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Azure Weekly #150 - 12th November 2017

Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #150

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This issue marks the 3rd anniversary of Azure Weekly! Doesn't time fly when you're busy compiling a newsletter! Three years ago Azure Automation had just gone GA, Azure Resource Manager was starting to gain traction and tooling support and Docker was talked about at TechEd. Quite a lot has happened since! The pace of innovation and change on Azure is simply staggering, and I hope that you find Azure Weekly helps you keep on top of the firehose of updates.

There are plenty of announcements this week; firstly the general availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack, and the general availability of Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup. Both Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute and Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer are in public preview. The long-awaited feature of automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets has also been announced. On the DevOps front the VSTS Dashboard Application Insights chart widget now available, and Visual Studio Team Services is now available in the East Asia region.

My pick of the interesting articles this week are Microsoft and AWS Collaborate on Machine Learning, Microsoft's Batch AI Service train & test machine learning models on pools of GPU machines, DevOps for Data Science – Defining DevOps, Two Backlogs Integration Trello & VSTS, and finally using PowerBI with .NET Core. 

And if you wondered why our latest endjin apprentice has been a bit quite of late, it's because his appendix ruptured and he's been convalescing. Thankfully he's now fully recovered and back studying for his Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification. Welcome back Ed.

If you have any content you'd like to contribute to the newsletter, please tweet @AzureWeekly or ping an email to AzureWeekly@endjin.com.

@HowardvRooijen | @endjin

Compute

Covering: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Cloud Services

·         Stella Lin announces the General availability of App Service and Functions on Azure Stack

·         On the Kloud blog, Bruce Albany describes an Azure Functions Cold Start Workaround

·         On MSDN, Freddy Kristiansen (@freddydk) describes Creating workshop machines on Azure

·         Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Microsoft Azure Low-priority Virtual Machines – take advantage of surplus capacity in Azure.

·         On TechNet, Alex Bennett explains How to choose an Azure Virtual Machine

·         Jose Moreno talks about Working with network attributes of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

·         On the Azure blog, Guy Bowerman describes the Automatic OS upgrades for Azure VM scale sets

·         Pablo Junco writes about Accelerating the adoption of enterprise blockchain

·         Vincent-Philippe Lauzon blogs about Disaster Recovery with VM Scale Sets & Geo-Replicated DBs

·         Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Lift and Shift - cloud migration strategy

·         On Channel 9, Donovan Brown and Dave Fellows talk about Azure Batch Rendering Service

Networking

Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher

·         On the Azure blog, Ajay Gummadi announces that Monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute in preview

·         On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and JR Mayberry talk about Azure DDoS Protection Service

·         On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht describes Azure SQL Database Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Rules

·         Jose Moreno writes about Better health checks with Azure LB and HTTP probes example with PHP

·         On the Kemp Technologies blog, Dave Rendon writes about the Highly Available SAP in Azure with KEMP Load Balancers

Storage

Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup

·         On the Azure blog, Saurabh Sensharma announces that Windows System State Backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available

·         On the Microsoft + Open Source blog, Alessandro Segala describes Using s3cmd and other Amazon S3-compatible apps with Azure Blob Storage

·         On the Azure blog, Sercan Guler writes about the Linux FUSE adapter for Blob Storage

·         Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) covers Azure Storage Spaces direct S2D Standard Storage vs Premium Storage

·         On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wriju_ghosh) writes about the Using Azure Storage for ClickOnce Deployment Windows Desktop application

·         Also on MSDN, 'mihansen' discusses Deleting an Azure Recovery Services Vault with all Backup Items

Web & Mobile

Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search

·         Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) describes How to access KUDU SCM for an Azure App Service Environment ASE

·         On the Xamarin blog, Karina Ung covers Xamarin and Xamarin University Sessions at Microsoft Connect 2017

Containers

Covering: Container Service, Container Registry

·         On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson talks about Episode 224 Azure Kubernetes Service and more Azure and Outlook.com News

·         Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) writes Lift and Shift - Adding Docker to Nerd Dinner

·         Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes more Azure Tips & Tricks: Part 45 - Getting Started with Docker and Azure, Part 46 - Run an app inside a Container Image with Docker, Part 47 - Creating a Container Image with Docker and Part 48 - Pushing a Container Image to a Docker Repo

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

·         Jenny Jiang announces that Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer – public preview

·         Vincent-Philippe Lauzon writes about a few CosmosDB query limitations

·         Samuel Lester writes about Exploring Big Data: Course 5 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud

·         On Channel 9, Jeremy Likness and Ronit Reger talks about Track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities with SQL Vulnerability Assessment Data Exposed

·         Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) writes Deploying Teradata Database Developer Tier on Azure

·         On the MSSQL Tips site, Vitor Montalvao describes SQL Azure Create Database Tutorial

·         On InfoQ, Jeff Martin writes that Azure SQL Intelligence Aims to Help DBAs and Developers

Data + Analytics

Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog

·         On MSDN there is an interesting article about various uses of Azure Data Lakes by Retailers

·         On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) Introduces query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services.

·         Chris Webb (@Technitrain) writes about Which M Functions Are Only Available To Custom Data Connectors

·         Mahmoud Badran describes how to perform Skype for Business 'Rate My Call' analysis with Power BI

·         Devin Knight (@knight_devin) describes the Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 76 – Image Timeline

·         Benny Michielsen (@bennymichielsen) describes PowerBI with .NET Core

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, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) describes Microsofts Batch AI Service – Train & test machine learning models, on pools of GPU machines.

·         Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) covers Recognizing printed text on images using Azure Computer Vision API

·         On InfoQ, Martin Abbott describes how Microsoft and AWS Collaborate on Machine Learning

·         James Montemagno, on the Xamarin Show, demonstrates how to add AI with Cognitive Services to your app using the Emotion API

Internet of Things

Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights

·         On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) provides A quick start guide for Deploying and Configuring Node-RED as an Azure WebApp

Enterprise Integration

Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services

  • No content this week

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

  • No content this week

Developer Tools

Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer

·         On MSDN, Aaron Hallberg announces that Visual Studio Team Services is available in East Asia

·         On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno demonstrates simplified App Signing with Secure Files in Visual Studio Team Services

·         Buck Woody discusses DevOps for Data Science – Defining DevOps

·         On TechNet, Chris Walden writes about having two backlogs - integrating Trello & VSTS

Monitoring + Management

Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler

·         On the Azure blog, Mike Gresley, Senior Program Manager - Application Insights, blogs that the Application Insights VSTS dashboard chart widget now available.

·         Mayank Nayar announces that TierPoint adds Azure Site Recovery to its DraaS offerings

·         On the Azure blog, Ashwin Kamath describes how to Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana

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