Azure Weekly
Issue #283 - 12th July 2020
This week, we continue our exploration of Azure Synapse; Jess Panni has recorded a video tutorial on Serverless Data Prep using SQL On Demand and Synapse Pipelines.
In exciting news the Azure Machine Learning Studio Web Experience is generally available, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through DCSv2 SKUs, and .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is in preview, and some interesting Azure Digital Twins enhanced features are now in public preview.
Finally Michael Crump shares some tips and tricks about Azure Certifications for Developers, and Mike Larah shares some tips for debugging web apps in Visual Studio with custom browser configurations.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- The Azure updates team announces that Neural Text to Speech expands to new languages, Azure Machine Learning studio web experience is generally available, Form Recognizer is now generally available, Text Analytics for health is now available in preview and that Custom Commands is now generally available
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez and Manash Goswami discuss the ONNX Runtime
- On the Azure blog, Eric Boyd (@eric_boyd) covers Azure AI: How to build mission-critical AI apps with new Cognitive Services capabilities
🔎 Analytics
- On the endjin blog, Jess Panni (@JessPanni) shares a video tutorial on Serverless data prep using SQL On Demand and Synapse Pipelines
- The Azure updates team announces that .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is in preview
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) walks through Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory
- Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) covers Building an SSIS Framework in Azure Data Factory
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mohamed Kabiruddin discusses COVID-19 data analytics and reporting with Azure Databricks and Azure SQL
- On the Microsoft site, Reporter writes about how 'Go-Ahead is using data to make sure the right buses are in the right place at the right time'
🖥️ Compute
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes How to Manage Hyper-V VM Checkpoints with PowerShell
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses Linux VMs with Brian Ketelsen
- Also on the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) describes the Power-up Power Platform with Serverless Custom Connector
- Also on the DEV site, Simona Cotin (@simona_cotin) provides A Deep Dive into POWERful Serverless Application
- The Azure updates team announces that you can now Create virtual machines from Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG)
🚢 Containers
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through DCSv2 SKUs (private preview)
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) writes about Local Kubernetes setup with KinD
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes about how to Programmatically create Azure Container Instances in an existing Virtual Network and how to Programmatically create Azure Container Instances and connect a Managed Identity
- On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) writes about Kafka on Kubernetes, the Strimzi way (Part 3)
- On Code Project, Abhishek Mishra - Dotnet And Azure Paas Architect describes Containers on Azure Platform: Thousand Feet Overview
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure updates team announces that Distributed network name for SQL Server on Virtual Machines is now available and Preview support for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance on Azure IaaS is now available
- On the premier developer blog, Lenni Lobel discusses the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed
- On Channel 9, Ben Weissman talks about Big Data Clusters in a Nutshell
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Atul Malaviya (@AZooInMyLuggage) explains How to Restore Azure SQL LTR Backup After Azure SQL Instance Deleted
- Also on Channel 9, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) discusses Why Azure SQL is Best for Developers (Part 2) with Davide Mauri
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces
- David Ramel highlights that Mads Kristensen has unveiled 'The Essentials' Visual Studio Extension Pack for All Devs
🔩 DevOps
- On the DEV site, Abel Wang (@abelsquidhead) walks through Extending your Powerful Apps with Azure, GitHub Actions, and .NET
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) discusses the error "Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0" and covers Automated deployments CI/CD using Azure DevOps for Azure Data Factory
- On Channel 9, Frank Boucher and Abel Wang discuss ARM Templates Parameters
- Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) explains How to bring existing Azure resources under Terraform management
🧬 Hybrid
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes How to Add the Microsoft Monitoring Agent to Azure Arc Servers
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) discusses the Monitoring options available for Azure SQL Managed Instance
🎭 Identity
- Roelf Zomerman discusses Role assignments to Header based apps
- Noreplyblogger.com Anuj Chaudhary provides a PowerShell sample for Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Azure AD Roles
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) covers Windows Virtual Machines on Azure with Sarah Lean
🔌 Integration
- Thuan Nguyen explains how to Transform Azure Sentinel incident to Log Analytics Workspace with Logic Apps
- The Azure updates team highlights how to Simplify and modernize your Java and Spring workloads with Azure Service Bus
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam provides an Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
- On the DEV site, Greg Hurlman writes about Real-time Power Apps with SignalR
- On Channel 9, Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) talks about SignalR
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Kirsten M. Walker blogs about Making buildings smarter with Azure IoT
- The Azure updates team announces: Upcoming changes to JSON flattening and storage for new Azure Time Series Insights deployments, Azure Digital Twins enhanced features now in public preview and Azure Digital Twins enhanced features are now in preview
- On the DEV site, Christopher Maneu announces a series on Learning the basics of IoT Solutions this month (JulyOT)
- Also on the DEV site, Paul DeCarlo describes Configure and Deploy Intelligent Video Analytics to IoT Edge Runtime on NVIDIA Jetson (JulyOT), Develop and deploy Custom Object Detection Models with IoT Edge DeepSteam SDK Module (JulyOT) and Consuming and Modeling Object Detection Data with Azure Time Series Insights (JulyOT)
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Insight's Connected Platform for Detection and Prevention on IoT Edge
- On the DEV site, Paul DeCarlo covers Getting Started with NVIDIA Jetson Nano: Object Detection (JulyOT)
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) describes how to Use Azure App Service Diagnostics - Improve performance, best practices, security and more.
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses Fault Tolerance for Azure
📱 Mobile
- On the DEV site, Laurent Bugnion covers the Notifications Client Step 1.0: Creating the FCM project
🌐 Networking
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) explains how to Connect two Virtual WANs to each other over VPN
- The Azure updates team announces: Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview, introduces Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks and announces that Azure Private Link support for Azure Automation is now available in preview
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) covers Azure Virtual WAN Introducing A New Kind Of Route Table
- The Azure updates team discusses Azure Virtual WAN: Multiple capabilities and new partners now generally available
📦 Storage
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) highlights the new ADLS Gen2 enhancements
- The Azure updates team announces that Private endpoints for Azure File Sync are now generally available
🔗 Web
- On the endjin blog, Mike Larah (@MikeLarah) discusses Debugging web apps in Visual Studio with custom browser configurations
- On the DEV site, Em Lazer-Walker walks through A rock-paper-scissors app with gesture detection and voice
- Simon Waight (@simonwaight) talks about Building a virtual event platform using Microsoft Azure
📚 Learning
- On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Azure Certifications for Developers
- On the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain highlights the AZ-400 Practice Tests Updated As Per New Updates on June 15, 2020
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) gives a AZ-900 Course Overview and provides a AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals full course
- Also on the Whizlabs blog, Amit Verma talks through AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Exam Preparation
- Also on the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain discusses AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design Exam Preparation
💻 Windows Virtual Desktop
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) describes How to proactively monitor ARM-based Windows Virtual Desktop with Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor and discusses Whats new with Windows Virtual Desktop