Azure Weekly

Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) explains how to why he prefers destroying environments to shutting them down

Also on the Azure blog, Vitaly Gorbenko writes about sampling in Application Insights: How to keep the volume of your telemetry under control

Also on MSDN, Travis Plunk discusses the Azure DSC Extension 2.8 & How to map downloads of the extension dependencies to your own location

Also on MSDN, Charles Sterling shares a lab on creating Test Environments with Azure Dev/Test Lab

On Channel 9, on the Cloud Cover Show Haishi Bai and Chris Risner talk about Azure Resource Manager

Also on Channel 9, Amanda Lange shares a fast way to create a Custom Minecraft Server on Azure

On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz writes that new Containers in Azure aim to migrate Legacy Apps

Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes 'It's happening - OpenSSH for Windows...from Microsoft'

Trond Hindenes (@trondhindenes) covers sanitizing Azure Resource Manager template deployments using Ansible and Jinja2

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to remove empty Resource Groups in Azure

On the Azure blog, Sarvashrestha Paliwal writes about the launch of commercial Cloud Services from local datacenters in India

Also on the Azure blog, Hariharan Jayaraman announces that a MapR cluster deployment is now available on Azure Marketplace. MapR is an Apache Hadoop distribution that includes several projects from the Hadoop ecosystem

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

Also on MSDN, Amit Banerjee writes how we moved from on-premise to Azure Virtual Machine

Also on TechNet, Microsoft Server And Cloud Platform Team write part 5 of their Microsoft Loves Linux Deep Dive 5, covering FreeBSD on Hyper-V

On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes about Subnet thresholds for clusters in Azure

On MSDN, Sean Dastouri writes about Java and DNS Caching

On the Azure blog, Michael Curd announces the public preview of the Azure Storage Client Library for iOS

Also on the Azure blog, Xiaomin Wu talks about running Go Applications on the Azure App Service

Also on the Azure blog, Donna Malayeri (@lindydonna), Program Manager - Azure Mobile Services, announces that .NET Server SDK for App Service Mobile is now open source on GitHub

Also on the Azure blog, Brian Benz talks about options for Java Cloud developers using Azure

Also on the Azure blog, Byron Tardif (@bktv99), Program Manager - Azure Websites, describes how the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada leveraged Azure for smooth election coverage

On the Falafel blog, Adam Anderson writes part 1 of a series on Azure Mobile Apps, covering writing a Fast Custom DomainManager

On MSDN, Glenn Gailey blogs about implementing push notifications for Cordova apps

Also on MSDN, Mansib Rahman describes how to Incorporate Application Insights into a JavaScript Web App and explains how to use Visual Studio Online to Streamline Your Application Development with Agile Methodology

Also on MSDN, Adarsha Datta (@AdarshaDatta) describes Playing with Azure Logic App Connectors

On Channel 9, Joost van Schaik writes about an IoT project with Microsoft Band and Raspberry PI 2

Richard Seroter (@rseroter) writes 'what are all of Microsoft Azure's Application Integration Services?'

Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) explores Azure's Data Lake

On the Azure blog, Evan Boyle describes the Search for Search Contest, for projects using Azure Search

Also on the Azure blog, Matt Usher announces October updates for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, including support for parallelized data export, loading performance enhancements and create functions in new schema

Also on the Azure blog, Aravind Ramachandran describes how DocumentDB helped the Walking Dead: No Man's Land game get to the #1 spot on Apple’s Top Free App chart

Also on the Azure blog, Janusz Lembicz announces Language support in Azure Search

Also on the Azure blog, Han Wong announces the Beta release of the Azure DocumentDB connector for Power BI. The connector is also available for PowerBI.com

On MSDN, Stephen Lewontin blogs about configuring external data input to Azure Data Factory

Also on MSDN, 'Carrollwp' explains how to allow Spark to access Microsoft SQL Server

Also on MSDN, Theresa Palmer explains how to Visualize your Microsoft Azure Enterprise Data with Power BI

On TechNet, the Azure ML Blog Team provide a Data Scientist's Perspective on Azure Machine Learning

On the MSSQL Tips site, Daniel Farina writes about the new SQL Server Management Studio Azure Integration features

On Channel 9, Olivia Klose and Seth Juarez talk about Machine Learning Algorithms in TechTalk Episode 48

Also on Channel 9, Scott Klein describes Row Level Security Updates and Azure SQL Database Layers of Protection in Data Exposed

On MSDN, Susan Ibach describes how to create a MySQL Database on Azure

On the Azure blog, Dinesh Murthy writes an update on plans to remove older versions of the Storage Service. Certain versions have been given an indefinite or temporary reprieve

On TechNet, the Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team describe Cloud Platform System Standard (CPS Standard), the new hybrid cloud offering from Microsoft and Dell

Also on TechNet, Hal Nunn writes 'Data Mobility: Defying The Law of Data Gravity With StorSimple'

Also on TechNet, Bhavesh Shastri describes an architecture for a hybrid CRM DR (Disaster Recovery) environment in Azure IaaS

On the Azure blog, there's another post in the Dev-Test starts with IT series, describing how to set up a LOB application in a hybrid cloud for testing

On Brisbane Cloud User Group blog, there's a step by step guide to using Azure AD Domain Services (Preview)

On MSDN, 'Scottduf' describes a quick way to view all Azure AD Registered Devices

Also on MSDN, Samuel Devasahayam writes that Azure AD Connect Health now supports RBAC for delegated access

Also on MSDN, Shweta Gupta Te describes a multi-tenant app approach and a single tenant app approach to authentication with Azure AD for Azure Resource Manager with Python

Also on TechNet, Robert Mitchell shares a cloud tip of the day: activate users after syncing to Azure AD