Azure Weekly Issue 430: 6th August 2023
First off, around DevOps, highlighting the Bicep VS Code extension: Bicep Deployment Pane: Validate, What-If and Deploy at your fingertips, and a useful guide if you're trying to generate documentation from your wiki: How to publish a multi-page Azure DevOps Wiki to PDF and pipeline it.
There's an interesting post about looking at phishing threats: AiTM (Adversary-in-The-Middle) & BEC (Business Email Compromised) threat hunting with KQL, looking at Logic App Consumption: Send Query Reports from Log Analytics Workspace, and Empowering Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs with Azure Site Recovery and Terraform.
A major version upgrade in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server has reached General Availability, and there's an interesting article From Prompts to Embeddings and Vector Stores - How to use OpenAI in real-life scenarios. Worth a read. Finally Barry Smart kicks off a new series of posts exploring Microsoft Fabric for Technology Leaders, in Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour.
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
- Adi Shachar explains how to Enable AI driven clinical trials matching with an open-source blueprint and one click deployment
- Jolene Tam discusses Reflecting back and looking ahead to whats coming in Syntex – August 2023
- Denise Schlesinger writes From Prompts to Embeddings and Vector Stores - How to use OpenAI in real-life scenarios
- Vinod Kurpad (@Kurpad) announces Azure AI Document Intelligence new capabilities including classification are now generally available
- Dan Wahlin walks through Getting Started with Azure OpenAI and GPT Models
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
- Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) writes Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour
- The Azure Updates Team explains how to Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on for Azure Databricks now Generally Available
- Michal Bar writes about ADX Web UI updates - July 2023
- Sung Gun Lee delves into EventHub The behavior of EPH SDK behavior of Epoch
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
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- The Azure Updates Team highlights Azure Red Hat OpenShift August 2023 updates
- Anthony Chu (@nthonyChu) talks about Azure Container Apps Newsletter – July 2023
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) walks through Customizing Core Dump Location for Azure Linux on Kubernetes
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) describes Using GitLab to Build and Deploy Windows Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) covers Automating Deployment to an AKS Cluster with Local Auth Disabled Using
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Autoscale IOPS in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, and General Availability: Major version upgrade in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and General availability: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and General availability: JSON support for active geo-replication on Azure Cache for Redis and General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Intra-account container copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB and announces Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) discusses Azure SQL News Update - August 2023
- David Engel talks about ODBC Driver 18.3 for SQL Server Released
- Sasa Popovic explains how to Have you noticed we've been recording (SQL Managed Instances) videos?
- David Engel describes JDBC Driver 12.4 for SQL Server Released
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) describes Lesson Learned 410:Custom CPU Management in Azure SQL DB: Implementing a Pseudo-Resource Governor and 411:Troubleshooting Statements could not be prepared Error ODBC API Connection
- Siddhant Sawant announes Autoscale IOPS for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server - General Availability
- VenkatMR covers Oracle to Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server Incremental Load Using ADF Data Flows - Part 1 and - Part 2
- Balmukund Lakhani covers the General Availability of XML compression for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance
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) covers Avalonia UI Offers VS Code Tool in 'Extremely Early Build'
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jb Evain announces the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code
- Sakshi Gupta blogs about Investigating Issue Security token could not be authenticated After Upgrading to Latest Tedious.
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) explains how to Create a Hyper-V VM to run pfSense with a PowerShell script
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 announces Azure Load Testing: Run tests for up to 24 hours, and Azure Load Testing: Create and manage tests and test runs using Azure CLI and Azure Load Testing: Run tests with 100,000 virtual users
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for App Service and Virtual Machines
- On episode 256 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Dennis van der Stelt (@dvdstelt) talks about Microservices and Distributed Systems
- Nicholas Rogoff (@nrogoff) explains How to publish a multi-page Azure DevOps Wiki to PDF and pipeline it
- Freek Berson (@fberson) blogs about Bicep Deployment Pane: Validate, What-If and Deploy at your fingertips
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- On Tech Community blog, Lior Kamrat announces Jumpstart Agora (Azure Arc)
- Yung Chou (@yungchou) writes about Why Azure Arc
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Alex Weinert covers Whats new with Microsoft Entra ID Protection
- Dishan Francis provides a Step-by-Step Guide : Azure AD PIM for Groups
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about User-Initiated Intune Enrollment and Azure AD Join
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Alex Zúñiga describes Logic Apps Standard: Upgrade to Node 18 LTS by September 11, 2023
- James Bell writes about New ways to discover Microsoft Graph connector content securely across Microsoft 365
- Kalyani Namuduri writes about Automated registration of SAP systems at scale with Azure Centre for SAP solutions
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) covers Logic App Consumption: Send Query Reports from Log Analytics Workspace and walks through Removing the first line from a Flat file in Logic Apps
- Vlad Sterian explains how to Automate Service Fabric Cluster using Azure Function
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
- Sander van de Velde explains How to create Azure IoT Module Identities via DPS
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- Michael Kophs discusses Microsoft Learn: Updates to our training and certification portfolio
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 Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor, and Generally Available: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings and Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Enforce Azure policy on virtual machines
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) walks through Building an Application Insights Dashboard and discusses Azure Application Insights Log Archiving and Retention
- Jack Roper talks about Azure Cost Management – Best Practices & Tools
- Freddy Ayala writes about Empowering Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs with Azure Site Recovery and Terraform
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Matt McSpirit (@mattmcspirit) talks about Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management
- On episode 197 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast, Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) and Jussi Roine (@JussiRoine) are joined by Paola Annis (@paolaannis) to talk about Cost and performance considerations for BCDR
- Holly Hamilton blogs about Monitoring Azure Landing Zones
- Gokulprasanth Chandrasekaran covers Azure Distributed Transaction Performance Monitoring
- Anth Kernan describes How to visualize Service retirements in Azure Advisor
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
- Ganapathi Varma Chekuri describes how to Seamlessly migrate a SQL database to Azure SQL Database offline with Microsoft Azure PowerShell
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: Route Server hub routing preference and Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) describes Microsoft Switching Windows 11 to the Azure Attestation Service This Month
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall NGFW by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers 8 Steps: Create Converged Network with SET in SCVMM
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) walks through Creating and Configuring a Power BI VNet Data Gateway
- Amy Colyer delves into Azure Landing Zone Accelerator for AVS – Network Virtual Appliance in Azure Virtual Network
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Michael McReynolds announces new artifacts to help Automate tasks management to protect your organization against threats
- Helder Pinto discusses Deploying Microsoft Defender for Servers in Network-Restricted Environments
- Kijo Girardi (@kj_ninja25) delves into AiTM & BEC threat hunting with KQL
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 General availability Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability CA shares
- Glenn K. Lockwood (@glennklockwood) discusses Azure Managed Lustre: not your grandparents' parallel file system
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about New 'Reliable Web App Pattern' Leads Microsoft Java News
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: JBoss EAP on App Service Clustering
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) discusses GitHub Copilot for Azure API Management Policies
- Nish Anil announces the Reliable Web App Pattern for Java
- Radhika Bollineni covers Email support with WordPress on Azure AppService
- On The New Stack, Andrew Stiefel writes Long Live the API Stack: Full-Life-Cycle API Management Is Dead
- Siddharth Chugh writes about Not able to delete files from the Kudu Console on an App Service
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
- Ryan Clark describes Azure Virtual Desktop Watermarking Support
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