Azure Weekly

On the Azure blog, Chris Sanders announces new graphical and textual authoring features for Azure Automation. The graphical authoring area is visually similar to the Azure Machine Learning workspace, with a list of available components and a canvas. For those who prefer textual editing, the editing pane has been made more user friendly

On Channel 9, there are Ignite sessions on  Containers in Windows, Azure and beyond with Taylor Brown and David Tesar, and Microsoft's new Windows Server Containers with Taylor Brown, Arno Mihm and Nick Stinemates

Something that's caught our attention this week - the Semantic Logging repository on GitHub, from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team, contains PowerShell scripts to setup Elastic Search, LogStash and Kibana (ELK) on Azure. Also included are LogStash plugins to pull in Microsoft Azure Diagnostics data into Elastic Search.

On the Docker site, John Willis (@botchagalupe) continues his series on Docker with troubleshooting with sysdig, Diogo Mónica writes about Docker security and best practices, and Mario Ponticello highlights two new images that were made available in April - Drupal and Rakudo Star

On a Docker theme, on Channel 9, there's a Docker overview for .NET developers with Dan Fernandez, Dmitry Lyalin and Lan Kaim

Robert Smit explains how to Manage Azure VMs with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager and writes about Microsoft Operations Management Suite

On the Azure blog, Kundana Palagiri follows up on a Build announcement that Azure supports Open Source Cloud Foundry

On Channel 9, there are Ignite sessions on Nano Server with Andrew Mason and Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Azure Technology introspective with Rick Claus and Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Architecture with Gopal Kakivaya, Update on Azure IaaS with Rick Claus and Corey Sanders, and The Microsoft Azure stack with Bradley Bartz, Natalia Mackevicius 

On the TechKB blog, Michael Coutanche covers assigning a static IP to an Azure VM

On the Windows IT Pro site, Cheryl J. Ajlun writes up the Platform & Strategy: Networking Overview session at Ignite

In a great session from Build 2015, Mark Simms talks about architecture, monitoring and telemetry in Surviving Success: Architecting Web Sites and Services for Rapid Growth.

Jeffrey Fritz shares some resources for building ASP.NET with Microsoft Azure, following his Ignite session

Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) covers implementing a content security policy with NWebsec, Azure Table Storage and Raygun

On MSDN, 'Winterttr' tests whether its possible to have more than one concurrent Reader on a specific EventHub Partition within one consumer group

On the Unity site, Christian Buckley writes up an Interview with Microsoft CVP Bill Staples on the Azure App Service

On the Azure blog, Sudhesh Suresh, Senior Program Manager - Azure Stream Analytics, announces that PowerBI output is now a public preview feature of Stream Analytics

Also on the Azure blog, Stephen Baron, Program Manager, Azure DocumentDB announces new data import options for DocumentDB. DocumentDB now supports data imports from Azure Table Storage and from a JSON, CSV and MongoDB files at a HTTP(S) endpoint 

On Technet's SQL Server blog, Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform, provides a list of reasons why enterprises should choose the new Azure Data Warehouse service

On Channel 9, there are Ignite sessions on The next era of computing: seeing the future before it happens with Harry Shum, How to bring high performance apps using Microsoft Azure Cache with Pranav Rastogi, and Data science with Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft SQL Server and R, with Rafal Lukawiecki

On the Azure blog, Abhishek Agrawal, Principal PM Manager - Azure Site Recovery, describes how Azure Site Recovery provides 'application-aware availibility on demand' which is compatible with any application

On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht writes about preparing SQL Server for automated image-based deployment to Azure IaaS VMs

On the Perficient blog, Vaibhav Mathur writes about new Capabilities in Azure Storage at Ignite 2015

Abhijit Jana writes about connecting Azure Storage using Add Connected Services in Visual Studio 2015

Following up on the Ignite annoucement, the Office blog describes Skype for Business broadcasting, which uses Azure Media Services behind the scenes

On the Azure blog, Abhishek Hemrajani announces new features for Azure Site Recovery, including the ability to move SAN-based applications to Azure, support for NetApp Private Storage for Azure, and multi-VM consistency and replications groups

Also on the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi of the Azure Networking team annouces new networking capabilities, including an ExpressRoute premium add-on to provide global connectivity, ExpressRoute for Office 365 and Skype for Business Enterprise Voice, a new VPN Gateway for site-to-site VPN and ExpressRoute co-existence, user-defined routes, IP address enhancements, new network virtual applicance partners, Azure DNS and networking support for Azure Resource Manager

On Channel 9, there are Ignite sessions on  Windows Server and system center futures - bring Azure to your datacenter with Mark Russinovich, Jeffrey Snover and Jeremy Winter and Fundamentals of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp management and administration with Eric Orman and Thomas Willingham

On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz writes about Microsoft's transition from Cloud OS to Azure Stack

On the Just Azure blog, Matt Milner continues his series on AzureBiz talk services, covering BizTalk in Azure Platform as a Service

On the risual blog, Daniel Davies talks about Office 365 external IP additions and removals

On Channel 9, there are Ignite sessions on Enable your on-premises apps for the cloud with Microsoft Azure Active Directory Application proxy with Meir Mendelovich, Sharing protected information with Azure RMS with Gagan Gulati and Simon May, and Identity and access management everywhere with Adam Bresson and Nasos Kladakis