Azure Weekly
Issue #464 - 28th April 2024
In AI we have a good mix of high-level and deep-dive technical articles. Next-Gen Customer Service: Azure's AI-Powered Speech, Translation and Summarization, and Using Kernel Memory to Chunk Documents into Azure AI Search. I find Agentic AI an absolutely fascinating area, so always happy to see new content:GoEX: a safer way to build autonomous Agentic AI applications and a really interesting articles on Reducing the Environmental Impact of Generative AI: a Guide for Practitioners.
In Hybrid, Getting started with Azure Arc-enabled servers, and Azure Arc: Validate ESU enrollment, and in identity: How to Safely Disable Security Defaults in Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Finally, there are three interesting posts: Protecting your IP in the Azure Marketplace, a long awaited new feature: Trusted Signing is in Public Preview, and a nice post we tired out this week: Azure DevOps + Mural Awesome Visualizations.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Suniti Panwar explains how to Join tech enthusiasts at MS Build '24: Exploring AI, Machine Learning, Azure, and More
- Danny Wigg writes Reducing the Environmental Impact of Generative AI: a Guide for Practitioners
- Malena Lopez-Sotelo says Imagine, Integrate, Innovate: Join Microsoft's GenAI Hackathon - LIVE NOW
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Glaucia Lemos (@glaucia_lemos86) shows Extending Copilot for Microsoft 365 using TypeScript Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024
- Gana Chandrasekaran blogs about the Path to Production Azure OpenAI Instances - PowerSchool Power Buddy
- Matthew Anderson discusses Webinar: How Takeda used generative AI to create a report generation app
- Demir Senturk discusses AI Frontiers: Human insights on AI training
- Elad Tal covers Next-Gen Customer Service: Azure's AI-Powered Speech, Translation and Summarization
- Gia Mondragon writes about Improving RAG performance with Azure AI Search and Azure AI prompt flow in Azure AI Studio
- Lo Kinfey (@Ljh8304) talks about Getting Started - Generative AI with Phi-3-mini: A Guide to Inference and Deployment
- Oscar Garcia Ozkary (@ozkary) discusses Generative AI: Create Code from GitHub User Stories - Large Language Models
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) walks through Using Kernel Memory to Chunk Documents into Azure AI Search
- Cedric Vidal discusses GoEX: a safer way to build autonomous Agentic AI applications
- Lu Zhang walks through A Heuristic Method of Merging Cross-Page Tables based on Document Intelligence Layout Model
- Mahesh covers Unveiling Generative AI Bulk Processing and Ingestion Pattern
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Jason Himmelstein blogs about Microsoft Fabric April 2024 Update
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Liliam Leme describes Fabric Change the Game: Embracing Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
- Ravi Sharma writes about AI/ML with Microsoft Fabric and SAS Viya. A Match made in the AI God's Heaven
- Assaf Fraenkel delves into Microsoft Fabric - Multi-Tenant Architecture
- Subashri Vasudevan covers Azure Data Factory Synapse Analytics: Validate File Folder before using
- The Azure Updates Team say The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024
🚢 Containers
- Nate Ceres discusses Key announcements for AKS from KubeCon Europe 2024
- Houssem Dellai (@HoussemDellai) describes Controlling AKS egress using an HTTP Proxy
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries, and General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore, and General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features and General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- Claire Giordano (@clairegiordano) writes about About Talk Selection for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024
- Abhishek Kumar discusses Release: Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio v1.5.4
- Kalyan Kaki announces Oracle Database @ Azure in United Kingdom South
- Sandip Khandelwal discusses Database Schema Compare Tool
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Davide Mauri discuss Approximate Vector Search with KMeans and Azure SQL
- Sam Garth covers SQL MI Restore with valid SAS key failing with Operating System Error 86
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Hamna Khalil explains how to Build your first ML-Model with ML.NET Model Builder
- Laurent Bugnion (@LBugnion) discusses Implementing a functionality with GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
🔩 DevOps
- Rakia Segev explains how to Trusted Signing is in Public Preview
- Richard Hundhausen (@rhundhausen) blogs about Azure DevOps + Mural Awesome Visualizations
- On episode 294 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Raziel Tabib (@RazielTabib) discuss GitOps
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) talks about Using Terraform tfvars for environment-agnostic deployments
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Cosmos Darwin explains how to Sneak peek at new Azure edge infrastructure at Hannover Messe 2024
- Kiana Harris talks about Public Preview of Edge Storage Accelerator
- Nathan Parikh covers Public Preview of Azure Arc Site Manager
- Sander van de Velde walks through Getting started with Azure Arc-enabled servers
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) covers Azure Arc: Validate ESU enrollment
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) provides an Introduction to Azure Arc Site Manager
🎭 Identity
- On the Redmond magazine site, Chris Paoli writes about Multi-Tenant Organization Hooks Released for Microsoft 365
- Joseph Dadzie explains how to Collaborate across M365 tenants with Entra ID multi-tenant organization
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) describes How to Safely Disable Security Defaults in Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide and explains How to Restrict Non-Admin Users from Creating Tenants in Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide
- On episode 235 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) delve into Understanding Entra SSE
🔌 Integration
- Beena More walks through Unlocking the Power of Azure Integration Services: A Webinar You Can't Miss
- Rohitha Hewawasam (@_RohithaH) talks about A workbook for Logic App standard run history and resubmitting multiple runs.
📚 Learning
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Microsoft at the European Cloud Summit ECS 2024 Wiesbaden, Germany
- Mark Kashman (@mkashman) blogs about Microsoft at TechCon365 and PWRCON – Seattle, WA June 3-7, 2024
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
- Balasubramanian Delli explains how to Update 2403 for Microsoft Configuration Manager current branch is now available.
- The Intune Support Team provides A browser for schools - Microsoft Edge on Windows devices and Intune app management
- Kara Wang blogs about Microsoft Intune Remote Help adds full control for Mac
- James Bell writes about Multi-tenant organization capabilities now available in Microsoft 365
- Paolo Salvatori blogs presents Azure Orphan Resources Grafana Dashboard
- Tommy Falgout talks about Protecting your IP in the Azure Marketplace
- Justin Orcutt covers Data Discovery: The First Step to AI Readiness
🚌 Migration
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions, writes about General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall WAF inspection limit & size enforcement and writes about General availability: Virtual network flow logs
- HarshaCS writes about Network traffic observability with virtual network flow logs
- Jason Medina delves into Dual-Region Azure VMware Solution design with Global Reach, using Secure Virtual WAN
- On the Wired for Hybrid show, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) and Michael Bender cover What's New in Azure Networking
- Sourav Bera explains how to Perform bulk NSG rule rollout across multiple target NSGs
🔐 Security
- Dean Rubinstein talks about Microsoft Security Exposure Management introduces: Critical asset protection
- Giulio Astori describes Operationalizing Attack Path Insights
- Sochi Ogbuanya discusses Revoking vulnerable Windows boot managers
🔗 Web
- On episode 375 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) and Ben Stegink (@benstegink) talk about Securing Your Digital World: An Intro to Global Secure Access
- Alibek Jakupov explains how to Deploy a Gradio Web App on Azure with Azure App Service: a Step-by-Step Guide