Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #141
Welcome to the latest edition of the Azure Weekly Newsletter.
On the Azure blog this week, Kristian Nese explains how to Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions.
Charlie Satterfield writes about Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack, and Yorke Rhodes III discusses Microsoft joining IC3 in advancing blockchain enterprise readiness.
Ruchi Chopra previews Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers, while Sam George talks about Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration.
And Krishna Mamidipaka blogs about how Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time insights.
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Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Cloud Services
· On TechNet, John Knightly (@johnaknightly) writes about Customizing, Exporting and Importing Azure VM Diagnostic Settings.
· Michael Crump Shares Azure Tips and Tricks on Using the Table Parameter in the Azure CLI, Configuring the Azure CLI to set Output Defaults and more, Connecting to Windows VMs with RDP and Connecting to a Linux VM with SSH.
· Sam Cogan (@samcogan) talks about Building Azure Scale Set Images with Packer and DSC.
· On Opsgility, Chris Pietschmann (@crpietschmann) explains how to Compare VM Performance with Azure Compute Units.
· Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) asks if RDP connection is open by default for VMs inside Azure.
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher
· Sarah Weldon reveals that Network Performance Monitor is now generally available in Azure Government.
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
· On MSDN, Kay Unkroth walks through Using Azure Analysis Services on Top of Azure Data Lake Storage.
· Kyle Deeds announces the General Availability of Blob Storage (Hot/Cool) in US Gov Virginia.
· Nicole Welch discusses Moving files between Azure Storage and RHEL.
· On the Azure blog, Cathy Palmer explains how to Run Hortonworks clusters and easily access Azure Data Lake.
· On TechNet, Shannon Gowen shares some Online training for Azure Data Lake.
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
· On the Kloud blog, Bradley Smith walks through Building websites with Ionic Framework, Angular and Microsoft Azure App Services.
· Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) explains how to Make Your Azure WebJobs Unit Testable Again.
· On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) explains How to make an App Setting or Connection String sticky and talks about the Database connection string when swapping between App Servers slots.
· Gabe Shapiro covers a PowerShell script to save a list of folder and file contents & file sizes to a csv file in App Service.
· On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh covers Azure Management Libraries for .NET - v1.2.
· Apurva Joshi shares an Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux.
· Nir Mashkowski writes about the General availability of App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers.
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Registry
· On MSDN, Jim Cheshire talks about Things You Should Know for Web Apps and Linux.
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, John P Hoang writes about a Common ISV application patterns using Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
· Murshed Zaman (@MurshedAzurecat) talks about Azure SQL Data Warehouse Workload Patterns and Anti-Patterns.
· On the Azure blog, Fernando Oliveira discusses Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB.
· Rimma Nehme (@rimmanehme) explains how to Try Azure CosmosDB for free.
· Rohan Kumar talks about Microsoft at PostgresOpen 2017.
· Vincent-Philippe Lauzon discusses Hacking to access a graph in Cosmos DB with SQL / DocumentDB API.
Data + Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
· Devin Knight (@knight_devin) shares an Impact Bubble Chart.
· Chris Webb (@Technitrain) covers Power BI Custom Data Connector For Language Detection, Key Phrase Extraction And Sentiment Analysis.
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 Programming For Fun, Prashant Khandelwal writes about Extracting Text From Images Using Computer Vision API And Azure Function
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights
· On the Azure blog, Krishna Mamidipaka blogs about how Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time insights.
· Sam George (@samjgeorge) talks about Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection and configuration.
Enterprise Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
· On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers Mixing Parameters in Logic Apps with ARM Template.
· On MSDN, Michal Chmielus explains How to bind Dynamics CRM with Azure Logic Apps.
· Bill Wilder blogs about Logic Apps at Boston Azure and Logic Apps & Functions at Granite State SharePoint Users Group.
· Yorke Rhodes III discusses Microsoft joining IC3 in advancing blockchain enterprise readiness.
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 the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) walks through Configuring Remote PowerShell to a Remote Active Directory Forest for FIM/MIM GalSync.
· On MSDN, Isha Gupta blogs about Swagger Authentication against Azure AD B2C.
· On TechNet, Bruno Gabrielli writes about the Active Directory Federation Service Management Pack, Addendum.
· On the Azure blog, Charlie Satterfield writes about Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack.
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
· On MSDN, Aaron Hallberg writes about Visual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest.
· Sandeep Chadda reveals Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more.
· Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) discusses how to Use Azure availability tests and load tests to analyze the decoupling needs of your system (handson).
· On the .NET Curry blog, Gouri Sohoni walks through Using Test Hub in VSTS to run Automated Tests on Web applications.
Monitoring + Management
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler
· On the Kloud blog, John Downs covers Monitoring Azure Storage Queues with Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
· On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller blogs about UI Changes after converting a Log Analytics workspace to the new query language and explains How to configure Power BI to regularly update data from an upgraded Log Analytics workspace.
· On MSDN, Shailesh Agre talks about the Microsoft BizTalk Server Webinar Series.
· On TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) explains How to use Azure SDK for Go by example for terraform contributor (Part 1).
· On the Azure blog, Kristian Nese explains how to Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions.
· On Cloud Administrator, Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) Shares a Free E-book: on OMS.
· Andy Thomas blogs about Azure housekeeping with bash and CLI 2.0.
· On the Azure blog, Ruchi Chopra previews Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers.
· Mark Heath Introduces the Azure CLI.
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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