Azure Weekly
Issue #90 - 28th August 2016
On the endjin blog this week, Jess Panni compares and contrasts AWS, Azure and the Google Cloud Platform on their Internet of Things offerings.
In Azure news, James Staten writes about why enterprises trust Azure with their apps and data and Mimi Xu explains how to retrieve platform notification system error details with Azure Notification Hubs.
Jovan Popovic announces that JSON support is generally available in the Azure SQL Database, whilst Mikkel Riis talks about networking for a hybrid application environment.
Lastly, Rajeev Jain blogs about implementing Microsoft's hybrid cloud solution.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Sudhir Rawat (@rawatsudhir) captures Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics logs.
Meet Bhagdev reveals an early technical preview of Microsoft Drivers 4.1.1 for PHP on Windows for SQL Server has been released.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Dattatrey Sindol (@dattatreysindol) shares an overview of information management in the Cortana Intelligence Suite.
On the Azure blog, Jovan Popovic announces that JSON support is generally available in the Azure SQL Database.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Using Amazon Lambda or Google Cloud Function, and encourages you to check out Azure Functions.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) asks what is Serverless Computing?
Scott Semyan (@scott_semyan) covers generating SSH keys for Azure Linux VMs.
Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed (@usman_ur_rehman) runs PowerShell on Azure Linux VM as a Docker Container in 4 simple steps.
Haishi Bai (@HaishiBai2010) looks into running Windows Server containers on Azure Virtual Machines.
On TechNet, J.C. Hornbeck explains how to prepare a Windows VHD for upload to Microsoft Azure.
On Channel 9, Mark Fussell features in the first episode of the Service Fabric series.
Kirill Kotlyarenko discusses the Azure subscription migration to CSP.
🎭 Identity
Taiseer Joudeh (@TJoudeh) writes about the Azure Active Directory B2C overview and policies management (part 1) and the secure ASP.NET Web API 2 using Azure AD B2C (part 2).
On the Catapult Systems blog, Chad Simmons talks about the Azure AD join error code 8018000a.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen writes about using Azure AD Dynamic Groups with SharePoint Online.
🔌 Integration
On the Azure blog, Mikkel Riis talks about networking for a hybrid application environment.
Rajeev Jain blogs about implementing Microsoft's hybrid cloud solution.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) walks through Azure Log SIEM configuration steps and searches for Azure Security Superstars to be Azure Security MVPs.
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) explains how to quickly recover from a FAILED AzureRM Virtual Machine using Powershell.
Henry Buckle discusses passing object arrays to ARM templates.
On MSDN, Janne Mattila (@janne_mattila) tells you how to enhance ARM deployments with PowerShell.
Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) writes in response to the recent annoucement that Powershell is available on Linux.
On the PowerShell Magazine site, Ravikanth C (@ravikanth) shares an Azure DevTest Labs Artifact for installing PowerShell on Linux.
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) explains how to automate logins for Azure Powershell scripts.
On the Azure blog, James Staten (@Staten7) writes about why enterprises trust Azure with their apps and data.
Shantaram P announces some upcoming changes to how you log into Visual Studio Team Services.
On the ConFoo site, Anna Filina (@afilina) has a Call for papers, Cloud is grouped with DevOps in their categories.
On KEMP, Jeff Fisher (@jeffrey_fisher) reveals that KEMP360 simplifies visibility and control for Azure Application delivery.
🎬 Media
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) and Seth Juarez talk about Azure CDN with Akamai.
🌐 Networking
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) blogs about the OMS Network Performance Monitor.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Ashish Thapliyal (@ashishth) attaches additional Azure storage accounts to the cluster.
Brenda Y Lee reveals the Azure Import/Export Service is generally available in Azure Government.
🔗 Web
On the endjin blog, Jess Panni (@JessPanni) pits together AWS, Azure and the Google Cloud Platform on the Internet of Things.
On Channel 9, Nick Landry (@ActiveNick) and Jeremy Foster talk about Azure IoT starter kits.
On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) creates a Serverless Backend for Mobile Apps.
On MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) writes about easy tables and an easy APIs error message.
On the Azure podcast, Katrien De Graeve (@katriendg) describes App Service Environments.
On the Azure blog, Mimi Xu explains how to retrieve platform notification system error details with Azure Notification Hubs.
Sunitha Muthukrishna (@mksuni) announces the Azure App Service MySQL in-app preview.
On TechNet, Jonathan Gardner (@jgardner04) covers application development and infrastructure as code.