Azure Weekly
Issue #313 - 28th February 2021
This week the Azure Updates Team have made a lot of announcements on the retiring of different Azure services - check out the updates feed for the full list. The Azure Updates Team have been exceedingly busy in general; the last week of the month, and the Microsoft Ignite Conference from the 2nd-4th March might be the reason!
On the Azure blog Devarayulu Tula discusses automating quota management with Azure Quota REST API, and Jeremy Winter dives into cloud economics.
On Channel 9, the experts, Claudia Regio and Rich Chiodo run through the updates to Notebooks in VS Code.Ron L'Esteve discusses getting started with Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB. Lionel Pénuchotruns through how to build near-real-time Power BI reports using Synapse Link and SQL On-Demand.
Finally, a correction from last week's newsletter, we mistakenly attributed this post on using the Azure CLI. The article was originally authored by Pascal Naber - thanks for pointing that out!
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the DEV site, Jen Looper (@jenlooper) discusses Creating Hand Shadow stories with Azure Speech and TensorFlow.js Handposes
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Cognitive Services Translator releases nine new languages and highlights that they are Retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Ueam announces that Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances
- Derek Daniels walks through Automating Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Analysis Services Tabular, or Power BI Dataset
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve runs through Getting Started with Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB
- Lionel Pénuchot explains how to Build Near Real Time Power BI reports using Synapse Link and SQL On-Demand
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure updates team highlights some retirements and updates:
The GS5 Azure Virtual Machines will no longer be SAP HANA Certified on 28 February 2022,
Azure Batch CloudServiceConfiguration pools will be retired on 29 February 2024,
Azure Batch rendering VM images & licensing will be retired on 29 February 2024,
Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API v2 will be retired by 29 February 2024,
The G5 and GS5 Azure VMs will no longer be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
and The E64iv3 & E64isv3 Azure VMs will not be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that Azure Database for PostgreSQL ending support for PostgreSQL version 9.6 on 11 November 2021 and that you will need to Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024
- On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) talks about Azure Cosmos DB: Use Cases and Trade-Offs
- Sabrin Alsahsah discusses why Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance Database used data space is much larger than expected
- On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht talks about Six Backup Options for SAP HANA on Azure VMs
- On the Serverless360 blog, Amrita Varsihini describes The next Big Thing in Azure Database Monitoring Landscape
- Ahmed Mahmoud asks: Who Dropped my Azure SQL DB
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) provides a tutorial on What You Need to Know about Visual Studio Code
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that Jenkins plug-ins for Azure are being retired on 29 February 2024
- On Channel 9, Claudia Regio and Rich Chiodo discuss Notebooks in VS Code
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about the Az Predictor Module – Azure PowerShell Predictions
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that you need to Update your scripts to use Az PowerShell modules by 29 February 2024
🔩 DevOps
- Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) explains how to Create a custom Azure DevOps pipeline task for PowerShell
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) covers Deploying Helm Charts with Azure DevOps pipelines
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) describes Ansible on Azure
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Parsa Zand blogs about how to Limit user visibility and collaboration to specific projects
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) describes TFS TF400917 – Upgrading TFS to move to Azure Devops
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains how to Deploy Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) runs through 6 Simple Steps to Import a Project to Azure Repos from Git
🧬 Hybrid
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024 and announces that Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
- On the Azure Medium blog, Luca Zavarella writes about On-premises Data Gateway Monitoring—Part 1: Standard Log Files
- On Channel 9, Ben Weissman talks about How to Deploy Azure SQL Anywhere – Using Azure Arc for Data Services
- Ben Armstrong discusses AKS on Azure Stack HCI
- On the SQL Server Blog, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) highlights that The February 2021 release of Azure Data Studio is now available
🎭 Identity
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Email one-time passcode authentication on by default starting October 2021, that Azure Automation is now available in UAE Central, writes about AKS legacy Azure AD integration will be retired on 29 February 2024 and highlights that you should Upgrade your Azure AD Connect sync to a newer version by 29 February 2024
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) runs through how to Log in with RDP to a Windows Azure VM using Azure AD
- Alex Simons discusses the GA of Azure AD My Apps user-based collections and more and Decentralized digital identities and blockchain: The future as we see it
- Sue Bohn runs through how Wipro streamlines guest-user access with Azure AD External Identities
- On the Premier Developer blog, Bryan Soltis (@bryan_soltis) covers Managing ADX Data with .NET Core and Azure B2C
🔌 Integration
- On BizTalk Gurus, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) discusses Hybrid Connectivity with Azure Logic Apps Adapter
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability support for Java Message Service JMS 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Ricardo Duncan provides A Deep Dive into Serverless Applications on Power Apps and Azure
- On Tech Community blog, Ankita Jain runs through how to Receive Messages from DLQ for Queue/Subscription in Azure Service Bus
- Nidhi Pathak discusses How to authenticate with managed identity for Azure AD OAuth-based connectors for Logic Apps
- Tareq Saifi discusses how to Access Storage Accounts behind Firewalls from Logic Apps within the same region
💡 Internet of Things
- Pamela Cortez (@AltaOhms) discusses Microsoft at embedded world 2021! Learn how we are creating a seamless IoT experience!
