Azure Weekly
Issue #379 - 24th July 2022
To kick off, two articles about Azure Synapse: What is the Shared Metadata Model in Azure Synapse Analytics, and why should I use it and Synapse Link for SQL Deep Dive.
With a new release of .NET expected towards the end of this year. .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in an isolated process in public preview. Charbel Nemnom has a great post about Data Storage in Azure – The Ultimate Know it All Guide.
There have been a couple of big releases around Confidential Computing and Blockchain: Latest innovations in Azure confidential computing and Azure confidential ledger is now Generally Available. In Networking, Gateway Load Balancer now generally available in all regions.
And finally an interesting read about Project AirSim, an end-to-end platform to accelerate autonomous flight from Microsoft.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
- Mike Tholfsen writes that Immersive Reader comes to Anthology Ally, making learning more accessible to all
- On the Microsoft site, Jake Siegel talks about Microsoft launches Project AirSim, an end-to-end platform to accelerate autonomous flight
- Mikko Lähdeaho talks about Carbon Footprint Management with Data-Driven AI and IoT
- Takuto Higuchi covers MLOps Blog Series Part 4: Testing security of secure machine learning systems using MLOps
- Jameel Ahmed covers Image Analysis in Power BI – Using AI Vision Insights 1/4
🔎 Analytics
- On the endjin blog, Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) writes about What is the Shared Metadata Model in Azure Synapse Analytics, and why should I use it
- Kevin Chant presents a Database Project for use with Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022
- Steve Howard presents a Synapse Link for SQL Deep Dive
- Charith Caldera blogs about Azure Synapse Analytics - How to activate my Synapse workspace using ARM templates
- Liliam Leme describes How to use CETAS on serverless SQL pool to improve performance and automatically recreate it
- Joshuha Owen announces that the Map Data tool in Synapse Analytics now generally available
- Hauke Mallow writes about Data pre-processing for Azure Data Explorer with Apache Spark
- Iris Kaminer talks about Azure Data Explorer ADX free cluster with Upgrade option
- Mark Kromer (@kromerbigdata) writes about ADF Makes it Easy to Select Azure IR Size for Data Flows
- Shubham Nandanwar walks through Column Mappings as a Dynamic Content in Azure Data Factory
- Holly Hamilton discusses Takeaways from the Data & AI Summit 2022 by Databricks
- Craig Porteous (@cporteous) covers Data Sharing and secure Clean Rooms with Delta
- Vishal Thiyya covers Sybase ASE to Azure SQL full and incremental data copy using ASE Transfer Table Tool and ADF
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Azure Event Grid partner events, and Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 and Azure confidential VMs DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Pubic Preview: .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in isolated process model
- Melony Qin writes about the .NET 7 support for Azure functions in an isolated process in public preview
- Vikas Bhatia writes about Latest innovations in Azure confidential computing
- Divya Cherukuri blogs about Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fourth Refresh Release
- Bruce Sherwin blogs about Hyper-V HyperClear RETbleed Update
- Kevin Lam (@kevinlam_msft) discusses Azure Messaging and Streaming Update - July 2022
- On the Azure blog, Astha Malik covers Accelerating capital markets workloads for Murex on Azure
- Divya Cherukuri discusses Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh Release
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Calico for Windows on AKS and Bring your own Container Network Interface plugin
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift
- Steven Murawski writes about More Fun with Azure Container Apps and Compose Files
- Amit Khandelwal walks through Upcoming updates to SQL Server container images on Microsoft Artifact Registry aka MCR
- Sarah Cooley writes about AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server - June 2022 update
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) chats with Tyler Hennessy about how Forza Horizon 5 runs on Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Services
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale Citus, and Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server - On demand backups, and PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus, and New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus and Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server data encryption with CMK
- Shubhra Sinha describes Azure confidential ledger is now Generally Available
- Jakub Szymaszek (@JakubSzymaszek) discusses Securing supply chain systems with ledger in Azure SQL: Lenovo's story
- David Engel blogs about ODBC Driver 17.10 for SQL Server Released
- On the Redmond magazine site, Chris Paoli discusses Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure Now Available
- On the Data Exposed channel, Anna Hoffman and Pieter Vanhove (@AnalyticAnna, @Pieter_Vanhove) discuss Bringing the power of blockchain to Azure SQL Database and SQL Server with ledger
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks about Azure SQL July 2022 New Updates
- In his Lesson Learned: Hands-On-Labs series, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers
