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As customers expand the boundaries of their environments to hybrid cloud, they often prefer to bring their trusted partners with them. Azure Marketplace includes a variety of security solutions from leading vendors. Azure Security Center takes this a step further, by partnering with these vendors to provide an integrated experience in Azure, while relying on Marketplace for partner certification and billing.

Security Center integrates with Endpoint Protection (Trend Micro), Web Application Firewall (Barracuda, F5, Imperva and soon Microsoft WAF and Fortinet), Next Generation Firewall (Check Point, Barracuda and soon Fortinet and Cisco) solutions. And just last week at Microsoft Ignite, we released integration with Vulnerability Assessment (Qualys – preview) solutions. If you missed the Azure Security Center session where these integrations were highlighted, you can catch it on demand. During FY17, Security Center will both expand the number of partners within these existing categories and introduce new categories.

So, why use Security Center to deploy and monitor security solutions from partners?

• Ease of deployment: Deploying a partner solution by following the Security Center recommendation is much easier. The deployment process can be fully automated using a default configuration and network topology, or customers can choose a semi-automated option to allow more flexibility and customization of the configuration.
• Integrated Detections: Security events from partner solutions are automatically collected, aggregated and displayed as part of Security Center alerts and incidents. These events are also fused with detections from other sources to provide advanced threat detection capabilities.
• Unified Health Monitoring and Management: Integrated health events allow customers to monitor all partner solutions at a glance. Basic management is available with easy access to advanced configuration using the partner solution.
• Export to SIEM: Customers can now export all Security Center and partners’ alerts in CEF format to on-premise SIEM systems using Microsoft Azure Log Integration (preview)

Currently, to leverage this advanced level of integration, partner solutions must be deployed from Security Center, by following a recommendation. Partner packages that are deployed directly from the Azure Marketplace or through automation, are not yet supported. Security Center plans to add this support over the next year where partner solutions will be auto discovered and connected to Security Center, regardless of their mode of deployment.

Interested in learning more on Azure Security Center and its partner ecosystem integration?

• Managing security recommendations in Azure Security Center
•  Monitoring partner solutions with Azure Security Center
•  Integrating Security Center alerts with Azure log integration (Preview)
•  Security Resource Provider REST API Reference

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In Rwanda, transporting critical medicine and blood can be difficult if the patient is in a remote location. Heavy downpours can wash out the roads, and local hospitals are often too small to stock everything their doctors might need. Now, the Rwandan government is side-stepping the problem with a drone delivery program. In the western half of the country, 21 transfusion clinics can request batches of blood via text. The order will be picked up by Zipline, a California-based robotics firm, at its "nest" base in Muhanga. A small drone will then be deployed and, upon arrival, swoop down low to drop the package off at a designated "mailbox" area.

The new "Zip" drones can carry up to 1.5KG of blood — enough to save a person’s life — over 150KM. Zipline is starting with 15 drones which will make 50 to 150 emergency flights each day. Each delivery should take 30 minutes, bypassing any problems or poor infrastructure down below. In the future, the government hopes to expand the scheme and offer different types of medicine and lifesaving vaccines. The first step, in early 2017, will be to offer similar blood deliveries in the eastern half of the country too.

Over the course of the next year, Zipline — along with its partners, UPS and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — will look to see whether the deliveries can be replicated in other countries across Africa and the Americas. Eventually, the group wants to serve Indian reservations in Maryland, Nevada and Washington state. "The hours saved delivering blood products or a vaccine for someone who has been exposed to rabies with this technology could make the difference between life and death," Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi said. "Every child deserves basic, lifesaving vaccines. This technology could be an important step towards ensuring they get them."

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Posted by John Zipfel, Technical Program Manager

Here at Google Cloud, our goal is to enable our users and customers to be successful with options, high performance and value. We’re committed to open innovation, and look forward to working with industry partners on platform and infrastructure designs.

In fact, earlier this year, we announced that we would collaborate with Rackspace on the development of a new Open Compute Project (OCP) server based on the IBM POWER9 CPU. And we recently announced that we joined the OpenCAPI Consortium in support of the new open standard for a high-speed pathway to improve server performance. Today, we’re excited to share the first spec draft of our new server, Zaius P9 Server, which combines the benefits of IBM POWER9 and OpenCAPI for the OCP community.

