Microsoft Azure - News & Updates - March 2018



Microsoft Azure news, updates and announcements (203 entries) for March 2018:

Application Development:

30 - Essential tools and services for building mobile apps
30 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.30
29 - Create Service Fabric Clusters from Visual Studio now available
28 - API Management - Release notes – March 28, 2018
28 - API Management - Important changes to OpenAPI import and export
28 - Azure SDK for Go v15 is available
28 - Announcing the Availability of Azure Functions in National Clouds
28 - TFS 2018 Update 2 RC1
28 - Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD
28 - What’s new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update
27 - Get Community driven Docker images for Web app for Containers
27 - Deployment Groups and build completion trigger – VSTS Sprint 132 Update
26 - VSTS - Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more…
25 - Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki
23 - Azure App Service - Renaming our “new” command to “up”
23 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.23
22 - App Service BizTalk Hybrid Connections: end of life on May 31, 2018
21 - BizTalk Hybrid Connections going end of life May 31, 2018
21 - TFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018
21 - Build your next iOS and Android game with $2,500+ of gaming services
20 - Azure Redis Cache feature updates
20 - Deploying WordPress Application using Visual Studio Team Services and Azure – Part two
20 - Service Fabric Customer Profile: Honeywell
19 - Deprecating Service Management API support for Azure App Service
19 - Simplified process for creating secure Service Fabric clusters
19 - Text Recognition for Video in Microsoft Video Indexer
19 - Serverless computing recipes for your cloud applications
17 - Open Source Weekly: Azure Service Fabric goes open source, new Open Source Show, and more
16 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.16
15 - GVFS for Mac
14 - API Management - Release Notes – March 14, 2018
14 - Updating PHP to latest versions
14 - App Service updating PHP to latest versions
14 - Service Fabric is going open source
14 - Xamarin Joins docs.microsoft.com
13 - Service Fabric 6.1 Refresh Two coming up
12 - Deprecating Service Management APIs support for Azure App Services
12 - Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update One Released
12 - How VSTS is Accelerating the Engineering Group Behind Windows
09 - Top stories from the VSTS community–2018.03.09
09 - Open Source Weekly: VSCode Python updates, Helm Summit learnings, and more
08 - How to Contribute to Git (on Windows)
07 - DevOps for IoT with Win10 IoT Core, UWP, and VSTS
07 - Public preview: Java support for App Service on Linux
07 - Public preview of Java on App Service, built-in support for Tomcat and OpenJDK
07 - Build Spring Boot 2.0 apps with Azure Starters and new VSCode extensions
06 - What we learned at the first Helm Summit
06 - New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 6
05 - Major Version Updates to Node and PHP on App Service on Linux
05 - Major version updates for App Service on Linux
05 - New app usage monitoring capabilities in Application Insights
05 - What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: March 2018 Digest
05 - Work Items hub and VM-based Azure DevOps Project – VSTS Sprint 131 Update
02 - VSTS - A good incident postmortem
02 - In preview - Azure Functions support for Microsoft Graph bindings and custom bindings
02 - Security updates for TFS 2015 Update 4, TFS 2017, and TFS 2017 Update 3
02 - Top stories from the VSTS community–2018.03.02
02 - TCP Connections added to App Service diagnostics
01 - API Management launches Public Preview in China
01 - Deep Dive into TCP Connections in App Service Diagnostics
01 - @CurrentIteration, Team Parameter, Offset

Data Platform & AI:

