This week in Azure - February 29, 2016

Platform Updates

Monday

• We announced a preview of temporal tables in Azure SQL Database which allows you to track the full history of changes.

Wednesday

• We announced that Azure Automation will retire from the classic portal in early March 2016
• Jeff Hollan announced an improved designer, managed APIs connections and native webhook support for Azure Logic Apps
• James Osborne announced the Visual Studio Connected Service for Azure IoT Hub extension for Visual Studio
• Andrew Hoh announced filtering in document explorer and executing stored procedures from the Azure Portal for DocumentDB

Thursday

• Sarah Fender announced many new thigs in Azure Security Center which includes: new integrated partners, advanced threat detection capabilities, centralized security management
• Mike Gresley announced the availability of PowerShell scripts which help you create release annotations in Application Insights
• Thomas Shinder announced an update to the Microsoft Cloud Red Team White Paper

From Community

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• Using Azure Container Service (ACS) on Azure from Simplifying Azure
• Retrieving Resource Metrics via the Azure Insights API from Cloud Solution Architect
• Azure Automation Runbooks with Azure AD Service Principals and Custom RBAC Roles from kloud
• Azure Site Recovery for VMare - Current State from operationsmanagementsuite.org
• My Early Experience With Azure Backup Server from Aidan Finn, IT Pro
• Retrieving Resource Metrics and Creating Alert Rules via Azure PowerShell from Cloud Solution Architect
• Add Azure ARM Virtual Machine to OMS With VM Extension Through Powershell from  operationsmanagementsuite.org

Customer Stories

• Ocean Informatics (Professional Services from Australia) has found that Azure offers flexibility, especially for training, Disaster Recovery, and testing environment.
• TeamViewer (Professional Services from Germany) has chosen Microsoft Azure as standard cloud platform throughout the company.
• Saab (Discrete Manufacturing from Sweden) turns to Azure to ensure rapid deployment of its SAFE security platform to protect customer data.
• GE Healthcare (Health from the United Kingdom) has decided to deploy multiple applications on Microsoft Azure.
• Otsuka Corporation (IT Services from Japan)  has incorporated licensing for Azure, and Azure customers can take advantage of pay-as-you-go billing.
• Khara (Anime Production Studio from Japan) has solved their website infrastructure concerns with Microsoft Azure.
• Wijkracht (Health from Netherlands) has chosen Azure Active Directory to connect better with the community.
• Codit  (Professional Services from Belgium) stores about 100 gigabytes of data in Azure.

Events

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• Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
• Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Azure Tour  
• March 9th – AzureDay Poland
• March 30th –  BUILD 2016
• April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
• September 26 – Microsoft Ignite 2016

Tomek & Mirek

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