Azure Weekly
Issue #362 - 6th March 2022
If you have access to a Pluralsight subscription, I can highly recommend (as I watched it yesterday) Mark Heath's new Dapr Fundamentals course, which covers Dapr and AKS. I'm hoping a future update will include Azure Container Apps, which would greatly simplify hosting in Azure over AKS.
There's a good overview Azure Synapse and Delta Lake by James Serra, and a list of nice updates to Azure Synapse Analytics in February 2022; "More consistent query execution times for Serverless SQL Pools" is one of the highlights.
In web development territory, there's a good post on setting up Single Sign-On, Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Active Directory and The Ultimate Web Dev Environment by Aaron Powell.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Azure Percept DK February 2202 software update
- Muhammad Nabeel (@abrsazi) discusses Leveraging Azure Percept AI to develop AR solutions
- The Azure Updates Team covers Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services
🔎 Analytics
- Saveen Reddy discusses Azure Synapse Analytics February Update 2022
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about Azure Synapse and Delta Lake
- Ron L'Esteve writes Understanding the Capabilities of Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace
- Ron L'Esteve discusses Storage, Compute and Workspaces in Databricks
- Glenn Prince (@Glenn_Prince) walks through Streaming at Scale with Azure Event Hubs for Kafka Developers Part 1: Getting Streaming Data into Azure and Part 2: Processing Streaming Data with Azure Functions in Python
🖥️ Compute
- Mandar Gujrathi explains how to Accelerate ANSYS Mechanical on Azure HPC with Remote Solve Manager and Azure CycleCloud
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes Remove dangling multi-arch container manifests from Azure Container Registry
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB supports version 4.2 and Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB partitioning Spark 3.1
- On the Azure blog, Inbal Argov describes how to Stay on top of database threats with Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB
- David O'Brien (@david_obrien) explains How To Update Millions of Azure Cosmos DB Documents
- Emily Lisa discusses Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier in preview
- Daniel Calbimonte covers Creating an SSRS Report from an Azure SQL Database
- Gennady Kostinsky talks about Introducing ability to allow-list extensions in PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Ahmed Mahmoud explains How to get the Query Text of Azure database for PostgreSQL
- Dennes Torres writes about Eight Azure SQL configurations you may have missed
- Mohamed Kabiruddin (@mdkabir) explains how to Get Azure recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - February 2022 updates
- Niko Neugebauer and Eric Hudson talk about SQL Managed Instance closing the gap on SQL Server application compatibility - Part 2
- The Azure Updates Team covers AzureSQL - General availability updates forearly March 2022 and covers Public preview updates for early March 2022
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the SQL Server Blog, Timi Oshin talks about Introducing new and improved updates to SQL tools on Azure
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) talks about Microsoft Previews Edge Developer Tools for Visual Studio IDE and writes about VS Code v1.65 Update: New Theme, Audio Cues and Terminal Shell Integration Preview
- The Azure Updates Team describes Public preview: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - Azure Data Studio
🔩 DevOps
- On episode 182 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks with Chris Patterson about Messaging systems with MassTransit
- Jeff Mitchell explains how to Implement Azure landing zones with HashiCorp Terraform
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Markos Mezgebu writes about AKS on Azure Stack HCI - February 2022 update
- Niko Neugebauer explains How-to discover database files space configurations on Azure SQL Managed Instance and explains How to manage & measure database file autogrowth impact on Azure SQL Managed Instance
🎭 Identity
- Shobhit Sahay blogs about Azure AD: Change Management Simplified
- Alex Simons explains how to Achieve a least privilege model using Azure AD's new multi-stage access reviews and talks about Azure AD RBAC: Custom roles for app management now available
- Sue Bohn talk about Reducing Extra Prompts with the Authentication Prompt Analysis Workbook
🔌 Integration
- Hilda Sun describes how to Use Java to validate schema when sending and receiving events in Azure Event Hub
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Azure IoT Central generally available in South Central US and Canada Central
- The Azure Sphere Team writes about General Availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02
📚 Learning
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) announces Dapr Fundamentals
- Sandra Marin discusses Azure Support Engineer for Connectivity Specialty is coming soon.
- Carlotta Castelluccio discusses announces getting started with Azure Computer Vision service on the Reactor Learn Live channel
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) covers Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – February 2022
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Asset certification in Azure Purview data catalog
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) presents MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 5
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Duplicate Azure Policy Definition and Initiative
- On the Azure blog, Kathleen Mitford talks about Microsoft Azure expands to new region in the China market
- Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) blogs about Beginners Outline to Assessing an Azure Environment
🚌 Migration
- Werner Rall describes how to Quickly Estimate Replication Time for Azure Migrate Virtual Machines
- Goran Condric explains How to Migrate a Highly Available SAP System in Azure from Availability Set to Availability Zone
🌐 Networking
- On episode 123 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss The latest on Azure Bastion
🔐 Security
- Jon Maunder writes about New security solutions to help secure small and medium businesses
- On the Microsoft Mechanics channel, Rob Lefferts joins Jeremy Chapman to discuss Enterprise Grade Protection for Small & Medium Businesses Microsoft Defender for Business
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Advanced Azure AD Hunting with Microsoft Sentinel
- Sushant Singh explains how to Detect traffic anomalies and auto-mitigate spikes with Azure WAF on Microsoft Azure Front Door
- Sylvie Liu presents Behind the Scenes: The ML Approach for Detecting Advanced Multistage Attacks with Sentinel Fusion
- Pete Bryan blogs about Creating effective NRT detections in Microsoft Sentinel
- Liana Tomescu blogs about Automation to Block Outgoing Traffic to Malicious Websites detected by Microsoft Defender for DNS
- Lisa Barson discusses Microsoft Sentinel now integrates with Azure Purview
- Yossi Weizman walks through Detecting identity attacks in Kubernetes
- Chi Nguyen writes about Large Watchlist using SAS key is in Public Preview
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Azure Backup protects Azure Files snapshots via lease feature integration
- Martin Merdes describes Archiving Azure Resource Groups to cost-efficient BLOB Storage
- Ryan Chen writes about Best Practice of Azure Storage data protection, backup and recovery
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Shruti Pathak blogs about Azure Cache for Redis TLS: Upcoming migration to DigiCert Global G2 CA Root
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Specify API language runtime version in Azure Static Web Apps
- On episode 69 of the AzureFunBytes podcast, Anthony Chu and Simona Cotin join Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) to talk about talk about AzureFunBytes Episode 69 – Whats New In Azure Static Web Apps
- Rick Roché writes about Single Sign-On, Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Active Directory
- Aaron Powell (@slace) talks about The Ultimate Web Dev Environment
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) walks through Publishing OpenAPI Document from Azure Functions to Azure API Management within CI/CD Pipeline
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) covers Microsoft Previews Revamped 'WordPress on App Service' on Azure