Over the past few months, we’ve worked closely with Rackspace, IBM and Ingrasys to learn about the needs of the OCP community and help ensure that Zaius is useful for a broad set of users. With Zaius, Google is building upon the success of the Open Server specification and Barreleye platforms, while contributing the 12 years of experience we’ve gained from designing and deploying servers in our own data centers.

Zaius incorporates many design aspects that are new to Google and unique to OCP: POWER9 was designed to be an advanced accelerated computing platform for scale-out solutions, and will be available for components that use OpenCAPI and PCIE-Gen4 interfaces. The Zaius design brings out all possible PCIe Gen4 and OpenCAPI lanes from the processors to slots and connectors for an unprecedented amount of raw bandwidth compared to prior generation systems. Additionally, the updated package design reduces system complexity and the new microarchitecture provides increased efficiency and performance gains.

Block diagram of Zaius

The specifications

Zaius is a dual-socket platform based on the IBM POWER9 Scale Out CPU. It supports a host of new technologies including DDR4 memory, PCIE Gen4 and the OpenCAPI interface. It’s designed with a highly efficient 48V-POL power system and will be compatible with the 48v Open Rack V2.0 standard. The Zaius BMC software is being developed using Open BMC, the framework for which we’ve released on GitHub. Additionally, Zaius will support a PCIe Gen4 x16 OCP 2.0 mezzanine slot NIC.

We’ve shared these designs with the OCP community for feedback, and will submit them to the OCP Foundation later this year for review. Following this specification, we plan to release elements of the board’s design collateral, including the schematics and layout. If accepted, these standards will continue the goal of promoting 48V architectures. This is a draft specification of a preliminary, untested design, but we’re hoping that an early release will drive collaboration and discussion within the community.

We look forward to a future of heterogeneous architectures within our cloud. And, as we continue our commitment to open innovation, we’ll continue to collaborate with the industry to improve these designs and the product offerings available to our users.

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Startup Igneous Systems has re-discovered and re-imagined the idea of customers renting an externally managed system on their premises, giving it an Internet of Things (IoT) and public cloud make-over.

The new angles are that IoT devices can generate vast amounts of data which is difficult to send to a set of on-premises servers or the public cloud because transmission is too slow and/or the data is sensitive and needs to be retained on site.

Igneous’s answer is to store it locally in a public cloud-like, scale-out, hyper-converged system that can run some compute processes on the data, and be managed through the cloud. Example compute workloads are auto-tagging, metadata extraction, image processing, and text analysis.

Igneous owns and operates the on-premises equipment and the customer has a capacity-based subscription pricing scheme. The systems are remotely managed and monitored through a loud service, and there is automated cloud management processes for upgrades, troubleshooting, and failure management. Igneous claims that these functions can be performed on a mirror of incoming and outgoing data streams without slowing down low-level system functions.

The Igneous architecture utilises a microservices approach and incorporates stream processing, an event-driven framework, and container services.

Igneous nanoserver

The equipment is based on ARM-powered nano-servers, with each being a disk drive, ARM processor and Ethernet link. Igneous calls this a JBOND – Just a Bunch of Networked Drives. There is a SoC (System On Chip) with a Linux-running Marvell 32-bit Armada 370 processor, with two Cortex-A9 cores running at up to 1 GHz. Networking is via two 1 GbitE ports, and the nanoservers operate in a kind of mesh.

It reminds El Reg of Seagate’s Ethernet-addressed Kinetic disk drives, except that Igneous has had its own nanoservers built and the JBOND is accessed as an S3 data store. Any processing capabilities to operate on the stored data need adding. Data is stored using erasure coding and failed nanoserver disks have data rebuilt using other nanoservers.

We also think 32-bit ARM CPUs look a bit light in compute power terms and 64-bit ones will need to be used if any serious compute is going to be done on the data.

Access is via Amazon’s S3 API across a customer’s 10Gbit Ethernet infrastructure. Other public cloud service access protocols will probably be added in the future.

The dataBox and dataRouter systems

A dataBox has 60 drives (nano-servers with 6TB disks) in a 4U enclosure and is a capacity store. A dataRouter is a stateless 1U server used for protocol endpoints and keeping track of data in the nanoserver mesh.

