Azure Weekly

Issue #286 - 2nd August 2020

This week, Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink present: "Are You Inspired Yet?" - All the announcements from Inspire.

As we mentioned last week, many of the announcements were aimed at the Partner ecosystem, but you can watch all of the featured sessions here.

Elsewhere, on Channel 9, Rob Sewell and Anna Hoffman discuss how to Use .NET Interactive Jupyter Notebooks in Daily Work-Life.

The virtual event CREATE:Frontend also happened this week, and there were some excellent sessions around static sites. Nitya Narasimhan has written a great post about Inclusive Design For Emerging Markets: A Static Web Apps Discussion. And, Wassim Chegham covers "Why static sites are back"! Finally, this week also saw a .NETConf with a focus on microservices. You can catch up on the recording of the Twitch broadcast here.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Trove - Connecting AI/ML developers for sharing high-quality data for training their Computer Vision AI projects
On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov explains how to Create an Azure Data Factory inventory using Databricks
On the Azure Medium blog, Luca Zavarella explains How To Create Custom Docker Base Images For Azure Machine Learning Environments

🔎 Analytics

The Azure updates team announces How to start with Azure Data Explorer (A new online course), that 1-click now supports mapping transformations in Azure Data Explorer and that Azure Data Explorer Streaming Ingestion is generally available
On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman and Ron Sewell discuss How to Use .NET Interactive Jupyter Notebooks in Daily Work-Life
On Azure Medium, Inderjit Rana discusses Azure Synapse Data Load using Polybase or Copy Command from VNET protected Azure Storage

🖥️ Compute

Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) walks through Changing Azure VMs Default Locale
On the Azure podcast, Chris Gillum (@cgillum) describes Durable Functions

🚢 Containers

On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) writes about Kafka on Kubernetes, the Strimzi way (Part 4)
Also on the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses Azure Containers with Erik St. Martin

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team announces that A performance optimization change to default settings is coming soon in Azure SQL Database
On the Azure blog, John 'jg' Chirapurath lists Eight ways to optimize costs on Azure SQL
On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) describes How to use Azure Go SDK to manage Azure Data Explorer clusters
On Channel 9, Shreya Verma (@ShreyaVermaKale) talks about Automated Backups in Azure SQL (Part 2)

🛠️ Developer Tools

June Castillote (@junecastillote) describes How to Set Up Visual Studio Code to Work with GitHub
On Microsoft + Open Source, Pui Chee Chan And Mark Gray introduces Azure Tools, a new blog community for Azure command line tools

🔩 DevOps

Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) discusses Infrastructure as Code with Joe Duffy
Henry Been (@henry_been) walks through Managing Azure DevOps YAML Environments through the REST APIs
Tim Anderson (@timanderson) describes Wrestling with Azure DevOps Pipelines
As always, on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Steven Murawski (@StevenMurawski) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
On the Premier Developer blog, Andrew Kanieski discusses Measuring Concurrent Jobs Over Time in Azure DevOps
On Channel 9, Frank Boucher and Abel Wang discuss Variables (ARM Series #5)

🧬 Hybrid

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) blogs about Managing Your Hybrid Cloud using Azure Arc and covers the launch of the The Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Video Series
On the Azure blog, Auston Li walks through Monitoring Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes and servers

🎭 Identity

Mariano Gomez discusses Working with Microsoft Graph API and Teams Connector
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Active Directory Registration Service is ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mirek Sztajno announces a public preview of Support for Azure AD user creation on behalf of Azure AD Applications for Azure SQL
Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Shoham Dasgupta announces Enhanced support for Azure AD Guest Users for Azure SQL

🔌 Integration

On the Azure podcast, Clemens Vasters discusses Messaging Services
Mike Pfeiffer (@mike_pfeiffer) writes about Building Self-Service Cloud Environments

💡 Internet of Things

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Sphere update 20.07 is now available
On the DEV site, Dave Glover (@dglover) explains how to Build an Air Pollution Monitor with a Raspberry Pi, a Particulate Matter sensor and IoT Central
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) provides a QuickStart on How to get started with Azure Maps
On the IoT Dev blog, Ricardo Minguez (@ridomin) discusses the fact that Advanced authoring for Digital Twins models is now in Visual Studio and VS Code
The Azure updates team highlights that you should Migrate to the new version of the Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 APIs and announces that IoT Plug and Play new features are now in public preview

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) walks through the Azure Cost Management + Billing updates
The Azure updates team walks through the Azure Site Recovery update rollup 48, highlights that the Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is moving to query explorer, and that Azure Monitor Log Analytics Quick Start content is moving to the Overview page and announces that Azure Monitor Community Repository is now available
Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) highlights that the "Inside Azure Management" sessions are now on YouTube
Barry Luijbregts (@azurebarry) discusses Evaluating and Controlling Cloud Costs: Executive Briefing

🚌 Migration

On the SQL Server Blog, John 'jg' Chirapurath writes about More ways to save when you migrate SQL Server data to Azure SQL
On the Azure blog, Erin Rifkin discusses Creating cloud ready environments with Azure landing zones
On the Azure blog, Naga Surendran provides Three reasons to migrate your ASP.NET apps and SQL Server data to Azure

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team announces that Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies and that Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service VNET ingress support is now available
Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) discusses Connectivity in Azure Virtual WAN
Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) writes about Two Azure IP Addresses You Need to Know About

🔐 Security

Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Protect Hybrid Workloads from Threats using Azure Security Center
Stephane Lapointe (@s_lapointe) writes about How-to use customer-managed keys with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage encryption using ARM Templates

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Yuan Zheng highlights that NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob storage is now in preview
The Azure updates team announces that you can now Allocate resources automatically for Azure Blob Storage data connection in Azure Data Explorer and that Network File System 3.0 protocol support in Azure Blob storage is now in preview
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink (@msclouditpro) present: "Are You Inspired Yet?" - All the announcements from Inspire
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Autoscale is now generally available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions

🔗 Web

On the DEV site, Anthony Chu explains how to Authenticate Blazor WebAssembly with Azure Static Web Apps
Also on the DEV site, Nitya Narasimhan writes about Inclusive Design For Emerging Markets: A Static Web Apps Discussion
Also on the DEV site, Nori Suzuki has shared a talk on Azure Static Web App Manga
Also on the DEV site, Suzanne Chen (@suzannechen) highlights talks on Observability in serverless applications
Also on the DEV site, Wassim Chegham (@manekinekko) writes about Why static sites are back
Also on the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) blogs about talks on The inner workings of a static web app
Also on the DEV site, Suzanne Chen (@suzannechen) highlights talks on A11y for everyone: Building inclusive and accessible web applications

📚 Learning

Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) discusses Studying for AI-900
Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) discusses AZ-900 Episode 7 - Geographies, Regions & Availability Zones
Mike Pfeiffer (@mike_pfeiffer) writes about How to Become a Certified Azure Solutions Architect

💻 Windows Virtual Desktop

On the Azure blog, Kam Vedbrat highlights that New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available
The Azure updates team announces that Windows Virtual Desktop Azure portal and Microsoft Teams integrations are generally available and that Remote Desktop client for Android now supports Windows Virtual Desktop connections
On Channel 9, Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) talks about Enabling secure remote work using Windows Virtual Desktop
And, on his blog, Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) provides a WVD technical deployment walkthrough