Azure Weekly
Issue #474 - 7th July 2024
First off two Microsoft Fabric posts from the community: Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric and Fabric workloads and other items currently covered in the DP-600 exam
Next, 3 .NET related announcements: Microsoft Fabric .NET SDK (yay!), Building Intelligent Applications with Local RAG in .NET and Phi-3: A Hands-On Guide, and Elevating BFF Apps with .NET Aspire.
Finally, a 3-part series on mastering the Dapr Inner Development Loop: Part 1: Code & Unit Test, Part 2: Run & Validate Apps Locally, and Part 3: Deploy to Kubernetes.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) walks through Building Intelligent Applications with Local RAG in .NET and Phi-3: A Hands-On Guide
- Minseok Song presents Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow: Step-by-Step Guide
- Daekeun Kim walks through Fine-tuning Florence-2 for VQA Visual Question Answering using the Azure ML Python SDK and MLflow
- Arne De Proft writres about Building the Ultimate Nerdland Podcast Chatbot with RAG and LLM: Step-by-Step Guide
- The Student Developer Team highlights Recap: June 2024 Ambassador AI Projects Demo Day, Showcasing the Power of AI
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Evelina Alroy-Brin covers Microsoft Fabric .NET SDK
- Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Rick Xu writes 'Microsoft Fabric is compliant with SOC certifications'
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) discusses Microsoft Fabric Warehouse - Configure Access and Permissions
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Anshul Sharma writes about Empowering Real-Time Searches: Vector Similarity Search with Eventhouse
- Kevin Chant describes Fabric workloads and other items currently covered in the DP-600 exam
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) blogs about Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
- Eduardo Noriega writes about Exploring the Relationship Between Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview: What You Need to Know
- Surya Teja Josyula talks about Automating Real-Time Intelligence Eventhouse deployment using PowerShell
🖥️ Compute
- Hari Pulapaka desctibes how to Securely design your applications and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves
🚢 Containers
- On Diagrid Blog, Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) shares a 3 part series Mastering the Dapr Inner Development Loop. Part 1: Code & Unit Test, and Part 2: Run & Validate Apps Locally and Part 3: Deploy to Kubernetes
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) delves into IIS Central Certificate Store and Windows containers
🗄️ Databases
- On the SQL Server Blog, Debbi Lyons (@debbilyons) announces the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database
- Balmukund Lakhani covers Public Preview: Shrink for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Gennady Kostinsky blogs about Azure Policy Support is Generally Available for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Shashikant Shakya (@shashikantshakya) highlights new troubleshooting guides features for PostgreSQL
- Eduardo Pivaral walks through Automating SQL Deployments using GitHub Actions - Part 2
- Matt Changchien explains How to remove the credential for legacy Threat Detection feature from Azure SQL Database
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Parikshit Savjani talks about More Performance + AI Integration Azure Database for MySQL-FlexibleServer
- Also on the Microsoft Mechanics show, Joshua Johnson (@JoshMSFT) talks about PostgreSQL with Local Small Language Model and In-Database Vectorization
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers Lesson Learned 505: Verifying IP Resolution in Azure SQL Database in Private Link
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about New Visual Studio Workload Highlights Microsoft's 'Renewed Focus' on WinUI
- On the Visual Studio blog, Duncan MacMichael wtites Dive into native Windows development with new WinUI workload and template improvements
- Levi Masonde talks about Getting Started with Azure CLI to Manage Azure Resources
- Shreyan Fernandes writes about Visual Studio AI Toolkit : Building GenAI Applications
🔩 DevOps
- On episode 379 of he Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink (@ciphertxt, @benstegink) discuss Azure Verified Modules
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes Where has the staging URL PR comment generated by my GitHub Actions workflow gone?
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes Don't call your Azure DevOps YAML Deployment stage 'deployment' - strange things happen
🎭 Identity
- Kristopher Bash talks about June 2024 update on Azure AD Graph API retirement
- Shobhit Sahay talks about Whats new in Microsoft Entra – June 2024
- Sravani Saluru walks through Authenticating Microsoft Entra ID using windows principal metadata - Public Preview
- On episode 245 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Entra ID licensing: One person, one license
- Alex Weinert talks about Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication enhancements
- Andrew Wilson blogs about Azure Role Based Access Control RBAC Removing Orphaned Role Assignments
🔌 Integration
- Alex Zúñiga highlights Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - July 2024
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) describes BizTalk Server Logic App Adapter: Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority and provides a Friday Fact: Migrating BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services will be expensive but cheaper than other competitor
- Parth Shah explains how to Automate responses to StackOverflow queries using OpenAI and Logic Apps
- Nidhi Shah describes How to Configure ServiceNow Knowledge Articles for Microsoft Graph Connector
📚 Learning
- Bethany Jepchumba (@bethanyjep), Cloud Advocate, writes about Fast Practices for Founders - A New Video Series for Startups
- Orin Thomas talks about the New and Free Azure Arc Applied Skill Credential
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Doug Coombs discusses Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery generally available
- Michael Flanakin blogs about News and updates from FinOps X 2024: How Microsoft is empowering organizations
- The Intune Support Team writes about New Windows corporate device identifier feature with Microsoft Intune: Everything you need to know
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) explains how to Maximize Your Savings with Azure Advisor's Cost Optimization Workbook
🚌 Migration
- Amlan Patnaik writes Seamlessly Migrate Your On-Premise Data Pipeline to Azure with These Key Steps
🔐 Security
- Heike Ritter highlights Microsoft Defender XDR Monthly news - July 2024
📦 Storage
- Sander van de Velde blogs about Using Azure Blob storage as Azure Data Explorer external table
🔗 Web
- David Frazee walks through Getting Started with Azure WAF REST API for Application Gateway: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Andreas Helland blogs about Elevating BFF Apps with .NET Aspire
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) talks with Jeff Fritz about Deploying NET Aspire Applications
- On epsisode 304 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Mitch Denny to talk about .NET Aspire Architecture
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Rachelle Cheung blogs about Connection Reliability in Azure Virtual Desktop Insights
- Rinku Dalwani describes Microsoft Teams in Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop