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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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Newly created Azure SQL databases will be encrypted at rest by default

• General availability: On-premises data gateway in Azure
• General availability: Azure Network Watcher in all public regions
• Azure DevTest Labs: Use Azure CLI to create and manage environments with multiple VMs or PaaS resources

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• How to Compare Azure VM Pricing Across Azure Regions by Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft to open up about its Cortana Skills Kit at Build via ZDNet
• Now Generally Available: On-premises data gateway in Azure by Dimah Zaidalkilani
• Threat Detection in Azure SQL Database is now Generally Available by Ron Matchoro

Sponsor

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We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

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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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Azure Management Libraries for .NET generally available now by Asir Selvasingh
• Grove IoT Commercial Gateway Kit from Seeed by Chris Pietschmann
• Azure IoT Suite “Connected Factory” solution is ready by Faruk Celik
• Announcing new Azure Services in the UK by Andres Juarez

Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• General availability: Dual network interfaces for all Azure VMs

• DocumentDB Data Explorer (preview) available in the Azure portal
• Service Fabric .NET SDK goes open source
• Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.5.216 and Runtime 5.5.216 for Windows
• Release of Service Fabric SDK Preview 0.8.0.0 and Runtime Preview 5.5.0.2 for Linux
• Azure DevTest Labs: Use Azure CLI to create and manage lab VMs

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• 10 ways working with Microsoft helped endpin grow over the last 7 years by Howard van Rooijen
• Announcing Azure Analysis Services general availability by T.K. Anand
• 2017 Global Azure Bootcamp was a HUGE Success by Chris Pietschmann

Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• New integrated portal for Azure Functions

• Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Support for Visual Studio Code
• Azure DevTest Labs: Managed Disks supported in all labs

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Announcing Azure CLI Shell (Preview); more Azure CLI 2.0 commands now generally Available by Kamaljit Bath
• New integrated portal for Azure Functions by Donna Malayeri
• Microsoft to buy Kubernetes container-orchestration vendor Deis via ZDNet

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Functions integration with Application Insights

• New subscription purchase option for StorSimple 

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Top 10 Tricks to Save Money with Azure Virtual Machines by Chris Pietschmann
• Azure Functions now has direct integration with Application Insights by Chris Anderson
• Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers by Manling Zhang
• Price reductions on L Series and announcing next generation Hyper-threaded virtual machines by Brian Hillger

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure DevTest Labs: Managed Disks supported in new labs

• API Management available only in the Azure portal from April 3
• General availability: Web Application Firewall
• Azure DevTest Labs: Export lab VM usage data for reporting
• Traffic Manager available only in the Azure portal from April 3
• Preview: Azure Functions Open API (Swagger) support
• PolyBase row width limit increased in SQL Data Warehouse
• External file format support for UTF-16LE encoded files in SQL Data Warehouse
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse seamless integration with Azure Data Lake Store
• General availability: Azure Advisor
• General availability: Azure resource health
• General availability: Azure Monitor
• General availability: Azure Network Watcher 

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• VS Code Extension with Azure Function Intellisense by John Papa
• Announcing Azure Advisor, Monitor, and resource health general availability by Oren Rosenbloom
• Function Apps. Serverless Compute. Simulated Devices. NOW with added Application Insights! How simple is this… by Pete Laker
• Azure Relay Hybrid Connections is generally available by Justin Conway

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• General availability: Azure SQL Data Warehouse in 4 additional regions

• Public preview: Instant recovery of files from Azure Linux VM backups

• General availability: Multiple IP addresses per network interface

• Create a WordPress application by using Web Apps on Linux

• Azure DocumentDB supports aggregate functions

• Azure DevTest Labs available in Korea South and Korea Central

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Experiencing Azure Stack in Public Azure – by using Azure Stack policy module to an Azure Subscription’s Resource Group by gpillai
• Announcing the General Availability of Geographic Routing capability in Azure Traffic Manager by Dilip Lukose
• Data Simulator for Machine Learning by George Lordanescu

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service! Read More

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• General availability: DocumentDB with API for MongoDB
• SELECT..INTO comes to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• L-Series storage-optimized virtual machines
• Azure DevTest Labs: Create multiple identical VMs at once from Azure portal

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money by Chris Pietschmann
• How Microsoft builds its fast and reliable global network by Yousef Khalidi
• Announcing Storage Optimized Virtual Machines, L Series by Jon Beck
• Azure Managed Disks Deep Dive, Lessons Learned and Benefits by Igor Pagliai

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service!

