Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #445

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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

• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November and highlights Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Federico Zarfati announces new AI Safety & Responsible AI features in Azure OpenAI Service at Ignite 2023
• Hasya Shah writes that Embedded Speech is now generally available, Melinda Ma highlights Azure AI Speech announces public preview of text to speech avatar, Qinying Liao announces Azure AI Speech launches Personal Voice in preview and Heiko Ra covers Whats new in Azure AI Speech
• Inbal Sagiv highlights Microsoft Ignite 2023 Announcements for Azure AI Video Indexer, Joe Filcik covers Video Retrieval: GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Integrates with Azure to Redefine Video Understanding, Shemer Steinlauf announces Preview of Azure AI Video Indexer Cloud-to-Edge Version and Quentin Miller writes Are You Alive: Enhancing Azure AI Vision Face API with Liveness Detection
• Bema Bonsu describes Document Intelligence preview adds query fields, new prebuilt models and other improvements and Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan describes Introducing Native Document Support for PII Detection Public Preview
• Gabriel Valdez Malpartida covers Copilot in Outlook helps you achieve more
• Yanling Xiong covers Introducing new task-optimized summarization capabilities powered by fine-tuned large-language model
• Rashaud Savage covers Welcoming Mistral, Phi, Jais, Code Llama, NVIDIA Nemotron, and more to the Azure AI Model Catalog
• Henry Shi covers Integration of Azure Machine Learning with Microsoft Purview
• On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Neelay Thaker explains how to Ignite your AI apps: A guide to Microsoft Ignite for startups and at-scale cloud companies
• Rie Moriguchi covers Ideas to Shape the Future with the Power of AI
• Leslie Overland writes about Foster engagement and productivity and measure the impact of Copilot investments with Viva Insights
• Tina Manghnani announces NVIDIA Nemotron-3 8B LLMs on the Model Catalog
• Olivia Shone announces the Azure AI Advantage Offer
• Amanda Silver (@amandaksilver) walks through Driving inclusive AI innovation with Azure AI Studio
• Richard Tso (@pseudosound) explains how to Ignite 2023: Whats new in Azure AI Platforms – Charting the Future with Innovative AI and ML
• Vijeta Johri covers Model training with serverless compute
• Smita Shrivastava explains How IT organizations and M365 Admins can get started with Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Salesforce
• Jiechen Li writes TalkwithMe leverages the Azure API to provide customized, immersive AI language learning experiences
• Jessica Cioffi blogs about Model Benchmarks in Azure AI Studio
• John Folberth (@j_folberth) talks about Powering Azure Docs with CoPilot
• Mohamed Elghazali describes How to train and publish direct custom model using Azure AI Translator Custom Translator
• Manasa Devadas discusses Azure OpenAI Architecture Patterns and implementation steps
• Paolo Salvatori writes a deep dive on Azure OpenAI Service Multitenant Load Balancing and Token Per Minute Tracking via Prometheus Metrics

Analytics

Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Event Hubs, HDInsight, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric

• On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Ryan Majidimehr (@rmajidimehr) describes Microsoft Fabric November 2023 update, Philip Li discusses Fabric +Microsoft 365Data: Better Together, The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Reservations for Microsoft Fabric, on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Tzvia Gitlin Troyna announces General Availability: Explore the Capabilities of Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric and Ryan Majidimehr blogs about Fabric workloads are now generally available
• Priya Sathy (@askpriya) introduces Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
• Bogdan Crivat (@bogdanC_guid) writes Microsoft Fabric, explained for existing Synapse users
• Sander van de Velde delves into Microsoft Fabric real-time analytics exploration in 4 articles: storing and reporting time-series data, ingesting streams of sample events, ingesting IoT device events and Activating IoT device reflex data
• Sally Dabbah walks through Simplifying Workflow Management with Streamlined Activity Skipping in Pipelines
• Kevin Chant provides Thoughts about the Microsoft Fabric journey to becoming Generally Available and explains how to Create a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Database Project from a Lakehouse
• Marco Casalaina discusses Driving AI Innovation Across Digital Landscapes - Azure AI and Microsoft Fabric Integration
• On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) talks about Nadella's Ignite Talk Highlights Copilot AI, Cloud Systems and Microsoft Fabric
• Ebenezer Nkrumah blogs about Public Preview: Protocol Buffers Protobuf with Azure Stream Analytics
• Guy Haycock explains how to Enhanced Performance in Additional Regions: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark Boosted by up to 77%
• Dany Hoter explains How many to many relationships affect the number of queries required to refresh matrices and tables
• Sergio Fonseca (@FonsecaSergio): Synapse Connectivity Series Part 4 - Advanced network troubleshooting and network trace analysis
• On The New Stack, Andrew Brust writes Microsoft Fabric Goes GA, Adds Multiple Integrations
• Also on Tech Community blog, Arpitha Dhanapathi talks about Public Preview of Airflow/OpenLineage Support in Microsoft Purview

