Microsoft Azure August 2016 Update. In this presentation we track all major new developments in Microsoft Azure.

1. Azure Update, August
Kanio Dimitrov

2. Machine Learning
• Use portal to manage standard workspaces
• Create web service pricing plans
• Used for deploying web services
• Included quantities of operationalized compute at predictable monthly cost
• Write once, deploy everywhere:
• Multiple subscriptions or resource groups
• Automation via API-s
• Better Web Services Management Portal:
• More usage statistics (runtimes, transactions and more)
• Simplified testing experience via sample data

3. Operation Management Suite (OMS)
• General Availability – OMS Security for OMS and Azure Log Analytics
customers
• OMS Security – cloud service that detect security threats across hybrid
cloud environments
• Main features:
• View overall security status of your entire IT infrastructure
• Detect security risks by combining log event data and threat intelligence
• Remediate threats and breaches earlier
• Take advantage of low cost cloud storage
• Streamline security and compliance audits with searchable and complete dataset

4. Cognitive Services
• Computer Vision API Public Preview:
• Understands the contents of any image
• Create tags identifying objects
• Academic Knowledge API Public Preview:
• Support for structured query expressions
• Applying Knowledge Exploration Service to Microsoft
Academic Graph

5. Azure VM N-Series Public Preview
• Fastest GPU in the cloud powered by NVIDIA
• Perfect for GPU-accelerated workloads and visualizations
• Start from South Central US and will expand
• General Availability before the end of the year

6. Azure SQL
• General Availability – Premium Performance Level, P15
• P15 offers 4000 Database Transaction Units (DTU)
• Extremely fast transactional performance
• Real time analytics
• Up to 1TB of storage
• Scale performance on demand

7. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• Generally Available in 22 regions worldwide including:
• Japan East, North Europe, Brazil South, Australia Southeast
• Fully managed petabyte scale cloud solution
• Decouples compute and storage
• Pay only for the storage you use and compute you want
• Supports pause compute

8. MySQL in-app (preview) for web apps
• Run natively MySQL on Azure App Service Platform
• Runs on the same servers as Web App
• Support for PHP applications (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal)
• Shared storage between web app and MySQL
• Support for slow query logging and general logging for MySQL

9. Azure Search
• Support for Azure Blob and Azure Table storage
• Support for Microsoft Office, HTML, PDF and other formats
• Metadata detection & Schema suggestion
• Indexer will extract the text from the documents
• .NET SDK Version 2 Preview via NuGet

10. Service Bus
• Manage in new Azure Portal
• Supported features – namespaces, queues and topics
• Event hubs are only supported in the old portal for now
• No runtime implications

11. Mobile Apps & Parse Server
• SDL for Apache Cordoba is now at v2.0.0-RC1
• Features:
• Better handling of conflicts of offline sync
• Bug fixes
• Mobile Apps Quick start – preconfigured mobile backend
• SQLite database for data storage (start immediately)
• Parse Server is available in all regions via Marketplace Template

12. Azure Scheduler & Azure Automation
• With Azure PowerShell 2.0.1 manage Azure Scheduler with ARM and
PowerShell
• Full suite of New PowerShell cmdlests
• Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker supports proxy environments
coming with version 7.2.11136.0

13. Azure DevTest Labs
• More running VMs are supported in a single lab
• Previous restrictions coming from storage limitations
• New storage account based on the number of VMs will be created
automatically
• VMs images will be cached everywhere and VMs will balanced across
accounts

14. Azure DevTest Labs – Cost Management
• Custom cost-tracking time range:
• Specify custom time range
• Set based on project start/end date for better project
monitoring
• Specify actions for cost threshold:
• Actions defined on a threshold at 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% or 125%
• Send notification when a particular threshold is met by
specifying a webhook

15. Azure DevTest Labs – Cost Management

16. Azure DevTest Labs – Expiration and Secrets
• Expiration date for VM
• VM will be automatically deleted within 24 hours of the specified date in UTC
• Via ARM template and specifying expirationDate property
• Personal secret store
• Behind the scenes KeyVault is created
• Define the secret
• Select the secret from portal UI
• Configure the secret via ARM templates
• Configure the secret via DevTest Lab formulas

