Azure Weekly Issue 429: 30th July 2023
A quiet edition this week. Highlights include: Deploy a website with Azure virtual machines - Configuring SSL certificates, This Month In Azure Static Web Apps - July 2023, and Tasks, jobs, stages templates combined for Azure DevOps
Two interesting AI posts: Create an Azure OpenAI, LangChain, ChromaDB, and Chainlit Chat App in Container Apps using Terraform and Introducing Llama 2 on Azure.
And Finally, Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) & Ian Griffiths (@idg10) interview Tom Peplow (@tpeplow) in the final part of The Decision Maker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric - The Pace of Innovation. The previous parts are available:Part 1 - hedging your bet and Part 2 - Generative AI.
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
- Andy Beatman provides 15 Tips to Become a Better Prompt Engineer for Generative AI
- Wong Cyrus talks about The Power of AI in Grading Handwriting Assignments
- Justin Royal writes about New OpenAI Resources including Repos, available for ISVs on GitHub
- Swati Gharse covers Introducing Llama 2 on Azure
- Paolo Salvatori explains how to Create an Azure OpenAI, LangChain, ChromaDB, and Chainlit Chat App in Container Apps using Terraform
- Freddy Ayala covers Azure OpenAI Landing Zone reference architecture
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
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) asks What is Microsoft Fabric?
- Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) & Ian Griffiths (@idg10) interview Tom Peplow (@tpeplow) in the final part of The Decision Maker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric - The Pace of Innovation
- Anshul Sharma and Adi Eldar talk about Optimizing Vector Similarity Searches at Scale
- Michael Spector (@spektom) walks through Orchestrating ADX queries using managed Airflow
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
- Tony Ju describes How to increase concurrency on python function app hosted in app service plan
- Venkat Malladi describes how to Setup a secure lockdown environment using Cromwell on Azure for Genomics
- Jeff Woolsey writes about 30 years of Windows Server
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) is joined by Marc Duiker (@marcduiker) to discuss Dapr 101
- Judy Liu talks about Portability with Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers
- Andrew Westgarth discusses Whats new for Windows Containers on Azure App Service
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
- Pieter Vanhove writes about Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series databases with up to 40 vCores
- Alicja Kucharczyk describes Community Insights on pgBadger: A PGSQL Phriday 010 Recap
- The Azure Updates Team announce Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) describes lesson learned 405: How many TSQL operations you said and 407:Exploring Azure SQL Database Performance with sys.dmosperformancecounters
- On episode 255 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Giorgi Dalakishvili (@GioDalakishvili) talk about Beyond Relational Data with Entity Framework
- Niko Neugebauer writes about Well-architected framework performance in the Azure SQL Managed Instance
- On SQL Server Central, the Xten Team talk about The Hidden Impact of Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) explains how to Subscribe to the Visual Studio Blog via email
- Dhanashri Chavan highlights What's New with GitHub for ISVs: July 2023 Edition
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about VS Code Tool to Lead Stack Overflow's New 'OverflowAI' Effort
- On the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole writes Rock Your Debugging Game: Parallel Stack Window Tips You Need to Know
- Alejandro Cobar discusses GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio to Boost Database Development Productivity - Part 1
- Saeed Zarinfam writes about Better performance for Docker and Minikube when using WSL 2
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- The Azure Updates Team talk about Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
- Anna Soracco writes about Resilient App series at the Microsoft Reactor
- Gerasimos Alexiou covers Tasks, jobs, stages templates combined for Azure DevOps
- Anuraj Parameswaran writes two articles around how to deploy a website with Azure virtual machines Configuring SSL certificates and Configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Anusha Ammaluru walks through Automating End-to-End testing with Playwright and Azure Pipelines
- Deepak Kumar Mishra describes how to Set up PIM access in Azure DevOps
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) covers 3 New Azure Bicep Features
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- Eleanor Cohen announces the General Availability of Remote Support for Azure Stack systems
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Levent Besik explains how to Enhanced Company Branding for Sign-in Experiences Now Generally Available
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) walks through Configuring Groups Optional Claims in Terraform for an Azure AD Application
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) explains how to Integrate RabbitMQ with Logic Apps using Azure Functions
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
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- Shirleyse Haley explains how to Explore the redesigned Security documentation hub on Microsoft Learn
- Mike Tholfsen provides A comprehensive list of helpful Microsoft Education professional development materials
- Deepa Athre describes how to Get access to the latest skilling resources on Azure and AI
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) provides an AI-900 Exam Study Guide: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- Sophie Ke explains how to Become a Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management Ninja
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
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) delves into Microsoft Concurs with CISA, Expands Audit Capabilities in Purview Product
- Cecilie Bergendorff says Sign up now: Microsoft Strategy Outlook FY24 - News, insights, and priorities for the year to come
- Stig Panduro covers The roadmap to SaaS success: How to adopt the cloud for your SaaS offering
- Gal Fenigshtein covers Microsoft Defender for Cloud - strategy and plan towards Log Analytics Agent MMA deprecation
- Roy Gal writes about Azure Monitor Logs - Change Tab Name
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) walks through Creating an Azure Monitor Alert Rule and Creating an Azure Monitor Alert Action Group
- Bruno Gabrielli covers Azure Monitor: Gain Observability On Your DHCP Server
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
- Sunitha Muthukrishna explains how to Migrate a MySQL database from DigitalOcean to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
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 announces Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers and explains how to Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway
- Hugo Calzada Martin explains how to Connect from Azure VM VNet to an Azure SQL Database
- Isato Hiyama writes about Understanding HTTP host header and SNI
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) describes How to configure the RDP connection for Azure VMs via Azure Bastion
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Tomer Reisner explains how to Update on Defender Vulnerability Management capabilities in Defender for Servers Plan-2
- On Microsoft Security blog, Steve Faehl writes about New Microsoft identity and data security capabilities to accelerate CMMC compliance for the Defense Industrial Base
- Derick Naef covers a new feature: Analyze IoT/OT device firmware with Microsoft Defender for IoT
- Maayan Magenheim blogs about Taking Entity Investigation to the Next Level: Microsoft Sentinels Upgraded Entity Pages
- Sean Wesonga writes Unleash the Power of Threat Intel: Introducing the MDTI GitHub
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
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- Nitya Narasimhan (@ntiya) writes about This Month In Azure Static Web Apps July 2023
- On episode 196 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) and Jussi Roine (@JussiRoine) are joined by Adis Jugo (@adisjugo) to talk about Building a SaaS service
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) covers Failed to launch debug server process due to: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined. when trying to debug Blazor WebAssembly
- On episode 344 the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink (@msclouditpro) are joined by Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) talk about The paradox of choice as a SharePoint Developer with Andrew Connell
- On episode 1856 of the .NET Rocks podcast, Carl Franklin (@carlfranklin) and Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) are joined by Layla Porter (@LaylaCodesIt) to talk about Modular Monoliths
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
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