Azure Weekly

Issue #484 - 15th September 2024

First up James Serra has produced useful Microsoft Purview FAQ, and part 5 of Barry Smart's Data Science with Microsoft Fabric Tutorial focuses on observability.

Next, some Azure Advisor workbook hidden gems, a how-to guide about LLM Load Testing on Azure Serverless & Managed-Compute, and how-to Secure Containerized Applications with SSH Tunneling

Continusing this years' theme on FinOps: How to save money on Azure Compute with Savings Plans, and FinOps On Azure: Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions

Finally, New pricing for Microsoft Certification exams effective November 1, 2024.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

Charles Chukwudozie covers Exploring AI Agent-Driven Auto Insurance Claims RAG Pipeline.
Carlos Crestana covers Introducing SDAIA and Their Latest Arabic LLM on Azure AI Model Catalog
Lee Stott talks about Unlocking the Power of Responsible AI with Microsoft Azure
Mohamad Al Jazaery covers LLM Load Test on Azure Serverless & Managed-Compute
On the Perficient blog, Jos Flrez Restrepo discusses Custom Weather Forecast Model Using ML Net
Pamela Fox covers Integrating vision into RAG applications

🔎 Analytics

On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Jianlei Shen announces New Storage Integration Support in Snowflake Connector for Fabric Data Factory, discusses Introducing the New Feature in Lakehouse Connector in Fabric Data Factory: Schema Support for Reading and Writing Data and announces New Data Factory Connectors Released in Q3 2024
Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Rick Xu discusses Microsoft Fabric Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification
Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Miguel Escobar (@EscobarMiguel90) discusses Dive into Data Factory at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe
On the endjin blog, Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) covers Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 5 - Observability
On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) writes about API for GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric
Jaspreet Dhamija discusses Copilot for Microsoft Fabric - Starter Series Healthcare Focus
Kapil Samant walks through Building Bronze Layer of Medallion Architecture in Fabric Lakehouse using WAL2JSON
Sparsh Agrawat covers Unlock Analytics and AI for Oracle DatabaseAzure with Microsoft Fabric and OCI GoldenGate
On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama covers Oracle-Microsoft 'DatabaseAzure' Service Getting Fabric, Sentinel Hooks

🖥️ Compute

Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) blogs about Fix Azure Function Node.js GitHub Actions Windows workflow
Marco Netto discusses Accelerating water wading simulation using Altair nanoFluidX on Azure Nvidia A100 and Nvidia H100
Fawad Khan discusses Azure Lab Services - Upcoming maintenance update on October 12, 2024
Gregor Wohlfarter explains How to save money on Azure Compute with Savings Plans

🚢 Containers

Sander van de Velde (@svelde) walks through Running a stateful MQTT client in Azure Container Instances
Francis Laniel writes 'Inspektor Gadget is available in AzureLinux 3'
Henry Yan blogs about Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024
Roosevelt Nelson Jr describes Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues between a Virtual Machine VM and an Azure Container App
Tsubasa Nomura describes How to monitor applications by using OpenTelemetry on Azure Container Apps
On Diagrid Blog, Fernando Rocha blogs about Dapr & Service Mesh: What Are They, & How Do They Complement Each Other For Distributed Apps
Sean Li announces the General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps

🗄️ Databases

David Giard (@DavidGiard) discusses Justine Cocchi on Building Applications using Azure Cosmos DB
On the MSSQL Tips site, Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) explains how to Implement Azure Database for MySQL Step-by-Step
Arvind Shyamsundar writes about Elastic pools for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now Generally Available
Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) covers Lesson Learned 508: Monitoring Wait Stats and Handling Large Data Set
Yochanan Rachamim (@ryochanan) blogs about CurrentBackupStorageRedundancy of my master database on Azure SQL Server
Sparsh Agrawat announces availability of Oracle DatabaseAzure in Australia East
Ziyu Zhang writes about Built-in Oracle DB - using JKS keystore to support certification validation

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Anders Sundheim covers Break for Async User-Unhandled exceptions in the Visual Studio Debugger
Dominic Nahous (@DomsterFire) covers VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole discusses Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Leah Tran covers Search scoping helps you find what youre looking for
Thite Nitin covers Azure CLI: The Ultimate Tool for Efficient Cloud Management
Tim Deschryver writes about My recommendations to configure Visual Studio Code for Angular Development
Tobias Fenster writes about My remote SSH development setup with VS Code, part II
On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about VS Code Experiments Boost AI Copilot Functionality
Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks about Kent Beck: Tidy First - Episode 314
Rochelle Sonnenberg blogs about Rockford Lhotka and Eric Boyd Share Their Expertise at Visual Studio Live 2024
Aabha Thipsay covers Microsoft's quantum-resistant cryptography is here