Customers start with a 2×1 system of two dataRouters and one dataBox at a usable capacity of 212TB. The dataRouters and dataBoxes can scale independently.

Igneous cloud management dashboard

There is some existing third-party software support. For example, Commvault Virtual Server Protection (VSP) enables users to back up to an Igneous System and Infinite IO works with Igneous.

This Igneous nanoserver kit is an interesting start in what we might ultimately call micro or nano hyper-converged systems. Getting involved with it means leading/bleeding edge work for Linux and S3 buffs.

Get a datasheet here. The Igneous Data Service is available immediately to customers in North America. Customers can purchase annual subscriptions in increments of 212TB of usable capacity, starting at under $40,000 (equivalent to 1.5 cents/GB/month). This is claimed to be lower than the cost of S3 (3 cents/GB/month). Volume discounts are available, based on installed capacity or contract duration. ®

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Many AWS customers use Amazon ElastiCache to implement a fast, in-memory data store for their applications.

We launched Amazon ElastiCache for Redis in 2013 and have added snapshot exports to S3, a refreshed engine, scale-up capabilities, tagging, and support for Multi-AZ operation with automatic failover over the past year or so.

Today we are adding a healthy collection of new features and capabilities to ElastiCache for Redis. Here’s an overview:

Sharded Cluster Support – You can now create sharded clusters that can hold more than 3.5 TiB of in-memory data.

Improved Console – Creation and maintenance of clusters is now more straightforward and requires far fewer clicks.

Engine Update – You now have access to the features of the Redis 3.2 engine.

Geospatial Data – You can now store and process geospatial data.

Let’s dive in!

Sharded Cluster Support / New Console
Until now, ElastiCache for Redis allowed you to create a cluster containing a single primary node and up to 5 read replicas. This model limited the size of the in-memory data store to 237 GiB per cluster.

You can now create clusters with up to 15 shards, expanding the overall in-memory data store to more than 3.5 TiB. Each shard can have up to 5 read replicas, giving you the ability to handle 20 million reads and 4.5 million writes per second.

The sharded model, in conjunction with the read replicas, improves overall performance and availability. Data is spread across multiple nodes and the read replicas support rapid, automatic failover in the event that a primary node has an issue.

In order to take advantage of the sharded model, you must use a Redis client that is cluster-aware. The client will treat the cluster as a hash table with 16,384 slots spread equally across the shards, and will then map the incoming keys to the proper shard.

ElastiCache for Redis treats the entire cluster as a unit for backup and restore purposes; you don’t have to think about or manage backups for the individual shards.

The Console has been improved and I can create my first Scale Out cluster with ease (note that I checked Cluster Mode enabled (Scale Out) after I chose Redis as my Cluster engine):

The Console helps me to choose a suitable node type with a handy new menu:

You can also create sharded clusters using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, the ElastiCache API, or via a AWS CloudFormation template.

Engine Update
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is compatible with version 3.2 of the Redis engine. The engine includes three new features that may be of interest to you:

Enforced Write Consistency – the new WAIT command blocks the caller until all previous write commands have been acknowledged by the primary node and a specified number of read replicas. This change does not make Redis in to a strongly consistent data store, but it does improve the odds that a freshly promoted read replica will include the most recent writes to previous primary.

SPOP with COUNT – The SPOP command removes and then returns a random element from a set. You can now request more than one element at a time.

Bitfields – Bitfields are a memory-efficient way to store a collection of many small integers as a bitmap, stored as a Redis string. Using the BITFIELD command, you can address (GET) and manipulate (SET, increment, or decrement) fields of varying widths without having to think about alignment to byte or word boundaries.

Our implementation of Redis includes a snapshot mechanism that does not need to fork the server process into parent and child processes. Under heavy load, the standard, fork-based snapshot mechanism can lead to degraded performance due to swapping. Our alternative implementation comes in to play when memory utilization is above 50% and neatly sidesteps the issue. It is a bit slower, so we use it only when necessary.

We have improved the performance of the syncing mechanism that brings a fresh read replica into sync with its primary node. We made a similar improvement to the mechanism that brings the remaining read replicas back in to sync with the newly promoted primary node.

As I noted earlier, our engine is compatible with the comparable open source version and your applications do not require any changes.

