Azure Weekly
Issue #95 - 2nd October 2016
On the Azure blog this week, Adarsh Solanki covers the Azure Media OCR simplified output and Ashwin Kamath announces the public preview of Azure Monitor.
Jason R. Shaver writes about the Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 preview, while Jonathan Tuliani covers the general availability of Azure DNS.
Sarah Fender explains how to strengthen your cloud security posture with new capabilities from the Azure Security Center, and Jason Zander talks about how cloud innovations are empowering IT for business transformation.
Finally, Tejas Karmarkar announces the availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Krishnakumar Rukmangathan covers SSAS with Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Megan Yount talks unveils Azure SQL Database v12 has landed in Azure Government.
On the .NET Curry blog, Vikram Pendse covers Log Analytics OMS in Microsoft Azure
Tiffany Wissner explains how new security, performance and ISV solutions build on Azure HDInsights leadership to make Hadoop enterprise-ready for the cloud.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Devendra Tiwari reveals Azure Disk Encryption for Linux VMs and VMs with Premium Storage have reached general availability.
On the Azure blog, Jason Zander (@jlzander) talks about how cloud innovations are empowering IT for business transformation.
Mark Fussell announces the Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server is now generally available.
Tejas Karmarkar blogs about the availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure.
Tom Chantler (@TomChantler) writes about generating a Bitcoin Vanity Address with Azure N-Series GPU Virtual Machines.
On MSDN, Jack Li (@jackli8898) asks why the SQL Server configuration section on my Azure Virtual Machine is not available.
🎭 Identity
On the Kloud blog, David Minnelli (@dminnelli) explores Active Directory and Linked Attributes.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains how he configured Azure Active Directory into his ASP.NET MVC OWIN web application.
Wu Shuai covers the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant in Azure AD OAuth.
On the Kloud blog, Nivlesh Chandra explains how to automate ADFS Farm installation and configuration.
🔌 Integration
Tim Anderson (@timanderson) covers Azure Stack at Microsoft Ignite.
On the Azure blog, Azure (@Azure) announces the second technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Daniel Meixner discusses running a container image in Azure Container Service.
Mikael Krief (@MikaelKrief) talks about Application Insights tokenization for Visual Studio Team Services extensions.
On the Azure blog, Ashwin Kamath announces the public preview of Azure Monitor.
Bernardo Muoz talks explains how Resource health exposes historical health.
Jason R. Shaver announces the Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 preview.
Sarah Fender (@sarahfender) explains how to strengthen your cloud security posture with new capabilities from the Azure Security Center.
Adam Glick writes about how ISO 22301 highlights Azure's unmatched business continuity & disaster recovery preparedness.
Dale Koetke talks about improving developer/ IT collaboration with Application Insights Connector for OMS Log Analytics.
🎬 Media
On the Azure blog, Adarsh Solanki (@adarshsolanki) covers the Azure Media OCR simplified output.
🌐 Networking
On the Azure blog, Jonathan Tuliani announces the general availability of Azure DNS.
On the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi covers Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2016.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Jack Li (@jackli8898) discusses Proxy settings & backup to URL Azure blob storage.
Pradeep Ayyappan Nair announces storage service encryption for Data at Rest has been enabled for Microsoft Azure Germany.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Daniel Calbimonte describes how to import data from Azure Blob Storage to a local file with SQL Server Integration Services.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Edison Garca explains how to identify/review php errors in Azure Web Apps using the Log Stream service.
Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) blogs about automating EasyTables for Azure Mobile Apps.
Namgyal Nanglo explains how to integrate Azure Logs streamed to Event Hubs to SIEM.
On Code Project, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) looks into securing your IoT deployment.