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
Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text
- 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
Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight, Azure Purview
- 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
Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Mandar Gujrathi explains how to Accelerate ANSYS Mechanical on Azure HPC with Remote Solve Manager and Azure CycleCloud
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for 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
Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage
- 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
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- 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
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- 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
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- 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
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- 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
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Hilda Sun describes how to Use Java to validate schema when sending and receiving events in Azure Event Hub
Internet of Things
Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services
- 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
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- 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
Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview
- 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
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- 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
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
Networking
Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall
- On episode 123 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss The latest on Azure Bastion
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- 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
Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple
- 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
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- 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
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
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