Azure Weekly Issue 426: 9th July 2023

Ed Freeman published part 3 of his end-to-end demo of Microsoft Fabric series - Ingesting 5GB of data into a Bronze Lakehouse using Data Factory. Marcelo Silva shares Modern Data Warehouse Stories with Synapse based on his experience working with customers.

There's been an announcement about updates to Azure OpenAI Service Models, showing how many of the models you are familiar with are being retired and replaced with new and improved ones.A very detailed deep dive into Distributed ML Training for Click-Through Rate Prediction with NVIDIA, Dask and Azure NetApp Files has also been published..

A nice article showing How to create Azure Container Apps Jobs with Bicep and Azure CLI. ACA Jobs are great and more people be aware of them. I couldn't agree more with the following article: Deployment Stacks for Bicep are awesome:a full walkthrough & sneak peek and of what's coming soon. Deployment Stacks are absolutely something that should be on your roadmap. If you're building multi-tenant SaaS applications, this final post is one to read: Claims based routing for SaaS solutions.

AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text

• Keiji Kanazawa announces Updates to Azure OpenAI Service Models
• Sabyasachi Samaddar walks through Transforming Text to Video: Harnessing the Power of Azure Open AI and Cognitive Services with Python
• John Aziz (@john00isaac) provides The Full Guide to Packaging and Deploying ML Models to Production Using Azure: Step-by-Step Guide
• Geert van Teylingen walks through Distributed ML Training for Click-Through Rate Prediction with NVIDIA, Dask and Azure NetApp Files

Analytics

Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric

• Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) shares part 3 of this end-to-end Microsoft Fabric demo: Ingesting 5GB of data into a Bronze Lakehouse using Data Factory
• Joe Fitzgerald describes how to Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process
• Kevin Chant explains how to Migrate serverless SQL Pool objects to a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
• Marcelo Silva writes about Modern Data Warehouse Stories with Synapse

Compute

Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release and Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers

• Hari Pulapaka talks about Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers
• Sander van de Velde explains how to Turn your laptop into an Azure Data Explorer cluster
• Holly Hamilton discusses Istio Add-On for AKS First Sight
• David Giard (@DavidGiard) presents GCast 152: Transactable Containers Labs, Lab 2: Creating a CNAB Bundle
• Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) talks about Unlocking new possibilities with Prisma Cloud and Windows Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
• Paolo Salvatori describes How to create Azure Container Apps Jobs with Bicep and Azure CLI
• Freek Berson (@fberson) writes Deployment Stacks for Bicep are awesome: a full walkthrough & sneak peek and of what's coming soon

Databases

Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage

• Kenneth Igiri walks through Creating an Azure SQL Database Using Azure Cloud Shell
• Jared Westover talks about Azure SQL Managed Instance vs. Azure SQL Database
• Hugo Calzada Martin talks about LicenseType parameter when you scale your Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Varun Dhawan discusses Scale Monitoring with Azure PostgreSQL Multi-Resource Alerts
• Sandip Khandelwal covers Mainframe Db2 Data Virtualization using SQL Server PolyBase
• Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) talks about lessons learned 388:Retrying Execution in case of Connection Drops/Command Timeouts using ODBC API, 389:SLO Update operation cannot succeed as the memory usage XYZ exceeds the quota, 390:The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake, 391: Data Loading - Parallel BULK INSERTs with JDBC and Azure Blob Storage, 392:Querying Extended Events and Sending Results via Email using PowerShell, 393:Troubleshooting Azure SQL DataSync Error:Cannot Insert NULL Value into Column ID and 394:Resolving Azure SQL DataSync Error: Login Failed During Database Reprovisioning
• Jes Schultz describes how to Use sqlcmd to create and query a SQL Server container for development

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online

• On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about After Slowness Complaints, Microsoft Boosts Code Completion in VS Code Java Tooling
• Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) describes Localization of Visual Studio Code Extensions and discusses Localization of Webviews in Visual Studio Code Extensions
• On episode 252 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Brian Lagunas (@BrianLagunas) talk about Establishing Quality

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations

• On the Azure Medium blog, Ivan Porta talks about Integrating Infracost with Azure DevOps to Improve Terraform Cost Predictability

Hybrid + Multicloud

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

• John Joyner (@john_joyner) describes Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server: Extending cloud economic benefits to databases anywhere
• Dan Cuomo announces Network ATC management in Windows Admin Center
• Ganapathi Varma Chekuri walks through Enabling Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Arc Enabled SQL Server Machines

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Integration

Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus

• Yossi Hasson explains how to Detect threats on your Power Platform based no-code/low-code applications with Microsoft Sentinel
• Harold Campos covers Azure Logic Apps Mission Critical Series: We Speak: IBM IMS
• Kent Weare walks through Adding Existing Workflows to Logic Apps Workspace Project with Custom Code and covers Data Mapper Patterns
• Rohitha Hewawasam (@_RohithaH) covers Scaling Logic App Standard for High Throughput Scenarios and describes Scaling Logic App Standard – High Throughput Batched Data Processing System
• Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: 36 How to process an Array or a single object JSON structure in the same manner

Internet of Things

Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services

• Ilana Waitser announces the Public Preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs into Azure Monitor Logs

Learning

Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information

Management and Governance

Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview

• The Azure Updates Team announces the public preview of: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud, and Azure Monitor Agent Health experience, and Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights, and Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC, and Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana
• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability: Azure Native New Relic Service
• James Dumont provides Tips when migrating to Azure Monitor Agent from Log Analytics agent
• Aarthi Sukumar describes How to identify a stopped service in a Windows VM using Log Analytics Workspace
• Rohit Turambekar (@klic2rohit) discusses Azure Subscriptions Made Simple: Essential Tips for Startup Success
• Bhalchandra Atre announces Public Preview: Exchange Online RBAC management in Microsoft Graph using Unified RBAC Schema
• Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains how to Download all the Azure Icons for Free
• David Giard (@DavidGiard) discusses The Importance of Application Monitoring and describes Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Spans in Application Monitoring
• On episode 193 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss Azure Updates

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box

Mobile

Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin

Networking

Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall

• The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs and talks about Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption
• Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) explains how to Wired for Hybrid - What's New in Azure Networking - June 2023 Edition
• Henrik Westergaard Hansen delves into Claims based routing for SaaS solutions
• Pantelis Apostolidis (@papostolidis) discusses NSG Flow Logs review in Log Analytics
• Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) explains How to update the TTL for all A records in a zone at once in Azure

Security

Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center

• Preetham Anand Naik talks about Microsoft Defender for APIs enriches Defender CSPM capabilities.
• Jeremy Tan announces a new feature in Sentinel - Whats new: Monitor and optimize the execution of your scheduled analytics rules
• Lior Shapira discusses Leveraging the convergence of Microsoft Defender for Identity in Microsoft 365 Defender Portal
• Nathan Swift writes about Deceptive defense: best practices for identity based honeytokens in Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Yossi Hasson covers What's new: Microsoft Sentinel Solution for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
• Daniel Davrayev talks about Correlating alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Storage

Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple

• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central and Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
• Khushbu Gandhi writes about Immutable Blobs Inside Azure Storage WORM

Web

Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps

• Sunitha Muthukrishna explains how to Build and deploy apps with Vercel and Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
• Anjali Divitha Kusam shows how to Set up an API within Azure API Management to facilitate the implementation of server-sent events.
• Julia Muiruri discusses Seamless API Development with Data API Builder for your Static Web Apps
• Gaurav Kaushik explains TLS/SSL Binding for custom domain contain special character

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop

• Sam Tulimat covers Windows 365 Frontline is now generally available