Azure Weekly
Issue #490 - 27th October 2024
Highlights for this edition: first up in AI - Azure OpenAI - Structured Outputs & Batch API and Azure OpenAI Global Batch General availability: At scale processing with 50% less cost.
In analytics: Architecture Overview of Carbon Optimised Data Pipelines, and a number of Fabric announcements: Design Data Warehouse with Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric, and Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused, and Fabricators guide to database projects for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses, and the Enhanced Tenant Setting Delegation for Export Controls in Microsoft Fabric, and Relationships with Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API.
Finally, Azure IP Addressing & Subnetting Basics: Avoid Overlapping IPs in VNets, and How to easily set up a VPN between Azure and AWS using managed services Updated 2024, and Deploy Streamlit on Azure Web App.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Guy Gregory shares a demo of Azure OpenAI - Structured Outputs & Batch API
- Akshay Kakar walks through Unlocking next-generation AI capabilities with healthcare AI models
- Chris Donlan blogs about Microsoft Federal Developer Summit: Building AI Solutions
- Sharmila Chockalingam describes Introducing Multimodal Embed 3: Powering Enterprise Search Across Images and Text and talks about Ministral 3B small model from Mistral isnow available in the Azure AI Model Catalog
- On the Azure blog, Andy Beatman And Justin Rose describes How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service
- Hiba Gamal El Din blogs about Complex Data Extraction using Document Intelligence and RAG
- Manoranjan Rajguru writes From Pixels to Intelligence: Introduction to OCR Free Vision RAG using Colpali For Complex Documents
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Matt McSpirit (@mattmcspirit) explains How to Choose the Right Models for Your Apps Azure AI
- Cedric Vidal writes The Future of AI: Deploying your LoRA Fine-tuned Llama 3.1 8B on Azure AI, why it's a breeze
- Milan Kaur walks through Building a WhatsApp AI bot for customer support
- Sethu Raman (@sethu20) announces Azure OpenAI Global Batch General availability: At scale processing with 50% less cost
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Varun Jain announces the Enhanced Tenant Setting Delegation for Export Controls in Microsoft Fabric
- Elizabeth Oldag describes how to Use OneLake shortcuts to access data across capacities: Even when the producing capacity is paused
- Kenneth Omorodion shows how to Design Data Warehouse with Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric
- Dennes Torres walks through Using a Service Account in Microsoft Fabric
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) blogs about Relationships with Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API
- Kevin Chant (@kevchant) provdides the Fabricators guide to database projects for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses
- Ed Lima describes Adding more flexibility to your business applications with support for Service Principal Names SPNs in Fabric API for GraphQL
- James Broome (@jamesbroome_) blogs an Architecture Overview of Carbon Optimised Data Pipelines in the 2nd part in this series.
- Shankar Narayanan Ganapathy walks through Migrating Azure Data Factorys Snowflake Connector from Legacy to latest V2
- William Chen delves into Data Lake Implementation – Data Lake Zones and Containers Planning
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Hristo Hristov discusses Enabling Critical Decision-Making with Valuable Data Insights from Melissa Marketplace
🖥️ Compute
- On The New Stack, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols covers Microsoft Open SourcesOpenVMM Rust-Powered VM Monitor
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) walks through Creating an Azure Function to Run PowerShell in the Cloud
- Venkat Malladi talks about Simplifying Genomic Task Execution with GA4GH TES: A Guide for Bioinformatics Workflows
🗄️ Databases
- Attinder Pal Singh discusses Enhancing Resilience in Azure SQLDB Hyperscale Named Replicas with High Availability HA replica.
- Joshua Johnson (@JoshMSFT) talks about Introducing support for Graph data in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Preview
- Pieter Vanhove (@Pieter_Vanhove) discusses Migrating from Amazon QLDB to ledger tables in Azure SQL Database: A Comprehensive Guide
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) discusses Microsoft Previews Mads Kristensen Keynote at Orlando Dev Conference
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jim Harrer explains how to Get Hands-On with Visual Studio, .NET, AI, and More at Live 360 next month.
