Azure Weekly

Issue #55 - 5th December 2015

This week saw the release of Azure PowerShell 1.0, which is available via PowerShell Gallery and Web Platform Installer. PowerShell 1.0 has better support for using ARM Cmdlets with Azure Service Management Cmdlets in Azure Automation, semantic versioning, certificate authentication support for ARM, VM disk encryption through Azure Key Vault, new Data Lake and Notification Hub Cmdlets, and improvements for other Azure services. 

There were updates to the preview portal, including changes to navigation and interactions when browsing resources, the ability to take action on a resource directly from browse, a simplified default dashboard, notification improvements, marketplace search, a new menu, and simplified resource blades. It now displays recommendations for the Azure App Service.

In data news, there's a new Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine, which comes with Revolution R Open, Anaconda Python distribution, Visual Studio Community Edition, Power BI Desktop, SQL Server Express edition and the Azure SDK.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

  • None this week.

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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