Azure Weekly

On the Azure blog, Berni Torres Garayar announces the roll out of Search Traffic Analytics. Azure Search users can choose to log each search request together with metadata and calculate some key metrics

Also on the Azure blog, Janusz Lembicz describes Custom analyzers in Azure Search.  The 2015-02-28-Preview API version will exposing a new interface that lets users create custom analyzers based on the predefined tokenizers, token filters and char filters from Lucene.

Also on the Azure blog, Mimi Gentz shares two new DocumentDB articles help you find samples for the most common tasks

On MSDN, Paolo Salvatori describes how to normalize incoming events in a Stream Analytics job

Also on MSDN, Theresa Palmer covers visualizing Azure Search data with Power BI

On TechNet, Dmitry Pechyony, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft writes about Cloud-Based Energy Disaggregation Using the Cortana Analytics Suite and the ML team share the details of a free webinar: introduction to Microsoft R Open

Also on TechNet, Ronit Reger covers how to use Dynamic Data Masking to obfuscate your sensitive data

Also on TechNet, Tommy Mullaney walks through limiting access to data using Row-Level Security

On Channel 9, Jos de Bruijn, Senior PM in the SQL Server Database Systems team, talks about in-Memory OLTP for Azure SQL DB

On the Azure blog, Yiding Zhou highlights new features introduced in the Azure Batch service update of December 2015, including MPI support, the ability to take a node offline without deleting it, and the ability to change the autoscale formula evaluation interval

Also on the Azure blog, Casey Karst announces Project Nami: WordPress for Azure SQL Database/SQL Server

Claus Sørensen writes part 2 of a series on Azure Service Fabric, covering creating a WebAPI-based stateless service

On MSDN, Rick McGuire writes 'Microservices and Service Fabric – The Future Architecture?'

Also on MSDN, Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist, writes about Microsoft's Public Cloud for Public Good – the Opportunity for Sustainability

Also on MSDN, 'termserv' writes about how to Lift-and-shift your workloads with Azure RemoteApp and Azure AD Domain Services

On TechNet, Shannon Gowen describes how to get Boot Diagnostics for Virtual Machines v2 without support

Also on TechNet, Blain Barton talks about Running Windows Applications Remotely in Part 8 of the to the Cloud Series

On Channel 9, Joe Breslin talks about MSN and Universal Store: Combining PaaS with Configuration Management

Sean Ivey talks about Azure AD App Proxy, a feature that allows allows you to extend access to your on-premises applications to users in the cloud without changing your applications and with no changes to your DMZ.

On Code Project, Arif Habib Shadan - www.i-arif.com describes creating a new application and Service Principal to Access Resources in Azure

On Code Project, Mark Heath blogs about securing Azure Service Bus Queues with Shared Access Signatures

On the Tallan blog, Paul Gutierrez describes how To Connect to an Azure Service Bus Queue Using MuleSoft's HTTP Connector

On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko discusses PowerShell for Azure Pack tenants and creating a CentOS 7 VM template for Azure Pack

On the Azure blog, Anton Fritz introduces Application Insights Proactive Detection - a service which automatically detects anormal patterns in Application Insights telemetry and sends email alerts

Also on the Azure blog, Beckylin Orooji announces AJAX Collection in Application Insights

Rick Rainey writes an Introduction to the Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

On MSDN, Igor Pagliai describes how to join a new VM to an existing Active Directory Domain using ARM

Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder), Program Manager - Azure Security, blogs about Azure Disk Encryption, and an update to the Azure Disk Encryption Whitepaper

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) discusses how to view and download JSON templates using AzureRM PowerShell

On Channel 9, Seth Juarez and Byron Tardiff give an introduction to the new Azure Portal

On the Azure podcast, episode 111 deals with Azure Resource Health

On TechNet, Ed Wilson explains how to Modify a DSC template and Will Anderson explains how to Import DSC resources and add your scripts as part of a series on conceptualising Desired State Configuration

Also on TechNet, the Server And Cloud Platform Team provides a tour of Operations Management Suite Log Analytics

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team, talks about the simplest way to deploy SQL Server to the Cloud

Daniel Örneling talks about how to use Run as accounts with hybrid worker groups in Azure Automation

On the Key Vault blog, Dan Plastina announces that Key Vault is GA in Azure China and in Azure Government. Public Azure Regions Key Vault logging is now in GA. 

On the Azure blog, Mingfei Yan (@mingfeiy), Program Manager - Azure Media Services, announces a January 2016 Azure Media Services classic portal encoding services update. The new 'Media Encoder Standard' is replacing the 'Azure Media Encoder' in the portal. Encoding Reserved Units are being renamed to reduce confusion with encoder names. 

On MSDN, Igor Pagliai explains How to Set a Static Internal Private IP for an Azure VM in ARM and how to Configure an Internal Load Balancer listener for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups in ARM

Also on MSDN, Niall Moran (@niallermoran) explains how to Secure your Customers' Data in Azure by separating application tiers and creating a Virtual Network and DMZ subnet that is exposed to the internet

On TechNet, Brandon Wilson covers creating a Site to Site VPN Connection in ARM through the new Azure Portal

Also on TechNet, J.C. Hornbeck delves into Deploying Gateway using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager Tech Preview 4

Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) discusses Azure DNS – using PowerShell V1.0 to add a Subdomain

On the Xamarin blog, Nish Anil covers Syncing Files Between Devices with Azure File Sync

On Code Project, 'CrazyCoder26' describes how to increase performance by using a Cache-Control header in Blob Storage

Radu Vunvulea talks about Azure Table Performance - 1 vs 100.000 Tables under the same Storage Account

On the Azure blog, Adrian Hall announces the Beta Apache Cordova Plugin for Azure App Service Mobile Apps

Also on the Azure blog, Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) announces the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET

Also on the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) blogs about the use of Microsoft Pulse and Azure Event Hubs to monitor responses to the State of the Union broadcast

Also on the Azure blog, Dan Rosanova (@DanRosanova) describes how Halo 5 implemented cloud scale telemetry using Azure Event Hubs

On MSDN, Francesco Cogno blogs about sending events to Azure Event Hub using Rust

Also on MSDN, Glenn Gailey describes adding push notification tags from an Azure Mobile Apps client

Also on MSDN, the APGC DSI Team explains how to capture dump files when experiencing intermittent High CPU on an Azure Web App

On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Piyush Joshi provide an introduction to Azure Mobile Engagement and talk about capturing Analytics data with Azure Mobile Engagement

Donovan Brown describes provisioning a Java 8, Tomcat Web App in Azure using an ARM Template

Isaac Abraham (@isaac_abraham) describes running F on Microsoft Azure