Azure Weekly
Issue #491 - 3rd November 2024
First up in AI: ONNX and NPU Acceleration for Speech on ARM and an interesting post about Responsible AI Mitigation Layers. Ian Griffiths published part 3 of his series about how investments in AI and Cloud have impacted modern compute; in this post he looks at Compute-Intensive Workloads and shows how cleverness can beat a brute force approach.
In Data and Analytics: use Microsoft Fabric's Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost and Fabricators guide to version control in Microsoft Fabric.
In Cloud Native App Dev: Creating a Copilot declarative agent with VS Code and the Teams Toolkit, and The Resource Type behind Azure Update Manager Dynamic Scope, some exciting news about Flatcar accepted into CNCF at incubating level, and finally Dapr Day: All the Videos are available.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Martin Ca explains how to Customize the Phi-3.5 family of models with LoRA fine-tuning in Azure
- On the Azure blog, Steve Sweetman explains how to Accelerate scale with Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned offering
- Seth Patton explains how to What's New In Microsoft 365 Copilot October 2024
- Will Guyman announces Healthcare AI Models in Azure AI Model Catalog
- Meera Kurup writes about New controls for model governance and secure access to on-premises or custom VNET resources
- Dela Nakhaei blogs about Leveraging Microsoft Purview and Copilot for AI Adoption in organisations
- Panu Oksala explains how to Access Real-Time Data from LLM using Semantic Kernel
- Nitya Narasimhan writes The Future of AI Is: Model Choice - From Structured Process To Seamless Platform
- Yuanzhuo Hu covers ONNX and NPU Acceleration for Speech on ARM
- Vinayak Hegde writes about Responsible AI Mitigation Layers
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Estera Kot writes about Native Execution Engine available at no additional cost, Gali Reznick describes Usage reporting for Data Activator is now live, Leo Li writes about New Features and Enhancements for Virtual Network Data Gateway and Rie Merritt highlights Fabric Influencers Spotlight October 2024
- Vaibhav Shrivastava discusses Simplifying Migration to Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for Power BI Real Time Reports
- Kevin Chant (@kevchant) provides Fabricators guide to version control in Microsoft Fabric
- Martine Thiphaine describes SQL Konferenz: A Transformative Gathering of Data Experts
- Karan Shah blogs about Introducing Lineage Tracking for Azure Databricks Unity Catalog in Microsoft Purview
- Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) explains how to Execute Synapse pipeline right after deployment
- Katie Cummiskey writes about Boosting Power BI Performance with Azure Databricks through Automatic Aggregations
🖥️ Compute
- Ian Griffiths (@idg10) shares part 3 in his series about Modern Compute - Compute-Intensive Workloads
- Darko Mocelj covers Benchmarking 6th gen. Intel-based Dv6 preview VM SKUs for HPC Workloads in Financial Services
- Kyle Ikeda walks through Upcoming Changes to Instance Size Flexibility Ratios for Reserved VM Instances for M-series: What Yo
- Mamta Giri delves into Introducing the Open Targets Dataset: Now Available on Genomics Data Lake on Azure
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) explains how to Create Your First PowerShell Azure Function: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Henry Yan announces availability of AlmaLinux as an endorsed Linux distribution in Azure and talks about Linux and Open Source on Azure Quarterly Update - October 2024
🚢 Containers
- On Diagrid Blog, John Allwright blogs about Dapr Day: All the Videos and Zoey Morck describes Diagrid & Dapr KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
- On the Microsoft Open Technologies site, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) describes Flatcar accepted into CNCF at incubating level
- Karol Pieciukiewicz covers Azure Container Apps secrets by Terraform part 7
🗄️ Databases
- On episode 321 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Bob Ward talk about SQL Server
- Franklin Lindemberg Guimaraes walks through Connecting to Azure SQL Database using SQLAlchemy and Microsoft Entra authentication
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On IT Next, Saeed Zarinfam blogs about Reasons behind the recent changes in JetBrains products licensing model
- Jan Kalis talks about Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Chris Harris explains how to Streamline Your Azure Workflow: Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure in VS Code
- Akshay Kakar describes Azure at GitHub Universe: New tools to help your devs accelerate project completion times
