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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
🚌 Migration
- Venkat Ramakrishnan discusses Connecting Azure to Mainframes with Low Latency
🌐 Networking
- 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
- 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
- Irfan Shahdad discusses Unveiling the Newest OneDrive Capabilities
🔗 Web
- 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
- Tom Hickling explains how to Curated resiliency recommendations for Azure Virtual Desktop