29 - How to get support for Azure IoT SDK
29 - March update for Azure IoT Edge
28 - Using artificial intelligence to analyze roads
28 - Public preview: Event Hubs for Go
28 - How Catania secures public data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
27 - Azure SQL Data Warehouse now generally available in all Azure regions worldwide
27 - Preview: SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption with Azure Key Vault configuration checklist
26 - Implementation patterns for big data and data warehouse on Azure
24 - Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more
23 - Azure Data Factory supports Azure AD authentication
23 - Now available - Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now generally available
22 - Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark™
22 - Azure Event Hubs integration with Apache Spark now generally available
22 - Unlock your data’s potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Databricks
21 - Columnstore support in Standard tier Azure SQL Databases
21 - Name changes: Azure Database for MySQL
21 - Name changes: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
21 - Name changes: Microsoft IoT Central
20 - Announcing general availability of Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
20 - Compliance offerings for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
20 - Securing Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
19 - Modernize index maintenance with Resumable Online Index Rebuild
19 - ClearDB removal from the Azure Marketplace
15 - Power BI Embedded mobile layout support
15 - OData and SharePoint Online data sources supported in Power BI Embedded
15 - Phased loading of embedded content in Power BI Embedded
15 - Power BI Embedded capacity APIs
15 - Power BI Embedded custom layout
15 - Power BI Embedded Query Parameters API
15 - Power BI Embedded single-visual embedding
15 - Power BI Embedded tile embedding enhancements
15 - Power BI Embedded Update Report API
15 - Power BI Embedded APIs for visual-level filters
14 - General availability: Power BI Embedded in Microsoft Azure Germany
14 - Power BI Embedded supports row-level security for tiles and dashboards
13 - General availability: Power BI Embedded in Microsoft Azure Government Cloud
13 - PowerBI Embedded - Azure Resource Manager API is available
12 - General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
09 - In preview - Azure SQL Database information protection
09 - In preview - Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
09 - In preview - Azure SQL Database—Zone redundant premium databases and elastic pools
09 - Now available - Higher database eDTU limits for standard elastic pools in Azure SQL Database
08 - Azure Database Migration Service: March update
08 - A digital transformation Journey featuring Contoso Manufacturing and Azure IoT
07 - Making Azure the best place for all your applications and data
07 - Microsoft and Esri launch Geospatial AI on Azure
07 - Azure SQL Database now offers zone redundant Premium databases and elastic pools
07 - Introducing SQL Information Protection for Azure SQL Database and on-premises SQL Server!
07 - Migrate your databases to a fully managed service with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
05 - Azure Data Lake tools for VS Code now supports job view and job monitoring
02 - In preview - Azure Function on IoT Edge
02 - February update for Azure IoT Edge
02 - Updates to Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
01 - Announcing new milestones for Microsoft Cognitive Services vision and search services in Azure
01 - Azure Data Lake launches in the West Europe region

Infrastructure:

30 - General availability: Zone-redundant storage
30 - General availability: Azure Availability Zones in select regions
30 - Azure Availability Zones now available for the most comprehensive resiliency strategy
30 - BigDL Spark deep learning library VM now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
30 - General availability: Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor in all public regions
30 - General availability: Global VNet Peering
27 - Announcing the general availability of Azure Files share snapshot
27 - Azure Monitor–General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
27 - Public preview: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
27 - Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview
27 - The new Azure Load Balancer – 10x scale increase
26 - Announcing Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts today
26 - Support for tags in cost management APIs is now available
26 - Public preview: Virtual machine serial console
26 - Virtual Machine Serial Console access
23 - General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
23 - Azure DNS Private Zones now available in public preview
22 - General availability: Disable BGP route propagation for virtual network routes
22 - General availability: Standard Load Balancer
22 - Announcing Terraform availability in the Azure Marketplace
21 - The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived
20 - Public preview: Azure DNS Private Zones
19 - Improved multi-member Blockchain networks now available on Azure
19 - Global performance acceleration with Azure Traffic Manager
19 - Public preview: Low-priority VMs on virtual machine scale sets
16 - General availability: Support for large disk backup and improvements for backup/restore
16 - Azure Backup is now available in France
14 - Instance Metadata Service includes support for zones and virtual machine scale sets
13 - Azure Monitor metrics integration
13 - Announcing backup and restore performance improvements and support for large disk backup
12 - Azure Batch for oil and gas
12 - New isolated VM sizes now available
09 - Now available - Azure Migrate
08 - Get Reserved Instance purchase recommendations based on usage pattern
08 - Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation now generally available
07 - Faster Metric Alerts for Logs now in limited public preview
07 - Just-in-Time VM Access is generally available
06 - Name changes: Virtual Machines B-series US Gov
06 - NCv3 VMs generally available, other GPUs expanding regions

Security:

30 - General availability: Application security groups in all Azure regions
29 - Secure your backups, not just your data!
19 - Azure Security Center and discovery of partner solutions
14 - Azure AD Expiration Policy for Office 365 Groups is Generally Available
13 - Heuristic DNS detections in Azure Security Center
08 - Azure’s layered approach to physical security
07 - Announcing Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys general availability
07 - EMS news roundup: February 2018
06 - Visibility into network activity with Traffic Analytics - now in public preview
05 - Microsoft releases automation for HIPAA/HITRUST compliance
02 - Latest SAML Vulnerability : Not present in Azure AD and ADFS
01 - Reducing the latency of permissions inherited through AAD Group memberships
01 - Introducing Azure Advanced Threat Protection

