Azure Weekly Issue 370: 8th May 2022
A relatively quite week, perhaps the calm before the storm that is the Microsoft BUILD conference later this month.
As it was World Password Day, there are a couple of interesting security & identity related related posts: Expansion of FIDO standard and new updates for Microsoft passwordless solutions and Generate strong passwords with Microsoft Authenticator
There's an interesting Data Exposed episode on How to Scale Your Apps in Azure SQL Database and a fascinating post on Building an App for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with Azure Custom Vision.
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 highlight the Public Preview announcements for March 2022 and April 2022 and announce that Azure Video Analyzer preview will be retired on 30 November 2022
- Jingyi Zhu presents Build an App for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with Azure Custom Vision
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
- Maria Zakourdaev writes about Azure Databricks Version Control for Notebooks
- Craig Porteous (@cporteous) presents Design an Azure Data Platform that InfoSec will love – Azure Storage
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) presents an Overview of ETL Tools in the Microsoft Data Platform Part 1
- Sofia Ferreira describes how to Reuse ADF entities with dynamic parameters
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
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) provides A look at some of Azure Container Apps new features
- Andreas Helland blogs about Getting rid of credentials in Azure - Part 4 Kubernetes
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
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) blogs about Azure SQL News Update: May 2022
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) explains how to Configure and Query Change Data Capture CDC data for Azure SQL Database
- Anna Hoffman and Davide Mauri chat about How to Scale Your Apps in Azure SQL Database Data Exposed
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes How to configure Azure PostgreSQL to allow Cloud Shell connections
- Vladimir Ivanovic explains how to Maximize performance and scale with new SQL Managed Instance capabilities - Part 3
- Madhumita Tripathy blogs about Availability of Microsoft Information Protection labels for Azure SQL native data classification
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Angel Wong blogs about Reconfigure Azure DevOps Server to use Kerberos instead of NTLM
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes about More examples of using custom variables in Azure DevOps multi-stage YML
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) presents Azure DevOps – Tips and Tricks – 5 – How to pass values between Tasks in a Pipeline using task.setvariable Logging Command, 6 – Resolve Merge Conflicts using Pull Request Merge Conflicts Azure DevOps Extension and 7 – Resolve the While scanning a literal block scalar, found extra spaces in first line error.
- Daniel Stocker writes about Five Best Practices to Anticipate Failure
- Vanessa Segovia talks about Integrating Terraform and Azure DevOps to manage Azure Databricks
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) writes about If, elseif or else in Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Kevin Chant writes about One YAML pipeline for many Azure Synapse environments in Azure DevOps
- Joao Antunes blogs about ARM template conflict: Azure SQL Database Deployment Fails with ARM template setting AAD admin
- Rafferty Uy blogs about Operations Task Management Feedback Loop
- Sreedhar Ande describes how to Export Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks or Azure Logic Apps with Ease
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- On the Azure blog, Tanu Balla explains how to Streamline Azure workloads with ExpressRoute BGP community support
- Anirban Paul covers Networking services for Azure Stack HCI 2-node clusters: Part 1
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Alex Simons Azure covers Expansion of FIDO standard and new updates for Microsoft passwordless solutions
- Paul Robinson talks about Passwordless RDP with Windows Hello for Business
- Ankur Patel discusses Expanding the public preview of verifiable credentials
- Paul Reed blogs about Azure AD required for Update Compliance after October 15, 2022
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Authenticate to Azure management API using az cli
- Rajat Luthra explains how to Generate strong passwords with Microsoft Authenticator
- On the AzUpdate podcast, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) and Rick Claus (@RicksterCDN) cover Passwordless, Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions and Microsoft Authenticator
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) describes Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Adding Guest Users to your Tenant
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- The Azure Updates Team talks announce the Public Preview of Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics and Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
- Parth Shah announces that Logic Apps Consumption on Availability Zones is here
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
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) presents Learn Live – Introduction to Azure Arc
- Sander van de Velde writes about Free Microsoft AZ-220 Azure IoT Developer Specialty renewal
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
- Joel Caro Lopez talks about Transferring Microsoft Sentinel scheduled alert rules between different workspaces using PowerShell
- On epsiode 191 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Scott Wlaschin discuss Domain Modeling Made Functional
- On episode 132 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine cover Microsoft Partner program updates for Azure
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
- Zia Mansoor announces new investments to help accelerate your move to Azure
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall and Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health
- On the Azure blog, Gunjan Jain (@gunjanjain123) writes about Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall
- Tanu Balla explains how to Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) writes Azure Firewalls sidekick to join the BGP superheroes and talks about Azure Firewall rules for Office 365
- Jitendra Singh talks about SAPRouter configuration with Azure Firewall
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) walks through Combining AAD App Proxy with Front Door and Application Gateway for WAF
- Saleem Bseeu explains how to Validate SpringShell Vulnerabilities with Azure Network Security
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) talks about Azure Private Link advantages over Azure Service Endpoint
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Snehil Sinha describes Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Helps Detect and Prevent Exfiltration During Cyberattacks
- Benjamin Kovacevic discusses Using Microsoft Teams Adaptive Cards to enhance incident response in Microsoft Sentinel
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 General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased
- Anuraj Parameswaran explains how to Improve Angular performance with Gzip compression on Azure Storage
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
- Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira talks about Modernizing Python Apps and Data on Azure - Part 4: Azure Kubernetes Service, Part 5: Data Modernization and Part 6: Becoming Cloud Native
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
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