Azure Weekly
Issue #484 - 15th September 2024
First up James Serra has produced useful Microsoft Purview FAQ, and part 5 of Barry Smart's Data Science with Microsoft Fabric Tutorial focuses on observability.
Next, some Azure Advisor workbook hidden gems, a how-to guide about LLM Load Testing on Azure Serverless & Managed-Compute, and how-to Secure Containerized Applications with SSH Tunneling
Continusing this years' theme on FinOps: How to save money on Azure Compute with Savings Plans, and FinOps On Azure: Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions
Finally, New pricing for Microsoft Certification exams effective November 1, 2024.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Charles Chukwudozie covers Exploring AI Agent-Driven Auto Insurance Claims RAG Pipeline.
- Carlos Crestana covers Introducing SDAIA and Their Latest Arabic LLM on Azure AI Model Catalog
- Lee Stott talks about Unlocking the Power of Responsible AI with Microsoft Azure
- Mohamad Al Jazaery covers LLM Load Test on Azure Serverless & Managed-Compute
- On the Perficient blog, Jos Flrez Restrepo discusses Custom Weather Forecast Model Using ML Net
- Pamela Fox covers Integrating vision into RAG applications
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Jianlei Shen announces New Storage Integration Support in Snowflake Connector for Fabric Data Factory, discusses Introducing the New Feature in Lakehouse Connector in Fabric Data Factory: Schema Support for Reading and Writing Data and announces New Data Factory Connectors Released in Q3 2024
- Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Rick Xu discusses Microsoft Fabric Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification
- Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Miguel Escobar (@EscobarMiguel90) discusses Dive into Data Factory at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe
- On the endjin blog, Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) covers Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 5 - Observability
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) writes about API for GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric
- Jaspreet Dhamija discusses Copilot for Microsoft Fabric - Starter Series Healthcare Focus
- Kapil Samant walks through Building Bronze Layer of Medallion Architecture in Fabric Lakehouse using WAL2JSON
- Sparsh Agrawat covers Unlock Analytics and AI for Oracle DatabaseAzure with Microsoft Fabric and OCI GoldenGate
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama covers Oracle-Microsoft 'DatabaseAzure' Service Getting Fabric, Sentinel Hooks
🖥️ Compute
- Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) blogs about Fix Azure Function Node.js GitHub Actions Windows workflow
- Marco Netto discusses Accelerating water wading simulation using Altair nanoFluidX on Azure Nvidia A100 and Nvidia H100
- Fawad Khan discusses Azure Lab Services - Upcoming maintenance update on October 12, 2024
- Gregor Wohlfarter explains How to save money on Azure Compute with Savings Plans
🚢 Containers
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) walks through Running a stateful MQTT client in Azure Container Instances
- Francis Laniel writes 'Inspektor Gadget is available in AzureLinux 3'
- Henry Yan blogs about Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024
- Roosevelt Nelson Jr describes Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues between a Virtual Machine VM and an Azure Container App
- Tsubasa Nomura describes How to monitor applications by using OpenTelemetry on Azure Container Apps
- On Diagrid Blog, Fernando Rocha blogs about Dapr & Service Mesh: What Are They, & How Do They Complement Each Other For Distributed Apps
- Sean Li announces the General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps
🗄️ Databases
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) discusses Justine Cocchi on Building Applications using Azure Cosmos DB
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) explains how to Implement Azure Database for MySQL Step-by-Step
- Arvind Shyamsundar writes about Elastic pools for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now Generally Available
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers Lesson Learned 508: Monitoring Wait Stats and Handling Large Data Set
- Yochanan Rachamim (@ryochanan) blogs about CurrentBackupStorageRedundancy of my master database on Azure SQL Server
- Sparsh Agrawat announces availability of Oracle DatabaseAzure in Australia East
- Ziyu Zhang writes about Built-in Oracle DB - using JKS keystore to support certification validation
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Anders Sundheim covers Break for Async User-Unhandled exceptions in the Visual Studio Debugger
- Dominic Nahous (@DomsterFire) covers VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole discusses Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Leah Tran covers Search scoping helps you find what youre looking for
- Thite Nitin covers Azure CLI: The Ultimate Tool for Efficient Cloud Management
- Tim Deschryver writes about My recommendations to configure Visual Studio Code for Angular Development
- Tobias Fenster writes about My remote SSH development setup with VS Code, part II
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about VS Code Experiments Boost AI Copilot Functionality
