Azure Weekly

Issue #224 - 12th May 2019

Welcome to the Microsoft //build 2019 bumper edition of Azure Weekly! Lots and lots of exciting announcements to bring you this week. As with the last few bumper editions, we'll lay out the announcments in this editorial as we lay out the normal newsletter, so you can more easily find the updates for the categories you're most interested in. Without further ado, let's get started:

AI + Machine Learning:

Analytics

Compute

Containers

Databases

Developer Tools

DevOps

Identity

Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview

Integration

Internet of Things

Management and Governance

Mobile

Xamarin API Docs: Open Sourced and Available Now

Networking

Security

Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage - now generally available

Storage

Improved cloud service performance through ASIC acceleration

Web

Miscellaneous

Announcing new Marketplace revenue opportunities

Be sure to check out the main body of the newsletter as well, to find the rest of this week's articles!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Venky Veeraraghavan (@venkyv) writes that the New Azure Machine Learning updates simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle
Also on the Azure blog, Elad Ziklik (@ziklik) writes about AI-first content understanding, now across more types of content for even more use cases
Also on the Azure blog, Tzvi Keisar describes Simplifying AI with automated ML no-code web interface (preview)
Also on the Azure blog, Jordan Edwards describes how to Take your machine learning models to production with new MLOps capabilities
The Azure updates team highlights that the New features for Azure Machine Learning are now available, highlights that the New features for Azure Machine Learning are now in preview and writes that the New series of Azure Bot Framework enhancements now available
Also on the Azure blog, Anand Raman (@aram09) and Tina Coll provide A deep dive into what's new with Azure Cognitive Services
Also on the Azure blog, Jesus Serrano talks about LaLiga entertains millions with Azure-based conversational AI
Jen Stirrup (@jenstirrup) discusses the MSBuild Announcements: Making your AI Easier with updates to Azure Machine Learning, MLOps, or DevOps for Machine Learning and talks about the Azure Open Datasets
On the Codit blog, Sriram Narayanan describes Azure Machine Learning Studio vs Azure Machine Learning Services
On Channel 9, Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) talks about Machine Learning with ML.NET 1.0 from Build 2019 with Cesar De La Torre

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar writes that Analytics in Azure remains unmatched with new innovations
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Arindam Chatterjee discusses What's New with Azure HDInsight at //BUILD 2019
The Azure updates team highlights the Public Preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark and highlights the Public Preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Jean-Sbastien Brunner (@JSBrunner) writes about Azure Stream Analytics: real-time analytics for Big Data, made easy

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Eduardo Laureano (@eduardolaureano) describes Advancing the developer experience for serverless apps with Azure Functions
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts TIp 196 - Testing Azure Functions
The Azure updates team highlights a number of updates: Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available, Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available, Adaptive application controls - changing a VM group membership and Virtual Machines NVSv3 Series and NVSv3 Series Windows name changes
Also on the Azure blog, Sarah Guthals (@sarahguthals) describes how to Host multiplayer Minecraft: Education Edition on Azure Virtual Machines (preview)
On TechNet, Sam McNeill (@samuelmcneill) writes that Minecraft:Education Edition Arrives In The Cloud – AzureVM Available Now
On Microsoft + Open Source, Daniel Sol announces the public preview of Azure Image Builder
Also on the Azure blog, Girish Bablani introduces new product innovations for SAP HANA, Expanded AI collaboration with SAP and more
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team provides the Service Fabric Patch Orchestration Application Open Source Announcement
Also on Microsoft + Open Source, Pui Chee Chan, Boris Baryshnikov, and Tejas Shah provide some Updates on Red Hat and Microsoft Azure joint innovation
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) describes how to Export Azure IaaS VM properties, including NIC IP address to CSV, #PromptPowerShell
Kay Singh (@singhkays) describes How to identify boot, temp and data disks in Azure Linux VMs
Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) provides an Windows Virtual Desktop technical walkthrough, including other (un)known secrets you did not know about the new Microsoft-Managed Azure Service

🚢 Containers

On the Azure blog, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) writes Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift and writes about Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier
On Microsoft + Open Source, Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan) announces KEDA: bringing event-driven containers and functions to Kubernetes
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gopinath Chigakkagari (@gopinach) announces the Kubernetes integration for Azure Pipelines
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Container Instances Windows Server 2019 container support is now in preview
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Andreas Helland discusses Building Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps - Part 1
Also on Microsoft + Open Source, Karen Chu (@karenhchu) writes about the Pre-KubeCon EU workshops on Kubernetes dev tooling
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) blogs about Monitoring metrics in AKS

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Rimma Nehme (@rimmanehme) writes about Planet scale operational analytics and AI with Azure Cosmos DB
The Azure updates team writes that the Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview and highlights the Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
Also on the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar explains how to Get high-performance scaling for your Azure database workloads with Hyperscale
Also on the Azure blog, Igor Stanko writes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse releases new capabilities for performance and security
On the SQL Server Blog, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) writes that The May release of Azure Data Studio is now available
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) highlights that the Public endpoint for SQL Database Managed Instance is available
On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve explains how to Deploy SQL Database from Azure DevOps with an ARM Template and DACPAC File
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) describes Getting Started with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions
Tore Nestenius (@Tndata) describes How to install RavenDB on a VM in Azure (step-by-step, part 1) and part 2

