Azure Weekly

On MSDN, Anindita Basak (@imcuteani) looks into optimizing Hadoop using Microsoft Azure HDInsight & real-world data streaming with HDInsight Spark, Storm & NoSQL HBase cluster. 

Max Kaznady writes about rapid Big Data prototyping with Microsoft R Server on Apache Spark (context switching & Spark tuning).

Wayne Walter Berry talks about moving Azure SQL Database servers between subscriptions  and shows you how to discover who dropped your Azure SQL Database. 

On the Kloud blog, Peter Aram covers setting up Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server in Azure. 

On the SQL Authority blog, Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) creates a copy of a database in Azure SQL DB. 

On the endjin blog, Jess Panni (@JessPanni) compares AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform's Analytics & Big Data. 

On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about Azure N-Series GPU acceleration in the public cloud with Karen Batta. 

Haishi Bai (@HaishiBai2010) covers sharing your Service Fabric services. 

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) looks into deprovision VMs that are stopped in Azure after 20 minutes.

On TechNet, Tim Tetrick shares an Azure RemoteApp update and options for delivering remote desktops and applications. 

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) covers Enumerating all users, groups and contacts in an Azure tenant using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API, and getting users, groups and contacts via the Azure Graph API using differential query & PowerShell.

On the Xamarin blog, Pierce Boggan (@pierceboggan) walks through authenticating Mobile Apps with Azure Active Directory B2C. 

Courtenay Bernier talks about Azure AD identity protection.

On the Azure blog, the Azure Stack Team (@Azure) write about an upcoming technical preview and other updates. 

On Kloud, Justin Yoo blogs about passing parameters to linked ARM templates. 

On MSDN, Joseph Fultz talks about creating Service Principal and New Roles using an Azure RM Powershell. 

Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) brings you a 10 step program to Azure Security Center success. 

Kim Spilker explains how to leverage the Azure Security Center & Microsoft Operations Management Suite for an incident response.

On TechNet, Bulent Ozkir walks through exporting all NGS rules in ARM for all subscriptions. 

Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) uses the Wunderlist Module in Azure Automation (part 1). 

On the Azure blog, Dan Hadari discusses Application Insights and how to track an Analytics query in a dashboard.

Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) offers solutions for things that are not available yet in Azure CDN. 

On TechNet, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) writes about Azure Virtual Network Peering. 

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) shows you how to use PowerShell to change the subnet and IP of an ARM VM. 

On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) covers Nanoservices for Mobile Apps with Azure Functions. 

On MSDN, Adrian Hall (@FizzyInTheHall) blogs about patching Swagger-UI vulnerabilities in Azure Mobile Apps.

Holger Kenn (@holgerkenn) explains how to troubleshoot Azure IOT Hub connections on embedded Linux. 

Arjun Kakkar explains working with Logic Apps and Microsoft SQL Connector on Azure. 

On the Azure podcast (@AzurePodcast), Casey Watson talks about building apps for multiple clouds. 

John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) blogs about Automating deployments to Azure IaaS with custom actions.