Azure Weekly
Issue #485 - 22nd September 2024
A mixed bag this week. First up: Create your own Visual Studio Code Chat Copilot Agent with Phi-3.5 by GitHub Models, and The power of Data Collection Rules: Monitoring PowerShell usage, and Data Mesh and Microsoft Fabric - a perfect fit.
In Serverless, .NET on Azure Functions – September 2024 roadmap update, and Azure Single Sign-On Case Study #3: Secure authentication for Function Apps, and FQDN Filtering in AKS: Enhancing Security with Advanced Container Networking Services ACNS
Finally, Azure API Management Turns 10: Celebrating a Decade of Customer-Driven Innovation and Success. We absolutely love APIM, have used it in many projects, and have produced a few blog posts, talks, and code samples about it over the last decade. Here are a few of our favourites: Kickstart your API proposition with the API Maturity Assessment, and How to Monetize APIs with Azure API Management, and Exposing legacy batch processing code online using Azure Durable Functions, API Management and Kubernetes, and Unlocking Digital Transformation with Azure API Management. Congratulations to the API Management Team 🎉
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Sydnee Mayers announces Global Provisioned Managed Deployments for Scaling Azure OpenAI Service Workloads
- Cedric Vidal blogs about The Future of AI: Fine-Tuning Llama 3.1 8B on Azure AI Serverless, why it's so easy & cost efficient
- Yulia Trubacheva talks about Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with a Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Retrieval System
- Vinayak Hegde walks through Building Retrieval Augmented Generation on VSCode & AI Toolkit
- Dias Jakupov discusses DocAider: Automated Documentation Maintenance for Open-source GitHub Repositories
- Panu Oksala explains how to Force Azure OpenAI to response with JSON data
- Hadil BenAmor describes Optimizing Models: Fine-Tuning, RAG and Application Strategies
🔎 Analytics
- On the endjin blog, Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) discusses Data Mesh and Microsoft Fabric - a perfect fit
- Adi Eldar writes about New Custom and Managed Python images in Azure Data Explorer
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Meenal Srivastva introduces Workspace Identity Authentication for OneLake Shortcuts and Data Pipelines
- Reshmi Sriram writes Stream Apache Kafka data to Azure services effortlessly via Confluent Connectors on Azure Preview
🖥️ Compute
- Fernando Aznar Cornejo writes about 3 ways HPC supports innovation in manufacturing
- MichelleR explains how to Discover how Azure HPC can improve patient outcomes
- Matthew Henderson writes about .NET on Azure Functions – September 2024 roadmap update
- Venkat Malladi explains how to Update: Cost-effective genomics analysis with Sentieon on Azure
- Hari Pulapaka talks about OpenHCL: Evolving Azures virtualization model
- Natalia Trojanowska-Korepta shares Azure Single Sign-On Case Study #3: Secure authentication for Function Apps
🚢 Containers
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) writes about FQDN Filtering in AKS: Enhancing Security with Advanced Container Networking Services ACNS
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes AKS Finally Supports FQDN-Based Network Policies - At a Cost
- Cassie Coyle introduces the New Dapr Jobs API and Scheduler Service
🗄️ Databases
- Shreya R. Aithal talks about Azure Database for MySQL - August 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
- Abdullah Mamun blogs about SQL Server on Azure VM: Automated Patching Retirement and Replacement with Azure Update Manager
- Varun Dhawan writes about Aug 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- On episode 315 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Erik Darling to talk about Database Technical Debt
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the GitHub blog, Mario Rodriguez explains how to Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about 30th Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Announced and describes Data Science Pack for VS Code Bundles Python, Data and Copilot Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Mark Downie (@poppastring) describes How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Peter Spada covers Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes
- Lo Kinfey (@Ljh8304) explains how to Create your own Visual Studio Code Chat Copilot Agent with Phi-3.5 by GitHub Models
- On the Visual Studio blog, Nayana Srikanth writes about Multi-Project Launch Configuration
🔩 DevOps
- On the Premier Developer blog, Debjyoti Ganguly walks through Boosting Azure DevOps Security with GHAS Code Scanning
- Vansh Singh introduces Reporting and Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Ricardo Martins (@ricmmartins) covers Key Architectural Differences Between AWS and Azure Explained
🎭 Identity
- Anupma Sharma discusses Microsoft Entra Internet Access now generally available
- Maxime Guillemin delves into IOS and Certificate Based Authentication
🔌 Integration
- Jim Novak covers FHIRlink connector and Epic on FHIR for Power Platform development
- Dan Costenaro covers Copilot pages for IT Admins - Sep 2024 update
- Kavya Sinha talks about Microsoft Graph connectors update: Expand Copilots knowledge with 50 million items of external data
- Luis Rigueira provides a Friday Fact: You Can Unlock Consumption Connectors in Logic App Standard for Visual Studio Code
- Chaitanya Belwal (@cbelwal) shows how to Use LogicApps and Copilot for Security to auto-process ISAC Emails
- Also on By Sandro Pereira's blog, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) covers Logic App Standard Engine Error: System.Private.CoreLib: Could not find a part of the path C:\home\site\wwwroot and talks about Logic App Standard Engine Error:System.Private.CoreLib: Access to the path C:homedataFunctionssecretsSentinels is denied.
📚 Learning
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Paul DeCarlo explains how to Announcing: The Microsoft Fabric & AI Learning Hackathon
- On epsiode 256 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) cover Microsoft Tech Updates
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) explains how to Achieve agility and scale in a dynamic cloud world
- On the Azure blog, Sameer Doultani blogs about Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024
- Akanksha Kumari announces the Public Preview of Azure Monitor Metrics Export
- Daya Patil describes Switch to Azure Business Continuity Center for your at scale BCDR management needs
- The Intune Support Team writes about Important changes to the Windows enrollment experience coming soon
- Aakanksha Saxena writes about New alerts for Windows updates in Microsoft Intune
- Cary Sun (@SifuSun) describes How to Upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to v8
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about Microsoft Purview GA menus
🔐 Security
- Reanne Wong explains how to Enhanced data protection with Windows and Microsoft Copilot
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Enable Sentinel UEBA Activity Templates at Scale In Bulk
- Alex Hudish explains how to Quickly Diagnose Issues with Email Threat Policies
- Miriam Wiesner (@miriamxyra) covers The power of Data Collection Rules: Monitoring PowerShell usage
- Gabe Ho covers Work Smarter: Copilot Productivity Tips for Secure Insights
- Bharat Vaghela talks about Detecting browser anomalies to disrupt attacks early
📦 Storage
- Anthony Mashford (@anthonymashford) covers Azure NetApp Files Reserved Capacity now GA
- Thite Nitin blogs about Choosing the Right Azure Storage: A Comprehensive Guide for DevOps Engineers
🔗 Web
- Vladimir Vinogradsky highlights Azure API Management Turns 10: Celebrating a Decade of Customer-Driven Innovation and Success
- Damien Aicheh explains how to Automatically scale your APIM secondary instance in a multi-region mode
- Abbas Nandwani writes Unlock the Future of API Compliance with AI and Azure API Center
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Hilary Braun discusses Windows App now available on all major platforms
- Rinku Dalwani explains how to Relayed RDP Shortpath for public networks now available