Azure News Slides for October2017 - Azure Nights User Group

Speaker: James Rooke
Topic: Azure Stack Deep Dive
When: 11th of October
Where: Microsoft HQ Melbourne
Level 5; 4 Freshwater Place; Melbourne
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James Rooke – Avanade Ltd
• House keeping
• The News
• Todays Breakout Session:
AGENDA

MEET THE TEAM
Michael Frank Lace Lofranco Adam Simmonds Janaka Rangama

• Azure Managed Applications Service Catalog GA
Enables central IT to create and manage a catalog of approved solutions and applications
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/managed-application-author-
marketplace
• PowerShell Support in Azure Cloud Shell
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-comes-to-azure-cloud-shell/
• preview of the new Azure Migrate service
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-advancements-in-azure-for-it-digital-transformation/
• Azure Cost Management and Azure Policy Preview
http://azure.com/costmanagement
• CSV format support for the Azure Consumption and Charge Usage Detail API (+Power BI integration)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-csv-format-support-for-usage-details-api-for-
enterprise-azure-customers/
• Azure Security Center can now be used to secure workloads running on-premises and in other clouds.
NEWS GENERAL

NEWS IT PRO
Azure Active Directory Domain Services| DNS
• Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) now supports virtual networks created through
the Azure Resource Manager deployment model.
• Old AD DS have been migrated to the new portal
http://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-domain-services/active-directory-ds-getting-started
• Azure Domain Name Service (DNS) Private Zones
DNS service to manage and resolve names within and across VNets.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2017/

NEWS IT PRO
Backup & Monitoring
• Azure CLI can now be used to manage your Windows and Linux Azure VM backups using Azure
Backup.
https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/backup?view=azure-cli-latest
• Rackspace and CDW, now offer Azure Site Recovery as a managed DR solution for customers.
https://aka.ms/asr-partner-search
• A variety of new and preview features for Azure monitor were rolled out.
• Including support of additional Azure metrics from participating resource providers
• new support for multi-dimensional metrics
• New Monitoring Portal
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-supported-metrics
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/get-started-with-monitoring-in-azure/
https://aka.ms/AzMonIgnite17

NEWS IT PRO
Storage
• You can now secure Azure Storage to only your virtual networks, by using virtual network service endpoints. Endpoints
provide a direct connection from your virtual network to the Azure services.
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-service-endpoints-overview
• The preview of Azure File Sync, offering secure, centralized file share management in the cloud.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-for-azure-file-sync
Improvements in the capacity and scalability of standard Azure storage accounts. Azure Blob storage accounts can
support up to 5PB.
https://azure.microsoft.com/support/faq
• A new enterprise NFS service, powered by NetApp. Microsoft will deliver a first-party, native NFS v3/v4 service with
preview available in early 2018.
• Azure Data Box (preview) Transfer very large datasets to Azure. Integrated into Azure Backup and Site Recovery as well as
partner solutions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-advancements-in-azure-for-it-digital-transformation/
• New storage features in the Cloud Shell experience including support for AzCopy, SQLCmd, Batch Shipyard and more.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-shell-new-cli-tools-and-font-size-selection
• Beginning October 2017, you need to use the new Azure portal to manage your StorSimple 8000 series devices. The
Azure classic portal is no longer supported.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/support-for-blob-storage-lease-management-from-azure-portal/
https://aka.ms/ss8000-update55

NEWS IT PRO
VMs and Containers
• Windows Server Containers is now supported in the Azure Container Service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/new-advancements-in-azure-for-it-digital-transformation
• new feature enables the 1-Click experience to run containerized Java applications on Azure
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-toolkit-for-intellij-hello-world-web-app-linux
• Azure confidential computing https://aka.ms/azurecc
• new planned maintenance experience in Azure, providing you more control, better communication, and better
visibility.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/azure-friday-virtual-machine-planned-maintenance-rafalovich
• preview of the B-Series, a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU
usage. http://aka.ms/b-series
• new Fv2 and NCv2 and ND skus series with the latest GPU enhancements. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/new-advancements-in-azure-for-it-digital-transformation
• The most popular VM sizes (DS, ES, GS, and MS), which constrain the vCPU count to one half or one quarter of the
original VM size, while maintaining the same memory, storage and bandwidth. (i.e. DS14-4v2 for 4 core vm instead
of 16) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-new-azure-vm-sizes-for-more-cost-effective-database-
workloads

