Azure Weekly
Issue #83 - 3rd July 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Adrash Solanki announces the public preview of Video OCR, and Drew McDaniel blogs about the general availability of IaaS migration from classic to Resource Manager.
James Staten talks about using the power and simplicity of Containers to tame your IT, while Adam Glick announces the new high availability checklist is now available.
Finally Pranav Rastogi looks at installing solutions built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, and Stephen Baron shares an update on the DocumentDB throughput calculator.
On a personal note, I'm proud to announce I have been made an Azure MVP for 2016.
🔎 Analytics
On Channel 9, Scott Klein (@SQLScott) talks about the Business Glossary in Azure Data Catalog.
Also on Channel 9, Matt Usher (@two_under) explains the Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
On The R-Bloggers site, David Smith (@revodavid) writes about running compiled R packages in AzureML.
On the Azure blog, Stephen Baron shares an update on the DocumentDB throughput calculator.
Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) looks at installing solutions built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
🖥️ Compute
On the Azure Podcast (@AzurePodcast), the guys cover Service Fabric in the real world.
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) delves into code management in serverless computing, with AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
On MSDN, Brenda Y Lee reveals the new VM images available in Azure Government.
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) writes about 3 forces and 5 tips to stay relevant on changing DevOps.
Rossano Vitulli delves into migrating Azure IaaS SQL Server AlwaysOn Cluster to Premium Storage.
On MSDN, Rossano Vitulli looks at reducing the size of Azure Data Disks.
🎭 Identity
Dishan Francis (@rebeladm) tells you how to enable Azure AD Domain Services.
James van Den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) looks at Active Directory from on-premises to the cloud.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) blogs about the centralized Dead Letter Queue with Azure Service Bus.
Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) writes about Advanced Service Bus with AMQP.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) writes about creating an Azure reference architecture.
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) walks through deploying Azure Marketplace VMs via ARM templates.
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explores Telemetry Trends using the Application Insights Trends Tool in Visual Studio.
On Azure, Drew McDaniel blogs about the general availability of IaaS migration from classic to Resource Manager.
Also on the Azure blog, James Staten (@Staten7) talks about using the power and simplicity of Containers to tame your IT.
On the Azure blog, Adam Glick announces the new high availability checklist is now available.
On MSDN, Adam Conkle explains how to execute a synchronous Azure PowerShell cmdlet multiple times at once, using a single PowerShell session.
Daniel Orneling (@DanielOrneling) shows you how to create your own solutions in OMS.
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Adarsh Solanki (@adarshsolanki) announces the Video OCR Public Preview.
🌐 Networking
On TechNet, Bulent Ozkir explains how to resize your VNET Gateway from Basic to High Performance.
📦 Storage
On TechNet, Rob Waggoner blogs about setting up Azure Site Recovery ASR for VMware and protecting VMs.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) discusses things we should know about Cold Tier Storage - Part 1 and Part 2.
On Windows IT Pro, John Savill writes about converting General Storage Accounts to Blob Storage Accounts.
🔗 Web
On the Xamarin blog, Mike James (@MikeCodesDotNet) talks about building Connected Apps with Azure Mobile Apps, and Pierce Boggan explains how to add a Backend to your App in 10 minutes.
Ben Perkins explains how to view the event logs of your Azure App Service and finding the root cause of the Azure App Service appLens.
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) explains how to build an API platform with Azure.
On MSDN, Matt Farmer explains How to monetize APIs with Azure API Management.