The upcoming presentations for the Brisbane Azure User Group in 2017 are listed. Presentations will cover topics including serverless bots, Power Apps and Flow, the Bot Service, Network Watcher, and DocumentDB. Other presentations will discuss DocumentDB, hybrid integration options, Azure Traffic Manager, protecting Azure environments with f5, and new APIs including Face API, Vision API, Content Moderator, and Handwriting OCR. Brief descriptions are provided for some of the upcoming Azure services and features.

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
May 2017

3. sponsorship

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2017 Andrew Robinson Serverless Bots
February 2017 Martin Abbott (MVP), Jeff Hollan
(Microsoft)
Power Apps and Flow
March 2017 Dale Austin, Erik Jansen (Microsoft) Bot Service, Network Watcher, & DocumentDB
April 2017 Ed Smith (Megaport) Express Route for O365 (Microsoft Peering)
May 2017 Glenn Stephens (Microsoft) DocumentDB
June 2017 1. Ben Place (Mexia)
2. Dan Toomey (Mexia)
1. How to Effectively Tell Your Delivery Story
2. Options for Hybrid Integration
July 2017 Ido Katz (MVP) Azure Traffic Manager
August 2017 Mike Christie (f5 Networks) Protecting Your Azure Environment with f5
September 2017 TBA
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017

8. Face API, Vision API and Content Moderator
• Face API detects and compares human faces, groups according to visual similarity, and identifies previously tagged people
and their emotions in images
• Computer Vision API gives you the tools to understand the contents of any image. It creates tags that identify objects,
beings like celebrities, or actions in an image, and crafts coherent sentences to describe it.
• Content Moderator provides machine assisted moderation of text and images, augmented with human review tools.
• Handwriting OCR is also available in preview

9. management libraries for Java
• Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services
Management Libraries for .NET
• Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services.

10. Azure Analysis Services
• Azure Analysis Services is an enterprise grade OLAP engine and BI modeling platform
• create a semantic model over the raw data and share it with business users

11. CLI Shell – New commands
• Continuing on from the feb 27 GA there are now 4 new command sets
• Azure Container Registry, Batch, KeyVault, and SQL
• Scoping -> %% un-scope with ^^
• Examples -> [command] :: [example number]
• External cmd -> #[command]
• JSON -> ? [jmespath query]

12. Time Series Insights
• analytics, storage, and visualization service
• SQL-like filters and aggregates, ability to construct, visualize, compare, and overlay various time series patterns, heat
maps, and the ability to save and share queries.

13. Data driven troubleshooting of Azure Stream Analytics jobs
• easy isolation of issues to specific components and query steps using metrics on the state of the inputs, outputs

14. Azure Search - synonyms
• return results which match the query and also return results which match synonyms.
• same format used by Apache Solr’s SynonymFilterFactory
• Manually update synonym map.
Cloud Partner Portal: for single-virtual machine offers
• Org Id login support
• publishers don’t have to make all contributors co-admins giving them only the level of access needed.
Reader role and Invoice API
• Allowing additional users to download invoices

15. Azure Media Player v2.0
• Advertisement support
• new skin
• Accessibility improvements
Azure CDN
• enable and manage CDN for your Azure web app service or Azure storage account
Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers
Balance and Summary, Usage Details, Marketplace Store Charge, Price Sheet, Billing Periods.

16. More storage for Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database

17. More GPUs, more power, more intelligence

18. Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) nearing end-of-life
April 2017
Azure IoT Hub Server TLS Leaf certificate renewal
May 2017
As part of the periodic renewal cycle, the Azure IoT Hub leaf certificates used for TLS connection will be renewed starting
mid-May 2017. This could potentially impact some clients connecting to the Azure IoT Hub service.

20. Exploring Ways to Bring IT Together
Thursday, May 25, 2017
8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Novotel Brisbane
200 Creek Street, Brisbane
https://www.meetup.com/ManageEngine-IT-management-seminar/events/238642773/
Ram Vaidyanathan

22. 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

27. Getting Started with DocumentDB
Glenn Stephens
This session will introduce you to the basics of using DocumentDB,
and some of the considerations when using it in a Web or Mobile app.