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 GA: Azure Boost and on Tech Community blog, Max Uritsky highlights the the general availability of Azure Boost
• The Azure Updates Team announces GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model, and GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET, and Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time and on Thiago Almeida announces Azure Functions Flex Consumption: sign up for the early access preview
• Saira Shariff announces the General Availability of AMD-based Confidential VMs on Azure Databricks, The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks, Vikas Bhatia writes about New innovations in confidential computing from Azure at Ignite 2023 and The Azure Updates Team announces Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure
• The Azure Updates Team announces Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
• The Azure Updates Team announces Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory MM Virtual Machines
• The Azure Updates Team announces General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6, on Marc Charest covers Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMDs flagship MI300X GPU, Sherry Wang discusses Introducing Azure NC H100 v5 VMs for mid-range AI and HPC workloads and Lauren Britton talks about Public Preview: New AMD-based VMs with Increased Performance, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support
• Ankit Jain explains how to Reduce Compute Costs by Pausing VMs now in public preview, The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Brittany Rowe describes Public Preview of Attach and Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets and The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
• Lanna Teh writes about IT professional's guide to Azure Infrastructure at Microsoft Ignite 2023
• The Azure Updates Team announces Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, announces the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX and announces Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

Containers

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager and Dalan Mendonca announces GA: Collect Syslog from your AKS nodes using Container Insights
• The Azure Updates Team announces Kubernetes AI toolchain operator, announces Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host, announces Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS, announces Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service AKS and Ananya Garg blogs about Public preview: Confidential containers on AKS
• Daria Grigoriu (@dariagrigoriu) writes about Building Intelligent Apps and Microservices with Azure Container Apps
• The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator and Nick Greenfield blogs about Resiliency policies now available in Azure Container Apps
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps, announces Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code, announces Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles and announces Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
• Jorge Palma writes about AKS Welcomes you to Ignite 2023
• Also on Tech Community blog, Rajat Shrivastava talks about Azure Backup for AKS: Cloud native, Enterprise ready, Kubernetes aware backup
• Also on Tech Community blog, Jim Perrin explains how to What's new in Azure Linux: Containers, Azure Portal, Security and more
• Karol Pieciukiewicz discusses Azure Container Registry – repository permissions
• Richard Hooper blogs about Managing Node Resources in AKS: A Deep Dive and provides a First Look at Artifact Streaming in preview for ACR and AKS
• Paul Lewis walks through Provisioning Multiple Egress IP Addresses in AKS
• Charles Wu writes Use Image Integrity to secure your AKS deployment
• Chris Co provides an Inside Look: How Azure Linux powers Confidential Containers on AKS
• Ramya Oruganti (@ramyaoncloud) describes how to Harness the power of scaling using KEDA add-on for AKS
• On episoder 479 of The Azure Podcast, the podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Keith Howling to talk about Radius.- radapp.IO

