Azure Weekly
Issue #472 - 23rd June 2024
The Azure Updates RSS is still AWOL, but there is a page that contains an aggregated list of updates for the week: Week of June 20, 2024 Azure Updates which may have to be a stop-gap. There's a great walkthrough of how to create Compelling Data Storytelling with Power BI: Titanic Survivors, in AI, there's a useful post for IT Admins - Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Support Tips, Part 2, and the second part in the tutorial How to build a Copilot for Security API Plugin – Part 2.
Two great posts covering enhancements to Azure's great serverless offerings: Enhancing Performance in Azure Container Apps, and How to achieve high HTTP scale with Azure Functions Flex Consumption.
Finally, a few dev(ops) related posts: Static Web Apps CLI: improve performance with Vite server proxy, and Automate Azure DevOps Work Item Updates with Azure Functions and the Azure DevOps API, and External Key Store vs Azure Managed HSM.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Dale Jacques describes Generative AI Technical Patterns: Chat with Your Data
- Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan highlights What's new in Azure AI Translator: document translation
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) describes GitHub Copilot for Azure Gets Preview Glitches
- Brian Stoner discusses Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Support Tips, Part 2
- maljazaery blogs about Unleashing PTU Token Throughput with KV-Cache-Friendly Prompt on Azure
- Quentin Miller announces Face API Service SDKs for Liveness
- A.J. Brush and Mary David Pasch explain How Copilot for Microsoft 365 Works
- Yohan Lasorsa blogs about Generative AI, from your local machine to Azure with LangChain.js
- Shikha Agrawal discusses Phi-3 Vision – Catalyzing Multimodal Innovation
🔎 Analytics
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) explains how to Update records in a Kusto Database General Availability
- On The New Stack, Andrew Brust talks about Databricks Launches Lakehouse, AI, BI and Governance Advances at Annual Summit
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) covers Microsoft Fabric New Features Announced at Microsoft Build 2024
- On the endjin blog, Paul Waller (@Crashbangwaller) has recorded a walkthrough about creating Compelling Data Storytelling with Power BI: Titanic Survivors
- Joe Billingham writes Ownership Made Easy: Microsoft Fabric Warehouse Takeovers
🖥️ Compute
- Micah McKittrick announces the Public Preview of Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orche
- Thiago Almeida (@nzthiago) describes How to achieve high HTTP scale with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
- Eamon O'Reilly blogs about Azure Functions triggers and bindings for building intelligent apps with Azure OpenAI
- On the Q Sharp blog, Mathias Soeken describes Evaluating cat qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing using Azure Quantum Resource Estimator
- Philipp Leitenbauer walks through Converting Virtual Machines running Linux from SCSI to NVMe
- Ringe Chen writes about Simple Self-Troubleshooting Steps for Function App Not Seeing Triggers
🚢 Containers
- On Diagrid Blog, Alice Gibbons discusses Dapr & Conductor Driving Success in the Automotive Software Industry and discusses Conductor by Diagrid Now Available in the AWS Marketplace
- Cary Chai discusses Enhancing Performance in Azure Container Apps
- Muhammad Suzarilshah bin Zakaria talks about Vulnerability Assessment on Azure Container Registry with Microsoft Defender and Docker Hub
🗄️ Databases
- Derek Wilson writes about General availability: Database compatibility level 160 in Azure SQL Database
- Uros Milanovic announces GA of Advance Notifications for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks about JSON Type & Aggregates Public Preview in Azure SQL Database
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) describes Lesson Learned 501: Exporting Multiple Databases Simultaneously with SqlPackage and Lesson Learned 502: Comparing and Transferring Azure SQL Databases Table Structures Using SMO
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Christine Ruana explains how to Keep Visual Studio automatically updated and secure through Microsoft Update
- On the Visual Studio blog, Mark Downie (@poppastring) explains how to Easily navigate code delegates while debugging
- Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) explains how to Utilize command URIs for documentation access in VSCode
- Keith Howling writes about 5 ways to dramatically speed up your cloud application teams
- Daniel Calbimonte talks about Working with SQL Server in Visual Studio Code
- On the Visual Studio blog, Sinem Akinci blogs about Bosch widely adopts Visual Studio for their C++ remote Linux projects
🔩 DevOps
- Saloni Agrawal talks about Introducing Downloadable HTML report for Azure Load Testing
- Chris Sidebotham describes Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update May
- On episode 302 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Martin Hinshelwood to talk about Migrating Azure DevOps Server to the Cloud
- Werner Rall writes about Dynamically Updating Azure IP Ranges with PowerShell and DevOps
- Brad Wyatt explains how to Automate Azure DevOps Work Item Updates with Azure Functions and the Azure DevOps API
- David Hernandez covers Platform engineering: Monitor Backstage with Application Insights
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Meagan McCrory announces enhanced multicloud integration enabled by Azure Arc
🎭 Identity
- Kaitlin Murphy blogs about Microsoft Entra ID Governance licensing clarifications
- Roelf Zomerman (@RCZ_Jag) delves into External Key Store vs Azure Managed HSM
🔌 Integration
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam covers June 17, 2024 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
- Kent Weare (@wearsy) covers Logic Apps Standard - New Hybrid Deployment Model Preview
📚 Learning
- On the Azure blog, Bert Hoorne & Lilach Goldshtein explains how to Improve cloud performance and reliability with a guided learning plan
- On episode 243 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Azure Updates
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Ian Carter announces the General Availability of Change Actor
- Paul Grimley announces Zone Redundancy and Multi-Region Capabilities in Azure Landing Zones
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) describes How to check if an Azure Marketplace image is marked for deprecation
🎬 Media
- Sheri Mehmood announces Microsoft Teams Webinar integration with HubSpot marketing automation
- Milan Kaur covers Azure Communication Services May 2024 Feature Updates
- Daniela Chocron blogs about Upcoming changes for creating and managing Teams Phone resource accounts
🌐 Networking
- Mahip Deora explains how to Build scalable cross-subscription applications with Azure Load Balancer
- Erika Enomoto blogs about Public preview: Create multiple prefixes for a subnet in an Azure Virtual Network
- Owain Osborne-Walsh writes about A/B Testing, Session Affinity & Regional Rules for Multi-region AKS clusters with Azure Front Door
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) discusses Network Rules Versus Application Rules for Internal Traffic
🔐 Security
- Alex Weinert explains How to break the token theft cyber-attack chain
- Rich Peckham discusses Octo Tempest: Hybrid identity compromise recovery
- Chaitanya Belwal (@cbelwal) describes How to build a Copilot for Security API Plugin – Part 2
📦 Storage
- Ralf Klahr covers Immutable Backup for SAP databases using Azure NetApp Files and BlueXP
- Jerry Morey blogs about Breaking the Speed Limit with WEKA: The World's Fastest File System on top of Azure Hot Blob
🔗 Web
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) writes about Static Web Apps CLI: improve performance with Vite server proxy
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Also on Tech Community blog, Kingston Hui talks about MAM preview for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop