Azure Weekly

On the Azure blog, David Justice announces the Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview

Also on the Azure blog, Beth Cooper describes finding the right building blocks for your automation processes in the Automation Community Gallery

Mike Gresley writes about a new Application Insights Hands on Lab available in a Visual Studio 2015 ALM Virtual Machine

On PowerShell Magazine, Ravikanth C describes carrying out an Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview Installation on Down-level PowerShell Systems Using PackageManagement Cmdlets

On the endjin blog, James Broome describes endjin's experimements with the Batch service, which simulated a number of real world scenarios, which included spinning up 16,000 A1 virtual machines, to determine whether Batch would be a good fit for the financial services organisations we work with. The experiments used 1,000,000 core compute hours (at the cost of $100,000)!

On MSDN, Koushik Biswas describes how to set up an Azure Ubuntu VM with XFS on RAID

Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) talks about troubleshooting an Azure Virtual Machine that won't start

On MSDN, Leonardo Villar writes about automatically flushing DNS in Azure PaaS Cloud Services Instances

Also on MSDN, Damir Dobric talks about understanding Service Fabric Partitions

On TechNet, the Microsoft Server And Cloud Platform Team writes part 4 of their Microsoft Loves Linux Deep Dive, covering about Linux Network Features and Performance

On Channel 9, Tuesdays with Corey features Keith Chambers, PM for Infinity at Mesosphere

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question Is it OK to place data in an Azure VM on the C: drive? and delves into things to check if an Azure VM continually restarts

Robert Mitchell shares a quick summary of what's new in Azure Networking

Mark O'Shea writes about Windows Server 2016 Essentials TP3 Integration With Azure Virtual Networks Part 3

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses things to troubleshoot for Azure VPN site-to-site

On the Azure blog, Santosh Balasubramanian describes recently enhanced integration between Azure Stream Analytics and Azure DocumentDB. Stream Analytics jobs can now write processed data to DocumentDB, enabling archival and low latency querying over unstructured JSON

Beckylin Orooji walks through Monitoring an already-live Azure Web App

Tom Keane writes that Microsoft Azure Government continues momentum to meet government customer challenges

Sunitha Muthukrishna explains how to determine your WordPress web app usage with Azure App Insights

On the Azure podcast, episode 89 covers WebHooks

Maarten Balliauw (@maartenballiauw) blogs about working with a private npm registry in Azure Web Apps

On Code Project, Gordon W Beeming describes Load testing using Azure

Also on MSDN, Martin Kearn (@MartinKearn) talks about using App Settings in Azure Web Apps

Benjamin Perkins walks through sending email from an Azure Web App using an O365 SMTP server

Also on MSDN, Prasad Kerhalkar talks about setting an environment variable and accessing it in a Java program on a Azure webapp

On TechNet, Bizspark Online describes MakeItApp – using Ubuntu, Node.js and Mongo on Azure to connect startups.

'Admin Ian' shares a video showing how to create a Logic App that uses the Twitter and Blob storage connectors

On the Azure blog, Rashim Gupta explains how to resolve Out of Memory errors using Hive and Azure HDInsight

Jen Underwood (@idigdata) writes about Real-Time Twitter Analytics with Azure and Power BI

On MSDN, 'Tejaswi' walks through Operationalizing Twitter's Anomaly Detection in AzureML

On TechNet, the ML Blog Team announces a new Template for Retail Customer Churn Prediction, writes about OpenField's use of Cortana Analytics to get ahead in the marketing game and makes the case that Machine Learning Forms the Core of Data Science

On the Azure blog, Ashish Gangwar shares an update on recent changes in Azure Site Recovery with Azure Pack

Prateek Sharma writes about Integrating SQL AlwaysOn with Azure Site Recovery

Jack Richins announces that Azure SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption is in general availability

T. K. Rengarajan Ranga discusses Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled data security in the cloud with Always Encrypted

Also on the Azure blog, Torsten Grabs blogs about improvements to elastic database query in Azure SQL Database, including the ability to query across databases in Azure SQL Database

Gaurav Mantri talks about Azure Storage - Shared Access Signature Enhancements

Also on MSDN, Windows Azure Storage announces the preview availability of the client side encryption feature in the Azure Storage Java Client Library

On MSDN, William Zhang talks about using Axinom to deliver Widevine licenses to Azure Media Services

Mingfei Yan (@mingfeiy), Program Manager - Azure Media Services, describes configuring your content key via Keyseed for PlayReady license services

On the Azure blog, Microsoft Azure writes about setting up a SharePoint farm in a hybrid cloud for testing

On MSDN, Jef King discusses projects & advanced dequeuing with ServiceBus

On the Azure blog, David Justice announces that Azure CLI supports Microsoft Account logins

On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight blogs about Azure Security Fundamentals: Moving Co-Admins to RBAC

On MSDN, Visual Studio Online Team shares a workaround for resolving issues with searching Azure AD users and groups in VSO

Also on MSDN, Paul Wu describes using MFA Support for the Windows Azure Active Directory PowerShell Module

Also on MSDN, 'Scottduf' writes about a quick way to view all Azure AD Registered Devices

Dushyant Gill writes about best practices for Access Management for Azure

On TechNet, Aaron Guilmette discusses Switching from Federated to Cloud Auth AD FS to DIrsync/AADSync. The blog also covers Password Hash Sync or Password Hash Sync Failover

Also on TechNet, Alex Simons writes that The Azure AD App Proxy just keeps getting better and better and Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is GA

Also on TechNet, Meir Mendelovich blogs about Publishing apps on separate networks and locations using connector groups, publishing a Remote Desktop deployment with Azure Active Directory Application Proxy and announces single-sign-on (SSO) to non-Windows backend applications using Kerberos over SPNego

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question why have an unfederated account in Azure AD?, and walks through forcing Azure AD Connect Synchronization