Azure Weekly
Issue #93 - 18th September 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Tom Keane writes about why Azure for Government is your best choice, and the most comprehensive CJIS compliance.
Shubha Vijayasarathy unveils that Azure Event Hubs Archive is now in public preview, and Aravind Ramachandran explains how Azure DocumentDB powers the modern marketing intelligence platform.
Lavanya Kasarabada announces the general availability of Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest, while Trinadh Kotturu shares details for the Microsoft OMS and System Center product meetup at Ignite 2016.
Finally, Richard Li announces Face Redaction for Azure Media Analytics.
Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Charles Sterling (@chass) talks about a Power BI and Azure ML webinar.
Charles Sterling (@chass) shows you how to integrate Power BI into your web applications.
Also on MSDN, Dave The Engineer walks through a learning guide for Azure Stream Analytics.
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about the Azure Bot built on the Microsoft Bot Framework.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Dattatrey Sindol (@dattatreysindol) gives you an overview of Big Data Stores in the Cortana Intelligence Suite.
On the Azure blog, Aravind Ramachandran (@arkramac) explains how Azure DocumentDB powers the modern marketing intelligence platform.
On TechNet, Eduard D invites you to a training event for Microsoft Partners on Azure for SQL Server Consultants.
🖥️ Compute
On the Kloud blog, Paco de la Cruz puts Azure Functions and WebJobs head-to-head, and asks where is it better to run background processes.
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) offers a quick overview of Azure VM specifications.
On TechNet, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) explains how to deploy a new Linux VM from a captured image.
🎭 Identity
On the Kloud blog, David Minnelli (@dminnelli) talks about things to consider for AD Application SSO and provisioning and discusses multi-valued directory extensions.
On MSDN, Samuel Devasahayam (@MrADFS) explains how to restore your AD FS farm the easy way.
Wu Shuai blogs about the difference between the tokens used by Microsoft Graph API and Azure AD Graph API.
On Technet, Girish Chander (@chander_girish) unveils Azure AD is in the new Azure portal and it includes App proxy.
🔌 Integration
On MSDN, Justin Conway blogs about Azure Service Bus messaging, Relay, and Event Hubs namespace separation.
Felipe Senso blogs about what to consider while planning high availability for Service Bus.
On the Azure blog, David Armour (@Darmour_MSFT) invites you to join the Microsoft Azure Stack Meetup at Ignite 2016.
Sharath Suryanarayan reveals a StorSimple Virtual Array critical update for software version 10.0.10288.0 is now available, talks about File Servers and iSCSI Servers, describes the ROBO Scenario and announces update 3.0 for the StorSimple 8000 series.
⚖️ Management and Governance
Sarah Arnold shares a free ebook on the Fundamentals of Azure.
On MSDN, Jomit Vaghela (@jomit) blogs about trying out Docker for Azure Beta.
For Windows IT Pro, Richard Hay covers the interactive Azure Platform Big Picture.
Zach Kramer blogs about Microsoft Azure Government and ITAR compliance.
On the Azure blog, Tom Keane writes about why Azure for Government is your best choice, and the most comprehensive CJIS compliance.
Trinadh Kotturu (@f2003629) shares details for the Microsoft OMS and System Center product meetup at Ignite 2016.
On MSDN, the Application Insights Service Team have a notice on Application Insights planned maintenance on 09/20.
Trevor Hancock tells you how to work around the "Cannot create build definition as no hosted build controller could be found." message in Azure Portal.
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Richard Li (@RichyLi) announces Face Redaction for Azure Media Analytics.
Also on the Azure blog, Sudheer Sirivara talks about Microsoft Azure at IBC 2016.
🌐 Networking
On the Kloud blog, Hugh Badini discusses troubleshooting Azure Network security groups.
On TechNet, Tim Tetrick explains how to configure your security system with an Azure VPN.
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Lavanya Kasarabada announces the general availability of Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest.
On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) reveals Backup Exec and NetBackup will finally connect to Azure Storage.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Matt Farmer reveals a new XSLT policy for API Management.
On Channel 9, Byron Tardif (@bktv99) talks about the best App Service practices for large scale applications.
Jon Gallant (@jongallant) invites you to explore Azure IoT certified devices with Power BI.
On Code Project, Tom Chantler (@TomChantler) shows you how to backup your SQLite database with zero downtime when running Ghost in Azure Web Apps.
On the Azure blog, Shubha Vijayasarathy unveils that Azure Event Hubs Archive is now in public preview.
On the Xamarin blog, Mike James (@MikeCodesDotNet) shows you how to start building Azure-connected apps with the Xamarin Shopping Demo app.