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
- 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
- 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
🚢 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
- 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
🔩 DevOps
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
📚 Learning
- 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
- 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
🚌 Migration
- Zia Mansoor announces new investments to help accelerate your move to Azure
🌐 Networking
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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