Azure Weekly

Issue #218 - 31st March 2019

Welcome to edition 218 of Azure Weekly. We have a big announcement for you this week, as we're launching a brand new Power BI Weekly newsletter! Since its unveiling in 2013, Power BI has grown and matured relentlessly. It's a tool we love and use extensively here at endjin, and we know it's a tool that a lot of you will be familiar with. With an increase in users comes an increase in interesting content from those in the community. As the amount of Power BI content included in the Analytics category of Azure Weekly has seemed ever-increasing recently, we thought that we'd give the content its own newsletter, Power BI Weekly, where you can find all the week's Power BI news and technical content.

If you're interested in keeping up to date with all things Power BI, subscribe through the Power BI Weekly website and follow the Twitter account here: @PowerBIWeekly. (It's worth noting that the existence of Power BI Weekly means that after this edition of Azure Weekly, we will no longer be posting Power BI content in Azure Weekly.)

Power BI Weekly will be published every Tuesday morning, hopefully providing a welcome break to your working day.

Back to Azure now. Here are this week's announcements and updates:

• Blob storage interface on Data Box is now generally available
• Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available
• Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management generally available
• Azure Storage support for Azure Active Directory based access control generally available
• Power BI open-platform connectivity with XMLA endpoints public preview
• Announcing the public preview of Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• Public preview: Windows Server container support in Azure App Service
• New updates to Azure AI expand AI capabilities for developers
• Incrementally copy new files by LastModifiedDate with Azure Data Factory
• Clean up files by built-in delete activity in Azure Data Factory
• Event Hubs resource GUID changes
• What's new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 2.4
• Enhancing presentation mode with slideshow in Windows Power BI app
• Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application
• Azure Cache for Redis resource GUID changes
• Azure IoT Edge for VS Code 1.11.0 has been released – import modules from Azure marketplace
• Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 34
• Service Bus Messaging Unit name changes
• Hannover Messe 2019: Azure IoT Platform updates power new, highly-secured Industrial IoT Scenarios
• What's new in Azure IoT Central – March 2019
• IoT Hub supports new Azure Monitor metric alerts
• What's new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.23.0
• New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts
• Azure Site Recovery: Firewall support for replication of on-premises machines
• Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
• Announcing Azure Stack HCI: A new member of the Azure Stack family
• Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge
• Accelerated AI with Azure Machine Learning service on Azure Data Box Edge
• Introducing the Xamarin.iOS Interpreter
• ExpressRoute Resource GUID name change from "Port" to "Direct"
• Azure Security Center change from monthly to hourly unit of measure
• High-Throughput with Azure Blob Storage
• Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure API Management roundup of features and fixes
• App Service updating PHP to latest versions
• Enabling customers’ hybrid strategy with new Microsoft innovation

Finally, Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) has been experimenting with performing code reviews using NDepend recently - read the first part of the series here: A code review with NDepend Part 1: Quality metrics.