Azure Weekly Issue 94: 25th September 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Anurag Gupta gets you to start your logging and Dinesh Murthy writes about Microsoft Azure Storage samples, cross platform quick starts and more.
Meanwhile, Fred Park covers deep learning, simulation and HPC applications with Docker and Azure Batch.
Joe Davies explains how to create an Office 365 dev/test environment in Azure, whilst Tom Keane announces Microsoft Azure Germany is now available.
Lastly, Cheng Wei explores the Microsoft Cloud platform system, and delivers Azure experiences in an integrated system.
And finally Azure AD is available on the New Azure Portal
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Azure Batch AI, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Genomics, Machine Learning services, Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Bing APIs, Computer Vision API, Content moderator, Custom Services, Emotion API, Face API, Language Understanding (LUIS), Linguistic Analysis API, QnA Maker API, Speaker Recognition API, Text Analytics API, Translator Speech API, Translator Text API, Web Language Model API
Analytics
Covering: Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, R Server for HDInsight, Data Catalog
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) looks at scenarios for Big Data Capture, Curate and Consume.
On the Azure blog, Harish Kumar Agarwal (@harishkragarwal) unveils Data Factory supports multiple web service inputs for Azure ML Batch execution.
Ryan Crawcour announces Azure Stream Analytics supports IoT Hub operations monitoring.
Anurag Gupta gets you to start your logging.
Guy Haycock talks about how Umbraco uses the Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools for thousands of CMS tenants in the cloud.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
On the Azure blog, Christine Avanessians talks about Project Bletchley and Blockchain infrastructure made easy.
Also on MSDN, the Dynamics Lifecycle Services Communication team explain SQL Server Evaluation Edition licenses are expiring.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about creating a custom Virtual Machine for deployment on Azure.
On Channel 9, Chris Anderson talks about Azure Functions and the evolution of web jobs.
Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) writes about Azure Functions in practice.
Bhushan Gawale (@BhushanGawale) walks through solving error 403 forbidden after deploying MVC web applications in Azure VM.
On MSDN, Jack Li (@jackli8898) explains what to do if you're unable to connect to the SQL Server on an Azure VM due to an extra NSG applied to subnet.
On the Azure blog, Fred Park covers deep learning, simulation and HPC applications with Docker and Azure Batch.
Cheng Wei explores the Microsoft Cloud platform system, and delivers Azure experiences in an integrated system.
On TechNet, Tim Tetrick writes about what to do if you can't connect to your Azure VM.
On Code Project, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) reveals the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux is now available.
Containers
Covering: Container Registry, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Web App for Containers
Databases
Covering: Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Redis Cache, SQL Server Stretch Database, SQL Server on virtual machines, Table storage, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, SDKs, Developer tool integrations, CLIs, Blockchain Workbench
DevOps
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations, Azure DevOps Projects, Azure Lab Services
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory B2C
On TechNet, Kirill Kotlyarenko reveals Azure AD is now available on the new Azure Portal.
On the Kloud blog, Nivlesh Chandra walks through creating a replica domain controller using desired state configuration.
Also on the Azure blog, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) explains how to create an Office 365 dev/test environment in Azure.
Integration
Covering: Service Bus, Logic Apps, Event Grid
Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) explains why the future of Azure is Azure Stack.
On the Azure blog, Vijay Tewari (@vtango) invites you to learn about Azure Stack infrastructure operations and management at Ignite.
On MSDN, John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) reveals Service Bus client 3.4.0 is now live.
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Suite, IoT Edge, IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere
Management and Governance
Covering: Backup, Site Recovery, App Insights, Azure Advisor, Sceduler, Automation, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Security & Compliance, Protection & Recovery, Automation & Control, Insight & Analytics, Azure Service Health, Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, the Azure mobile app, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Managed Applications
Tom Keane announces Microsoft Azure Germany is now available.
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) covers migrating Azure services between different Azure subscriptions.
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen reveals Azure Government cloud expands coverage with DoD impact level 4 provisional authorization, ITAR readiness and FedRAMP high.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to create a JSON file from an existing Resource Group in Azure.
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about the OMS HTTP data collector API 403.
Media
Covering: Media services, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Media Analytics, Video Indexer
On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang explains how to get notified at any time with real time alert from Azure CDN.
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Notification Hubs, Mobile apps, API apps, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
Networking
Covering: ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Network Watcher
Security
Covering: Azure Information Protection, Key Vault, Security Center, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection
Storage
Covering: Storage, StorSimple, Data Lake Store, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, File Storage, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage
On the Azure blog, Dinesh Murthy writes about Microsoft Azure Storage samples, cross platform quick starts and more.
Nicole Welch explains how to use Storage Explorer with Microsoft Azure for Government.
On MSDN, Carlos Reyes Garca writes about DBCC CHECKDB fails on a database with files in Azure Blob Storage.
Web
Covering: App Service (Web), API Management, Content Delivery Network, Azure Search, Web apps, Azure SignalR Service
On the Kloud blog, Jorge Arteiro (@JorgeArteiro) has a step-by-step guide to Azure API Management Use Cases.
On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri explains why Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Mobile App and Loop are better together.
On the Azure blog, Adrian Hall (@FizzyInTheHall) announces the release of Azure Mobile Apps Node SDK v3.0.0.
Also on the Azure blog, Mimi Xu discusses refreshing user logins in App Service Mobile Apps.
Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) shows you how to remote debug your Azure App Service Web App.
Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) explains how to deny HTTP methods or verbs in Azure Web Apps and how to execute transactions from the Azure Mobile App API node.js.
On Code Project, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) explores Internet of Things security from the ground up.
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