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, and General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, and General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and General availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB
• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023, and General Availability: November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance, and General Availability: Lower pricing for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale expected in December 2023 and General availability: Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with virtualization-based security VBS enclaves
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB, and Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB, and Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API, and Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability and Public Preview: Azure Open AI Use your data integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
• Charles Feddersen discusses Azure Database for PostgreSQL: AI-Ready for Enterprise Applications in Flexible Server, The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI, and Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for PostgreSQL– Flexible Server, and Public Preview: Long Term Retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, and Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints and Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Arvind Shyamsundar (@arvisam) announces Public Preview of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools, blogs about Azure SQL Database Hyperscale – lower, simplified pricing, The Azure Updates Team announces Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger, and Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates and Public preview: Online Disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Pieter Vanhove (@Pieter_Vanhove) writes about Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series with up to 40 vCores now generally available and VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database now generally available
• Ricky Diep discusses Azure Cache for Redis at Microsoft Ignite 2023: What's New for Developers
• Rajesh Setlem describes License-free standby replica for Azure SQL database
• Shireesh Thota talks about Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for MySQL database in the cloud
• Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) describes Whats new in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2023 Year in Review
• On epiosde 9 of the Cosmos Down Under podcast, Greg Low (@greglow) and Hugo Barona (@HmsBarona) discuss migration
• Muazma Zahid talks about Vector Search with Azure SQL Database and Azure AI Search
• Dimitri Furman (@DimitriFurman) describes Improving Extended Events in Azure SQL
• On SQL Server Central, Additional Articles writes Its Probably Time to Upgrade Your Cloud VMs

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, Adrian Murphy writes about Visual Studio 17.8 now available
• Dante Gagne covers The Visual Studio UI Refresh Preview is here
• Maddy Montaquila walks through Introducing Visual Studio 17.9 – Preview 1 is Here
• On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) discusses GitHub Copilot Leads Productivity Gains in New Visual Studio 2022 17.8 and writes about Finally Go Eyes On with Upcoming Visual Studio 2022 UI Refresh
• Srini Raghavan discusses Extending Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: A guide for enterprises and ISVs
• Anthony Cangialosi writes about New capabilities help simplify and streamline the experience with Microsoft Dev Box
• Alex Wang covers Azure Command-line Tools Ignite 2023 Announcement
• Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) writes about .NET MAUI on Linux with Visual Studio Code
• Carlotta Castelluccio covers Copilot Explains - Error troubleshooting in Jupyter Notebooks
• Luis Filipe walks through Installing and running Stackexchange.Redis client library on Linux environments
• Kenneth Igiri covers Azure Data Studio - A First Look
• Frank Boucher (@FBoucheros) writes Dev Database to go The perfect database for developer
• Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) covers Getting started with Azure Resource Graph

DevOps

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Start and stop load Azure Load Testing faults in Azure Chaos Studio, announces Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available, announces Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio, Jeremy Mohn announces General Availability: Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio and explains how to Build Resilient Applications by Simulating Outages with Azure Chaos Studio
• The Azure Updates Team announces Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments
• On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala covers Azure Deployment Environments optimizes developer experience and adds new enterprise capabilities
• Benibo Ajumogobia talks about Azure DevOps First Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire CAIQ Now Available
• Gloridel Morales discusses November patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
• On episode 271 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and Martin Thwaites (@MartinDotNet) talk about Building Software for Production
• John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) blogs about Chrome Browser Extensions for Azure and Azure DevOps
• Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Deploy azurerm function app with zipdeployfile terraform

Hybrid + Multicloud

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

• Karthik K R covers GA Announcement: Bring Azure to your SCVMM managed environment through Azure Arc
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Bring enhanced manageability to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc
• Kushmeen Kambow describes Host pool provisioning now supported in Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI preview
• Satya Vel describes Bringing Cloud Operations & Management innovations anywhere MSIgnite2023
• Cosmos Darwin explains how to Accelerate edge deployments with cloud-managed infrastructure and Azure Stack HCI version 23H2
• Yanzhong Liang delves into Configuration of Data Movement between On-prem or private network to Azure Cloud
• Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes Bring Azure innovation to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc
• Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) covers Azure Arc: Onboard a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Identity

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

• TJ Cutting talks about Introducing AD FS Application Migration: Your Path to Simplicity and Security
• Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about Multitenant, Multi-App Consent with Azure AD Entra ID
• On epiosde 906 of the RunAsRadio podcast, Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) and Richard Hicks (@richardhicks) talk about Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge SSE

