Azure Weekly Issue 257: 12th January 2020
A distinct lack of Azure blog-worthy announcements this week, so let's take a look at the updates:
- Serverless Framework plugin for Azure API Management and Azure Functions is now available
- Azure DevTest Labs—Browser connect now generally available
- (Azure Container Registry) Update servers and applications to TLS 1.2 by March 13, 2020
- Azure Container Registry now available in Switzerland North region
- Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes
- Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region
- Azure spot virtual machine meter changes
- Azure Lab Services—Virtual machine shutdown for Windows users
- Azure Lab Services—Multiple owners for lab and lab management
- Azure Monitor—Service Map is now available in US Gov Virginia
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 43—January 2020
Now for this week's highlighted blogs. James Montemagno and Dean Faizel have pointed out some Best Practices - When to use async void on the Xamarin Show, Thuan Nguyen has provided some Essential tips for building a large Azure blueprint, Henry Been has written about Fully isolated private Agents for Azure Pipelines in Azure Container Instances, and Cédric Charlier has described Running automated tests with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on AppVeyor.
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text
- On the DEV site, Ari Bornstein (@pythiccoder) covers Installing Azure ML Estimator Dependencies from Remote GitHub Branches
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Data Drift Monitoring for Azure ML Datasets with cody peterson
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Morgan Mitchell (@livelovegeek) writes about New year's resolutions: What're your 2020 DevGoals? Edition 1 – Python and Machine Learning
Analytics
Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight
- Anupama Natarajan (@shantha05) posts Data Platform Tips 38 - Query data in Azure Data Explorer Web Interface and Data Platform Tips 39 - Visualise Azure Data Explorer Data in Power BI
- The Azure updates team discusses the Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes and writes that Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region
Blockchain
Covering: Azure Blockchain Service, Azure Blockchain Tokens, Azure Blockchain Workbench
Compute
Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- On Hacker Noon, Joe Gatt (@gattjoe) describes Configuring HTTP Route Parameters in Azure Functions 2.x using Python
- On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) walks through Deploying Azure Functions With GitHub Actions
- On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum describes how to Schedule start and stop of Azure Virtual Machine (Az)
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure spot virtual machine meter changes
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@msclouditpro) present Episode 159 – Azure Spot VMs and Azure AD Cloud Provisioning
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- The Azure updates team highlights that Azure Container Registry now available in Switzerland North region and tells us to Update servers and applications to TLS 1.2 by March 13, 2020
- Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) posts a number of blogs: Azure Kubernetes Fundamentals: My Development Tools, Comparing Azure Kubernetes Networking Scenarios – Part 2 Kubenet, Comparing Azure Kubernetes Networking Scenarios – Part 3 Azure CNI, Comparing Azure Kubernetes Networking Scenarios – Part 4 Http App Routing and Comparing Azure Kubernetes Networking Scenarios – Part 5 Concluding Analysis
Databases
Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage
- Cédric Charlier (@Seddryck) covers Running automated tests with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on AppVeyor
- On Channel 9, Colin Murphy and Alain Dormehl talk about Deployment options for Azure SQL Database Data Exposed
- Anupama Natarajan (@shantha05) posts a number of blogs: Data Platform Tips 40 - Alerts for monitoring Azure SQL Database, Data Platform Tips 42 - Azure Cloud Shell and Azure SQL Database, Data Platform Tips 43 - Azure SQL Database REST API and Data Platform Tips 44 - Azure Automation to manage Azure SQL Database
- On the Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) discusses SQL SERVER – SQL Azure Managed Instance Restore Error – The Database Was Backed Up on a Server Running Version 15.00.2000
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) describes How to create read replicas in Azure Database for MySQL
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- The Azure updates team writes about Azure Lab Services—Virtual machine shutdown for Windows users and Multiple owners for lab and lab management
- On the Visual Studio blog, Dominic Nahous (@DomsterFire) writes that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available
- Pascal Naber provides a Collection of handy Azure CLI and Bash scripts
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) writes New Year, New Skills - Get Azure Ready for 2020
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 310 - Azure 2020
