Microsoft Azure News - July 2024 -- BAUG

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

1. @ BrisbaneAzureUG meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group For those joining online – the presentations will commence shortly after 6pm QLD time

2. THIS EVENT IS BEING RECORDED Please be aware of the overhead mics!

3. Microsoft Azure News July 2024

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5. getting involved

6. Upcoming Presentations Month Presenter(s) Topic January 2024 Todd Whitehead Building your own copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio February 2024 Jia Ji Explore Azure Integration March 2024 Bernie White Everything you need to know about Bicep in 2024 April 2024 Todd Whitehead Dan Toomey Creating Chaos in Azure Copilot for Logic Apps? May 2024 Alastair Wilkinson IaC - An Intro to Azure Networking and Terraform June 2024 Me Getting your Blazor Out the Front Door with App Service July 2024 Bernie White Running with Azure Deployment Stacks August 2024 September 2024 Bronwen Zande From Dormant to Dynamic: Upcycling Documents with AI October 2024 November 2024 December 2024 Got Topic? Send message on Meetup or email [email protected]

7. job opportunities

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9. updates

10. Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (GA) The upgrade policies - Automatic, Manual and Rolling. Automatic upgrade policy No guarantees about the order of virtual machines being brought down. Manual upgrade policy You choose when to update the scale set instances. Rolling Upgrade Policy + MaxSurge more control over the upgrades with settings like batch size, max healthy percentage, prioritizing unhealthy instances. MaxSurge ensures your scale set does not see any reduced capacity during an upgrade. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-updates/week-of-june-20-2024-azure-updates/ba-p/4173016

11. Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium (preview) This feature ensures that the metadata and data of a namespace are continuously replicated from a primary region to a secondary region. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-updates/week-of-june-20-2024-azure-updates/ba-p/4173016

12. Azure Database for PostgreSQL (GA) Dynamically scale your IOPS Azure Advisor recommendations Recommendations to help improve performance, reliability, security, and cost effectiveness. Extension version sync using `ALTER EXTENSION <extension-name> UPDATE`, you can automatically upgrade the extension Online migration in migration service https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-updates/week-of-june-20-2024-azure-updates/ba-p/4173016

13. Azure Databricks serverless compute (GA) Streaming data pipelines Jobs Notebooks https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Databricks-Jobs-Serverless-Compute https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/interactive-serverless-compute-AU https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/DLT-Serverless-Compute

14. Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer (Preview) Cross-subscription load balancing enables the load balancers components to be located in different subscriptions. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/build-scalable-cross-subscription-applications-with-azure-load/ba-p/4167505

15. resources

16. Azure Australia Slack Team! http://bit.ly /azure-au-slack

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18. On Demand Training - Updates

19. Azure Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Scott Hanselman’s Blog: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-friday/ John Savill https://www.youtube.com/@NTFAQGuy Blogs

20. tonight

21. Running with Azure Deployment Stacks Bernie White Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, working with a diverse range of customers to build high quality distributed solutions using Azure. Bernie is also the inventor of a PSRule and PSDocs . In this session we'll introduce and demo a new way to manage your Azure Infrastructure as Code deployments and why this is a big leap forward on previous options.