Azure Weekly
Issue #41 - 29th August 2015
This week has seen the roll out of Site Recovery to a number of additional US regions, a streamlined portal experience for building Mobile Apps and adding mobile capabilities to Web Apps, a JavaScript language integrated query API for DocumentDB, and the general availability of Row-Level Security (RLS) for SQL Azure.
Following on from the announcement of Azure Active Directory support for Windows 10, the Azure team announced another Azure/ Windows 10 love in - Azure Backup can be used to back up Windows 10 client machines.
The Azure team also announced AzureCon, a new virtual event for the Azure community which takes place on September 29th.
Stepping back a little from this week's announcements, if you're looking for a concise guide to recent changes to Azure Storage, we suggest this useful blog by Gaurav Mantri.
At endjin HQ this week, we're preparing for two new starters in September; we decided to reduce the number of custom credentials we have to create when onboarding a new employee, by using our Office 365 / Azure AD to SSO enable our WordPress based blog with this handy plugin by Philippe Signoret (@psignoret) and our TeamCity environment with this plugin by Evgeniy Koshkin.
As a sidenote, this is the first week we've used Azure Data Factory to produce the Azure Weekly newsletter following the demise of Yahoo Pipes - a blog post on our implementation will follow.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Docker blog, Arnaud Porterie introduces the Technical Preview of Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016, on the same topic Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) discusses getting started with Docker Containers on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3
On Channel 9, Rick Claus (@RicksterCDN) talks to Corey Sanders about Classic Azure Services vs ARM in this weeks episode of Tuesdays with Corey. Rick also talks with Ning Kuang about Cloud Foundry on Azure
Richard Fennel writes about using Release Management vNext templates when you don't want to use DSC scripts
Kevin Remde provides a video showing how to Deploy an Application with Azure Resource Manager Templates
The Powershell Team talks about the Azure DSC Extension v2.3 release
On MSDN, 'Gpillai' blogs about setting up Linux on Azure, how to Install Linux, Install Azure CLI and work with Azure
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) discusses the different skills and knowledge requirements for setting up an Azure Dev / Test Lab and then describes software licenses for Dev/Test Lab management on Azure and finally Dev/Test Lab Management on Azure, what is your test infrastructure
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana blogs about using Application Insights right from Visual Studio 2015 and describes how to get number of Application Insights events from Visual Studio 2015
🖥️ Compute
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) walks through moving a CentOS Virtual Machine to Another Azure Datacenter and writes about using Azure CLI to Capture and Deploy a CentOS Virtual Machine
On MSDN, Peter Drougge shows how to make use of your MSDN benefits to host a Windows 10 VM in Azure
- Felix Rieseberg (@felixrieseberg) blogs about deploying Flynn Clusters on Azure
- On the WindowsITPro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to resize an Azure disk
🌐 Networking
On the PaaS Mag site, Albert Greenberg discusses Microsoft's Showcase of Software Defined Networking Innovation at SIGCOMM
💡 Internet of Things
Richard Fennel has a workaround for the issue of not being able to create an MSDeploy package for an Azure Web Job project as part of an automated build
In episide 183 of the Cloud Cover Show, Haishi Bai and Chris Risner talk to Pranav Rastogi about the recent Azure WebJobs Update
In a very interesting post, Mike Lanzetta talks about realtime geospatial mapping with SignalR and Event Hubs
Matthew Henderson covers Azure Mobile Apps August 2015 update
⚙️ Data and Analytics
Joe Crabtree describes Azure SQL Row Level Security Now Available
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder announces that the SQL Server Connector for Azure Key Vault Public Preview Refresh is Now Available
Azim Uddin walks through troubleshooting Oozie or other Hadoop errors with DEBUG logging
On MSDN, Ravi Tandon discusses the new Microsoft Azure HDInsight Management SDK
Miguel Llopis announces the Power BI Desktop August Update
While the Power BI Team explain how the Interns Hacked Power BI: A New Tool for Versatile RealTime Dashboards and Power BI + Google Analytics = Power Analytics
Konstantin Zoryn provides some updates on new Steam Analytics language features LAST function, new Array and Record functions
On TechNet, Machine Learning Team talks about the availability of Azure Machine Learning in Southeast Asia and explains how to build and Deploy a Predictive Web App Using Python and Azure Machine Learning
On Channel 9, in part 4 of his series on Azure Machine Learning, Sam Stokes describes how to use R in Azure Machine Learning
On the PaaS Mag site, Andrew Liu blogs JavaScript as Modern Day TSQL in DocumentDB
📦 Storage
Gaurav Mantri discusses whats New In Azure Storage
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) explains how to copy a Blob From an Azure Datacenter to Another Using PowerShell
Ravi Tandon covers getting HDInsight Cluster Logs from your cluster storage account
On TechNet, Kevin Remde writes that Azure Site Recovery ASR now available in all US Azure Datacenter Regions
🎬 Media
- None this week
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
On Channel 9, Clemens Vasters (@ClemensV) and Dan Rosanova(@DanRosanova) cover where Service Bus and Event Hubs are heading in Subscribe is Back With A Trillion Messages
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
The Microsoft Intune Team writes about new Windows 10, iOS, and Android features coming over next week
On TechNet, 'Mzbowe' oulines a list of Azure Active Directory Core Skills
On Channel 9, Nasos Kladakis discusses integrating Salesforce with Azure AD: How to automate User Provisioning