General:

29 - Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge
27 - Five steps to improving the performance your webinars – PART 2 OF 2
26 - Azure.Source - Volume 24
26 - #GlobalAzure Bootcamp 2018
26 - Learn from experts and play with emerging tech at Microsoft Build
23 - Now available - Azure France Central and France South regions now generally available
22 - Join Microsoft at the GPU Technology Conference
22 - Future Now! The incredible AI opportunity for the Canadian Ecosystem
20 - 7 month retirement notice: Access Control Service
20 - How to get more leads and close deals faster with Microsoft’s Marketplaces
20 - Microsoft creates industry standards for datacenter hardware storage and security
20 - Happy 1st Birthday to Microsoft Teams
20 - Project Denali to define flexible SSDs for cloud-scale applications
20 - SONiC, the network innovation powerhouse behind Azure
19 - Last week in Azure #23: Week of March 12
19 - Azure portal updates: March 2018
14 - Microsoft and 21Vianet reinforce long-term cooperation on cloud services in China
14 - Calling all Marketers
14 - New offers in Azure Marketplace – February 2018
13 - Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide – free download
13 - Four IT skills with sky-high prospects
12 - Azure cloud data and AI services training roundup
12 - Five webinars to catch you up on hybrid cloud
12 - Last Week in Azure #22: Week of March 5
12 - New machine-assisted text classification on Content Moderator now in public preview
12 - Microsoft and Azure at the Game Developers Conference
12 - Top training and upcoming events for Partners
08 - Join Microsoft at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe
08 - Join Microsoft at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference
08 - 4 Top Dynamics 365 Events You Don’t Want to Miss
06 - Azure Marketplace third-party reseller services now use Azure monetary commitment
05 - Azure Government – technology innovation shaping the future
05 - Gartner reaffirms Microsoft as a leader in Data Management Solutions for Analytics
05 - Last week in Azure #21: Week of February 26
01 - Enable an open and flexible platform

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Flax Seed Powder: Benefits & Uses


The
health benefits of flax seeds powder and it's uses, also known as linseed.

  1. Flax seeds have been grown
    and cultivated for over 6000 years. They are one of the most ancient crops
    and have some wonderful health benefits for the human body.

  1. This is one of the most
    powerful plant foods on the planet as it is rich in nutrients which fight
    off disease.

  1. These small golden coloured
    seeds are the number one source of lignans in a human diet. Lignans are
    antioxidants which balance hormones throughout the body. 

  1. Many people eat flax seeds as
    they are a rich source of omega 3 fatty acids and B vitamins. These help
    your hair to grow by reducing dryness and a flaky scalp.

  1. Flax seeds can be ground to
    create flax seed powder. This is much better to consume, as your body can
    easily absorb its nutrients.

  1. The fibre in flax seed powder
    has been scientifically shown to reduce cholesterol, as it causes more fat
    to be excreted when you use the toilet.

The
soluble fibre also helps to trap bile forcing the body to produce more in the
gallbladder which breaks down fat.

  1. The power is often used by
    those with coeliac disease as it is completely gluten free, and has
    anti-inflammatory properties which is easy to digest for a sensitive
    stomach.

  1. Flax seed powder can be used
    as an alternative to flour in baking and works well when combined with
    coconut flour.

  1. Some companies cold press
    flax seeds to produce flax seed oil which also contains these health
    boosting properties.

  1. The lignans within the seeds
    also have anti-aging effects as they help cells to regenerate. This
    protects the body from degrading with age. 

  1. They also have the ability to
    regulate oestrogen levels in both men and women. This is excellent to
    protect women from certain types of cancer after menopause.

  1. Studies have also shown that
    flax seeds can reduce the risk of prostate, ovarian, breast and colon
    cancer due to their ability to regulate hormones and boost healthy
    bacteria in the digestive tract.

  1. Many menopausal women take
    flax seeds in their breakfast smoothies to help to calm hot flashes and
    night sweats. It also helps to regulate periods for younger women.

  1. Those who suffer with dry
    eyes benefit from consuming these seeds as they have eye lubricating
    effects.

  1. The essential fatty acids
    reduce blood clotting and triglycerides in the body. This helps to protect
    you heart from failure and heart disease.

  1. In order to consume flax
    seeds, it is important that they are ground, as the whole seeds may pass
    straight through the body due to their shells.  Use a pestle and mortar to achieve this.

