Azure Weekly
Issue #388 - 25th September 2022
There are two interesting announcement around Azure Storage: General availability update: Improved Append Capability on Immutable Storage for Blob Storage and Generally available: Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage, and a talks about Azure Blob Storage and Life Cycle Management
Azure Payment HSM achieves PCI PIN certification offering customers secure digital payments solutions in the cloud. James Broome published the third part of his series about Insight Discovery, focusing on Defining Actionable Insights. Finally, two interesting posts about Azure Container Apps: Observability with Azure Container Apps and Azure Container Apps Networking: A condensed view of concepts.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Sanjeev Jagtap blogs about Form Recognizers Read OCR targets advanced document text extraction scenarios
- Alexandre Vilcek explains how to Optimized Training and Inference of Hugging Face Models on Azure Databricks – Part 1 and Part 2
- Meer Alam blogs about Predicting Stock Price using Azure Automated Machine Learning AutoML in few clicks
🔎 Analytics
- On the SQL Server Blog, Chuck Heinzelman talks about Azure Synapse Link for SQL
- Daniel Kim provides a deep dive into setting up Social Media Analytics solution Part 1 and Part 2
- James Broome talks about Insight Discovery part 3 – Defining Actionable Insights
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) writes Flex your Big Data detective skills with the Kusto detective agency challenge
- Sarath Sasidharan explains how to Automate recreation of Synapse dedicated SQL pool environment using Azure DevOps
- Ramanath Nayak explains how to Convert and unpack Mainframe/Midrange File System data from EBCDIC to ASCII Using Azure Data Factory
🖥️ Compute
- Salim Chawro highlights that Azure Payment HSM achieves PCI PIN certification offering customers secure digital payments solutions in the cloud
- Divya Cherukuri covers Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Third Refresh Update Release
- Dan Wahlin (@DanWahlin) describes Migrating a Local Node Script to Azure Functions using VS Code
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) walks through Using Azure serverless Functions and Infrastructure as Code to automate service creation
- On the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine take a look at Ampere Altra Arm-based Virtual Machines in episode 152.
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) blogs about Mitigating the Noisy Neighbour Multitenancy Problem
🚢 Containers
- "MSFTPM" announces Public Preview of Soft Delete for Azure Container Registry
- Taiseer Joudeh (@TJoudeh) writes about Azure Container Apps Auto Scaling with KEDA – Part 11
- Marcos Martinez covers Azure Container Apps Networking: A condensed view of concepts
- Mike Morton (@BigMorty) talks about Observability with Azure Container Apps
- The Azure Updates Team announces Deployment Center setting of Azure Kubernetes service AKS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Automated Deployments to create pipelines
- Praveena Jayanarayanan writes about An overview of Monitoring Azure Kubernetes Services
- Jing Xu blogs about Kubernetes 1.25: Local Storage Capacity Isolation Reaches GA
- Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) explains that IP exhaustion in AKS got you down Try Azure CNI Overlay.