NEWS IT PRO
Networking
• You will no longer be able to access Virtual Networking in the Old/Classic portal beginning October 1. New portal only.
• The ability to peer across regions is currently in preview. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-
network-peering-overview
• Azure Load Balancer introduces a HA Ports, a capability that enables you to load balance internal virtual network traffic on
all ports for all supported protocols. The single rule configuration for all ports reduces the configuration complexity and
removes the rule limits for Load Balancer. https://aka.ms/haports
• Preview of a new Azure networking service called Azure DDoS Protection https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-
advancements-in-azure-for-it-digital-transformation
• Augmented Rules for Network Security Groups simplify security definitions. Multiple ports, multiple explicit IP addresses,
Service Tags and Application Security Groups can all be combined into a single easily understood security rule.
https://aka.ms/nsgaugmentedrules
• ExpressRoute had three peerings: private peering for connecting to Azure VNets, public peering to reach Azure services,
and Microsoft peering for Office 365 and Dynamics 365. To simplify ExpressRoute management and configuration MS
merged public and Microsoft peering. You can now access Azure PaaS and Microsoft SaaS services via Microsoft peering.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/how-to-routefilter-portal
• Route filters can dramatically reduce the number of IP prefixes advertised over ExpressRoute into your network. You can
select the specific Office 365 or Dynamics 365 services you want to access via ExpressRoute. You can also select Azure
services by region. Additionally, you can now use IPv6 to access Office 365 over Microsoft peering.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/how-to-routefilter-portal

RESOURCE MANAGER
Preview Features
Starting today (23 Septemberrd), customers can begin using Azure Availability
Zones in preview to build highly available applications. Availability Zones
increase Azure’s resiliency capabilities and broaden options for customers to
choose the business continuity solution that is right for their organization.
We've also designed Availability Zones to give customers great confidence in
delivering services and with an industry-leading, financially-backed 99.99%
virtual machines uptime SLA when generally available.
Notes URL: http://aka.ms/az
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-availability-zones-for-resiliency-and-high-availability/
DEV

APP SERVICES
Preview Features
We are excited to announce the release of our new Diagnose and Solve
Support Center (Preview) to help point out what’s wrong with your Web App
and guide you to the right information to troubleshoot and ideally resolve the
issue easier and quicker than before.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/09/28/introducing-the-new-app-service-support-center-preview/
DEV

APP SERVICES
Preview Features
excited to announce that we have ported Azure Functions to .NET Core 2.0!
Both the runtime and the Azure Functions Core Tools are now cross-platform.
Now, you can debug C# and JavaScript functions on a Mac or Linux using the
Core Tools and Visual Studio Code. Both the runtime and the Core Tools are
still in preview and we welcome your feedback!
Notes URL: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/09/25/develop-azure-functions-on-any-platform/
DEV

MARKETPLACE
New Features
We are excited to announce that SQL Server 2017 images on Linux and
Windows are now available in the Azure Marketplace! Deploying SQL Server in
Azure VMs combines the industry-leading performance and security, built-in
artificial intelligence, and business intelligence of SQL Server, now available on
both Linux and Windows, with the flexibility, security, and hybrid connectivity
of Azure.
Notes URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/sql-
server/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-vm-images-sql-server-2017-on-linux-and-windows/
DEV

DEVTEST LABS
New Features
In Azure Dev Test Labs, you can now claim a VM, use it, and unclaim it when
you don't need it anymore so that other members of your team can reuse it.
You can do so by selecting the Unclaim option.
Notes URL: http://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest-lab/devtest-lab-
add-claimable-vm
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devtest-labs-unclaim-a-vm-and-return-it-to-the-claimable-pool/
DEV

APP SERVICES
New Features
Azure App Service and Azure Functions now support creating and using
system-managed identities to work with other Azure resources. This allows
apps to easily integrate with services such as Azure Key Vault, without
requiring any service principal management from the app or development
team.
Notes URL: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/app-service-
managed-service-identity
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/managed-service-identity-support-for-app-service-and-azure-functions/
DEV