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Angel Zhou highlights the Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Cody Beyer (@cl_beyer) writes about the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview 1
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) provides the Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Jonathan Carter (@LostInTangent) writes about Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Allison Buchholtz-Au (@allison_au) announces the general availability of IntelliCode plus a sneak peek
The Azure updates team writes about the Visual Studio Subscription with GitHub Enterprise offering
On Channel 9, Robert Green (@rogreen_ms) talks about Getting Started Faster with Git and GitHub with Samit Jhaveri and Sachin Hridayraj
On the IoT Dev blog, Erichrenyong Wang describes how to Easily develop and debug Azure IoT Edge modules with Azure IoT Edge Tools (Preview) for Raspberry Pi in Visual Studio 2017
Also on the IoT Dev blog, Renlong Tu explains how to Debug IoT Edge C / C# Linux Module Container with Visual Studio Azure IoT Edge Tools
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) walks through Replacing Azure Automation using Azure CLI and Azure Devops
Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) writes 0 to 60 with Azure Blockchain Workbench and shares an Azure Blockchain Workbench Whitepaper
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about An experiment - The Azure Cloud Shell at the command line with AZ SHELL
Tobias Zimmergren provides an Introduction to Azure App Configuration for Developers with C# .NET Core

🔩 DevOps

On the Azure blog, Nicole Herskowitz (@nicolelamb) blogs about Accelerating DevOps with GitHub and Azure
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Alex Nichols (@alexcnichols) introduces Azure Boards to the GitHub Marketplace
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Rajesh Ramamurthy describes Signing into Azure DevOps using your GitHub credentials
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Todd Manion writes about A simpler way to buy Azure DevOps
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Alex Mullans (@alexmullans) writes about Pay-per-GB pricing and more Azure Artifacts updates
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gopinath Chigakkagari (@gopinach) talks about What's new with Azure Pipelines
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.05.03
On Microsoft + Open Source, Martin Woodward (@martinwoodward) writes about 88 years of free open source builds in 8 months with Azure Pipelines
Mikael Krief (@MikaelKrief) describes how to Manage Azure DevOps organization with Terraform 1/3: The provider configuration and 2/3: Manage projects
The Azure updates team provides an Azure Lab Services update: Address range feature now available

🎭 Identity

The Azure updates team talks about Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview
Marius Rochon describes Using Groups in Azure AD B2C
On the Tallan blog, Lenni Lobel blogs about Adding a User to your Azure Subscription with Resource Group Access

🔌 Integration

On the Azure blog, Skyler Hartle (@skylerhartle) writes about Connecting the colossal: How to scale innovation with serverless integration
The Azure updates team writes that Inline Code for Azure Logic Apps is in preview, writes that the RosettaNet connector and standard support is now in preview and highlights that the New-and-improved SAP connector is now generally available
On MSDN, David Burg (@david_burg) highlights the SAP Connector GA, Gateway update release, SNC support, Strong/Safe Type and talks about Troubleshooting SAP configuration for Azure Logic App SAP trigger
On the Serverless360 blog, Ezhilarasi Chezhiyan blogs about Azure Service Bus monitoring and management using Serverless360

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Peter Provost (@pprovost) explains how to Build with Azure IoT Central and IoT Plug and Play
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) provides an Introduction to IoT Plug and Play with Chris Green
Also on the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) writes about Azure IoT at Build: making IoT solutions easier to develop, more powerful to use
The Azure updates team writes that the Azure IoT Edge 1.0.7 release is now available

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Leon Welicki (@lwelicki) writes about the Key improvements to the Azure portal user experience
Also on the Azure blog, Shiva Sivakumar blogs about What's new in Azure Monitor
Also on the Azure blog, David Tepper introduces health integrated rollouts to Azure Deployment Manager
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Dilip Radhakrishnan writes that Microsoft expands BitLocker management capabilities for the enterprise
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview
Mikhail Shilkov describes how to Level up your Azure Platform as a Service applications with Pulumi and discusses Serverless as Simple Callbacks with Pulumi and Azure Functions
Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) walks through Migrating lots of agents to Azure Log Analytics

🎬 Media

On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Jeffrey Chilberto discusses Azure Content Spotlight - PlayFab

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Karina Ung talks about The Next Evolution of Xamarin Training: Microsoft Learn
Also on the Xamarin blog, Larry O'Brien (@lobrien) writes about the Xamarin API Docs: Open Sourced and Available Now

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team writes that Azure ExpressRoute is generally available in eight additional locations and writes about Adaptive network hardening - now in public preview
On TechNet, George Grammatikos (@cloudopszone) provides a Quick Azure VNet Subnet Guide

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team writes about Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage - now generally available
Michael Jonsson (@Michael_Jonsson) talks about Microsoft – CyberSecurity and Azure and provides a Quick tip for Azure Subscription and resource Security baseline

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Kushagra Vaid (@kushagravaid) writes about the Improved cloud service performance through ASIC acceleration
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes How To Control Azure File Sync Bandwidth With Network QoS

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Skyler Hartle (@skylerhartle) talks about Reshaping the business landscape with serverless APIs
Also on the Azure blog, Stefan Schackow provides an Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about An overview of the Tailwind Traders reference apps for Azure with David Sanchez
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) blogs about Hosting WordPress on Azure
On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 278 - Build 2019 - App Service Updates with Byron Tardif and Nitasha Verma