Russell, Cale and Sujit talk to Donovan Brown, the DevOps Senior PM, about the maturity of VSTS and how companies can adopt DevOps both in the cloud and on-premises.  Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode155.mp3 @DonovanBrown   Other updates: URL Authorization Rules in App Service Friday, November 18, 2016 We’re happy to announce the initial preview of URL Authorization Rules in Azure App Service. One of the goals of Azure App Service Authentication / Authorization is to make it easy to add “auth” to your App Service apps (which is why we often refer to it as Easy Auth). Most of our investments so far have focused on creating a streamlined authentication setup experience. However, until now, authorization was something developers had to implement mostly on their own. Typically, authorization rules involve restricting access to certain resources within your app. Ideally, such authorization rules can be just as simple to set up without writing a bunch of custom code. Read more on how to implement these new authorization rules in our team blog.   Single VM SLA – but you need to use premium storage.  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-4-tb-for-sap-hana-single-instance-sla-and-hybrid-use-benefit-images/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-auto-shutdown-for-vms-using-azure-resource-manager/   Schedule based shutdown. Webhooks to be called 15 minutes before shutdown.     https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-token-authentication-with-azure-cdn/ Authenticated requests for content right at the CDN Edge    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/enhancements-abound-in-general-availability-of-azure-iot-hub-device-management/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-azure-iot-hub-ip-filter/ Possibly in response to WebCam DDOS a few weeks ago.   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-gateway-sdk-general-availability-release/ On-premises IoT gatewyas can easily hook up to Azure to do further upstream processing.    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-paas-services-available-for-azure-stack-technical-preview-2-tp2/ App Service and SQL and MySQL services now available for Stack.    Announcing the public preview of Azure Advisor https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-azure-advisor/