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| Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-firewall-new-regions-availability/ | Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions. | Tuesday | Azure Updates |
| Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/preview-introducing-reporting-capabilities-for-azure-site-recovery/ | Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking […] | Tuesday | Azure Updates,AzurePortal,AzureSiteRecovery |
| Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/introducing-reporting-capabilities-for-azure-site-recovery/ | Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so […] | Tuesday | Azure Updates,AzureMonitor,AzurePortal,AzureSiteRecovery |
| Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-application-volume-group-for-oracle/ | Application volume group for Oracle is designed to greatly simplify the deployment of Azure NetApp Files volumes required to install and operate Oracle databases on Azure […] | Tuesday | Azure Updates |
| Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/visual-studio-code-extension-for-sazure-web-pubsub-now-in-preview/ | New option helps developers manage Web PubSub resources | Tuesday | Azure Updates |
| Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/hdionaksnewregions2/ | Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on […] | Tuesday | Azure Updates |
| Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/kusto-graph-ga/ | The Graph Semantics extension to Kusto is now generally available. Users are encouraged to integrate this tool into their production workflows to enhance understanding of complex […] | Tuesday | Azure Updates,Kusto |
| General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-api-center-extension-for-vs-code/ | The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. You can use this extension to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your […] | Wednesday | Azure Updates,api manageme |
| General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-vm-hibernation-general-purpose/ | Hibernate VMs when not in use to save compute costs, while persisting the in-memory state. | Wednesday | Azure Updates |
| General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-activity-log-alerts-can-now-run-in-eu-data-boundary/ | Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary. | Wednesday | Azure Updates |
| General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-netapp-files-support-for-large-volumes-up-to-500tib-in-size/ | You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 50TiB to 500TiB in size. | Wednesday | Azure Updates,Azure NetApp Files,Features,Services |
| Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/advanced-container-networking-services/ | Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a suite of services that tackles observability, security, and compliance challenges in your containerized applications. Gain […] | Wednesday | Azure Updates,#Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) #Virtual Network #Azure Monitor #Features #Services #Container Networking #Hubble #Observability #ebpf #O11y |
| Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-chaos-studio-supports-a-new-pause-process-fault-for-windows-virtual-machines/ | Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines. | Wednesday | Azure Updates |
| Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-balancer-health-event-logs/ | Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs to help you identify and troubleshoot ongoing issues affecting your load balancer resource’s health. | Thursday | Azure Updates |
| General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-netapp-files-backup/ | Azure NetApp Files backup expands the data protection capabilities of Azure NetApp Files by providing fully managed backup solution for long-term snapshot archive, recovery, and compliance. | Thursday | Azure Updates |
| Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor – Container Insights | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/kubernetesmetadataandlogsfilteringpublicpreview/ | Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads! | Thursday | Azure Updates,Azure Kubernetes Service,Azure Monitor,Container insights,Feature,Microsoft Build |
| Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-bastion-premium/ | Azure Bastion Premium SKU secures customers’ highly sensitive workloads with advanced monitoring and security features | Friday | Azure Updates |
| Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-virtual-network-manager-s-virtual-network-verifier-is-now-in-public-preview/ | Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier feature is now in public preview, enabling you to check if your network policies allow or disallow traffic between […] | Friday | Azure Updates |
| Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-support-for-active-directory-connection-per-netapp-account/ | Azure NetApp Files support for one Active Directory connection per NetApp account now enables connecting a NetApp account to its own distinct Active Directory Forest and […] | Friday | Azure Updates |
| Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-balancer-now-supports-admin-state/ | Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using the new Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your […] | Friday | Azure Updates |
| Feature Update: Azure Action Groups | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/action-groups-email-resource-manager-role/ | Customers using action groups with the notification type Email Resource Manager Role may see that different or more users are getting emails than were previously. | Friday | Azure Updates,Azure Monitor; Action Groups; Feature; Services |
| Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-analyze-data-using-log-analytics-simple-mode/ | Azure Monitor Logs is excited to introduce the next leap in log experience: Simple mode. Simple Mode allows users to utilize Azure Monitor Logs in a […] | Friday | Azure Updates,Azure Monitor; Log Analytics; AzurePortal |
| Name | Link | Description | Publication Day | Category |
|---|
| Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-observability-blog/analyze-data-using-log-analytics-simple-mode/ba-p/4152447 | Introduction Azure Monitor Logs offer a powerful set of capabilities for users to explore their logs and derive meaningful insights from their data estate. Until now, […] | Monday | Tech Community |
