Azure Weekly
Issue #344 - 10th October 2021
Let's start off with a few interesting data & analytics articles: Data Wrangling at Scale with ADF's Power Query Activity, now Generally Available, I enjoyed this post about Building Scalable Lakehouse Solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics. And James Serra has a good write up about the recently GA Azure Purview.
There are two new courses featured this week: a new data science curriculum on GitHub was just released with 20 free lessons, and also new Microsoft Learn courses for Azure Migrate App Containerization.
In the serverless / API / Web Apps arena, Azure Functions Python 3.9 support is now generally available, and an architectural guide for accepting only traffic from a specified service in front of backend services.
Finally there's an interesting article on Zero Trust, highlighting that the White House signed an executive order calling for improvement to the nation's cybersecurity in "Integration guidance helps partners deliver Zero Trust solutions", and for those who have been supporting remote workers with Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 11 is now generally available. I've been using Windows 11 all week and it's been an overwhelmingly postive experience.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Foteini Savvidou explains how to Build a flower classification model with Azure Custom Vision
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) describes ML.NET Model Builder Update Adds Notebooks in Visual Studio
- The Azure Updates Team shares Azure Applied AI Services: Latest public preview enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Maps Geolocation Service is now generally available
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov describes Building Scalable Lakehouse Solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics
- Ron L'Esteve walks through Creating Lakehouse ELT Jobs with Apache Spark for Azure Pipelines
- Mark Kromer (@kromerbigdata) talks about Data Wrangling at Scale with ADF's Power Query Activity, now Generally Available
- On SQL Server Central, Ron L'Esteve covers Databricks Delta Change Data Feed
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Chris Noring writes about NEW data science curriculum on GitHub was just released, 20 free lessons
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Stream Analytics: 2 new regions are now generally available
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) writes Azure Purview is generally available
- Cindy Na explains how to Get started with Azure Purview in less than 5 minutes
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Azure Functions Python 3.9 support is now generally available and blogs about Public preview: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) talks about Azure Functions Auth via OpenAPI in 6 Ways
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes ILogger binding suddely failing for Azure Functions – what to do
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Korea Central Availability Zones now generally available and writes about South Africa North Availability Zones now generally available
- On the Azure blog, Eric Lockard writes about New Azure VMware Solution updates and global expansion drives customer success
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Manvendra Singh explains how to Create VMware Virtual Machine for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Azure VMware Solution now available in Brazil South and East US 2 regions
- The Azure Updates Team describes HCX Enterprise Edition is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
- Jason Yi shares a VMFleet 2.0 - Quick Start Guide
- The Service Fabric team talks about Azure Service Fabric 8.1 Third Refresh Release
🚢 Containers
- On Code Project, Raphael Mun covers Azure for Game Developers Part 1: Globally Scalable Game Servers Using Azure Kubernetes Service AKS with the Microsoft Game Stack
- Ahmed Sabbour says you should Join Microsoft at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) writes about New Microsoft Learn courses for Azure Migrate App Containerization
🗄️ Databases
- On SQL Server Central, Sucharita Das writes about Incremental Data Loading Using ADF and Change Tracking
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) covers Azure SQL News Update: October 2021
- Marisa Brasile describes How to find the right Azure SQL SKU for your SQL workloads Data Exposed
- On Channel 9, Alexandra Ciortea, Alexander Ivanov, and Anna Hoffman talks about Migrating to SQL: Introduction to Database Schema Conversion Toolkit DSCT Ep. 9 Data Exposed
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) talks to Burke Holland on AzureFunBytes Episode 59 - Remote Possibilities.
- Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Where do you store your application config data which delves into the oft overlooked Azure App Configuration service, on the Ctrl+Alt+Delete podcast
- Garry Trinder discusses CLI for Microsoft 365 v4
🔩 DevOps
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) discusses CyberSecurity Awareness Month with Troy Vinson - Episode 161 of the Azure DevOps podcast.
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure DevOps September 2021 updates
- April Edwards and Kyle Ruddy kick off their new Hashicorp Series: Episode 01 - Terraform 1.0
- Paul Secord talks about Deploying Azure Landing Zones using Terraform Azure Enablement Show
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) talks about Dealing with deployment blockers with Bicep
🧬 Hybrid
- On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) shares another AzureFunBytes Short - Hybrid Cloud and Azure Arc with ThomasMaurer
- Cosmos Darwin announces Azure Stack HCI build 22471 22H2 for Preview channel
- Jaspreet Kaur blogs about Azure Automation Hybrid Extension support for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled servers now in Preview
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Get centralized visibility on all your customers and locations with Azure Lighthouse
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) writes about New Course: Hybrid Identity with Windows AD and Azure AD
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) discusses Azure Automanage and Azure Arc
🎭 Identity
- Sue Bohn covers Integration guidance helps partners deliver Zero Trust solutions
🔌 Integration
- Akihiro Nishikawa (@Logico_jp) explains how to Accept only traffic from a specified service in front of backend services and explains how to Accept only traffic from a front-end service API Management, Functions
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure podcast, Marcus Melin and Mikael Söderström talk about How Vattenfall uses Azure on Episode 396
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch, Dane Walton, and Wellington Dures talks about Azure IoT middleware for FreeRTOS Internet of Things Show
- Joe Coco delves into Windows for IoT now goes to 11 with Windows 11 IoT Enterprise
- The Azure Sphere Team announces General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10 expected on Oct. 20, 2021
📚 Learning
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses AZ-305 Exam Study Guide Azure Solutions Architect Certification
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) blogs about AZ-305 Exam Study Guide: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- On Tech Community blog, The Student Developer Team says Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Shadrack Inusah
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) gives her Weekly Update 111 - Azure DevOps, Ubuntu, System Outages, Windows 11
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Reminder: Azure Service Management API for Messaging Services will be retired on 1 November 2021
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Monitor container insights portal experience update
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) talks about Auto delete expired Azure test resources
- Deepak Kaushik (@ThinkForDeepak) is going to present about how to Optimize cloud costing by using Azure well-Architected framework on the 20th of October.
- Nicholas Rogoff (@nrogoff) discusses Enabling Diagnostics on everything in Azure
🎬 Media
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and David de Matheu talk about Adding communications user experiences with Azure Communication Services Azure Friday
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure blog, Jurgen Willis says The wait list is over: Azure NetApp Files is enterprise-ready in your Azure portal
- Deepak Kaushik (@ThinkForDeepak) blogs about Azure Migration to Successful Migration
- Anthony de Lagarde describes Leveraging Azure Data Box Disks to Support your M365 SharePoint Online Migration
- Bhalchandra Atre discusses Upcoming API Deprecations in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) blogs about Azure Monitor agent and Data Collection Rules
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files
🔐 Security
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for September 2021
- Nicholas Rogoff (@nrogoff) covers Azure Key Vault – List Secrets that have not been set
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers Monitor Azure AD Guest Users With Azure Sentinel
- On Azure Sentinel Blog, Beth Bischoff writes about Simple Row-Based Access Workbook: Lab Walk-Through with Azure Sentinel and Azure Data Explorer ADX
- Gopalakrishnan Krishnan announces Attack Simulation Training Read APIs - Now in Beta
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team discusses that Azure NetApp Files Datastores for Azure VMware Solution is coming soon and the Public preview of Azure NetApp Files Backup capability
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes Change Performance Tiers of Azure Managed Disk
- On The Azure Podcast, The team talks to Bill DeForeest about Capacity Reservation in Episode 397.
- Kellyn Gorman (@DBAKevlar) blogs about Azure Backup Volume Snapshots for Oracle is Now GA
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about SMB Multichannel with Azure File Shares
- Max Melcher describes Disaster Recovery for Enterprise File Shares
🔗 Web
- Raki Rahman writes about Secure a web app architecture with Azure confidential computing
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement a secure API and a Blazor app in the same ASP.NET Core project with Azure AD authentication
- Gaurav Seth blogs about ASP. Net web app Migration to Azure App Services using Azure Migrate and PowerShell Scripts
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- The Azure Updates Team announces Windows 11 is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop
- John Kaiser explains how to Connect your hybrid workplace with Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop
- Kam Vedbrat discusses Windows 11 is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop