Azure Weekly
Issue #369 - 1st May 2022
The last week in the month means lots of update announcements. A big one is account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps. General Availability of Az.Tools.Predictor is worth checking out.
General Availability of Database Designer & Database Templates in Azure Synapse Analytics and General Availability of Change Data Capture CDC on Azure SQL Database.
Azure Container Apps continues to add useful features: Simplify Azure Container Apps deployments with az containerapp up and Public preview: Azure Container Apps built-in authentication Microsoft Azure Container Apps
And finally a useful guide to Set up Security Alerts with Azure Service Health.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Qinying Liao walks through Introducing the watermark algorithm for synthetic voice identification
- Maryam Tavakoli Hosseinabadi describes Fill the Gap: EDDI for Multivariate Time Series Missing Value Imputation
- Gayathri Srinivaasan explains how to AI for ANYONE with Azure Percept
- Gayathri Srinivaasan describes how to Optimize Retail Service in Travel & Transportation with Azure Percept
🔎 Analytics
- Lakshmi Murthy announces General Availability of Database Designer & Database Templates in Azure Synapse Analytics
- Joshuha Owen writes about ADF Monitoring Improvements
- Ryan Majidimehr discusses Azure Synapse Analytics April Update 2022
- On the Data Exposed channel, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Armando Lacerda (@arlacerda) explain how to Choose the Right SQL Engine Size in Synapse
- David Norton covers Streaming at Scale with Kafka and Azure HDInsight Part One: Creating an HDInsight Kafka Cluster
- Randheer Parmar blogs about Understanding the Mapping Data Flow Activity in Azure Data Factory
- Erdal Cosgun describes how to Combine and Explore FHIR Server and Genomics data in Azure Synapse Analytics
- Dany Hoter blogs about M dynamic parameters are generally available in Power BI
- Carlotta Castellucio and Eric Wanjau present a session: Explore and analyze data with R - part 1 of 4
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team describes Public preview: Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.2 and Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
- The Azure Updates Team describes Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature community gallery
🚢 Containers
- Anthony Chu (@nthonyChu) shows how to Simplify Azure Container Apps deployments with az containerapp up
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Azure Container Apps built-in authentication Microsoft Azure Container Apps
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) present Kubernetes CPU requests demystified
- On episode 422 of the Azure Podcast, the podcast team are joined by Thomas Stringer to talk about Open Service Mesh
- Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) explains How to use Azure Container Instances to host Ganache
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availabilty of: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus now includes PgBouncer 1.17, and Azure SQL Database storage limits increase for selected compute sizes and Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server higher burstable compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of Azure Synapse Link now supports existing Azure Cosmos DB containers, writes about Azure Cosmos DB portal - Azure Synapse Link seamless Power BI and Unique partial indexes in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
- N V Sudhir Kumar Raparla covers Azure SQL DB Hyperscale short-term backup retention up to 35 days now in preview
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) talks about Lesson Learned 201: Performance comparison using INSERT with and without Begin Transaction
- Steve Jones covers Azure Data Studio and Version Control
- Abhiman Tiwari announces General Availability of Change Data Capture CDC on Azure SQL Database
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra enhancements and describes Public preview: Azure Lab Services April 2022 update
- Tzvia Gitlin Troyna (@tzvia) blogs about Use the one-click sample app generator to create code to ingest and query your data
- On the Azure blog, Fawad Khan announces that Enhance your classroom experience with Azure Lab Services—April 2022 update
- Damien Caro announces General Availability of Az.Tools.Predictor
- Elio Struyf describes How to use the Microsoft auth provider in Visual Studio Code and explains how to Create an Authentication Provider for Visual Studio Code
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) explains how to Install prerequisite Windows SDK with Azure Pipelines
🔩 DevOps
- Elizabeth Maher describes April 2022 Updates for Azure Lab Services.
