Azure Weekly Issue 440: 15th October 2023
There are a number of announcements in the analytical space, around the preview of Apache based solutions on AKS; public preview of Apache Flink with Azure HDInsight on AKS, Sneak Peek into Trino with Azure HDInsight on AKS, and then two articles that show how to use these services to build modern data architectures: Build medallion architecture using Apache Flink, Trino with Microsoft Fabric and HDInsight on AKS and Realize Lakehouse using best of breed of Open source using HDInsight.
Two more analytics posts: the Microsoft Fabric roadmap has been unveiled, and a really interesting new de-identification service for Health and Life Sciences; a more generic version of this service is needed for other industries. Two other interesting articles: Quick-Start Guide to Azure Private Endpoints with AKS & Storage and Optimize Log Ingestion and Access in Microsoft Sentinel.
This week my new Surface Laptop Studio 2 corrupted on reboot, locked me out of Windows Hello so that I couldn't log in, and this forced me to repave the machine, fortunately Entra (AAD) had a back-up of my Bitlocker key. I'd highly recommend ensuring you have a back-up of your Bitlocker key, just in case this type of situation every happens to you! Coincidentally, there were two articles published this week which delve into the topic: Skilling snack: BitLocker management for enterprises and Save & Recover Bitlocker Recovery Keys: A Complete Guide. Well worth your time!
Finally, a post cover the announcement of the Public Preview of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers.
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
- Jolene Tam blogs about Microsoft Syntex adds taxonomy and image tagging, OCR, content query, annotations, and more
- Alexander Hughes explains how to Easily Bring your Machine Learning Models into Production with the AzureML Inference Server
- Stephane Eyskens writes From zero to - nearly - hero with Azure OpenAI NLP and vector-based search in Azure Cognitive Search
- Suresh Sethuramaswamy explains How to build GenAI powered Smart Knowledge Search platform for enterprises
- Jill Armour describes Partner Blog How Microsoft and service partners use AI to enable customer transformation
Analytics
Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Event Hubs, HDInsight, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric
- Sairam Yeturi announces the public preview of Apache Flink with Azure HDInsight on AKS and explains how to Realize Lakehouse using best of breed of Open source using HDInsight
- Debananda Ghosh provides a Sneak Peek into Trino with Azure HDInsight on AKS
- Snehal Sonwane, Abhishek Jain & Sairam Yeturi explains how to Build medallion architecture using Apache Flink, Trino with Microsoft Fabric and HDInsight on AKS
- On The New Stack, Andrew Brust writes Microsoft Revamps HDInsight, Its Stalwart Big Data Service
- Henning Rauch (@cosh23) writes about New outbound dependency for Azure Data Explorer
- Dany Hoter covers Filtering and visualizing Kusto data in local time
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about the Microsoft Fabric roadmap
- Kevin Chant covers Microsoft Fabric repositories publicly available in GitHub
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Chenye Charlie Zhu describes how to Set Activity State to "Comment Out" Part of Pipeline
- Leo Li announces the General Availability of Time to Live TTL for Managed Virtual Network in Azure Data Factory
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 discusses Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI and writes about Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host - Resize
- Jerry Steele describes Public Preview Announcement: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- On episode 475 of the Azure Podcast, the Azure Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Alice Gibbons and Kendall Roden (@KendallRoden) to talk about Diagrid on AKS
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 Public Preview: Azure Open AI Use your data integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and General Availability: Universal cross-region read replica on Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- David Engel highlights Update: Hotfixes released for ODBC and OLE DB drivers for SQL Server
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-October 2023
- Srinivas Kandibanda highlights the Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack GDR
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers Lesson Learned 442: Determining CPU Usage in Azure SQL Database: One Query or Many
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- On the Visual Studio blog, Adrian Murphy writes about Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3 is here
- Maia Kelner highlights Designed with your feedback: a better Extension Manager
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about VS Code Update Improves Testing with GitHub Copilot AI and Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3 Adds Update Notification
- Sunil Talluri writes about Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box
- Anuraj Parameswaran covers Working with dotnet8 projects in Visual Studio 2022
- Toru Eguchi describes Boosting Productivity with a VS Code Extension for Autocompleting CSS Variables-Formatted Design
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 Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gloridel Morales describes October patches for Azure DevOps Server
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- James van Den Berg delves into Windows Server Insider Preview Build 25967 with Azure Arc in Taskbar
- Dan Richardson highlights a Click Through Demo for Windows Server 2012 Extended Security Updates Enabled by Azure Arc
- Didier Van Hoye writes What is AzureArcSysTray.exe doing on my Windows Server
- Kawula Dave walks through Expanding a 3-Way Mirror Volume in S2D or AZHCI in Depth S2D AZHCI PowerShell
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Kimia Mavon announces a de-identification service for Health and Life Sciences
- June Castillote (@junecastillote) describes how to Save & Recover Bitlocker Recovery Keys: A Complete Guide
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Issue and verify BBS+ verifiable credentials using ASP.NET Core and trinsic.id
- On episode 207 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) ask What is Microsoft Entra ID cross-tenant sync?
