Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #134
Welcome to issue #134 of the Azure Weekly Newsletter.
This week I was asked how our 4 free posters (Migration, Risk, Cloud Platform Comparison, Azure Technology Selector) could be used to plan a cloud migration. I realised that we had never talked publicly about the rationale behind them, and how they are all interconnected. So, I wrote this short guide.
Jenny Jiang shares Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code July updates.
Hayden Hainsworth discusses How Azure Security Center helps protect your servers with the Web Application Firewall, and Larry Cochrane writes about the Azure Cyber Analytics Program for Power and Utilities Customers.
Sam George unveils Bing Map v8 is available in the Azure IoT Suite Remote Monitoring preconfigured solution, while Krishna Mamidipaka announces that Azure Stream Analytics are now available in UK West and Canada Central and East.
And finally, Bret Grinslade Introduces the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
If you have any content you'd like to contribute to the newsletter, please tweet @AzureWeekly or ping an email to AzureWeekly@endjin.com.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Cloud Services
Simon J.K. Pedersen shows you how to Run MacOS using Virtual Box in Azure.
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to setup Nested Virtualization in Microsoft Azure.
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) explains How to Resize virtual machines in Azure With Powershell.
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher
On TechNet, Shannon Gowen discusses Azure Reverse DNS.
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon looks at the Azure Application Gateway Anatomy.
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
On MSDN, Kyle Deeds writes about the General availability of Storage Service Encryption and "Secure transfer required".
On the Azure blog, Kartik P V R announces that Instant File Recovery from Azure VM backups is now generally available.
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
On MSDN, Jeff Chilberto (@JChilberto) puts a Spotlight on the Azure Mobile App.
On MSDN, Jeremy Brooks explains how to Add Routes to an Azure Web App Integrated with a VNET.
RalfWi unveils Azure Media Services are generally available in Germany.
On TechNet, Matt Shadbolt (@ConfigMgrDogs) talks about the Discovered apps node in Microsoft Intune on the Azure console.
On the Azure blog, Richard Li (@RichyLi) explains how to Accelerate websites with Azure CDN using Dynamic Site Acceleration.
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Registry
On TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) talks about Istio CI/CD pipeline for VSTS.
Databases
Covering: SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server Stretch Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Table storage, Redis Cache, Data Factory
On MSDN, Yochanan Rachamim explains How to check connectivity to Azure SQL DB.
Srikantan walks through Calling the Azure Cosmos DB Graph API from Azure Functions.
On the Azure blog, Mirek Sztajno reveals Resumable Online Index Rebuild is in public preview for Azure SQL DB and Database Scoped Global Temporary Tables are in public preview for Azure SQL DB.
Veljko Vasic writes about Artificial Intelligence tuning Azure SQL Databases.
Joseph Sack blogs about Tableau and Azure SQL DB, a match made in the cloud.
James Serra (@JamesSerra) blogs about Azure SQL Data Sync 2.0.
Data + Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Using External data with Azure Jupyter Notebooks.
On the Kloud blog, Qazi Mobeen walks through Setting up a Power BI Gateway.
On TechNet, Stphane Frchette (@sfrechette) writes about the Real-time streaming dashboard with Power BI.
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) discusses Setting Up Continuous Integration for the Azure Bot Service.
On the Azure blog, Bret Grinslade (@bretgr) Introduces the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
AI + Cognitive Services
Covering: Computer Vision API, Face API, Bing Web Search API, Customised speech service, Custom Vision Service, Language Understanding Intelligent Service, Bing Custom Search
On MSDN, Julie Glixon announces the Cognitive Services White Glove Program for All Azure Government Customers.
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights
On MSDN, Dave The Engineer discusses Building Azure Stream Analytics Resources via ARM Templates (Part 2).
On the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka announces that Azure Stream Analytics are now available in UK West and Canada Central and East.
Sam George (@samjgeorge) unveils Bing Map v8 is available in the Azure IoT Suite Remote Monitoring preconfigured solution.
Enterprise Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
On MSDN, Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan) shares a Logic Apps Release Update.
