Week in Review: April 24, 2017

Microsoft Azure continues to experience massive growth.  As such, it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all of the changes that come with such growth.  The Understanding Azure "Week in Review" is a series of weekly blog posts that keep you abreast of all Azure Service Updates from the previous week as well as any other notable Azure content published by Microsoft.

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Microsoft has released seven service updates this past week:

• Azure DevTest Labs: Use Azure CLI to create and manage lab VMs
• Release of Service Fabric SDK Preview 0.8.0.0 and Runtime Preview 5.5.0.2 for Linux
• Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.5.216 and Runtime 5.5.216 for Windows
• Service Fabric .NET SDK goes open source
• DocumentDB Data Explorer (preview) available in the Azure portal
• General availability: Dual network interfaces for all Azure VMs
• New Azure Batch capabilities

Azure Documentation Updates

Microsoft is constantly updating their Azure documentation.  Here are documents that were updated this week:

• Use the Azure storage emulator for development and testing
• What is Azure Search?
• Create a Site-to-Site connection in the Azure portal
• Get started with SQL database auditing
• Connect virtual networks from different deployment models using the portal
• Add a Site-to-Site connection to a VNet with an existing VPN gateway connection