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

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group
For those joining online – the presentations will commence at 6pm AEST

2. Microsoft Azure News
October 2023

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5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
January 2023 Derek Van Tonder Mobile Apps That Scale - A Real Life Xamarin+Azure
February 2023 Sam Bell
Dan Toomey
Azure Cost Optimisation
Azure Integration Services Landing Zone
March 2023 Tina Sharma Better Together: OpenAI + Azure
April 2023 Adam Stephenson Azure Dev Box
May 2023 Brendan Richard Event-Driven Architectures with Azure Service Bus
June 2023 Bernie White Advanced Deployment Strategies for Microservices
July 2023 Rachel Calleia Private DNS Infrastructure Support in Hybrid Azure Scenarios
August 2023 Bernie White Building Infrastructure as Code Patterns with Azure Bicep
September 2023 Bronwyn Zande Surviving the AI Revolution: Strategies and Tools for Thriving in the
Future of Tech
October 2023 Tina Sharma Semantic Kernel
November 2023 Jason Taylor Azure Developer CLI
December 2023 Mike McGarry
Ranjan Mishra
Database Deployment as Code (20 mins)
Data Mapping in Azure
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7. Azure retirements
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-notice-bing-speech-will-be-retired-on-3-november-2023/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/azurecosmosdb-notebooks-retirement/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/migrate-to-azure-monitor-agent-based-vm-insights-by-31-august-2024/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/support-for-tls-1011-on-azure-cache-for-redis-ending-on-30-september-2024/

8. Azure retirements
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/important-notice-azure-product-retirement-end-of-life-announcement-of-azure-sphere-classic-
cli-on-30-september-2024-replace-w/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/default-outbound-access-for-vms-in-azure-will-be-retired-transition-to-a-new-method-of-
internet-access/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/aml-explanation-fairness-retirement/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-http-application-routing-addon-preview-for-aks-will-retire-03032025/

9. Azure retirements
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-notice-azure-communication-services-network-traversal-turn-public-preview-is-
retiring/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-azure-ai-document-intelligence-v20-api-will-be-retired-on-31-august-2026/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/azure-maps-render-v1-apis-will-be-retired-on-17-september-2026/

10. Azure retirements
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/migrate-to-azure-resource-manager-control-plane-api-version-20211101-by-30-september-2026/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/azure-activity-logs-legacy-solution-is-replaced-by-diagnostic-settings/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-notice-update-your-azure-service-bus-sdk-libraries-by-30-september-2026/

12. Azure IoT Hub Cosmos DB custom endpoint
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/iot-hub-cosmos-db-endpoint/

13. Azure App Service - Virtual Network - Backup and Restore
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/app-service-backup-and-restore-over-azure-virtual-network/

14. Artifact cache for Azure Container Registry (GA)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-artifact-cache

15. Azure Functions extension for Dapr
https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/integrations/azure/azure-functions/

16. Azure Communication Services Job Router (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/router/concepts

17. Azure SQL Database free (Preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/free-offer?view=azuresql

18. Logic App - Azure Monitor logs connector
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/authenticate-azure-monitor-logs-connector/

19. Malware scanning in Defender for Storage
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-storage-malware-scan

20. Microsoft Playwright Testing (preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-playwright-testing-scalable-end-to-end-testing-for-modern-web-apps/

22. Microsoft Ignite 2023
14 – 17 November 2023

23. YOW! Brisbane 2023
4-5 December 2023, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

24. DDD Brisbane 2023
2 December 2023 (TBC)

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

27. BAUG You-Tube Channel
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28. 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

29. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-friday/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/bg-p/ITOpsTalkBlog

31. Introduction to Semantic Kernel
Tina Sharma