@BrisbaneAzureUG

meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

Microsoft Azure NewsApril 2016

sponsorship

getting involved

http://global.azurebootcamp.net/

Global Azure Bootcamp 2016Locations all around the globe – including Brisbane!Saturday, 16th April 2015

SOLD OUT!!

http://www.ithero.nl/post/2016/04/09/Global-Azure-Bootcamp-Prerequisites.aspx

Global Azure Bootcamp 2016Locations all around the globe – including Brisbane!Saturday, 16th April 2015

What To BringLaptop (don’t forget your power cord!)Azure accountVisual Studio (2013 or 2015)Azure SDK for .NET

Upcoming PresentationsMonth Presenter(s) Topic

January 2016 1. Todd Whitehead2. Dan Toomey

1. Application Insights2. Microsoft Integration Roadmap

February 2016 Matthew Erbs API Management: Show Me the Money!

March 2016 1. Paul Nichols2. Matt Corr

1. Azure DevTest Labs2. Using Azure Automation & Runbooks

April 2016 1. Todd Whitehead 2. Gopinath Pathikonda 3. Erik Jansen 4. Dan Toomey

1. Service Fabric2. Microsoft Cognitive Services3. Bots4. Azure Functions

May 2016 Matt Simpson & Ed Smith (MegaPort) ExpressRoute and Office365

June 2016 TBA

updates

General Availability

Azure Data Catalog – discovery and documentation of it assets

Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets – simplified autoscale for VMs

Dv2 instances - with 20 cores and 114 GB of memory $2.9219/hr 

Azure Service Fabric – on prem provisioning of microservices

DocumentDB -introduces protocol support for MongoDB-Customers can now reserve throughput independent of storage-scale from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of Request Units (RUs) per second

Azure Storage Service Encryption

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-service-encryption/?WT.mc_id=azurebg_email_Trans_1050_Tier2_Release_MOSP

Preview

Azure Storage Service Encryption is now available for Azure Blob Storage (Block and Page Blobs) upon request for any new storage account created through Azure Resource Manager.

Accounts enabled with this feature encrypt data with Microsoft-managed keys using the industry-leading 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) algorithm.

This is a fully managed encryption process: Microsoft performs key management, rotation, and compliance with key standards.

Power BI Embedded in public preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/power-bi-embedded-get-started-sample/

Preview - Power BI

Customers can choose from a broad range of modern Power BI data visualizations out of the box or easily build their own custom visualizations.

Consistent data visualization experiences on all devices, desktop or mobile.

Automate the complete deployment with Azure Resource Manager APIs and Power BI APIs.

Cognitive Services API’s in public preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/?WT.mc_id=azurebg_email_Trans_1050_Tier2_Release_MOSP

PreviewFace and Emotion APIs, provide approximate personal attributes such as age, gender, and emotion.

Speech API, to support speech recognition (speech to text) and synthesis (text to speech).

Language APIs, for understanding the context within a text segment: ie. word breaking, auto completion, sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, natural language commands

Recommendations API, for helping predict which items of a catalog are more likely to be of interest to customers.

events

Upcoming Events

Friday, April 22Free Webinar

TechNet Live Series - Modernizing your Datacentre with the Hybrid Cloud and Windows Server 2016

https://info.microsoft.com/AP-Azure-WBNR-FY16-04Apr-15-TechNet-Live-Series-Hybrid-Cloud-and-updates-on-Windows-Server_Registration.html?ls=Website&lsd=AzureWebsite

13 May 2016Free Webinar

Learn about DevOps and Private Cloud Management for IT Pros as well as business continuity and disaster recovery using OMS

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/community/events/learn-about-devops-and-private-cloud-management-for-it-pros-as-well-as-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-using-oms-13-may/

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016https://channel9.msdn.com/Azure

On Demand Training - Updates

mva.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

giveaways

1-month / $100 Free Azure Access – no credit card req’d

1. Register at this site: http://tinyurl.com/azure-pass-brisbane 2. Provide us with your email address3. We will issue you a coupon code4. Redeem the code at: http://microsoftazurepass.com

Azure Pass

Free 1-month Subscription

• Two per meeting given away• Free for unemployed members

Pluralsight