The document is the September 2019 newsletter for the Brisbane Azure User Group. It provides information on upcoming presentations for their monthly meetups, including presentations on Azure optimizations, ethics in AI, governance and compliance in Azure, and patterns for cloud native applications. It also announces new cloud regions in Switzerland, 31 new Azure edge sites, and new capabilities in Azure Policy, IoT Plug and Play, Python support in Azure Functions, and single click remediation in Azure Security Center.

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
September 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 Sonia Cuff Governance & Compliance in Azure
September 2019 Todd Whitehead Azure, DevOps and the Commodore 64
October 2019 Namit Bhandari
Adam Stephensen
RPA and UiPath Azure Automation
Safer, Faster, Smarter - Simple patterns for better cloud native applications
November 2019 David Alzamendi Storing Information in Azure, from A to Z
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. New cloud regions in Switzerland
Azure is now available from new cloud datacentre regions located near Zurich and Geneva.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/microsoft-azure-available-from-new-cloud-regions-in-switzerland/

8. Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
The addition of 31 new edge sites, bringing the total to over 150
across more than 50 countries.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/latency-is-the-new-currency-of-the-cloud-announcing-31-new-azure-edge-sites/

9. Custom content in Azure Policy Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/preview-of-custom-content-in-azure-policy-guest-configuration/
The guest configuration capability audits settings inside Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)
You can now author, test, and publish
content packages both
• developer workstation
• CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps.
Uses
• DSC (Desired State Configuration)
• Chef InSpec

10. IoT Plug and Play Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/iot-plug-and-play-is-now-available-in-preview/
Azure IoT Central is a fully managed IoT Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that makes it easy to connect, monitor,
and manage your IoT devices and products. Azure IoT Central simplifies the initial setup of your IoT solution and cuts
the management burden, operational costs, and overhead of a typical IoT project. Azure IoT Central integration with
IoT Plug and Play takes this one step further by allowing solution developers to integrate devices without writing any
embedded code. IoT solution developers can choose devices from a large set of IoT Plug and Play certified devices to
quickly build and customize their IoT solutions end-to-end.

11. Python support in Azure Functions (GA)
You can now develop Python 3.6 apps to run on the cross-platform, open-source Functions 2.0 runtime. These
can be published as code or Docker containers to a Linux-based serverless hosting platform in Azure.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-python-support-in-azure-functions/

12. Security Centre single click remediation (GA)
You can look for the 1-click fix label
next to the recommendation
and click on the recommendation
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-security-center-single-click-remediation-and-azure-firewall-jit-support/

14. First Platform Engineers
meetup in Brisbane!
1 October 2019, Deloitte
MICROSERVICES
ORCHESTRATION
#PEtechtalk

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

19. BAUG You-Tube Channel
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http://bit.ly/BAUGYouTubeChannel

20. BAUG You-Tube Channel
http://bit.ly/BAUGYouTubeChannel
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21. 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

24. Azure, DevOps and the Commodore 64
Todd Whitehead is a Cloud Solution Architect in the Microsoft Enterprise
and Partner Group, focusing on helping customers to design and
implement world class cloud solutions on Azure. He has delivered
successful projects in diverse environments from complex Enterprise IT
projects to born in the cloud startups.
Todd Whitehead