Azure Weekly

Issue #228 - 9th June 2019

This week our sister newsletter, Power BI weekly, celebrated its 10th edition - if you're interested in Power BI then I definitely recommend heading over there to check it out!

And here are the announcements and updates for this week:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Raymond Laghaeian discusses Using Text Analytics in call centers
Also on the Azure blog, Sujatha Sagiraju provides A look at Azure's automated machine learning capabilities
The Azure updates team announces that Cognitive Services Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition is now available
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team explains how to Build more accurate forecasts with new capabilities in automated machine learning

🔎 Analytics

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team announces Self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters
Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Dynamics 365 Team provides Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – June 2019 release notes
On the Azure blog, David Houlding (@davidhoulding) blogs about Empowering clinicians with mobile health data: Right information, right place, right time

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Rajani Janaki Ram explains how to Customize your automatic update settings for Azure Virtual Machine disaster recovery
On Code Project, Tom Ling walks through Using Dependency Injection with C# .NET Azure Functions
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) describes Executing Multiple Azure Functions When Azure Cosmos DB Documents Are Created or Modified and explains How to Schedule Cosmos DB Data Processing With Azure Functions
The Azure updates team announces that High-Performance Computing Virtual Machines are now available in West US 2, East US

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team announces the General availability of Azure Kubernetes Service in China China East2 and China North2
On the Azure Citadel blog, Richard Cheney (@RichCheneyAzure) blogs about the Kubernetes Learning Path

🗄️ Databases

Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) gives us Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part I: Working with Databases
On the Azure blog, Nikisha Reyes-Grange discusses Symantecs zero-downtime migration to Azure Cosmos DB
On the SQL Server Blog, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) announces that The June release of Azure Data Studio is now available
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) covers Troubleshooting Database Mail issues in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) explains how to Take a COPYONLY backup of TDE protected database on Azure SQL Managed Instance, covers Troubleshooting potential backup/restore issues on Azure SQL Managed Instance and walks through Troubleshooting BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET issues on Azure SQL Database

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Sean Iyer blogs about Going all in on Suggest a Feature in Visual Studio Developer Community
On Channel 9, Allison Buchholtz-Au (@allison_au) talks about More Code, Less Typing with IntelliSense
Peter Vogel talks about Logging vs. Reporting Exceptions in Visual Studio
David Ramel (@dramel) gives us a Visual Studio 2019 Productivity Cheat Sheet
Robb Schiefer details how to Add Emoji to your source code
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) asks: What are Azure CLI Extensions? and covers how to Build your own Azure CLI Extensions
On Channel 9, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) talks about Five Tools for Building API's with GraphQL

🔩 DevOps

On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve discusses Azure Boards for Managing Projects
The Azure updates team announces that you can now Configure a shared image gallery in your Azure DevTest Labs
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) gives a Review of Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook.
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Anisha Pindoria (@anishapindoria) describes Whats new in Azure DevOps Sprint 152
Begona Guereca discusses Improving Azure DevOps cherry-picking
Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
On the Premier Developer blog, Roberto Pena discusses how to Build ADO pipelines for Arduino microcontrollers
On Channel 9, Dipendra Namdeo talks about Adding a Wiki to your Azure DevOps Project
Also on Channel 9, Baruch Sadogurksy and Aaron Schlesinger talk about how to Bring DevOps to Your Open Source Projects: Top 3 Tips for Maintainers

🎭 Identity

Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) describes how to Restrict Application Access To Users Belonging To A Group with AzureAD
On the Insentra blog, Neil Hoffman discusses Rotating the Azure AD Seamless SSO Kerberos Key Manually and Richard Young blogs about Azure AD Seamless SSO Kerberos Key Using Azure Automation and Hybrid Runbook Worker
On TechNet, Robert Mitchell blogs about the Azure Active Directory Developer Support Team Blog and covers Azure AD access control for Azure Storage
On the Premier Developer blog, Chev Bryan explains How to fetch a user's profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

