Azure Weekly

Issue #229 - 16th June 2019

There were a lot of updates and announcements this week, so I'll dive right in:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Microsoft site, a Microsoft Reporter blogs about UK company Visulytix is using Microsoft Azure to tackle the leading causes of blindness
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team highlights Three things to know about Azure Machine Learning Notebook VM
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) blogs about Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning service with Visual Studio Code

🔎 Analytics

On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov explains how to Create a Tumbling Window Trigger in Azure Data Factory
The Azure updates team announces the Public preview of calculation groups in Azure Analysis Services and the Public preview of many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services
Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Eduardo Pivaral walks through Creating TypeScript Extensions for Azure Data Studio
Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Gauri Mahajan blogs about SandDance in Azure Data Studio

🖥️ Compute

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes: Generation 2 VM support on Azure – and why should I care?
On the Azure blog, Akshay Joshi highlights that Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) walks through Accessing Cosmos DB JSON Properties in Azure Functions with Dynamic C#
On Channel 9, Eduardo Laureano discusses Five Things You Can Do with Serverless

🚢 Containers

On the Azure Citadel blog, Richard Cheney (@RichCheneyAzure) gives us a Kubernetes Learning Path
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) walks through Using an Azure Pipelines agent on a k3s Kubernetes cluster on Raspbian
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Stephane Eyskens (@stephaneeyskens) blogs about some Azure Container Instances Magic
Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) talks about Modernizing WCF Services with containers and Visual Studio
Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) covers Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part II: Working with Containers

🗄️ Databases

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure podcast, Scott Hunter discusses .NET and Azure
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) talks about his Latest Course on Azure and VS2019
On the Visual Studio blog, Xiaokai He (@XiaokaiHe) announces The Visual Studio Code Installer for Java
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team announces the Azure Service Fabric 6.5 release
On the Visual Studio blog, Cody Beyer (@cl_beyer) announces that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 is now available and a Preview for 8.2
On the Visual Studio blog, Jacqueline Widdis announces the Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Preview 2
On the Premier Developer blog, Larry Wall asks: Why wont Visual Studio connect to my Service Fabric cluster?
On Channel 9, Cale Teeter (@Windozer) talks about Using Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum Block Talk
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes the Azure Terraform Extension for Visual Studio Code

🔩 DevOps

On the Microsoft DevOps blog, David Hathaway blogs about Streamlining Azure DevOps extension development
Jeremy Lindsay (@jeremylindsayni) gives us Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines: C#, ARM, and YAML: Part 1 and Part 2 – multi-stage builds in YAML
On Microsoft + Open Source, Rob Jahn describes Five steps to add automated performance quality gates to Azure DevOps pipelines
Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) walks through Passing variables from stage to stage in an Azure DevOps release
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.14
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Matisse Hack describes Bootstrapping Azure DevOps extensions with Yeoman

🎭 Identity

On TechNet, Robert Mitchell gives us some "Tips of the day" on how to: Leave an Office 365 or Azure organization and Get list of company admins in Office 365 or Azure AD
On the Premier Developer blog, Nicola Delfino (@NicolTwit) blogs about Azure AD Endpoint V1 vs V2
On the Premier Developer blog, Erick Ramirez Martinez covers Adding User Optional and Mapped Claims in the Azure AD Authentication Token

🔌 Integration

On the .NET Curry blog, Filip W writes about Reactive Azure Service Bus Messaging with Azure Event Grid

💡 Internet of Things

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Maps Mobility Services is now in preview
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, The Azure Team announces Mobility service for Azure Maps, SDKs, updates and more, explains how to Compute and stream IoT insights with data-driven applications and Update IoT devices connected to Azure with Mender update manager
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) presents Over-the-air software updates for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io
On the Azure blog, Matthew Vogel describes Accelerating smart building solutions with cloud, AI, and IoT
On the Visual Studio blog, Jun Han (@formulahendry) blogs about how Azure IoT Tools help you connect to Azure IoT Hub in 1 minute in Visual Studio Code
Also on the Azure blog, Tony Shakib describes How one Azure IoT partner is building connected experiences
Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team writes: Smarter edge, smarter world - Discover the autonomous edge
On the Premier Developer blog, Mark Taylor explains how to Install IoT Edge on the Jetson TX2 running JetPack version 4.2

⚖️ Management and Governance

The Azure updates team highlights Updates to live data settings in Azure Monitor for containers and the Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations
On Channel 9, Jenny Hunter talks about how to Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy
James van Den Berg covers Microsoft Azure Central Monitoring for your Team
On Channel 9, Scott Manchester talks about the Preview Portal update to Windows Virtual Desktop
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) discusses how to Monitor CPU usage on SQL Server and Azure SQL
The Azure updates team announces a PowerShell module to simplify management of Azure DevTest Labs
Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) explains how to Enable History for Azure DevOps Variable Groups Using Azure Key Vault
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team describes Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 3: Performance and resource utilization
Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team shares Three ways to get notified about Azure service issues
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Creating Custom VM Images in Azure using Packer

🎬 Media

The Azure updates team announces that Premium Live Encoder now supports streaming at 1080p and 30 frames per second

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, Kirtana Venkatraman writes about Virtual machine memory allocation and placement on Azure Stack
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes How To Set Multiple IP Addresses on One NSG Rule in Azure Stack

🚌 Migration

On TechNet, Amanda Buchholz discusses how to Increase efficiency and productivity with Azure services
On the Premier Developer blog, Jon Guerin discusses Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level
Also on the Premier Developer blog, Nas Baig and Troy Oller describe Migrating an Open, Object-Oriented Application Framework to Azure
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Chad Brisendine describes how St. Lukes transforms clinical collaboration with Microsoft 365 cloud-connected workplace
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) discusses The best practices for performance comparison between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Industry Team explains How the State of Michigan is streamlining its child welfare system

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) explains how to Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials
Also on the Xamarin blog, Leonardo Rodriguez writes about their Grial UI Kit: Building Beautiful Xamarin.Forms Apps, Faster
Also on the Xamarin blog, Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) talks about Xamarin.Forms 4 And So Much More
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about File System Helpers (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)
Also on Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) discusses Prism Modules for Xamarin.Forms
On Code Project, Stephen Marcus writes about Cutting App Costs In Half with Xamarin.Forms
Also on Code Project, Mushtaq M A describes MVVM Databinding in Xamarin.Forms - using Fresh MVVM

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall custom rules are now Generally Available
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) describes Azure NSG security rule management like a boss with PowerShell and CSVs
On the Azure blog, Subra Sarma describes Taking advantage of the new Azure Application Gateway V2
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Get The List of Network Security Groups With RDP Port Open Using Azure Cloud Shell
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) discusses Azure Front Door with App Service

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team announces Improved integration of Azure Security Center with Azure Advisor is now available, Advanced Data Security available for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, Adaptive Network Hardening in Security Center is now generally available and that Security Center recommendations and their corresponding policy names are aligned
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team blogs about how Customers get unmatched security with Windows Server and SQL Server workloads in Azure

📦 Storage

On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) discusses Using Files Stored in Azure File Services with Integration Services - Part 1

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team announces that the New developer portal in API Management is now in preview
On Channel 9, Jeremy Likness talks about Blazor in the cloud: Hosting a C SPA app as a static website in Azure Storage