You may have received this kind of e-mail and wonder if you have already VM Roles deployed. There are good chances the answer is no, but let’s check.   Dear Customer, The Windows Azure VM Role preview is being retired on May 15. Please transition...

Windows Azure HDInsight is the simplest option to get a Hadoop cluster up and running very quickly in a Windows Azure environment. Among other numerous advantages, this service allows to use Windows Azure blob storage (ASV or Azure Storage Vault for short...

There has been some news about Windows Azure Active Directory recently. Yesterday an announce has been made about a deeper integration between Windows Azure portal and Windows Azure Active Directory ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013...

I sometimes show a platform that requires a bunch of Windows Azure virtual machines. It has 1 Active Directory domain controller (n123dc1), 3 SQL Server VMs for database mirroring (n123sql1, n123sql2, and n123sp20131 which also happens to have a SharePoint...

I regularly use the following trick while writing an e-mail so that I don’t send it by error before it is fully written: J’utilise régulièrement le truc suivant lorsque j’écris des e-mails, de façon à ne pas envoyer par erreur un message encore en cours...

Announced at the //build conference, HDInsight is available as a Web Platform Installer installation. This allows to have Hadoop on a Windows box (like a laptop) without requiring cygwin. Comme annoncé à la conférence //build , HDInsight est disponible...

I worked on a white paper which has just been published on MSDN J’ai travaillé sur un livre blanc qui vient d’être publié sur MSDN Leveraging a Hadoop cluster from SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) I’d like to point out that the paper comes with...

I suppose you have a Windows machine and a Linux machine. You want to get a blob directly from Blob storage to the Linux machine. Je suppose ici qu’on a une machine Windows et une machine Linux. On veut récupérer un blob directement du blob storage à...

One of the most famous wiki engines is MediaWiki; You may not know its name, but you may know Wikipedia which is running it! Un des moteurs de wiki les plus connus est MediaWiki. Vous ne connaissez peut-être pas son nom, mais vous pouvez avoir entendu...

Windows Azure Web Sites makes it easy to create new Web Sites. A site can be empty, created from a popular framework such as Wordpress or Umbraco, or the result of a migration from an existing app. Les sites Web Windows Azure simplifient la création de...

Since June 2012, a preview of Windows Azure Media Services is available. This post provides sample code and execution screenshots of the following scenario: Encoding an MP4 file to Smooth Streaming and Apple HLS in the cloud. Depuis juin 2012, une version...

A few days ago, I was using Windows Azure PowserShell cmdlets to create a new virtual machine, and I got an error that didn’t provide the exception details. I requested some help internally and could eventually have additional information on my exception...

With the new release of Windows Azure Web Sites in June 2012, it is now possible to have free ASP.NET hosting for simple usage. Avec la sortie des sites Web Windows Azure en Juin 2012, il est maintenant possible d’avoir de l’hébergement gratuit d’ASP...

This post is to share some source code of a sample application that shows how to develop a Facebook Canvas App. hosted in Windows Azure. Ce billet a pour but de partager le code source d’une application exemple qui montre comment développer...

    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...