  1. This powder can be thrown
    into delicious salads, stir fries, smoothies or soups in order to easily
    boost your intake.

  1. Sprouted Flax Seeds on the
    other hand contain even more health benefits than the dormant variety.
    Simply soak them in water and stir occasionally for 2-4 days. This
    activates the seeds and make them more nutritious.

  1. Other methods include
    consuming flax seed gel or flax seed oil. Please see our other videos to
    learn more about these, and other seeds, nuts and legumes.


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Beet Root Powder: Benefits & Uses


The
health benefits and uses of beetroot powder.

  1. Beetroot is a root vegetable
    which is grown all over the world. It is commonly used in cooking
    delicious meals and as a natural medicine.

  1. The powder form is available
    online and in health food stores. This has been made by slowly heating and
    drying the beetroot, before being ground into a fine powder.

  1. This powder is excellent for
    detoxing the body, as it contains some powerful phytonutrients which help
    to cleanse the liver.

Rare
phytonutrients called betaines helps to reduce a fatty liver. A healthy liver
is very important for healing all kinds of bodily problems.

  1. These phytonutrients also
    have a positive effect on the heart and cardiovascular system. They relax
    the arteries and increase blood flow. This balances blood pressure in the
    process.

  1. Simply adding beetroot powder
    into your diet will help your body to flush out toxins and purify the
    blood. Mix a little powder into your smoothies, juices and soups.

  1. Beetroot powder contains a
    high amount of natural sugars, however the fibre causes the body to
    process this sugar properly, unlike refined white sugar.

  1. It is a rich source of
    nutrients including potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin A,
    B and C.

  1. Adding this to your diet also
    balances oestrogen and testosterone hormones in the body, giving you more
    energy and better exercise workouts.

  1. Beet have been shown to
    balance pH levels in the blood, which naturally helps the immune system to
    protect itself from invaders.

  1. It is recommended to take
    around 4-6 teaspoons of beetroot powder, spread out throughout the day for
    the best effects.

  1. Men who suffer with erectile
    dysfunction may find that taking this powder helps them to gain erections,
    as blood flow will be increased.

  1. The high concentration of
    antioxidants and minerals prevents free radical damage in the body and
    slows down the effects of aging on the organs and skin.

  1. When buying beetroot powder,
    look for organic products which contain no additives of sweeteners for the
    best possible health benefits.

You
can also purchase beetroot juice powder. This has the same effects but is more
potent and doesn’t have as much fibre.

  1. Beetroot comes in different
    colours, the most common being purple, but you may find alternatives such
    as yellow or red.


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Is Johnny Less Teachable Now?©

Back in the 1950s a furor was stirred up by a book entitled Why Johnny Can’t Read. It was a symptom of a ton of criticism at the time about American education.  In 1957 the Russians put Sputnik into orbit ahead of the U.S. That added to the controversy. America’s education is multivalent–the primary, middle, and high schools have fallen under heavy criticism, while America’s post-graduate institutions are largely the envy of the world, and we go a long way in educating some of the world’s best and brightest in them.

In all of the controversy which is still underway–there is a second edition titled,Why Johnny Still Can’t Read--it might be worthwhile for modern young parents to consider some wisdom from one of America’s sages, Wallace Stegner. From here on, I turn the microphone over to him. What follows is an excerpt from an essay entitled “Excellence and the Pleasure Principle.” I recommend reading the entire essay.  As always I welcome your comments.