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) walks through Creating a Copilot declarative agent with VS Code and the Teams Toolkit
- Luis Henrique Demetrio presents a ServiceNow Declarative Agent for M365 Copilot non-official
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Angel Wong writes about No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning February 2025
- Asif Waquar discusses the Difference between Power Platform In built pipelines and Power Platform Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Gerasimos Alexiou covers Automating chaos experiment execution with Azure DevOps
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) explains ProjectFileIndexer exceptions in SonarQube
- On The Azure Podcast, the Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Gabriel Monteiro Nepomuceno to talk aboy Episode 507 - Azure Verified Modules
- Steven Ma writes about Unlocking the Best of Azure with AzureRM and AzAPI Providers
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) walks through Deploying a Log Analytics Workspace Using Azure Verified Modules and Implementing Azure SQL Server Firewall Rules with Bicep and Azure Verified Modules
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Rene van den Bedem delves into VMware HCX Design with Azure VMware Solution
🎭 Identity
- Joseph Dadzie explains how to Manage Microsoft Entra ID role assignments with Microsoft Entra ID Governance
- Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) explains how to Update to security defaults
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) explains The Resource Type behind Azure Update Manager Dynamic Scope
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers Microsoft Entra ID Licensing: Free, P1, P2, and the Entra Suite Explained
- Sharon Choi covers Use GDAP to set up least privilege access in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
🔌 Integration
- Zachary Cavanell talks about Microsoft 365 Copilot-Small Business Guide to Set Up Copilot
- Luis Rigueira provides a Friday Fact: VS Code Do Not Allow Logic Apps Standard Incremental Workflow Deployment
📚 Learning
- Barbara Andrews explains how to Don't miss out: Six Copilot learning opportunities for everyone
- Mohamed Faraazman covers How to Pass the Microsoft Fabric Exam: A Comprehensive Guide
- On episode 262 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss Expectations on Microsoft Ignite 2024
- Amy Boyd (@AmyKateNicho) covers GitHub Copilot for Azure: 6 Must-Try Features
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Michael Clifford explains how to Updated management features roll out for Microsoft Intune Suite
- Tao Yang (@MrTaoYang) discusses Azure Resource Graph Query for Subscription Owner Role Assignments
- Luke Murray (@lukemurraynz) talks about Azure Resource - Change Analysis
- Jake Walsh (@jakewalsh90) discusses Getting the right Foundation – what makes a GREAT Landing Zone
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) asks Why is my SnipeIT instance suddenly slow?
- Bhalchandra Atre announces General Availability of Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online
- Bhalchandra Atre discusses IPv6 updates for Exchange Online
🎬 Media
- Sean Keegan describes Azure Communication Services Ideas Board: Share your feedback with the product team
- Clemens Schotte explains how to Enhance Azure Maps with Overture Maps Data using PMTiles
- Milan Kaur walks through creating a Multichannel Notification System with Azure Communication Services and Azure Functions: Part 1 and Part 2
🌐 Networking
- David Frazee blogs about IPv6 Adoption: Enhancing Azure WAF on Front Door
- Ricardo Martins (@ricmmartins) delves into Dynamic Multi-Cloud Networking: Configuring a BGP-Enabled VPN Between Azure and AWS
- Rob McNaught delves into Azure Virtual Hubs and Next-generation firewalls and talks about Protecting your route tables with Azure Route-maps
🔐 Security
- Nancy Tandy blogs about Skill up to strengthen your organizations cybersecurity posture
- Rob Lefferts describes Microsoft now a Leader in three major analyst reports for SIEM
📦 Storage
- Amy Colyer covers Microsoft Copilot in Azure - Securing Storage Accounts
- Luis Filipe discusses Azure Storage - TLS 1.0 and 1.1 retirement
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes 'WTH is Planned Failover for Azure Storage'
- Vishal Kugaji writes about Efficient Management of Append and Page Blobs Using Azure Storage Actions
🔗 Web
- Ringe Chen delves into the Configuration File in Azure Static Web Apps
- Kevin Guo announces Serverless Support for Socket.IO in Azure Web PubSub service
- Denver Brittain shows how to Deploy Intelligent SpringBoot Apps Using Azure OpenAI and Azure App Service
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) covers Custom email alerts for Azure Function/Web apps