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Upcoming PresentationsMonth Presenter Topic

July 2015 Paul Bouwer ARMing the Octopus

August 2015 Glenn Stephens Azure Storage for Mobile Apps

September 2015 Dan Toomey 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Service Bus

October 2015 Todd Whitehead & Adam Finster

Inflight to Insights: Real-time Insights with Event Hubs, Stream Analytics and an A10 Warthog

November 2015 ?? ??

December 2015 ?? ??

Next Meeting:

Monday, 17th August

updates

Premium Storage Now GA in East Australiahttp://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/10/azure-premium-storage-generally-available-australia-east/

• 99.9 % SLA

• Up to 32 TB storage per VM

• >64,000 IOPS per VM

• <1ms read latency

Storage

Logic AppsSprint 14 Features Live in Production

• Schedule a logic app to run at a specific time in the future• A parse function to convert a string to an object or array • string function now supports taking objects and arrays and stringfying them.• Rename and move logic apps between resource group• Help tips for why you can't delete actions• Removing duplicate authorization buttons

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/schedule-logic-apps-to-run-in-the-future/

Media ServicesDelivering Widevine Encrypted Stream by Partnering with castLabs

• Previously announced the general availability of Azure Media Services Content Protection (AES and DRM) service

- enables you to secure your Video-on-demand or live stream content with AES or Microsoft PlayReady

• Now added Widevine support through partner castLabs. • Video stream with common encryption through Azure Media Services (AMS) , where the PlayReady

license comes from AMS and Widevine license comes from castLabs DRMtoday.

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/15/azure-media-services-delivers-widevine-encrypted-stream-by-partnering-with-castlabs/

CacheJune 2015 Updates for Redis Cachehttp://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/19/azure-redis-cache-updates-for-june-2015/

• Scaling (preview)• Keyspace Notifications• Maxmemory-reserved setting• Redis Server Load counter

PlatformFour New Certifications for Compliance

• United States Defense Information System Agency (DISA) Level 2• Japan Financial Industry Information Systems (FISC)• New Zealand Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO)• Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard (MTCS) Level 3

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/11/microsoft-azure-adds-global-array-of-new-certifications-including-us-dod-disa-level-2/

1.0.0 release of Application Insights Windows SDKshttp://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/25/announcing-the-1-0-0-release-of-application-insights-windows-sdks/

• Context Properties

• Usage Telemetry

• Page Views

• Crashes & Exceptions

• Request & Dependency Telemetry

• Trace Telemetry

• Performance Counters

• Etc.

SDK & Tooling

Maintenance to be performed on Virtual Machines• Split between machines in an Availability Set

• Non-business hours where possible

• Should complete within 12 hours of start time

MaintenanceRegion UTC Date UTC Time QLD Date QLD TimeAustralia East Friday, July 10, 2015 13:00 Friday, July 10, 2015 23:00Japan East Friday, July 10, 2015 14:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 0:00East Asia Friday, July 10, 2015 15:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:00North Europe Friday, July 10, 2015 22:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 8:00Brazil South Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 12:00East US Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 13:00Central US Saturday, July 11, 2015 4:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 14:00US Gov Iowa Saturday, July 11, 2015 4:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 14:00North Central US Saturday, July 11, 2015 4:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 14:00Australia Southeast Saturday, July 11, 2015 13:00 Saturday, July 11, 2015 23:00Japan West Saturday, July 11, 2015 14:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 0:00Southeast Asia Saturday, July 11, 2015 15:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 1:00West Europe Saturday, July 11, 2015 21:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:00East US 2 Sunday, July 12, 2015 3:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 13:00US Gov Virginia Sunday, July 12, 2015 3:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 13:00South Central US Sunday, July 12, 2015 4:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 14:00West US Sunday, July 12, 2015 6:00 Sunday, July 12, 2015 16:00

As of 15 July, Azure Support Requests Will Be Managed on the Azure Preview Portal• Create, manage & view in one portal

• Access via Help Manage Support Requests

Support Requests

PricingPrice Increase for Australia:

• Effective 1 August 2015

• 26% rise to more closely align with prices in most markets

• Not likely to affect Enterprise Agreements (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreements (EAS), or Server and Cloud Enrollments (SCE)

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