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Sinem Akinci explains how to Debug CMake Scripts on Linux with Visual Studio
- Rob Chambers discusses Supercharge Your AI Chatbot with Interactive Visualizations Using Chart.js
- Meenakshi Balekar explains How to Introduce Custom Delay Between Two Messages in Azure Bot Composer
- Tore Nestenius (@Tndata) introduces the Cloud Debugger for Azure
- On the Visual Studio blog, Shyam Gupta describes Upgrade Your Windows Forms .NET Projects to the Latest .NET Version for Enhanced Security
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Andrew Brenner walks through Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps
- Steven Ma announces AzAPI 2.0
- On epsiode 320 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Jeff Woulters talk about PowerShell Programming
- Asif Waquar covers Power Platform Deployment using Azure DevOps: Part 1 Build and Part 2 Release, and walks through Power Platform Service Principal Setup for Azure DevOps
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) describes Using Azure Service Connection names that are stored in variables group in Azure DevOps Pipeline
- John Scott walks through Creating a containerized build agent for Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server
- Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) delves into Creating Azure Storage SFTP with Password using Bicep
- Dan Rios (@@danonazure) writes Never miss an update: Azure Verified Modules with GitHub Bot & Teams
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- On the Azure blog, Omar Khan talks about Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
- Andy Rivas talks about Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education preview
- Kiana Harris describes Launching the Arc Jumpstart Newsletter: October 2024 Edition
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes Azure Adaptive Cloud Pre-Days at Microsoft Ignite 2024
- Brendan Grill talks about Investing in Azure Arc to simplify your governance and management across all environments
🎭 Identity
- Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) talks about The latest enhancements in Microsoft Authenticator
- Also on Tech Community blog, Henning Rauch (@cosh23) discusses Country and Region Information in current_principal_details
- Jerry Devore writes covers Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 6 – Enforcing SMB Signing
🔌 Integration
💡 Internet of Things
- Dale Kirby blogs about Microsoft Ignite 2024 – Azure Industry IoT Pre-day workshop
- Kam VedBrat describes OpenUSD: Bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds
📚 Learning
- Liberty Munson writes about New Certification for Microsoft Fabric data engineers
- Laura-Jayne Adamson discusses Choosing Between DP-600 and DP-700 – Which Microsoft Fabric Certification is Right for You
- David Guyer provides a Skilling snack: Windows compliance reports and analytics
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Samson Chan walks through Upcoming design updates: Microsoft Purview Message Encryption Portal
- Jose Barreto blogs about Information Oversharing Template - MGDC for SharePoint
- Paul Maggs writes Custom discovery capability is critical for a successful Purview deployment
🚌 Migration
- Neel Ball covers Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant SSMA v 10.0
🌐 Networking
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) covers Azure Firewall Rule Collection Groups: Managing Windows Updates and Time Server Sync with Microsofts Verified Modules
- Ricardo Martins (@ricmmartins) explains How to easily set up a VPN between Azure and AWS using managed services Updated 2024
- Bastian Ulke discusses Routing options for VMs from Private Subnets
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers Azure IP Addressing & Subnetting Basics: Avoid Overlapping IPs in VNets
🔐 Security
- Hesham Abdelaal talks about Identity forensics with Copilot for Security Identity Analyst Plugin
- Giulio Astori blogs about Enhancing Server and Container Risk Score Analysis in Power BI
- Gary Bushey explains how to Deploy Microsoft Sentinel using Bicep
🔗 Web
- Ringe Chen explains how to Deploy Streamlit on Azure Web App
- Jonathan De Vera talks about Streamlining API Management with Microsoft Copilot: Simplify Policy Writing in Azure APIM
- Gerasimos Alexiou covers Chaos Engineering with Azure – simulate web app failure
- Krishna Mohan Singh explains how to Enable IP restriction for a public facing App service
- Temiloluwa Komolafe explains How to Create an Azure VM Apache WebServer
- Naveed Kharadi covers End-to-End Full-Stack Web Application with Azure AD B2C Authentication: A Complete Guide
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Shannon Fritz explains how to Connect to Cloud PCs from Windows 10 kiosks using Windows App