Monthly news roundup as compiled and delivered by Damien Berry to the Brisbane Azure User Group

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
June 2020

3. Sponsorship Update

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2019 Gayatri Guru Sneak Peek into Azure Billing API
February 2019 Alex Apergis / Josh Hurn Life in CloudOps
March 2019 Valeriia Savenko Azure IoT 101
April 2019 COVID19 Isolation
May 2019 Jernej Kavka From Paper to Power using Azure Form Recognition
June 2019 Todd Whitehead Best of Build 2020
July 2019
August 2019
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019 Various UNCONVENTION NIGHT!
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. Azure Front Door Rules Engine (Preview)
New Rules engine allows new edge routing options.
- Secure Headers
- HTTPS redirect
- Many more
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-front-door-rules-engine-in-preview/

8. Blob Storage enhancing data protection (GA)
Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)
- (GZRS) and Read-Access Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (RA-GZRS) are now generally available offering
intra-regional and inter-regional high availability and disaster protection for your applications.
Account failover
- Customer-initiated storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when
to initiate a failover
Versioning preview
- Versioning automatically maintains prior versions of an object and identifies them with version IDs.
Point in time restore preview
- Ability to restore a subset of containers or blobs within a storage account to a previous state.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blob-storage-enhancing-data-protection-and-recovery-capabilities/

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

11. BAUG You-Tube Channel
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!
http://bit.ly/BAUGYouTubeChannel

12. On Demand Training - Updates
https://aka.ms/learn/
•Azure Fundamentals
•Introduction to Azure
•Create Serverless Logic with Azure Functions
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

15. Best of Build 2020
Speaker: Todd Whitehead
Let's catch up with all the highlights and news that's fit to report from
Microsoft Build 2020! We’ll see updates on everything from AI to
Quantum Computing with a heavy focus on Azure development tools
and technologies. We’ll not only talk through the announcements but
see lots of it in action with some hands on demos.