Azure Weekly

Issue #407 - 26th February 2023

A mixed bag this week. First there's the announcement of the Azure Collective on Stack Overflow. There are a couple of interesting articles about AI / content integration as assistive productivity improvements: Maximizing the value of IntelliCode with API usage examples: Real-World Code Examples at Your Fingertips and PowerShell and AI: Using ChatGPT with PowerShell to Automate Tasks.

In the apps world version v1.10.0 of Dapr is now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes. There's an interesting article about the Reliable Web App pattern for .NET (which looks like it could get expensive), a good guide pulling together documentation from various sources about how to build your own Azure Functions Binding Extensions, a high level overview of Azure Data Lakehouse Architecture in the Azure architect series. Finally, there's an Azure Open Source Day on March 7th with Brendan Burns & Donovan Brown, covering all things Open Source with IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, K8S, DevOps, Databases etc.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Andy Beatman writes about 6 ways to improve accessibility with Azure AI
Chris Noring writes Educator, OpenAI is about to make you more efficient, here's how
April Edwards (@TheAprilEdwards) talks about PowerShell and AI: Using ChatGPT with PowerShell to Automate Tasks
Santosh Thomas blogs about Enabling Synapse and Azure ML pipeline workflows
Deepak Kaushik (@ThinkForDeepak) describes How to integrate ChatGPT, a large language model, with Azure
David de Matheu describes how to Build a low code conversational SMS bot with Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI
Natasha Savic describes how to Train and Benchmark a custom Forms Recognizer using Forms Recognizer Studio
Farzad Sunavala, Rashi Kukke and Nilay Chheda describe Enhancing Customer Support Experience in the Azure portal with Autosuggest

🔎 Analytics

The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards and Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023
Michal Bar writes about General availability: ADX Dashboards
Bhaskar Kakaraparthy talks about Overcoming the Challenges of Big Data Export with ADX Export
On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) presents two articles from a series on Streaming data in Azure & Power BI - Stream Analytics and - Streaming dataset
Xu Jiang explains how to Build real-time dashboard with Power BI dataset produced by Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor
Erica Toelle writes about Three tips to a comprehensive data security strategy
Hauke Mallow discusses Using Azure Data Factory orchestrating Kusto query-ingest
Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) covers Azure Data Factory – How to Retrieve the Latest File in Each Folder
Sung Gun Lee describes EventHub Types of Throttling Errors and how to mitigate it
Deepak Kaushik (@ThinkForDeepak) presents Azure Architecture Series EP 01 Unwinding Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework and EP 02 Azure Data Lakehouse Architecture
Kevin Conan blogs about UTF-8 and Japanese collations support for Dedicated SQL pools is now GA
Liliam Leme writes about Securing your Synapse environment
John Miner blogs about Managing Excel Files with Apache Spark for Azure Databricks Implementation

🖥️ Compute

The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 and Azure Managed Lustre
On the Azure blog, Dilip Sundarraj announces that Azure Managed Lustre - Parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads
Brian Lepore blogs about Azure Managed Lustre - Benchmarking our new Azure storage solution
Utkarsh Ayachit covers Azure HPC OnDemand Platform: Visualizing Data with ParaView
Kiana Harris describes Azure HPC Cache Updates: New Caching Option, Discounted Pricing, and More
Andy Jia explains how to Compute Intensive workloads gain better price-performance on Azure Dlsv5/Dldsv5 VM in public preview
Gerasimos Alexiou describes how to Run jobs with containers on Azure batch service
Manoj Kumar writes about Genomic workflow managers on Microsoft Azure
Rene van den Bedem talks about Azure VMware Solution Recoverability Design Considerations
Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains how to Build your own Azure Functions Binding Extensions
Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) describes How To Create An Azure Function App that Calls an External 3rd Party API

🚢 Containers

The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Hannah Hunter describes Dapr v1.10.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Karega Anglin describes Deploying a Sitecore Instance on a “Local” Kubernetes (k8s) Setup and Deploying a Sitecore Instance on a Local Kubernetes k8s Setup Pt2
Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains how to Deploy Container App and pull image from Azure Container Registry using Terraform
Rahul Rai walks through Automatic Instrumentation of Containerized .NET Applications With OpenTelemetry

🗄️ Databases

Shreya R. Aithal writes about New YouTube channel for Azure Database for MySQL
Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) explains How to Install the AdventureWorks Sample Database in Azure SQL Database
Kevin Chant talks covers Sql-action v2 GitHub Action for Azure SQL Database deployments

🛠️ Developer Tools

Anthony Cangialosi announces Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released
Iain Holmes writes about Visual Studio for Mac 17.5 is now available
Sayyeda Mussa writes about Visual Studio 2022 can now Always Update on Close
Carlotta Castelluccio blogs about GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot: 2 stories, thousands of possibilities
David Ramel (@dramel) discusses Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2022 17.5, Touting AI-Powered Intent-Based Suggestions
On Visual Studio blog, Jessie Houghton describes a new feature: Reference GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in Visual Studio
Peter Groenewegen (@pgroene) describes Maximizing the value of IntelliCode with API usage examples: Real-World Code Examples at Your Fingertips
Cody Meadows describes how to Reauthenticate Visual Studio Code Access Tokens
Arun Yadav blogs about Azure Automation With Visual Studio Code
Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) provides a Step-By-Step: Enabling Hyper-V for Use on Windows 11
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) discusses Assigning Service Principals to Groups and Roles with the Azure CLI
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) blogs about Fetching Credentials with the Azure CLI