Integration

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces Generally Available: Partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium, announces General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps standard, announces General Availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps standard, announces General Availability of Azure Logic Apps' New Data Mapper for Visual Studio Code and Alex Zúñiga discusses Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps Standard reaches General Availability
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension Installation Enhancements in public preview, announces Azure Integration Environment in public preview, announces Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events, announces Azure Logic Apps workflow assistant in public preview,  Divya Swarnkar blogs about Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow assistant - Public Preview, Christina Compy writes about Kafka Compression on Azure Event Hubs Public Preview, talks about Azure Messaging and Streaming update – November 2023 and Supriya Ramachandra Dixit announces Public Preview of Resource Management and Health Resources Event Grid System Topics
• Ashita Rastogi writes about Fully managed MQTT broker, flexible consumption patterns and more new features in Azure Event Grid
• Eldert Grootenboer (@egrootenboer) announces general availability of partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium
• Beena More explains how to Discover your next integration inspiration at this years Ignite
• Christina Wu writes about New Copilot & Microsoft Teams innovations for a secure, simple, and smart frontline workplace
• Izzy Chun describes Unlocking Efficient and Secure Collaboration with Advanced Collaboration Tools in Teams Premium
• Vince Frankson writes about New School Data Sync Experience is Now Generally Available
• Mahesh Singhania explains how to What's new in Microsoft Graph Connectors - Nov 2023 edition
• Ebenezer Nkrumah announces the Public Preview of Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
• Drac Zhang explains how to Automate Azure Open AI custom model training data collection and deployment via Logic App
• Wagner Silveira covers Making it easy to get started with the Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension
• Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) announces Logic App Consumption Copilot
• Dylan Vandesteene talks about Navigating Custom Code in Azure Logic Apps Standard

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 Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations
• Kam Vedbrat covers Accelerating Industrial Transformation with Azure IoT Operations
• Clemens Schotte explains how to Navigate Microsoft Ignite with Azure Maps Creator
• Sarang Girdhari walks through Connecting to Azure IoT Hub using IPv6 devices

Learning

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

• Quentin Mackey explains how to Get excited about Viva Glint at Microsoft
• Carlotta Castelluccio writes Learn Live - Build your AI portfolio with AI Kick-off Challenge Projects
• On epsiode 212 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Developing generative AI apps with AI-050

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

• Srdan Bozovic describes GA announcement - Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Managed Instance and Ibrar Aslam announces GA: Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection and Sandrine Feudjio Tiomela announces the Public Preview of Alerting on Azure Resource Graph
• Also on Tech Community blog, Uli Homann walks through Deepening Well-Architected guidance for workloads hosted on Azure and Stephen Sumner blogs about Azure Well-Architected Review Assessment Updates
• Erin Chapple explains how to Simplify IT management with Microsoft Copilot for Azure – save time and get answers fast
• Jed Brown explains how to Ignite 2023 - Whats New for Copilot and Microsoft 365 admins
• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
• Linda Wang talks about Microsoft Purview expands data estate support – Amazon Redshift and Tableau
• Arti Gulwadi blogs about Whats new in Azure Monitor Ignite 2023
• Neha Kulkarni explains how to Remediate your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters at scale using Azure Policy's mutation support
• Liz Willets covers Supercharge security and compliance efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Purview
• Shilpa Bothra discusses Gain comprehensive data protection and efficient investigation with Microsoft Purview DLP
• Linda Wang talks about Introducing new version of Managed Virtual Network in Microsoft Purview and explains how to Enhanced Snowflake integration in Microsoft Purview
• Shilpa Bothra describes Securing data in an AI-first world with Microsoft Purview
• Silvano Coriani (@scoriani) covers Introducing Azure Database Fleet Manager
• Ankur Gupta blogs about Announcement: SCOM is now available in Azure too and describes Announcement: Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance is now Generally Available
• Davanna White covers Windows Admin Center version 2311 is now in Public Preview
• Daya Patil explains how to Revolutionize Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Azure Business Continuity Center
• Snaheth Thumathy blogs about Everything New in Azure Governance Ignite 2023
• Sharon Choi talks about Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is making it even easier to manage your customers
• Lior Bela writes about New Microsoft Intune features help secure your Windows devices
• Karthik K R describes System Center 2022 Update Rollup 2
• Diana Hoffman describes Whats New in Windows Autopatch: Microsoft Ignite 2023 Edition
• Dan Costenaro blogs about Microsoft Loops November 2023 Ignite summary for IT Admins
• Julie Seto blogs about Microsoft Loop: built for the new way of work, generally available to Microsoft 365 work accounts
• Zach Rosenfield discusses Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage at Ignite 2023
• Stefan Kinnestrand blogs about Microsoft Intune news at Microsoft Ignite 2023
• Harjit Dhaliwal discusses Whats new with Windows at Microsoft Ignite 2023
• Paul Bergson delves into Azure MMA Agent Bulk Removal
• Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) covers What's new in the Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Aakanksha Saxena shows how to Tailor Windows Update for Business reports with Power BI

