Meetup slides for the Melbourne Azure Nights User Group - July 2017 Azure News. find us on http://www.azurenights.com

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2. Todays Topic:
Building Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services
Lace Lofranco – Empired Ltd
• House keeping
• The News
• Todays Breakout Session:
AGENDA

3. MEET THE TEAM
Michael Frank Lace Lofranco Adam Simmonds Janaka Rangama

4. The News

5. • Microsoft 365
• Windows 10, Office 365 and EMS bundled together
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/default.aspx
• Preview of Azure Service Health.
• New personalized service health dashboard in the Azure portal.
• Provides guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you.
• helps you prepare for upcoming changes and maintenance scheduled for your Azure resources.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-service-health-preview
• FastTrack will expand to Azure with FastTrack for Azure Preview (August 1):
• Located in the United States, Canada, or Australia (available only in English)
• Have an Azure project of USD $60,000 or more per year, or equivalent in local currency
• Not an HiPo account
• Need to setup, configure, build, and deploy one of the FastTrack supported Azure solutions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/fasttrack-for-azure/
NEWS GENERAL

6. • Azure Site Recovery updates:
• now supports Managed Disks
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/managed-disks-with-azure-site-recovery
• now supports applications on Ubuntu Server 14.04
Disaster recovery and migration to Azure for servers running Ubuntu on Azure virtual machines or in a VMware virtualized
environment.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/business-continuity-for-ubuntu-workloads-with-asr
• is extending disk size support, configuration options, and Linux OS support.
ASR now support the migration and failover of virtual machines with disk sizes up to 4-TB.
https://azure.microsoft.com/roadmap/azure-site-recovery-extends-disk-configuration-and-linux-support
• Preview of Azure Backup Reports using Power BI.
• Azure Backup Reports provide the ability to gauge backup health, view restore trends, and understand storage usage
patterns across subscriptions and across vaults.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-reports
NEWS IT PRO

7. • Two new features in Azure Traffic Manager are now generally available.
• Fast Failover: You can choose to have faster redirection of your users away from an endpoint that has become unhealthy.
• TCP Probing: You can choose to have Azure Traffic Manager determine your endpoints’ health by listening to responses for a
TCP connection request. You can then add to Traffic Manager profiles those endpoints that do not have the ability to respond
to HTTP health checks, such as back-end databases.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/aztmfftcp
• Bright Computing, has just announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0.
• This new version gives customers the ability to extend an on-premises cluster into Azure for added capacity, or to easily build
a cluster entirely in Azure.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bright-computing-integrates-azure-hpc
NEWS IT PRO

8. • The "Secure transfer required" feature in Azure Storage account.
• enhances the security of storage accounts
• enforcing all requests to your account through a secure connection
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/secure-transfer-required-is-available-in-azure-storage-account
• Introducing Log Analytics Service Map Machine Groups.
• create a single map of all the servers in your service to give you a holistic view of your business
service from end to end across multiple tiers.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2017/06/16/service-map-machine-groups
NEWS IT PRO

9. • Azure Service Fabric
• SDK 2.6.220 and Runtime 5.6.220 now available - Link
• Improvements to DNS service and integration with host OS DNS cache
• Fixes for replication and resource governance
• Also Standalone for Windows Server available
• Rollup of previous fixes and releases for SDK and Runtime
• Now able to add and remove nodes using PowerShell
• Reliability level configuration – Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum
• Ability to enable Repair Manager and DNS Service features for your cluster
• Linux SDK Preview 0.9.0.0 now available with Linux Runtime 5.6.3.6 - Link
• Container enhancements and container diagnostics
• Eclipse plugin enhancements
• Jenkins CI/CD plugin for Service Fabric
• Azure Management v1.1 Libraries for Java released, now supports: - Link
• Cosmos DB
• Azure Container Service and Registry
• Active Directory Graph
NEWS DEV

10. • Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication support in Azure Media Services.
• Customers of our REST API and .NET client libraries can now use AAD authentication to authorize requests.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-media-service-aad-auth-and-acs-deprecation
• Note: MS strongly recommend that you update your code and migrate from ACS to AAD-based authentication by June 22,
2018. There will be an upcoming announced deprecation of the ACS key based authentication system soon.
• Geo-replication for Azure Redis service preview:
• Geo-replication gives you the ability to link Redis caches across different Azure regions to form a primary-replica relationship.
Note that premium sku is required. At present, only one primary cache and one replica in a geo-redundant configuration is
supported
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-redis-cache-geo-replication-in-public-preview/
• Azure Event Hubs Capture GA
• This capability adds an important dimension to Azure Event Hubs, which is a highly scalable data streaming platform and
event ingestion service capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second. Event Hubs Archive makes it easy
to send this data to persistent storage without using code or configuring other compute services. You can currently use it to
push data directly from Event Hubs to Azure Storage as blobs. In the near future, MS will also support Azure Data Lake Store.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/event-hubs-capture-formally-archive-is-now-generally-available
NEWS DEV

11. • Announcing public preview of Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed disks.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-apache-kafka-on-hdinsight-with-azure-managed-disks
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports an IDENTITY column property as well as SET
IDENTITY_INSERT syntax and generating IDENTITY on load. In data warehousing, IDENTITY functionality
is particularly important as it makes easier the creation of surrogate keys.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/identity-now-available-with-azure-sql-data-warehouse
• Text analytics API allows you to analyse the sentiment of your text in 12 new languages.
• You’re now able to get a more complete view of your customer’s voice with an understanding of how your customers feel about your product
or service, an international event, or news topic.
• Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/text-analytics-api-sentiment-16-languages/
• Graph support for Azure SQL Database
• Graph databases help by introducing simple constructs of nodes and relationships into linked structures for sophisticated modelling. Azure SQL
Database now offers fully integrated graph extensions, so users will be able to define graph schema with graph objects.
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/graph-support-for-azure-sql-database
NEWS AI AND BIG DATA

12. Australian User Group Calendar: http://www.msozevents.com
Digital Workplace Conference 23-24 August, Sydney
Microsoft Ignite 25-29 September, Orlando
Microsoft Summit 14-17 November, Sydney
New MS Community Portal: https://clzinvite.kickoffpages.com/?kid=G6B8P
UPCOMING EVENTS

13. Roadmap:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/roadmap/
Blogs:
http://www.azurenights.com
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog
http://blog.azure.com
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
http://www.hanselman.com/blog
http://www.azurefieldnotes.com
http://www.empired.com/blog
Virtual Academy:
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
Yammer:
http://www.yammer.com/ITProNetwork
Current and historic issues:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history
ARM Templates:
http://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell
http://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Podcasts:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday
http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover
http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com
KEEPING UP TO DATE

14. Our Sponsors:
Next Meetup:
Azure Site Recovery ❤ Business Continuity
August 9th, Location to be confirmed
Ways to reach us:
Melbourne@AzureNights.com
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15. BREAK OUT SESSION
Building Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework
and Cognitive Services
Lace Lofranco – Empired Ltd