🗄️ Databases
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) highlights Azure SQL News Update: September 2022
- The Azure Updates Team announces Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Single Server ends on 9 November 2024 and Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Flexible Server ends on 9 November 2024
- Carlotta Castelluccio walks through Getting Started with Databases: SQL and Data Visualizations Basics
- Mohammad Belbaisi blogs about Error SameKeyMaterialNotFoundOnRemoteServer while coping Azure SQL DB to a different server
- Amanda Ibrahim blogs about Auto scale up/down the Managed instance
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers Lesson Learned 238: Configuring Private Endpoint Connections in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Mustafa Ashour blogs about Tips & Tricks 3: Unable to set AAD Admin for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Anna Hoffman, Marisa Brasile, Ebru Ersan, Bradley Ball, Silvano Coriani, Niko Neugebauer, and Pieter Vanhove share Azure SQL New Updates Data Platform Summit, September 2022 Data Exposed Live
- Sabrin Alsahsah writes about Invoke-Sqlcmd with Azure Automation for Azure SQL database
- Rajendra Gupta writes a Guide to Build Graph Node and Edge Tables with Azure Data Studio
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Leslie Richardson writes about Now Introducing Arm64 Support for VS Extensions
- Harjit Dhaliwal covers Whats new for IT pros in Windows 11, version 22H2
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes that Visual Studio Devs Can Now Roll Back Problematic Updates
- Steve Diacetis writes about Faster. Smaller. Windows 11, version 22H2 update fundamentals
🔩 DevOps
- The Azure Updates Team announces Continuous delivery setting of Azure VM will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) chats to Scott Hunter: Microsofts Azure & .NET Strategy- Episode 211
- Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) covers DevSecOps on Azure - Part 4: Enhance security in Continuous Integration pipeline
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) covers Azure DevOps – Tips and Tricks – 9 – Debug Pipelines using System.Debug or Enable System Diagnostics to fix the YAML Pipeline errors
- Vanessa Segovia covers ARM Deployment considerations for Azure Data Factory
- Mark Gray (@markg_msft) covers Microsoft Azure at HashiConf Global 2022
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Bill Baer blogs about File Share Graph Connector for Microsoft Search: Improvements and upcoming features
🎭 Identity
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Connect to Azure resources with Managed Identity – Azure Web app container example
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) discusses AuthN-ing Blazor WASM with Azure AD B2C
🔌 Integration
- On Tech Community blog, Julia Muiruri explains How to Build a Custom Power Platform Connector from Scratch
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Moe Tanabian writes about Future-ready IoT implementations on Microsoft Azure
- Christa St Pierre describes Microsoft Announces Edge AI partner devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
- Joe Coco talks about Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, version 22H2 is now generally available
- Maayan Magenheim covers IoT Entity Page - Enhance IoT/OT Threat Monitoring in Your SOC with Sentinel and Defender for IoT
📚 Learning
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) provides A Guide to Azure Certification
- Tzvia Gitlin Troyna (@tzvia) talks about Check it out: Azure Data Explorer MS Learn modules
- Howard van Rooijen (@HowardvRooijen) highlights that Ian Griffiths presenting at Visual Studio Live 2022 San Diego and Endjineers at Visual Studio Live 2022 Orlando - workshops & talks
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Dylan Snodgrass discusses Microsoft Purview and Exchange
- Werner Rall explains how to Create Azure Service Health Alerts for All Resource Groups
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) delves into Link Azure Automation to Log Analytics
- Zachary Cavanell covers Windows Autopatch, How it Works Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices
🚌 Migration
- Srini Acharya writes about Generally available: Ability to Reverse Migrate SQL database from Hyperscale to General Purpose tier
📱 Mobile
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Cesar De la Torre Llorente covers Cheat-sheet: The new 5G application paradigms and Microsoft Azure
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about .NET MAUI in .NET 7 Fills In Xamarin Gaps
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Improvements to Azure Web Application Firewall WAF custom rules
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure China Cloud
- Liliam Leme discusses Azure VNET vs Azure IR inside of Pipelines
- Niko Neugebauer describes How to check if global virtual network peering is supported on the virtual cluster for SQL MI
🔐 Security
- Assaf Yatziv lists the Top Threat Protection use cases in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
- Matt Lopinto covers Data Collection Rules Creation Impacting Sentinel UEBA ML Model
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Qatar Central, and General availability update: Improved Append Capability on Immutable Storage for Blob Storage and Generally available: Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Expanded feature regional availability for Azure NetApp Files backup and Public preview: Customer initiated storage account conversion
- The Azure Updates Team covers Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) discusses Azure Blob Storage and Life Cycle Management
- Silvio Di Benedetto talks about Azure File Sync v15.1
🔗 Web
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Connect Azure Web app container to Keyvault using Managed identity
- Chris Noring describes How YOU can deploy your resume in 2 min using Azure Static Web apps
- Mayunk Jain (@mayunkj) writes about Rapidly troubleshoot cloud web apps with built-in App Service diagnostics