Azure Weekly
Issue #63 - 14th February 2016
This week, there's a timely guide to checking for potential leap year issues on the Azure blog.
There's been a lot of talk about Azure Stack, following the release of the Technical Preview last week, including a 10 minute video on Azure Stack and what it means for IT from Jeffrey Snover (Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud).
A new Load feature is available for Azure CDN. Load lets users pre-cache files across all CDN POPs, to support scenarios such as a worldwide marketing campaign where you need need to make a file simultaneously available to a large set of geographically distributed users.
Finally, registration is now open for Microsoft Ignite 2016 which takes place on 26–30 September in Atlanta.
🔎 Analytics
On the endjin blog, Jess Panni shares a tip for running U-SQL scripts locally by changing the Local Data Folder
On MSDN, Jason H discusses encoding the Hive query file in Azure HDInsight
On the Stream Analytics Team Blog, Siddhika Nevrekar writes 'Notify users of data received from sensors or other systems', 'Azure Streaming Units - how do I monitor how do I scale', 'Learn more about Azure Stream Analytics Time Skew Policies', 'Why aren't my Azure Stream Analytics job results showing up in Azure SQL Server table' and 'Why did my Azure Stream Analytics services get into Degrade status'
On the Falafel blog, Tillman Dickson shares part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 of a Machine Learning and Search solution for greenhouse monitoring
On MSDN, Jason H Azure describes exporting from SQL Server into flat files, to create a Hive external table
On MSDN, 'sudhir' writes about incremental data load from Azure Table Storage to Azure SQL using Azure Data Factory and adding additional storage to a HDInsight cluster using PowerShell
On TechNet, Gavin Payne asks is SQL Server Agent missing in Azure SQL Database?
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) shares Beer IoT: Using Stream Analytics to save data from IoT Hub to SQL database
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht writes an introduction to Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools
On the Gibraltar Software blog, there's a post about migrating SQL Server to SQL Azure as part of the Loupe Service's migration to Azure
🖥️ Compute
On TechNet, Sharon Bennett writes a step by step guide to Azure RemoteApp QuickBooks Domain Configuration
On MSDN, Koushik Biswas writes about some of the recent Open Source achievments on Azure
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) writes 'everything you want to know about Nano Server' and explains how to check if your Azure VM is about to reboot
🎭 Identity
On the Identity and Access Management Support Team blog, Tim Macaulay talks about how to create a custom AADSync Synchronization Rule for attribute flow
On TechNet, Steve Peschka discusses the New Azure Converged Auth Model and Office 365 APIs
🔌 Integration
On the Azure blog, there's an early look at Azure Stack and what it means for IT
On TechNet, Larry Zhang L. explains how to deploy Azure Stack Technical Preview 1 on NVMe drives
Ravikanth Chaganti (@ravikanth) writes 'Microsoft AzureStack is here – Getting Started'
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) blogs about Azure Stack deployment and fine tuning and dealing with the error 'Azure Stack POCFabricInstaller failed because the following tasks failed: EnableRemotePS'
On the Kloud blog, Tom Bromby writes 'Microsoft Azure Stack is the New Hybrid Cloud'
⚖️ Management and Governance
Sandrino Di Mattia explains how to create advanced webhooks for Azure Automation with a Webtask
On Channel 9, Haishi Bai, Chris Risner and Ross Gardler talk about the Azure Container Service, covering Docker, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos and how they work with the Container Service
On the Visual Studio Blog, there's a post about the free Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program which now includes $300 in Azure credits and Exclusive Xamarin University access
On TechNet, Luke Brennan describes how to use Puppet on-premises to deploy resources into Azure
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang, Program Manager - Azure Media Services, announces that a new feature Load is available for Azure CDN. Load lets users pre-cache files across all CDN POPs.
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Stefano Gagliardi, Pedro Perez, Telma Oliveira, and Leonid Gagarin blog about Azure networking - Public IP addresses in Classic vs ARM
Also on TechNet, Pierre Roman writes a step by step guide to Multi-Site Azure VPN in the Resource Manager Model.
On the Falafel blog, Rachel Hagerman writes part 2 of a series on using the Azure Resource Manager, covering Networking Templates
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to solve connectivity when two virtual networks use the same address space and answers the question can I move an Azure VM between virtual network?
📦 Storage
On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones writes about how to use an Azure Storage Table as an event store for Command Query Responsibility Segregation
On TechNet, Katerina Kiselyova shares some guidance about supported Hyper-V VMs for Azure Site Recovery
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) describes the replication partnerships for India Azure regions
Also on MSDN, the Onecode Team shares a sample for how to convert the metadata of Azure storage analytics logs to .csv files
On the Falafel blog, Rachel Hagerman explains how to protect and Restore your Azure VMs using Azure Backup Vault
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) answers the question 'what is Azure Storage Explorer?'
🔗 Web
On the Azure blog, Matt Johnson shares a reminder - 'is your code ready for the leap year?', with a guide to some of the code constructs that can cause leap year bugs and some suggestions for catching them
On MSDN, the APGC DSI Team explains how to capture and analyze dumps for intermittent High Memory on Azure Web Apps
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about creating apps from templates and creating apps from existing data
Also on Channel 9, Jeremy Foster and SamGeorge talk about IoT Suite and IoT Hub
Also on Channel 9, Donovan Brown and Thiago Almeida talk about Continuous Deployment and Release Management DevOps Fundamentals
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana talks about using Application Insights for your iOS Apps with Visual Studio 2015
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) shares an IoT project Beer IoT, covering how to set up Azure IoT Hub to start reporting measurements to Azure
On the Falafel blog, Carey Payette discusses Azure Logic Apps : Orchestrating business processes and systems integration