Geospatial Data
You can now store and query geospatial data (a latitude and a longitude). Here are the commands:

• GEOADD – Insert a geospatial item.
• GEODIST – Get the distance between two geospatial items.
• GEOHASH – Get a Geohash (geocoding) string for an item.
• GEOPOS – Return the positions of items identified by a key.
• GEORADIUS -Return items that are within a specified radius of a location.
• GEORADIUSBYMEMBER – Return items that are within a specified radius of another item.

Available Now
Sharded cluster creation and all of the features that I mentioned are available now and you can start using them today in all AWS regions.

— Jeff;

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One area limiting speed in personal computing speed is memory — specifically, how quickly individual memory cells can be switched, which is currently done using an external magnetic field. European and Russian scientists have proposed a new method using much more rapid terahertz radiation, aka "T-rays," the same things used in airport body scanners. According to their research, published in the journal Nature, swapping out magnetic fields for T-rays could crank up the rate of the cell-resetting process by a factor of 1000, which could be used to create ultrafast memory.

The radiation is actually a series of short electromagnetic pulses pinging the cells at terahertz frequencies (which have wavelengths of about 0.1 millimeter, lying between microwaves and infrared light, according to the scientists’ press release). Most of the recent T-ray experiments have dealt with quick, precise inspections of organic and mechanical material. Aside from quickly scanning you for contraband and awkward bulges at airports, other proposals have involved using terahertz radiation to look into broken microchip innards, peer into fragile texts and even comb airport luggage for bombs.

But similar to those hypothetical applications, you won’t see T-rays in your PCs any time soon. The scientists have successfully demonstrated the concept on a weak ferromagnet, thulium orthoferrite (TmFeO₃), and even found that the terahertz radiation’s effect was ten times greater than a traditional external magnetic field, meaning the new method is both far faster and more efficient. But the scientists have yet to publish tests on actual computer memory cells, so it’s unknown when, or if, T-rays will buzz around inside your machine.

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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at the new Tap feature in Word and Outlook 2016.

Find information using Tap in Word and Outlook 2016 (Image Credit: Russell Smith)

Microsoft recognizes that the real power of cloud services, such as Office 365, lies not necessarily in the client apps that we use to access and work with data, but in the ability to tap into data and use analytics and business intelligence (BI) to get insights for making business decisions.

Often knowledge workers don’t need complex BI or analytics, but just access to company data that has already been presented in a document so that it can be reused somewhere else. Sounds like it ought to be a simple task, right?

If you synchronize documents to your local device from SharePoint or OneDrive for Business, you can leave Office and use Cortana or File Explorer to search for information, open the desired document, and then copy and paste the text, object, or graphic once you’ve located it in the file. Or alternatively, you can search files using the Office 365 web portal. It’s not that hard, but there are a lot of steps in this process.

Office Tap is available for Office 365 users with Business Premium, Enterprise E3, or Enterprise E5 subscriptions, and aims to provide an easier way to re-purpose frequently used information from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. A list of recommended objects is presented when you open the Tap pane, but if Tap doesn’t recommend something useful, you can still run a more comprehensive search without leaving the Tap pane.

Tap is focused on searching for objects in documents, such as images and tables, that might be relevant. That’s not to say that text isn’t searched, but currently Tap doesn’t identify chunks of text that might be what you’re looking for. Documents with relevant text are included in the search results, you’ll just have to open the document manually and locate what you’d like to use. If an image or table is what you need, you can add the object from the Tap pane without opening the document in which the object is contained.

• Tap can be accessed in Word and Outlook from the Insert tab on the ribbon. Just click Document Item in the Tap section of the tab to open the Tap pane.
• Look through the list of recommended results and select an object to insert.
• If Tap doesn’t surface anything useful, in the search box on the Tap pane, type what you want to search for and press ENTER.
• The results will appear in the Tap pane.

Each document that contains relevant results is represented in the pane as a tile. If specific objects relevant to your search are surfaced, they will be represented as icons at the bottom of each tile, including a count of each object type. These objects can be expanded and viewed by clicking the arrow in the bottom left corner of the tile. Or you can open the document by selecting more options in the bottom right corner and clicking Open in Word.

