Azure Weekly
Issue #29 - 7th June 2015
This week, Azure Data Factory was updated with monitoring and management enhancements which let you zoom into pipelines, upstream slices that are not ready, and monitor slices by last update time. Azure StorSimple (a hybrid cloud storage solution) 800 Series Update 1 became generally available.
The new pricing for Application Insights, effective from 1 June, is described by Dale Koetke on the Azure blog.
The Azure Team notified users of scheduled maintenance for Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Services taking place on Monday 1 June in North Central US, Tuesday 2 June in North Europe, and on Wednesday 3 June in East US, from 08:00 PDT/ 15:00 UTC. Work is expected to finish within 48 hours of the start time.
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) explains how to protect Mission Critial Azure Virtual Machines from Accidental Deletion and explains how to create a CentOS Virtual Machine Using Azure Resource Manager ARM
- On the Azure blog, Dale Koetke covers Application Insights Pricing Effective June 1
On the Docker blog, Diogo Mnica discusses Docker Security Tools and Upcoming Webinar, John Willis writes Docker Tutorial 11 -Docker Swarm and delves into Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps, and Jacqueline Lum writes an online meetup recap: a new model for image distribution
On MSDN, Steve Plank writes about warnings sent to customers when Azure is about to be updated
Dushyant Gill writes a developers guide to auth with the Azure Resource Manager API
- 'Adminian' talks about Troubleshooting Azure Resource Manager Failed Messages
- Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) discusses getting started with Azure Resource Manager and visual studio
Trevor Sullivan (@pcgeek86) describes how to deal with the Azure VM Error: Virtual network ID cannot be null or empty.
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the questions, what are key differences with IaaS v2 enabled through Azure Resource Manager? and how many fault domains are supported with IaaS using ARM?
On the Microsoft Openness site, Jose Miguel Parrella discusses how to automate deployment of an Azure-hosted APT repository
🖥️ Compute
On this week's Azure podcast, an Azure A-Z
On Channel 9, Rick Claus presents Debunking Azure Myths: Linux and Microsoft Azure don't work well together
TheAzure Zone blog features a post on the Importance of Pre-Azure-Migration Assessment
Radu Vunvulea asks who manages what in cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
🌐 Networking
- Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) writes about when to use Traffic Manager, Cloud Service Load balancing or Citrix Netscaler
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes about syncing multiple forests to Azure AD
💡 Internet of Things
- Simon Timms (@stimms) writes about free SSL For Azure Websites
⚙️ Data and Analytics
- On the Azure blog, Gaurav Malhotra blogs about Azure Data Factory Updates: Monitoring and Management Enhancements
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes that R tops the 2015 KDnuggets Software Poll
On the Azure blog, Stephen Baron describes how to import sample data to Azure DocumentDB
📦 Storage
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner talks about System Stored Procedures for SQL Azure Linked Servers
Herve Roggero discusses SQL Server IaaS and Retry Logic
On the Azure blog, Michael Curd writes about Azure Storage Talks from Build & Ignite
Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) writes supercars suck at transporting TVs and other Azure Table Storage lessons
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Cenk Dingiloglu explains customized Renditions and Asset trimming with Dynamic Manifest
Also on the Azure blog, Peter Walsted walks through building End to End Video Workflows in the Cloud
- Also on the Azure blog, Anil Murching walks through Using Azure Media Services Explorer for Live Encoding
Also on the Azure blog, Adarsh Solanki summarises the Azure Media Indexer v1.2.1 Release Notes
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
On the Azure blog, Mimi Xu blogs about upcoming changes for mixed Notification Hubs Namespace Types
Also on the Azure blog, Manjula Kumar announces StorSimple Update 1 - Availability in Azure Government, Support for Other Clouds, ZRS, and Migration from 5000/7000 series. The update is also covered by Guru Pangal in his blog StorSimple: Acceptance, Innovation and Update 1 Release
On Brisbane Cloud User Group blog, Aaron Whittaker writes about Azure Active Directory and Windows 10: Microsofts Hybrid Vision
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
A post on the TechNet blog describes Azure AD Self Service Password Resets
Nick Randolph (@BTRoam) writes about a remote Desktop Connection Fail from Windows 10 Using Azure AD Credentials
On the Microsoft Openness site, Jose Miguel Parrella blogs about using SimpleSAML to authenticate PHP applications with Azure AD
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes about short Takes Daily: What's going on in the world of Microsoft for Thursday, May 28, 2015, answers the question Can Azure AD Sync be clustered and describes configuring Active Directory Deletion Protection