Azure Weekly Issue 233: 14th July 2019
For those heading to Inspire this coming week - have a great time! This week, we've been told about the work Microsoft have been doing around Enhancing the commercial marketplace for us partners. There's also an interesting article about how CGG speeds geoscience insights on Azure HPC, and an introduction on Channel 9 about how you can now Share data simply and securely using Azure Data Share.
Let's take a look at this week's many announcements:
- Azure Ephemeral OS Disk is now Generally Available
- Azure IoT Edge Jenkins plugin is now generally available
- General Availability: Non-Azure Groups for Azure Update Management
- Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available
- Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview
- SQL Server Registry available: Extended Security Updates for SQL Server 2008 / 2008 R2
- The July release of Azure Data Studio is now available
- July Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
- Update 19.06 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
- Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Stable Now Available
- Announcing the preview of Azure Data Share
- Enable receipt understanding with Form Recognizers new capability
- Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1 support on Azure HDInsight
- In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services
- Update to Azure SQL Database serverless provides even greater price optimization
- Large storage for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preivew
- Large storage for Azure Database for MySQL now in preivew
- Azure SQL Database published the first in the industry business continuity SLA for a relational database service
- Check out what's new in June 2019 version of Azure SQL Database managed instance
- Getting started with Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Five Things Developers Can Use to Go On-Call (And Not Hate Their Life) with Jason Hand
- Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 40
- Previewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards
- Azure DevOps adds new features including bi-directional traceability between Releases and Jira issues
- Create and manage Azure Pipelines from the command line
- New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work
- Introducing Azure Lighthouse
- Scale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts
- Ensuring customer success: Introducing the Azure Migration Program
- Introducing the new Azure Migrate: A hub for your migration needs
- Announcing XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms
- What's new in Azure Firewall
- Larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files now in preview
- Analyze AI enriched content with Azure Search's knowledge store
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, Mike Flasko (@mflasko) announces the preview of Azure Data Share
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes how to Share data simply and securely using Azure Data Share with Joanna Podgoetsky
- Also on the Azure blog, Nikhil Kamath explains how to Enable receipt understanding with Form Recognizers new capability
- The Azure updates team highlights that the Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview
- Mariano Gomez walks through Developing PowerApps and Flow apps with Azure Cognitive Services' Computer Vision
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) provides a Blueprint of a transaction monitoring solution on top of Azure and custom ML algorithm for money laundering
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 the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov discusses Azure Data Factory Stored Procedure Activity Transformation Activities
- The Azure updates team writes about the Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1 support on Azure HDInsight and highlights In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services
- Also on the Azure blog, the Azure Team explains how to Migrate to Azure HDInsight in as little as 12 weeks
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, Kanchan Mehrotra describes CGG speeds geoscience insights on Azure HPC
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure Ephemeral OS Disk is now Generally Available
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) covers Azure VM vs Disk vs Costs, Does size matter? or a Higher price for better specifications?
