Azure Weekly
Issue #425 - 2nd July 2023
There's a good overview and a series of deep dive videos about Dapr on the Open at Microsoft show. There's also a great guide to Automating Custom VM Image Creation with Azure Image Builder and Azure DevOps, and more details on the feature that was announced in last week's issue: Logic Apps support for .NET Framework Custom Code - Calling Existing Assemblies, and a detailed look at Monitoring Azure Networks with Alerts.
There are three interesting posts on CLIs: Azure Load Testing: You can run load tests from command-line now, AI-based CLI interactive mode, and the CTL+ALT+Azure Podcast focuses on Getting started with devtunnel CLI.
Finally, Ed Freeman continues his Microsoft Fabric end-to-end demo series with Inspecting 28 Million row dataset.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data
- Nick Zhao talks about Azure AI Neural TTS enhanced expressiveness for Chinese voices with upgraded prosody breaks
- Hugo Affaticati provides A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI Models on Azure: ResNet with MLPerf Training v3.0
- Razvan Tanase provides A closer look at MLOps and the Intel Extension for Scikit-learn within Azure Machine Learning
- Judith van Ekeren and Berke T. delve into Applying Dashboarding and Machine Learning: Ethical Considerations and Recommendations for Business
- Sean Li blogs about Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI
- Ajit Jaokar talks about GPT Making higher education affordable, personalised, inclusive, and reflective
🔎 Analytics
- Gabi Lehner describes Breaking change notification as Azure Data Explorer EngineV2 reaches EOL.
- Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) continues his Fabric End to End Demo in Microsoft Fabric - Inspecting 28 Million row dataset
- Chunhua Gu explains how to Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory just became generally available in Sweden Central
- On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) provides a Synapse and ADF Pipeline snack - Disable Activity
- Andrew Brust writes Databricks Sees and Raises Snowflake, with Gen AI, LLMOps, More
- Guy Reginiano writes about a New generation of cache recommendations for Azure Data Explorer
🖥️ Compute
- Marco Netto discusses Starting HPC Worker Processes at Boot Time in VM Scale Sets
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) walks through Automating Custom VM Image Creation with Azure Image Builder and Azure DevOps
🚢 Containers
- On episode 465 of the Azure podcast, the Azure Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Ramya Orugant (@ramyaoncloud) to discuss Functions on Azure Container Apps
- On the Kubernetes Blog, Sascha Grunert (@saschagrunert) discusses Verifying Container Image Signatures Within CRI Runtimes
- On the Open at Microsoft show, Aaron Crawfis (@AaronCrawfis) talks with multiple guests about Dapr
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) describes how to Set up a dev container for Terraform in GitHub Codespaces
- On The New Stack, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes Microsoft Adopts OpenInfra Kata Containers Security on Azure
- Martin Miles walks through Dealing with Wildcard SSL Certificates on Azure and Kubernetes
🗄️ Databases
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) talks about Lesson Learned: 381: The connection is broken and recovery is not possible message using API ODBC, 382: Loading multiple Audit Log files using sys.fngetauditfile, 383: Loading multiple extended file using sys.fnxefiletargetreadfile, 384: ODBC driver not supporting AKS workload identity and 387:Monitoring Query Data Store State Changes in Azure SQL Database using PowerShell
- Mohammad Belbaisi covers Error TSQL CRUD has been disallowed via policy for this Azure subscription
- Anil Kota explains How to handle Large Objects LOBs migration from Db2, Oracle to Azure SQL & Datalake
🛠️ Developer Tools
- David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace Avoids Decommission and Stack Overflow Dev Survey: VS Code, Visual Studio Still Top IDEs 5 Years Running
- On The New Stack, Darryl K. Taft highlights that the Alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace Gains Momentum
- On episode 192 of thr Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Getting started with devtunnel CLI
- Jeremy Li writes about AI-based CLI interactive mode
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Andrew Brenner explains how to Choose an image for your organization
- On episode 251 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Kevin LaBranche (@klabranche) talk about Leading teams through DevOps