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)

• Using OMS to Alert on Azure Service Outages by Nicole Welch
• Instant File Recovery from Azure Linux VM backup using Azure Backup – Preview by Kartik P V R
• Announcing DSv2-Series and Fs-Series VMs in US Gov Virginia by kydeeds
• VNET Peering Key Points by Michael McKeown
• Using templates to customize restored VMs from Azure Backup by Trinadh Kotturu
• Disaster recovery for applications, not just virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery by Gaurav Daga
• Now Supported in Cloud Foundry: Azure Blob Storage and Managed Disks by Ning Kuang
• Setting up more than 18 GPU Instances on Azure using VMs or Containers by Lee Stott

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Accessing Azure App Services using Azure AD Bearer token by Jeff Sanders
• How to access resource in Express Route VNET from Azure Web App by Showkat Hassan Lone
• AS2 agreement – MDN Issue in Azure Logic Apps by EPSLAB Team
• Azure App Services: How to determine if the client certificate is loaded by Karan Singh
• Node.Js Express 4 Application in Visual Studio 2017 and Azure Web Apps by Adam Koukia
• Quickly test connectivity from Azure Website to SQL DB by Vitor Faria Tomaz
• Microservices primer with Azure Service Fabric by Andrei Dzimchuk
• How to get a System.Net trace of your C# Web Job by Jeff Sanders
• How to change app settings Azure App Service Bot Service by Benjamin Perkins
• Logic App Integration Account Swagger with full examples on GitHub by David Burg
• Azure App Service Authentication–AAD Groups by Jeff Sanders

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Publishing a .NET class library as a Function App by Donna Malayeri
• Azure Functions F# support is now generally available by Chris Anderson
• Azure Functions : NLog and Database by Prashant Pratap
• Using Azure Functions as a lightweight API Gateway by Andreas Helland
• Enabling CORS for Testing Azure Functions Locally by SoundCode

Database / Big Data

• How to use BigDL on Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight by Xiaoyon Zhu
• Connect to Azure Event Hub in browser ( using AMQP over WebSockets ) by michaeljqzq
• DocumentDB: API for MongoDB now generally available by Andrew How
• Announcing new capabilities of HDInsight and DocumentDB at Strata by Dharma Shukla
• Spark for Azure HDInsight by Lee Stott
• Planet scale aggregates with Azure DocumentDB by Aravind Ramachandran
• Power BI solution templates now support Azure Analysis Services by Richard Tkachuk
• Setting up availability monitoring for Power BI Publish to Web Results by Charles Sterling
• Where can I put my Data In Azure by Frank Boucher
• Azure Data Lake Analytics and Data Lake Store now available in Europe by Oliver Chiu

Internet of Things (IoT)

• agroNET IoT technology transforms the fruits of farmers’ labors by John Haynsworth
• Manage IoT Hub Devices in Browser by Sneezry
• Secure Provisioning of IoT device using Azure IoT Hub device SDK by Elon Fliess
• Connect to Azure IoT Hub in browser ( using AMQP over WebSockets ) by michaeljqzq

Machine Learning

• How can I get started with Azure Machine Learning? by markga
• Take Advantage of Scalable Cloud Compute Directly from Your R Session, with doAzureParallel via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
• Microsoft Cognitive Services – Computer Vision by Admin Reiter
• Microsoft Data Amp – New Online Event, on April 19th via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
• Microsoft AI Immersion Workshop in Seattle – May 9th, 2017 via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team

DevOps

• Getting started with Powershell on Windows Azure by martynas
• Powershell Authentication to Classic Azure portal by martynas
• Leverage the Azure CLI with these examples by Brian Benz
• Building Azure Stream Analytics Resources via ARM Templates – Background info by Dave The Engineer

