Azure Weekly
Issue #249 - 3rd November 2019
Is everyone prepared for Ignite? I have a feeling there is going to be an influx of announcments this coming week... Make sure you catch next week's issue of Azure Weekly, where we'll be sharing all the news from Ignite. This week has seen a number of announcements. Among them, we've been told about the preview of a new set of weather services in Azure Maps, perfect for integrating "highly dynamic, real-time weather data and visualizations" into applications. Also, we've been given a summary of the New features in Stream Analytics which will start being rolled out tomorrow, ranging from real-time scoring in Azure Machine Learning to custom de-serializers in C#.
Elsewhere this week, Nishant Thacker has taken a closer look at a couple of compelling capabilities in Azure Machine Learning: Automated machine learning and MLOps, and Justin Yoo has written about Handling Messages with Geo-Redundant Azure Service Bus via Azure Functions.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Gopal Vashishtha, Abe Omorogbe and John Wu writes about TensorFlow 2.0 on Azure: Fine-tuning BERT for question tagging
- Also on the Azure blog, Nishant Thacker writes about Automated machine learning and MLOps with Azure Machine Learning
- On the Open Source Blog, Faith Xu announces ONNX Runtime 1.0
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) explains how to Create an Azure Function to Connect to a Snowflake Database - Part 1
- Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) explains how to Embed an SSIS Package in an Azure Data Factory Pipeline
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Krishna Mamidipaka (@BrandKrishna) describes what's New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more
🖥️ Compute
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 12: Sub Orchestrations
- The Azure updates team posts a few updates: Azure Mv2-series VMs offering up to 12TB memory are now GA in the Southeast Asia Region, Azure Mv2-series VMs with 12TB memory now GA in US West 2, US East & US East 2 regions and Azure Mv2-series VMs offering up to 12TB memory are now GA in EU West and EU North regions
- On the Azure blog, Vijay Kumar writes about Why customers choose Azure to run Windows Server workloads: Microsoft partner perspective
- On the DEV site, Jim Bennett (@jimbobbennett) describes Moving away from shadow IT with Excel and Serverless
- Also on the DEV site, Jeremy Likness (@jeremylikness) explains how to Add Continuous Deployment, Authentication, and a Managed Identity to your Serverless Function in Under 10 Minutes
- On Channel 9, Nayana Singh and Marley Gray talk about Tokens and Token Taxonomy Framework
🚢 Containers
- On Channel 9, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) talks about How Service Meshes Work in Kubernetes
- Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) writes that Azure Container Registry Adds Teleportation
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks about Mark Russinovich on Azure SQL Database Edge, Hyperscale and beyond with Mark Russinovich and on the Azure SQL Database blog, explains how to Meet the Microsoft SQL team at PASS Summit 2019
- Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) provides 10 Reasons why Azure SQL is the Best Database for Developers
- On the SQL Server Blog, Nellie Gustafsson (@nelliegson) describes how to Unify your data lakes with HDFS tiering in SQL Server Big Data Clusters
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Nisarg Upadhyay explains how to Create a SQL Server Linked Server to Azure SQL Database
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) provides an Azure SQL Database Intro
- On the Tallan blog, John Friedman walks through Integrating Cloud Services: Azure Cache for Redis
- On the Azure blog, Matjaz Ladava walks through Enabling Diagnostic Logging in Azure API for FHIR
- The Azure updates team discusses Azure API for FHIR and Our Growing Ecosystem of Partners
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jun Han (@formulahendry) provides the Azure IoT Tools October Update: new experience of sending device-to-cloud messages and more
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Sayed Hashimi (@sayedihashimi) writes about the New learning resources for building ASP.NET Core apps using Visual Studio for Mac
- On the Visual Studio blog, Amy Burns (@timeyoutakeit) explains how to Get Started with Visual Studio for Mac
- Simon Waight (@simonwaight) presents Red Dog for Dev Episode One!