Configure/Troubleshoot Linked Server Azure SQL Managed Instance, shows How to improve a bulk insert process and talks about Checking the performance with Perf Collector Analyzer
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Leslie Richardson announces that the Analysis Services and Reporting Services extensions for Visual Studio 2022 are here
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Why No Full SQL Server Reporting/Integration Services in Visual Studio 2022
- Taysser Gherfal (@taysser) discusses VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Git Branch Switching
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) describes how to Support Multiple Versions of .NET From A Single Class Library .NET multi-targeting
- On the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole writes about IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer Improvements
- Anuraj Parameswaran covers Custom scaffold templates in ASP.NET Core
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes Educators eager to save class setup time and enable students welcome to Visual Studio Code Server
- Rodrigo Juarez walks through Creating a Visual Studio offline installer
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Azure Load Testing - additional metrics for pass/fail criteria
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dan Hellem covers Azure Boards Summer Update
- Gloridel Morales talks about July patches for Azure DevOps Server
- Kathryn Elliott talks about Content archived for Azure DevOps previous versions
- Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses Taking a SWA DevOps pipeline to the next level and talks about Working With add-mask and GitHub Actions for dynamic secrets
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) blogs about Azure DevOps and PowerShell Pipelines
- Alfredo Deza explains How to login to Azure with GitHub Actions
- Paolo Salvatori writes Can I create an Azure Container Apps in Terraform? Yes, you can!
- Gerasimos Alexiou describes how to Download and upload files on Blob storage using Azure DevOps
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) covers Uploading contents of a folder to Azure Blob Storage using Terraform
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI, and Azure Stack HCI version 22H2, and Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI and Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI
- Cosmos Darwin discusses Whats new for Azure Stack HCI at Microsoft Inspire 2022
- Neil Bird describes Introducing Azure Well-Architected Framework Assessments for Azure Stack Hub Preview
- Sasa Popovic discusses MS DTC for Azure SQL Managed Instance - extending distributed transaction support private preview
- Vasanth Rajasekaran explains how to Updated HashiCorp Terraform Provider for Azure Stack Hub
- Vladimir Ivanovic announces the General Availability of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) writes about Resumable restore improves SQL Managed Instance database migrations experience
- On episode 142 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Building Azure at home with Azure Stack Edge
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses Move your Azure hybrid business forward with Azure Arc Microsoft Inspire
🎭 Identity
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Invite external users to Azure AD using Microsoft Graph and ASP.NET Core
- Paolo Salvatori describes how to Use Azure AD workload identity for Kubernetes in a .NET Standard application
- Sue Bohn covers Microsoft and SmartHR collaborate on digital transformation—going from startup to 50,000 customers
- Andy Cerat describes Microsoft simplifies Endpoint Manager enrollment for Apple updates
- Sue Bohn says Learn how to secure and monitor Workload Identities with a series of events
🔌 Integration
- On BizTalk Gurus, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) covers Azure Logic Apps team is interested in your feedback –Logic App EDI, SWIFT & SAP Survey
- Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) covers XML Validation – Logic Apps
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Ashvini Sharma exaplins how to Easily Scale Your Desktop Automation With Hosted RPA Bots
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release, and Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central, and CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central and on Azure Sphere OS version 22.07 expected on July 26
- Jim Bennett describes JulyOT weekly round up week 2, , AMAs, AI and more
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) explains How to roll back an Azure IoT Edge layered deployment
- Clemens Schotte explains how to Filled Map is now available in Power BI Azure Maps Visual
📚 Learning
- Amira Youssef announces a new Microsoft Learning path: Build edge AI solutions with Azure Percept
- Temante Leary talks about The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Microsoft 365 on Microsoft Learn
- Liberty Munson writes about New exam structure for Dynamics 365 certifications for customer engagement apps
- On episode 201 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Greg Young to talk about CQRS and EventSourcing
- Julia Muiruri explains presents Peer Mentorship: Git & GitHub Workshop
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 - July 2022, and Tag filtering in Azure Advisor and Virtual machine restore points
