The May 2019 Brisbane Azure User Group newsletter announced upcoming presentations, including a May presentation by Adam Stephensen on exploring container offerings in Azure. The newsletter also provided updates on Azure SQL managed identities, two new Azure Government Secret regions, general availability of Azure cost management and SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity, and the ability to move Azure Backup recovery services vaults.

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
May 2019

3. Sponsorship Update

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 Troy Hunt Clouds, Codes and Cybers
March 2019 Ryan Davis How not to translate a videogame
April 2019 Errol Leboydre SignalR as a Service
May 2019 Adam Stephensen Exploring Container Offerings in Azure
June 2019 Dan Toomey
Ben Parker
ISE: Integration Service Environments
Azure Optimisations; Ask for your EOFY Bonus
July 2019 Bronwen Zande 50 Shades of Grey - Ethics In A World of Ever-Growing AI
August 2019
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. Azure SQL with managed identities preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/securing-azure-sql-databases-with-managed-identities-just-got-
easier/?ocid=AID765057&wt.mc_id=CFID0452
Configuration only way to use managed Identities for connecting to Azure SQL
3 changes to the config file
<section name="SqlAuthenticationProviders" type="System.Data.SqlClient.SqlAuthenticationProviderConfigurationSection, System.Data, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<SqlAuthenticationProviders>
<providers>
<add name="Active Directory Interactive" type="Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication.SqlAppAuthenticationProvider, Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication" />
</providers>
</SqlAuthenticationProviders>
<add name="MyDbConnection" connectionString="server=[Your SQL Server Name].database.windows.net;database=[Your SQL DB name];UID=AnyString;Authentication=Active Directory Interactive" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"

8. Azure Government Secret private preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-azure-government-secret-private-preview-and-expansion-of-dod-il5/
Two new Azure Government Secret regions, now in private preview and pending accreditation.

9. Cost Management for Pay-As-You-Go (GA)
• Azure Usage Download for invoice reconciliation
• Cost analysis
• Budgets
• Exports
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-cost-management-now-generally-available-for-pay-as-you-go-customers/

10. SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity (GA)
• Save up to 65 percent on your Azure
SQL Data Warehouse workloads
• Reserved capacity is purchased in
increments of 100 cDWU. Multiple
warehouses in the same region can use
a single pool of Reserved Capacity. The
fully elastic properties of the service
remain and operations beyond the
reserved capacity will be billed using
pay-as-you-go pricing.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-sql-data-warehouse-reserved-capacity-and-software-plans-now-generally-available/

11. Azure Backup support to move Recovery
Services vaults (GA)
• Key benefits
• Flexibility to move across subscriptions and resource groups
• No impact to old restore points and settings in the vault
• Restore support independent of the VM in the old subscription
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-azure-backup-support-to-move-recovery-services-vaults/

13. Exploring Container Offerings in Azure
Adam Stephensen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstephensen/) is a
Technology Solutions Professional in Azure Application Development at
Microsoft. When he's not writing code or helping companies deliver
software, he's probably training, presenting or mentoring on new
technologies, writing better code and the lessons he's learnt to help
companies deliver software.
Adam Stephensen