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) writes Everything You Need to Know About Windows Virtual Desktop related sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2019
- Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) discusses PowerShell and Azure: AzureRM vs. Az
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Alessandro Segala (@ItalyPaleAle) explains how to Integrate your product roadmap to Azure Boards
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gloridel Morales provides the Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q4
- On the DEV site, Jen Looper (@jenlooper) discusses The Making of the Azure Mystery Mansion
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Karthik RG announces the Azure Boards app for Microsoft Teams
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.25 and describes What's new in Azure DevOps Sprint 159
- On Channel 9, Robert Green (@rogreen_ms) talks about Azure Pipelines - Build
- Dave Rendón blogs about Azure DevOps: Store secrets in a variable group
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Jeff Chilberto (@JChilberto) blogs about Azure DevOps - Docker Release Pipeline
🎭 Identity
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Intune for EDU Team writes Now available: Set up student and teacher devices with Windows Autopilot in Intune for Education
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) talks about Azure AD Passwordless
- John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) provides a Small Script to Grant Azure AD Roles to Groups
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) presents an Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Service Principle Deployment
🔌 Integration
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) describes Handling Messages with Geo-Redundant Azure Service Bus via Azure Functions
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Bert Van Hoof walks through Building retail solutions with Azure IoT Central and discusses Democratizing IoT for all solution builders
- The Azure updates team writes about the New Azure IoT Central features available and highlights that Event Grid on IoT Edge is now available in preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Chandrika Shankarnarayan writes about Advancing industrial IoT capabilities in Azure Time Series Insights
- Also on the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton (@ChrisPendleton) talks about Rain or shine: Azure Maps Weather Services will bring insights to your enterprise
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about The Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: An Introduction with Sami Khoury
- Also on the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) writes about Azure IoT at Build: making IoT solutions easier to develop, more powerful to use
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta690) discusses Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Metori Capital Management
- The Azure updates team posts a number of updates: Azure Monitor's Service Map is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India, Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India regions, Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions and The unique identifier for your Azure billing account has changed
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 10 and highlights the Azure Monitor Alerting Session at MP University
- On the Azure blog, Mayuri Gupta explains how to Customize networking for DR drills: Azure Site Recovery
- Also on the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) highlights the Azure Cost Management updates – October 2019
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains How Azure Backup Integrates With Azure File Sync – Part I
- Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Rajeev Menon (@RajeevMenonSME) talks about Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure
⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Learn about Azure Stack Migration in this Video Series
🚌 Migration
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 232 - Assess and migrate web apps to Azure with Azure Migrate
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) talks about If Forms Was a Turtle Xamarin.Forms Shell and provides the Partly Cloudy Episode 3 Recap: If Forms Was a Turtle
- Also on Channel 9, Maddy Leger (@maddyleger1) provides a Xamarin.Forms 101: Styles
- Also on Channel 9, Abel Wang and James Montemagno talk about Continuous Delivery & Release Management
🌐 Networking
- Richard M. Hicks (@richardhicks) writes about Always On VPN Load Balancing for RRAS in Azure
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 302 - Private Link with Sumeet Mittal
🔐 Security
- Tomas Restrepo (@tomasrestrepo) talks about Importing Certificates into Azure Key Vault using the API
📦 Storage
- Roelf Zomerman writes about Privately moving data to Azure Storage
- On the Azure blog, Raman Kumar highlights the Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure API Management update—October 2019, 2
- On Channel 9, Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) talks about Azure App Configuration with Lisa Guthrie
- Kunal Chandratre explains how to Assign and verify Microsoft Azure AD custom domain using Azure App Service Domains
- Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) presents Learn all about Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), Part 1 with Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider
- Jeremy Lindsay (@jeremylindsayni) talks about Solving some strange behaviour on Azure App Service with a URL containing non-ASCII characters
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) walks through Diagnosing and troubleshooting configuration and application errors in Azure App Services