Azure Weekly
Issue #382 - 14th August 2022
James Dawson continues his exploration of Dapr; taking the Dapr Traffic Control sample from the Dapr for .NET Developers book and replacing containerised components with Azure PaaS services. In Episode 3, he replaces MQTT-based Mosquitto with Azure Storage Queues.
Microsoft recently rebranded its IDAM offerings under the new Entra brand, and the first new service, Microsoft Entra Verified ID , focused on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) is now generally available. This is a new approach, based on new standards utilising distributed ledger technologies, and is worth spending some time learning about.
Finally, a few other noteworthy updates: the General Availability of WordPress on Azure App Service, an exciting new release of SynapseML, and Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub vs Ably
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Andy Beatman writes about 3 ways Azure Speech transforms game development with AI
- Also on the Azure blog, Kadri Umay announces that Bluware and Microsoft Azure develop OSDU-enabled interactive AI seismic interpretation solution for energy super major
- Nellie Gustafsson (@nelliegson) describes Exciting new release of SynapseML
- Affaticati discusses Maximizing AI performance with the Azure NC A100 v4-series
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
- Erdal Cosgun describes Data Science for Merged FHIR and PacBio VCF Data on Azure Machine Learning Notebooks
- Daniel Kim writes about Social Media, Azure Synapse & PowerBI
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability: Upgrade VMware VMs protected by Site Recovery to modernized experience and Azure Databricks in West US 3
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host restart
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Schedule and Run PowerShell Scripts for Azure VMs using Azure Automation
- Duiker writes Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub vs Ably
🚢 Containers
- On the endjin blog, James Dawson (@James_Dawson) blogs about Adventures in Dapr: Episode 3 - Azure Storage Queues
- Anuraj Parameswaran walks through Creating your first Azure Container App
🗄️ Databases
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks about Azure SQL News Update: August 2022
- Also on Tech Community blog, David Engel covers ODBC Driver 18.1 for SQL Server Released and JDBC Driver 11.2 for SQL Server Released
- Justice Zisanhi explains how to Build a data serving API
- Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) explains how to Install Azure Data Studio on Linux systems
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) covers Azure SQL August 2022 New Updates
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability: Azure Lab Services August 2022 update
- On the Visual Studio blog, Chris Hardy writes about Visual Studio 2022 17.3 is now available
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Jon Galloway writes about Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 is now available
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about New for PowerShell: 'Get-WhatsNew' Cmdlet, VS Code Tool Update, blogs about Python in Visual Studio Code Improves 'Getting Started' Experience and undefined writes about VS 2022 for Mac Alternative: Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac & VS Plugin
- On the Visual Studio blog, Leslie Richardson covers VisualStudio.Extensibility: A New Way to Write Extensions
- Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) blogs about Updating Azure Functions Tools
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) discusses Prompting Developers to Install Recommended Azure Tools
- Chris Noring writes How YOU can build your first Low code app using Microsoft Power Platform
- On the Azure blog, Fawad Khan covers Azure Lab Services August 2022 update - Improved classroom and training experience
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gloridel Morales talks about Introducing Azure DevOps Server 2022 RC1 and talks about August patches for Azure DevOps Server
- Elizabeth Maher talks about Azure Lab Services August 2022 Update
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Install Azure DevOps agent using powershell
- Amy Colyer discusses Azure Virtual Machines Automation - Deployment
- Sam Bell discusses PsRule: Introduction to Infrastructure As Code IAC Testing
- Yoav Dobrin writes Can we make data engineering CI/CD more like code? (Yes we can!)
🎭 Identity
- Ankur Patel talks about Microsoft Entra Verified ID now generally available
- Mike McLean Office covers The new Yammer Administrator role is now available in Azure Active Directory
- On the Azure Medium blog, Adam Bertram (@adbertram) explains how to Keep in Sync with Microsoft Azure AD Sync Password Writeback
🔌 Integration
- Jay Gong writes about Required permissions while creating Event Grid System Topic
📚 Learning
- Marisa Brasile talks about Start Planning Your Free, Azure Data Platform Training at Data Platform Summit 2022
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Update management center in Azure
- On episode 205 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Greg Leonardo to discuss Architecting for Azure
- Surya Pammi discusses MS Teams Security & Compliance – Information Barrier IB
- The Intune Support Team blogs about Enabling corporate access using browser controls in Windows
- Paddy Damodharan describes Modernizing Endpoint Management – Encryption - Part1
- Carlos Marin writes about answers Why is the Azure Monitor chart showing dashed lines for the Availability metric
🚌 Migration
- Harshitha Putta and Daniel Stocker present Moving to the cloud: Your guide on when to migrate and when to modernize
- Magnus Mårtensson covers Day 2 of Your ALZ: Prioritizing Which Workloads to Deploy First
📱 Mobile
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Visual Studio 2022 17.3, .NET MAUI Now Generally Available
🔐 Security
- On episode 146 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine take A look at Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management
- On the Azure Medium blog, Andre Camillo describes How to use MITREs Top ATT&CK Techniques tool—MITRE tools for Threat Informed Defense
- Keith Fleming explains how to Protect sensitive SharePoint sites with Defender for Cloud Apps
📦 Storage
- Saniya Samreen delves into SQL Backup using Azure File Share
🔗 Web
- Abhishek Reddy announces the General Availability of WordPress on Azure App Service
- Sachidanand Sharma describes how to Easily split your CSV dataset with Microsoft Azure Load Testing