Azure Weekly
Issue #291 - 13th September 2020
This week some of the new blob features have gone into general availability: Change feed support is now generally available, and so is Azure Blob storage object replication. It has also been announced that Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces, so in line with this the updates team have highlighted that you should begin migrating your codespaces to GitHub Codespaces.
Elsewhere, Sebastian Volg has written a great post on how to add Small Talk support to your Power Virtual Agents Chatbot. And Martin Brandl provides a walkthrough of working the CosmosClient in Azure Functions.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Sebastian Zolg (@sebastianzolg) explains How to add Small Talk support to your Power Virtual Agents Chatbot
- On Channel 9, Shivani Patel talks about OSS Framework Support in Azure Machine Learning Service
- Jame Maguire covers Adding speech capability to your chatbot using Bot Framework and Azure Speech Services
- The Azure updates team announces the September new features, improvements and bug fixes for Custom Translator
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov discusses Azure Synapse Analytics Overview
- The Azure updates team announces Improved delivery guarantees, schema registry support, and Confluent certification for Azure Data Explorer Kafka Connector, highlights that you need to Update .NET to 4.7.2 for Azure Data Factory (upgrade by 01 Dec 2020) and announces that Azure Synapse SQL on-demand now enforces TLS 1.2 on outbound connections
- On Channel 9, Ginger Grant (@DesertIsleSQL) talks about Analyzing your Data Lake with Power BI and Azure Synapse
🖥️ Compute
- Sander van de Velde walks through Understanding TimerTriggers in Azure Functions
- Martin Brandl (@martin_jib) walks through Working with CosmosClient in Azure Functions
- On the DEV site, Suzanne Chen (@suzannechen) highlights an event - Microsoft Create:Serverless - Conversations with Community and Industry Experts
🚢 Containers
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes Using distroless images in Istio on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) covers Azure Portal Azure Kubernetes Resource Viewer vs Kubernetes Dashboard
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Scan Container Images in Azure Container Registry with Azure Security Center
🗄️ Databases
- On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) talks about Azure Database for MySQL
- Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Mohammed Moinudheen describes Auto Scaling Azure SQL DB using Automation runbooks
- The Azure updates team highlights that the Azure SQL Database Gateway with IP address 23.99.160.139 in Central US will be deactivated on 15th September 2020 and some Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective October 12, 2020
- On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) explains how to Build fault tolerant applications with Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB
- Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) talks about CosmosDB - container provisioning throttling
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Marisa Brasile highlights that you can Join the Azure SQL/ SQL Server Experts at Microsoft Ignite 2020
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Azure blog, Carolina Uribe-Gosselin discusses how to View your Azure Cache for Redis data in new Visual Studio Code extension
- On the Visual Studio blog, Allison Buchholtz-Au (@allison_au) highlights that Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces
- On the DEV site, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) talks about the Serverless REST API with Azure Functions, Node, JSON and Azure SQL
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) talks about how you can Use Azure Cloud Shell on your local machine
- The Azure updates team highlights that you should Begin migrating your codespaces to GitHub Codespaces
🔩 DevOps
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses DevOps on Azure Part II with Steven Murawski
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sidi Merzouk blogs about the September patches for Azure DevOps Server
- Kevin Chant discusses Automating SQL Server updates using Azure DevOps and explains how to Organize Data Platform presentations using Azure DevOps
🧬 Hybrid
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) continues the Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Eversource
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) covers Azure RedHat Openshift and Hybrid Networking
🎭 Identity
- June Castillote (@junecastillote) covers Azure Service Principals: How to Create and Understand Them
- On Channel 9, Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) talks about Microsoft Identity and series introduction
🔌 Integration
- On Code Project, Hugo Barona covers Using Inline Code on your Azure Logic Apps
- On the Serverless360 blog, The serverless360 team writes about 5 Common Challenges User Face with Logic Apps
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam gives a Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team highlights that the Azure Sphere OS update 20.09 is now available for compatibility testing
- On Channel 9, Nandakishor Basavanthappa talks about Simplifying Vision AI in Azure IoT Central
- Also on Channel 9, Anna Hoffman Marisa Brasile talks about Azure SQL Edge: Demo, Renewable Energy
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve discusses Managing Azure Blueprints with PowerShell
- The Azure updates team announces an Azure Monitor for containers agent (ciprod08072020) update, that the The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to the community GitHub repo, announces that they are Introducing support for Resource Health (Azure Cloud Services) and that Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
- On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) blogs about Power Platform for Ad-hoc Azure Resource Provisioning and provides a Project Bicep Sneak Peek - The ARM Template DSL
- On the DEV site, Frank Boucher (@FBoucheros) confinues his series of Demystifying ARM Templates, covering Linked and Nested Templates and Loops
- On Channel 9, Pierre Roman and Abel Wang present ARM Series 9: Loops
- Adam Listek provides A Guide to Finally Understanding Azure VM Pricing
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) covers Enterprise State Roaming
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) discusses Project Bicep: ARM Templates Re-Imagined
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes How to configure Azure Automatic VM guest OS patching
- Ben Shy discusses Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation
🚌 Migration
- On Microsoft + Open Source, Mithun Shanbhag talks about how CloudSkew makes it easy to sketch cloud architecture diagrams
- Tao Yang (@MrTaoYang) discusses Moving My Data to Azure and Office 365 Using Synology Cloud Sync
📱 Mobile
- On the .NET Curry blog, Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis) writes: Goodbye Xamarin.Forms, Hello .NET MAUI
🌐 Networking
- On the Kemp Technologies blog, David O'Connor describes Web Application Firewall (WAF) Insight
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) describes Azure App Service, Private Endpoint, and Application Gateway/WAF
- Geert Baeke discusses Azure Private Link and DNS
- Damien Bowden covers Securing Azure Functions using an Azure Virtual Network
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) talks about Virtual Networks (VNETs) on Azure
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) blogs about how to Restrict Remote Desktop access to an IP Address using Network Security Groups
- On The Azure Podcast, Michael Zoller talks about Barracuda SD WAN
- Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) walks through Accessing restricted blob storage from virtual networks and Azure CDN
🔐 Security
- On Microsoft Security blog, Jim Flack explains how to Accelerate your adoption of SIEM using Azure Sentinel and a new offer from Microsoft
- Damien Bowden discusses Securing Azure Functions using certificate authentication
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Gunjan Jain (@gunjanjain123) talks about how Azure Files SMB Multichannel provides improved performance for clients
- The Azure updates team announces that Change feed support is now generally available for Azure Blob Storage, Azure Blob storage object replication is now generally available and that Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) discusses Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs
🔗 Web
- On the DEV site, Adam Jackson presents The Cloud Skills Show Episode 5: Web
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss Azure Static Web Apps with Elio Struyf
💻 Windows Virtual Desktop
- Roelf Zomerman discusses Builing your Image (I) in Windows Virtual Desktop
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) delves into how to Deploy WVD using the Azure Portal
- On System Center Automation, Billy York explains how to Calculate WVD Profile Load Time