API MANAGEMENT
New Features
Today (23 September) we are excited to announce the public preview of
exporting APIs to Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. Hooray to the deep linking,
you no longer need to manually download the OpenAPI (Swagger) definition
of an API from APIM and import it into PowerApps or Flow. When you export
an API, APIM will call the PowerApps/Flow environments to create a custom
connector for you.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/apimanagement/2017/09/22/export-apis-to-microsoft-powerapps-and-flow/
DEV

APP SERVICES
General Availability
Today (26 September), we’re excited to announce the general availability of
the new Premium plan from Azure App Service that runs on Dv2-series VMs.
Notes URL: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=858742&clcid=0x409
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-the-new-app-service-premium-plan/
DEV

Azure Log Analytics for HDInsight
Today (3 October), we announce the preview of HDInsight cluster monitoring in Azure Log Analytics, ushering a new era
of enterprise grade Hadoop monitoring for mission critical analytics workloads. HDInsight customers can now monitor
and debug their Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Kafka, Interactive Query, and Storm clusters in Azure Log Analytics.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-hdinsight-integration-with-azure-log-analytics/
HDInsight Hive LLAP in GA, VSCode extension
Along with the general availability of Hive LLAP, we are pleased to announce the public preview of
HDInsight Tools for VSCode, an extension for developing Hive interactive query, Hive Batch jobs, and
Python PySpark jobs against Microsoft HDInsight! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/run-you-hive-
llap-pyspark-job-in-visual-studio-code-vscode/
NEWS AI AND BIG DATA

Data Factory V2!
These new capabilities in ADF will enable you to build hybrid data integration at scale. Now you can create,
schedule, and orchestrate your ETL/ELT workflows, wherever your data lives, in the cloud or on any self-
hosted network. Meet security and compliance needs while taking advantage of extensive capabilities and
paying only for what you use.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-factory-announcing-new-capabilities-in-public-
preview/

Azure Stream Analytics: Built-in inline anomaly detection, output to Azure Functions, CI/CD, and more!
Today (25 September) at Microsoft Ignite, we are pleased to announce the preview of several new and
compelling capabilities in Azure Stream Analytics. These include built-in inline machine learning based
anomaly detection, egress to Azure functions, support for compressed data formats, JavaScript User
defined aggregates, and support for CI/CD in Visual Studio tooling.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-in-stream-analytics-output-to-azure-functions-built-in-
anomaly-detection-etc/

Graph support in Azure SQL Database
Graph databases address this by introducing simple constructs of nodes and relationships into linked
structures to enable sophisticated modeling. Azure SQL Database will now offer fully integrated graph
extensions, so users can define graph schema with graph objects. T-SQL language extensions will help users
find patterns and use multi-hop navigation. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/graph-support-
for-azure-sql-database-2/
Adaptive Query Processing support for Azure SQL Database
SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduce a new generation of query processing improvements
that will adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. For the first version
of this adaptive query processing feature family, we will have three new improvements—batch mode
adaptive joins, batch mode memory grant feedback, and interleaved execution for multi-statement table
valued functions. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/adaptive-query-processing-support-for-
azure-sql-database/

Azure SQL Database has 100 percent SQL Server compatibility for no code changes via Managed Instance
Our fully managed Azure SQL Database service now has 100 percent SQL Server compatibility for no code
changes via Managed Instance. And today (25 September), we are introducing a new Azure Database
Migration Service that enables a near-zero downtime migration. Now customers can migrate all of their
data to Azure without hassle or high cost. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-advancements-in-
azure-for-it-digital-transformation/

AzureML: new Experimentation service, Model Management, ML Workbench!
New capabilities for Azure ML were announced today (25 Septemberth). These include new
Experimentation features, Model Management, a new ML Workbench and much more.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/diving-deep-into-what-s-new-with-azure-machine-learning/

