Azure Weekly
Issue #475 - 14th July 2024
Highlights from this edition include: Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, and Manage OneLake Storage With PowerShell - Data Engineering with Fabric, and Streaming Event Data through RabbitMQ to a Microsoft Fabric Eventstream.
Three other articles of note: Microsoft Entra Suite now generally available, and Deploy a Phi-3 model in Azure AI, and consume it with C# and Semantic Kernel and App Spaces: Simplifying application logging.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) covers Creating an Azure AI Speech Service and talks about Text-to-Speech Using the AI Speech Service
- Monu Bambroo delves into Running Open AI Whisper on Azure
- Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) explains how to Deploy a Phi-3 model in Azure AI, and consume it with C# and Semantic Kernel
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) presents Microsoft Copilot in Azure Series - Data Collection and Feedback
🔎 Analytics
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) discusses Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
- Panu Oksala explores the Microsoft Fabric REST API
- Mustafa Al-Durra walks through Empowering multi-modal analytics with the medical imaging capability in Microsoft Fabric
- John Miner explains how to Manage OneLake Storage With PowerShell - Data Engineering with Fabric
- Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) walks through Streaming Event Data through RabbitMQ to a Microsoft Fabric Eventstream
- On The New Stack, Joab Jackson talks about Showdown at the Lakehouse: Databricks Muscles Up With Tabular
🖥️ Compute
- Kaushal Ghai writes about General Availability Announcement: Azure VM Regional to Zonal Move
- Eyal Mizrachi writes about NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput now generally available
- Vinil Vadakkepurakkal walks through Creating a SLURM Cluster for Scheduling NVIDIA MIG-Based GPU Accelerated workloads
🚢 Containers
- Melanie Kraintz discusses IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Generally Available
- Riya Patel discusses Public Preview of the Windows Server Annual Channel for Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Vinicius Apolinario blogs about Microsoft Copilot in Azure - Kubectl
🗄️ Databases
- Varun Dhawan describes June 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- David Engel explains how to Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jessie Houghton explains how to Demystify history with GitHub Copilot commit explanations
- Erin Stellato (@erinstellato) highlights SSMS 20.2 ... and getting feedback for SSMS 21
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) talks about Microsoft Makes UI Changes for Java on VS Code
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) talks about Unlocking Data Insights: A Guide to Azure Dashboards, Workbooks, and Power BI for Effective Visualization
- On episode 305 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) discusses Developer Experience in Windows 11 with Kayla Cinnamon
🔩 DevOps
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) covers Copilot AI Gets Smarter, More Secure in Visual Studio Previews
- Rene Hezser discusses Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update June
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes So my Azure DevOps TF30063 error was down to DNS again, walks through Checking out Git submodules when Azure DevOps Protected Access to repos is enabled and writes about More on when Azure DevOps variables are available in pipeline runs
🎭 Identity
- Irina Nechaeva covers Microsoft Entra Suite now generally available
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) discusses Entra Domain Services and Windows AD Password Hash Synchronization
- Sinead O'Donovan blogs about Microsoft Security Service Edge now generally available
🔌 Integration
- On By Sandro Pereira's blog, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) talks about Logic App Consumption deployment error: The value for the template parameter armsapsncPse is not provided, covers Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: 43 How to properly configure the System Number property of the SAP Connector and describes How to get started with Turbo360: Azure Documenter – Get Started Part III
- Jose Barreto covers MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: Dataset types and features and talks about Update on the SharePoint Files dataset
📚 Learning
- Hung Dang provides a Skilling snack: Windows Autopilot device preparation
- On episode 246 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Azure Summer projects
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) talks about Using Copilot for M365 and MS Graph
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Jodi Boone discusses Public Preview Announcement: Azure Policy Built-in Versioning
- Abhishek Sharan covers Workspace & DCR Transformation Simplified
- Beatriz Silveira walks through Using Azure Automation to perform Azure Site Recovery post failover tasks in virtual machines
- Gregor Wohlfarter asks What's the difference between Azure savings plans for compute and Azure reservations
🎬 Media
- Christian Schacht explains how to Get the most out of any Teams Rooms meeting with speaker recognition and Copilot
- Mike Tholfsen describes Clipchamp for Microsoft Education is here: enhancing learning through video creation
🚌 Migration
- Brandon Wilson discusses Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options
🌐 Networking
- Aarthi Sukumar writes Save Costs with Basic SKU Application Gateway for more features and less fixed costs
- Rob McNaught writes about Azure Virtual WAN migration – tales from the frontline
🔐 Security
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama talks about Microsoft Addresses Security Tool Sprawl with New Entra and Sentinel Releases
- Camille Birch discusses Preview Dynamic watermarking for sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Gal Berger explains how to What's new: Run playbooks on incidents on-demand going GA in unified platform
- Brjann Brekkan provides Guidance for handling regreSSHion CVE-2024-6387 using Microsoft Security capabilities
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Erin Miyake talks about Leveraging insider risk visibility to strengthen your data security
- David Frazee talks about Azure WAF Public Preview: JavaScript Challenge
📦 Storage
🔗 Web
- Mayunk Jain covers Act now On 31 August 2024, these Azure app platform and integration services will be retired
- On Sandro Pereira's blog, Luis Rigueira provides a Friday Fact: You can expose a Function on API Management directly from your Function App
- Dolev Shor explains how to Simplify app management with the Azure App Service Insights Workbook
- Elliott Hamai covers App Spaces: Simplifying application logging
- Mengyang Chen blogs about Azure OpenAI Extension for Function Apps Hands-on Experience
- Julia Muiruri covers Azure API Center - The ultimate service to streamline API Governance across your organization.
- Kunal Vaidya describes how to Capture and review .Net Profiler Traces on App Service Windows and walks through Memory Dump Collection using Procdump.exe for App Service Windows