Azure Weekly

Issue #361 - 27th February 2022

I want to kick off this week highlighting news Guidance for Architecting Mission Critical Apps on Azure, called the AlwaysOn project, which contains a reference application in addition to the guidance. My one comment is that I'd love to see a sample like this include multi-tenant aspects as this adds another layer of complexity to applications on Azure.

Next up, there's an interesting post about Leveraging Partial Document Update with with Cosmos DB REST Operation, a good how-to Generate Bicep templates from existing Azure resources with VS Code, and a session about using Azure Chaos Studio Build fault tolerant apps. A long overdue investment to create a new and better WordPress on App Service is available, and an interesting post about Understanding Azure App Registration, Enterprise Apps, And Service Principals.

From an IT perspective, there are two interesting posts: there's a nice example of how you can leverage Power Virtual Agents & Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams Chatbot Demo & Tutorial, which could spark some ideas about how you could automate some IT / Support internal processes, and finally a new feature to improve Teams media optimizations now in Public Preview on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 for macOS, which is useful for improving the experience of end users who are using AVD environments (a very popular solution to enabling remote working during the pandemic).