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Microsoft Azure NewsApril 2016

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Upcoming PresentationsMonth 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

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updates

General Availability 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.

General Availability 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

Public Preview4 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 ServiceRESTful endpoint that allows virtual machines instances to get information regarding its compute, network and upcoming maintenance events.

Announcements 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.

events

SAT APR 22 Brisbane Global Azure Bootcamphttp://brisbane.azurebootcamp.netSOLD OUT!

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

resources

On Demand Training - Updatesmva.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

• Azure Blog:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

• Scott Gu’s Blog:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu

• Scott Hanselman’s Blog:http://www.hanselman.com/

Blogs

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Pluralsight

tonight

The ExpressRoute to Azure & O365

Ed Smith | MegaportThis session will talk about options for Express Route Connectivity to access Azure and O365 services