🔌 Integration

On the Premier Developer blog, Nicholas Switzer and Kunal Sinha cover Getting started with Azure Logic Apps
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben and Scott talk about Automating SharePoint Online with Flow, PowerShell, and Azure
On the Serverless360 blog, The serverless360 team talk about Integrate 2019 – Day 1 and Integrate 2019 – Day 2

💡 Internet of Things

On the Tech Radar site, Techradar Pro asks: What impact will IoT edge computing have on the data center market?
The Azure updates team highlights that Azure Sphere 19.05 Release Unlocks new features in the MT3620
On Channel 9, Travis Schilling and Bret Faller talk about how Interknowlogy mixes Azure IoT and Mixed Reality and Eustace Asanghanwa talks about the Azure IoT Edge Security Model
On the IoT Dev blog, Jun Han (@formulahendry) talks about how Azure IoT Tools make it easy to monitor custom Event Hub endpoints

⚖️ Management and Governance

The Azure updates team announces that Log Analytics Agent for Linux 1.10 now available and covers the Updates on Windows AKS Support, UI enhancement, and Node Storage Capacity
Daniel Orneling spends some time Looking at the available Azure Monitor data sources
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) explains how to Restore a dropped database on Azure SQL Managed Instance
On the Azure blog, Kaitlyn Corazao explains How to optimize your Azure environment
The Azure updates team announces FastTrack for Azure
On the Premier Developer blog, Mark Meadows and Everett Yang ask: Have you considered Azure Reserved Instances?
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) explains how to Modify Azure SQL Database Managed Instance using Azure CLI
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Industry Team writes about Digital stewardship in the insurance industry
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team describes Building a better asset and risk management platform with elastic Azure services
Kunal Chandratre describes How to delete or purge Azure Application Insights data
Tao Yang (@MrTaoYang) describes adding a New Azure Policy Definition: Deploy Microsoft IaaSAntimalware extension with custom configurations and Deploy VM Shutdown Schedule
Brian Levenson (@brian_levenson) blogs about the Microsoft commercial marketplace updates

🎬 Media

The Azure updates team announces that Media Services is now available in Korea Region

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, David Armour (@Darmour_MSFT) gives us Azure Stack IaaS – part nine

🚌 Migration

On the Tech Radar site, Anthony Spadafora discusses: Oracle and Microsoft team up to connect Azure and Oracle Cloud
On the Premier Developer blog, Bryan Soltis delves into Migrating a repo from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes: Introducing Azure File Sync Antivirus Compatibility Test Suite

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, David Ortinau (@davidortinau) announces the CheckBox with Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Pre-Release
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton (@JaymeSingleton1) brings us a Customer Showcase: BBVA – Augmented Reality House Hunting and covers the Xamarin and .NET Developer Events in June
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about The Xamarin Compass API
On the Trailhead blog, Valeriy Kovalenko (@drunkyfish) walks through Building a Floating Label Entry with Xamarin.Forms

🌐 Networking

On the Azure podcast, Sharad Agrawal talks about the Azure Front Door Service
The Azure updates team announces that Web Application Firewall WAF for Azure Front Door service is now generally available
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Whitney Jenkins writes about the New IP firewall rules for Azure DevOps Services

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Gilad Elyashar blogs about Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel
On the Revolution Analytics blog, Hong Ooi writes about AzureR and AzureKeyVault

📦 Storage

On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) describes Using Files Stored in Azure File Services with Integration Services - Part 1
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Sync a Folder with Azure Blob Storage
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) also blogs about Troubleshooting potential file and storage issues on Managed Instance

🔗 Web

On Channel 9, Jon Galloway James Montemagno talks about ASP.NET Community Standup - June 4th, 2019 - gRPC with the gRPC Team .NET Community Standups
Ruslan Yakushev (@Ruslany) explains How to restore a deleted Azure Web App
Ruslan Yakushev gives us some Azure App Service Deployment Slots Tips and Tricks
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) provides A new way how to manage your app configuration - Azure App Configuration