Azure Weekly
Issue #77 - 29th May 2016
On Azure this week, Kirpa Singh looks at turning on Windows features using Powershell DSC extension and Azure CLI, and Tom Moore looks at digging into network health using Application Insights extensibility.
Khalid Mouss shows you how to easily bring your SQL Server licenses to Azure VMs, while Ritesh Garodia explains how to diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting.
Joe Davies looks at the SharePoint Server 2016 dev/test farm in Azure, and Poornima Natarajan talks about Storage specific enhancements in Azure Site Recovery.
Finally, Manling Zhang blogs about Azure CDN highlights from Akamai release.
🔎 Analytics
Harald Schult Ulriksen (@hsulriksen) writes about the new DocumentDB partitioning and pricing.
🖥️ Compute
Back on MSDN, Pete Rodriguez shows you how to resize a Linux VM OS disk in Azure ARM.
Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) blogs about Docker Containers as the new Binaries of deployment.
Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) has insights on Container security with Azure Container Service ACS.
On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko writes about virtual machine CPUs in Azure.
Refaat Issa (@refaat_issa) shares an update on Nano Server TP5 IaaS image in Azure.
On Channel 9, AllenLi8 explains how service fabric is the next-generation cloud application platform for Hyper Scale, stateful and stateless microservices.
On the Azure blog, Khalid Mouss (@kmouss) shows you how to easily bring your SQL Server licenses to Azure VMs.
Also from Azure, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) looks at the SharePoint Server 2016 dev/test farm in Azure.
🎭 Identity
On the Kloud blog, Michael Pearn blogs about configuring Proxy for Azure AD Connect V1.1.105.0 and above.
On TechNet Dishan Francis writes about enabling Windows 10 authentication via Azure AD Join.
Shannon Gowen has tips on resolving HTTP 400 Request Header if its too long, upgrading your E3 trial tenant to E5 and upgrading from DirSync to Azure AD Connect.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) explains enhanced exception messages and reveals Service Bus client 3.2.2 is now live.
⚖️ Management and Governance
First up on MSDN, Stuart Leeks (@stuartleeks) walks through part 2 of the tweaking your PowerShell profile series.
Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) talks about the Azure Security Information site on Azure.com and explains how to improve security by migrating from Azure Service Management to Azure Resource Management.
Xiaoying Guo (@gxy001) announces the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs.
Over on Windows IT Pro, Richard Hay (@WinObs) discusses the Microsoft Azure Security Information Portal.
On the Azure blog, Kirpa Singh looks at turning on Windows features using Powershell DSC extension and Azure CLI.
Also from the Azure blog, Tom Moore looks at digging into network health using Application Insights extensibility.
On TechNet, Rob Waggoner asks if your passwords are secure.
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang blogs about Azure CDN highlights from Akamai release.
on Code Project, Sibeesh Passion (@SibeeshVenu) covers working with an Azure Media Service account.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, K. Moussa describes how to make Azure file shares persistent and how you can map it to local sub folders.
On TechNet, Rob Waggoner talks about Azure Site Recovery support for the Modern Portal.
On the Azure blog, Poornima Natarajan talks about Storage specific enhancements in Azure Site Recovery.
Also on Azure, Ritesh Garodia explains how to diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting.
On the Azure podcast (@AzurePodcast), you can hear about Azure backup & site recovery.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Gopinath C H writes about multiple URL performance testing support for Azure Web Applications.
Hosam Shobak (@HosamShobak) blogs about an ARM template MSDeploy race condition issue.
Scott Semyan (@scott_semyan) blogs about using the Azure REST APIs to retrieve Event Hub Metrics.
On the Perficient blog, Stan Tarnovskiy explains how to add custom claims to Azure Mobile App authentication.
Jon Gallant (@jongallant) explains how to get started with Azure IoT Hub and a UWP App.
Meanwhile on Code Project, Debasish Mishra talks about Enterprise Web Services in Azure.