Azure Weekly

Issue #212 - 17th February 2019

There are a few bits of content from us at endjin this week that we'd like to shamelessly plug. Jess Panni has appeared on the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences team podcast, talking about a couple of Data Science projects of ours where we used numerous Azure data services to build our solutions, including ML Studio, Data Factory and Power BI. I have written a short blog about ML.NET, Azure Functions and the 4th Industrial Revolution, showing that you can apply ML to business processes for big productivity gains, and Carmel Eve has written another blog, this time around Avoiding deployment locking errors by running Web and Functions Apps from packages.

Now, without further ado, let's dive into this week's announcements and updates:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Anupam Sharma, Jürgen Weichenberger and Mathew Salvaris talk about PyTorch on Azure: Deep learning in the oil and gas industry
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) describes Using the Data Science VM within your classes, covers Using Pytorch with Azure, explains how to Deploy OkPy to Azure PaaS and talks about Cloud AI/ML APIs, How easy is it to deploy these on the Edge
On the endjin blog, Howard van Rooijen (@HowardvRooijen) talks about ML.NET, Azure Functions and the 4th Industrial Revolution
On the Microsoft site, a reporter writes that Tools that help police solve crimes are now available on Microsoft Azure
Also on MSDN, Deva Gnanam (@devagnanam) talks about Machine Learning – Building a Pet Detector in 30 minutes using Tensorflow
On Channel 9, Rich Lander (@runfaster2000) talks about Building Applications from Scratch with Azure and Cognitive Services with Christos Matskas

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Oded Sacher talks about Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation
Also on the Azure blog, Gaurav Malhotra explains how to Get started quickly using templates in Azure Data Factory
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) shows how to Quickly build data integration pipelines using templates in Azure Data Factory with Gaurav Malhotra
On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve talks about Azure Data Lake Analytics using U-SQL Queries
Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Haroon Ashraf provides an Azure Data Catalog Tutorial and Overview - Part 1
Also on the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka (@BrandKrishna) writes about Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics
Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Anomaly detection using machine learning in Azure Stream Analytics with Krishna Mamidipaka
Also on the Azure blog, Sasha Alperovich explains how to Maximize throughput with repartitioning in Azure Stream Analytics
The Azure updates team posts a number of updates: Implement C#-based custom deserializers in Azure Stream Analytics, New language functions in Stream Analytics, SQL Database as a source of reference data input for Stream Analytics, New geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics, Authentication based on managed identities for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 and Public preview: Power BI Embedded support for application authentication with service principal
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers Finding Power Query Query Execution Times In Power BI And Excel Using SQL Server Profiler and talks about Splitting Text By Character Transition In Power BI And Excel Power Query
Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Scott Murray provides a Power BI Drill Through Example
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes How to access Power BI resources from client application (first and third party embedding)
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) provides the Power BI Monthly Digest – February 2019
On the Power BI blog, Charles Sterling (@chass) highlights the Webinar 3/7: Tour of the new Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app by Swati Gupta
Also on the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky (@MissAmandaN) covers Power BI Desktop February 2019 Feature Summary
Also on the Power BI blog, Nikhil Gaekwad discusses Power BI Service and Mobile January 2019 Feature Summary
Also on the Power BI blog, Christopher Finlan (@cmfinlan) describes End-User Filtered Export capabilities now available
Also on the Power BI blog, Arun Ulag (@arunulag) writes that Microsoft a Leader in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for 12 consecutive years
Also on the Power BI blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) writes about Incremental refresh & query folding
Jen Stirrup discusses Connecting Azure WordPress, HubSpot data for analyzing data in PowerBI for a small business CRM

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Rajani Janaki Ram writes that Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier
The Azure updates team highlights the Feature update: Serial console for Azure Virtual Machines
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about the Azure Instance Metadata Service updates for attested data with Supriya Kumari
On MSDN, Paulo Marques da Costa provides a NEW EXAMPLE SCENARIO: Accelerate digital image-based modeling on Azure and The AzureCAT team highlights a Service Fabric Customer Architecture: ZEISS Group
Also on MSDN, the Service Fabric Team updates the Known Issue for Service Fabric Linux Clusters
Also on MSDN, Sachin Ghorpade discusses S/4H Installation in Azure – SETUP AND CONFIG IN ONE DAY
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) discusses Getting Blob Metadata When Using Azure Functions Blob Storage Triggers and covers Handling Errors and Poison Blobs in Azure Functions With Azure Blob Storage Triggers

🚢 Containers

the Azure updates team highlights the General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in Australia Southeast, highlights the Container Registry Build vCPU Duration name change and blogs about the CVE-2019-5736 and runC vulnerability in AKS
On TechNet, Richard Conway (@azurecoder) provides an Introduction to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Dev Spaces
Jose Moreno (@erjosito) provides A Day in the Life of a Packet in AKS (part 3): Outbound Connectivity

🗄️ Databases

Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) highlights that The February release of Azure Data Studio is now available
The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL Resource GUID and name changes
On MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) writes Lesson Learned 71: Fixing an orphaned users using a copy database process in Azure SQL Databases.
Also on MSDN, Sergio Fonseca (@FonsecaSergio) explains How to get Azure SQL database size
On the MSSQL Tips site, Atul Gaikwad explains How to use Azure Blob Storage for SQL Server Backup and Restore

