What’s Brewing ?

August 2015

Microsoft India Cloud Regions Private Preview

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• The India DCs are now in private preview.

• To participate and get access, contact your representative at

Microsoft!

Top Notch Cloud Management

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• Scalr’s Cloud Management Platform has added support

for Azure Virtual Machines.

• Enables to manage application development across

multiple hybrid clouds

• Automates deployment, monitoring and offers

governance and policy including compliance controls

Announcement

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Microsoft and Mesosphere are partnering to bring the Mesos’

highly scalable and elastic container orchestration to the

world by porting directly to Windows Server. Mesos on

Windows Server is an open source project and is part of the

core Apache Mesos.

Announcement

AzureCon – A Virtual Event

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We are excited to announce AzureCon, a virtual event on September

29. AzureCon is for the Azure community—developers and IT

professionals who want to learn about the latest Azure innovation and

understand how customers are using the platform to transform their

business

Architecture Blueprint

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The Azure team now has scenario based architecture diagrams

that help you build new solutions very fast!

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• Update your application before Oct 15th

Announcement

Announcing the Azure SDK 2.7.1 for .NET

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Announcement

• Improved support for Visual Studio 2013

• Improvements to the HDInsight tools for Visual Studio:.

• The Azure Resource Manager Tools.

• AZCopy 3.2.0 RTM:

Azure premium storage in new regions

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Announcement

• West US

• East US 2

• West Europe

• East China

• Southeast Asia

• Japan West

• Japan East

• Australia East

Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 Now Available

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• Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 takes advantage of the newest

open source Cloud Foundry technologies and builds on Bosh-Init

framework.

• Integrates with the latest Azure resource management framework,

supporting multiple Cloud Foundry VMs.

• Customers can deploy a standard Cloud Foundry infrastructure on

Azure using Bosh-Init.

Row-level-security RLS for SQL database is now generally available

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• RLS enables you to store data for many users in a single database

and table, while at the same time restricting row-level access based

on a user's identity, role, or execution context. RLS centralizes

access logic within the database itself, which simplifies and reduces

the risk of error in your application code.

General Availability

Azure Site Recovery new regions

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• Azure Site Recovery is

now available in Central

US, North Central US,

South Central US, East

US2

Announcement

Azure DocumentDB: JavaScript as Modern Day T-SQL

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DocumentDBs database engine is purposefully designed from the ground up to

provide first class support for JSON and JavaScript.

JavaScript developers can now build applications without having to deal with the

entity mappers, schemas, code generation tools, type adornments and other duct

tapes.

• Schema Agnostic Indexing.

• SQL query dialect rooted inside the JavaScript type system.

• JavaScript Language Integrated Transactions & Queries

Announcement

Azure DocumentDB: GeoSpatial support .Net SDK v1.4.0

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• Query Geospatial data with SQL

• New types for representing points and polygons

• Support for creating and enabling spatial indexing on

DocumentDB collections

• New LINQ query operators for performing spatial queries

Announcement

Azure Data Factory

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• A Visual Studio plug-in for authoring and deployment now

included in the Azure SDK

• Improved monitoring and data lineage network visualization

• Integration with Azure Machine Learning and Azure Batch

• Enhanced cloud resource management capabilities

• Connectors for several common on-premises and cloud data stores

• Globally deployed data movement as a service

General Availability

Azure HDInsightNow available in the Azure Preview Portal

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• Gain access to the Azure Resource Manager in the preview portal.

• Cluster identification changes

• Clusters created with the new tools are now identified ARM clusters

• Clusters created with older tools are now identified as ASM clusters

• New default sizes for Azure Resource Manager framework (ARM) clusters in

the Preview Portal

Announcement

Azure Files

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• New set of REST API features

• Server Side Copy File

• File SAS

• Share Size Quota

• Get/Set Directory Metadata

• CORS support

Preview update

Azure StorageAppend Blob, Client-side Encryption

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• Append Blob with a new AppendBlock API

• Azure File Service

• Client-Side Encryption

• Azure Storage Client Library and Tooling Updates

General Availability

Azure BackupBackup of Windows 10 machines using Azure Backup

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• Granular backup of the files and/or folders from your machines to Azure

• Customizable backup schedules with backups happening as frequently as three times a day.

• Efficient utilization of bandwidth by transferring incremental backup copies, a.k.a- transferring only

changed data from previous backup point.

• Encryption of data even before it leaves your machine boundary.

• Retain the backup copies at Azure for almost 99 years.

• Easily browse files and folders of the backup copies at Azure and restore only the desired files.

• Restore files from backup copies at Azure to any other machines seamlessly.

• Monitor all the above activities like scheduling backup times, backup and recovery jobs in a familiar

MMC console as shown below.

Azure Backup update – New features in IaaS VM backup support

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Announcement

• Improved data disk limit on backup virtual machines

• Support for long-term retention

• Enhanced monitoring and reporting

• Addition of powerful choices like Offline VM, Cancel Job, Built-in Back-up,

restore to storage account of choice.

• Enables backup of large volumes, VMs, databases - increased the size of

datasources that can be protected to 54400 GB from 1700 GB.

New CDN features

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• Country filtering - restrict access to your content by country

• Compression - improves file transfer speed and thus increases

page load performance. This feature allows you to enable

compression for specific file types, directly from the CDN.

• Analytics - Basic analytics such as bandwidth, hits, cache hit ratio,

etc. are now available to help you view usage patterns

General Availability

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Announcement

• Content Protection

• Support for more entities/operations

• Easily configure AES and PlayReady dynamic encryption for VOD or Live

with Java SDK

Azure media service Java SDK – Major Update

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Announcement

• Azure Media Player 1.3.0 now supports seamless same codec audio

switching on the AzureHtml5JS and FlashSS techs!

Azure Media Player update with multi-audio stream support

Azure Mobile Apps

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• Mobile capabilities like push, mobile authentication, and offline

sync, which customers can now add to any App Service app.

• Continuous Web and Mobile experience.

• Simplified “Create a Mobile App” – easily add database, notification

hub, or authentication features

Feature Update

Remote profiling of Azure App Service

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Azure Web Apps, API Apps and WebJobs can now be remotely profiled. Slow

running processes, latency of HTTP requests, high CPU usage can now be

remotely profiled.

There are three ways to profile a process in Azure App Service:

• Using Visual Studio 2015

• Browsing the Azure App Service's Site Control Management dashboard (aka

kudu)

• Using REST APIs

Feature Update

App Services Updates

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• Continuous deployment support for repositories hosted on GitHub has been

enabled in the Azure Preview Portal

• .NET Framework 4.6 has been rolled out to Azure App Service. So Web App

developers can now build and deploy ASP.NET applications running .NET

Framework 4.6 to Azure Web Apps.

Feature Update

Updates available at http://azure.microsoft.com

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/