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:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

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

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

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

🗄️ Databases

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

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

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

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the M365 Team writes that New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work

💡 Internet of Things

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

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

🚌 Migration

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

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

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

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

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

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