala provides some Field Notes: The case of a crashing Hyper-V VM – Integration Services Out of Date
On the Azure blog, Avishay Balter writes To infinity and beyond: The definitive guide to scaling 10k VMs on Azure
Also on MSDN, Nicole Welch talks about Renaming an Azure Windows VM (Managed Disks)

🚢 Containers

Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) explains how to Deploy MySQL and WordPress on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes Taking backups from Azure disks attached to AKS via Azure Automation
Julien Corioland (@jcorioland) describes Using Azure Front Door to handle SSL termination with Azure Kubernetes Service
On MSDN, Andreas Helland discusses Setting up a Docker Containers Infrastructure with Azure DevOps

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Aleksey Savateyev describes how to Gain insight into your Azure Cosmos DB data with QlikView and Qlik Sense
On Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about Global real-time multi-user apps with Azure Cosmos DB with Chris Anderson
Also on the Azure blog, Harini Gupta highlights some Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MariaDB monitoring
Also on the Azure blog, Harini Gupta describes Performance troubleshooting using new Azure Database for PostgreSQL features
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht provides an Overview of Azure SQL Database Performance Monitoring
The Azure updates team highlights that Additional compute levels added to vCore-based Azure SQL databases and elastic pools
On Code Project, Vivek Johari (@VivekJohari) covers Point In Time Restore for Azure SQL Database
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Martin (@SQLDiplomat) explains how to Install DBATools with Azure VM Custom Script Extension - Github

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Wolfgang Manousek writes about the Cognitive Services Speech SDK 1.2 – December update – Python, Node.js/NPM and other improvements
On the Azure blog, Brenda Lee announces the Streamlined development experience with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0
On MSDN, Liya Liki Du writes New year, new experience and new sample for Azure IoT Device Workbench
On Code Project, Sibeesh Passion (@SibeeshVenu) talks about an MXChip Device with Pressure, Humidity, Temperature Info using Azure IoT Workbench
Also on MSDN, Xin Shi introduces the Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code
Also on MSDN, Jun Han (@formulahendry) writes about the Azure IoT Hub Toolkit 2.1.0: Great performance optimization, more code generation templates and UX improvement
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Interning in Azure Engineering and the Visual Studio Code extension for ACR Build with Jackson Stokes, Rutu Samai and Esteban Rey
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) discusses Deploying Azure Functions with the Azure CLI
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell
The Azure updates team highlights that Python 2.7 available for App Service on Linux
Also on MSDN, Ed Price (@UserEd_) highlights the NEW WHITEPAPER: Microsoft Azure Government cloud for mainframe applications by Larry Mead
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) provides some Recommended Azure developer sessions at Microsoft Ignite The Tour: Sydney 2019
On TechNet, Chris Walden provides A view of Connect from the UK Azure User Group
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) provides some AZ-302 Exam Study Notes
Also on MSDN, the Azure Gov Team says to Join us for the Azure Government Innovation Tour – coming to a city near you
Jakob Ehn talks about Running .NET Core Unit Tests with Docker and Azure Pipelines

🔩 DevOps

On the .NET Curry blog, Sandeep Chadda writes that VSTS is now Azure DevOps. What has changed and why?
On MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath highlights A few ongoing issues currently in DevTest Labs
On MDSN, Máté Barabás talks about Azure DevOps Agents on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Also on MSDN, Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.11
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains how to Deploy Python-based Azure Functions using Azure DevOps
Jeremy Lindsay (@jeremylindsayni) describes how to Load your work items into Azure DevOps Boards with .NET
Kees Schollaart provides an ADO extension: Azure Cost Insights

🎭 Identity

Mark Heath (@mark_heath) covers Accessing Key Vault from Azure Functions using Managed Identities
Nicolas Bonnet explains how to Configure Pass-through Authentication

🔌 Integration

On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) covers Azure Service Bus Topologies
On the Codit blog, Toon Vanhoutte writes about Logic Apps Event Grid Trigger Not Firing
On the Serverless360 blog, Nadeem Ahamed explains how to Manage your Azure VMs using Azure Event Grid
On the Serverless360 blog, Kent Weare writes about Hands-on Experience with Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Niv Goldenberg talks about Automating Security workflows with Microsofts CASB and MS Flow

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Nicole Berdy (@nberdy) writes New year, newly available IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service features (now GA)
Also on the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) talks about CES 2019: Microsoft partners, customers showcase breakthrough innovation with Azure IoT, AI, and Mixed Reality
Also on the Azure blog, Galen Hunt writes about the New smart device security research: Consumers call on manufacturers to do more
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about the Azure IoT Microsoft Professional Program with Ranga Vadlamudi
The Azure updates team discusses the Azure Sphere: Update to the 18.11 release
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) present Episode 260 - Azure Sphere

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) blogs about Azure Automation and PowerShell Runbooks
Henry Been (@henry_been) covers Azure Policy 4: Azure policy for Management groups
The Azure updates team talks about Azure Site Recovery - Update Rollup 32 and posts a Final reminder: OMS portal moving to the Azure portal
James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) blogs about Microsoft Azure Monitor and Service Map Insights workbooks (Preview)
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) provides an Azure Resource Graph Introduction
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) blogs about Infrastructure as Code for the IT Admin
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Choose your default view in Azure Portal

🎬 Media

On the Azure blog, Oron Nir introduces Multi-modal topic inferencing from videos

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) discusses Getting Started With Terraform On Azure Stack

🚌 Migration

On the Azure blog, Madhuri N announces the general availability of Azure Data Box Disk
Also on the Azure blog, Sneha Agrawal writes about the New Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery enhancements for cloud migration
Also on the Azure blog, Nilabja Ball provides a Teradata to Azure SQL Data Warehouse migration guide
The Azure updates team blogs about the Support for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online migrations, the Support for PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL online migrations and the Support for SQL to Azure SQL Database online migrations

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Larry O'Brien writes Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous
Also on the Xamarin blog, Andrei Nitescu covers Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love
On Code Project, Harshit Gindra talks about Xamarin Forms: Check and Request for Permissions and covers Xamarin Forms: Share Media With Other Apps
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Connectivity (Essential API of the Week) and provides a Xamarin.Forms 101: Data Binding The Xamarin Show

🌐 Networking

On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wrijugh) points to a Azure Latency Test

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Christoph Siegert blogs Questions on data residency and compliance in Microsoft Azure? We got answers!
James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) highlights the Whitepaper Achieving Compliant Data Residency and Security with Azure Cloud

📦 Storage

On Code Project, Arkadeep De (@ArkadeepDe) posts Azure Storage Account Part 1: What is Blob and Part 2: Upload Files in Blob Storage using C

🔗 Web

Jessica Deen (@jldeen) describes How to set up a Let's Encrypt SSL Cert for Azure Web App with Linux in 5 steps
On MSDN, Yi Liao highlights the PHP Minor Version Update for January 2019
On the Azure Citadel blog, Ben Coleman (@BenCodeGeek) talks about Integrating with Azure Search