Media

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

• Jeff Teper introduces SharePoint Premium – the future of AI powered content management and experiences
• Mark Kashman (@mkashman) discusses SharePoint at Ignite 2023 – The Guide
• Robert Cunningham writes about Universal Print makes cloud printing truly universal
• Casandra Marrero covers Microsoft Teams Phone news from Microsoft Ignite 2023

Migration

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces New user interface experience for Azure SQL migration extension

Mobile

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

• No content this week

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions, announces Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions and announces General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits, announces Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration and announces Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
• Ned Pyle talks about SMB over QUIC now available in Windows Server Insider Datacenter and Standard editions
• Simon Dredge writes about With its Dynamic Service Model, Microsofts programmable RAN platform augments O-RAN analytics.
• Brian Lehr writes about Secure your subnet via private subnet and explicit outbound methods

Security

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

• Erez Einav blogs about Introducing a Unified Security Operations Platform with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR, Dennis Mercer explains how to Unified MDTI APIs in Microsoft Graph Now GA and Preetham Anand Naik talks about Microsoft Announces General Availability of Defender for APIs
• Eric Burkholder blogs about Microsoft Sentinel Partner Solution Contributions update - Ignite 2023
• Kim Kischel (@KimKischel) explains how to Ignite news: XDR in an era of end-user-to-cloud cyberattacks and securing the use of AI
• SpencerBerg covers Introducing MDTI Free Experience for Microsoft Defender XDR
• Shawn Hays discusses Microsoft Security Copilot and NIST 800-171
• Tal Rosler describes Enhancing Defender CSPM across the application lifecycle
• Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) talks about Ransomware Protection With Azure Backup Expert Guide
• Ben Henderson writes Dont Gamble With Your Cyber HealthThe MGM Breach and Healthcareby Ben Henderson, CISSP
• David Frazee talks about Understanding Azure DDoS Protection: A Closer Look
• On episode 360 the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) and Ben Stegink (@benstegink) discusses Who owns your data in Azure

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 announces Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger and announces GA: Ultra Disk performance updates
• Carlos Marin walks through Capturing Azure Storage Explorer REST API calls
• Rui Neiva covers Blobs with Index Tags - How to identify the blobs with blob index tags and how to remove those tags
• Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains How to Create a Static Website in Azure Storage

Web

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway and announces Public Preview: Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-Hosted Gateway
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure API Management Credential Manager: Azure API Management Authorizations Renamed and  Julia Kasper explains How Credential Manager in API Management can help you manage, store, and control access to your API
• Stefan Schackow talks about Azure App Service at Ignite 2023
• Hang Wang describes Azure Spring Apps product updates in Q3 2023
• Xiaoyun Ding walks through Spring Cloud Gateway Oauth 2.0 setup on Azure Spring Apps
• Yun Jung Choi announces Conversational Diagnostics Preview on Windows App Services

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop

• Ron Martinsen announces Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PC public preview

Useful Links

• Azure Resource Inventory - Azure Resource Inventory - It's a Powerful tool to create EXCEL inventory from Azure Resources with low effort
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• Azure Cost CLI - CLI tool to perform cost analysis on your Azure subscription
• Azure Code Samples - Explore Microsoft's samples and discover the things you can build.
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• 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.
• Cyber Security Demystified - ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
• Azure Resource Center - Whitepapers, code samples, solution architectures
• 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.
• Design scalable and performant tables - a guide from the storage team.
• Azure Speed Test 2.0 - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
• 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).
• Microsoft cloud for IT architects illustrations - These cloud architecture posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions.
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