- Jonatan Meczyk runs through Looking for Anomalies in your IoT Asset Telemetry
- Sarah Maston covers IoT Driving Sustainability and a New Green ROI
📚 Learning
- Liberty Munson writes about What does it all mean? Defining key certification concepts
- The Student Developer Team explores A universe of exciting possibilities
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Mark Winters covers how to Plan your Microsoft Azure experience at Microsoft Ignite
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) provides an AZ-140 Study Guide: Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) continues his series on AZ-900, covering Cost Reduction Methods
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces that you can Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet, and Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud and that Were retiring Classic Application Insights on 29 February 2024
- Helder Pinto talks about Augmenting Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations for Automated Continuous Optimization – Part 2
- On The Azure Podcast, Gaurav Malhotra discusses Azure Purview
- Also on the Azure blog, Devarayulu Tula covers Automating quota management with Azure Quota REST API
- Also on the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) runs through the Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – February 2021
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Manage your Azure resources using automation tasks
- Jeremy Winter discusses Cloud economics
🎬 Media
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that you should Update your Azure Media Services REST API and SDKs to v3 by 29 February 2024
🚌 Migration
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) discusses the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework - Part 5: Ready Phase and Landing Zones
- On the Azure blog, Joao Couto explains how to Migrate SAP systems faster with Cloud Move for Azure by SNP
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that you must Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024, that they are Retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024 and announces the Datadog integration with Azure: Public Preview
- Michael Cade talks about Cloud Data Migration, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
- Sai Srirampur (@saisrirampur) writes about Faster Data Migrations in Postgres
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) talks about Azure Migrate
- Stefan Georgiev (@stg3orgi) provides a The Cloud-native Azure Application Architect Map
- On Channel 9, Abel Wang and Jay Gordon discuss On Prem To The Cloud: Lift and Shift
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, Ilse Terrazas Ortega (@thisisilse) talks about Managing Azure from your phone with the Azure mobile app
- Yawei Hu explains How to use REST API to send notifications to Baidu devices
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh is generally available, that Web Application Firewall Integration with Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKU, and highlights that Were retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024, Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor classic on 29 February 2024 and that Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
🔐 Security
- On the Azure blog, Eric Brown blogs about Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure
- Alethea Prattas describes Predicting your next insider risks (uncovering hidden risks)
- Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) explains how to The difference between Azure Security Center, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel
- On Azure Sentinel Blog, Ofer Shezaf (@oshezaf) talks about Handling false positives in Azure Sentinel
- On Microsoft Security blog, Imran Mohiuddin describes Securing Azure datacenters with continuous IoT/OT monitoring
- On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) blogs about KeyVault Secrets Rotation Management in Bulk
- Sindhuri Dittakavi highlights that Microsoft Azure Attestation is now generally available
- Pradeep Nair discusses how E-commerce on Azure increases security with Payment Card Industry Three-Domain Secure compliance
- Stefan Georgiev (@stg3orgi) provides The Azure Security Architect Map
🔗 Web
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) covers Troubleshooting App Services in Azure
- Anthony Chu (@nthonyChu) explains how to Build and Deploy to Azure Static Web Apps with Stackbit
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Community support for Python 3.6 is ending on 23 December 2021
💻 Windows Virtual Desktop
- On Tech Community blog, Nathan Swift describes How to use Azure Firewall Premium with WVD
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) discusses the Windows Virtual Desktop Roadmap
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) writes about High Performance at a Low Price for WVD