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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:
Public preview: Azure Network Watcher
Public preview: Azure Functions Proxies
Public preview: Loading files from Azure Blob storage into Azure SQL Database
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
Evolution of Serverless Compute in Microsoft Azure by Chris Pietschmann
Azure Functions Proxies public preview by Matthew Henderson
Azure App Service Secrets and Web Site Hidden Gems by Scott Hanselman
Kubernetes now Generally Available on Azure Container Service by Saurya Das
Featured Book
In an effort to promote the greatness that a good tech book can be, here’s the weeks featured book:
Cloud Architecture Patterns: Using Microsoft Azure
Written by: Bill Wilder
If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.
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)
IaC on Azure – Windows Server Virtual Machine Deployment made easy with ARM Template by Ryan Kia Zhi Tang
Monitoring Windows Server OS with Lumagate and OMS – Public Preview by The Scripting Guys
Creating an image with 2 Managed Disks for VM Scale Set by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Scale your Python service with Managed Disks by Usman Anwer
Building Apps with Microsoft Azure Active Directory by keantonc, Rosshe
Announcing Azure Network Watcher – Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Service for Azure by Yousef Khalidi
Taking a snapshot of a Managed Disk by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
OMS Container Solution – Windows Server and Hyper-V Container Support via The Scripting Guys
Migrating from unmanaged to managed disks by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Trouble shooting Availability Group Listener in Azure SQL VM by Louis Li
Best Practices: How to deploy Azure Site Recovery Mobility Service by Anoop K. Vasudavan
How to install and configure GUI and OMS on Azure RHEL Linux VM. by k.moussa
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Creating a local PFX copy of App Service Certificate by akurmi
Using PowerShell Modules in Azure Functions by Steve Lee
Developing and Deploying a Service Fabric Voting App to Azure by Benjamin Xue
Using mail2bug with Azure App Service, WebJobs and VSTS to handle support mail by Jeff Wilcox
Announcing new Azure Functions capabilities to accelerate development of serverless applications by Raman Sharma
Cannot read property ‘listRegistrationsByTag’ of undefined’ (Azure App Services) by Jeff Sanders
Announcing Azure Functions support for Serverless Framework by Chris Anderson
Implementing a REST client for internal communication in Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
App Service Companion for iOS update by Byron Tardif
Return HTML or file content from C# Azure function by Armin Reiter
How to delete a specific instance from a cloud service – PAAS V1 by Sri Harsha B
Protecting Azure Logic Apps Using Azure API Management by Kent Weare
Let’s Encrypt Extension for Azure App Services by Nicholas Rogoff
How to get Storage queues, Service bus queue details of the scheduler Job using powershell by Vinoth Mari Kumar
Access On-Premises resource from Azure App Services by Showkat Hassan Lone
Certification
70-768 Developing SQL Data Models Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann
Development
Configuring ASP.NET Core Applications in Azure App Service by Adrian Hall
Guide to get started with Visual Studio Web Load Testing and Automation via Microsoft Testing Services
Deploying Azure Functions with Kudu and PowerShell via SoundCode
Rapid API Development with Azure Functions via SoundCode
Database / Big Data
Restarting Storm EventHub Topology on a new cluster by Ranjan Banerjee
Big Data on Azure with No Limits Data, Analytics and Managed Clusters by Lee Stott
Data on Azure by Lee Stott
Using Oozie SLA on HDInsight clusters by Bharath Venkatesh
Ingest data into Azure Data Lake Store with StreamSets Data Collector by CP_MSFT
Interested in Data Science welcome to Microsoft LearnAnalytics@MS Site by Lee Stott
Blob Auditing in Azure SQL Database is Generally Available by Gilad Mittelman
Loading files from Azure Blob Storage into Azure SQL Database by Jovan Popovic
Azure SQL Analytics solution – Public Preview via The Scripting Guys
Making Azure Data Lake Store the default file system for Hadoop by Amit R. Kulkami
Internet of Things
Create an End-to-end IOT Scenario with Azure Services by Gandhali Samant
Azure IoT turbocharged with new Azure Stream Analytics features via Microsoft IoT
Other
Azure Scaffold – Governance Recommendations by Christian Reddington
How to delegate the Power BI Administrator Role via to the Office Administrator Portal by Charles Sterling
Azure and Linux deploying via Azure Resource Manager by Lee Stott
Making your APIs available to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow by Matthew Henderson
Coloring an entire state in Power BI by Charles Sterling
Azure Government extends lead in the Cloud with leap in FedRAMP coverage by Spenser Bullock
Azure Analysis Services now available in Canada Central and Australia Southeast by Josh Caplan
Absolutely Amazing! Azure Alert Anything, or Anyone, Anywhere, Automatically, Always! by Pete Laker
Azure IP Ranges by Nicole Welch
Tools to work with Microsoft Azure cloud by martynas
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
Episode 223: Azure Managed Disks with Chetan Agarwal via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover
TWC9: New Azure Functions, 5 Awesome VS 2017 Features, VS Launch Event and more… | This Week On Channel 9 via Channel 9
Using Spinnaker’s Release Pipeline for CD to Azure | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
SQL Unplugged – February 2017 Edition | SQL Unplugged via Scott Klein
DocumentDB Support for Aggregates | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
Getting Started with Azure – Backing Up VMs by Brian Christopher Harrison
Host Spinnaker on Azure via Azure Friday
Tuesdays with Corey – more AzureCLI 2.0 Goodness | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Data Migration Assistant – Azure SQL Database Assessment | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Extensibility in PowerApps | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
Episode 222: Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code with Brady Gaster | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Channel 9
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 167 – Blockchain Hello World via The Azure Podcast
Episode 181 | Digital Transformation with Office 365 Groups with Ben Niaulin via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
Take a look at our top 7 IoT predictions for this year via ReadWrite
Control GPIO with Docker Swarm by Alex Ellis
3D Memory Sparks New Thinking in HPC System Design by Nicole Hemsoth
Containers & Redis – Running Redis on Windows with Docker by Lee Stott
Who wins the three-way cloud battle? Google vs. Azure vs. AWS by Damien Wolf
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