Azure Weekly
Issue #25 - 9th May 2015
This week's Microsoft Build developer event saw several Azure announcements, including:
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA), Director of Program Management Azure, announces the public preview for template-based deployments of Compute, Networking and Storage , using the Azure Resource Manager
Also on the Azure blog, Merav Davidson announces the Application Insights Public Preview and Sergey Kanzhelev announces the preview of Application Insights for the ASP.NET v5
On Channel 9, there are Build sessions on 'Application Insights for Any App: A Must-Have Tool for Understanding Your Customers' and 'Fast and Powerful Diagnostics, and Problem Solving with Application Insights'
On a container theme, Channel 9 also has Build sessions on 'Thinking in Containers: Building a Scalable, Next-Gen Application with Docker on Azure' on Channel 9' and Windows Containers - what, why and how?
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) shares PowerShell commands for increasing the size of a VM in 'sometimes You Just Have to Scale Up'
On the Docker blog, Julien Barbier writes about Docker's presence in the Build keynote. Also on the Docker blog, Sean Li announces a features that pulls, configures and runs Docker containers on your desktop in a single click, Dave Tucker describes a change to Docker networking - the open sourcing of libnetwork, and John Willis writes part 7 of his Docker tutorial, covering Dockerfile (Part 2)
David O'brien shares an Azure PowerShell cmdlet curiosity relating to case sensitivity
Trevor Sullivan (@pcgeek86) discusses the release of Azure PowerShell 0.9.0 with Azure Resource Manager
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure blog, Anand Subbaraj, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Data Factory team, announces the publication of a new Architecture Blueprint for LargeScale Computing Financial Services
On MSDN, '...planky' writes about Azure Fault Domains and Update Domains
David O'brien shares some slides from the Global Azure Bootcamp in Melbourne
- On the Azure Zone blog, Hanu Azure Team describes how to Use Microsoft Azure Resource Groups
- Stephane Frechette covers creating a Neo4j Linux VM in Windows Azure
On the risual blog, 'Danielc' describes how to upgrade VMM 2012 R2 to CU6 and configure an Azure Subscription
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Steve Moore describes a fix for the PowerShell error 'Secondary network interface feature is supported only for deployments on virtual network'
On Channel 9, there's a Build session on Building Network Aware Applications Using Azure Resource Provider (RP)
💡 Internet of Things
On the Azure blog, Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) announces the Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 RC
On Channel 9, there are Build sessions on Diagnosing Issues with Cloud Applications Hosted in Azure IaaS and PaaS Using Visual Studio and Building Faster, More Capable Cloud-Powered Apps in Windows 10
On the Azure podcast, Senior Azure PM Josh Twist discusses Logic Apps
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu provides an amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure service comparison cheat sheet
- Also on the Kloud blog, Scott Scovell talks about connecting Salesforce and SharePoint Online with Azure App Services
On the Perficient blog, Stan Tarnovskiy describes Azure's Always-On Web Apps
Also on the Perficient blog, Michael Toole writes about Diagnostic Logs in Azure Web Sites
On the Tallan blog, Ben Thompson describes how to use Azure Startup Tasks
On Channel 9 there's a Build session 'An Internet of Things overview' with Sam George and Steve Teixiera
'Vinoth' shares the slides from his Global Azure Bootcamp 2015 talk on Microsoft IoT Solutions with Azure
Bertrand Le Roy writes about his Visual Studio Code first impressions
Mark J Brown (@markjbrown) blogs about using Azure Web Apps Backup-Restore
- Nino Crudele (@ninocrudele) describes how JiTGate engine will take advantage of the Azure of Things to provide a very simple way to integrate things
⚙️ Data and Analytics
Gaurav Malhotra announces that Azure Data Factory now supports running custom .NET activities in Azure Batch. Previously they could only be run via an HDInsight cluster.
On the Azure blog, Aravind Ramachandran announces partitioning support in the DocumentDB SDK
Scott K. Allen writes about serialization options with DocumentDB
Also on the Azure blog, Oliver Chiu introduces Azure Data Lake
On Channel 9, there's a Build session on Gaining Real-Time IoT Insights using Azure Stream Analytics, AzureML and PowerBI
On the Perficient blog, Stan Tarnovskiy writes about the Azure SQL Data Warehouse
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Mihaela Blendea writes that FullText Search is now available for preview in Azure SQL Database
Also on the Azure blog, Michael Curd summarizes Build 2015: Azure Storage Announcements
On Channel 9, there are Build sessions on Azure Storage for Developers: Overview and New Capabilities and Azure Storage Performance, Scalability and Security
Pinal Dave explains how to disable and enable all constraints for a SQL Azure Table and Database
On the SQL Server Pro site, Grant Fritchey blogs about getting started with Azure SQL Database v12
🎬 Media
Mingfei Yan delivered a Azure Media Services Developer Deep Dive at Build.
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
David O'brien describes issues he's experienced with installing Windows Azure Pack in a FIPS compliant environment
On TechNet, Vijay Tewari begins a 'Building Clouds' blog specifically focused on private cloud solutions, for the Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
On Channel 9, there's a Build session on Identity Management as a Service for Modern Applications using Azure Active Directory
On the .NET Curry blog, Mahesh Sabnis walks through securing ASP.NET MVC applications using Windows Azure Active Directory
Also on TechNet, John Craddock writes part 1 of a 4 part series about building Identity Solutions for todays environments
Also on TechNet, 'Msftts2' shares a short video on changing the Service Administrator
Radu Vunvulea writes about why Shared Access Keys are important in a cloud Azure solution