17. Azure Active Directory B2C (AAD B2C)
• General Availability – AAD B2C:
• AAD B2C targets your customers, AAD targets your enterprise
• Social Identity providers integration
• Built on top of AAD
• Improved support in Azure App Service:
• Full support for leveraging AAD B2C in Mobile, API and Function Aps
• Support for Easy Auth Token Refresh API added
• Login API now supports AAD B2C policies as arguments
• Significant improvement for mobile app developers

18. Azure Active Directory (AAD)
• General Availability: Authentication for SQL Database and SQL Data
Warehouse
• Centralized management of user identities
• Single sing-on and synchronization with on premise Active Directory
• General Availability: Conditional Access for applying access rules for AAD
connected apps such as Office 365, Salesforce, Box and others
• Ability for stricter policies (MFA) or blocking outside corporate network

19. General Availability : Microsoft Authenticator
• Microsoft Authenticator is mobile app that will replace Azure Authenticator
• Verifies customer identity
• Multi-Factor Authentication for personal, work, or school Microsoft and
third party accounts
• Supports notification with one-time passwords
• Register your device with company AAD and get seamless single sign-on to
mobile applications

20. App Service Environment
• Support for internal load balancer
• Support for Azure Resource Manager Virtual Network
deployment
• Support for Intranet/Ling-of-business applications
deployment in Azure virtual network in App Service
Environment

21. General Availability : Logic Apps
• Build powerful integration solutions
• Pre-build connectors to all major Azure and SaaS offerings
• Visual designer for automation of business processes and workflows
• Enable hybrid scenarios leveraging existing BizTalk Server investments
• Integrate Machine Learning and Cognitive Services to your apps

22. General Availability : Azure Security Center
• Control of cloud security policies
• Security monitoring
• Detect and respond to active attacks

23. Public preview : Microsoft Stream
• Organization can connect, collaborate and learn via video
• Easy to upload, organize and share videos across the enterprise
• Centralize all your videos in one centralized and searchable
destination
• Industry leading encryption with customizable privacy settings

24. General Availability: Apple FairPlay Streaming
• Apple Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• Protects Video on Demand (VOD) and live streams
• Integrate with Apple TV by building FairPlay Streaming
Solution

25. Azure CDN from Akamai supports HTTP/2
• HTTP/2 advantages:
• Multiplexing and concurrency - Multiple requests sent on the same TCP
connection
• Header compression – Reduce header size for faster transfer time
• Stream dependencies – Prioritize resources to transfer important data first
• Server Push (not yet) – Server push responses proactively into client caches

26. Document DB
• .NET SDK (1.8.0 and 1.9.2) now supports :
• Automatic retries
• Parallel queries for partitioned collections
• Cross-partition ORDER BY and TOP queries for
partitioned queries
• Automatic retries handling request-rate limiting
• Managing maximum concurrent connections to
DocumentDB

27. Azure Automation
• Users will be redirected to new Azure Portal from September, 1-st
• Classic Run As account support added:
• Automatically created from the portal by uploading certificate
• Standard authentication method for ASM resource
• Send runbook job status and streams to Azure Log Analytics (OMS):
• Correlate, get insights and visualize
• Trigger an email alert based on status
• Write advanced queries across job streams

28. Azure Backup
• New OMS features in preview available:
• Additional monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Windows Server machines
• IaaS virtual machines
• Network Performance Monitor in Log Analytics:
• Near real-time monitoring
• Loss and latency
• Fault localization
• Diagnostics & troubleshooting for network prolblems

29. Public Preview: VNet Peering for Azure Virtual
Network
• Directly connect two VNet-s in the same region
• Connection via private IP addresses if in the same network
• Packets routing via Azure backbone (no gateway in the path)
• Transit also possible via:
• Network Virtual Appliances or a VPN gateway can be used from VM from another
Vnet
• Work across subscriptions and ARM to ASM (two ASM VNet-s not
supported)

30. Virtual Machines
• In-place VM migration eliminates reboots
• Security updates
• Pauses only for 30 seconds
• Local temporary disk and memory state are preserved
• Goal : Eliminate the need for VM to reboot for all OS update
• Last resort to fix issues – move to another host
• VM (including disc) is deleted
• Resources are transferred to new same size VM on a new host
• Linux CLI, Windows – PowerShell, Azure Portal – both
• Logs are pulled for analysis for future prevention