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It is commonly charged against teachers that Johnny can’t read–or write, or add without his fingers or a calculator, or find his way in the library door, or use a dictionary. A frequent suggestion is that teacher must work harder to motivate Johnny, the assumption being that if teacher doesn’t make the class as entertaining as an X-rated movie, teacher is muffing the job. 
From what I have seen of students and teachers, I think it is quite as likely that Johnny is muffing the job; and that he is muffing it not because he is more stupid than he used to be but because he is less teachable; and that he is less teachable because something in his family, or his society, or himself, has broken down. The authority, parental or otherwise, that once made Johnny respect the hard process of stocking and exercising his mind, has been softened up and worn away, in considerable part by Johnny himself. Now Johnny makes up his own mind, or thinks he does, about what is important to him. Actually, what makes up his mind is the movies, television, and advertising, all the incessant repetitions of the mass media and the easy assumptions of popular culture. They tell him that book learning is a pain and a bore. He likes better to look at pictures than to work out the difficult symbolic system of print, and he looks at the easiest pictures. Years ago, when I worked for a while for Look magazine, it used to be a staff joke that Look was made for those too dumb to understand the pictures in Life. Look helped make things easy for Johnny, as some early Johnnies had helped make Look. 
Johnny’s due and destiny, as the popular culture reads them to him, are satisfaction of desires, acquisition of things, gratification, stereos, dune buggies, ORV’s, trail bikes, laughing beautiful companions, rock, intimate whispers, fun: either that or envy of those who have these things.  Johnny is a citizen of the world village that Marshall McLuhan wrote of. His world is oral, not printed; pictorial or musical, not verbal; immediate, not grounded in history; impromptu, not planned; experienced, not examined; free, not disciplined. To those who shoot down on the schools from protected places, I would suggest a possibility: that Johnny has been spoiled rotten by something entirely outside the formal educational process and beyond formal educational cure.
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So far as I can see, a teacher has no professional obligation to turn his students on.  His obligation is to know his subject and teach it. If students want to be entertained, let them go to the beach or the movies. I know: They do, they do! The teacher’s obligation is excellence and the pleasures of accomplishment, not entertainment in the usual sense, and students themselves are the first to acknowledge this fact in areas where they don’t need motivation. Of a basketball coach they don’t demand entertainment–in fact, they will put up with almost unlimited harshness and rigor. His job is to teach skills, and in this case the skills are skills the student wants to learn. How to dribble and shoot and pass, how to set a pick, how to go one on one, how to play zone or man-to-man, how to press and how to break the press–that is what it’s about, and a coach may work his team’s tongues out without drawing complaints. Players respect strictness, because the excellence demanded of them is an excellence coveted from away back. For this sort of excellence, moreover, there are rewards both immediate and delayed.... What a joy it is to a teacher–or would be–to come upon a student who is motivated in that way toward the calculus or the use of language! A certain portion of any class is so motivated–and makes teaching the profound satisfaction it sometimes is.(1)

Let’s think together again, soon.

Notes:

1.  Wallace Stegner, One Way to Spell Men, New York: Doubleday, 1982, pp. 56-60.
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Overloaded Trucks Affecting the Indian Logistics Sector

India is the second biggest populated nation on the planet and it is a business opportunity for 1.2 billion customers which shows that it is one of the more quickly developing economies on the planet and subsequently it requires effective transportations and coordinations industry.

Around 60% of products are transported by streets in examination with different methods of transportation. There has been a critical increment in the business vehicles out and about in the current circumstances. Increment in business vehicles is an impression of expanding interest for the development of merchandise.

With a specific end goal to take care of the market demand or to expand their edges, numerous truck proprietors are allowing over-burdening of their trucks taking a chance with the results of in-travel issues and additionally its negative effect on the foundation. Over-burden trucks annihilate streets and roadways, they bring about causing street mischances and murdering numerous individuals. There is additionally a huge negative effect as far as setbacks, street blockages and negative profitability of the vehicle activities because of occurrences including vehicle over-burdening.

As per overviews by the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training, one in each three trucks in the nation is over-burden and they are to be faulted for half of street mishaps. In 2011, over-burden trucks represented 20% of street mischances and in 2013, around 38,370 individuals were slaughtered due to these over-burden vehicles.

When a truck is over-burden, the control on the controlling and brake are diminished. Also, visit over-burdening decreases the gainful existence of the truck and additionally the beneficial existence of the street.

With a specific end goal to lessen the over-burdening of trucks and mishaps, Government has made some significant strides. For example, a high punishment has been proposed in the Road Transport and Safety Bill for the individuals who neglect to consent to the new guidelines, with a suspension of grants for one month upon the primary offense and a cancelation of licenses if the offense is rehashed.

Be that as it may, these estimations are insufficient to take care of the issue as the truck proprietors or administrators are as yet proceeding to stack their trucks past the passable hub load to boost every vehicle's profit. Also, the distributors of mass wares, similar to composts, steel, and concrete, over-burden the vehicles to save money on the cargo cost. Thinking about the excursion financial matters, they will pay higher costs to enter the city. Actually, there are a couple of states that have nearly sanctioned over-burdening by issuing formal grants; unlawful installments for the most part make room for the vehicles.