Certification

• 70-464 Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann

Other

• Azure Architecture Center by Lee Stott
• Parallel File Systems for HPC Storage on Azure by Ed Price
• Security Update Guide ushers in a new era of Microsoft updates by Thomas W Shinder
• doAzureParallel: Take advantage of Azure’s flexible compute directly from your R session by JS Tan
• Single or Multiple Resource Groups? by Michael McKeown
• Announcing general availability of Update 4.0 for StorSimple 8000 series by Harsha Kanna
• Add Azure Active Directory B2B users to your Visual Studio Team Services by SoftwareSimian
• Notice for developers using Azure AD B2C tenants configured for Google sign-ins by Gerardo Saca
• Building a simple photo album using Azure Blob Storage with .NET Core by Premier Developer
• Setting up Azure subscription and resources at your institution by Lee Stott

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

• Episode 224: Developing and Debugging Azure Mobile Apps with Adrian Hall by Thiago Almeida, Chris Risner
• Extending the Common Data Service Base Schema in PowerApps via Azure Friday
• Easy Push Notifications with Azure App Service via Azure Friday
• Microsoft Azure Notification Hub with UWP and Xamarin via Channel 9
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Bot Developers with LUIS by Tom Morgan

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 170 – Disaster Recovery using OMS and DevOps via The Azure Podcast
• Episode 184 | News from Microsoft Office, AWS S3 Outage, Google, Docker Enterprise and More! 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:

• Serving Up Serverless Science by Nicole Hemsoth
• Learn Docker with our DockerCon 2017 Hands-On Labs by Mike Coleman
• Getting started with Windows Internet of Things (Windows IoT) by CalvinH
• Docker to donate containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by Solomon Hykes
• Take the Xamarin Challenge! by Paul Thurrott

Feedback

Do you have any suggestions or general feedback on the Build Azure Weekly blog series? Please contact me and send it on over! Or tweet it over to @BuildAzure.

The types of feedback I’m looking for are:

• What do you like?
• What do you dislike?
• What would you change?
• What would you add?

Please feel free to reach out and let me know your feedback on the Build Azure Weekly series. I post this weekly post as a service to others and really want to make it the best it can be.

Alternatively, you can join the Build Azure Slack Group as well.

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure Data Catalog is ISO, CSA STAR, HIPAA, EU Model Clauses compliant
• General availability: MySQL in-app feature
• Managed node can support Hybrid Runbook Worker and Update Management simultaneously

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Windows Server running on ARM CPUs, Azure is Next! by Chris Pietschmann
• Send your first ‘Hello World’ message to Azure IoT Hub using JavaScript with Azure IoT Toolkit for VS Code by formulahendry
• Microsoft partners with Opsgility to level up your Azure skills by Chris Pietschmann
• Portal Preview of Azure Resource Policy by Mike Chen
• Visual Studio 2017 Development using a VM in Azure by Chris Pietschmann

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service!

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 – Linux Virtual Machine Deployment in a breeze with ARM Template by Ryen Kia Zhi Tang
• Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics support in OMS Security via The Scripting Guys
• Where is my custom log data? via The Scripting Guys
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Series 1. Overview by Lee Stott
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Series 2. Building your first VM by Lee Stott
• Add Azure Antimalware Extension to a VM Scale Set by Tim Omta
• How to download Azure blob storage contents in Azure Linux VM using Azure CLI by Sanganak
• How Do I Choose My Azure VM Type? by Mike McKeown
• Update to Azure Antimalware Extension for Cloud Services by Thomas W Shinder
• Azure for IT Pros Content Series by Matthew Calder
• DIY: Build your own VPN with Microsoft Azure #OSS by ChengBinTham
• Backup Azure VMs using Azure Backup templates by Trinadh Kotturu
• Protect and recover Hyper-V machines to premium storage with Azure Site Recovery by Poomima Natarajan
• SharePoint Server 2016 in Azure infrastructure services by Joe Davies

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Azure Logic Apps Release Update 2017-03-10 by Jeff Hollan
• January/February 2017 App Service Update by Byron Tardif
• Azure App Service Authentication – App Roles by Jeff Sanders
• Send Mails with C# in Azure by Armin Reiter
• Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging now available in UK by Andres Juarez
• Logic Apps Killed The Console App Star by Pete Laker
• Azure Logic Apps Incident – SQL Connector by Jeff Hollan
• Custom Cultures Coming Soon to Azure App Service by Daria Grigoriu
• Pick your Dynamics 365 connector of choice using Flow, Logic Apps, or PowerApps by 365blog
• Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault by ddeeb
• Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs on the Classic Azure Portal Announcement by Justin Conway
• Azure LogicApps tooling in Visual Studio 2015 by Christos Matskas
• New Azure Storage JavaScript client library for browsers – Preview via Windows Azure Storage
• How to deploy a .NET Core console application to Azure, WebJob by Benjamin Perkins
• Migrate development database on MySQL in-app to production MySQL database by mksunitha
• Announcing general availability for MySQL in-app by mksunitha
• [Sample Of March. 7] How to send Event Telemetry to Azure Application Insights by RESTful API via OneCode Team
• Announcing Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer 0.8.9 by Catherine Wang

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Azure Functions vs Web Jobs: How to choose? by Chris Pietschmann
• Azure Active Directory B2C and Azure Functions by Helge Mahrt
• Creating an Azure Function in F# from the ground up (Part 2) by brandewinder

Database / Big Data

• Nodes in HDInsight by Abdullah Al Mahmood
• Analyze your data in ADLS with more assurance with the recently GA’d Power BI desktop connector by Sachin C Sheth
• Azure Analysis Services adds Standard S0 pricing tier by Bret Grinslade
• Increasing PolyBase Row width limitation in Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Casey Karst
• Azure Data Factory February new features update by Eric Chen
• Announcing Azure SQL Database Premium RS, 4TB storage options, and enhanced portal experience by Jan Engelsberg
• Introducing SQL Server Data Tools for Analysis and Reporting Services for Visual Studio 2017 by Christian Wade
• Generally available: Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics in North Europe region by swums
• Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio by Jie Su
• Azure Data Lake Tools for VSCode (Preview) – March Update by Jenny Jiang
• Launching online training and certification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse by Matt Goswell
• Comparing SELECT..INTO and CTAS use cases in Azure SQL Data Warehouse by James Rowland-Jones
• Moving databases to new storage within an Availability Group by jftl6y_007
• Improved troubleshooting in Azure Stream Analytics with diagnostic logs by Samantha Chandrashekar

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Easier ways to add devices into IoT Hub by Sneezry
• Web-based Azure IoT Hub Developer Tool by Sneezry

Machine Learning

• Build & Deploy Machine Learning Apps on Big Data Platforms with Microsoft Linux Data Science Virtual Machine via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
• Building a solution on Azure Government Part I: Cognitive Services by Steve Michelotti
• Virtual Reality Games, Digital Signs & Swedish Apartments Get a Boost with Microsoft AI & Machine Learning via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
• Using the Cognitive Recommendations API in Bots and Websites by Martin Keam

DevOps

• DevOps with Bots: CI/CD Pipeline with the Bot Framework and Azure – end-to-end walkthrough by Jamie Dalton

Other

• Save Time With Azure and the Magic of PowerShell Jobs by Tim Omta
• Ecosystem momentum positions Microsoft’s Project Olympus as de facto open compute standard by Kushagra Vaid
• SONiC: The networking switch software that powers the Microsoft Global Cloud by Yousef Khalidi
• Enabling cloud workloads through innovations in Silicon by Leendert van Doom
• Networking innovations that drive the cloud disruption by Yourself Khalidi
• How to activate Azure $150 credits on Microsoft BizSpark program by ChengBinTham
• Opsgility joins forces with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program by Michael Washam
• Azure Automation – Fix Failing Module Upgrade in Azure Portal via Visual Studio Geeks
• Azure Brings big data, analytics, and visualization capabilities to U.S. Government by Tom Keane
• Azure Active Directory B2C: Build an ASP.NET Core MVC web API by Helge Mahrt
• My recent Azure Training Courses on Opsgility.com by Chris Pietschmann
• Running Jekyll on Windows & Azure by Ken Cenerelli

