Azure Weekly Issue 465: 5th May 2024
This issue is slightly delayed this week as it's been a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, and I've been busy with a project in the garden. Starting with Identity, there are two posts about new Entra features: General Availability of Microsoft Entra External ID and Public preview: Expanding passkey support in Microsoft Entra ID.
Other interesting articles: Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory, and Your Go-To PowerShell Template for HTTP-Triggered Azure Functions, and in AI: Bringing GenAI Offline: running SLMs like Phi-2/Phi-3 and Whisper Models on Mobile Devices. If you live in the Azure Portal, you might have been impacted by a recent UX change and ask Where are my Azure Portal Menu Items?.
Finally, Barry Smart kicks off a new course Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 1 - Overview of the Course.
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
- Fisayo Feyisetan announces the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
- Paschal Alaemezie describes how to Train a Simple Recommendation Engine using Azure Machine Learning Designer
- Shep Sheppard coversAzure Machine Learning and OSS Model Fine tuning and delves into Azure Machine Learning and Custom Models
- Joinal Ahmed discusses Bringing GenAI Offline: running SLMs like Phi-2/Phi-3 and Whisper Models on Mobile Devices
- Avneesh Kaushik walks through Demystifying Azure Open AI for App developers
- Roee Oz discusses Best practices to architect secure generative AI applications
- Felipe Binotto walks through Building Your Own Copilot for Credit Card Selection
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
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Mexico Central region added to Azure HDInsight
- On the endjin blog, Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) shares Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 1 - Overview of the Course
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Alex Powers covers Data Factory Spotlight: Semantic model refresh activity
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) writes about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts
- Temidayo Omoniyi delves into Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory
- John Miner delves into Metadata Driven Pipelines – Data Engineering with Fabric
- Also on Tech Community blog, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) explains how to Learn how to Build Multimodal Applications with Azure AI 2nd May 2024
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 announces Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host - Redeploy
- Maulik Shah explains how to Increased security and resiliency of Canonical workloads on Azure - General Availability
- Timi Adebisi describes Public Preview: Hibernation Support extended to GPU and more General Purpose VM sizes.
- Thiago Almeida (@nzthiago) discusses Azure Functions Newsletter – May 2024
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) presents Your Go-To PowerShell Template for HTTP-Triggered Azure Functions
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 announces Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry and covers Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions
- Sudhanva Huruli discusses Azure Linux now supports Azure Kubernetes Service LTS
- Garima Singh writes about From Code to Cloud: Unveiling Microsoft's Innovations at Red Hat Summit
- Nelly Kiboi describes How to deploy a production-ready AKS cluster with Terraform verified module
- Hailu Kassa covers Autoscaling of Microservice Apps on Azure: Leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service, KEDA, and MSSQL
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
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show Kirill Gavrylyuk (@kirillg_msft) talks about AI Semantic Search for Your Website with Azure Cosmos DB E-commerce
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Abhiman Tiwari Introduce Regular Expressions Regex support in Azure SQL Database
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) blogs about OpenSilver 2.2 Aims to Revive Visual Studio LightSwitch Legacy Apps
- Steve Jones blogs about Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio
- Laurent Bugnion (@LBugnion) covers Using the slash test command in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
- Sung Gun Lee covers Storage Explorer How to install Storage Explorer on Ubuntu.
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Erik Ejlskov Jensent explain how to Code Analyze your SQL scripts in Visual Studio and elsewhere Data Exposed
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 Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags
- On episode 295 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Brady Graster to talk about .NET Cloud Native
- Heinrich Gantenbein talks about Revisiting Enterprise Policy as Code v10
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- Kam Vedbrat discusses Hannover Messe 2024: Scaling Industrial Transformation with Azures Adaptive Cloud Approach
- James van Den Berg explains how to Add Kubernetes Cluster to Microsoft Azure Arc Containers AzureHybrid
- Rashmi Shukla discusses Optimizing Performance: Oracle to SQL Server Migration using JDBC
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Alex Weinert discusses Public preview: Expanding passkey support in Microsoft Entra ID
- Irina Nechaeva discusses Microsoft Entra announcements and demos at RSAC 2024
- Levent Besik announces General Availability of Microsoft Entra External ID
- Also on Tech Community blog, Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) covers Public preview: External authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID
- Aquib Qureshi writes about Enhancing Azure Connectivity: Sharing PaaS instance across customer tenants on Azure
- Kevin Kaminski writes Intune Certificate Connector: Something Went Wrong
- Alex Weinert describes Microsoft named overall leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for ITDR and blogs about Microsoft named an overall leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for ITDR
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Sesha Mani blogs about Microsoft launches SharePoint eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign
- Ahmed Khaled explains how to Preserve Disk space in ImageStore for Service Fabric Managed Clusters
- Karanbir Singh talks about Packing more workflows into Logic App Standard
- Wagner Silveira writes about Improving the DevOps Experience for Azure Logic Apps Standard
- Jose Barreto covers MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How to deal with schema changes
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) covers Logic App Consumption Deployment Error: Get-AzResourceGroup Method getSerializationSettings in type Microsoft.Azure.Management.Internal.Resources.ResourceManagementClient does not have an implementation and provides a Friday Fact: Logic App Consumption and Standard name have different size limits and restrictions
- Sesha Mani announces SharePoint advanced management innovations for the AI and Copilot era
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
- Belle Kriger walks through Introducing Single Sign-On SSO for Sensor Console: Enhanced Security and Streamlined Access
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 LTS release
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- Rie Moriguchi explains how to Learn Azure Together in Microsoft Learn Learning Room
- TJ Devine talks about Whats New in Copilot April 2024
- Renee Noble explains how to Learn to build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon
- Matt Graven writes Get ready for Microsoft Build: Sharpen your skills
- On episode 236 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Azure Updates
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: Azure Monitor pipeline at edge
- On The Azure Podcast, the team talk to Priyanka Khare in Episode 493 - Azure Advisor
- Mary Asaolu covers Hunting in Azure subscriptions
- Xema Pathak explains how to Accelerate your observability journey with Azure Monitor pipeline preview
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Governance Update - Management Groups
- John Scott talks about Upcoming Azure Federal Developer Connect Webinar
- David O'Brien (@david_obrien) writes about Where are my Azure Portal Menu Items?
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
- Venkat Ramakrishnan discusses Connecting Azure to Mainframes with Low Latency
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 General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights and Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route UDR management now in public preview
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
- Sagar Gupta writes about New and improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights
- Amy Colyer covers Azure Landing Zone Accelerator for AVS – Public IP at the NSX Edge
- Andrea Michael describes How to Use Azure Virtual Network Manager's UDR Management Feature
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) provides a Script – Document All Azure Private DNS Zones
- Tommy Jensen discusses Deployment Considerations for Windows ZTDNS Client
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Gerson Levitz discusses Introducing the new Defender for Identity Health Alert API
- Thomas Zou covers Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases Now Supports Multicloud AWS RDS
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Export Microsoft Sentinel Automation Rules With Ease
- Beth Bischoff delves into Protecting Containers: A Primer for Moving from an EDR-based Threat Approach
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
- Irfan Shahdad discusses Unveiling the Newest OneDrive Capabilities
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- Yutang Lin talks about Public Preview: App Insights integration for Python apps on App Service
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q1 2024: Save up to 47% with Azure savings plan
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) talks about Azure API Management Governing Product Visibility and Access via Groups
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes How to solve Error occurred during a cryptographic operation. in Azure App Service
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
- Tom Hickling explains how to Curated resiliency recommendations for Azure Virtual Desktop
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