As of late, a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) was recorded by a nearby inhabitant of Nainital expressing that numerous substantial vehicles (more than their ability) are shipping into the city by harming the streets and scaffolds in the slopes. It was additionally expressed that overwhelming vehicles are making more contamination in the territory and harming the natural life and influencing the life saver of villagers.

As per a report in Times of India, Nagpur where the RTO is overlooking over-burden trucks and enabling the vehicles to go into the city, along these lines, the state is losing Crores of rupees of income and straightforwardly or in a roundabout way it's influencing the Indian economy.

While there are measuring stations on the roadways, it is astonishing that numerous states or urban communities in India don't have registration to prevent over-burden trucks from going into the city or a devote region, for example, spans.

Along these lines, it creates the impression that the fundamental answer for over-burdening may lie in the best possible usage and authorization of the Motor Vehicles Act.

Keeping in mind the end goal to check over-burdening, government or transport officers should all the more forcefully take after the Motor Vehicles Act and take strict activities against the tenets violators. With such authorization of the control, we can hope to see bring down mishaps, a lesser number of losses and less harm on the Indian streets. All these will prompt higher efficiency of the vehicle organizations and that of the coordinations part.
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Cogent Fact About Treasures

With all the mayhem, turmoil, and simply "awful news" that we are immersed with consistently, and apparently each moment of consistently, it's no big surprise that individuals search for an escape... regardless of whether that escape is just the "dream" of finding a departed accumulate of gold, silver, and gems. Wouldn't it be pleasant to uncover a chest so important that you could leave all the disarray and turmoil behind and simply live in peace, not agonizing over what is occurring the nation over or around the globe? Beyond any doubt it would. I figure we as a whole would "take the cash and run." If just it were that simple. Many individuals, however, find that the "chase" of finding a fortune gives only, for example, escape, and isn't at full scale of reach... depending obviously on what your fortune is.

In the event that "fortune" to you implies one of Captain Kidd's covered chests of privateer goods, at that point you may have a long hard pursuit in front of you (albeit such a commendable undertaking would positively give an escape into the universe of fortune chasing). Assuming, in any case, your "fortune" is time spent in the outside along a stream, at a shoreline, a recreation center, the mountains, or submerged, and your revelation comprises of disposed of relics, dropped coins, or confirmation of history you've seen or held out of the blue, at that point your hunt is probably going to be productive and fulfilling.

I can't disclose to you what your "fortune" is. No one but you can do that. I can, in any case, reveal to you what my "fortune" is. My fortune is revelation. My fortune is putting bits of a chronicled perplex together. My fortune is being the place history happened and remembering the occasions connected to the ground. My fortune isn't simply recognizing where something happened, yet why it happened. I see history, not similarly as an accumulation of names, dates, spots, and occasions, yet as an associated arrangement of circumstances and end results. There is most likely no better case of this circumstances and end results relationship to history than the Battle of Gettysburg.

Being at that combat zone... where incalculable lives were everlastingly changed or quenched... strolling the grounds in the strides of those officers breathes life into the ground. I can feel the inspirations that moved troops along these lines rather than that. Feel the edginess to catch ground, out move your followers, and survive. Like no other place I've been, The Gettysburg Battlefield immerses you. This is the thing that rouses me regardless of where I go, and regardless of what I'm scanning for. When I assess the ground, discover proof of the occasion and "remember" the activities, I've discovered my fortune. What's more, on the off chance that I find a knickknack of the occasion, I get a genuine enthusiastic lift from my endeavors. I'm here to let you know, that you will get a feeling of joy from finding a bull shoe from the mid-to-late 1800's along an old pioneer wagon trail. It gives an association... a feeling of having a place... of roots. Without a doubt, finding a crate of cash would be phenomenal. Be that as it may, in light of the fact that I didn't find that crate... this time... doesn't take away the sentiments of achievement and association that the old bull shoe gives. Furthermore, the thing is anybody... everybody... regardless of where you live... can partake in this "fortune chase."

In our over-controlled world, there is a significant and vocal portion of the populace set on denying you of the chance to find, to look for your fortune. They have passed laws, managed exercises, anticipated access, and named treasure seekers and fortune chasing with censorious names. In a few spots, simply being there is "violating a law." Picking up disposed of articles is a wrongdoing. Taking an interest in work to recoup gold, silver, and now and again shakes and minerals is cause to "bring in the law." Two extremely basic things you can do are: 1) Obey whatever laws right now control a territory, and 2) loan your help (voice, composed, whatever) to counteract, change, or nullification these preposterous directions, and bring back reason and a feeling of rational soundness.

