Azure
And so Azure AD DS are now GA in Ibiza so is support for ARM networks. Now we can run Azure AD DS on production environments. Bet on this in a recent project.
Azure AD releases three new public preview features
- Extending Azure AD Privileged Identity Management to include Azure RBAC roles.
- Automated, periodic access reviews
- Automated Terms of Use administration and reporting
Azure Building Blocks can help you simplify your Azure ARM templates. They are worth a look.
Java gets support for Azure Functions (do you really want to do that?) and App Insights SDK for node.js is now GA. The last one is really cool.
If you want to know more about Azure SQL Database data integrity beyond DBCC you should read this post. We currently chose not to run DBCC CHECKDB on our Azure SQL Databases. What is your opinion?
On Azure Marketplace you can now find SQL Server 2017 images on Windows and Linux (really?)
OMS
Have you take a look at LogicApps and the new Log Analytics artifacts for querying and ingesting data?
The Log Analytics solution designer adds custom filtering to its capabilities, and all this in the Ibiza portal.
Now it is time for me to get back to the Kemp solution and update it to Kusto and the new designer capabilities.
Keiko did it again, announcing the OMS Monitoring solution for Linux Service Fabric.
System Center
We all know the Office 365 Management Pack provided by Microsoft is basically useless. A new community driven MP has been released, I haven’t had the time to test it yet, but it sounds interesting.
If you are a SQL 2017 early adopter this MP still in RC is for you Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Release Candidate 1) for SQL Server 2017 + http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55098
The ‘+’ in the name indicates that it will be used to monitor SQL Server 2017 and the releases that come after that.
New releases for the DHCP Management packs:
- Windows Server 2012 DHCP version 6.0.7307.0
- Windows Server DHCP 2016 version 10.0.9.0
The DHP releases are for bug fixing:
Also released, Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics Management Pack version 1.8.1.1
Speaking of SCOM take this survey to help shape the product: https://aka.ms/scomsurvey and SCOM 2016 now supports SQL 2016 SP1