Azure Weekly
Issue #497 - 15th December 2024
In AI the big news is Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning, and a nice article about Azure AI vs NuGet: How to Choose the Right Language Detection (we've used NTextCat for language detection for over a decade).
In Analytics: Virtualizing GCP data by using Fabric Shortcuts: Data Engineering with Fabric, and Ways to land data into Fabric OneLake, and Azure IoT Operations: Sending commands via EventGrid MQTT. Two other interesting posts: Interregional traffic in hub-and-spoke and Azure Communication Services Email Sending Simplified: From Setup to Execution and Monitoring.
Finally, a number of good DevOps articles: Microsoft Graph Bicep Extension, and Get Azure cost estimates in Azure DevOps PR comments with Bicep, and npx and Azure Artifacts: the secret CLI delivery mechanism.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Ece Kamar discusses Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
- Garfield He blogs about Inuktitut: A Milestone in Indigenous Language Preservation and Revitalization via Technology
- zteutsch talks about Getting Started with the AI Dev Gallery
- Sharda Kaur discusses Embracing Responsible AI: A Comprehensive Guide and Call to Action
- Dieter Gobeyn discusses Azure AI vs NuGet: How to Choose the Right Language Detection
- Hyo Choi delves into Building custom AI Speech models with Phi-3 and Synthetic data
- Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) covers Festive Tech Calendar: Adopt AI like a PRO with Azure Essentials
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) writes about Using the Azure AI Inference Service
- Joinal Ahmed writes about Optimizing Azure AI Search: A Deep Dive into Vector Quantization & Storage Optimization
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Rick Xu talks about Microsoft Fabric approved as a Service within the FedRAMP High Authorization for Azure Commercial, Patrick LeBlanc talks about Fabric 2024 Holiday recap and Guy Haycock announces the preview of the REST API for Livy for Data Engineering.
- Anshul Sharma discusses Synapse Data Explorer SDX to Eventhouse Migration Capability Preview
- Drew Skwiers-Koballa blogs about Source control integration for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
- Frederic Van Kelecom explains hoq to Monitor Fabric Spark applications using Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
- Argenis Fernandez (@DBArgenis) discusses Microsoft Fabric API for GraphQL for Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) discusses Ways to land data into Fabric OneLake
- Kevin Chant (@kevchant) blogs about T-SQL Tuesday 181 – The premise of Microsoft Fabric and discusses Two ways to perform CI/CD for SQL databases in Fabric using YAML Pipelines
- John Miner walks through Virtualizing GCP data by using Fabric Shortcuts: Data Engineering with Fabric
- Murat covers DDIA: Chapter 11 - Stream Processing
- Jose Barreto covers MGDC for SharePoint FAQ: How to use Excel for analytics
🖥️ Compute
🚢 Containers
- Carlos Mendible (@cmendibl3) blogs about AKS: Enabling NAP with Terraform
- On episode 510 of The Azure Podcast, the Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Stephane Erbrech to talk about Azure Fleet
- Inbal Beitler writes about AKS Security Dashboard
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) writes about Effortless publishing to Azure WebJobs on Linux and writes about Effortless publishing with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
- Jessie Houghton covers Boost your Git confidence with the new file rename notification
- Leah Tran explains how to Keep working with non-blocking Code Cleanup
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Visual Studio Dev Vexed by Copilot's Obtuse 'Responsible AI' Refusal and blogs about OpenSilver 3.1 Unveils Drag-and-Drop XAML Designer for VS Code
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) walks through Setting Up VS Code for PowerShell Development: A Beginners Guide
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) delves into npx and Azure Artifacts: the secret CLI delivery mechanism
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dan Hellem writes about New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) covers Why am I getting no private key is available error when I try to digitally sign files in my Azure DevOps Pipeline
- Christos Galanopoulos devles into the Microsoft Graph Bicep Extension
- Dan Rios (@danonazure) explains how to Get Azure cost estimates in Azure DevOps PR comments with Bicep
- Brad Wyatt explains how to Automatically Detect and Prevent Secrets Leaked into Code within Azure DevOps
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) blogs about Understanding Microsofts Terraform Providers for Azure: AzureRM vs AzAPI
- Tale Tom writes about AI for Operations
🎭 Identity
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) walks through Using Entra External ID with an Auth0 OpenID Connect identity provider
- Luke Murray (@lukemurraynz) writes about Authenticating Azure OpenAI with Managed Identity
🔌 Integration
- Achraf Ben Alaya delves into Azure Communication Services Email Sending Simplified: From Setup to Execution and Monitoring
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Ryan Peterson describes Geocoding: The first step towards unlocking location intelligence
- Sander van de Velde (@svelde) blogs about Azure IoT Operations: Sending commands via EventGrid MQTT
📚 Learning
- Mindy Rosenthal talks about Coming soon in December: AZ-2009, writes about New Data & AI 4-day course coming your way, discusses Coming soon: AI-3024 & AI-3025 and covers ATTENTION: Applied Skills Update
- Lanna Teh explains how to Strengthen your responsible AI stance with Microsoft Learn Plans
- On episode 327 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Ravi Ram to talk about TechBash & Community Conferences
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Intune Support Team discusses Updates to Beta APIs for Windows Endpoint security and Administrative templates
- On the Azure blog, Mike Hulme discusses Real-world success with continuous modernization
- On Microsoft Security blog, Herain Oberoi And Rudra Mitra writes about New Microsoft Purview features help protect and govern your data in the era of AI
- On epiosode 268 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine are joined by Jasper Oosterveld to discss Microsoft Purview
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) covers Tidings of Comfort and Joy with Azures Business Continuity Center
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) writes Jingle All the Way to Savings: Automate Azure Bastion with Azure Automation
- Santosh Pargi explains how to Collect IIS logs from multiple locations into Sentinel Log Analytics Workspace.
- On the Azure FinOps Essentials site, Michiel van Oudheusden (@mivano) shares Azure Carbon Optimization: Driving Sustainability in the Cloud
🌐 Networking
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) delves into Interregional traffic in hub-and-spoke
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) explains how to Manage Existing Azure Firewall With Firewall Policy Using Bicep
🔐 Security
- Matt Lowe explains how to What's New: View Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks Directly from Unified SOC Operations Platform
- Rutuja Dange explains how to Protect your single-core Linux servers with Defender
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) covers Azure Resources CMK Encryption with Azure Bicep
📦 Storage
- Anthony Mashford (@anthonymashford) explains how to Updated Plug-in for AVS Cloud Backup for VMs
- Geert van Teylingen (@teylemans) talks about Building scalable and persistent AI applications with LangChain, Instaclustr, and Azure NetApp Files and covers SAP System Refresh and Cloning operations on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
- Srini Thumala discusses Azure Backup vs. Azure Site Recovery: Key Differences Explained
- Cary Sun (@SifuSun) walks through Creating Microsoft Azure Accounts for non-Immutable Backup Repositories: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
- Neha Tiwari discusses Resiliency Best Practices You Need For your Blob Storage Data
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Monitoring Azure File Shares: Performance Metrics, Alerts, and Action Groups Explained
🔗 Web
- Glaucia Lemos writes about This Month in Azure Static Web Apps 10/2024
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Ryan Clark writes about Unidirectional clipboard for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
- Swarnim Srivastava discusses Enhancing your ability to move Windows 365 Cloud PCs