Azure Weekly
Issue #495 - 1st December 2024
A slight lull in announcements after Ignite 2024, but there are some interesting in-depth articles: There's something wrong with the Pandas API on Spark, and Microsoft Fabric SQL Database - my first experience.
In AI: Using OpenAI on Azure Web App, and Using TensorFlow on Azure Web App, and 'Request is badly formatted Error with Azure OpenAI'.
And finally, a few more interesting picks: Azure Storage Account Vs Azure Data Lake Service Gen 2, and Azure IoT Operations: insecure MQTT broker authentication, and Automate Stop and Start of Azure Firewall for Efficiency.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Rochelle Sonnenberg talks about Transforming Software Development with AI: Insights from GitHub Universe
- April Speight writes about New Responsible AI Features
- Joshua Huang highlights Essentials for building and modernizing AI apps on Azure
- Angela Byers talks about Empowering Creativity with Copilot: Mighty Media's Journey to Digital Excellence
- Deepak Kaaushik explains how to Maximize AI Potential with Azure Prompt Flow
- Helen Zeng talks about Image editing using Azure OpenAI and Azure Machine Learning
- On the Microsoft Reactor show, Minseok Song and Lee Scott talk about Unlocking Multilingual Mastery with Co-op Translator
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Roberto Cervantes Rivero announces new event categories in Fabric Real-Time Hub, Xu Jiang explains how to Evolved Activator Destination in Eventstream – Process - Route Events to Activator Preview and Abhishek Narain announces the Availability of REST APIs for Connections and Gateways in Microsoft Fabric
- Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) shares an investigation - There's something wrong with the Pandas API on Spark
- Erwin de Kreuk (@erwindekreuk) shares Microsoft Fabric SQL Database my first experience
- Anshul Sharma covers ADX Query Acceleration for Delta External Tables Preview
- Arun Vijayraghavan walks through Building a Smart Chatbot with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, LangChain and Chainlit
- John Miner explains how to Simplify Data Loading with Fivetran HVR: Data Engineering with Fabric
🖥️ Compute
- Raymond Tsai discusses Benchmark EDA workloads on Azure Intel Emerald Rapids EMR VMs
- Abhirup Haldar blogs about Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions Public Preview
🚢 Containers
- Luke Murray (@lukemurraynz) writes 'Request is badly formatted Error with Azure OpenAI'
- On Diagrid Blog, Marc Duiker (@marcduiker) describes Celebrating Community Excellence with the Dapr Meteor Program and Luis Rascão blogs about Building Real-Time Distributed Apps with Diagrid Catalyst
🗄️ Databases
- Ricky Diep blogs about Azure Managed Redis Preview: The Next Generation of Redis on Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2024
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) talks to Jerry Nixon about Data API Builder
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Harshada Hole blogs about Debugger and Diagnostics updates in Visual Studio 17.12
- Wendy Breiding writes Transform your debugging experience with GitHub Copilot
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes Refreshing DefaultAzureCredential in Visual Studio
- Sy Brand blogs about Updates for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12
- On the Visual Studio blog, Leah Tran talks writes Copying error messages just got easier
- Kevin Gatimu (@_kevincomba) walks through Deploying an Express.js API to Azure Using GitHub Copilot for Azure: A Step-by-Step Guide
🔩 DevOps
- Piotr Kolodziej explains how to Deploy .NET Web Api to Azure App Service via Terraform
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Cosmos Darwin explains how to We're moving - follow the Azure Arc blog for Azure Local
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about Favorite Azure Arc and Azure Local features at Microsoft Ignite 2024 and talks about Azure Hybrid, Edge, Adaptive Cloud News from Microsoft Ignite 2024
- Kawula Dave writes about On-Prem Patch Management using Azure Arc and Azure Update Manager and discusses Troubleshooting Azure VM Connectivity Issues for SportCo – Azure Connectivity Troubleshooter AZURECT
🎭 Identity
- Nitika Gupta (@_nitika_gupta) describes Microsoft Entra CBA enhancements
- Jose Barreto covers Error: The provided client secret keys are expired
- Joylynn Kirui writes Power Up Your ASP.NET Application with External ID Integration in Visual Studio
🔌 Integration
- Reid Carlberg provides A New Storage Option for Azure Developers: SharePoint Embedded
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam discusses November 25, 2024 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
- Andrew Wilson writes about Easy Auth Standard Logic App with Azure API Management
- Chenshu Zhu talks about Scaling Logic Apps Standard – Sustained Message Processing System
💡 Internet of Things
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) writes about Azure IoT Operations: insecure MQTT broker authentication
📚 Learning
- Jake Walsh (@jakewalsh90) covers Catching up on the Microsoft Ignite announcements
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Glaucia Lemos writes about Free Node.js Course from Microsoft Every Developer Needs to Know
- Sohaib Kamran writes Kickstart Your AI Journey: Using Azure AI App Templates to Build AI Applications
- On episode 325 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Mads Torgersen to talk about C# Insights with Language Designer
- Epiosde 266 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast with Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure): Our three picks from Microsoft Ignite 2024 announcements
- Gideon Ngetich walks through Getting Started with Azure SQL Database
- Heather Poulsen provides a Skilling snack: Windows events and communities
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Shubham Sangal explains how to Ensure failover capacity at optimal cost with Azure Site Recovery
- Michael Flanakin describes Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024 summary
- Michael Flanakin talks about Learning FOCUS: Introducing an open billing data format
🌐 Networking
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Automate Stop and Start of Azure Firewall for Efficiency
🔐 Security
- Matt Lowe explains how to What's New: View Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks Directly from Unified SOC Operations Platform
- Rahi Patel writes about Generally Available: Trusted Launch for Azure VMware Solution
- Shahar Bahat writes about Important Update: Deprecation of Bring Your Own License in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Thomas Zou explains how to Prevent malware from spreading by scanning cloud storage accounts on-demand
📦 Storage
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) discusses Azure Storage Account Vs Azure Data Lake Service Gen 2
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) delves into Azure File Storage Billing Models: PAYG, Provisioned V1, and V2 Explained
- Shraddha Swadi explains How to secure the configuration file while using blobfuse2 for security compliance
🔗 Web
- Josh Hume explains how to Backup and Restore API Management using 2 Processes
- Ringe Chen walks through Using OpenAI on Azure Web App and Using TensorFlow on Azure Web App
- Kawula Dave delves into Troubleshooting Azure Web Apps Using Kudu+
- On episode 1926 of the .NET Rocks podcast, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) are joined by Stacy Cashmore to talk about Static Websites in 2025
- On Arinco Blog, Ben Poh describes How to Deploy Custom Error Pages in Azure App Services
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Tom Hickling describes Azure Virtual Desktop Metadata Database available in South Africa and describes Azure Virtual Desktop now supports Azure Extended Zones