Azure Weekly Issue 384: 28th August 2022
To start this edition, a nice article covering The History of Microsoft Azure. Some other highlights: Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3, creating managed online endpoints in Azure ML without using MLflow.
Other interesting articles: Real-time air quality monitoring and alerting – Part 3 – Bringing it all together, Improved Local Dev with CosmosDB and devcontainers, A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services, and finally, Hunt for compromised Azure subscriptions using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
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
- April Speight writes about Apollo 11 VR Exhibit with Azure Text to Speech & MRTK
- Santosh Thomas covers Learnings from a Custom Neural Voice Proof of Concept
- Bea Stollnitz walks through Creating managed online endpoints in Azure ML without using MLflow
- On the applied AI show, Carlotta Castelluccio and Bethany Jepchumba discuss Applied AI: Computer Vision and Optical Character Recognition
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public preview of Four new features in no code editor in Event Hubs and the General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3
- Anshul Sharma discusses Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3
- Rie Merritt blogs about Azure Data Community Newsletter Jul/Aug 2022
- Neeraj Jhaveri writes about Azure Synapse Compatibility Checks
- Kevin Chant covers File tests for Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 and writes about his First impressions of the web terminal in Azure Databricks
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: UAE North Availability Zones, and Azure VMware Solution now in Sweden Central, and vRealize Log Insight Cloud with Azure VMware Solution integration and Public IP Capability for Azure VMware Solution
- Divya Cherukuri covers Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fifth Refresh Update 5.1 Release and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh Update 2.1 Release
- Kirsten Megahan writes 'Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2022 in San Francisco'
- On episode 435 of the Azure podcast, the Azure Podcast (@AzurePodcast) team are joined by Bill Paxson and Rob Futrick to discuss HPC on Azure
- Mo Shi blogs about The Usage of Managed Identity in the Azure Batch Account and Azure Batch Pool
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- On the Kubernetes Blog, The 1.25 Release Team discusses Blog: Kubernetes v1.25: Combiner
- Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers
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
- Ajay Jagannathan blogs about SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0 is now available
- Andreas Wolter (@AndreasWolter) writes about New granular permissions for SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL to improve adherence with PoLP
- Bashar Hussein blogs about Boost Azure MySQL Business Critical flexible server performance by 30% with the Ev5 compute series
- Also on the SQL Server Blog, Timi Oshin talks about Azure Data Studio August Release
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) blogs about pandas.DataFrame.dropduplicates and SQL Server unique constraints
- Joe Gavin blogs about Azure Data Studio Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, Charts and more
- Niko Neugebauer blogs about Backup restore speed improvement for SQL Managed Instance
- Shoham Dasgupta explains how to Automated key rotation for TDE BYOK now available in preview for Azure SQL
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- Tomáš Chládek writes about New tools for integrating Microsoft Teams calling capabilities into applications
- Dalia Abo Sheasha describes How to use Azure in IntelliJ IDEA Video
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- On episode 207 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks about The Process of Architecture
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Execute powershell command without username password on Azure virtual machine
- Anuraj Parameswaran explains how to Create Containerized Build Agents with Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Abhishek Narain (@narainabhishek) covers CI/CD improvements related to pipeline triggers deployment
- On the Octopus Deploy Blog, Terence Wong asks What is cloud orchestration?
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- Laura Nicolas covers Expanding ISVs solutions with Azure Hybrid
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) walks through Monitoring my hybrid environment – part 2
- Boris Zaikin writes about Multi-Cloud Strategies Using Microservices Architecture
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Bhalchandra Atre describes Notes from the field: Using OAuth for ActiveSync and POP/IMAP in Exchange Online
- Didier Van Hoye describes how to Use DNS Application Directory Partitions with conditional forwarders to resolve Azure private endpoints
- David O'Brien (@david_obrien) discusses Azure MFA - Enhanced Context with Number Matching
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Getting Started with Microsoft Graph and PowerShell and explains Azure Automation Subscription Null or Empty
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- On the Azure blog, Ralitza Deltcheva writes about High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications
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
- Sander van de Velde walks through Running HiveMQ MQTT broker on Azure IoT Edge
- Simon Waight (@simonwaight) presents Real-time air quality monitoring and alerting – Part 3 – Bringing it all together
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- On the SQL Server Blog, the SQL Server Team says Register today—Free Azure Data training at Data Platform Summit 2022
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) blogs about Developing a quantum-ready workforce - Microsoft Quantum Educators Programme
- Deepa Athre blogs about Skilling up on Azure Explore this quarters key new resources
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
- On Microsoft Security blog, Christine Barrett covers Data governance: 5 tips for holistic data protection
- James Havens blogs about Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series Part 9b - Compliance Manager - Run an Assessment and talks about Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series Part 9c - Compliance Manager - Improvement Actions
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) discusses Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Admin Set-up Tutorial with Talhah Mir
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) delves into Microsoft Previews Azure Workbooks for Update Compliance of Windows Devices
- Roosevelt Abandy talks about The History of Microsoft Azure
- On episode 296 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@benstegink, @ciphertxt) cover Microsoft Purview data loss prevention
- Ed Price (@UserEd_) presents a New Azure Architecture - Detect mobile bank fraud
- Saswat Mohanty writes about On-premises connectivity from Azure Monitor: a serverless approach
- Silvio Di Benedetto coveres Update Management v2: the evolution of patching
- Daichi Isami (@normalian) describes How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.1 overview and - No.2 Compute
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
- Tomáš Chládek discusses Azure Communication Services support for Teams users now Generally Available
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) talks about Azure Communication Services Adds Microsoft Teams Support for App Developers
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- Neel Ball discusses Release : SQL Server Migration Assessment SSMA v9.1
- Werner Rall writes about Right Size / Recommend Azure SQL Managed Instance
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) explains how to What's Next for .NET MAUI Roadmap & Xamarin Sunset Unveiled
- J. Tower says Xamarin Isnt Dead; Its Evolving Into .NET MAUI
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
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) covers an Azure Tip: View or disconnect current P2S VPN sessions
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Paras Kapadia discusses Co-authoring for files with sensitivity labels is now generally available on Android and iOS devices
- On episode 148 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Tackling DDoS attacks in Azure
- Dor Edry blogs about Hunt for compromised Azure subscriptions using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- Jeff Martinez writes about A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
- Rinku Dalwani talks about RDP Shortpath for public network in Azure Virtual Desktop
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