Azure Weekly
Issue #473 - 30th June 2024
Still no Azure Updates RSS feed, so here's the official update blog post for the Week of June 27, 2024. Notable announcements this week start with a very important Update on MFA requirements for Azure sign-in, next is Introducing the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module, and Join us in July for Securing AI Apps on Azure.
Two other interesting articles, the first about Deploying A GPT-4o Model to Azure OpenAI Service and the second about Empowering cloud efficiency through FinOps.
Other interesting updates include:support of OCI v1.1 specification in Azure Container Registry, and public preview of Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium, and Azure API Center: Centralizing API Management for Enhanced Discovery and Governance, and the usual epic Microsoft Fabric June 2024 Update.
Finally Barry Smart has written a great article Launchpad to Success: Building and Leading Your Data Team which outlines how to become goal focused to deliver significant and valuable outcomes.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) discuss CosmosDB and AI with Mark Brown
- Franziska Hinkelmann (@fhinkel) explains how to Build specialized AI assistants with RAG
- Qinying Liao explains how to Make your voice chatbots more engaging with new text to speech features
- Jamie Maguire (@jamie_maguire1) writes about Semantic Kernel: Working with File-based Prompt Functions
- Pamela Fox explains how to Try out SLMs with Ollama in GitHub Codespaces
- Yanling Xiong talks about Language in Azure AI prompt flow
- Seth Patton discusses Whats new in Copilot June 2024
- Bill Wilder (@codingoutloud) describes Talk: Season of AI at Boston Azure
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama covers EU Regulators Probe Azure-Only Clause in Microsoft-OpenAI Deal
- Drac Zhang explains how to Integrate GPT4o Azure Open AI in Teams channel via Logic App with image supportability
- Rena Liu announces conversational PII detection services general availability in Azure AI language
- On the Trailhead blog, Rodrigo Juarez covers Deploying A GPT-4o Model to Azure OpenAI Service
- Roee Oz blogs about Architecting secure Generative AI applications: Safeguarding against indirect prompt injection
- Manoranjan Rajguru explains how to Create Your First Visual Agent Using AOAI and AI Search - Search Product Catalog Images
- Sapna Giddegowda blogs about WebNN: Bringing AI Inference to the Browser
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Justin Barry covers Microsoft Fabric Lifecycle Management: Getting started with development in isolation using a Private Workspace, Santhosh Kumar Ravindran blogs about Introducing Capacity Pools for Data Engineering and Data Science in Microsoft Fabric, Amir Jafari blogs about Building Custom AI Applications with Microsoft Fabric: Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation for Enhanced Language Models and Jason Himmelstein talks about Microsoft Fabric June 2024 Update
- Greg Beaumont discusses Moving Fabric Power BI Workspaces from Premium or Free Trial to new F SKUs
- Jean Hayes says Leverage Microsoft Fabric Delta Lake tables for reporting over billions of rows
- Udayaezhil Selvam provides an Overview of Databricks Delta Tables
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) explains how to Configure Microsoft Fabric Database Mirroring for Snowflake
- Estera Kot describes Upgrade to Azure Synapse runtimes for Apache Spark 3.4 & previous runtimes deprecation
- Panu Oksala covers Access Microsoft Fabric Data from Dotnet App
- Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) writes Launchpad to Success: Building and Leading Your Data Team
🖥️ Compute
- Jaime Garcia de Alba describes Connect Windows Azure VM to Azure SQL DB using Managed Identity
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) chat about 244 - We discovered Azure virtual machine hibernation
- Richard Paw covers Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench Alliance enables innovation for semiconductor design and discusses Microsoft joins Intel Foundry Accelerator USMAG Alliance
🚢 Containers
- Cormac Garvey discusses GPU node health checks integrated into Azure Kubernetes service via node problem detector
- Dalan Mendonca (@dalanMendonca) explains how to Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters through Azure Monitor
- Feynman Zhou (@FeynmanZhou) announces support of OCI v1.1 specification in Azure Container Registry
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) covers Inline YAML editing with Microsoft Copilot in Azure
- On Diagrid Blog, Bilgin Ibryam describes Mastering the Dapr Inner Development Loop. Part 1: Code & Unit Test, explains how to Streamline Dapr Component Configuration with Diagrid Conductor and Alice Gibbons discusses Dapr & Conductor Driving Success in the Automotive Software Industry
- Vandana Mahtani covers Preview Introducing new version of Self-Hosted Integration Runtime SHIR that is Kubernetes-based
- Sina Salam discusses Using Keycloak with Azure AD to integrate AKS Cluster authentication process
🗄️ Databases
- Khalid Abdelaty walks through Integrating Power BI with Azure Data Services
- Nithish Aruldoss covers Converting database objects from Db2 to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- On SQL Server Central, Hristo Hristov explains how to Build Chatbot with Large Language Model LLM and Azure SQL Database
- On the SQL Server Blog, Bob Ward (@bobwardms) talks about Getting started with delivering generative AI capabilities in SQL Server and Azure SQL
