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

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. Microsoft Azure News
April 2021

3. Our Sponsors

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
February 2021 Joe Albahari What's New in C# 9 - The Best Parts
March 2021 Martin Cairney Exploring the World of Azure Data Explorer
April 2021 Robert Crane All About Azure Sentinel
May 2021 Rory Braybrook The Microsoft Identity Jigsaw – Putting the Pieces Together
June 2021
July 2021
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7. Azure Defender for Storage(GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-defender-for-storage-powered-by-microsoft-threat-intelligence/
Last month we discussed Azure Defender for App service,
This month we Azure Defender for Storage, which alerts
customers upon unusual and potentially harmful attempts
to access or exploit their storage accounts.
Azure Defender for Storage now alerts customers also upon
the detection of malicious activities such as:
Upload of potential malware (using hash reputation analysis).
Phishing campaigns hosted on a storage account.
Access from suspicious IP addresses, such as TOR exit nodes.

8. Azure HBv3-series virtual machines (VMs)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/more-performance-and-choice-with-new-azure-hbv3-virtual-machines-for-hpc/
• Up to 19 percent higher per core
performance.
• Up to 2.6 times higher per VM performance
for lightly-threaded workloads.
• Up to 1.9 times higher performance for
large-scale MPI workloads.
• Multiple VM sizes so customers can deploy
fit-for-purpose HPC compute.
• H-series’ highest performance local SSD
configuration to date, with up to 7 GB/s of
read performance, 3 GB/s of write
performance, and 200,000 IOPs.

9. Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure VMs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-solutions-for-oracle-weblogic-on-azure-virtual-machines/
The partnership between Oracle and Microsoft was announced in June of 2019. The solutions simplify setting
up WLS, and configuring integration with key Azure services. This latest release allows you choose from a
variety of base images including WebLogic 12.2.1.3.0 with JDK8u131/251 and Oracle Linux 7.4/7.6, or
WebLogic 14.1.1 with JDK11u01 on Oracle Linux 7.6.

10. Azure Orbital ground station update
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepen-the-value-chain-for-geospatial-earth-imagery-on-cloud-using-azure-orbital/
Below is a sneak peek of our first satellite ground station in our Quincy, Washington datacentre

11. Thales Alenia Space partnership
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepen-the-value-chain-for-geospatial-earth-imagery-on-cloud-using-azure-orbital/
Together with Thales Alenia Space, we are bringing near real-time geospatial data processing
capabilities to our customers.
We can see that volumes of earth have been
removed from the desert, and a neighbourhood
has been built. The image on the far right
highlights the change detected.

12. Cloud Services (extended support) is GA
Migration Tool is (preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cloud-services-extended-support-is-generally-available-migration-tool-in-preview/
The general availability of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource
Manager (ARM)-based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services. The platform-supported tool
for migrating existing cloud services to Cloud Services (extended support) also goes into preview
today.
Cloud Services (extended support) provides two paths for customers to migrate from ASM to
ARM:
Re-deploy: Customers can deploy a new cloud service directly in ARM and then delete the old
cloud service in ASM after thorough validation. The general availability of Cloud Services
(extended support) comes with a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99.95 percent.
In-place migration: Migration tool that enables a seamless, platform orchestrated migration of
existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments to Cloud Services (extended support).

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18. On Demand Training - Updates
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/30-days-to-learn-it
www.pluralsight.com
•Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
•Docker for Web Developers
•Azure AD for Developers
www.opsgility.com
•Azure For AWS Experts
•Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD
•Monitoring Apps with Application Insights

19. http://www.hanselman.com/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/bg-p/ITOpsTalkBlog

21. All About Azure Sentinel
Robert Crane (MCT, MVP) as a degree in Electrical
Engineering as well as Masters of Business
Administration. He is a Certified SharePoint, Office 365
and Azure Professional. Robert has over 20 years of IT
experience
Introduction to Azure Sentinel, show you how to
connect data sources, work with threat analytics and
more.