Tap currently appears to be limited to searching OneDrive for Business, so information stored in SharePoint libraries won’t be surfaced. If you need to open a document from the Tap pane, it will be opened in a web browser and not using an Office app on your device. But going forward, Microsoft will no doubt improve Tap to make it easier to use.

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Azure PowerShell is a set of PowerShell cmdlets which assist you in managing your assets in Azure using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure Service Management (RDFE).  Azure PowerShell 3.0.0 adds various improvements and fixes across multiple Azure resources; however, in accordance with semantic versioning, the introduction of a new major revision indicates breaking changes in a small subset of our cmdlets.  You can install the cmdlets via your favorite installation path indicated in the Azure PowerShell 3.0.0 release notes.

Resource improvements

ApiManagement

• Enable support of Importing and Exporting SOAP based APIs (Wsdl Format)

  • Import-AzureRmApiManagementApi
  • Export-AzureRmApiManagementApi
• Deprecated cmdlet Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks. In place, place used cmdlet Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment
• Enabled support for ARM based VNETs for configuration Vpn via cmdlet Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment
• Introduced support for VpnType (None, External, Internal) to differentiate ApiManagement workloads for Internet and Intranet
• Fixed PowerShell issues
  • #2622
  • #2606

Batch

• Added new cmdlet for reactivating tasks

  • Enable-AzureBatchTask
• Added new parameter for application packages on job manager tasks and cloud tasks
  • New-AzureBatchTask -ApplicationPackageReferences
• Added new parameters for job auto termination
  • New-AzureBatchJob -OnAllTasksComplete -OnTaskFailure
  • New-AzureBatchJob -ExitConditions

ExpressRoute

• Added new parameter service key in return object when provider list all cross connection

  • Get-AzureCrossConnectionCommand

MachineLearning

• Get-AzureRmMlWebService supports paginated response
• Remind user Get-AzureRmMlWebService "Name" parameter needs to work with "ResourceGroupName" parameter

Network

• Added new cmdlet to get application gateway backend health

  • Get-AzureRmApplicationGatewayBackendHealth
• Added support for creating UltraPerformance sku
  • New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -GatewaySku
  • New-AzureVirtualNetworkGateway -GatewaySku

RemoteApp

• Added cmdlets to enable User Disk and Gold Image Migration feature

  • Export-AzureRemoteAppUserDisk
  • Export-AzureRemoteAppTemplateImage

SiteRecovery

• New cmdlets have been added to support one to one mapping with service objects.

  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabric
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectableItem
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPoin
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider
  • New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabri
  • New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
  • New-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
  • Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryFabric
  • Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainerMapping
  • Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
  • Remove-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider
  • Set-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem
  • Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryApplyRecoveryPoint
  • Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryServicesProvider
• Following cmdlets have been modified for to support one to one mapping with service objects.
  • Edit-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPlan
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryNetwork
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryNetworkMapping
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionContainer
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryStorageClassification
  • Get-AzureRmSiteRecoveryStorageClassificationMapping
  • Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryCommitFailoverJob
  • Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryPlannedFailoverJob
  • Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryTestFailoverJob
  • Start-AzureRmSiteRecoveryUnplannedFailoverJob
  • Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryProtectionDirection
  • Update-AzureRmSiteRecoveryRecoveryPlan
• HUB support added to Set-AzureRmSiteRecoveryReplicationProtectedItem.
• Deprecation warning introduced for cmlets/parameter-sets which does not comply to SiteRecovery service object model.

Breaking changes

Data Lake Store

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2965):

Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Get-AdlStoreItemAcl)

• This cmdlet was removed and replaced with Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry).
• The old cmdlet returned a complex object representing the access control list (ACL). The new cmdlet returns a simple list of entries in the chosen path’s ACL.

# Old
Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

# New
Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry)

• This cmdlet replaces the old cmdlet Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Get-AdlStoreItemAcl).
• This new cmdlet returns a simple list of entries in the chosen path’s ACL, with type DataLakeStoreItemAce[].
• The output of this cmdlet can be passed in to the -Acl parameter of the following cmdlets:
  • Remove-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl
  • Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl
  • Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry

# Old
Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

# New
Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo

Remove-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Remove-AdlStoreItemAcl), Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAcl (Set-AdlStoreItemAcl), Set-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Set-AdlStoreItemAclEntry)

• These cmdlets now accept DataLakeStoreItemAce[] for the -Acl parameter.
• DataLakeStoreItemAce[] is returned by Get-AzureRmDataLakeStoreItemAclEntry (Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry).