All over the place, from the Atlantic drift to the Pacific, pioneers, voyagers, and explorers of each kind looked for new ground and a new life. Armies moved from here to there. Towns were built that were abandoned and crumbled to dust. But, the history is there. The evidence is there. Find the evidence; live the history; find your treasure. And if you happen to search for and find that box of money... don't forget to share!
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Make your apps great conversationalists!




First, make sure you get an introduction to Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework by checking out this presentation with demos recorded during the Connect() 2017 conference. You could complete this overview with Introduction to Language Cognitive Services and with Introduction to Knowledge Cognitive Services.
This "Build your own bots with Azure Bot Service" video is a great one to demonstrate the practical use of bots using the Azure Bot Service, Cognitive Services and Machine Learning to infuse artificial intelligence within your customer relationship management.



Here are the general resources and information I would like to highlight:

If you are looking for architecture guidance to build your own Bot, check out these great scenarios:
If you are looking for hands-on labs relatively to Bot Service and Cognitive Services, here are some links you could leverage:

I leveraged myself those resources to build my own Bot solution for my Monthly Azure News & Updates blog article, check out the story!

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Microsoft Azure - News & Updates - February 2018




Microsoft Azure news, updates and announcements (129 entries) for February 2018:

Application Development:

28 - API Management - Upcoming change to management endpoint port on June 1
27 - Security Center Playbooks and Azure Functions Integration with Firewalls
26 - VSTS/TFS Roadmap update for 2018 Q1 and Q2
23 - Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available
23 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.23
22 - Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one
22 - New option to try out Web App for Containers
22 - Service Fabric 6.1 Refresh Release
22 - Visual Studio App Center: A Year in Review
21 - New VSTS Messaging Extension for Microsoft Teams
20 - Azure Container Instances: February updates
20 - Troubleshooting Tools for App Service Certificate
19 - Last week in Azure: Azure SDK for Go GA, and more
17 - Open Source Weekly: New Go SDK and Azure Go Dev Center
16 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.16
15 - Announcing the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Solution Template
14 - February 14 2018 - Logic Apps Live
14 - Package upstream sources and symbol server generally available – VSTS Sprint 130 Update
14 - Preview of Log Alerts feature for Application Insights
13 - Certificate pinning in Azure API Management
12 - Azure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available
09 - January 2018 App Service update
09 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.09
09 - Open Source Weekly: Container-native developer experiences and more
08 - Upcoming changes to TLS defaults in API Management required to maintain compliance
08 - Now available - Azure Search—Better performance and scale features
07 - Azure Search service upgrades: New hardware, unlimited document counts, and more!
07 - API Management - Publisher portal deprecation – April 1, 2018
07 - API Management - Tagging – now available in public preview
07 - API Management - Release notes – February 6 2018
07 - Understanding Serverless Cold Start
06 - Azure Automation supports .NET Framework 4.6 when running jobs within the service
06 - Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer
06 - az webapp new – where new is always better!
05 - Azure DevTest Labs: Hortonworks image available in your lab
02 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.02
01 - A great developer experience for Ansible

Data Platform & AI:

28 - GUID migration: Stream Analytics
27 - Machine learning just got a lot easier (and open source friendly) with Azure
27 - HDInsight Tools for VSCode integrates with Ambari and HDInsight Enterprise Secure Package
27 - Power BI Workspace Collections is being retired
27 - Transform your industry with new Microsoft IoT in Action webinar series
26 - Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid!
22 - Using AI to automatically redact faces in videos
22 - Now available - Azure Cosmos DB training webinars
22 - Get started with Azure Cosmos DB through this technical training series
22 - LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding
22 - Seamlessly troubleshoot and tune query performance with SQL Data Warehouse
22 - Skip header rows on SQL Data Warehouse PolyBase load
22 - VNet service endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available
21 - Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity
21 - SQL Server 2017 – Intelligent Database that runs Anywhere
21 - Sync SQL data in large scale using Azure SQL Data Sync
21 - Unlock Query Performance with SQL Data Warehouse using Graphical Execution Plans
20 - Migrating to Azure SQL Database with zero downtime for read-only workloads
15 - Azure Analysis Services available in Central US
15 - Microsoft updates Cognitive Services terms
14 - Simplify cloud adoption with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Datometry
13 - New reference architecture for Jenkins on Azure
12 - Build Go apps for Azure with the Go SDK, now generally available
12 - Last week in Azure: Living the serverless life, Kubernetes, and more
12 - Detect and suspend duplicate AS2 messages in Logic App
12 - Azure IoT SDKs released new Long-Term Support branch
12 - Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview
09 - Azure Database Migration Service: February updates
08 - Now available - Azure Cosmos DB Graph API
08 - General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database
07 - Azure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally available
06 - Free: Microsoft AI Bootcamp Materials for Emerging & Pro Developers
05 - Bing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages
05 - Build email notifications for SQL Database Automatic tuning recommendations
05 - Go serverless for your IoT needs
05 - Last week in Azure: Event Grid GA, Ansible in Cloud Shell, and more
02 - SQL Data Warehouse: ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL command now supported for rotating storage keys
02 - Azure #CosmosDB and Microsoft’s Project Olympus honored in InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Awards
01 - How is AI for video different from AI for images

