Azure Weekly
Issue #461 - 7th April 2024
Highlights this week include: LangChain integration with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Part 1 and cost-effective RAG at scale with Azure AI Search
Three great posts from the community: Configure Azure Functions to use Identity Based Connections, and Azure Cosmos DB: container items and generics, and Syncing a git branch between Windows and WSL filesystems.
And finally, a mixed bag of interesting posts: Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory, and Query and Send Results To a New Table in Log Analytics, and Choosing the right Azure API Management tier for your networking scenarios, and Managed SD-WAN in vWAN: throughput considerations and underlay options, and Azure Event Grid Namespace: An Introductory Guide.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- John Montgomery announces Cohere Command R+, now available on Azure
- Pablo Castro (@pmc) announces cost-effective RAG at scale with Azure AI Search
- Glaucia Lemos (@glaucia_lemos86) covers Building a RAG Pattern chat bot with Azure OpenAI and LangChain.js
- On episode 232 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) Dive into Azure AI Studio
- Martin Bald explains How To Get from AI Prototype to Production with Minimal Effort
- Vidushi Gupta explains how to Build a speech translator app using Azure
- Nitya Narasimhan covers #14DaysOfData Science: A Developer Tools & AI Workshop
- Sukhpinder Singh writes about Taking the Azure Open AI Challenge, Day 5: Azure Document Intelligence
- Adrian Collier talks about Enabling satellite operators to offer AI at the edge in space
- Bill Wilder (@codingoutloud) covers hello-ai: A Simple Demonstration of Azure OpenAI
🔎 Analytics
- Mark Kromer describes New Easy-to-Use Expression Builder Experience for Fabric Data Factory Pipelines
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Penny Zhou explains how to Explore data solutions efficiently with Data Pipeline's new landing page in Fabric Data Factory
- Aaron Merrill blogs about OneLake data access roles for folders – Public Preview Announcement
- Miguel Llopis covers Data Factory Announcements at Fabric Community Conference Recap
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama discusses Microsoft Fabric Gets More Secure, More Open and More AI
- Dhananjay Gokhale walks through Microsoft Fabric: NASDAQ stock data ingestion into Lakehouse via Notebook
- Rajneesh Tiwary discusses Microsoft Fabric Co-Existing as Semantic Layer with Power BI & Snowflake
- Jason Foerch walks through Providing a unified healthcare analytics solution for the era of AI
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) describes a Power Query ODBC bug affecting date calculations
- Temidayo Omoniyi blogs about Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory
- Ron L'Esteve discusses Gaining Insights from Azure Data Factory Per Pipeline Billing Details
- Abhishek Jain describes how to Run federated queries on Trino with HDInsight on AKS
🖥️ Compute
- Garima Singh writes about Red Hat Enterprise Linux Pricing update
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) explains how to Configure Azure Functions to use Identity Based Connections
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally Available: AKS cost views
- James Dumont walks through using Helm charts managed through Terraform to deploy an Azure SecretProviderClass on AKS
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) explains how to Optimize AKS Load Balancing: Upgrading to IP-Address Pool Management
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server
- On the Data Exposed show with Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna): Introducing Copilot in Azure SQL Database Private Preview, Introduction to Optimized Locking in Azure SQL Database, and Building AI ready applications
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) blogs about Whats new in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2024 so far Data Exposed News Update
- Ama Kusi talks about Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024: A Deep Dive for Developers and AI Enthusiasts
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) discusses Azure Cosmos DB: container items and generics
- Karla Escobar talks about Azure Database for MariaDB retirement - Key updates and migration information
- Ebru Ersan explains how to Released: SCOM Management Pack for Azure SQL Managed Instance 7.4.0.0
- On the SQL Server Blog, David Pless (@dpless) describes Provision Premium SSD v2 Storage for Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in the Microsoft Azure portal
- Joshua Johnson (@JoshMSFT) blogs about LangChain integration with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Part 1
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Matt Graven explains how to Get ready for Microsoft Build: Explore cloud-native, AI, GitHub Copilot, and more
- Subhojit Basak announces SQL Server Data Tools SSDT for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2
- On the Visual Studio blog, Laurent Bugnion (@LBugnion) presents a series of articles on GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, How to use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio, Using GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio, The AskVS command in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio, and Using Slash Commands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
- Erik Ejlskov Jensen describes How to: Code analyze your SQL Server T-SQL scripts in Visual Studio and explains how to Create a Custom Static Code Analysis Rule for Azure SQL Database / SQL Server with .NET
- Kathy Lau blogs about Building a Document Intelligence Custom Classification Model with the Python SDK
- On episode 291 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Mads Torgersen to talk about The Latest in C#
- Andrew Lock (@andrewlocknet) walks through Syncing a git branch between Windows and WSL filesystems
🔩 DevOps
- On the GitHub blog, Tanmayee Kamath discusses Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Angel Wong describes End of Support for Microsoft products reliant on older Azure DevOps authentication
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dan Hellem writes about AB links on GitHub pull request and scale improvements for large organizations
- Shahar Bahat covers Secrets scanning for Cloud deployments
- Richard Hundhausen (@rhundhausen) talks about Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps
- Gerasimos Alexiou covers The subscription is not registered to use namespace Microsoft.ContainerService.