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes about Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 2: Creating Your First Durable Function
- On the Serverless360 blog, Nadeem Ahamed describes How to provision Azure Functions in Visual Studio and publish to Azure Portal
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
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
- On the Azure blog, John 'JG' Chirapurath (@OriginalJGC) writes Thanks for 10 years and welcome to a new chapter in SQL innovation
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mine Tokus describes how to Beat SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support by moving to Azure VM for three years of free security update
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) writes that The July release of Azure Data Studio is now available
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Borko Novakovic (@borko_novakovic) tells us to Check out what's new in June 2019 version of Azure SQL Database managed instance
- The Azure updates team provides a number of updates: Update to Azure SQL Database serverless provides even greater price optimization, Large storage for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preivew, Large storage for Azure Database for MySQL now in preivew, Azure SQL Database published the first in the industry business continuity SLA for a relational database service and SQL Server Registry available: Extended Security Updates for SQL Server 2008 / 2008 R2
- Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) writes Azure SQL Data Sync – My Story
- Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) discusses Azure Cosmos DB and Node SDK – Part III: Working with Documents
- Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) discusses CosmosDB Queries – Handling Arrays, Special Characters and Keywords
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
- On the Azure blog, Peter Marcu (@PeterMarcu) writes about Previewing Azure SDKs following new Azure SDK API Standards
- On the Visual Studio blog, Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) provides a Checklist for writing great Visual Studio extensions
- On the IoT Dev blog, Liya Liki Du writes about a Containerized tool chain to simplify IoT device development
- On Channel 9, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) talks about Five Things Developers Can Use to Go On-Call (And Not Hate Their Life) with Jason Hand
- Also on the Azure blog, Christine Alford (@heyalford) covers Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 40
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@msclouditpro) presents Episode 133 – We Still Have All Of Our Fingers
- On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson (@mscloudshow) present Episode 310 | Slow News Day
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure DevOps adds new features including bi-directional traceability between Releases and Jira issues
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Erin Dormier blogs about the July Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, George Verghese (@gvvarkey) explains how to Create and manage Azure Pipelines from the command line
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.07.05
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) blogs about Building Azure DevOps Extension on Azure DevOps – Publisher Registration
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the M365 Team writes that New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
- The Azure updates team highlights Update 19.06 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Jaishree Subramania talks about IDC MarketScape: Microsoft a leader in IIoT platforms for manufacturing and energy
- On the IoT Dev blog, Jun Han (@formulahendry) writes that the Azure IoT Edge Jenkins plugin is now generally available
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Advanced operational analytics with Azure Time Series Insights with Rahul Kayal
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
- On the Azure blog, Erin Chapple (@erinchapple) introduces Azure Lighthouse
- Also on the Azure blog, Mark Russinovic (@markrussinovich) describes How Azure Lighthouse enables management at scale for service providers
- Also on the Azure blog, Ananth Radhakrishnan covers Scale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Kaitlyn Corazao writes about Two ways to share Azure Advisor recommendations
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 205 - Query Azure Storage analytics logs in Azure Log Analytics
- Tobias Zimmergren explains how to Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (C#)
- The Azure updates team highlights the General Availability: Non-Azure Groups for Azure Update Management
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- On the Azure blog, Dean Paron (@deanparon) announces that Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available
- Also on the Azure blog, Julia White (@julwhite) blogs about Ensuring customer success: Introducing the Azure Migration Program
- Also on the Azure blog, Abhishek A. Hemrajani (@AuthorHemrajani) introduces the new Azure Migrate: A hub for your migration needs
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- On the Xamarin blog, David Ortinau (@davidortinau) writes that Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 Stable Now Available
- Also on the Xamarin blog, Pierce Boggan (@pierceboggan) announces XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms
- Also on the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) highlights the Xamarin Developer Summit Live Streams!
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
- On the Azure blog, Yair Tor and Anitha Adusumilli describe What's new in Azure Firewall
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) describes Backing Up Azure Firewall
- Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) provides an Issue Resolution: App Gateway returning ERRSPDYINADEQUATETRANSPORTSECURITY in Chrome
- On the TechKB blog, Michael Coutanche (@mum3LE5) writes about Azure Bastion – End of the Jumpbox?
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
- Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) highlights the Free webinar: Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security
- The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 286 - Secured Workstations with Frank Simorjay
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
- On the Azure blog, Gunjan Jain (@gunjanjain123) writes about Larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files now in preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Claus Joergensen (@ClausJor) blogs about Reducing overall storage costs with Azure Premium Blob Storage
- On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) covers Using AzCopy with Azure Virtual Machines Managed Identity
- Kunal Chandratre explains how to Delete Azure File Storage Directory and files using PowerShell and secret sauce of recursion
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Vinod Kurpad (@Kurpad) explains how to Analyze AI enriched content with Azure Search's knowledge store
- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) discusses Dealing with Application Base URLs and Razor link generation while hosting ASP.NET web apps behind Reverse Proxies
- On the Perficient blog, Josh Kostal covers Securing Your Web API Using Azure Active Directory
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