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Microsoft Azure NewsDecember 2015

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Upcoming PresentationsMonth Presenter(s) Topic

December 2015 Andy Wright & Edge Pereira Cortana Analytics Suite & IoT in Australia

January 2016 Matthew Erbs Service Fabric with Actors

February 2016 Alessandro Cardoso Microsoft Operations Management Suite: Monitoring in a Modern World

March 2016 ??

updates

“Ibiza” now generally available and is default portal• Improved performance on startup, resource blades and core portal

experiences• 99.9% reliability in loading extensions (vertical experience)• Easier to find, manage, and retrieve resources• Fewer clicks to get tasks done

New Azure Portal Now GA

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-portal-general-availability/

99.95% SLA with Mobile Apps• Easily connect your app to data in the cloud or on-premises, including

SQL Azure, SQL on-premises, Mongo, Azure Table Storage, SaaS APIs like Dynamics and Salesforce.

• Enable your app to work with data offline and sync with above mentioned data sources

• Build mobile backend APIs in seconds without writing any code• Intuitive SDKs for iOS, Android, Windows, as well as cross-platform

frameworks like Xamarin, and Cordova• Extend your mobile backend with custom code by leveraging App

Service Mobile .NET or Node.js server side SDK, or directly via REST frameworks for other languages supported on App Service including PHP, Java, or Python

• Cross-platform push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle and other devices (this capability is also available as a separate service: Notification Hubs)

• Authenticate and Authorize your users without adding any backend code using App Service Authentication/Authorization features

App Service Mobile Apps Now GA

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-app-service-mobile-apps/

Row-Level Security Block Predicates Now GA• Block predicates prevent user from inserting, updating or deleting rows that violate

access criteria• Protects data in multi-tenant databases• Can be used in conjunction with filter predicates to control read & write access

RLS - Azure SQL Database

CREATE SECURITY POLICY Security.tenantAccessPolicy ADD FILTER PREDICATE Security.fn_tenantAccessPredicate(TenantId) ON dbo.MyTable, ADD BLOCK PREDICATE Security.fn_tenantAccessPredicate(TenantId) ON dbo.MyTable

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sql-database-row-level-security-block-predicates-generally-available/

Other GA AnnouncementsAzCopy 5.0 with File & Table Storage Supporthttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azcopy-5-0-with-file-and-table-storage-support/

Azure Redis Cache: General Availability of Premium Tierhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-redis-cache-general-availability-of-premium-tier/

API Management now integrates with Event Hub• Collect selected request data for online analysis using Azure Stream Analytics 

and Power BI• Collect selected request data for offline analysis using Azure HDInsight and

Machine Learning• Keep an audit trail by storing data in Azure Storage• Relay HTTP messages to a custom rules engine for performing FXCop style

analysis on API traffic• Log exception context for troubleshooting and simplified customer support• Capture HTTP request and response messages and relay them to a third-party

service that provides HTTP logging and monitoring services• Third-party integration with other services such as billing providers

API Management & Event Hubs

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-api-management-and-event-hubs-integration/

App Service now supports multiple providers:

• Azure Active Directory• Facebook• Google• Microsoft Account• Twitter

Deferred Authorisation• No longer confined to one setting for whole site

New Sign-In options

Enable / Disable a Token Store

Expanded App Service Authentication

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-app-service-authentication-authorization/

Cloud backups & disc backups for MS workloads:• SQL• SharePoint• Exchange• Etc

For workloads hosted on:• Hyper-V• VMWare• Physical Servers

Free download with Azure Backup

Microsoft Azure Backup Server

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-azure-backup-server/

• Enable better support for Azure Resource Manager • Separate Azure Service Management and Resource Manager

functionality to provide clarity regarding features of Azure the cmdlets target

• Enforce semantic versioning and ensure cmdlets authored against a given major version of Azure PowerShell will not encounter breaking changes from updates to Azure PowerShell

• Availability of Azure PowerShell through WebPI and PowerShell Gallery to enable quicker delivery of new features and defect resolutions

• Improvements in the Azure PowerShell documentation and continued focus on documentation

• Certificate Authentication Support for Azure Resource Manager• Virtual Machine disk encryption through Azure Key Vault• Introduction of Azure Data Lake and Notification Hub cmdlets• Improvements for Resource Manager, Web Apps and many other Azure

services

Azure PowerShell 1.0 Released

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azps-1-0/

• New advanced feature in CDN Premium• API Support• Purge capability• Existing feature optimisation for CDN

Standard• New local CDN delivery regions in India,

Australia and South America

New CDN Features & Capabilities

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-cdn-features-and-capabilities-in-the-new-azure-portal/

Improved Azure SQL Database connection experience• Easily connect to any database from your history - from Publish, Schema Compare, Data

Compare• Pin favourite connections for easy access• Browse your Azure SQL Databases direct from Visual Studio and simply click to connect• Azure firewall rule creation is automatically handled at connection time

SQL Server Data Tools

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-improved-azure-sql-database-connection-experience-in-sql-server-data-tools/

Security monitoring and management for your cloud resources• Understand the security state of your Azure resources• Take control of cloud security with policies that let you recommend and monitor security configurations• Easily deploy integrated Microsoft and partner security solutions from Barracuda, F5, and Trend Micro

and soon from Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco, Imperva, Incapsula, and CloudFlare• Get alerted to threats detected using advanced analytics, including machine learning and behavioral

profiling, and Microsoft’s vast global threat intelligence assets

Azure Security Center in Public Preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-now-available/

Azure SDK 2.8.1 for .NEThttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-azure-sdk-2-8-for-net/https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-sdk-2-8-1-for-net/

Azure WebJobs SDK 1.1.0 RTMhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-webjobs-sdk-1-1-0-rtm/

Retirement of Preview SDKs for DocumentDB on 29 February 2016All versions prior to 2015-04-08https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/documentdb-preview-sdk-retirement/

SDKs & Tooling

events

http://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/227245159/

Brisbane Tech Christmas DrinksThursday, 17 December 2016

Grand Central Hotel - Platform Bar270 Ann Street, Brisbane

giveaways

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• Two per meeting given away• Free for unemployed members

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resources

• 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

http://channel9.msdn.com/Azure

Microsoft Azure Area on

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/videos/azure-friday/https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday