We are fortunate to have John Kozell, a Principal Consultant at Microsoft and an expert in all things Cosmos DB, specially when it comes to the Enterprise world. He gives us some unique perspectives on what Enterprises should do in order to make effective use of Cosmos DB to and also meet their compliance and operational goals.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode262.mp3

Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/467ae71b3c/

• 5-Minute Quickstarts: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/

• Global distribution: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/distribute-data-globally

• Backup & Restore/Compliance: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/online-backup-and-restore

• Monitoring: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/use-metrics

• Performance Tips: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/performance-tips

Other updates:

Microsoft announces partnership with Citrix to support Windows Virtual Desktop

Questions on data residency and compliance in Microsoft Azure? We got answers!

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/questions-on-data-residency-and-compliance-in-azure-we-got-answers/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2019/sprint-146-update?branch=releasenotes%2Fsprints145-146#features

Azure Boards:

· Simplify the organization of your work using the Basic process

Azure Pipelines:

· GitHub Enterprise support in the pipeline wizard

· Automatic GitHub service connections in pipelines

· Display status for each pipeline job in GitHub Checks

· Default authorization for YAML resources in GitHub

· Service containers for YAML pipelines

· Work items linked to GitHub commits in Release Summary

· New Azure App service tasks optimized for YAML

· Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support in Azure SQL task

· Grafana annotations service hook

· Query Azure Monitor alerts tasks

· Inline input of spec file in Deploy to Kubernetes task

· Docker CLI Installer task

· Java long-term support (LTS) on Microsoft hosted agents

· YAML support for Bitbucket Cloud pipelines

· Avoid triggering multiple CI builds for pull requests

· Change build numbers, upload and download artifacts in forked repository builds

· New option in Publish Test Results task to fail build on failed tests

· Updates to the Azure portal for creating an Azure DevOps project

· Use the Azure portal to set up and deploy to an Azure Cosmos DB database

· Set up builds and release pipelines for Functions in the Azure portal

Azure Artifacts:

· Package usage stats

Wiki:

· Monospaced font for wiki Markdown editor

· Bold wiki page titles

· Insert Markdown table

· Embed Azure Boards query results in wiki

Administration:

Restore deleted projects

Azure Migrate is now available in Asia and Europe

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-migrate-is-now-available-in-asia-and-europe/