Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #377

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AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text

• Derek Legenzoff talks about Azure Cognitive Search now supports swapping indexes
• Charles Elwood writes Azure Percept shines light on Holland Museum collections
• Martin Tuip describes how to Simplify and accelerate development and deployment of computer vision solutions for manufacturing
• Keita Onabuta presents MLOps Maturity Model with Azure Machine Learning

Analytics

Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight, Azure Purview

• Sannidhya Glodha describes Introducing Azure Event Hubs Dedicated Self-Serve Scaling experience – Public Preview
• Ryan Majidimehr (@rmajidimehr) highlights the Azure Synapse Analytics June Update 2022

Compute

Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• The Azure Updates Team announces the Public preview of Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers

• On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) and Jorge Palma discuss how to Build, Scale & Operate Kubernetes Workloads in Azure 2022
• On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) blogs about VMware Launches Tanzu Toolkit for Visual Studio
• Toon Vanhoutte (@ToonVanhoutte) describes how to Save costs by shutting down AKS Clusters on dev environments

Databases

Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage

• On the SQL Server Blog, Bob Ward (@bobwardms) blogs about Introducing the SQL Server 2022 blog series
• Sridhar Ranganathan writes 'PostgreSQL v14 is now available in Flexible Server PostgreSQL'
• Mladen Andzic talks about Restoring a SQL Managed Instance database backup to SQL Server 2022 Private Preview
• Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) discusses Monitoring SQLPackage Import Process
• Sabrin Alsahsah writes about Stuck operation in Azure SQL Managed Instance due to private DNS zone name

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online

• On the Visual Studio blog, Denizhan Yigitbas explains how to Sneak Peek and Edit Your Code While You Search
• On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Visual Studio 2022 Preview Allows Code Editing in Search Results and covers Java on Visual Studio Code Furthers Big Spring Boot Push

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations

• Abhishek Narain (@narainabhishek) blogs about CI/CD improvement using Global Parameters in Azure Data Factory
• On episode 199 of the Azure DevOps Podcast Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Daniel Vacanti to talk about Measuring Agile Software Teams
• Gerasimos Alexiou walks through Using slots with appservice for Continuous delivery – Azure DevOps and discusses Trigger azure DevOps pipeline from another repository
• Manoj Srinivas presents Azure Tips and Tricks - Setup an Azure Pipeline with Node.js
• Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) describes how to Schedule a build in Azure DevOps using CRON Expressions
• On the Armchair Architects channel, David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann, and Eric Charran discuss Using Chaos Engineering to plan for specific failure conditions
• John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) walks through Creating Scheduled Reports from Azure Devops with Azure logic apps
• Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Deploy an app service web app using Azure DevOps
• Aaron Powell (@slace) explains how to Deploy Azure Static Web Apps With Bicep

Hybrid + Multicloud

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

• Nicholas Xuan Nguyen covers Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management with Azure Arc
• Pinal Dave (@pinaldave) discusses Hybrid Cloud Monitoring
• Nikita Takru writes about Directly Connected Mode Data Controller for Azure Arc-enabled Data Services
• Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) explains how to Apply Azure Policy to Azure Arc-enabled Servers in a Hybrid environment

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services

• The Azure Updates Team announce the General Availability of: Temporary access pass for Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
• Shobhit Sahay describes Microsoft Entra change announcements - June 2022 train
• Nicola Delfino covers Azure AD OAuth client credential flow with custom certificate walk-through
• On the AzUpdate channel, Pierre Roman and  (@pierreroman) and Amy Colyer (@wyrdgirl) discuss Azure Key Vault, Azure WAF and Azure Backup

Integration

Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus

• Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) discusses Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: 12 Choose your developer tools properly

Internet of Things

Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services

• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release, and Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central, and MATCH clause for Query, and Resize rows in Azure IoT Central device raw data view and 2022-05-31 Azure IoT Central REST API release
• Benedikt Abendroth presents Navigating shifting tides: Government actions on IoT security in Europe
• Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) explains Azure IoT Edge order of deployment operations

Learning

Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information

• Gita Sharma announces the new certification for cybersecurity architects
• Temante Leary presents The 2-Minute Recap : Everything new with Security, Compliance, and Identity on Microsoft Learn
• Julia Muiruri provides A welcome to the In-Country MLSA Peer Mentorship Program
• Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) walks through Passing the Azure Network Security Ninja Training
• Tommy Falgout presents Beginners Guide to secure cloud-native applications with Calico in Microsoft Azure

Management and Governance

Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview

• On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) discusses Microsoft Cost Management updates – June 2022
• Christian Geuer-Pollmann writes Is your availability zone 1 equal to my 1? Understanding the checkZonePeers API...
• On episode 140 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine talk about Reliability in the Azure Well-Architected Framework

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer

• No content this week

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box

• No content this week

Mobile

Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin

• Jorge Garcia Hirota describes Azure Communication Services UI Library Now Available for iOS and Android
• The Intune Support Team covers Intune APP now available for Android Enterprise dedicated devices in shared mode and AOSP devices

