Cloud News 2020 / 12

The Wechsler Consulting Cloud News – December 2020 – episode provides insights on the newest Azure IOT Central features, the latest additions of virtual network private endpoints for Azure Automation and IOTHub as well as the release of Event Hubs on Azure Stack, which all have reached global availability (GA) this month.

Focus Topic of this month are Azure Digital Twins. A new platform service providing sophisticated querying and management capabilities for comprehensive IOT solutions. All backed by great infrastructure and Tool support.

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Cloud News 2020 / 11

The Wechsler Consulting Cloud News – November 2020 – episode talks about renewable energy in Azure data centers in Sweden, the newest feature in Azure IOT and very helpful addition to create Azure Active Directory B2C custom user journeys, which are intended to solve one of the major pain point of this service.

Highlight and Focus Topic of this month is Microsoft Pluton. A new hard- and software security solution derived from Xbox and Azure Sphere now entering the PC stage.

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Azure Talk

Renewable energy in Sweden

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/achieving-100-percent-renewable-energy-with-247-monitoring-in-microsoft-sweden

AAD B2C – User Flows

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/simple-and-secure-customization-with-b2c-user-flows/ba-p/1751709

IOT Plug and Play Bridge

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-pnp/concepts-iot-pnp-bridge

Connect any IoT sensorto Azure | Internet of Things Show | Channel 9 (msdn.com)

Azure Sphere and Cellular Connectivity

Azure SphereCellular Connectivity | Internet of Things Show | Channel 9 (msdn.com)

Cellularconnectivity + Azure Sphere: securityboundaries – Microsoft Tech Community

New IOT Pricing

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/democratizing-iot-with-iot-plug-and-play-and-new-pricing-for/ba-p/1902762

Focus Topic

Microsoft Pluton Processor

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The securitychipdesigned for the futureof Windows PCs – Microsoft Security

Protect Azure Data Centers with Azure Sphere

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/23/iot-security-how-microsoft-protects-azure-datacenters

Cloud News 2020 / 10

The Wechsler Consulting Cloud News – October 2020 – episode sheds light on new and very promising features in Azure Active Directory (Continuous Access Evaluation), Event Grid integration of Key Vault and App Services Private Endpoints, all of which are great assets in creating modern, scalable and efficient Cloud solutions.

Focus Topic this month is Tiny ML, a completely new approach using ML models on small embedded devices, bringing intelligence closer to places where things are happening. This can turn into nothing less than a game changer in the IOT industry!

Azure Talk October

Azure AD -Continuous access evaluation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/concept-continuous-access-evaluation

Azure Key Vault – Event Grid Integration
Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/event-grid/event-schema-key-vault
Video: Azure Key Vault Updates: RBAC support for data plane and Event Gridintegration

App Service Private Endpoints
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/networking/private-endpoint

Focus Topic – Tiny ML + Azure Sphere
Blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/making-the-most-of-tinyml-for-your-iot-applications/ba-p/1715095
IOT Show: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Internet-of-Things-Show/TinyML-for-IoT

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Cloud News 2020 / 09

The September 2020 episode of Wechsler Consulting Cloud News comes with a flashlight on the highlights of the Microsoft Ignite 2020 conference, including Azure Orbital, SQL Edge, WVD, Cognitive Services and many more!

This month’s focus topic are the Azure IOT announcements also made at Ignite.

Azure Talk

Ignite Conference

https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

Azure SQL Edge

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/services/sql-edge

Spatial Analysis

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-powerful-and-responsible-ai-solutions-with-azure

Azure Orbital

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/orbital

Azure Communications

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/communication-services

Windows Virtual Desktop

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/services/virtual-desktop


Focus Topic

Ignite 2020 Azure IOT Announcements

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/iot/


Wechsler Consulting News

Courses

Azure IOT Telemetry Jumpstart

OPC Unified Architecture – Getting Started

Posts

Plug & Play coming to Azure IoT Solutions

Surface Duo

Cloud News 2020 / 08

The August 2020 episode of Wechsler Consulting Cloud News comes with the newest Azure Talk about Azure Identity SDK, Windows CE App Containers, SignalR and Azure Data Explorer.
This month’s focus topic is .NET MAUI, a new cross-platform UI framework by Microsoft.

