Monthly Azure news roundup as delivered to the Brisbane Azure User Group by Damien Berry

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
September 2016

3. sponsorship

4. sponsorship

6. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
May 2016 Matt Simpson & Ed Smith (MegaPort) ExpressRoute and Office365
June 2016 BAUG Un-convention 2016.1
1. Mateusz Ligeza
2. Todd Whitehead
3. Adam Finster
4. Dan Toomey
1. Sandra.Snow & Azure Websites
2. Azure Cool Storage
3. Microsoft Cognitive Services
4. Microsoft Flow
July 2016 Paul Seymour / Peter McCloy
(Patient Zero)
Internet of (Smelly) Things:
Discoveries from the “Skunk Lab”
August 2016 Bill Chesnut (MVP / SixPivot) API Management & Hybrid Integration
September 2016 Dan Dekel (Patient Zero) Azure Functions
October 2016 Matt Moore (Brocade) The Art of Performance
November 2016 Todd Whitehead Operationalizing Azure: How I learned to Stop
Worrying and Love Governance
December 2016 (Various) Unconvention Night

8. http://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/messages/boards/thread/49963628

11. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (most regions)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available in additional regions
—North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, and Australia Southeast.
New Azure SQL Database Premium performance level, P15
• P15 offers 4000 Database Transaction Units (DTUs)
Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL and Data Warehouse
• (Azure AD) authentication to manage the identities of database users
JSON support generally available in Azure SQL Database
• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database

12. Operations Management Suite Security generally available
• View the overall security status of your entire IT environment.
• Combine log event data, threat intelligence, and Microsoft security expertise to detect security threats to your hybrid
cloud environment sooner.
• Contain and remediate threats
• Take advantage of the low-cost data storage
• Streamline security and compliance audits with a searchable, complete, and accessible data set.
• New Azure Machine Learning web services available

13. Azure Active Directory B2C
• sign in to applications through fully customizable experiences, using their existing social accounts
Microsoft Authenticator
• new mobile application that will replace Azure Authenticator
• register device with their company’s Azure Active Directory to have single signon
Azure Active conditional access
• let you apply access rules to any Azure AD-connected application such as Office 365, Salesforce.com, Box, ServiceNow,
and other SaaS, custom, or on-premises web applications.
• Policy driven
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• blocking access outside of the corporate network

14. Apple FairPlay Streaming for Azure Media Services
• extend your reach to the newest version of Apple TV
Azure Media Services now available in the Azure portal
• Azure Media Services functionalities are now available through the new Azure portal.
• Azure Media Services resources can now be created and managed programmatically using APIs provided by the Media
Services Resource Provider. The APIs are available through Azure Resource Manager REST API endpoints.

15. Logic Apps feature of Azure App Service
• The Logic Apps feature of Azure App Service lets you build powerful integration solutions quickly
Azure Service Bus Premium tier
• 99.9 percent service level agreement (SLA).
• increases message size to 1 MB
• Southeast Asia, East Asia, West Europe, North Europe, Central US, West US, and East US.

16. N-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines
• Fastest GPUs in the public cloud
• Enabled with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPUs
• The preview starts in the South Central US region
Computer Vision API and Academic Knowledge API
• Computer Vision API: OCR, Recognise celebrities and Create tags identifying objects, beings, or actions in the image.
• Academic Knowledge API: Interpret a natural language user query string. Get annotated interpretations to enable rich
search-box auto-completion experiences that anticipate what you’re typing.
Microsoft Stream
• upload, organize, and share videos across an entire company.
• Customizable privacy settings and encryption lets you limit access or share widely.

17. VNet Peering for Azure Virtual Network
• directly link two virtual networks in the same region
• Virtual machine resources in both virtual networks can connect directly through private IP addresses as if they were part
of the same network.
• Peering works across virtual networks in different subscriptions and between an ARM (V2) and ASM (V1) virtual network.
It does not work between two ASM virtual networks.
Computer Vision API and Academic Knowledge API
• Computer Vision API: OCR, Recognise celebrities and Create tags identifying objects, beings, or actions in the image.
• Academic Knowledge API: Interpret a natural language user query string. Get annotated interpretations to enable rich
search-box auto-completion experiences that anticipate what you’re typing.
Microsoft Stream
• upload, organize, and share videos across an entire company.
• Customizable privacy settings and encryption lets you limit access or share widely.

19. Innovation Days
Sydney: Saturday, 17th September
http://innovationdays.com.au/

20. Ignite 2016 (USA)

21. Ignite 2016 (New Zealand)

23. Date Topic Time
Wednesday 21 September 2016 Kick-off / Design and implement Web Apps 16:30 – 18:30
Wednesday 28 September 2016 Create and manage virtual machines 16:30 – 18:30
Wednesday 5 October 2016 Design and implement cloud services 16:30 – 18:30
Thursday 13 October 2016 Design and implement a storage strategy 16:30 – 18:30
Wednesday 19 October 2016 Break / self-study / Catchup Week
Wednesday 26 October 2016 Manage application and network services 16:30 – 18:30
Wednesday 2 November 2016 Hackathon 16:30 – 20:30
Thursday 10 November 2016 Final Review - Exam Prep Session 16:30 – 20:30
The aim is to work together to develop the necessary understanding and knowledge that will enable everyone to confidently
sit (and hopefully pass) the Microsoft 70-532 certification exam.
We will use the efforts of the study group participants and Microsoft SME’s to understand and discuss the required topics
below.
Location: Microsoft Brisbane – Level 28 – 400 George Street
towhit@microsoft.com
Do you want to increase your Azure knowledge, skills and experience? Let’s do it together!
Brisbane Study Group for Azure 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification

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

28. • Two per meeting given away
• Free for unemployed members

30. Azure Functions
Dan Dekel & Brendan Homann
Patient Zero