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks about Kent Beck: Tidy First - Episode 314
- Rochelle Sonnenberg blogs about Rockford Lhotka and Eric Boyd Share Their Expertise at Visual Studio Live 2024
- Aabha Thipsay covers Microsoft's quantum-resistant cryptography is here
🔩 DevOps
- Drew Skwiers-Koballa talks about Preview release of SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio 2022
- John Folberth (@j_folberth) describes Deploying .dapacs to Azure SQL via Azure DevOps Pipelines
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Mladen Andzic writes about Native JSON support now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Nupur Goyal blogs about Omdias perspective on Microsofts SSE solution
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about Remote Desktop Connection RDP to Azure Arc-enabled Windows Server machines anywhere
🎭 Identity
- Maxime Guillemin covers Android and Certificate Based Authentication
- On the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) chat about Reliability in the Well-Architected Framework with Bastian Ulke
- Emily Liu writes about Welcome to the Microsoft Incident Response Ninja Hub
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains How to Create Dynamic Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
🔌 Integration
- Dieter Gobeyn describes how to Unlock Azure Logic Apps Insights: Must-Know KQL Queries
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about FinOps On Azure: Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions
- Harold Campos describes Increasing business value by integrating SOAP legacy assets with Azure logic Apps and Azure APIM
- Vesa Juvonen writes about Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store - August 2024
📚 Learning
- David Norman writes about New pricing for Microsoft Certification exams effective November 1, 2024
- Jeewan Kumar Bhatta explains How to Stand Out as a Microsoft Student Ambassador: Perks, Process, and More...
- Mindy Rosenthal covers Coming soon: New MB courses for ILT for Dynamics 365.
- Justin Royal writes about More ways to sell through the marketplace with professional services
- Martin Tatar covers Microsoft MVPs x. Microsoft Zero to Hero Community
- Mindy Rosenthal talks about ILT Course Retirement- AZ-1005: Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop for the Enterprise
- Mayunk Jain explains how to Build the next generation of AI applications with Microsoft Azure at DevIntersection, Las Vegas
⚖️ Management and Governance
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) blogs about Microsoft Purview FAQ
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) highlights Azure Advisor workbook hidden gems
- Dolev Shor blogs about Maximizing Azure Resource Insights: Introducing the Azure Inventory Gateway
- Mark Litwin writes about Quick Items to Review for a Smooth Microsoft 365 Copilot Deployment
- Miriam Wiesner (@miriamxyra) covers The power of Data Collection Rules: Collecting events for advanced use cases in Microsoft USOP
🎬 Media
- Milan Kaur describes Azure Communication Services at the DEVIntersection Conference
🌐 Networking
- Geert van Teylingen (@teylemans) walks through Harnessing Generative AI with Weaviate on Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure NetApp Files
- Ishan Shukla explains how to Deny inbound NSG Rule creation via Azure Policy and explains how to Manage NSG association on Subnets via Azure Policy
- Naveed Kharadi blogs about Securing Containerized Applications with SSH Tunneling
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) explains how to Be Very Careful with Allow Rules in Azure WAF's
- Leo Visser (@autosysops) explains how to Improve azure virtual network security
🔐 Security
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Deep Dive into Microsoft Sentinel UEBA User and Entity Behavior Analytics
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Sina Salam blogs about Enhancing Data Security and Digital Trust in the Cloud using Azure Services.
- Sharon Ben Yosef covers Microsoft Defender for Identity: the critical role of identities in automatic attack disruption
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Episode 384 focuses on Securing Azure with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Prateek Taneja discusses SIEM Migration Update: Now Migrate with contextual depth in translations with Microsoft Sentinel
📦 Storage
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Master Azure Files with NTFS and Entra Domain Services
🔗 Web
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout using ASP.NET Core, Keycloak and .NET Aspire
- Danilo Diaz talks about Ensuring Platform Resiliency: The Next Step in AI Deployment
- Elad Tal covers OpenAI at Scale: Maximizing API Management through Effective Service Utilization
- Abhishek Reddy explains how to Managed Identity support for WordPress on App Service
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Luxmi Nagaraj explains how to Learn about ThinPrints transactable partner solution in Azure Marketplace
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) describes IGEL Disrupt 2024 Bootcamp in Munich w/ Claus Emrich Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop and delves into Windows in the Cloud GPU-enhanced Windows 365 Cloud PCs