This week in Azure - February 8, 2016
Platform updates
Monday
- We announced that the module gallery for Azure Automation is available and it helps you in importing modules from the PowerShell Gallery without leaving the Automation account
- Mingfei Yan announced that the Google Widevine license is generally available with Azure Media Service
- Joe Levy announced that PowerShell V5 is now supported in Azure Automation which gives you a lot of additional features like PowerShell classes, performance improvements and many more
- Giridhar Mosay announced that Azure Backup is now available in Azure Government which helps you and simplifies backup creation and management for IaaS VMs
Tuesday
- We announced that Azure automation has released updated versions of many Azure ARM modules
- We announced that Logic Apps now natively support triggering via WebHooks
- Manling Zhang announced that the Load feature is now available for Azure CDN which allows you to pre-cache files across al CDN POPs
Wednesday
- We announced that Azure IoT Hub has reached general availability which means you can you it in production environments with full support
- We announced that Azure Premium Storage has reached general availability in additional regions: Australia Southeast and East Asia
- We announced that Azure HDInsight can now be used on Dv2-Series instances which is the recommended way while D-Series instances are still available
Thursday
- We announced that the Azure SQL Database Query Performance Insight has reached general availability and it's a tool which helps you understand the impact of your query workload on database resource consumption
- We announced that the Node.js SDK for Azure Mobile Apps 2.0.0 has reached general availability
- We announced that our PHP versions: 5.4.45, 5.5.31, 5.6.17 where patched due to a security vulnerability in OpenSSL
From Community
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- Network multicast support on Azure from Pythina
- Microsoft Azure Stack is the New Hybrid Cloud from kloud
- Azure in CSP from Aidan Finn, IT Pro
- Azure Automation And SQL DB from Brent's Notepad
- Deploy a website to Azure using GitHub from Dave Voyles
- Connecting Application Insights to Slack from Peter Örneholm
Special thanks to Brent Stineman who has contributed to this section this week!
Customer Stories
- MSCOM (Professional Services from the USA) has connected their advertising data to their web data in Azure Data Lake
- Arca Continental (Retail and Consumer Goods from Mexico) uses Azure ML to generate answers for each individual area and get combined answers for the entire company
Events
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- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Azure Tour
- February 10th – Microsoft Azure User Group Poland – 4th Warsaw meeting
- February 10th - First after-work meeting for @AZUGFR in Paris
- March 9th – AzureDay Poland
- March 30th – BUILD 2016
- April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
- September 26 - Microsoft Ignite 2016
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