Azure Weekly
Issue #98 - 23rd October 2016
Welcome to the 98th edition of the Azure Weekly Newsletter.
On the Azure blog this week, Matt Rathbun covers how architecting secure solutions just got easier while Dan Hadari discusses Schema updates in Application Insight Analytics.
Joe Davies explains how the Contoso Corporation is implementing Azure services, and Vitaly Gorbenko shares the release preview of Microsoft System Center and Application Insights integration.
Finally, Kirill Gavrylyuk writes about DocumentDB updates in the Azure Portal.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) offers free data sets for Azure Machine Learning.
On the MSSQL Tips site, Dattatrey Sindol (@dattatreysindol) shares an overview of Machine Learning and Analytics in the Cortana Intelligence Suite.
Rod Trent (@rodtrent) shares a free eBook on data science using Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
On the Azure blog, Kirill Gavrylyuk (@kirillg_msft) covers DocumentDB updates in the Azure Portal.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Dan E. Price talks about VMSS and ARM VM series offerings for Azure Government.
Maheshk (@MahesKBlr) tells you how to list all available VM sizes in a region using .NET ARM endpoint.
Wasim Bloch blogs about Azure Virtual Machine unique IDs.
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@shanselman) looks at triggering with Azure Functions.
🎭 Identity
On MSDN, Ajay Jagannathan (@AjayMSFT) blogs about integrating PolyBase with Cloudera using Active Directory authentication.
On TechNet, Andre Della Monica writes about managing access at scale with Azure AD.
🔌 Integration
On the Netwrix site, Anastasia Antonova explains how the new Netwrix Auditor 8.5 offers 360-degree visibility for hybrid cloud security.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On MSDN, Ahmed Farag writes about a common problem when using Azure resource groups & RBAC, explains how to use Azure PowerShell SDK and talks about custom Azure RBAC roles and how to extend existing role definitions scope.
Felipe Senso talks about PowerShell cmdlets and how these manage Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines.
On TechNet, Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) writes about using the Azure ARM REST API.
Simon J.K. Pedersen looks into a custom Azure Portal dashboard with ARM templates.
Janne Mattila (@janne_mattila) covers Legacy apps to Azure with PowerShell DSC and CI + CD.
The Application Insights Service Team let you know about some planned maintenance.
Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) blogs about what's new in the Azure Security Center and the difference between an Azure Security Center alert and an MSRC notification.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) explores Application Insights for disconnected or connected deep telemetry in ASP.NET apps.
Dan Hadari discusses Schema updates in Application Insight Analytics.
Vitaly Gorbenko shares the release preview of Microsoft System Center and Application Insights integration.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) discusses running the native .NET application in Docker .NET Framework 4.6.2 and explains how Docker containers can make WIN32 API calls and use COM and ASP.NET WebForms.
On the Azure blog, Matt Rathbun covers how architecting secure solutions just got easier.
On the Azure blog, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) explains how the Contoso Corporation is implementing Azure services.
Santosh Hari invites you to see the Azure Doctors.
🎬 Media
On Channel 9, Adam Glick talks about website speed with Azure Storage and CDN.
🌐 Networking
On MSDN, Kim Spilker talks about Azure Network security.
Naeem Khedarun (@NaeemKhedarun) discusses the Azure Networking bandwidth, and pits together Public IP and Peered Networking.
📦 Storage
Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) determines what data storage fits your needs in Azure.
🔗 Web
Also on MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains How he connected a console application to a Web API protected by an Azure Active Directory.
Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) covers building a scalable and secure Internet-of-Things on Microsoft Azure.
On Code Project, Gustavo Mobrice talks about using Azure Logic Apps with HTTP requests.
The Intel Corporation blog about connecting to Microsoft Azure with Node-RED and a gateway to commercial cloud solutions with Azure IoT.
Over on Wintellect, Paul Ballard invites you to a webinar introducing the Azure IoT Suite.