Azure Weekly

Issue #284 - 19th July 2020

There have been a lot of great posts this week...

Jess Panni has written an excellent blog about Azure Synapse Analytics, how serverless is replacing the data warehouse.

Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 has been released, and aims to be the industrial IoT analytics platforms. On the Azure Podcast, Stephen Wu discusses the new Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website, and Tobias Zimmerman discusses how to Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy.

Rick Vanover highlights that Azure Storage Explorer has been updated with new capability for Blobs. And, alongside this, Klaas Langhout walks through how to Run high scale workloads on Blob storage with new 200 TB object sizes.

Francesca Lazzeri highlights a Data Science Video Series for getting started with Machine Learning on Azure, and finally, Carmel Eve has written a post around how to prepare for Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Distributed Processing
On the DEV site, Chloe Condon (@ChloeCondon) explains How to Make AI Feel Less like Sci-Fi with AI Builder
On Azure Medium, Francesca Lazzeri (@frlazzeri) highlights a Data Science Video Series for getting started with Machine Learning on Azure

🔎 Analytics

On the endjin blog, Jess Panni (@JessPanni) has written another great post on Azure Synapse Analytics: How serverless is replacing the data warehouse
Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) writes about One Way to Incrementally Develop ADF Pipelines
On the Azure blog, John Chirapurath writes about how to Save up to 76 percent on Azure Synapse Analytics and gain breathtaking insights of your ERP data
The Azure updates team announces that .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is in preview and that Data Factory connector support for Delta Lake and Excel is now available
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) talks about a transformation from From Azure Data Factory to Event Hub and Functions
On the Azure blog, Bharat Sandhu highlights that you could Now save up to 52 percent when migrating to Azure Databricks
Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) discusses Nesting ForEach Activities in Azure Data Factory
On Channel 9, Kaitlin McKinnon provides a Dev Intro to Data Science
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) talks about Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search, and Forms Recognizer

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Brenda Bell writes about the fact that AMD-based memory-optimized Azure virtual machines are now available in more regions
Jaliya Udagedara discusses Dependency Injection in Azure Functions

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Monitor for Containers now supports recommended alerts

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team announces New Azure SQL Database gateways in Australia East, Canada Central, and West US 2
Mike Donnelly (@SQLMD) asks: What is Cosmos DB?
On the SQL Server Blog, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) highlights that The July 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available

🛠️ Developer Tools

The Azure updates team announces that you can now Debug Azure Stream Analytics queries using job diagram in Visual Studio Code
Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss Remote development with Visual Studio Code

🔩 DevOps

On the premier developer blog, Bernard Apolinario, Sujith Nair, and Latha Natarajan give a thorough overview of GitHub Actions
On the .NET Curry blog, Subodh Sohoni (@subodhsohoni) discusses the GitHub Integration with Azure DevOps
The Azure updates team announces that State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dan Hellem discusses the Azure Boards Summer Update
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gloridel Morales walks through the July patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
On Channel 9, Cormac Foster (@cormacfoster) talks about how to use GitLab with Azure

🧬 Hybrid

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) highlights that Azure Arc enabled SQL Server Preview is now available, discusses Azure Log Analytics for Azure Arc Enabled Servers and walks through How to Run Custom Scripts on Azure Arc Enabled Servers
On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway (@tadbrockway) announces the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Site Recovery now supports replication with private links and that the Azure SQL Managed Instance management pack is now generally available
James van Den Berg explains how to Manage Servers On-premises with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

🎭 Identity

On the Visual Studio blog, Ruben Rios (@rub8n) blogs about how they are Improving the authentication experience for enterprises leveraging Conditional Access policies
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) asks: WTH are Azure AD Security Defaults?