Infrastructure:

28 - Confidently plan your cloud migration: Azure Migrate is now generally available!
28 - Public preview: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
27 - Public preview: Azure Backup integration with Azure Files
27 - StorSimple Data Manager now generally available
26 - Azure Load Balancer to become more efficient
26 - B-series burstable VM support in AKS now available
22 - Using Azure Log Analytics and an OMS workspace to monitor Azure backups
21 - Introducing backup for Azure file shares
21 - Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor - public preview
15 - Support for automatic OS image updates in virtual machine scale sets
15 - Bracing for the Blockchain Revolution
15 - Protect machines using managed disks between Azure regions using Azure Site Recovery
15 - ExpressRoute monitoring with Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is now generally available
13 - Application consistent backup for Linux VMs using Azure Backup is generally available
13 - Why SAP on Azure Makes Complete Sense?
12 - In development - Ability to incrementally add capacity to Azure Stack
12 - In development - Av2-series and F-series virtual machines in Azure Stack
12 - In development - Azure Stack integrated systems support for multiple scale units
12 - In development - Azure Stack integrated systems with 16 node scale units
12 - In development - Azure Stack operator experience feature updates
12 - In development - Azure Stack Security—drift detection
12 - In development - Azure Stack Security—updated audit collection
12 - In development - Azure Storage API version 2017-04-17 updated in Azure Stack
12 - In development - Managed Disks in Azure Stack
12 - In development - Expanded VPN Gateway interoperability
08 - Custom Speech: Code-free automated machine learning for speech recognition
08 - First System Center Semi-Annual Channel release now available
08 - OMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log analytics
08 - Now available - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Storage
07 - Microsoft offers SAP HANA supportable VMs in UK with the Azure M/B/V3-series
06 - Integration of Azure Backup into the VM creation experience
01 - Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage now generally available

Security:

20 - Spring Security Azure AD: Wire up enterprise grade authentication and authorization
08 - In preview - Azure Active Directory B2C—new features available

General:

26 - Last week in Azure: NPM's Service Endpoint Monitor in preview, and more
23 - Analytics Platform System: Hardware refresh available for HPE appliances from May 2018
22 - Microsoft Inspire: Transformation happens here!
21 - New Azure GxP guidelines help pharmaceutical and biotech customers build GxP solutions
20 - Cray in Azure for weather forecasting
14 - Azure Marketplace new offers in January 2018
14 - Create tomorrow today with emerging tech at Microsoft Build
13 - Microsoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science breakthroughs
13 - What’s new for Canadian Partners during February
08 - Microsoft Azure IP Advantage: Our first year
08 - Microsoft Build - May 7-9, 2018 // Seattle, WA
07 - A New Feedback System Is Coming to docs.microsoft.com
07 - Introducing Brady: our resident ninja sloth finds a home on GitHub
06 - Enhance worker safety and enterprise-grade productivity
03 - OpenSSH now available in PowerShell in Cloud Shell
02 - Enhancements to Azure Budgets API supporting Resource Groups and Usage Budgets
02 - Enhancements to Cost Management APIs
02 - Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more
01 - Ansible now available in Bash in Cloud Shell
01 - Building a Business Applications (Dynamics 365) practice

Did you miss the one from January 2018?

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Some stats for the record for this month: 128 entries (9% manual) - 118 Logic App Runs (1% failed) - 2020 Logic App Skipped Runs/Triggers - 2560 Logic App Billable actions - 1 Azure Functions execution (duration: 891ms). The total Azure consumption cost for this month is: 2.24$CAD.!


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