# Old
$acl = Get-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo
Set-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo -Acl $acl

# New
$aclEntries = Get-AdlStoreItemAclEntry -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo
Set-AdlStoreItemAcl -Account myadlsaccount -Path /foo -Acl $aclEntries

ApiManagement

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2971):

New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork

• The required parameters to reference a virtual network changed from requiring SubnetName and VnetId to SubnetResourceId in format/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ClassicNetwork/virtualNetworks/{virtualNetworkName}/subnets/{subnetName}

# Old
$virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetName <String> -VnetId <Guid>

# New
$virtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetResourceId <String>

Deprecating Cmdlet Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks

• The Cmdlet is getting deprecated as there was more than one way to Set Virtual Network associated to ApiManagement deployment.

# Old
$networksList = @()
$networksList += New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location $vnetLocation -VnetId $vnetId -SubnetName $subnetName
Set-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetworks -ResourceGroupName "ContosoGroup" -Name "ContosoApi" -VirtualNetworks $networksList

# New
$masterRegionVirtualNetwork = New-AzureRmApiManagementVirtualNetwork -Location <String> -SubnetResourceId <String>
Update-AzureRmApiManagementDeployment -ResourceGroupName "ContosoGroup" -Name "ContosoApi" -VirtualNetwork $masterRegionVirtualNetwork

Network

The following cmdlets were affected this release (PR 2982):

New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway

• Description of what has changed :- Bool parameter:-ActiveActive is removed and SwitchParameter:-EnableActiveActiveFeature is added for enabling Active-Active feature on newly creating virtual network gateway.

# Old 
# Sample of how the cmdlet was previously called
New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -ResourceGroupName $rgname -name $rname -Location $location -IpConfigurations $vnetIpConfig1,$vnetIpConfig2 -GatewayType Vpn -VpnType RouteBased -EnableBgp $false -GatewaySku HighPerformance -ActiveActive $true

# New
# Sample of how the cmdlet should now be called
New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -ResourceGroupName $rgname -name $rname -Location $location -IpConfigurations $vnetIpConfig1,$vnetIpConfig2 -GatewayType Vpn -VpnType RouteBased -EnableBgp $false -GatewaySku HighPerformance -EnableActiveActiveFeature

Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway

• Description of what has changed :- Bool parameter:-ActiveActive is removed and 2 SwitchParameters:-EnableActiveActiveFeature / DisableActiveActiveFeature are added for enabling and disabling Active-Active feature on virtual network gateway.

# Old
# Sample of how the cmdlet was previously called
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -ActiveActive $true
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -ActiveActive $false  

# New
# Sample of how the cmdlet should now be called
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -EnableActiveActiveFeature
Set-AzureRmVirtualNetworkGateway -VirtualNetworkGateway $gw -DisableActiveActiveFeature

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It’s hard to remember a time when Microsoft Paint wasn’t shorthand for something ham-handedly drawn on a free computer art program. And the while, the software giant has upgraded the app with some regularity in the 30+ plus years since it was first introduced along with Windows 1.0, it will take a lot of doing to remove its association with poorly crafted memes.

It seems likely that the taint may never fully go away, but new leaks point to an upgrade for Windows 10 that may well cause dismissive parties to take another good long look at the program. A new video leaked online ahead of October 26’s big Windows 10 event points to a Paint packing some impressive new features.

“Hi, and welcome to Paint,” the video’s host begins atop a bed of fittingly chipper music. “We have completely redesigned the app and it is packed with cool new features.”

What follows is an impressive demo that incorporates new simple 3D design functionality into the perennial program, which could well be Microsoft’s way of laying the groundwork for user created HoloLens content – something akin to an entry-level version of the Oculus Quill or Vive Tilt Brush.

The Verge took an early version of the application for a spin, and while it was lacking the most compelling 3D features (due, likely, to the fact that it dates back to May), the site seemed suitable impressed with the new program’s speed, bucking that old adage about watching Paint dry. Whatever the case, we’re looking to see something much more fully functioning at that event in a couple of weeks.