Azure Weekly
Issue #318 - 4th April 2021
The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Static Web Apps now supports deployment with Azure DevOps. Alongside this, Aaron Powell runs through how to make authentication simpler for Static Web App APIs Also Azure Communication Services is generally available.
Orrin Edenfield walks through integration with on-prem data sources in Azure Synapse Analytics. On Channel 9, Julie Fryer and David Blank-Edelman talk about better app token security through application roles. Finally, Zachary Cavanell highlights how to automate note-taking in Microsoft Teams with meeting transcription.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On Channel 9, Neta Haiby talks about how to Extract information from your documents with new capabilities in Form Recognizer
- The Azure updates team announces some Form Recognizer new features in Cognitive Services
- Zachary Cavanell runs through how to Build Semantic Search into your apps Latest in Azure Cognitive Search
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) highlights the Microsoft AI Hackathon
🔎 Analytics
- On the Premier Developer blog, Orrin Edenfield talks about Adding source control to Azure Synapse Analytics Studio and Using COPY command with Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Dedicated Pool
- Linda Wang writes about ADF connector updates: Azure Data Explorer, SFTP, REST and HTTP
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure updates team announces Virtual machine VM level disk bursting available on all Dsv3 and Esv3 families
- Shakthi Shythanya talks about how to Upgrade public ip address and Load balancer from Basic to Standard in Azure Service Fabric
🚢 Containers
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Kubernetes Service now supports node image autoupgrade in public preview, the Public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) run-command feature, and announces Kubernetes v1.20 support in AKS, Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service and talks about Open Service Mesh OSM add-on for AKS
- Phill Gibson announces the Announcing Public Preview of the Open Service Mesh (OSM) AKS add-on
- On SQL Server Central, Carla Abanes covers some Considerations for Running SQL Server on Kubernetes
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure updates team announces: Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI, and Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server public preview available in new regions, and Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in public preview
and Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier - On Channel 9, Gaston Cruz (@gastonfcruz) talks about Easy Ways to Refresh Tabular Models
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) covers Bicep - Why do we need yet another way to deploy stuff in Azure?
- Yannick Reekmans (@yannickreekmans) explains how to Add Developer PowerShell and Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal
- Zachary Cavanell explains how to Automate note-taking in Microsoft Teams with meeting transcription
- Garry Trinder highlights the CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.8
- Hailey Ding walks through Using AZ module to manage your Azure Service Fabric cluster
- Jon Gallant (@jongallant) discusses how to use Azure REST APIs with Postman's OAuth 2.0 Provider
🔩 DevOps
- The Azure updates team announces Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Peter De Tender (@pdtit) discusses Controlling Release Pipelines with Gates and Azure Policy Compliance
- On Channel 9, Aaron Powell (@slace) talks about Deploying packages with GitHub Actions
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Ricardo Duncan writes about Modern Application Development
- Also on the Azure Developer Community Blog, Sagar Lankala highlights: DevTest Labs Decommissioning preview API's '2015-05-21-preview' & '2017-04-26-preview' in 90 days
- Kevin Chant writes about how to Clear up confusion about different versions of Azure DevOps
🧬 Hybrid
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) discusses Using Route Server to firewall onprem traffic with an NVA
- The Azure updates team announces that Stream Analytics now runs on Azure Stack Hub and A performance optimization change to default settings is coming soon for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- On the Premier Developer blog, Orrin Edenfield runs through Integration with On-Premises Data Sources in Azure Synapse Analytics
- Bartek Graczyk (@graczykbartek) explains how to Optimize your Azure SQL Managed Instance cost with Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Molishvinayagan R explains how to Get Started with Azure Stack HCI using VMM
🎭 Identity
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss Azure spring cleaning
- Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) runs through the March identity updates
- Russ Rimmerman explains how to Create your own custom Endpoint Administration Console using Microsoft Power Apps
- Gregor Reimling highlights that Azure AD Connect Release 1.6.2.4 is available
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Peter De Tender (@pdtit) provides an Intro to Service Principals
- On Channel 9, Julie Fryer talks about Better app token security through Application Roles
- On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) blogs about Making Auth Simpler for Static Web App APIs
🔌 Integration
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Event Grid now provides support for delivery headers and additional advanced filters among other updates and that Azure Communication Services is generally available
- Linishya Vaz highlights a video series on Security & Compliance within the Azure API for FHIR and one on Ingesting data into FHIR from your EMR
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team highlights that Azure Sphere OS version 21.03 is now generally available
- On Tech Community blog, James Scott runs through Building a Balancing Robot with Azure Sphere
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses the Azure Sphere Balance Bot - Academic Engagement around IOT and Embedded services
- Em Lazer-Walker discusses Exploring the Whole World in VR with Bing 3D Maps and MRTK
- Sudhanva Huruli discusses Azure Sphere
📚 Learning
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) continues his series on AZ-900, covering SLA in Azure and Composite SLA
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) runs through the Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – March 2021
- The Azure updates team announces ExpressRoute monitoring in Azure Monitor network insights
- Naga Yenamandra explains how to Modify at scale annotations and contacts for data assets using bulk edit capabilities.
- On System Center Automation, Billy York provides some Azure Cost Management JSON Body Examples
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) talks about Importing Terraform State in Azure
- Stas Lebedenko (@angry_stas) walks through How to do health checks for Azure functions and Web Apps.
- Heyko Oelrichs discusses Globally distributed load tests in Azure with Locust
🚌 Migration
- Brandon Wilson writes about Why Hyper-V Live Migrations Fail with 0x8009030E
- Sakshi Budhraja writes about Collective expertise to help you move your SAP landscape to the cloud
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) talks about Cloud Adoption Framework Enterprise-Scale Series and Livestream
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, Andrew Hoefling talks about Platform Perfect Popups - Part 2
- Arjav Dave (@arjavdave) walks through How To Set Up Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines for Android
🌐 Networking
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Private Link for Azure Cache for Redis in general availability
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers how to Use Azure VPN Gateway To Route Traffic Between Spoke Networks
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) discusses Controlling Azure SQL Firewall Rules
- Tobi Otolorin talks about Role Based Access Control for Azure Firewall
- Vishal Ani describes how to Use private endpoints for your Azure Purview account
🔐 Security
- The Azure updates team announces that Encryption scopes in Azure Storage now generally available, and Networking for Key Vault references on Windows in App Service and Azure Functions and highlights that Wire Data 2.0 preview will be retired on 31 March 2022
- Mohit Kumar writes about New Detections for Azure Firewall in Azure Sentinel
- Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) walks through Detecting who is changing Alert Suppression rules in Azure Defender
- On Microsoft Security blog, Emma Jones blogs about Securing our approach to domain fronting within Azure
- Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) blogs about Zonal Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery, Azure Security Center Compliance and more
- Natalia Godyla and Tanya Janca discuss How to build a successful application security program
📦 Storage
- The Azure updates team announces Azure Data Explorer external tables and that Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) discusses Pricing up Azure Files
- On the Trailhead blog, Rachel Hagerman runs through some Dos and Donts for Streaming File Uploads to Azure Blob Storage with .NET MVC
- On the Codit blog, Gonçalo Chaves explains How to Use Azure API Management Service as Frontstage of a Blob Storage Account
- On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway (@tadbrockway) highlights that you can Discover cloud storage solutions at Azure Storage Day on April 29
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) runs through How to use Blob versioning in Azure Storage
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Static Web Apps now supports deployment with Azure DevOps and Service Tags for User Defined Routing
- Hailey Ding describes How to troubleshoot CORS error in Azure API Management service