Please find the links to topics featured in our Cloud News video, below:

Azure Identity
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-identity-august-2020-ga/

Azure SDK
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-sdk-release-august-2020/

Windows CE App containers
https://wechsler-consulting.cloud/2020/08/14/windows-ce-app-container-on-windows-10-iot-core/

SignalR Podcast
http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/brady-gaster-on-signalr-and-more-episode-102

Share Big Data
https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/share-big-data-at-scale-with-azure-data-share-inplace-sharing-for-azure-data-explorer/

Focus Topic- .NET MAUI
https://github.com/dotnet/maui

Cloud News 2020 / 07

The July release of Wechsler Consulting Cloud News sheds some light on WVD and Security Center, the new FHIR API that helps to save lifes, the Well-Architected Framework for Azure, Hashi Corp Consul Service as SaaS, and OpenIDConnect support in App Services and Functions. Focus topic is Time Series Insights Gen 2.

Please find the links to topics featured in video, below:

WVD and Security Center

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/protecting-windows-virtual-desktop-environments-with-azure-security-center

IOT Connector for FHIR

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-iot-connector-for-fhir-now-in-preview

Well-architected Framework

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-microsoft-azure-wellarchitected-framework

HashiCorp Consul Service

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fully-managed-hashicorp-consul-service-generally-available-on-azure-today

OpenID Connect support for App Service and Functions

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-authentication-provider-openid-connect


Focus Topic
Time Series Gen 2

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-time-series-insights-gen-2-leading-the-next-generation-of-industrial-iot-analytics-solutions/

Courses

Azure IOT Telemetry Jumpstart

OPC Unified Architecture – Getting Started

Posts

July is Azure IOT learning month!

Generally Available: Private Endpoint for Azure SignalR

Cloud News 2020 / 06

The June episode of Wechsler Consulting Cloud News is here!
Bringing news and updates on Azure Shared Image Galleries, Visual Studio Web Live Preview, Azure Security and as special focus topic Anomaly Detection.

Here are the links to our Cloud News topics:

Shared Image Gallery (specialized images, scale sets)

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/updates/shared-image-gallery-improvements

Shared Image Gallery – preview (Capture VMs, BYOK, image copy)

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/updates/shared-image-gallery-new-features

Web Live Preview
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/introducing-web-live-preview/

Azure Security Best Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntOLLNejUo

Main topic: anomaly detection

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/anomaly-detector/overview


Check out our current Wechsler Consulting Cloud Campus courses and posts, as well!

Courses

Azure IOT Telemetry Jumpstart

OPC Unified Architecture – Getting Started

Posts

Live Video Analytics

Free Blazor Training with Carl Franklin!

Cloud News 2020 / 05

In episode 5 of Wechsler Consulting Cloud News, we talk about the top news from Microsoft Build 2020 and especially Azure Digital Twins, which have truly made an incredible leap in functionality.


Here are the links to topics mentioned in the video:

Azure Digital Twins
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/digital-twins/about-digital-twins

Azure IOT Edge
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/about-iot-edge

Windows IOT 10 – Linux Runtime
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

IOTHub – Private Link
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-private-link-is-now-available-for-multiple-new-azure-services/

IOT Plug & Play
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/intelligent-edge-innovation-across-data-iot-and-mixed-reality/

Azure RTOS – GA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/rtos/

Azure Sphere updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sphere/

Sphere and RTOS can work together
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/app-development/applications-overview

IOT Central
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-central/core/overview-iot-central

Cloud News 2020 / 04

This is a brand new episode in our Wechsler Consulting Cloud News Channel talking about newest developments in Cloud and Azure IOT.

Please find the resource links from the video below.

Azure Power Platform Update (Azure Serverless)
https://youtu.be/tq82d6Q3tBw

Develop real-time Cloud apps with SignalR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftb_dvJabdo

New Azure IOT Showcases
https://wechsler-consulting.cloud/2020/04/11/interesting-industrial-azure-iot-showcases-from-festo-kao-and-akzonobel/

EventGrid on the Edge
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Internet-of-Things-Show/Containerized-PubSub-with-Azure-Event-Grid-on-IoT-Edge

Azure SQL Change Tracking API for Mobile Applications
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-database/sync-mobile-apps-with-azure-using-change-tracking-api/ba-p/1213993

Featured – Azure Maps

https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/updates-to-azure-maps-web-sdk-includes-powerful-new-features

Cloud News 2020 / 03

This is the third episode in our Wechsler Consulting Cloud News Channel talking about newest developments in Cloud and Azure IOT.

Please find the resource links from the video below.

Azure Talk

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