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency
- Aurnov Chattopadhyay talks about Coming Soon: Transition to WS2012/R2 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc for Year 2 and beyond
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) highlights the The Azure Adaptive Cloud Community
- Prachi Trivedi covers ISV network connectivity pattern for data exchange over public IP address between Azure and onPrem
- Kawula Dave covers Unveiling S2D and Azure Stack HCI Monitoring with PowerShell
- Silvio Di Benedetto (@s_net) explains How to enable Veeam Backup & Replication logs with Azure Arc & Log Analytics
🎭 Identity
- Kristopher Bash writes about Important update: Deprecation of Azure AD PowerShell and MSOnline PowerShell modules and writes about Important update: Azure AD Graph API retirement
- Shobhit Sahay explains how to What's new in Microsoft Entra and talks about Introducing new and upcoming Entra Recommendations to enhance security and productivity
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Create conditional access base policies for a Microsoft Entra ID tenant
- Tameika Lawrence explains how to Create SQL logins and users for nonunique Microsoft Entra principals with Object ID – Public preview
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps Standard and writes about General Availability of Azure Logic Apps connectors for IBM Mainframe and Midranges
- Alex Zúñiga highlights the Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - April 2024
- Wagner Silveira covers File Systems Connector Support on Workflow Standard Plans
- Karol Pieciukiewicz covers Azure Event Grid Namespace: An Introductory Guide
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about BizTalk Server Visual Studio Error: The type or namespace name Unb21 does not exist in the namespace, covers Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: 41 How to convert XML into JSON inside Logic Apps and Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: 42 How to convert JSON into XML inside Logic Apps
- Sayan Roy shows how to Use Logic App to monitor Application Gateway Backend Health
💡 Internet of Things
- Jamie Scholfield discusses Microsoft and Azure private MEC at Embedded World
- Stefan Wick describes Azure RTOS transition to open-source is now complete
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Resiliency Review on Azure Advisor
- Bhalchandra Atre describes Public Preview: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365
- Mabel Gomes covers Windows known issues and product lifecycle in Graph API
- Shijo Joy describes Whats New Unveiling the Latest Features of the Azure Native New Relic Service
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Query and Send Results To a New Table in Log Analytics
- Freddy Dubon discusses Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics
- Helder Pinto explains how to Get Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Insights with the Azure Optimization Engine
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
- Fernando Mejia delves into Choosing the right Azure API Management tier for your networking scenarios
- Cynthia Treger discusses Managed SD-WAN in vWAN: throughput considerations and underlay options
🔐 Security
- Chaitra Satish covers Microsoft Copilot for Security is now generally available
- Heike Ritter writes about Monthly news - April 2024
- Megha Priya talks about Offline Security Intelligence Update is now in Public Preview
- Paul Brightmore writes about Five new capabilities for Microsoft Priva—now in Public Preview
- Brjann Brekkan blogs about Microsoft FAQ and guidance for XZ Utils backdoor
- Abhi Singh covers Native-First Cloud Security Approach and discusses Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Unique Capabilities for Robust Protection
- Sreedhar Ande explains how to Enhance the ingestion of AWS CloudWatch logs into Microsoft Sentinel with AWS Lambda
- Steve Labeau covers Microsoft Defender – Ensure that intelligence for impersonation protection is enabled
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
- Osama Sheikh provides A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Managed HSM for Regulated Industries
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team talks about GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity and announces General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers
- Fernando Mejia announces General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers
- Denver Brittain announces Java 21 and Tomcat 10.1 on Azure App Service
- Amritpal Singh Naroo walks through Configuring App Service Certificate in Application Gateway