Azure Weekly
Issue #76 - 15th May 2016
The first news comes from the Azure Team, and their blog post on platform supported migration of IaaS resources from Classic to Resource Manager and their Incremental update to Web Apps in Azure Stack PaaS services.
Meanwhile, Bryon Surace looks at Azure Test Drives in preview, and Tejas Karmarkar announces the availability of STAR-CCM+ on Azure.
Jospeh Chan investigates how Halo 5 Guardians use Log Analytics for operational intelligence, and Harish Kumar Agarwal explains how data movement has been made faster in Azure.
Finally, Adrian Hall annouces the transition of Azure Mobile Serices to Azure App Service.
🔎 Analytics
Back on MSDN, Ken Wang looks into troubleshooting Azure Stream Analytics jobs with SELECT INTO.
Also On MSDN, Susan Ibach (@HockeyGeekGirl) helps you learn if you would have survived the Titanic using Machine Learning.
On the .NET Curry blog, Mahesh Sabnis (@maheshdotnet) shows you how to Migrate from SQL Server to NoSQL using Azure DocumentDB.
Redmond Magazine's Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) unveils a PowerShell module for Azure Machine Learning.
Back on the Azure blog, Harish Kumar Agarwal (@harishkragarwal) looks at faster data movement in Azure.
On Cortana Intelligence Gallery, Microsoft (@Microsoft) introduce you to Azure ML Notebooks.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) shares a free eBook on Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure.
Also from Azure, Joseph Chan (@jochan_msft) explains how Halo 5 guardians use Log Analytics in Microsoft Azure for operational intelligence.
Staying with Azure, Tracy Daugherty announces Azure SQL Database elastic pools are now generally available.
🖥️ Compute
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) shares a presentation on Azure Service Fabric and microservices.
James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) looks into the NanoServer TP5 IaaS image in the Azure Gallery.
On the Azure podcast (@AzurePodcast) there's a talk with Neil Mackenzie, a Cloud Solution Architech at Microsoft.
On MSDN, Leonardo Villar (@Villarleovillar) explains how to understand CPU metric data from Azure Cloud Services.
On the Azure blog, Bryon Surace looks at Azure Test Drives in preview.
the Microsoft Openness Team reveal Forrester have name Microsoft Azure a leader in Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the MSDN blog, Michael Howard (@michael_howard) writes about cloud-based solutions, threat modeling and shared security responsibility.
Also On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) has an update on Operations Management Suite OMSSecurity.
Over on TechNet, Paulo Marques has the May 2016 edition of Azure Powershell and Azure SDK 2.9 Changes.
Meanwhile on Channel 9, Larry Larsen (@LarryLa) and Trevor Sullivan talk about the Intellisense extensions for PowerShell
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains why Ingress Data is free to Azure, when notifications are given for Azure maintenance, and the requirements for Azure services in China and Australia.
The Azure Team (@Azure) blogs about the platform supported migration of IaaS resources from Classic to Resource Manager.
Also on the Azure blog, Tejas Karmarkar announces the availability of STAR-CCM+ on Azure.
To end this section, James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) has details on the Microsoft Cloud Roadshow in The Hague May 19-20 2016.
On Channel 9, Stuart Leeks and Seth Juarez (@stuartleeks) create posh-HumpCompletio using PowerShell.
On the Azure blog, Tiffany Wissner reveals Azure is still the best place for software as a service.
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Sudheer Sirivara, Director Azure Media Services, announces general availability of Azure CDN from Akamai.
🌐 Networking
Back on MSDN, the Onecode Team shows you how to extend the Azure Traffic Manager probe for multi-port or path.
On TechNet, Karina Galea explains how to troubleshoot network security groups.
📦 Storage
First up here, Ben Foster (@benfosterdev) explains how to use TraceSource with Azure diagnostics.
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about Azure VM Backup.
Meanwhile Freek Berson (@fberson) explains how to use Azure File Services to store application configuration files for Azure RemoteApp.
On the Azure blog, Manoj Kumar Jain announces Azure Site Recovery now has a simplified experience, plus support for ARM and CSP.
Also from Azure, Trinadh Kotturu (@f2003629) writes about the general availability of Recovery Services vault and the Azure Backup support for ARM VMs.
On TechNet, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) blogs about the Microsoft cloud storage for enterprise architects poster.
On the SQL Server Pro site, Michael Otey shows you how to increase your storage efficiency with SQL Server Stretch Databases.
🔗 Web
On the Kloud blog, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) had a guide to understanding Azure App Service plans and pricing.
While on MSDN, Cristhian Uribe writes about the most frequent issues when deploying a new Azure App Service Environment ASE.
Back on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) introduces local cache on Azure Web Apps.
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) covers transfering your existing Application Insights Mobile Apps to HockeyApp.
While On the Azure blog, Adrian Hall (@FizzyInTheHall) announces the transistion of Azure Mobile Services to App Service.
And the Azure team (@Azure) have an update on the web apps of Azure Stack PaaS services.