Microsoft Azure News - 2018 August
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The document provides information about upcoming presentations for the Brisbane Azure User Group (BAUG) meeting in August 2018. It includes: 1) Details on the August presentation by Dan Toomey on serverless and serverful integration. 2) Announcements of new features from Microsoft Azure in August including user behavior analytics tools in Application Insights and general availability of services like Azure File Sync and Management Groups. 3) Information about job opportunities at Mexia and upcoming events like APIDays and DDD Melbourne.
Microsoft Azure News - 2018 August
- 2. Microsoft Azure News August 2018
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- 5. Upcoming Presentations Month Presenter(s) Topic January 2018 Adam Stephenson Make your life easier - Build a dev-bot ! February 2018 David O'Brien (MVP) Containers on Windows Nanoserver March 2018 Microsoft Brisbane CSAs Assorted Topics April 2018 Dan Dekel Azure Deployment Slots and How to Use Them May 2018 Glenn Stephens Improving your Apps decisions w/Azure Cognitive Services June 2018 JiaJi Chen Azure Bot Services July 2018 Andrew Cartwright Welcome to Azure Service Fabric, Be Our Guest August 2018 Dan Toomey A 360 View of Serverless (and Serverful!) Integration *September 2018 Shahid Iqbal (MVP) Kubernetes, Azure and .NET - What's it all about? October 2018 TBA TBA November 2018 TBA TBA December 2018 Various UNCONVENTION 2018.1 Got Topic? Send message on Meetup or email [email protected] *Monday 24th September – Unusual night!
- 7. Looking for a NEW ADVENTURE?!! Mexia is continually on the lookout for great talent! Key skills & roles we look for: o .NET Developers o Integration Analysts o Enterprise Developers o Microsoft Azure o Agile Project Management o Microsoft Certification Our focus on people and culture has won us the #8 Great Places to Work for SME in Australia, 2017. We refer to our people as Unicorns because they are rare, hard to find, unique, and loved by everyone! Current range of exciting opportunities! Head to Mexia Careers: mexia.com.au/careers
- 9. App Insights user behaviour analytics tools Six major new tools and integrations including User Flows, Funnels, Impact, user and session timelines, Visual Studio App Centre integration, and Cohorts. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/general-availability-of-user-behavior-analytics-tools-in-azure-application-insights/
- 10. Azure File Sync - (GA) Azure File Sync replicates files from your on-premises Windows Server to an Azure file share. Centralize your file services in Azure while maintaining local access to your data. GA Improvements • Sync and cloud tiering performance, scale, and reliability improvements. • Enhanced Azure File Sync portal experience. • Holistic disaster recovery through integration with geo-redundant storage (GRS). https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/score-one-for-the-it-pro-azure-file-sync-is-now-generally-available/
- 11. Azure Management groups - (GA) All subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the controls applied to the management group. Apply a policy or RBAC to multiple subscriptions, and their resources, with one assignment. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-management-groups-now-in-general-availability/
- 12. Virtual WAN– (preview) SDWAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) can improve performance by using path selection polices at the branch offices to send Internet-bound traffic directly to the cloud. Virtual WAN provides a better networking experience by taking advantage of Microsoft’s global network. Branches enters Microsoft’s network at the Microsoft edge site closest to a given branch office currently over 130 edge sites globally. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-azure-virtual-wan-and-azure-firewall/
- 13. Azure NetApp files – ONTAP – (preview) Rich data management: Azure NetApp Files will support multiple protocols, protocol versions, and performance tiers, as well as offer built-in policy-based snapshot functionality, reducing the need for separate data protection solutions. Security: All data in volumes is automatically encrypted at rest and will benefit from Azure’s industry-leading compliance portfolio. Ease of use: Azure NetApp Files is a fully integrated and managed Azure service, accessible through the Azure portal and manageable through Azure SDKs and command-line tools. It eliminates the provisioning and management overhead that is required for on-premises storage and empowers users without storage expertise to leverage NetApp’s powerful ONTAP technology. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-netapp-files-now-in-public-preview/
- 14. Service Fabric Mesh – (preview) Containerized applications without having to manage VMs, storage or networking configuration. (declaratively defined in ARM like template) Supports both Windows and Linux containers. Service Fabric Mesh takes care of the rest, including maintaining availability in the presence of failures (hardware or software), service discovery, scaling, the ability to perform no-downtime upgrades, and more. Azure Friday https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-Service-Fabric-Mesh-preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-service-fabric-mesh-is-now-in-public-preview/
- 15. IoT Hub manual failover feature – (preview) Allows failover an IoT hub instance from its primary region to its geo-paired region. The IoT Hub service provides cross regional automatic disaster recovery as a default mitigation for such failures. The recovery time objective for this recovery process is 2 – 26 hours. IoT solutions which cannot afford to be down for so long, can now use the IoT Hub manual failover feature to failover their IoT hubs from one region to another in a self-serve manner. The recovery time objective for IoT Hub manual failover is 10 min – 2 hours. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-azure-iot-hub-manual-failover-feature/
- 21. New Azure Australia Slack Team! http://bit.ly/az-aus-slack
- 22. BAUG You-Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXg1EGqKoX4Gg9g9_KSgtw/videos PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!
- 23. BAUG You-Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXg1EGqKoX4Gg9g9_KSgtw/videos PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!
- 24. 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. Dan Toomey A 360 View of Serverless (and Serverful!) Integration
Editor's Notes
- #8: Looking for a Consultant / Associate Consultant in Brisbane
- #19: Agenda to be announced this Saturday (11 Aug)
- #23: We need at least 100 subscribers to get a custom URL!
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- #25: Microsoft Virtual Academy
- #28: Jia Ji Chen is a senior consultant for Avanade. He is very passionate about innovation.