Azure Weekly Issue 228: 9th June 2019

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And here are the announcements and updates for this week:

AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API

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

Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog

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

Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances

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

Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for 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

Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL

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

Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench

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

Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services

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

Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C

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

Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid

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

Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere

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

Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications

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

Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer

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

Microsoft Azure Stack

Covering: Azure Stack

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

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box

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

Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin

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

Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher

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

Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection

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

Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive 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

Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service

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

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