Mandi Anez Ohlinger (@mandi_ohlinger) talks about Integration Boot Camp 2017 on September 21 - September 22.
Shailesh Agre shares details of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Webinar Series.
Vinay Singh discusses Calling Azure Functions from an XSLT map in Logic Apps.
Nino Crudele (@ninocrudele) writes about Agile integration with Microsoft Azure and BizTalk Server.
Security + Identity
Covering: Security Center, Azure Active Directory for developers, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Multi-Factor Authentication
On MSDN, Kirk Evansmsft (@kaevans) explains how to Join a Virtual Machine to Existing Domain with Key Vault and ARM templates.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) writes about the Microsoft Azure Stack Development Kit.
Charles Sterling (@chass) talks about Sharing Power BI Apps with AAD Security Groups.
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) discusses Faking Azure ID identity in ASP.NET Core unit tests.
James van Den Berg Gets Started with Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Center.
On the Azure blog, Larry Cochrane writes about the Azure Cyber Analytics Program for Power and Utilities Customers.
On the Azure blog, Hayden Hainsworth discusses How Azure Security Center helps protect your servers with the Web Application Firewall.
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) walks through Getting started with Azure Cloud Shell.
On MSDN, Jeff Sanders (@jsandersrocks) covers Adding Azure Web App to Visual Studio Team Services.
On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) talks about Linking Team Services VSTS accounts with your Azure account for Continuous Integration.
On the Azure blog, Jenny Jiang shares Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code July updates.
Monitoring + Management
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler
On MSDN, Pam Lahoud (@SQLGoddess) discusses Resolving Azure ARM REST API Versions Conflict In ARM Templates.
On TechNet, Anthony Watherston writes about Continuous Deployment to Azure Automation DSC (Part 4).
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) covers Azure Resource Policies Part 1: Built in Policies
Useful Links
- Endjin's Azure Technology Selector - a flowchart which guides you through the process of chosing the best Azure service for your needs.
- Cloud Comparison Poster - a free poster from endjin, comparing the three major cloud platforms - Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud Migration Process - a free poster from endjin, outlining our process for cloud adoption
- Cloud Adoption: Risk & Mitigations - The Swiss Cheese Model - a free poster from endjin & Hymans Robertson outlining the risk and mitigations of adopting public cloud.
- Embracing Disruption: Financial Services & the Microsoft Cloud - a free ebooklet from endjin describing how companies in FS can take advantage of Azure.
- Microsoft's What is Azure poster - a visual overview of Azure's services and features.
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure - a free ebook from Microsoft Press, by Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan.
- Data Science in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and R - a free ebook on Azure Machine Learning, by Stephen F. Elston.
- Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure - a whitepaper that describes the various mechanism you can you can leverage for managing sensitive data in the Azure platform.
- A-Z of the Azure ecosystem - a slide deck outlining current Azure services.
- Azure Architecture Center - guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
- Azure Architect's Reference - if you are an architect responsible for building an application on Azure, or are trying to figure out how you could migrate an application and need to dig deep into the workload, cost, security, capacity, availability, deployment and operational modelling this invaluable resource should be your first stop. An open source project, with contributions from several experienced architects, it gathers data from many different references into a single, useful guide that is constantly updated by the community.
- Azure Table Storage Design Guide - a guide from the storage team.
- Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines - key design and implementation guidelines for deploying an IT workload in Azure infrastructure services.
- Azure Speed Test - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
- Azure Websites Cheatsheet - everything you need to know about configuring & managing Azure Websites on a single page.
- SQL Database Migration Wizard - a very useful tool for migrating existing SQL databases to SQL Azure; will fix some common conversion errors automatically.
- Azure SQL DTU Calculator - a tool to help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
- Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set - a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
- Service Bus Explorer - a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
- Best practices for designing Azure Resource Manager Templates - guidance based on the whitepaper 'World Class ARM Templates Considerations and Proven Practices'.
- Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects - a downloadable guide to Azure networking, covering topics such as cloud migration and networking for PaaS and SaaS services
- Cyber Security Demystified - a free ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
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