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions, and Hiren Shah announces Public Preview for Microsoft Azure Center for SAP Solutions and Sameeksha Khare announces Public Preview for Microsoft Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Bhavya Tadikonda announces Public Preview of Update management center
- Prasoon Pankaj discusses Maximizing Observability for SAP on Azure with Azure Monitor for SAP solution
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) discusses Azure Update Management Center
- Ian Cairns talks about Name update for Agent and associated resources in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
- Utsav Raghuvanshi covers Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Recovery Services vaults is now generally available
- Christine Barrett explains How Microsoft Purview and Priva support the partner ecosystem
- Rachel Pruitt delves into Microsoft Azure Joins Intel Foundry Services Cloud Alliance
- Lior Bela blogs about Windows Autopatch has arrived
- Talhah Mir describes Addressing insider risks in an increasingly complex data landscape
- Nicholas Xuan Nguyen writes about Highly Effective Azure Monitoring with Azure Log Analytics
- On episode 143 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine cover the latest Azure Updates
- Aditya Balaji discusses Azure Backup: Migrate to Azure Monitor alerts using the template-based portal experience
- Dinesh Reddy covers Introducing Virtual Machine restore points – a simpler way to protect Azure workloads
- Harsha Sridharan describes Visualizing SAP NetWeaver Metric Data in AMS through Azure Workbook and explains how to SAP NetWeaver SOAP and RFC deep dive in Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Shane Baldacchino presents Cost Optimisation In The Cloud – Practical Design Steps For Architects and Developers – Part 1
- Cameron Fuller describes Creating custom Azure alerts from Log Analytics: the Kusto query
- Clas Hortien covers Microsoft SQL Server monitoring in Azure Monitoring for SAP Solutions
- Anna Chiang covers Microsoft Purview Information Protection now includes enhanced security for detection of credentials
🎬 Media
- David de Matheu writes Enable File Sharing with the Azure Communication Services UI Library and Azure Blob Storage
🚌 Migration
- Kathleen Mitford explains how to Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate
- Shiva Shastri explains how to Modernize with Azure Migrate
- Roopesh Nair walks through Powering application migration and modernization with Azure Migrate and CAST
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer, and the Public preview: API Server VNet integration and Public preview: TLS 1.3 support on Application Gateway
- Annie Fang announces that Gateway Load Balancer now generally available in all regions
- Irene Huang explains How Microsoft Azure Cross-region Load Balancer helps create region redundancy and low latency
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) blogs about Azure Virtual WAN Hub Routing Preference
- Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) presents TCP Proxy Protocol v2 with Azure Private Link Service — Deep Dive
- On We Do Azure, Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) covers Exploring – Azure Firewall Analytics
- Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) presents Azure Private Link Service explanation and demos from provider SaaS ISV and consumer perspectives
🔐 Security
- Run Cai blogs about Azure confidential VMs using SEV-SNP DCasv5/ECasv5 are now generally available
- Ian Hellen explains how to What's New in Sentinel Notebooks - MSTICPy v2.0.0
- Yossi Hasson blogs about Microsoft Sentinel Solution for Dynamics 365 News – New OOB analytics rules templates available now
- Bojan Magusic presents Microsoft Defender for Cloud PoC Series - Multi-cloud with AWS
- Benjamin Kovacevic presents Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks – Part 3: Send email notification options
📦 Storage
- Manu Yareshimi blogs about GA: Azure Storage updating client-side encryption in SDK to address security vulnerability
- On the Azure blog, Aung Oo announces that Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview and The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Blob CSI support in AKS
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) presents Data Storage in Azure – The Ultimate Know it All Guide
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team announces: Generally available: Azure SignalR Service Premium Tier
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Microsoft Azure Web PubSub Premium Tier and Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates
- Rick van den Bosch writes about API Management: advanced usage quota
- On episode 201 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Steve Sanderson, to discuss The future of Blazor and WebAssembly
- Manoj Srinivas presents Azure Tips and Tricks - How to test application performance with Azure Load Testing
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Add log analytics workspace to Azure app service – Terraform
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Kam Vedbrat writes about New opportunities to grow your practice with Azure Virtual Desktop
- Also on Tech Community blog, Tom Hickling describes Azure Virtual Desktop is moving away from Storage Blob image type and announces general availability of the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata service in Japan & Australia.
- Freek Berson (@fberson) talks about RDP Shortpath in action