Azure Weekly
Issue #299 - 8th November 2020
This week, the Azure team have announced that the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 recursive access control list update is generally available, meaning that you can now update access control lists recursively over a folder structure.
On the Azure blog, Julia White discusses how Microsoft is committing to sustainable urban environments for World Cities Day 2020 and Deborah Bach walks through how a cloud-based solution is transforming care for people with cystic fibrosis.
On the Microsoft Developer blog, Donovan Brown asks: "What is DevOps?"
And finally, one of the recent nice innovations from the Visual Studio team is GitHub Codespaces AKA the Azure powered development experience. Worth checking out to understand how the coding experience is evolving.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Michael Jonsson (@Michael_Jonsson) discusses an AI supported Parking Space finder.
- On Channel 9, Sarah Guthals (@sarahguthals) talks about how to Use Azure Custom Vision to Repurpose the Lunar Rover
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement a Blazor full text search using Azure Cognitive Search
- The Azure updates team announces that Bing Search APIs will transition from Azure Cognitive Services to Azure Marketplace on 31 October 2023
🔎 Analytics
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) writes about External tables vs T-SQL views on files in a data lake
- Greg Low (@greglow) discusses Time zone support in Data Factory – a Small Change but so Important
- On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) provides an ADF Snack: Adding metadata columns
🖥️ Compute
- On the DEV site, Laurent Bugnion writes about Best practice when naming Durable Functions in C#
- On the Serverless360 blog, Nadeem Ahamed (@Nadeem_ahamed_r) discusses the updates from Azure Functions Live – October 2020
- The Azure updates team announces New Azure Batch capabilities, and some New Azure Batch capabilities available in preview and announces a New region added to Azure HDInsight
🚢 Containers
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Monitor for containers now support monitoring of Network configurations with Network Policy Manager Preview
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) discusses Windows Docker containers
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) covers Linux on Windows with WSL 2 and talks about Purging container images from Azure Container Registry
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) discusses Azure Image Builder
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) explains how to Automate taking backups from Azure disks attached to Azure Kubernetes Service
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Sunil Kamath (@kamathsun) talks about Introducing Flexible Server in Azure Database for PostgreSQL & MySQL
- Also on Channel 9, Uros Milanovic talks about Understanding Backup Storage Redundancy in Azure SQL
- The Azure updates team announces Soft delete for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANA
- On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) describes Change Data Capture from PostgreSQL to Azure Data Explorer using Kafka Connect
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure updates team announces that you can now Generate Azure Functions using Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code
- On Channel 9, Vix Ryan (@vixgrows) talks about GitHub Codespaces
- Also on Channel 9, Sarah Guthals (@sarahguthals) talks about Predicting Meteor Showers Using Python and Visual Studio Code
🔩 DevOps
- Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) describes How To Create An ARM Template For Cosmos DB
- On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) talks about Deploying Azure Functions via GitHub Actions without Publish Profile
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses "What is DevOps?" with Donovan Brown
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jessica Deen (@jldeen) discusses Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Azure Devops & GitHub Actions (Part 2)
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) blogs about Deploying Terraform using Azure DevOps with Build Artifacts
- Kevin Chant discusses Sharing personal Azure DevOps organizations to test SQL Server deployments
🧬 Hybrid
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) talks about Telkomtelstra (Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series) and provides a recording around Hybrid Cloud Management (Experts Live Switzerland 2020)
🎭 Identity
- Vignesh Mudliar talks about Azure AD Premium P1 vs P2: Which One to Choose?
🔌 Integration
- On BizTalk Gurus, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) discusses an Error while calling Logic App thru PowerShell: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
- On the Codit blog, Stijn Moreels walks through Message Flow Control with Azure Service Bus in Arcus Messaging v0.5
- On the Serverless360 blog, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) provides a Azure Logic Apps 101 – Developer tools: what are my options (Part III)
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 Preview APIs are Deprecated and HoloLens 2 Development Edition is now available for purchase in the United States
- On Channel 9, Rita Cao talks about how you can Bring your whole IoT Solution on premises with IoT Hub on Azure Stack Hub
- Also on Channel 9, Sarah Beaudoin (@toeberto) talks about Fast Track Azure IoT Edge Projects at Scale with ZEDEDA Edge Orchestration
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Isaac Levin (@isaac2004) describes Using IoT and Azure to Help with Family Chores
- Sander van de Velde blogs about Sending IoT Hub telemetry to a Blazor Web App
- On the Microsoft blog, Deborah Bach highlights How a cloud-based solution is transforming care for people with cystic fibrosis
- On the Microsoft blog, Julia White (@julwhite) discusses how Microsoft is Committing to sustainable urban environments for World Cities Day 2020
📚 Learning
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to get started learning Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing
- Sajeetharan Sinnathurai blogs about how to Learn Modules while youre in Azure Portal
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Monitor Application Insights Java 3.0 is now generally available
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Kenneth Omorodion covers Visualizing Azure Resource Metrics Data in Power BI
- On the Azure blog, Brenda Bell discusses how to Reduce costs with new memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines certified for SAP HANA
🎬 Media
- Aaron Powell (@slace) continues his series on Azure Communication Services (ACS) with: Building a Video Chat App, Part 3 - Displaying Video
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure blog, Rahul Gupta discusses At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell
- The Azure updates team announces that PowerShell support for Server Migration with Azure Migrate is now generally available
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) blogs about Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – October 2020 Edition
🌐 Networking
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure HDInsight now supports Private Link in preview
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) discusses Microsoft tunnel
🔐 Security
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Security Center news and updates for October 2020
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains How To Check Azure Defender Status on Azure Subscription With PowerShell
- On The Azure Podcast, Sujit D'Mello talks about Azure Security
- On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) describes Updating Azure DNS and SSL Certificate via Github Actions
📦 Storage
- On the endjin YouTube channel, Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) discusses Building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake Store
- The Azure updates team announces that Soft delete for Azure file shares is now generally available in all regions and that Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 recursive access control list ACL update is generally available
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes How to Configure Application Gateway in Front of Azure Blob Storage
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Data protection from deletion in Azure Storage
- Yi Ai (@yia333) runs through Automated Data Replication From AWS S3 To Microsoft Azure Storage
🔗 Web
- On SQL Server Central, Diogo Souza writes about Static Hosting with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN
💻 Windows Virtual Desktop
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) discusses Performance Optimizations for Windows Virtual Desktop, with Robert and Tim
- On ZDNet, Liam Tung (@LiamT) highlights a Leak revealing new details on upcoming Azure-powered remote desktop