Azure Weekly

On the Azure blog, Dr. Royi Ronen, Senior Data Science Manager - Azure Cybersecurity, describes Machine Learning in Azure Security Center

On the Tech Radar site, Mary Branscombe writes that computers are on the brink of mastering speech recognition

Also on the Tech Radar site, Darren Allan writes 'Windows Defender can now be trusted with the security of your PC?', highlighting the service's use of Machine Learning

On MSDN, ShiSh Shridhar (@5h15h) shares some slides from the NRF Big Show, on Tastes, Trends, Touch Points - Understanding Shoppers Through Machine Learning

Also on MSDN, Siddhika Nevrekar shares a Toll Booth tutorial to ramp you up on Azure Stream Analytics and describes querying a JSON array with Azure Stream Analytics

Pinal Dave discusses IF EXISTS and other functions on SQL Azure Databases

On TechNet, Shannon Gowen shares a SQL Tip of the Day: Recreating a SQL Azure Server right after you Delete it

On MSDN, Translator writes about New Microsoft Translator Customization Features Help Unleash the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Everyone

On TechNet, there's a case study of BizSpark member Captio, a company which uses Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server, Visual Studio Online and Service Bus to provide an expense tracking service

Also on TechNet, Sushant Rao describes setting up reverse DNS for Azure Cloud Services.  Azure Cloud Services began supporting reverse DNS records last Summer

On the Perficient blog, Chris Pietschmann writes 'Cloud is Strong according to Microsoft Q2 2016 Earnings'

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question what is Azure Compute Unit?

On the Gibraltar Software blog, there's a post about Loupe Service moving to Azure, explaining the reasons for this decision with a comparison to AWS

On TechNet, Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons), Director of Program Management Microsoft Identity Division, writes about important upcoming changes to the v2.0 Auth Protocol

Also on TechNet, Chad Hasbrook explains how to customize the phone number displayed when users choose Phone Call for MFA

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson blogs about Provisioning Home Directories for Active Directory Users with FIM / MIM using the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent

Also on TechNet, 'catchdebanjanMSFT' writes about AAD Connect: The Three Forests Story

On the Azure blog, Azure announces that the Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview is now available for download

On TechNet, Charles Joy (@OrchestratorGuy) blogs about the Azure Stack Technical Preview and shares a links list for Azure Stack Guidance

Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) talks about running Azure Stack on Vmware workstation and writes 'Windows Azure Stack–What about the infrastructure Story?

On TechNet, J.C. Hornbeck writes that the update Rollup 9 for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack is now available

On the Azure blog, Marley Gray announces two new partners and Dev/Test labs integration for Azure Blockchain as a Service

Also on the Azure blog, Mike Gresley announces that Application Insights now supports Release Annotations (aka deployment markers) 

On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder), Program Manager - Azure Security, shares a new white paper, 13 Effective Security Controls for ISO 27001

Also on MSDN, Goran Condric covers the Azure Monitoring Extension for SAP on Windows – possible Error Codes and their solutions

On TechNet, Ankush Talreja describes how to run two PowerShell scripts on the same VM through a custom script extension at different stage of Deployment in ARM

Also on TechNet, Julien Corioland (@jcorioland) talks about infrastructure as Code with Microsoft Azure and Vorlon.JS ARM templates 

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to view all the types of Resource Providers available in Azure 

Felix Rieseberg (@felixrieseberg) discusses running your own Parse with Azure and Docker. Parse is a mobile developer service recently closed and open sourced by Facebook

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA), Director of Program Management on the Compute team, talks about Troubleshooting and Diagnostics for VMs in Azure

On the Azure blog, Amit Rajput, Program Manager - Azure Media Services, talks about Azure Media Player update with a 33% size reduction

On TechNet, Elliott Fields Jr writes 'building the Killer Home Lab Part 1 - Azure to On-Premise VPN'

Also on TechNet, Sushant Rao talks about adding Multiple Network Interfaces to an existing ARM based Virtual machine

On the Azure podcast, episode 112 covers High Speed Networking within IaaS VMs

On TechNet, the Onescript Team share a sample script to clear out diagnostics logs within a specified timeframe in Table Storage

On MSDN, Lee Stott describes Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer - Easily work with Azure Storage - from any platform, anywhere

On Channel 9's Cloud Cover show, Haishi Bai, Chris Risner, and Brady Gaster, Program Manager on the Azure SDK and Tooling Team, talk about the recent Azure .NET SDK Updates

On MSDN, Henrik F Nielsen blogs about Sending ASP.NET WebHooks from Azure WebJobs

Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins covers using the Azure WebJob API and discusses how to troubleshooting a hung or long running WebJob

On Channel 9, Daniel Egan talks about creating a simple Node App Mean On Azure

On MSDN, 'RanganathG' blogs about adding Performance/load tests to Azure Web and Mobile App Continuous Deployment

Also on MSDN, Lachezar Arabadzhiev writes part 2 of a series on  Azure Cloud Load Testing

On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno discusses getting started with Azure Mobile Apps Easy Tables

On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Piyush Joshi talk about Segmenting and Sending targeted notifications through Azure Mobile Engagement

On MSDN, Dave Russell Technical Evangelist writes part 1 of a series on getting to know IoT on the Windows Stack

Also on MSDN, Lee Stott writes a Windows 10 IOT Core Beginners Walkthrough using Raspberry Pi 2 and the Fez Hat

On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz talks about Kinect's use of Azure IoT in the retail sector