Azure Weekly
Issue #24 - 2nd May 2015
The countdown is on for this year's Build conference, which runs from April 29 – May 1 in San Francisco. For those unable to make it to San Francisco, there are 'Build Tour' events in other locations across the world during May.
There was a preview of a Build announcement on the Azure blog, where Mark Russinovich introduced the Azure Service Fabric, the technology which underpins Azure's core infrastructure and services like Skype for Business and Azure SQL Database. A developer preview is being made available at Build.
This weekend saw 183 community events taking place for the Global Azure bootcamp. As part of the event, a distributed compute lab was used to run mass spectrometry analysis tools for breast cancer research.
On Gartner's blog, Elias Khnaser asks, what if there was a run on resources at AWS and Azure?
Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing provides a summary of his keynote at the RSA conference
David B. Cross announced the addition of Azure to the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Ketan Ghelani explains how to understand your SharePoint usage with Application Insights
On the Docker blog, John Willis writes part 6 of his Docker tutorial, covering Dockerfile, Thea Lamkin writes 'start contributing to Docker in 5 easy steps, Mario Ponticello provides tips for deploying the NGINX Official Image with Docker, David Messina writes about VMware news and the expanding minimalist OS ecosystem and Ashlynn Polini writes 'DockerCon15 Website is up, announcing the first speakers'
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Lars Lohndorflarsen covers uploading a VHD to Azure storage, creating a copy of the VHD, and attaching it to a VM
On the Edge Show on Channel 9, Jonobie Ford, Senior Program Manager on the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team, discusses key capabilities coming to VMM with Update Rollup 6 (UR6), including Azure IaaS virtual machine management from within the VMM console and support in VMM Service Templates for Generation 2 Hyper-V virtual machines
Also on the Azure blog, Ted Roduner showcases some eco-friendly startups using Azure and Sarvashrestha Paliwal describes highlights from the India Microsoft Azure Conference 2015
On TechRadar, Mary Branscombe describes the Azure Service Fabric
On TechNet, Mark O'Shea provides some considerations for deciding when to use VHDX or VHD files with HyperV
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to understand Tags in Azure, describes how to force an Azure Storage optimize for a VHD to reduce storage costs, explains the administrative roles available in Azure as part of an Enterprise Agreement, and describes creating a Minecraft server using the new Azure portal. John has a new book out, Mastering Azure Infrastructure Services
🌐 Networking
On the Microsoft Openness site, Jose Miguel Parrella describes how to broadcast traffic in Linux VMs in Azure via OpenVPN
💡 Internet of Things
Greg Duncan blogs about Windows IoT, Galileo, Azure, Event Hubs and Stream Analytics
On Channel 9, James Montemagno from Xamarin discusses Xamarin Insights, which enables realtime monitoring of Mobile Apps
⚙️ Data and Analytics
On the Azure podcast, Cale Teeter talks about Azure Data Factory
On the Azure blog, Andrew Liu describes how to boost an application's performance with server-side JavaScript in Azure DocumentDB. Azure DocumentDB supports the transactional execution of JavaScript logic natively inside the database engine
- On the Perficient blog, Stan Tarnovskiy describes working with dynamic schema in Azure DocumentDB
On TechNet, Steve Dower, Software Engineer on Python Tools at Microsoft writes a Pycon 2015 Recap
On the Just Azure blog, David Green writes 'MongoDB vs. Azure DocumentDB'
On the SQL Server Pro site, Grant Fritchey blogs about the PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015
Ugo Lattanzi (@imperugo) writes about the StackExchange.Redis.Extensions package
📦 Storage
On the MSSQL Tips site, Tim Smith writes about time testing SQL Azure point-in-time database restores using PowerShell
On the Azure blog, Abhishek Agrawal, Principal PM Manager Azure Site Recovery discusses leveraging Azure Site Recovery with SQL always-on availability groups for disaster recovery to Azure
On the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Beatrice Oltean explains that the MS Open Tech Tools plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio has been updated to support Blob storage
🎬 Media
William Zhang discusses the requirements for creating a Comprehensive Tool for Azure Media Services
George Trifonov updates his demo of how to to integrate Azure Media Services Key Delivery functionality with a JWT token obtained from Azure Active Directory
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
Yung Chou (@yungchou) shares a presentation on extending your data centre with Azure
There's a short piece on Technet Radio from Chris Caldwell, Jessica DeVita and Jennelle Crothers on navigating the Hybrid Cloud: making it work for you
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
- On the Microsoft Openness site, Jose Miguel Parrella blogs about Microsoft + Open Source how to: Using Azure Active Directory for Linux logins
- On the TechKB blog, 'Mikecoutanche' talks about disabling the Azure AD Sync Scheduler task