Azure Weekly
Issue #453 - 11th February 2024
There are a number of OpenAI related announcements this week; Azure OpenAI Service announces Assistants API, New Models for Finetuning, Text-to-Speech and more and the rather impressive OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech, also a useful post on Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Semantic Kernel – Some Tips & Tricks To Get Rendered Prompts.
There are also a couple of good Microsoft Fabric related posts: Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric to Trigger an Action when a Condition is Met and Microsoft Fabric real-time analytics exploration: EventGrid MQTT Broker integration.
Two interesting posts in the cloud native and DevOps space: Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 1 and Introducing Azure Verified Modules.
Finally a great Azure Networking 101 for Software Developers overview.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Dave Jacobs announces OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech
- Justin Royal covers Upcoming Events to Expand Your Azure AI Knowledge
- Mona Whalin talks about Azure OpenAI Service announces Assistants API, New Models for Finetuning, Text-to-Speech and more
- Ricky Diep explains how to Enable Chat History on Azure AI Studio with Azure Cosmos DB
- Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan announces Native Document support for PII Redaction and Summarization
- Rie Moriguchi explains how to AI Guide Dog: How Technology Boost Accessibility
- Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) provides some tips & tricks on Microsoft Semantic Kernel to: Get Rendered Prompts and Get Prompt & Completion Tokens
- Jones Jebaraj blogs about GenAI Solutions: Elevating Production Apps Performance Through Latency Optimization
- Manoj Kumar writes covers Copilot for genomics report interpretation
- Pascal Burume describes How to use Semantic Kernel Bot in-a-box to interact with data using natural language & AI
- Ron L'Esteve covers LangChain Prompt Templates with OpenAI LLMs
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) provides A look at the Azure OpenAI Assistants API
- On the Azure Medium blog, Valentina Alto talks about Getting Started with Code Interpreter in Azure OpenAI
- Martin Bald discusses Optimizing ML Models in Production in the Cloud or at the Edge using Shadow Deployments
- Matthew Anderson blogs about Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI
🔎 Analytics
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) walks through using Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric to Trigger an Action when a Condition is Met
- Sander van de Velde writes abotut Microsoft Fabric real-time analytics exploration: EventGrid MQTT Broker integration
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Elizabeth Oldag walks through Getting the size of OneLake data items or folders
- Greg Low (@greglow) discusses ADF: Fix – The required Blob is missing – Azure Data Factory – Get Metadata
- Diponkar Paul blogs about Fixing the Synapse Error Available workspace capacity exceeded error Livy session
- Katie Cummiskey Introduces the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure for Communications
- Michal Bar writes about ADX Web updates – Jan 2024
- Anshul Sharma writes about ADX Continuous Export to Delta Table - Preview
- The Azure Updates Team announces General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints
🖥️ Compute
- Amy Colyer discusses Lightbits for Azure VMware Solution
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) discusses Introducing Windows Server 2025 running in Azure
🚢 Containers
- Fady Azmy discusses Migration and Modernization solutions for Windows-based applications to Azure Kubernetes Services
- Elishiah Miller blogs about Simplifying Azure Kubernetes Service Authentication Part 1
- Rachit Tandon walks through Creating Azure Container Apps using Azure Python SDK
🗄️ Databases
- Varun Dhawan blogs about January 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Jared Westover describes how to Provision a Free Azure SQL Managed Instance Step by Step
- Pedro Acevedo explains How to Change Collation of an Azure SQL Managed Instance When There Are Dependency Errors
- Ravi Shankar explains How to connect to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server in a private network configuration
- Artem Mikulich shares a SQL Server 2014 retirement and an action plan
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Yannick Reekmans (@yannickreekmans) explains how to Get a never-expiring M365 Developer Program tenant with a Visual Studio Subscription
- Nandita Gupta blogs about Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft
- Jeremy Li describes ZIP package of Azure CLI is available on Windows
- Carlos Marin walks through Capturing Powershell and AZ CLI REST API calls with Fiddler
- Damien Caro discusses Hardening your defense in depth with secrets awareness in Azure command line tools
- Shreyan Fernandes provides An Overview of LIDA: Generate Visualizations and Infographics of Tabular Data using LLMs
🔩 DevOps
- Dan Hellem discusses Azure Boards + GitHub improvements in private preview
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Angel Wong writes about Regenerating secrets for Azure DevOps OAuth applications
- Linda Petersson Introduces Azure Verified Modules
- Saloni Agrawal covers Recording Test Scenarios In JMeter
- Freek Berson (@fberson) explains how to Publish Bicep modules to registries with the source.
🎭 Identity
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) talks about Microsoft Previews Face Check Verifications Using Entra Verified ID
- On Microsoft Security blog, Ankur Patel discusses Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Check in preview
- Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) discusses Auto Rollout of Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) blogs about Firewall considerations for gMSA on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains How to Send Entra ID Logs to Log Analytics
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availablility: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service
- Alex Zúñiga discusses Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - February 2024
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) writes about Logic App Consumption Bulk Failed Runs Resubmit Tool, presents two articles on Azure Cost Optimizations: Logic App skipped triggers are billable and Push vs Pull may significantly impact the final solution cost, and two articles on BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services: How do we migrate Dynamic Ports and Validate XML messages before executing the business logic
- Parth Shah talks the Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps Standard
- Saroja L Sattigeri writes about Common issues of Azure Automation connector in logic appconsumption and logic app standard
💡 Internet of Things
- Clemens Schotte explains how to Enhance your indoor maps with real-time map feature styling
📚 Learning
- Ayelet Artzi explains how to Become a Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Ninja
- Matt Graven provides resources on AI for Developers
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Paul Bergson discusses Monitoring for an Azure Server Going Offline
- The Intune Support Team provides a Support tip: Improving the efficiency of dynamic group processing with Microsoft Entra ID and Intune
🎬 Media
- Robert Cunningham covers Public preview of Universal Print on macOS
- Daysha Carter covers Azure Communication Services February 2024 Feature Updates
🚌 Migration
- Stephane Lapointe (@s_lapointe) writes TIFU by Forgetting to Turn Off Microsoft Defender for Storage During a Massive Data Migration
🌐 Networking
- Wessel Loth has written a Azure Networking 101 for Software Developers
🔐 Security
- Danielle Dennis writes about Latest Defender EASM Features Increase Visibility and Enhance Querying for Faster Remediation
- Stanislav Belov writes about Defender Monthly news - February 2024
- Prateek Taneja explains how to What's New: CrowdStrike Falcon Data Replicator V2 Data Connector is now Generally Available
- Rene van den Bedem discusses Azure VMware Solution Security Design Considerations
- Episode 224 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast withTobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) - We're talking about Security Operations SecOps in Azure
- Benjamin Kovacevic explains how to Create Tasks Repository in Microsoft Sentinel
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East and Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions
- Shubhra Sinha describes how to Integrity protect your Azure blob storage data with Azure confidential ledger
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team explains how to Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
- Fernando Mejia announces the availability of TLS 1.3 in Azure API Management in Preview
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) shows how to Secure an ASP.NET Core Blazor Web app using Microsoft Entra ID