Azure Weekly Issue 72: 17th April 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Mike Chen announces the Azure Resource Policy.
Alice Rison takes a look at Microsoft Incident Response and the shared responsibility for cloud computing.
Meanwhile Ashish Kurmi investigates the internals of the App Service Certificate.
John Deutscher talks about virtual reality live streaming on Azure media services.
Milan Gada introduces Azure Media Analytics for powerful video intelligence.
And finally endjin's Richard Kerslake demonstrates using Postman to load test an Azure Machine Learning web service
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Azure Batch AI, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API
Analytics
Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog
On the endjin blog, Richard Kerslake walks through using Postman to load test an Azure Machine Learning web service.
While on Code Project, Mane Priyanka blogs about enterprise library logging in an Azure database.
On Kloud, Justin Yoo covers creating accounts on the Azure SQL Database through PowerShell automation.
Meanwhile Bill Wilder compares the Azure SQL database and SQL server.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
On the Azure podcast, there's talk about about VM Scale Sets.
And on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman looks at the Azure Container Service.
On TechNet, Beatris A. Mendez Gandica has some handy Azure shortcuts.
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
Databases
Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
First up on TechNet, Dishan Francis has a step-by-step guide on enabling multi-factor authentication for Azure Active directory users.
Also on TechNet, Shannon Gowen reveals Azure AD Connect Health for sync is now in Public Preview.
Lastly on .NET Curry, Kunal Chandratre covers some Azure Active Directory Essentials for ASP.NET MVC Developers
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
On the .NET Curry blog, Subodh Sohoni writes about the continuous integration and deployment of a web application from Visual Studio Team Services to an Azure VM.
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
Management and Governance
Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications
On the Kloud blog, Joel Neff talks about Azure Backup for Azure Resource Manager VMs
On Channel 9, Rick Claus looks at how to export a resource group into an Azure resource manager template, as part of Tuesdays with Corey.
Clemens Reijnen explains how to manage Azure VMs with a free Sogeti OneShare O365 add-in.
On the Azure blog, Mike Chen announces the Azure resource policy.
On the Azure blog, Alice Rison looks into the Microsoft incident response and the shared responsibility for cloud computing.
And James van Den Berg shows you what Azure Application Insights can do.
On Channel 9, Troy Hunt shares some important security concepts, and a special Azure service that lets you know if you've been hacked.
Also on TechNet, Frdric Esnouf looks at an internal error when connecting Log Analytics during the enrolment phase.
On TechNet, Heather Stephenson talks about the MPN competency evolution to Cloud.
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
On the Azure blog, John Deutscher takes a look at virtual reality live streaming on Azure Media Services.
There's more from Azure, as Milan Gada introduces Azure media analytics for powerful video intelligence.
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
Over on TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko talks about Azure recovery services in CSP.
On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones describes the CQRS on Windows Azure and the command handler.
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
While on Channel 9, Robert Green gets a look at the MyDriving sample application.
On the Azure blog, Ashish Kurmi blogs about the internals of the app service certificate.
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