The document summarizes upcoming presentations and events from the Brisbane Azure User Group for April 2016. It lists the presenter and topic for the April meeting as Ed Smith from Megaport discussing Express Route for Office 365 connectivity to Microsoft services. It also advertises two Azure bootcamp events in Brisbane and Sydney in April and provides updates on on-demand Microsoft and third-party Azure training available online. Finally, it reminds readers that the Brisbane Azure User Group gives away two free passes to each meeting for unemployed members.

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
April 2016

3. sponsorship

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2016 Andrew Robinson Serverless Bots
February 2016 Martin Abbott (MVP), Jeff Hollan
(Microsoft)
Power Apps and Flow
March 2016 Dale Austin, Erik Jansen (Microsoft) Bot Service, Network Watcher, & DocumentDB
April 2016 Ed Smith (Megaport) Express Route for O365 (Microsoft Peering)
May 2016 Glenn Stephens (Microsoft) DocumentDB
June 2016 TBA TBA

6. BAUG You-Tube Channel
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7. BAUG You-Tube Channel
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11. Hybrid Connections feature of Azure Relay
• open standards like HTTPS and WebSockets
• securely connect resources sitting behind a firewall
• No Windows Communication Foundation dependency
• Sits in parallel to WCF Relay
Update 4.0 for StorSimple 8000 series
• Heatmap-based restore – No more slowness when accessing data from appliance post device restore (DR). This is based
on data usage before failure.
• Performance enhancements for locally pinned volumes – This update has improved the performance of locally pinned
volumes in scenarios that have high data ingestion.
Application Firewall (WAF)
A centralized web application firewall (WAF) protects against web attacks and simplifies security management without
requiring any application changes.

12. Azure DocumentDB: API for MongoDB
• API for MongoDB is now generally available, inheriting the same 99.99 percent financially backed service-level agreement
(SLA) as Azure DocumentDB.
L-Series instances in Azure Virtual Machines generally available
• prices are reduced up to 69 percent
• L-series instances are storage optimized virtual machines for low latency workloads such as NoSQL databases
• up to 32 CPU cores with 8 GiB random-access memory (RAM) per core, 6TB SSD disk.
Azure Advisor
• Advisor analyzes your resource configuration and usage,
• then recommends solutions that can help you improve
• availability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of your Azure resources

13. 4 TB option for P11 and P15 databases in Azure SQL Database
• P11 and P15 databases in Azure SQL Database can now use up to 4 TB of included storage at no additional cost.
Azure DocumentDB:
Aggregate support, Emulator in Docker, and Azure Search integration
• now supports aggregates at global scale in public preview
• also reduced the number of request units (RUs) charged for queries by 20 percent
• built-in support for SQL aggregate operators COUNT, MIN, MAX, AVG, and SUM
• Azure Search integration
• DocumentDB Emulator provides a local environment that emulates the Azure DocumentDB service
Instance Metadata Service
RESTful endpoint that allows virtual machines instances to get information regarding its compute, network and upcoming
maintenance events.

14. Azure AD B2C tenants configured for Google sign-ins
• Impacts some mobile hybrid solutions for example
• Xamarin and MSAL Preview
• Any library that uses embedded web-views such as AndroidAuthClient/OIDCAndroidLib (Android),
Now in Cloud Foundry: Azure Blob Storage and Managed Disks
• now use Azure Blob Storage for Cloud Controller blobstore
• Azure CPI V21 now supports the Azure Managed Disk Service in BOSH.
DirSync and Azure AD Sync end of support on April 13, 2017
• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect now replaces these older tools for all scenarios.

16. SAT APR 22 Brisbane Global Azure Bootcamp
http://brisbane.azurebootcamp.net

17. SAT APR 22 Sydney Global Azure Bootcamp
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-global-azure-bootcamp-2017-tickets-33516480696

19. 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

22. • Two per meeting given away
• Free for unemployed members

24. The ExpressRoute to Azure & O365
Ed Smith | Megaport
This session will talk about options for Express Route Connectivity to access Azure and O365 services