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, Jayme Singleton (@JaymeSingleton1) writes that Microsoft's Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
On the Visual Studio blog, Nicole Bruck writes Welcome to the new home of our developer tools blogs!
On the Visual Studio blog, Leslie Richardson writes Break When Value Changes: Data Breakpoints for .NET Core in Visual Studio 2019
Tim Anderson (@timanderson) covers Adding a Visual Studio code workspace to a GitHub repository
On Channel 9, Cody Beyer (@cl_beyer) talks about Visual Studio for Mac: Refactoring Code and Using NuGet
Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Azure for Student – Access to GPU resources
On the Azure blog, Yi Zhong announces that the Azure IoT Hub Java SDK officially supports Android Things platform

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Anisha Pindoria (@anishapindoria) highlights that the Microsoft DevOps blog has moved
Also on MSDN, Atin Bansal (@Atin_MS) announces the launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack
Also on MSDN, Erin Dormier highlights the February Security Release: Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 3.2 Patch 1 is available
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) writes about Automated date based versioning for ASP.NET Core assemblies using Azure DevOps
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) delves into Using Environment Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines
James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) writes about a Azure IoT Pipeline with Microsoft Azure DevOps Project
On Code Project, Sibeesh Passion (@SibeeshVenu) explains how to Deploy Angular App Using Azure DevOps Build and Release Pipelines
On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 265 - Azure DevOps Server with Jamie Cool
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) blogs about the Podcast Appearance on RadioTFS
Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath writes about DevTest Labs: VM creations failures due to persistent errors in Availability Set

🔌 Integration

On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) describes how to Start an Azure Logic App Workflow on Demand or by an Event
The Azure updates team highlights the Service Bus name change and the Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Node.js
On MSDN, David Burg (@david_burg) writes about the Special characters in Logic Apps B2B partners identifier
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) describes Accessing Azure Key Vault using Managed Service Identity Logic Apps
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mayunk Jain and Joey Glocke write that Microsoft Intune introduces MDM Security Baselines to secure the modern workplace

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Ed Nightingale writes that the Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available
Also on the Azure blog, Greg Manyak writes that the Azure IoT Edge runtime available for Ubuntu virtual machines
Also on the Azure blog, Pamela Cortez describes how to Learn how to build with Azure IoT: Upcoming IoT Deep Dive events
The Azure updates team highlights the CVE-2019-5736 fix for Azure IoT Edge
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about the Azure IoT Edge VM on Azure Marketplace with Greg Manyak and introduces Spatial operations for Azure Maps with Roberto Lucchi
Also on the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton describes Actuating mobility in the enterprise with new Azure Maps services and SDKs

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Snehith Muvva describes how to Monitor at scale in Azure Monitor with multi-resource metric alerts
On the Catapult Systems blog, Matthew Dowst (@MDowst) writes about Log Analytics: Alert on Domain Time Deviations
On MSDN, Clive Watson blogs about Azure Log Analytics: Looking at data and costs
On Microsoft + Open Source, Mark Gray (@markg_msft) covers What's new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.22.0
Also on the Azure blog, Ashish Gangwar explains how to Protect Azure Virtual Machines using storage spaces direct with Azure Site Recovery
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Automation supports the Azure PowerShell Az module and highlights the Backup SQL Server in Azure VM Protected Instances resource GUID and name change
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains How To Automate Backup For Azure File Shares Using PowerShell For Azure Backup
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) discusses Taking backups from Azure Files attached to AKS via Azure Backup

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, David Armour, Daniel Savage and Tiberiu Radu write Azure Stack IaaS – part one

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) describes how to Easily Check Mobile Device Connectivity with Xamarin.Essentials, and on Channel 9, talks about Clipboard (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) and on provides a Xamarin.Forms 101: Command Parameters
Also on the Xamarin blog, Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) highlights the Visual Studio Mobile Developer Podcast: Releases, Previews, and Roadmaps
Matthew Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) writes about 5 Azure Offerings I Love For Xamarin Development
On the DragonSpears blog, Craig Kaneshiro discusses Advantages and Disadvantages of MacInCloud for Xamarin iOS Development
On the .NET Curry blog, Gerald Versluis talks about Xamarin.Forms 4 – What is New?
On MSDN, Nish Anil writes Help us make the .NET Architecture guides better for you
Also on MSDN, John Wargo (@johnwargo) writes about Growing the Visual Studio App Center Service Portfolio

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team highlights a number of name changes: Virtual Network Public IP name and resource GUID changes, Resource GUID and name changes, ExpressRoute to VNet Gateway name changes and VPN Gateway resource GUID and name changes

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Ram Pliskin talks about How Azure Security Center helps you protect your environment from new vulnerabilities
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Tal Maor (@talthemaor) describes How to win the latest security race over NTLM relay
On Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about HashiCorp Vault on Azure and Using HashiCorp Vault with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Yoko Hyakuna

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, James Baker provides an Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2
The Azure updates team highlights the Storage Standard SSD Managed Disks name changes
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) covers Customer Initiated Storage Account Failover

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Mike Budzynski blogs about the Benefits of using Azure API Management with microservices
On the endjin blog, Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) walks through Avoiding deployment locking errors by running Web and Functions Apps from packages
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag present Episode 112 – Azure Front Door aka Having Honey With Your Pizza