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

• Running SAP on Azure reduces costs and increases scale via Channel 9
• Using Microsoft Flow with PowerApps and the Common Data Service via Azure Friday
• Azure Advisor via Azure Friday
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Network Watcher part two | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
• Getting started with Azure in Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch by Anthony Cangialosi
• Twitter Influencer Score using Machine Learning 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 169 – Azure Compute Options Demystified via The Azure Podcast
• Episode 183 | Nintex Workflow Cloud with Ryan Duguid 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:

• A Basic Introduction to Webhooks via SoundCode

Feedback

Do you have any suggestions or general feedback on the Build Azure Weekly blog series? Please contact me and send it on over! Or tweet it over to @BuildAzure.

The types of feedback I’m looking for are:

• What do you like?
• What do you dislike?
• What would you change?
• What would you add?

Please feel free to reach out and let me know your feedback on the Build Azure Weekly series. I post this weekly post as a service to others and really want to make it the best it can be.

Alternatively, you can join the Build Azure Slack Group as well.

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.

If you want to receive these in your email, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Public preview: Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1
• New T-SQL string functions in Azure SQL Database
• WebJobs SDK 2.0 released
• Public preview: Instant file recovery from the cloud by using Azure Backup
• Azure DevTest Labs: Claim a random virtual machine through a single click

Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Microsoft Azure Stack: Azure Services On-Premises by Matt McSpirit
• Exploring the new DevOps – Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI) by Scott Hanselman
• Visual Studio 20th Anniversary + Visual Studio 2017 = Join the Party! by Matthew Calder
• Azure Command Line 2.0 now generally available by Kamaljit Bath

Monthly Sponsor

Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.

We provide live, instructor-led (onsite and virtual) courses as well as self-paced, online courses that go above and beyond simple videos or blog posts. Each course is designed to comprehensively guide the student through the subject by providing expert instructors, step-by-step hands-on labs, and knowledge measures to assess and ensure new skills are mastered.

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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)

• Installing Azure CLI 2.0 on Windows by Brijraj Singh
• Implementing Rolling Updates in Azure Container Service (ACS) with Docker Swarm using VSTS by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
• How to: Schedule Azure VMs to Resize by Steven Edouard
• Azure AD Developer Tips & Tricks — Part 3 by Andreas Helland
• Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware by Nitin Soneji
• Azure Data Sync update by Joshua Gnanayutham
• Storage Spaces Direct: An Overview by Anton Kolomyeytsev, Tony Champion
• Azure Managed Disk–Overview by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
• Backup Managed Disk VMs using Azure Backup by Vijay Sandra Sistla
• My Common ARM Templates by Christian Reddington
• Azure Service Fabric – Brings More Power to Age of Ascent (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) by Ed Price

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Troubleshooting an Azure App Service WebJob by Benjamin Perkins
• Failed to run WebJob by Benjamin Perkins
• Reducing the volume (and cost) of data sent to Application Insights by Helge Mahrt
• Deploying Node.js apps in Azure App Service using private npm feeds from Visual Studio Team Services by Jeff Wilcox
• Logic Apps Release Update 2017-03-03 by Jeff Hollan
• Custom Domain in App services by midixid

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Creating a JSON-Friendly Azure Logic App That Interacts with Functions, DocumentDB and Service Bus by Richard Seroter
• Tyler Explains… Serverless Architecture by Tyler Evert
• Serverless Architecture with Azure by Christos Matskas

Certification

• 70-398 Planning for and Managing Devices in the Enterprise by Chris Pietschmann
• 70-762 Developing SQL Databases Certification Exam by Chris Pietschmann

Development

• How to enable PHP LDAP in Azure Web Apps by Edison Garcia
• [Sample Of Mar. 3] How to configure multiple Azure Application Insights endpoints in one project via OneCode Team
• How to access Azure Resource with Certificate programmatically (without interactive Login UI) by Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki
• Azure App Service Authentication in an ASP.NET Core Application by Adrian Hall
• [AzureKeyVault] How to retrieve Keyvault secrets using C# code by Maheshk
• What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: March 2017 Digest by Buck Hodges

