Azure Weekly
Issue #331 - 4th July 2021
This week the Azure Updates Team have announced the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech. And, on a related note, on Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump walks through how to perform opinion mining with Azure Cognitive Services.
John Reilly runs through how we can use C# 9 with in-process Azure Functions running on .NET Core 3.1.
Mark Russinovich describes project Gandalf - an end-to-end, continuous monitoring system which the Azure Compute Insights team have developed to enable safe deployment.. And, on the Dev blog, Dante Gagne asks the community to vote for how we can make Visual Studio even more accessible!
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the DEV site, Jen Looper (@jenlooper) announces a New Free Curriculum: Machine Learning for Beginners
- And on the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) highlights the 24 lessons on ML, now on GitHub
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) provides a guest blog about the Elephant Listening Project at Imperial College London
- David Ramel (@dramel) highlights that ML.NET Now Works on ARM Devices and Blazor WebAssembly
- On Channel 9, Sethu Raman (@sethu20) discusses Managed Endpoints
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) runs through the Machine Learning for Beginners Curriculum
- The Azure Updates Team announces The Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) runs through How to perform opinion mining with Azure Cognitive Services
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) runs through using Azure Data Factory Parameter Driven Pipelines to Export Tables to CSV Files
- On Code Project, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira provides an Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics Part 2: Data Preparation and Management
- Also on Code Project, Mehreen Tahir writes about Seamless Streaming Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics Part 2: Creating Dedicated SQL Pools and Part 3: Creating Data Streams
- Kevin Chant explains how to Connect a local SQL Server database to Azure Synapse
- On the SQL Server Blog, James Rowland-Jones describes Looking to the future for R in Azure SQL and SQL Server
🖥️ Compute
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) blogs about C# 9 in-process Azure Functions
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Image Builder Service is now generally available
🚢 Containers
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) covers DNS Options for Private Azure Kubernetes Service
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Monica Rathbun (@SQLEspresso) talks about Performance Tuning on Azure SQLDB and Readable Secondaries and how to Track and Record Data Changes with Change Data Capture (CDC) in Azure SQL
- Mara Steiu (@MSteiu) provides a Deep Dive into Change Data Capture CDC in Azure SQL Databases
- On the DEV site, Steven Murawski (@StevenMurawski) provides an Intro to Azure SQL
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) highlights 6 Sample SQL Databases for your Next Azure Project
- On Code Project, Sergii Syrovatchenko highlights a Free GUI Tool for Index Maintenance on SQL Server and Azure
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Dante Gagne writes about Making Visual Studio even more accessible together
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Ricardo Schuurman provides an Introduction to Azure DevOps for Developers
- Feng Xue discusses Combining multiple repositories with Azure DevOps pipeline - Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) discusses Automation Deployment with Azure DevOps – Create a build agent
- Hannes Lagler-Gruener provides a video on CI/CD and Azure sentinel
- Henry Been (@henry_been) explains How to track bugs in Azure DevOps
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) explains How to update application settings of an Azure Functions App in Azure DevOps Pipeline
🧬 Hybrid
- Rohan Kumar discusses how to Bring cloud experiences to data workloads anywhere with Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) highlights that Azure Arc-Enabled SQL Managed Instance is reaching GA Next Month
- Ben Armstrong provides an Update on AKS on Azure Stack HCI
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Manage updates of servers using Microsoft Azure Arc and describes Azure Automanage for Arc enabled servers
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers (public preview)
🎭 Identity
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) discusses Sign-in using multiple clients or tenants in ASP.NET Core and Azure AD
- Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) walks through how to Provision users into apps using SQL as a user store, more easily build complex expressions, and more
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) covers the Device neutral storage of applications data using OneDrive to manage a users own applications data
- Yvette O'Meally discusses ConfigMgr cloud integration Part 12 – Collections and groups
- Zoheb Shaikh covers The case of Azure AD Quota exhaustion
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) asks: Azure AD Connect Sync and Cloud Sync, Whats the Difference? and Azure AD Domain Services Forest Type, User or Resource?
- On the Whizlabs blog, Vidya Ransam discusses What is Azure Active Directory? All That You Should Know
- On Channel 9, Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) provides An introduction to the Microsoft identity platform
- Joonas Westlin (@JoonasWestlin) runs through Migrating social accounts to Azure AD B2C
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces you can now Skip X.509 certificate proof of possession for IoT Hub and DPS
- On Channel 9, Marvin Garcia runs through how to Bring your Edge device logging and monitoring to the next level with IoT ELMS
- Sander van de Velde covers Supporting Azure Defender for IoT agent on IoT Edge device
- The Azure Sphere Team highlights that Azure Sphere version 21.07 is expected on July 21, 2021
- Pete Gallagher describes Azure Percept Audio – Webhooks, Azure Functions, IoT Hub, Raspberry Pi and Home Automation
- Em Lazer-Walker provides an Introducing to HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Production for Unreal Engine
- Anat Zenou discusses Protecting IoT devices Using A Zero Trust Approach is a Security Imperative
📚 Learning
- Maxime Rouiller (@MaximRouiller) announces two new Researcher Learning Paths
- On the Whizlabs blog, Vidya Ransam provides a Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: AZ-900 Preparation Guide and discusses Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals: DP-900 Exam Preparation Guide
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On SQL Server Central, Ron L'Esteve walks through Getting Started with Azure Purview for Data Governance
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Ryan Maclean (@ryan_maclean) describes Observing Azure with DatadogHQ
- On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh) talks about how to Use New Relic One to effortlessly monitor applications in Azure Spring Cloud
- Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) explains how to Build, test and deploy Bicep through GitHub Actions
- Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) covers Advancing safe deployment with AIOps—introducing Gandalf
- Ross Sponholtz blogs about Cross-region data replication using rsync
🚌 Migration
- Ed Price (@UserEd_) blogs about Actuarial Services - DEC Alpha to Azure using Stromasys
📱 Mobile
- The Azure Updates Team announces that the Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available
- Ricky Brundritt (@rbrundritt) highlights the General availability of the Azure Maps Android SDK
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces that VPN NAT is now in public preview
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) covers Azure Firewall and starting with Azure Firewall Manager - step away from Classic
🔐 Security
- The Azure Updates Team runs through the Azure Security Center updates for June 2021, highlights that you should Update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a vulnerability and announces New Azure VMs for confidential workloads
- Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) discusses NFS Workloads in Azure Blob Storage, Defender Unmanaged Device Protection and more
- Arvind Chandaka talks about Whats New in Information Protection
- On Microsoft Security blog, Kristina Corbitt discusses MITRE ATT&CK mappings released for built-in Azure security controls
- Dagmar Heidecker covers Enrollment Options for End-Entity Certificates
- On Azure Sentinel Blog, Roberto Rodriguez (@Cyb3rWard0g) blogs about Testing the New Version of the Windows Security Events Connector with Azure Sentinel To-Go
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure NetApp Files - Regional Capacity Quota and that Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview
- Philip Duff discusses Managing long term log retention (or any business data)
- On SQL Server Central, Tonie Huizer describes Running SQL Clone on an Azure VM with Azure File Storage
- On the Tallan blog, Travis Dahlke describes How to Copy Data from a SQL Database into an Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage Account
🔗 Web
- On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) blogs about Calling Static Web Apps Authenticated API Endpoints
- On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) runs through how to Setup Azure SQL Database to use with Azure Static Web Apps
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) walks through How to create your personal blog with Gatsby & Azure Static Web Apps
- Ricardo Martins (@ricmmartins) explains how to Deploy a highly available and scalable Wordpress on Azure