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Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.
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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
Azure Site Recovery available in five new regions
Ruby support is available on Web Apps on Linux
Public preview: Cross-subscription virtual network peering
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
New managed disk storage option for your Azure VMs by markga
Announcing Azure SQL Database Threat Detection general availability coming in April 2017 by Ron Matchoro
Preview the new enhancements to Azure Security Center by Sarah Fender
Announcing Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio 2017 by Andrew B Hall
Featured Book
In an effort to promote the greatness that a good tech book can be, here’s the weeks featured book:
Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
Microsoft Azure Service Fabric makes it easier than ever before to build large-scale distributed cloud applications. You can quickly develop and update microservice-based applications, efficiently operate highly reliable hyperscale services, and deploy the same application code on public, hosted, or private clouds. This book introduces all key Azure Service Fabric concepts and walks you through implementing several real-world applications. You’ll find advanced design patterns, tuning tips, and lessons learned from early adopters—all from the perspective of developing and operating large projects in production.
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Azure Disk Encryption – How to recover KEK from Azure Key Vault by manojsehgal
Public IP Addresses of Azure Datacenters by Holger Sirtl
Configuring Service Fabric security hardened cluster (ALB and ILB) by Marcin Kosieradzki
Key updates to Azure Backup Server by Pallavi Joshi
Deploying IaaS VM Guest Clusters in Microsoft Azure by Subhasish Bhattacharya
Cisco & Azure Stack by PaulFC
Azure Linux Extensions: Custom Script for Linux by Marco A Bicca
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Running and Managing LOTS of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service by Scott Hanselman
Azure Apps: Getting 503 errors for slot, creating a new slot and swap, not working! by Rosana Araya
Running ASP.NET Core applications in Azure App Service by Adrian Hall
How to send a email to the subscription’s admin in Logic Apps by Freist Li
Azure Functions – Time Trigger (CRON) Cheat Sheet via Armin Reiter
Running SQL Server + ASP.Net Core in a container on Linux in Azure Container Service on Docker Swarm – Part 1 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Running SQL Server + ASP.Net Core in a container on Linux in Azure Container Service on Docker Swarm – Part 2 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Running SQL Server + ASP.Net Core in a container on Linux in Azure Container Service on Docker Swarm – Part 3 by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
Creating Scalable WCF Service for Azure Service Fabric by Jorge Gain
Introduction to Azure WebJobs by Aram Koukia
Azure App Services: Automate Application restart using Web Job by Karen Singh
Certification
MCSE: Data Management and Analytics Certification by Chris Pietschmann
70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
70-744 Securing Windows Server 2016 Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
70-775 Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
Development
Richer exception details in Application Insights (custom exceptions!) by Helge Mahrt
Using VSTS Release Management to Create Azure VM from ARM Template by Subodh Sohoni
Running Cross Browser Automated Testings in Visual Studio Team Services via MVP Award Program Blog
Azure Application Insights JavaScript SDK: reliability and performance improvements by Beckylin Orooji
Interview with an Azure Development Ninja – Sjoukje Zaal by Ed Price
Database / Big Data
Microsoft seeks to capitalize on recent spate of MongoDB ransomware with its DocumentDB pitch via ZDNet
Building advanced analytical solutions faster using Dataiku DSS on HDInsight by Bharath Sreenivas
Dear #MongoDB users, we welcome you in #Azure #DocumentDB by Rimma Nehme
Connect Excel to an Azure Analysis Services server by Josh Caplan
Microsoft Enterprise Services Tips to using SQL Data Warehouse effectively by Ellis Butterfield
Exporting large data using Microsoft R (IDE: RTVS) by BabberPrashant
Power BI and the World Bank API by Scott_MS
Azure HDInsight available in Microsoft Cloud Germany by RalfWi
Adding #AzureSearch to #DocumentDB collections with a click of a button by Evan Boyle
Power BI–A case study to end homelessness via Premier Developer
Internet of Things
Connecting your own Hadoop or Spark to Azure Data Lake Store by Amit R. Kulkarni
See the Internet of Things in Action With Microsoft via Microsoft IoT
How to assess IoT security from end to end via Microsoft IoT
IoT Starter Kits for Azure by Dave the Engineer
Machine Learning
A overview of Cognitive Data Science at Hack Cambridge by Lee Stott
Microsoft Predictive Modelling en el UniversityHack 2017 by Gorka Madariaga
Cloud-Scale Text Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks on Microsoft Azure via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
Revolutionizing Retail Through Personalization and Advanced Analytics – Free White Paper & Webinar via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog
Security
NEW: Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) Security Best Practices by Thomas W Shinder
Safeguarding your cloud resources with Azure security services by Julia White
Azure AD Developer Tips & Tricks — Part 2 by Andreas Helland
Azure Management Certificates (German Cloud, Azure Deutschland) by Benjamin Perkins
API Management – Role-Based Access Control now generally available by MiaoJiang
What’s new in Azure Active Directory B2C by Swaroop Krishnamurthy
Other
Azure IoT News. New Azure Features, Love Letters, New Looks and New Tools! by Pete Laker
OMS in CSP by Kirill Kotlyarenko
Monitoring Nutanix with OMS – Public Preview via The Scripting Guys
Register today for SMB Live by David Cunningham
Leveraging Microsoft’s Connected Field Service capabilities to transform your business by Jerry Lee
Welcome to the amazing world of Azure !! by Varsha G
Microsoft Azure Marketplace by Heinreichsberger
SharePoint Framework and Contextual Bots via Back Channel by Richard diZerega
How I improved my chatbot by Benjamin Perkins
Microsoft’s plan to bridge its infrastructure and platform cloud services is unfolding via ZDNet
Moving a Dynamics NAV database with file groups to Azure by navteam
Deep Learning using CNTK, Caffe, Keras +Theano,Torch, Tensorflow on Docker with Microsoft Azure Batch Shipyard by Lee Stott
Service Bus Namespace Separation Updates by Justin Conway
IaC on Azure – An introduction of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template by Ryan Kia Zhi Tang
Azure Content Spotlight – Azure CAT by chilberto
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
Episode 222: Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code with Brady Gaster via Azure Cloud Cover Show
Extensibility in PowerApps via Azure Friday
Connecting to the Cloud with Visual Studio Mobile Center via Azure Friday
New Delivery Plan Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
Host Jenkins on Azure via Azure Friday
Continuous Integration with Jenkins Using Azure VM Agents via Azure Friday
SQL Server in an Azure VM – What’s New | Data Exposed via Channel 9
JavaScript, the Cloud, and The Rise of The New Virtual Machine | NXTA 2017 via Scott Hanselman and Channel 9
PowerApps and the Common Data Service | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
PowerApps and the Common Data Service via Azure Friday
DocumentDB Loves Xamarin via Azure Friday
Audio / Podcasts
To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:
Episode 166 – Integration solutions with App Service via The Azure Podcast
Episode 180 | Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Google, Amazon and Apple Cloud News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Machine Learning Panel at NDC London via .NET Rocks
Episode 165 – Desired State Configuration via The Azure Podcast
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
Dockercast Interview: Docker Captain Stefan Scherer on Microsoft and Docker by John Willis
Wrapping Kubernetes Around Applications Old And New by Jeffrey Burt
Large-Scale Quantum Computing Prototype on Horizon by Jeffrey Burt
Happy Birthday .NET with Anders Hejlsberg via Channel 9
ARM Gains Stronger Foothold In China With AI And IoT by Jeffrey Burt
Nvidia Tesla Compute Business Quadruples In Q4 by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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