microsoft azure news - march 2017

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Microsoft Azure NewsMarch 2016

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Upcoming PresentationsMonth Presenter(s) Topic

January 2016 Andrew Robinson Serverless Bots

February 2016 Martin Abbott (MVP), Jeff Hollan (Microsoft)

Power Apps and Flow

March 2016 Dale Austin, Erik Jansen (Microsoft) Bot Service, Network Watcher, & DocumentDB

April 2016 Ed Smith (Megaport) Express Route for O365 (Microsoft Peering)

May 2016 Glenn Stephens (Microsoft) DocumentDB

June 2016 ? ?

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Beneficial• Service Bus (Queues, Topics, Event Hubs,

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Please contact Dan Toomey at dan@mexia.com.au

updates

General Availability Managed Disks for Azure Storage• Managed Disks for Azure Storage is generally available in most Azure regions, with more regions being added soon• No need to worry about storage account scale management • Customers only need to specify the desired disk type (Standard or Premium disk) and disk size, and then Azure will create

and manage the disk for them

New Virtual Machine Scale Sets Features• Can deploy up to 1000 VMs in a scale set (10x scale improvement)• VM scale sets now support attached data disks. When you define a scale set you can create as many attached disks as the

VM size supports.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-managed-disks-and-larger-scale-sets https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/net-manage-azure-managed-disks/

General Availability ODBC Driver for Azure DocumentDB• Can now renormalize data in DocumentDB, analyze the data, and create reports using BI and analytics solutions like

Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.• ODBC 3.8 compliant and supports ANSI SQL-92 syntax

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/documentdb-nosql-odbc-driver

Event Hubs .NET Standard client• Microsoft.Azure.EventHubs – comprises the Event Hubs specific functionality that is currently found in the

WindowsAzure.ServiceBus library. Allows you to send and receive events from an Event Hub and more• Microsoft.Azure.EventHubs.Processor – Replaces functionality of the Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus.EventProcessorHost

library. Easiest way to receive events from an Event Hub, no need to remember things such as offsets and partition information between receivers

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/event-hubs-dotnet-standard-client-reaches-ga/

General Availability Azure Command Line (CLI) 2.0• vm, acs, storage and network commands now available• Full support in production by Microsoft and GitHub• Smart defaults, tab completion, pipe-able outputs

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-vm-storage-and-network-azure-cli-2-0/

Kubernates on Azure Container Service• One of three available choices as orchestrator• Preview of Windows Server Containers with Kubernates or with Swarm• DC/OS 1.8.8 Update - with Mesosphere and Metronome

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/kubernetes-now-generally-available-on-azure-container-service/

General Availability SOAP to REST in API Management• Easily create REST-based HTTP APIs from their existing SOAP-based web services• Great support for legacy and SOA-based architectures• Liquid-based transformations also generally available

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/apimanagement/2017/03/06/soap-to-rest-now-generally-available/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/apimanagement/2016/12/14/soap-to-rest/

Public PreviewStorage Service Encryption (SSE) for File Storage• Fully automatic encryption of data at rest• Users 256-bit AES encryption, also known as AES-256• Available at no charge on all newly created ARM storage accounts

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-storage-service-encryption-for-file-storage/

Azure Management Libraries for .NET• Beta 4 adds support for App Service (Web Apps), SQL Database, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, DNS, CDN, and

Redis Cache• Nuget: v1.0.0-beta50• Also available for Java

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-app-service-sql-database-application-gateway-and-more-using-simpler-azure-management-libraries-for-net/

Public PreviewNew Azure Functions Capabilities• Integration with Serverless Framework

• Open source tool which simplifies the deployment and monitoring of serverless applications in any cloud• Powered by a provider plugin• https://aka.ms/msdnserverlessfx

• Azure Functions Proxies• Develop APIs using Azure Functions• Define a single API surface for multiple function apps• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/02/22/azure-functions-proxies-public-preview/

• Integration with PowerApps and Flow• Extended the API Definition feature of App Service and Azure Functions to include an "Export to PowerApps and

Microsoft Flow" gesture• https://aka.ms/msdnpowerappsflow

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-functions-capabilities-to-accelerate-development-of-serverless-applications/

Public PreviewEnhancements to Azure Security Center• Application Whitelisting – Automatic discover and policy recommendations, application with AppLocker feature, and

continued monitoring• Just In Time Network Access to VMs – ports opened only when you need them to connect remotely• Advanced Threat Detection:

• Machine Learning for brute force detections• Outbound DDoS and Botnet detection• New behavioural Analytics Servers and VMs• Azure SQL Database threat detection

• Integrated Partners:• Fortinet NGFW and Cisco ASA

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-the-new-enhancements-to-azure-security-center/

Azure Network WatcherNetwork Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Service for Azure• Topology• IP Flow Verify• Next Hop• Security Group View• Packet Capture• Network Subscription Limits• NSG Flow Logs• Diagnostic Logs• Virtual Network Gateway Connectivity Troubleshooting• Integration with Azure Services• Open Source Tools

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-network-watcher-network-performance-monitoring-and-diagnostics-service-for-azure/

events

SAT APR 22 Brisbane Global Azure Bootcamphttp://brisbane.azurebootcamp.netSOLD OUT!

SAT MAR 25 Brisbane Global Integration Bootcamphttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/brisbane-global-integration-bootcamp-tickets-30948454661

resources

On Demand Training - Updatesmva.microsoft.com • Dev/Test in the Cloud• Getting Started with the Internet of Things (IoT)

www.pluralsight.com• Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure• Docker for Web Developers• Azure AD for Developers

www.opsgility.com• Azure For AWS Experts• Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD• Monitoring Apps with Application Insights

• Azure Blog:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

• Scott Gu’s Blog:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu

• Scott Hanselman’s Blog:http://www.hanselman.com/

Blogs

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Pluralsight

tonight

Bots, Watchers & Docs – Oh My!

Dale Austin & Erik JansenThis session will explore Azure Bot Service, the new Azure Network Watcher service, and Azure DocumentDB