| Customize percentiles for response time in Azure Load Testing | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/customize-percentiles-for-response-time-in-azure-load-testing/ba-p/4152559 | Introduction Azure Load Testing is a cloud-based service that lets you test the performance and scalability of your web applications and APIs. You can create and […] | Monday | Tech Community |
| Getting Started with Reliability on Azure: Ensuring Cloud Applications Stay Up and Running | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-architecture-blog/getting-started-with-reliability-on-azure-ensuring-cloud/ba-p/4152905 | As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services, the imperative for robust cloud solutions has never been greater. Azure stands at the forefront of this realm, offering […] | Tuesday | Tech Community |
| Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (April 2024) | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/check-this-out-cto-guide-april-2024/ba-p/4153388 | Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to […] | Tuesday | Tech Community |
| Manage Dev Tunnels with Group Policies | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/manage-dev-tunnels-with-group-policies/ba-p/4149472 | Dev Tunnels is a tunneling service that can boost your productivity when testing and debugging web apps, webhooks, APIs, and more. You can also simply use […] | Tuesday | Tech Community |
| Cost Optimization for General Purpose VMs using Hibernation now Generally Available | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-compute-blog/cost-optimization-for-general-purpose-vms-using-hibernation-now/ba-p/4153399 | During Microsoft Ignite 2023, we previewed the ability to hibernate VMs, making it easier for customers to save Compute costs. Hibernating a VM deallocates the machine […] | Wednesday | Tech Community |
| GenAI Gateway Accelerator | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/genai-gateway-accelerator/ba-p/4154336 | Every app will be reinvented with Generative AI and new apps will be built that weren’t possible before. Generative AI helps to build intelligent apps using […] | Wednesday | Tech Community |
| Announcing the Public Preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-compute-blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-standby-pools-for-virtual/ba-p/4154372 | We recently announced the public preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. Standby Pools is a new service that enables you […] | Wednesday | Tech Community |
| Microsoft Entra ID Tenant Starters Guide: Understanding Identity Management and Licensing | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/microsoft-entra-id-tenant-starters-guide-understanding-identity/ba-p/4154857 | Introduction Microsoft Entra ID Tenant is a cloud-based identity and access management service that helps you manage your organization’s users, devices, applications, and resources[1]. It is […] | Wednesday | Tech Community |
| Introducing Azure Load Balancer health event logs | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/introducing-azure-load-balancer-health-event-logs/ba-p/4154362 | We’re thrilled to announce that Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs! These new logs are published to the Azure Monitor resource log category LoadBalancerHealthEvent […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Memory Protection for AI ML Model Inferencing | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-confidential-computing/memory-protection-for-ai-ml-model-inferencing/ba-p/4119105 | This article was originally posted on Confidential Container Project’s blog by Suraj Deshmukh & Pradipta Banerjee. Read the original article here and the source for this content […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Part 1: Migrate Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium using Azure Databricks – Why | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/analytics-on-azure-blog/part-1-migrate-azure-analysis-services-to-power-bi-premium-using/ba-p/4134892 | This post is authored in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Senior Solutions Architect, at Databricks. In the world of data analytics and business intelligence, the tools and […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Managing a Distributed API Estate Efficiently with Azure API Management and Self-Hosted Gateways | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-architecture-blog/managing-a-distributed-api-estate-efficiently-with-azure-api/ba-p/4143966 | Azure API Management (APIM) is a cloud-based service that enables you to create, publish and manage your APIs behind a secure, consistent façade. You can create […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| How to use Cosmos DB at extreme scale with large document sizes | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-architecture-blog/how-to-use-cosmos-db-at-extreme-scale-with-large-document-sizes/ba-p/4151050 | Introduction First, let’s provide an overview of how Cosmos DB is being used in this scenario. As per the architectural overview shown below, there are an […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Part 2: Migrate Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium using Azure Databricks – How-To | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/analytics-on-azure-blog/part-2-migrate-azure-analysis-services-to-power-bi-premium-using/ba-p/4134928 | This post is authored in conjunction with Leo Furlong, Senior Solutions Architect, at Databricks. Many customers choose to migrate their Azure Analysis Services semantic models […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Hibernation support now available for Azure Virtual Desktop | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop-blog/hibernation-support-now-available-for-azure-virtual-desktop/ba-p/4155466 | Today we are happy to announce the general availability of hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop. Explore additional capabilities that make it easier to save compute […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Using Admin State to Control Your Azure Load Balancer Backend Instances | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/using-admin-state-to-control-your-azure-load-balancer-backend/ba-p/4155457 | Today, Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic across healthy backend pool instances. It accomplishes this by using health probes to send periodic requests to the instances […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Addressing common Entra Id protection deployment and maintenance issues | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/addressing-common-entra-id-protection-deployment-and-maintenance/ba-p/4154082 | Entra ID tenants face threats from bad actors who use password spray attacks, multifactor spamming, and social phishing campaigns. Many organizations do not prioritize protecting Entra […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Migrate data to Azure Managed Lustre retaining POSIX attributes | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/migrate-data-to-azure-managed-lustre-retaining-posix-attributes/ba-p/4156137 | Introduction This blog will utilize manual steps on for exporting data to blob storage in order to retain specific POSIX attributes. The exporting of data is […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Public Preview: Creating Web App with a Unique Default Hostname | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/public-preview-creating-web-app-with-a-unique-default-hostname/ba-p/4156353 | App Service now allows you to create web apps with unique default hostnames to avoid a high-severity threat of subdomain takeover. This feature is currently […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Public Preview: App Service Authentication Logs on Diagnostic Settings | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/public-preview-app-service-authentication-logs-on-diagnostic/ba-p/4156447 | A new log “AppServiceAuthenticationLogs” is now available in Public Preview for App Service resources on Windows. This would include Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps. If […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| European Cloud Summit and Collaboration Summit | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/european-cloud-summit-and-collaboration-summit/ba-p/4156255 | Wiesbaden, Germany added 3,000+ tech enthusiast and hosted the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Cloud AI Pitch Competition between May 14-16, 2024.We were pleased to attend the European Cloud and Collaboration […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| AUTHENTICATION IN AZURE LOAD TESTING SERIES: GENERATE AND REFRESH ACCESS TOKENS WITH JMeter | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/authentication-in-azure-load-testing-series-generate-and-refresh/ba-p/4156953 | Whenever you run load tests on your endpoints in Azure Load Testing, there might be a situation where your endpoints require an access token. We have […] | Saturday | Tech Community |
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| Cloud Design Patterns | https://luke.geek.nz/azure/cloud-design-patterns/ | Cloud Design patterns help build reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud. Today, we will cover common patterns, their use cases, and considerations. The patterns we […] | Luke Murray |
| Azure Cloud Commanders Run open-sourced inference models in AKS using Kaito | https://youtu.be/la1mUvSZ7w0 | Jorge Arteiro and Luke Murray discuss running large language models in AKS with the Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (Kaito)! […] | Luke Murray |
| .NET 9 and ASP.NET Core: Built-in Support for OpenAPI Document Generation | https://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2024/05/dotnet9-aspnet-core-built-in-support-for.html | With .NET 9, ASP.NET Core now has built-in support for OpenAPI document generation in both controller-based and minimal APIs. For as long as I can remember, ASP.NET […] | Jaliya Udagedara |
| Querying DNS Records with PowerShell | https://www.techielass.com/querying-dns-records-with-powershell/ | In the world of networking and system administration, efficiently managing DNS (Domain Name System) records is paramount. Whether you’re troubleshooting connectivity issues, configuring mail servers, or […] | Sarah Lean |
| Scale down an Azure SQL Managed Instance from Business Critical to General Purpose Tier | https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com/scale-down-an-azure-sql-managed-instance-from-business-critical-to-general-purpose-tier/ | With the move to PaaS services, we often become reliant on portals for the administration interface to administer them once deployed. I recently had a request […] | Darren Robinson |
| Using native authentication in Entra External ID to sign in a user with email and OTP | https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/using-native-authentication-in-entra-external-id-to-sign-in-a-user-with-email-and-otp-09002a18da6e?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4 | Image via Copilot Designer First, read this post, as it covers a lot of the basics. The documentation is here. Essentially, you use the API to sign in as […] | Rory Braybrook |
| Step-by-Step to creating Azure Application Gateway for Containers using Terraform | https://thomasthornton.cloud/2024/05/28/step-by-step-to-creating-azure-application-gateway-for-containers-using-terraform/ | Application Gateway for Containers (AGFC) is a newer and improved version of the earlier Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), which you might be familiar with if […] | Thomas Thornton |
| Exploring Backups, DR, and Continuity in an Azure Terraform World | https://jakewalsh.co.uk/exploring-backups-dr-and-continuity-in-an-azure-terraform-world/ | Backups, Disaster Recovery, and ensuring continuity of business data and operations, are arguably one of the most important aspects for anyone working in the IT industry. […] | Jake Walsh |
| 240 – Build 2024: Thoughts on the hero announcements | https://share.transistor.fm/s/65795dc0 | Last week’s Microsoft Build 2024 is fresh on our minds, and we take a deeper look at the hero announcements. Copilot+ PCs and AI in general […] | Tobias Zimmergren |
| Secure Azure File Shares Access With Microsoft Entra Private Access | https://charbelnemnom.com/secure-azure-file-shares-entra-private-access/ | Internet Service Providers (ISP) often block TCP port 445, so we cannot access and map a drive on a Windows Client computer with an Azure Continue […] | Charbel Nemnom |
| Azure Deployment Stacks for Terraform Backend Management | https://azurecloudai.blog/2024/05/25/azure-deployment-stacks-for-terraform-backend-management/ | Hi there, if you are using Terraform, you are probably using a remote backend state for collaboration and centralized backup. If you are also using an […] | Rod Trent |
