This post is about using a partition key while the rowkey is a GUID in Windows Azure Table Storage . You may read more on Windows Azure Tables partitioning in this MSDN article . Ce billet est à propos de l’utilisation d’une clef de partition...

  Some domain registrars may let you request an SSL certificate for your domain. It is also possible to buy a certificate from a certificate authority. This post shows a way to request such a real or production certificate (not a test certificate...

  In this post, we’ll see how a Windows Azure application can be packaged from within Visual Studio 2010, then, you’ll have a chance to deploy this package to your Windows Azure environment and discover how the application is deployed by connecting...

On my development machine, I wanted to install the SQL Server Data Tools. With Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2012 RTM installed, the SSDT are still to be installed from here : Sur ma machine de développement, je voulais installer les outils de données...

The session about server side JavaScript is available online with its slides and its video. Here are the links (NB: the content is in French) La session “JavaScript aussi sur le serveur et jusque dans le cloud?” est disponible en ligne http://aka.ms/wd3afq...

In a previous post, I talked about analyzing 1 TB of IIS logs with JavaScript thru Hadoop Map/Reduce . In this post, let’s see how to copy and use the result of these jobs to SQL Azure. Dans un billet précédent, il a été...

In order to create a SQL Azure database from the Windows Azure Portal , one first needs to create a SQL Azure Server as explained here . Pour créer une base SQL Azure depuis le portail Windows Azure , on doit d’abord créer un serveur...

  As described in a previous post , Microsoft has ported Apache Hadoop to Windows Azure (this will also be available on Windows Server). This is available as a private community technology preview for now. Comme nous l’avons vu dans un billet précédent...

The goal of this blog post is to show that it is as easy with SQL Azure as with SQL Server to push data with SSIS. Le but de ce billet est de montrer qu’il est aussi simple de pousser des données avec SSIS vers SQL Azure que vers SQL Server. In this sample...

  FABRIKAM is a manufacturing company who has CONTOSO as one of its resellers. FABRIKAM would like to get their sales number thru CONTOSO channel, but CONTOSO does not want to give access to their own database and they don’t have the time to create...

You have a SQL Azure Server. You can access the databases thru the administrator login you specified while creating the SQL Azure Server . On dispose d’un serveur SQL Azure. On peut y accéder avec le compte administrateur qui a été spécifié lors de la...

Here is one of the use cases of Hadoop on Azure: you have a few applications accumulating data over time and you need to execute batches against this data a few times a month. You need many machines in an Hadoop cluster, but most of the time, you don...

Here are a few links about Windows Azure Platform performance Voici quelques liens sur les performances dans la plateforme Windows Azure NB: this post contains screen shots for the links. Please follow the links to get the most recent and up to date information...

A preview version of Hadoop on Windows Azure is available. The details of that availability is at Une pré-version d’Hadoop sur Azure est disponible. Les détails de cette disponibilité sont à availability-of-community-technology-preview-ctp-of-hadoop-based...

This afternoon, Microsoft announced a number of updates and improvements to Windows Azure that will help developers to more easily access Windows Azure and unlock the value of cloud computing as a development platform. Cet après-midi, Microsoft a annoncé...

English Français Once you’ve installed the Windows Azure SDK , you can use the local Emulator. This does not require a Windows Azure account at this stage. You can get one later. Une fois que vous avez installé le Windows Azure SDK 1.6 , vous pouvez utiliser...

Here is how to install Visual Studio 2010 SP1, typically after having installed the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 . Voici comment installer Visual Studio 2010 SP1, typiquement après avoir installé le SDK 1.6 de Windows Azure .     Benjamin

Before using Windows Azure with PHP, you will need the SDK for PHP. Instructions to install it are available here: http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/articles/setup-the-windows-azure-sdk-for-php , but this post was written before SDK 1.6 was...

English Français This article shows most of the steps decribed on the Interoperability Bridges web site . The main differences are that it shows more screen shots, it is tested against Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Nov. 2011) with latest available package (Drupal...

English Français In this post, the goal is to have the configuration lines to set remote desktop in a Windows Azure Package. 14-DEC-2011 UPDATE: an alternative way is available at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/other...

English Français In this post, it is shown how to install Windows Azure SDK 1.6 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine that has no Visual Studio installed. Dans ce billet, on montre comment installer le Windows Azure SDK 1.6 sur...

English Français Here is how to create a SQL Azure Server. Voici comment créer un serveur SQL Azure. Navigate to http://windows.azure.com and login with a Live ID that has access to a current Windows Azure subscription...

English Français In a previous post , we saw what certificates are for while using Windows Azure. Here is a quick explanation on how to manage and find such certificates in Windows and in Windows Azure. Dans un billet précédent , nous avons vu à quoi...

English Français As announced on the Windows Azure blog, “ Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games ” version 1.1 was just release. Here is the architecture diagram that can be found in the documentation of the toolkit, once installed: Comme annoncé sur...

  English Français This video shows a Windows Azure VIP Swap (VIP = Virtual IP Address), which is one of the means to deploy a version n+1 of a web site while version n is live. Cette vidéo montre un échange d’adresses IP virtuelles qui est un moyen...