The document provides information about upcoming presentations for the Brisbane Azure User Group (BAUG) meeting in January 2019. Heinrich Braasch will present on using Azure IoT to control a Weber barbecue from anywhere in the world. The document also summarizes new features for Azure including neural text-to-speech, transparent data encryption for managed instances, Azure Monitor for containers, static websites on Azure Storage, and virtual network service endpoints. Links are provided to blog posts with further details on each new Azure feature.

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. Microsoft Azure News
January 2019

3. sponsorship

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
December 2018 Various UNCONVENTION 2018.1
January 2019 Heinrich Braasch Low-and-slow Weber control from anywhere in the world using
Azure IOT
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. Neural network text-to-speech – (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/microsoft-previews-neural-network-text-to-speech/
Speech Service, part of Azure Cognitive Services now offers a neural network-powered text-to-speech capability.
The voices sound more robust and natural across a wider variety of user scenarios, achieved by harnessing the
following:
• A large supervised training with transfer learning across diverse speakers
• More features from unsupervised pretraining
• Added robust neural model design
Meet Jessa and Guy. Hear what they sound like.

8. (TDE) with customer managed keys
for Managed Instance – (Preview)
• TDE with BYOK support has been generally available for single databases and elastic pools since April 2018.
• Now, public preview of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Microsoft
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-transparent-data-encryption-tde-with-customer-managed-keys-for-
managed-instance/

9. Azure Monitor for containers (GA)
• Multi-cluster view – You often have multiple AKS clusters to manage. Wouldn’t it be great to view and
manage all your clusters together?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-monitor-for-containers-now-generally-available/

10. Azure Monitor for containers (GA)
• Drill down further into AKS cluster with Performance Grid view –
From the node view tab, you can easily spot the noisy neighbour issue on the pod and drill further to see
the controller it is part of. You can further see the controller limits, request setting, and actual usage to
determine if you have configured your controller correctly.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-monitor-for-containers-now-generally-available/

11. Azure Monitor for containers (GA)
• Live debugging – With live logs you get a real time, live stream of your container logs directly in your Azure
portal. You can pause the live stream and search within the log file for errors or issues. Unlike the Azure
Monitor logs, the live stream data is ephemeral and is meant for real time troubleshooting.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-monitor-for-containers-now-generally-available/

12. Static websites on Azure Storage (GA)
• Static websites refer to websites that can be loaded and served statically from a pre-defined set of files. You
can now build a static website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that are hosted on Azure Storage.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/static-websites-on-azure-storage-now-generally-available/

13. Virtual Network Service Endpoints for
serverless messaging and big data (GA)
This feature adds to the security and control Azure customers have over their cloud environments. Now, traffic
from your virtual network to your Azure Service Bus Premium namespaces and Standard and Dedicated Azure
Event Hubs namespaces can be kept secure from public Internet access and completely private on the Azure
backbone network.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/virtual-network-service-endpoints-for-serverless-messaging-and-big-data/

14. Azure Functions now supported as a step in
Azure Data Factory pipelines
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-functions-now-supported-as-a-step-in-azure-data-factory-pipelines/

16. https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x5629549f3d8&ls=Website&lsd=AzureWebsite
Monday, February 11, 2019
Microsoft Brisbane
Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

18. Azure Australia Slack Team!
http://bit.ly/az-aus-slack

19. BAUG You-Tube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXg1EGqKoX4Gg9g9_KSgtw/videos
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!

20. BAUG You-Tube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXg1EGqKoX4Gg9g9_KSgtw/videos
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!

21. 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

24. Low-and-slow Weber control
from anywhere in the world using Azure IOT
An electronic engineer who has edged towards System Engineering and Project Management throughout the years.
Electronics is still his hobby and he is using IOT technologies to keep his hand in and maybe come across a killer app one day.
Heinrich Braasch