Azure Weekly

Jakub Szymaszek (@JakubSzymaszek) reveals Always Encrypted is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.

On the Azure blog, Jenny Jiang announces the HDInsight tool in Azure Toolkit for Eclipse is generally available. 

Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) tells you why Azure HDInsight HBase is a NoSql database like no other. 

Shannon Gowen blogs about improving Azure DW Insert Performance and import AdventureWorks to SQL Azure. 

On MSDN, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) tells you if you need SQL Server Agent for Azure SQL DB. 

On TechNet, Anika Misra invites you to an interview with Conor Cunningham. 

On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht Introduces you to Azure SQL Database Temporal Tables. 

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) demos Azure Functions on Tuesdays With Corey and on Code Project, Sarmaad Amin describes Azure Functions Tutorial – New Function App

On MSDN, Todd Abel introductes you to the Service Fabric Lab (Part 1).

Deva explains Azure Dev TestLabs for developers and testers. 

Jack Li (@jackli8898) shares tips & tricks on cloning Azure SQL virtual machines from captured images.

Wagner Santos explains why cloud services are not available in this subscription. 

On TechNet, Larry Zhang shows you how to Deploy S2D Lab with Script on a single machine. 

On MSDN, Jaime Tarquino (@jtarquino) covers accessing SQL Server Reporting Services Mobile Reports with the Power BI app from the Internet using Active Directory Application Proxy. 

Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) blogs about the Azure AD password policy. 

Tim Anderson (@timanderson) writes about the case of the disappearing Azure AD application registration. 

On the Xamarin blog, Mayur Tendulkar (@mayur_tendulkar) discusses consuming the Microsoft Graph APIs in Xamarin.Forms. 

Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) talks about how SCOM 2012 meets MS Flow and Service Bus, or how to translate alerts.

Saurya Das (@sauryadas_) has a private preview of Windows Server containers on Azure Container Service. 

Over on Channel 9, The Ops Team (@TheOpsTeam) spread some love for Docker.

Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) blogs about triggering an Azure Automation Webhook. 

On TechNet, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) shows you how to migrate your classic Cloud Services to ARM. 

Asir Selvasingh writes about simpler Azure Management Libraries for Java. 

On the Azure blog, Mike Gresley shares a new Application Insights metric widget for Visual Studio Team Services. 

On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) talks about using CodeLens to display the Application Insights Exception Telemetry in Visual Studio and turning On/Off Application Insights Exception display for CodeLens in Visual Studio. 

On MSDN, David Bristol unveils that Encoder changes within Azure Media Services now create an ISMC file. 

On Code Project, Sibeesh Passion (@SibeeshVenu) writes about uploading images to Azure Media Service from Client Side and uploading files to Azure Media Service from Server Side in MVC.

On Windows IT Pro, John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to solve Azure VM provisioning problems with restrictive NSGs applied.

On TechNet, the Scripting Guys (@ScriptingGuys) have the OMS highlights from June. 

Oon MSDN, Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki explains how to use Azure Storage without SDK.

On MSDN, Niall Moran (@niallermoran) covers getting started with Infrastructure Services on Azure. 

On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh explains how to debug Java Web Apps on Azure in Eclipse or IntelliJ.