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) present Episode 11 - Considerations and Good Practices for Azure Developers
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) provides an Azure Advent Calendar wrap-up
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) highlights the Cloud Solution Architect Podcast Interview
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- Henry Been (@henry_been) writes about Fully isolated private Agents for Azure Pipelines in Azure Container Instances
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.01.03
- The Azure updates team talks about Azure DevTest Labs—Browser connect now generally available
- Pascal Naber shares a "Backdoor" in Azure DevOps to get the password of a Service Principal
- Mike Pfeiffer (@mike_pfeiffer) presents 057: Azure DevOps in the Real-World
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks about 3 Essential DevOps Scenarios for Your DevOps Pipeline - Episode 70
Hybrid
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- On the Check your Logs blog, Dave Kawula (@DaveKawula) describes The Case of lost connectivity to the Management Network on Azure Stack HCI
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes how to Monitor Azure Stack HCI Health With Azure Monitor and Windows Admin Center
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) provides a Step by Step how to manage your Systems with Azure Arc
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Roelf Zomerman writes about Azure AD – Domain services preview features
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) discusses Setting Up Azure – The Three Permissions You Will Need
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) explains How to Revoke Azure AD Tokens from Expired AD Users
- Joonas Westlin (@JoonasWestlin) writes Testing Azure AD-protected APIs, part 4: GitHub Actions CI workflow
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) explains how to Send email from PowerShell with a Logic App
- On the DEV site, Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) presents Azure Service Bus from the ground up, Azure Service Bus Core Features and Advanced Features with Azure Service Bus with Ashish Chhabria
- Larry Wall blogs about Using BizTalk transform maps in Logic Apps
- On Microsoft + Open Source, Gino Canessa talks about FHIR Subscriptions and state changes
- Anupama Natarajan (@shantha05) writes Data Platform Tips 41 - Push Alerts to MS Teams using Logic Apps and Azure Alerts
Internet of Things
Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) unboxes the Vision AI DevKit with Mahesh Yadav
Management and Governance
Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Sceduler
- On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) writes Azure Cost Management 2019 year in review
- The Azure updates team covers Azure Monitor—Service Map is now available in US Gov Virginia and highlights the Azure Site Recovery update rollup 43—January 2020
- Thuan Nguyen provides some Essential tips for building a large Azure blueprint and shares some Quick notes on the use of securestring in Azure Blueprints
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mark Russinovich, Apurva Thanky, Cristina del Amo Casado, and Shantanu Srivastava write about Advancing no-impact and low-impact maintenance technologies
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
Mixed Reality
Covering: Kinect DK, Remote rendering, Spatial anchors
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) shares some Best Practices - When to use async void with Dean Faizel
- Also on Channel 9, Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) talks about Ctrl + S (App Center Data) and provides a Partly Cloudy Episode 7 Recap
- On Code Project, Amol M. Khandagale blogs about Calling Web Services Programmatically Using C.NET or Xamarin App Development
Networking
Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) provides an Azure Load Balancer Introduction
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about a Site-to-Site Azure VPN with a Windows RRAS Server
- Richard M. Hicks (@richardhicks) writes about an Always On VPN Device Tunnel with Azure VPN Gateway
- On the Premier Developer blog, Kevin Rabun talks about Tracking Santa with Azure
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Thuan Nguyen explains how to Delete an Azure Sentinel incident from ASC and how to Create a fully customized Azure Sentinel incident
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Use Azure Security Center with Windows Server on-premises
Storage
Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple
- On the Check your Logs blog, Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) walks through Using Azure Storage Explorer to remove unattached VM disks
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- The Azure updates team writes that Serverless Framework plugin for Azure API Management and Azure Functions is now available
Windows Virtual Desktop
Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop
- Roelf Zomerman writes about Windows Virtual Desktop – Group Sync script
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