Networking

Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall

• Leo Li announces Public Preview of Time-To-Live TTL in managed virtual network
• Gustavo Modena covers Managing WAF Policies and DDoS protection plans with Azure Firewall Manager
• Paolo Salvatori describes how to Create a Private Link Service using Bicep
• Dawid Borycki talks about Cloud Networking with Infrastructure-as-Code - Part 1: Cloud Networking Basics, Part 2: Cloud Networking with Infrastructure as Code and Part 3: Securing and Routing Cloud Networks with IaC
• Chad Kittel describes Optimizing Azure ExpressRoute with the Well-Architected Framework
• Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) explains How to – Deploy Azure Firewall Premium using Bicep

Security

Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center

• Arun Singh explains how to Get defense-in-depth email security, now available via Azure Marketplace
• Rachel Park explains how to Strengthen the security posture of your SaaS apps with Defender for Cloud Apps
• Rijuta Kapoor discusses Import Anomali ThreatStream Feed into Microsoft Sentinel
• Benjamin Kovacevic presents Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks – Part 1: Automation rules
• On the Data Exposed channel Anna Hoffman and Ido Keshet (@AnalyticAnna) discuss Azure SQL Security: Database Protection with Defender for Cloud
• Edi Lahav talks about Migration to Microsoft Sentinel made easy

Storage

Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple

• The Azure Updates Team covers Public Preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription

Web

Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps

• Daniel Cazzulino walks through Running headless Chromium in Azure Container Apps with Playwright
• Someleze Diko walks through Building a website with Power Pages Part 1
• Anuraj Parameswaran walks through Implementing Breadcrumbs in ASP.NET Core

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop

• Josh Kim describes Microsoft Teams Give and Take Control is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop and discusses Microsoft Teams media optimizations is now Generally Available on Azure Virtual Desktop for macOS

Useful Links

• Azure Resource Inventory - Azure Resource Inventory is a powerful script written in PowerShell to generate an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access
• Azure Quickstart Templates - Learn how to deploy to Azure using ARM Templates. Over 850 examples in this repo.
• Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library - You can deploy to the Cloud, on Prem and on the Edge using CNAB & Porter. This library provides a number of quickstart templates to help you get started, fast!
• Power BI Weekly - Interested in Power BI? Sign up to our sister newsletter Power BI Weekly to receive all the week's Power BI news.
• Azure Resources - A fantastic collection of resources contained in this repo. Issue a PR if you have resources to share. Managed by Azure MVP Gregor Suttie.
• Azure Charts - Azure Charts is a set of auto-rebuilt charts to keep you updated on Azure changes, news, stats. Public updates, RSS channels and web pages are used as data sources
• The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure (2nd Edition) - ebook from Microsoft showcasing architectural approaches and common design patterns you face when building modern applications.
• Azure Virtual Datacenter - ebook from Microsoft highlighting an approach to isolation, security, and trust in the Microsoft cloud.
• Cyber Security Demystified - ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
• 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.
• 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.
• Data Migration Assistant - enables you to upgrade to a modern data platform by detecting compatibility issues that can impact database functionality on your new version of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It recommends performance and reliability improvements for your target environment.
• 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
• Whitepapers for Power BI - numerous whitepapers ranging various Power BI topics
• Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - ebook from Microsoft, including use cases, hands-on steps, and tutorials for quickly configuring your own serverless environments.
• Executive Summary: Enterprise Cloud Strategy - executive summary of the 140-page e-book from Microsoft. Learn about the basics of adopting a cloud computing strategy for your enterprise.
• Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance—A Step-by-Step Guide - ebook from Microsoft providing breakdown of tactical steps for implementing a quick, simple, and low-impact data migration with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
• Azure Backup Deep Dive Whitepaper - a deep dive by Adin Ermie and Charbel Nemnom describing Azure Backup
• Azure Stack: An extension of Azure - whitepaper from Microsoft detailing how you can extend Azure Stack to make Azure services available on-premises
• Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - For Azure users - ebook from Microsoft outlining recommended general architecture and cloud design principles, DevOps, approaches to service management, and overall governance.
• Azure Data Factory: SSIS in the Cloud - eBook from Microsoft explaining why you would want to migrate your existing SSIS workloads to Azure Data Factory and addressing common considerations and concerns. Includes technical details of creating an Azure-SSIS IR and then walk-throughs of how to upload, execute, and monitor your packages through Azure Data Factory
• Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - ebook from Microsoft documenting the results of a series of performance tests on Azure to see how scalable Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS are
• Build and deploy a multi-container application in Azure Service Fabric - ebook from Microsoft which shows how to create a sample multi-container application using ASP.NET Core and Docker and deploy it on an Azure Service Fabric cluster.
• Azure ebook/whitepaper resources - White papers, analyst reports, and e-books landing page with an abundance of extra resources.
• Farmer - This is a DSL for ARM template creation - "Making repeatable Azure deployments easy"!