Database / Big Data

• New Azure Feature Pack Release Updating HDInsight Support by Lingxi Li
• Announcing real-time Geospatial Analytics in Azure Stream Analytics by Samartha Chandrashekar
• Connect Tableau to an Azure Analysis Services server by Josh Caplan
• Announcing preview of Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1 by Pranav Rastogi
• Wiring your older Hadoop clusters to access Azure Data Lake Store by Amit R. Kulkami

Internet of Things (IoT)

• DevOps for IoT (Part 3 – Talking to Azure IoT Hub from VSTS) by Daniel Meixner
• Sparking, Seeding and a some Pie – IoT Azure Starter Kits by Greg Duncan
• Azure IoT Suite adds device management capability updates by Sam George
• Internet of things with Azure by Lee Stott
• Azure IoT Toolkit supports Event Hub now! by formulahendry

Machine Learning

• Azure Machine learning and loading external data sets into your experiment by Lee Stott
• Talking about Cognitive Services on the Eat Sleep Code podcast by David Giard
• Cortana Intelligence Suite Retail Industry Solution How-to Guides by ShiSh
• The Data Science Process with Azure Machine Learning by Chervine

Azure Stack

• Microsoft Azure Stack reaches final preview before its mid-2017 debut via ZDNet
• Azure Stack TP3 Delivers Hybrid Application Innovation and Introduces Pay-as-you-Use Pricing Model by Jeffrey Snover
• Configure TP3 to be available on your own network / internet by Mark Scholman
• Azure Stack TP3 is out! My quick review and update by Mark Scholman
• Increase the usable storage space in your Azure Stack environment by Ruud Borst

Other

• My recent Azure Training Courses on Opsgility.com by Chris Pietschmann
• Announcing general availability of Upgrade Readiness via Operations Management Suite Blog
• Service Fabric Customer Profile: Digamore Entertainment GmbH via Service Fabric Team
• What Azure content would you like to see? by Ed Price
• Azure Blueprint supports the UK Government’s Cloud Security Principles by Matt Rathbun
• Designing and moving applications to cloud by Wriju Ghosh
• Optimizing rolling feature engineering for time series data by Jaya Mathew
• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance by Marley Gray
• Azure brings 5 new services to Canada by Chelsea Carter
• Azure Search now available in UK by Andres Juarez
• VSTS, The open orchestrator – Releasing ARM Templates from GitHub by Christian Reddington
• OMS Network Performance Monitor is now generally available via Operations Management Suite Blog

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

• Using REST with DocumentDB | Azure Friday via Channel 9
• Azure CLI 2.0 | Azure Friday via Channel 9
• Improving user engagement with Windows and Cortana Skills | Windows Developer Day – Creators Update via Channel 9
• Episode 140: Broadway Tech & IoT with Bill Berry | MS Dev Show via Channel 9
• Tuesdays with Corey with cool new functionality of Azure Network Watcher | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
• DEVintersection Countdown Show on DevOps with Donovan Brown | The DEVintersection Countdown Show via Channel 9
• Bryan Soltis on Azure Search via David Giard

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 168 – Global Apps with Azure PaaS via The Azure Podcast
• Episode 182 | AWS Chime, Azure AD and Storage Updates, Microsoft Flow and Container News via Microsoft Cloud Show
• Container Strategies with Michele Bustamante via .NET Rocks!

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

• For Big Banks, Regulation is the Mother of GPU Invention by Nicole Hemsoth
• Introducing the Docker Certification Program for Infrastructure, Plugins and Containers by Dan Powers
• Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition by Michael Friis
• Building a 64bit Docker OS for the Raspberry Pi 3 via Docker Pirates
• Windows as a Service by Omer Amin
• Making Remote NVM-Express Flash Look Local And Fast by Jeffrey Burt
• Cloud vs Hosting / Outsourcing by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
• Why I use Visual Studio Code to write PowerShell by Trevor Sullivan
• Xamarin .NET Workbooks – Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool by Scott Hanselman

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