🔩 DevOps

On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Bohdan Janousek covers End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions
Ahetejazahmad Khan covers Azure Pipeline: Error: Cannot read properties of undefined reading 'templatePath'.
Vinod Soni describes how to Setup Azure DevOps Self Hosted Agent On-Premise & Troubleshooting Guidelines

⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud

Bindusar Kushwaha writes about Group Policy Analytics Framework

🎭 Identity

Robin Goldstein explains how to Collaborate securely across organizational boundaries and Microsoft clouds
Sivaramakrishnan Arumugam explains how to Get notified on Azure app registration client secret expiration

🔌 Integration

Kent Weare describes Monitoring Azure Logic Apps Standard with Azure Monitor Logs Preview and Monitoring Azure Logic Apps Standard Health using Metrics Preview
On episode 454 of The Azure Podcast, Kendall Roden and Russell Young are joined by Paul Henwood to talk about Sustainability and Azure
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about IP Restrictions on Service Bus Standard and Basic
Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about Logic App Consumption Deployment: The inputs of template action cannot reference action, and Logic App Consumption Deployment: Deployment template validation failed: The template parameters in the parameters file are not valid and, covers Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: 22 The if expression function
Toon Vanhoutte (@ToonVanhoutte) explains how to Identify all inbound HTTP Logic Apps endpoints in your Azure Environment

💡 Internet of Things

The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04 and General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
Shipra Mishra describes how to Enable simulation scenarios by ingesting large graphs in Azure Digital Twins through the Jobs API
Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) describes How to Secure an IoT Solution: A Beginner's Guide

📚 Learning

On the Azure blog, Courtney Bowler explains how to Join the Azure Collective on Stack Overflow
David Ramel (@dramel) describes Microsoft Launches 'One-Stop-Shop' for Stack Overflow Questions on Azure Development
Katie Fritsch explains how to Join Brendan Burns, Donovan Brown and others for Azure Open Source Day on March 7th
On episode 174 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Preparing for the SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification
Jamil Mirza explains how to Become a Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management Ninja: Level 400 training
Lanna Teh writes Unleash your infrastructure aptitude with our skilling programs
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) covers Getting Started Microsoft Graph SDK
Dave Davies provides a Skilling snack: Intro to Azure Active Directory

⚖️ Management and Governance

The Azure Updates Team writes about Now Available: Azure Monitor Query client module for Go
Noa Kuperberg blogs about Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East
Pantelis Apostolidis (@papostolidis) covers Azure Policy to enable network policies for private endpoints
On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) and Dean Wells explain how to Simplify Windows Server management in Azure with Automanage & Hotpatch
Lior Bela blogs about Update power: Microsoft management solutions for your scenarios
Balasubramaniam Murugesan describes How to achieve distributed tracing using Application Insights
Gaurav Malhotra (@GauravMalhot12) discusses Microsoft Purview Data Catalog: New Features & Enhancements

🚌 Migration

On the Data Exposed show, Buck Woody (@BuckWoodyMSFT) is joined by Carlos Robles and Logan Carrington to discuss Azure SQL VM: Assessing your migration landscape for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

🌐 Networking

Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains How to Use Azure DNS Private Resolver and Outbound Endpoints
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains How to Update Microsoft DNS AMA Extension For Azure VMs Easily

🔐 Security

Eyal Haik writes about Automatic disruption of Ransomware and BEC attacks with Microsoft 365 Defender
Giulio Astori delves into Proacting Hunting with Cloud Security Explorer in Defender for Cloud
Kate Baroni writes The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Security Tips for Azure Machine Learning Solutions
Radhika Tripurani says Want to Avoid Accidently Deleting your Resources in Azure It's Easier Than You Think

📦 Storage

The Azure Updates Team describes Read-write premium caching now in public preview, and Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption, and Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools, and Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files volume user and group quotas, and Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files now support large volumes up to 500TiB in size and Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Get blob files from azure storage account using python
Amrinder Singh covers Leveraging Blob Inventory Report for Gaining Container Level Insights
Anthony Watherston delves into Reporting on Storage Account Access Tier Statistics
Amrinder Singh blogs about Working with Stored Access Policy to Control SAS

🔗 Web

On episode 233 of the Azure DevOps podcast Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Christian Wenz to discuss ASP .NET Core Security
Mayunk Jain (@mayunkj) announces the reliable web app pattern for .NET
Gelu Vac presents a Full Tutorial on using Always Encrypted with Azure Key Vault in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
Amritpal Singh Naroo covers Unable to access Webapp or Kudu site hosted in ILB ASE