- Nikita Nallamothu announces Azure Load Testing: You can run load tests from command-line now
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about Upgrade to Version 2 of the Pulumi Azure Native Provider
- Christian Geuer-Pollmann (@chgeuer) delves into Azure access from GitHub and GitLab pipelines - without secrets
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) covers Terraform import blocks to import Azure resources into Terraform
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Nikita Takru covers June 2023 Release for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server and Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance
- Matthew Quickenden talks about SQL Counters via Azure Arc
🎭 Identity
- Jeff Sakowicz writes about New App Health Recommendations in Microsoft Entra Workload Identities
🔌 Integration
- Kent Weare writes about .NET Framework Custom Code - Calling Existing Assemblies
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) presents an Azure Function to convert Google Documents .gdoc into Word Documents .docx and covers Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Copying .gdoc files from Google Drive using Azure Logic App
- Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) talks about The Xslt action failed due to incompatible map
- Radhika Tripurani discusses Transforming Nonprofit Operations with Microsoft AI Builder
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) and Pablo Castro talk about Harnessing the Power of Conversational AI with Power Platform and Azure OpenAI Services
💡 Internet of Things
- Stefan Wick discusses Azure IoT Hub expands support for Azure Availability Zones
📚 Learning
- Ben Watt provides a Skilling snack: Accessibility in Windows 11
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Brian Stoner writes about Save time and effort with Microsoft 365 self-help diagnostics
- Samer Baroudi talks about Whats new with Adoption Score and Experience insights in the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Umar Mohamed Usman writes about Securely Deploying Azure Health Data Services: A Reference Architecture and Implementation Guide
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) delves into Monitoring Azure Networks with Alerts
- Khushbu Gandhi describes Using Resource Locks To Prevent Accidental Changes In Azure
- Balasubramaniam Murugesan blogs about Azure Incident Management with Escalation Policy
- Sona Chandrasekaran talks about Azure Event Grid Domain Monitoring: How to Configure
- James Havens covers Microsoft Purview - Paint By Numbers Series Part 2g – Recommended Labeling of Files and Emails
🚌 Migration
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) and Matt McSpirit (@mattmcspirit) discuss Can cloud native architectures lower your long-term costs
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public Preview: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Regional WAF with Application Gateway
- Tobi Otolorin talks about Azure Web Application Firewall- Bot Manager Scenarios
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) covers Azure WAF and False Positives
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains how to Troubleshoot Network Security Groups with Azure Network Watcher NSG Diagnostics
- Richard M. Hicks (@richardhicks) writes about Always On VPN Trusted Network Detection and Native Azure AD Join
🔐 Security
- Renuka Prasad announces Trusted Launch as default in Azure Portal
- Rick Munck describes Security Baseline for M365 Apps for enterprise v2306
- Chris Paoli discusses Microsoft and Rubrik Partner for AI-Powered Enterprise Security Recovery
- On episode 340 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink (@msclouditpro) discuss A little bit of DDoS in your life
- Bojan Magusic walks through Continuous Export as Trusted Service to Event Hub
- Matt Lowe describes how to Split Microsoft Sentinel Tables with Multi-Destination Data Collection Rules
- Eliran Azulai explains how to Protect against PaperCut vulnerability with Azure Firewall Premium
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team describes Preview Updates: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview improvements
- Jay Lansdaal talks about Azure Elastic SAN Preview Updates
🔗 Web
- Neha Hafeez delves into Getting Started with API Management: A Beginner's Guide for Developers
- Anna Soracco writes Build resilient apps with Azure App Service and Azure Load Testing
- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes Using WSL and Let's Encrypt to create Azure App Service SSL Wildcard Certificates
- York Zhang provides a Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying JupyterLab to Azure App Service with Docker