🔩 DevOps

Drew Skwiers-Koballa talks about Preview release of SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio 2022
John Folberth (@j_folberth) describes Deploying .dapacs to Azure SQL via Azure DevOps Pipelines

⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud

Mladen Andzic writes about Native JSON support now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Nupur Goyal blogs about Omdias perspective on Microsofts SSE solution
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) writes about Remote Desktop Connection RDP to Azure Arc-enabled Windows Server machines anywhere

🎭 Identity

Maxime Guillemin covers Android and Certificate Based Authentication
On the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) chat about Reliability in the Well-Architected Framework with Bastian Ulke
Emily Liu writes about Welcome to the Microsoft Incident Response Ninja Hub
Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains How to Create Dynamic Environment Variables in GitHub Actions

🔌 Integration

Dieter Gobeyn describes how to Unlock Azure Logic Apps Insights: Must-Know KQL Queries
Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about FinOps On Azure: Cost Management Best Practices for Azure Integration Solutions
Harold Campos describes Increasing business value by integrating SOAP legacy assets with Azure logic Apps and Azure APIM
Vesa Juvonen writes about Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store - August 2024

📚 Learning

David Norman writes about New pricing for Microsoft Certification exams effective November 1, 2024
Jeewan Kumar Bhatta explains How to Stand Out as a Microsoft Student Ambassador: Perks, Process, and More...
Mindy Rosenthal covers Coming soon: New MB courses for ILT for Dynamics 365.
Justin Royal writes about More ways to sell through the marketplace with professional services
Martin Tatar covers Microsoft MVPs x. Microsoft Zero to Hero Community
Mindy Rosenthal talks about ILT Course Retirement- AZ-1005: Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop for the Enterprise
Mayunk Jain explains how to Build the next generation of AI applications with Microsoft Azure at DevIntersection, Las Vegas

⚖️ Management and Governance

James Serra (@JamesSerra) blogs about Microsoft Purview FAQ
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) highlights Azure Advisor workbook hidden gems
Dolev Shor blogs about Maximizing Azure Resource Insights: Introducing the Azure Inventory Gateway
Mark Litwin writes about Quick Items to Review for a Smooth Microsoft 365 Copilot Deployment
Miriam Wiesner (@miriamxyra) covers The power of Data Collection Rules: Collecting events for advanced use cases in Microsoft USOP

🎬 Media

Milan Kaur describes Azure Communication Services at the DEVIntersection Conference

🌐 Networking

Geert van Teylingen (@teylemans) walks through Harnessing Generative AI with Weaviate on Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure NetApp Files
Ishan Shukla explains how to Deny inbound NSG Rule creation via Azure Policy and explains how to Manage NSG association on Subnets via Azure Policy
Naveed Kharadi blogs about Securing Containerized Applications with SSH Tunneling
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) explains how to Be Very Careful with Allow Rules in Azure WAF's
Leo Visser (@autosysops) explains how to Improve azure virtual network security

🔐 Security

Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Deep Dive into Microsoft Sentinel UEBA User and Entity Behavior Analytics
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Sina Salam blogs about Enhancing Data Security and Digital Trust in the Cloud using Azure Services.
Sharon Ben Yosef covers Microsoft Defender for Identity: the critical role of identities in automatic attack disruption
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Episode 384 focuses on Securing Azure with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Prateek Taneja discusses SIEM Migration Update: Now Migrate with contextual depth in translations with Microsoft Sentinel

📦 Storage

Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Master Azure Files with NTFS and Entra Domain Services

🔗 Web

Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout using ASP.NET Core, Keycloak and .NET Aspire
Danilo Diaz talks about Ensuring Platform Resiliency: The Next Step in AI Deployment
Elad Tal covers OpenAI at Scale: Maximizing API Management through Effective Service Utilization
Abhishek Reddy explains how to Managed Identity support for WordPress on App Service

⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop

Luxmi Nagaraj explains how to Learn about ThinPrints transactable partner solution in Azure Marketplace
Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) describes IGEL Disrupt 2024 Bootcamp in Munich w/ Claus Emrich Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop and delves into Windows in the Cloud GPU-enhanced Windows 365 Cloud PCs