Next generation of Azure IoT Suite solutions
Today (26 September), we are excited to announce a new version of Azure IoT Suite’s Remote Monitoring
preconfigured solution. Incorporating learnings from customers and partners, this new version is a fully
operational IoT solution right out of the box. These include lower costs, more advanced scalability, a new UI
and more. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-next-generation-of-azure-iot-suite-accelerates-iot-
solutions/
Azure IoT hub available in 8 more regions!
Azure IOT Hub is now available in new regions including Azure UK South, UK West, Canada Central, Canada
East, India Central, India South, East US2 and Central US.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-s-iot-hub-global-expansion-newly-available-in-8-regions/

New capabilities to Azure Data Lake Analytics
The Azure Data Lake Analytics service can now help you easily organize, manage, and gain insights from
Data Lake Analytics jobs that are running as part of pipelines or on a recurring basis. New capabilities
enable you to: Quickly identify jobs in pipelines that might have failed or taken longer than expected. Get
the aggregated statistics (job counts, successful and failed AU hours, and so on) for a pipeline or a recurring
instance so you can better understand the resource consumption and cost trends.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-lake-analytics-introduces-new-capabilities-to-
manage-pipeline-and-recurring-jobs/

Get insights into your Azure CosmosDB: partition heatmaps, OMS, and more
We are excited to announce Diagnostics Logs for data plane operations, which enable you to get a full
audit of who accessed your Azure Cosmos DB collections and when.
We announce the availability of a subset of Azure Cosmos DB metrics via Azure Monitor API. Now you can
use tools like Grafana to access your metrics, with Operations Management Suite integration coming soon.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/get-new-insights-into-your-azure-cosmos-db-partition-heatmaps-
azure-monitor-oms-and-audit-log/

Updates to Cognitive Services collection of intelligent APIs
Text Analytics API is now generally available.
Bing Custom Search API and Bing Search APIs v7 will be generally available in October.
Language Understanding Intelligent Service and Microsoft Bot Framework generally available later this year.
QnAMaker preview API is now enabling to build, train and publish a simple question and answer bot from
product manuals.
We’re expanding Face API, Computer Vision API and Content Moderator in 7 additional regions - South
Central US, West US2, East US, Brazil, North Europe, Australia East and East Asia.
To enable developers to build for the intelligent edge, Custom Vision Service from Microsoft Cognitive
Services has added mobile model export.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/at-ignite-microsoft-is-updating-its-cognitive-services-collection-of-
intelligent-apis/

PowerBI Embedded is generally available
Today (4 October), Microsoft announced that Power BI Embedded is generally available; offering
independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers a way to quickly add stunning visuals, reports, and
dashboards into their apps – through a capacity-based, hourly-metered model.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/embed-stunning-visuals-into-your-apps-with-power-bi-
embedded-generally-available/

Azure Data Lake Store + Azure Analysis Services
Support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) is now available in Azure Analysis Services and in SQL Server
Data Tools (SSDT). Now you can augment your big data analytics workloads with rich interactive analysis for
selected data subsets at the speed of thought! Business users can consume Azure Analysis Services models
in Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Azure Data Lake
Analytics (ADLA) can be used to run U-SQL batch jobs directly against the source data, such as to generate
targeted output files that Azure Analysis Services can import with less overhead.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/using-azure-analysis-services-with-azure-data-lake-storage/
Firewall support for Azure Analysis Services
We are pleased to introduce firewall support for Azure Analysis Services. By using the new firewall feature,
customers can lock down their Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) servers to accept network traffic only
from desired sources.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-analysis-services-adds-firewall-support/

Australian User Group Calendar: http://www.msozevents.com
Microsoft Summit 14-17 November, Sydney
Global Azure Bootcamp 21st April 2018
Azure Discovery Days
https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-au/articles/digital-transformation/australia-azure-
training-resources
UPCOMING EVENTS

Roadmap:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/roadmap/
Blogs:
http://www.azurenights.com
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog
http://blog.azure.com
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
http://www.hanselman.com/blog
http://www.azurefieldnotes.com
http://www.empired.com/blog
Virtual Academy:
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
Yammer:
http://www.yammer.com/ITProNetwork
Current and historic issues:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history
ARM Templates:
http://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell
http://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Podcasts:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday
http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover
http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com
KEEPING UP TO DATE

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