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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- On the Azure blog, Ralitza Deltcheva writes about High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications
💡 Internet of Things
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Neel Ball discusses Release : SQL Server Migration Assessment SSMA v9.1
- Werner Rall writes about Right Size / Recommend Azure SQL Managed Instance
📱 Mobile
- 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
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) covers an Azure Tip: View or disconnect current P2S VPN sessions
🔐 Security
- 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
🔗 Web
- Jeff Martinez writes about A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Rinku Dalwani talks about RDP Shortpath for public network in Azure Virtual Desktop