- Dishan Francis provides a Step-by-Step Guide to Identify Inactive Users by using Microsoft Entra ID Governance Access Reviews
- On the Check your Logs blog, Cary Sun (@SifuSun) describes How to Migrate Microsoft Entra Connect Azure AD Connect to v2
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Eldert Grootenboer (@egrootenboer) writes about Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
- Karol Pieciukiewicz covers Azure Container Apps – service bus part 6
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 walks through Plotting the Azure Digital Twins graph in Azure Data Explorer
- Lola Bryan discusses Whats new in Windows Holographic, version 23H2
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- John Mighell covers Introducing AI-powered Skills in Microsoft Viva: A new way to understand and empower the workforce
- Deepa Athre writes Skilling up on Azure Explore this quarters key new resources
- Pablo Lopes writes The .NET Conf Student Zone is Back
- Cynthia Zanoni (@cynthiazanoni) announces Tips and Tricks to Bring Your AI Idea to Life — a new Reactor show
- Glaucia Lemos (@glaucia_lemos86) blogs about Transforming Data Analysis with Power BI and AI
- Rafal Sosnowski provides a Skilling snack: BitLocker management for enterprises
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 Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
- Antonio Ortoll explains how to Optimize your Cloud investment with new Azure Advisor Workbooks
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers Azure Update Manager with Azure Policies
- Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) discusses License-free DR on Azure SQL Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022
- Ahmed Mahmood describes Elevating communication compliance with Microsoft Purview
- Balasubramanian Delli explains how to Update 2309 for Microsoft Configuration Manager current branch is now available.
- David Starr explains Metered billing with Azure Managed Applications
- Cary Sun (@SifuSun) explains How to failback to the original virtual machine of the Production Site at Veeam Backup and Replication v12 and explains How to failback to the original virtual machine restored in a different location at Veeam Backup and Replication v12
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) covers Azure Backup in 2023: Features you should know about
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
- Daysha Carter covers Azure Communication Services October 2023 Feature Updates
- Daysha Carter explains how to Advanced Messaging enables WhatsApp
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- Srini Thumala explains How to decide which Azure Migrate appliance is right for your environment
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 ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available and General Availability: Azure Private Link for MySQL – Flexible Server
- Joji Varghese provides a Quick-Start Guide to Azure Private Endpoints with AKS & Storage
- Peter Hauge provides a Troubleshooting Guide for Virtual Machine Connectivity RDP/SSH
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) writes Default Outbound Access For VMs In Azure Will Be Retired
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Maulik Shah explains How Azure is keeping customers secure against the Rapid Reset DDoS Vulnerability
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Optimize Log Ingestion and Access in Microsoft Sentinel
- Hannes Lagler-Gruener talks about Sentinel triggers and how to use them
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Adwait Joshi explains how to Predict future attacks! Cloud Security Posture Management with Microsoft Defender
- Lara Goldstein writes about High severity curl vulnerability: prepare with 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 that Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
- Dennis Padia walks through Configuring Azure NetApp Files ANF Application Volume Group AVG for zonal SAP HANA deployment
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
- Fernando Mejia announces Public Preview of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers
- Caihua Rui explains How to use gRPC in Azure Spring Apps
- Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) presents a New Video Series: Mastering Reliable Web App Patterns for Java on Azure
- Yutang Lin announces Public Preview: Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Node.js on Windows Containers Web Apps
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) walks through Deploying an Astro Website to Azure Static Web Apps
- On episode 266 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Shawn Wildermuth (@ShawnWildermuth) talk about Web Service APIs in .NET 7
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes How to export an App Service Certificate from Azure
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) describes how to Set up an Azure Backup Recovery Services vault and Backup protection policy to backup your AVD personal session hosts
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