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Microsoft Online Documentation Sources
Microsoft documentation provided important source material for many of the backend and IoT components described in this book. The documentation can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com.
Much of the source material listed here leads to more detailed documents. Where should your start? The “What is/What are” documents in the list point to further detail for many of the components that we described. Some of the key documents we accessed included the following (listed alphabetically by title along with most recent update date at the time we wrote the book):
About Azure Bot Service, 05/04/2019.
Azure enterprise scaffold: Prescriptive subscription governance, 09/21/2018.
Azure Event Hubs – A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service, 12/05/2018.
Azure IoT Central Architecture, 05/30/2019.
Azure IoT Edge security manager, 07/29/2018.
Azure IoT reference architecture, 01/08/2019.
Azure Machine Learning integration in Power BI, 05/30/2019.
Azure Time Series Insights explorer, 05/06/2019.
Choose a real-time analytics and streaming processing technology on Azure, 05/14/2019.
Choose a solution for connecting an on-premises network to Azure, 07/01/2018.
Compare storage options for use with Azure HDInsight clusters, 06/16/2019.
Container support in Azure Cognitive Services, 06/10/2019.
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Azure Data Factory, 01/16/2019.
Create a bot with Azure Bot Service, 05/30/2019.
Create a new device template version, 03/25/2019.
Device connectivity in Azure IoT Central, 04/08/2019.
Device Simulation solution accelerator overview, 12/02/2018.
Feature comparison: Azure SQL Database versus SQL Server, 05/09/2019.
HDInsight 4.0 overview (Preview), 10/03/2018.
Information Bot Scenario, 12/12/2017.
Ingest data from Event Hub into Azure Data Explorer, 07/16/2019.
Internet of Things (IoT) Bot Scenario, 12/12/2017.
Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, 12/05/2018.
Introduction to the Azure IoT reference architecture, 12/03/2018.
Introduction to the Geo Artificial Intelligence Data Science Virtual Machine, 03/04/2018.
Machine Learning Anomaly Detection API, 06/04/2017.
Manage devices in your Azure IoT Central Application, 06/08/2019.
Monitor cluster performance (HDInsight), 05/28/2019.
OPC Twin architecture, 11/25/2018 .
Order device connection events from Azure IoT Hub using Cosmos DB, 04/10/2019.
Overview of Azure Digital Twins, 05/30/2019.
PolyBase scale-out groups, 04/22/2019.
Predictive Maintenance solution accelerator overview, 03/07/2019.
Provision a Geo Artificial Intelligence Virtual Machine on Azure, 03/04/2018.
Quickstart: Create an Azure Cosmos account, container, and items with the Azure portal, 07/11/2019.
Quickstart: Create an Azure Data Explorer cluster and database, 03/14/2019.
Quickstart: Create an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 storage account, 12/05/2018.
Quickstart: Create Apache Hadoop cluster in Azure HDInsight using Azure portal, 06/11/2019.
Quickstart: Find available rooms by using Azure Digital Twins, 06/25/2019.
Quickstart: Query data in Azure Data Explorer Web UI, 07/03/2019.
Quickstart: Try a cloud-based solution to manage my industrial IoT devices, 07/03/2019.
Quickstart: Try a cloud-based solution to run a predictive maintenance analysis on my connected devices, 03/07/2019.
React to IoT Hub events by using Event Grid to trigger actions, 02/19/2019.
Reference – IoT Hub endpoints, 06/09/2019.
Remote Monitoring solution accelerator overview, 03/07/2019.
Security considerations for data movement in Azure Data Factory, 06/14/2018 .
Set up a device template, 06/18/2019.
The Azure Blob Filesystem driver (ABFS): A dedicated Azure Storage driver for Hadoop, 12/05/2018.
Time series analysis in Azure Data Explorer, 04/06/2019.
Tutorial: Add a real device to your Azure IoT Central application, 04/22/2019.
Tutorial: Create a custom simulated device, 10/24/2018.
Tutorial: Stream data into Azure Databricks using Event Hubs, 06/20/2018.
Types of insights supported by Power BI, 12/05/2018.
Use Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure IoT Hub, 11/05/2018.
Use features in the Connected Factory solution accelerator dashboard, 07/09/2018.
Ways to share your work in Power BI, 06/06/2019.
Welcome to CosmosDB, 07/22/2019.
What are Azure Cognitive Services?, 04/18/2019.
What are IoT solution accelerators?, 03/08/2019.
What are the Apache Hadoop components and versions available with HDInsight?, 06/06/2019.
What is Azure Data Explorer?, 09/23/2018.
What is Azure Databricks?, 06/07/2019.
What is Azure Event Grid?, 05/24/2019.
What is Azure HDInsight and the Apache Hadoop technology stack, 01/27/2019.
What is Azure IoT Central?, 04/23/2019.
What is Azure IoT Edge, 04/16/2019.
What is Azure IoT Hub?, 07/03/2018.
What is Azure Machine Learning service?, 05/01/2019.
What is Azure Sphere?, 05/01/2019.
What is Azure SQL Database Service?, 04/07/2019.
What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?, 05/29/2019.
What is Azure Stream Analytics?, 05/15/2019.
What is Azure Time Series Insights?, 04/25/2019.
What is Connected Factory IoT solution accelerator?, 06/09/2019 .
What is industrial IoT (IIoT)?, 11/25/2018.
What is Power BI?, 05/29/2019.
What is Power Query?, 10/15/2018.
What is the Anomaly Detector API?, 03/25/2019.
Other Web Site Sources
IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). https://www.iec.ch.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). https://www.ieee.org.
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). https://www.ietf.org.
ISA (International Society of Automation). https://www.isa.org.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization). https://www.iso.org.
Microsoft Azure IoT Device Catalog. https://catalog.azureiotsolutions.com.
OASIS (Advancing Open Standards for the Information Society). https://oasis-open.org.
OMG (Object Management Group). https://www.omg.org.
OPC Foundation (OPC UA industrial interoperability standard). https://opcfoundation.org.
OSIsoft (PI system). https://www.osisoft.com.
PTC (ThingWorx platform). https://www.ptc.com.
USDA Agricultural Research Service (photos courtesy of, used in Cognitive Services Custom Vision example). https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery.
W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium). https://www.w3c.org.