- Marisa Mathews talks about Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL Data Exposed
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, McKenna Barlow describes Code Assessment with .NET Upgrade Assistant
- Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) walks through Using GitHub Copilot's LLM in your VS Code extension
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) highlights GitHub Expands Copilot Enterprise Search in Visual Studio and VS Code, writes about Visual Studio IntelliCode Still Among Top AI Code Assistants and writes about Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code
- On IT Next, Michael Eichhorn explains how to Build a portable Development environment with Docker and WSL
- On the Azure podcast, Delbert Murphy provides a Quantum Update - Episode 498
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) talks about GCast 178: Administrative Setup for Microsoft Dev Box
🔩 DevOps
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) chats to Étienne Tremblay: Setting up for DevOps properly - Episode 303
- Karol Pieciukiewicz highlights Azure DevOps self-hosted agent using prebuilt images
- On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) walks through Passing dynamically sized object parameters to Azure DevOps Pipeline templates and It's the SonarQube Elasticsearch indexes again
- On IT Next, Jack Roper blogs about Azure Pipelines Tutorial
- Brad Wyatt delves into Leveraging OpenAI to Enhance Pull Request Management in Azure DevOps
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Aurnov Chattopadhyay writes about Five Key Updates on WS2012 ESUs enabled by Azure Arc
- Cynthia Treger discusses ExpressRoute FastPath for UDRs and VNet peering
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses Azure Stack HCI in the HPE Customer Innovation Center in Geneva
🎭 Identity
- Naj Shahid explains how to Update on MFA requirements for Azure sign-in
- Steve Mutungi talks about Introducing the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama discusses Microsoft Entra PowerShell Module Hits Public Preview
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Pamela Fox says Join us in July for Securing AI Apps on Azure
- Ankur Patel explains how to Evolve your CIAM strategy with External ID
- Daniel Zatakovy explains how to What's New: Create your own codeless data connector
- Huzaifa Ghori describes How to integrate Microsoft User Authentication using Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide to Use
- James Casey describes User insights: Analyze customer identity data
- Melanie Maynes discusses Move to cloud authentication with the AD FS migration tool
- Thomas Trombley covers Windows news you can use: June 2024
- On the Check your Logs blog, Kevin Kaminski describes Enabling Enterprise State Roaming in Entra ID
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains how to Deploy Entra Domain Service and Join a Server to the Domain
🔌 Integration
- Luis Rigueira describes Friday Fact: New Logic App Designer in GA Enables Copy and Paste Actions
- Eldert Grootenboer (@egrootenboer) announces public preview of Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium
💡 Internet of Things
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) describes Redis cache integration in Azure IoT Edge
- The Azure Sphere Team announces Azure Sphere version 24.06 is now available and describes Azure Sphere – Image signing certificate update coming soon
- Ashish Chhabria announces public preview for Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated
📚 Learning
- Matt Graven discusses Code in the cloud: Explore tools, training, and resources
- Nicklas Olsen explains how to Prepare for Your Next Certification
- Pete Daderko talks about Whats New in Microsoft Teams June 2024
- Rachel Irabor talks about Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Program Interview Series Episode 2
- Orin Thomas writes about New and Free Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skill Credential
- Stephen Jensen talks about Microsoft Credentials roundup: June 2024
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Heinrich Gantenbein describes Simplifying Azure Diagnostics with Category Groups and the New Built-In Policies
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) describes Microsoft Copilot in Azure Series - Copilot Access Management
- Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) discusses Empowering cloud efficiency through FinOps
- Kevin Sheehan blogs about Intro to Config Refresh – a refreshingly new MDM feature
🎬 Media
- Aquib Qureshi explains how to Send emails via SMTP relay with Azure Communication Service
🌐 Networking
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) talks about ExpressRoute traffic visibility: Flow Logs or Traffic Collector
- Tao Yang (@MrTaoYang) blogs about Azure Policies for Restricting Service Tag in Network Security Groups
- Jason Medina covers Dual-region deployments using Secure Virtual WAN Hub with Routing-Intent without Global Reach
🔐 Security
- Jeremy Tan discusses Introducing SOC Optimization API
📦 Storage
- On SQL Server Central, John Miner describes Control OneLake with Storage Explorer – Data Engineering with Fabric
🔗 Web
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Glaucia Lemos (@glaucia_lemos86) blogs about Azure API Center: Centralizing API Management for Enhanced Discovery and Governance
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Fernando Klurfan covers The future of Microsoft Teams in VDI
- Seneca Friend explains how to Preferred app group type settings enhance user feed display