Azure Weekly

Issue #232 - 7th July 2019

Congratulations to all of you whose MVP status got renewed this week (I am one of them - for the 4th year in a row), and a huge "Welcome!" to those of you who have received it for the first time! In this week's newsletter, Mikhail Shilkov has written about a Globally-distributed Serverless Application in 100 Lines of Code. Infrastructure Included!, Allister Beharry has used Image Classification and Azure Cognitive Services to Build a Digital Forensics Tool and Tao Yang has described How to Create Azure Monitor Alerts for Non-Compliant Azure Policies.

Here are this week's announcements and updates:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, David Smith (@revodavid) and Hong Ooi write that AzureR now available: Create, manage, and monitor Azure services with R
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) talks about Updates on Microsoft's R Roadmap in Azure
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains How to use Azure services to prepare for AWS Certifications Azure Cognitive Services - LUIS, Azure SQL and Skype
On Code Project, Allister Beharry (@allisterbeharry) walks through Using Image Classification and Azure Cognitive Services to Build a Digital Forensics Tool

🔎 Analytics

On the endjin blog, Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) discusses an Azure Databricks CLI Error: JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes:
On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov explains how to Create Event Based Trigger in Azure Data Factory
The Azure updates team provides a few ADF updates: Azure Data Factory upgrades Teradata connector to enable new features and enhancement, Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows public preview adds parameter support and Azure Data Factory logs now available as dedicated tables in Azure Monitor Logs

🖥️ Compute

Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes about Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 1: Overview
Mikhail Shilkov covers Load-Testing Azure Functions with Loader.io and writes about a Globally-distributed Serverless Application in 100 Lines of Code. Infrastructure Included!
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) walks through Managing Azure Functions Keys using the new ARM APIs
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Copy Files to Azure VM using PowerShell Remoting
Sam Erskine (@samerskine) writes Part 1: Azure IaaS Update Management: Organizing using Tags and Registry Settings, Part 2: Azure IaaS Update Management: Pre-Post Jobs and Scheduling a recurring deployment and Part 3: Azure IaaS Update Management: Non-Azure machine update management
The Azure updates team introduces B12, B16 & B20 - new larger B-series VM sizes with flexible CPU usage

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team writes about the General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in Brazil South and discusses Azure Monitor for Containers: Enhanced search on live data and other updates available
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) walks through Tweaking data collection for Azure Monitor for containers
Jakob Ehn (@jakobehn) covers Getting started with Windows Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar provides the Highlights from SIGMOD 2019: New advances in database innovation
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) covers Tip 204 - Working with Azure Cosmos DB and the JavaScript SDK
The Azure updates team writes that the Azure Cosmos DB ExpressRoute BGP Community now available, highlights that Azure Database for PostgreSQL now available in South Africa regions, Azure Database for MariaDB now available in South Africa regions and also that Azure Database for MySQL now available in South Africa regions
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Rohit Nayak describes Using a TCP proxy to connect to SQL Database over VPN
Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) walks through Troubleshooting Database Mail issues in Azure SQL Managed Instance
On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) talks about Using Files Stored in Azure File Services with SQL Server Integration Services - Part 2

🛠️ Developer Tools

The Azure updates team writes that the Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code is now in preview
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Refresh Release
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Shivani Patel and Jordan Edwards explain how to Automate MLOps workflows with Azure Machine Learning service CLI
Mikhail Shilkov explains How Azure CLI Manages Your Access Tokens
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson (@mscloudshow) present Episode 309 | Azure GA and Preview News

🔩 DevOps

On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Erin Dormier announces Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RC1
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.28
Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers Building Azure DevOps Extension on Azure DevOps – Implementation
Phil Fresle writes about Azure Reporting Code Coverage for .NET Core and JavaScript

🎭 Identity

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) covers Using AD extensionAttributes in Azure AD

🔌 Integration

Jose Moreno (@erjosito) discusses Sending Log Analytics tables and charts per email with a Logic App
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Dynamics 365 Team provides the Dynamics 365 Customer Insights release for July 2019

💡 Internet of Things

Tanay Pant (@tanay1337) describes Connecting Azure IoT Hub and CrateDB Cloud for the Ingestion of Sensor Data

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) provides the Azure Cost Management updates – June 2019
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Monitor Log now supports log search on multiple Azure resources and writes Application Insights is Generally Available in China East 2
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) writes about Azure Resource Locks
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) covers Azure Management Group IDs
On the Microsoft ITOps Talk blog, Tao Yang (@MrTaoYang) describes How to Create Azure Monitor Alerts for Non-Compliant Azure Policies and, on his own blog, has updated the Azure Automation Runbook to Export Data From Multiple Log Analytics Workspaces

🚌 Migration

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) highlights an Article about Azure Migration on Nigel Frank International

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Charlin Agramonte (@Chard003) discusses Styling for Multiple Device Resolutions
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton (@JaymeSingleton1) highlights the Xamarin and .NET Community Developer Events in July
Also on the Xamarin blog, Pierce Boggan (@pierceboggan) highlights that the iOS 13 Preview Release Now Available

🌐 Networking

Roelf Zomerman writes Enable/Disable Accelerated Networking on Azure VMs part 2

🔐 Security

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) highlights the Free Webinar: Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security
James van Den Berg answers What is Microsoft Azure Sentinel?
Roelf Zomerman discusses Encryption in the Cloud
On the Azure blog, David Houlding (@davidhoulding) discusses Helping move healthcare organizations to Azure

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Rebecca Thompson highlights that Azure FXT Edge Filer now generally available

🔗 Web

On Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) describes how to Deploy your Web App in Windows Containers on Azure App Service with Andrew Westgarth
The Azure updates team highlights that API Apps Icon Removed from Azure Marketplace Web category in the Azure Portal