- On the Premier Developer blog, Developer Support presents Hybrid Model for GitHub and Azure DevOps – Enjoy the best of both worlds
- Jessica Deen describes Getting started with GitOps, Argo, and Azure Kubernetes Service
- Kevin Chant explains how to Keep your Azure Synapse secrets secret in Azure DevOps
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Amy Colyer talks about Enterprise Scale for Azure VMware Solution
- Niko Neugebauer explains how to Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 1 Overview
- Nikita Takru writes about Directly Connected Mode v. Indirectly Connected Mode for Azure Arc-enabled Data Services
🎭 Identity
- Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) announces account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps
- Samuel Devasahayam writes about New capabilities that empower you to migrate more of your apps on AD FS to Azure AD
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Azure SQL - Generally available updates for late April 2022 and Azure SQL - Public preview updates for late April 2022
- Andreas Helland talks about Getting rid of credentials in Azure - Part 3 EasyAuth & Managed Identity
- Balaji Parimi writes about Permissions Management Terms and their Impact in Multicloud Environments
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Group Managed Service Accounts security policy support on Windows
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) discusses Azure Retirement Announcements
- Kasun Indrasiri blogs about Upcoming changes to IP addresses for Azure Event Hubs
- Eldert Grootenboer describes Policy to control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus now in public preview
- Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) blogs about Sagas with Azure Service Bus
- João Carlos Santos blogs about Managing Variable Assignments in Logic Apps For Each loops
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) presents Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Using the Microsoft Graph Explorer
💡 Internet of Things
- Nicole Kuntjoro describes Partner solutions on the Azure Certified Device catalog accelerate solution building
- Joseph Lloyd blogs about Patching the Dirty Pipe vulnerability and Azure Sphere OS insights
- Sander van de Velde discusses Azure Data Explorer connector for IoT Hub with real-time ingest
- Basim Majeed writes Use Azure Data Explorer to Simplify the Industrial IoT Data Journey
- Benedikt Abendroth explains How will government actions on IoT security impact the decisions I make today
📚 Learning
- On episode 190 of the Azure DevOps podcast Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Heather Downing: Retooling for the Future
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about Introducing Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall and presents Learn Live – Introduction to Azure Stack on-demand
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) covers Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – April 2022
- Ryan Willis writes about Automatic extension upgrades are now enabled by default on Azure Arc-enabled servers
- Temante Leary discusses The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Security, Compliance, and Identity on Microsoft Learn
- On episode 131 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss the latest Azure Updates
- Daniel Stocker presents Planning for an outage: Here is how to anticipate failure in your workload
- On the Azure Enablement show David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann, and Eric Charran present Armchair Architects: Exploring the relationship between Cost and Architecture
- On SO4E11 of the AzUpdate show Amy Colyer and Shannon Kuehn cover Archive Blob, Microsoft Purview, Red Button and Grafana
🎬 Media
- Justine Coates (@iotgirl) describes Azure Maps knows to the minute if it will rain or shine
🚌 Migration
- Neel Ball announces Database Migration Assessment for Oracle - Public Preview
- On the Data Exposed channel Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Neel Ball explain How to Accelerate Oracle to Azure Database Migration Data Exposed
- Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) talks about Migrating to Azure – A business case
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources
- Leo Li describes Azure Functions available in ADF managed virtual network
🔐 Security
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault
- Priyam Singh explains how to Enhanced antimalware engine capabilities for Linux and macOS and explains how to Enhanced Antimalware Protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Android
- Yaffa Finkelstein explains how to Get preemptive Log4j vulnerability protection via Check Point and Azure Marketplace
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes how to Set up Security Alerts with Azure Service Health
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team covers Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service
- Rajukumar Padi explains How to Monitor Azure Storage Account Data Part -I
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now support skipping API builds and Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD
- Hanli Ren describes how to Monitor Azure Spring Cloud App Ingress Request Log
- Foteini Savvidou explains how to Deploy a Flask AI web app to Azure App Service
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- David Belanger describes Intune device configuration for Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session VMs is now generally available
- Ramya Chitrakar blogs about Whats new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager - 2204 April edition
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show Zachary Cavanell is joined by Ashvini Sharma to talk about RPA at Scale with Power Automate and Azure Virtual Desktop