🔌 Integration

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Private Link for Azure SignalR Service is now generally available
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) covers how to Rename the Application Insight Service
On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) explains how to Manage Azure Event Hubs with Azure Service Operator on Kubernetes
Also on the DEV site, Sandra Ahlgrimm explains how to Connect your Java App with Power Apps

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Diego Viso blogs about Azure Time Series Insights Gen2: Leading the next generation of industrial IoT analytics platforms
Also on the Azure blog, Ricky Brundritt (@rbrundritt) highlights that Azure Maps Power BI visual is now in preview
The Azure updates team highlights the Azure IoT Central UI and documentation updates (June 2020), talks about the Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features, has given a Notification of upcoming changes to Azure Time Series Insights web experience URL and announces that Azure Sphere OS update 20.07 is available for compatibility testing
On the DEV site, Jim Bennett talks about Building smart garden ornaments with a Raspberry Pi and micro:bits
Also on the DEV site, Paul DeCarlo blogs about Building the Intelligent Edge with Jetson and Azure ft. the NVIDIA Embedded team (JulyOT)
On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman and Davide Mauri discuss Azure SQL and IoT
Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) discusses Using Azure Time Series Insights to create an Industrial IoT analytics platform and highlights Microsoft Rocket for democratizing Live Video Analytics
On the DEV site, Paul DeCarlo covers Visualizing Object Detection Data in Near Real-Time with PowerBI (JulyOT)
Also on the Azure blog, Heather Jordan Cartwright (@hjc_microsoft) highlights that the Microsoft Azure IoT Connector for FHIR is now in preview

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve describes Getting Started with Azure Blueprints
On the Azure blog, Sameeksha Khare highlights that Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is now in preview and on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Syeda Persia Aziz introduce walk through the technology
The Azure updates team provide an Azure Site Recovery update rollup
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) walks through 6 steps to integrate Application Insights with .Net Core application hosted in Azure App Service
On the Azure blog, Nick Vossburg blogs about how Azure Partner Zone brings new resources and special events for Partners, and discusses the Azure Management workshop
Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) describes how to Stay on top of the Azure Governance game
On the Serverless360 blog, Nishanth Prabhakaran explains how to Visualize Azure Resources from Multiple Subscriptions under One-roof
On the DEV site, Frank Boucher explains How to Manage Azure Resources
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) describes how to use Application Insights to Analyze live traffic using Live Metrics
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Getting Started with the Azure Quickstart Center

🚌 Migration

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Data Box Disk is now available in China
Dave Rendn covers how to Move VHD to Azure and create Virtual Machine image using Powershell Az Module
On the Azure blog, Jeremy Winter discusses Preparing for what’s next: Financial considerations for cloud migration

📱 Mobile

On Channel 9, James Montemagno and Maddy Leger discuss Using Hot Restart to easily Debug to iOS Devices

🌐 Networking

Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) describes Azure Virtual WAN ARM – Secured Virtual Hub Azure Firewall
On the Azure blog, Leo Li describes an Azure Data Factory Managed Virtual Network
Also on the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi (@YousefkAzure) walks through Running SD-WAN virtual appliances natively in Azure Virtual WAN
On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses Azure VNETs with Abel Wang

🔐 Security

Thuan Nguyen runs through Everything you need to know about Azure Security Center Alert Suppression and explains how to Get Alert Relation from an Incident using Azure Sentinel Incident Relation API
On the Azure blog, Hasan Abo-Shally announces Azure Files support and new updates in advanced threat protection for Azure Storage
On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman and Joseph D'Antoni discuss The Benefits of Advanced Threat Protection in Azure SQL Database
Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) explains how to Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy

📦 Storage

On the MSSQL Tips site, Mohammed Moinudheen covers Azure VM Backup File Restore
On the Check your Logs blog, Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) highlights: Azure Storage Explorer Updated with New Capability for Blobs
On the Azure blog, Klaas Langhout describes how to Run high scale workloads on Blob storage with new 200 TB object sizes
The Azure updates team announces that you can now Choose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accounts and highlights the Azure Blob versioning public preview region expansion
On Code Project, Kevin Mack explains How to Pull Blobs Out of Archive Storage

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team highlights the Azure API Management update (July 2020)
On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses GraphQL on Azure: Part 1 - Getting Started
On the Azure podcast, Stephen Wu delves into Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website

📚 Learning

On the endjin blog, Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) explains How to prepare for Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
On the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain provides a Preparation Guide for AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam

💻 Windows Virtual Desktop

On the Azure blog, Ofir Monza talks about Protecting Windows Virtual Desktop environments with Azure Security Center
Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) blogs about Windows Virtual Desktop Email Discovery