#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter - 17th October 2011

• Public system helps light up ETSA Utilities' electricity network map

Local writer Thiago Almedia contributes to MSDN:

• How to integrate a BizTalk Server application with Service Bus Queues and Topics
        

• Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure     
• Inserting Null Value for Integer columns in Windows Azure Table

• SQLPass sessions:
• Deploy On-Premises SQL Server Database to SQL Azure and Backup to Windows Azure in SSMS 2012
• New Metro SQL Azure Management Portal with No-Downtime, Click-to-Scale Federation

• Using the Windows Azure Service Bus - Queuing
• Windows Azure AppFabric–The Middleware for the Cloud– Slides + Code Demo
        

• “Data Explorer” Creates Mashups from Big Data, DataMarket and Excel Sources
• OData and Windows Azure

• Updates to SQL Azure Database with Roger Doherty

• Security Firm G4S Moves to the Cloud with Windows Azure  

• Excel DataScope
• Alchemy Solution NeoKicks Enables Mainframe Applications To Run On Windows Azure
• World Data Digital Dashboard by ComponentArt visualising data gleaned from the Azure Marketplace
• Attunity Replicate loads data from SQL Server, Oracle and IBM's DB2 databases to SQL Azure
• CA ERwin Data Modeler for Microsoft SQL Azure coming soon
• Riverbed extends archiving to Azure with automated backups

• How To Block un-validated Windows Azure Deployments
• how to run EXEs on startup w/o custom code using Windows Azure SDK 1.5
• Setting up the SQL Azure Sync Services Preview

• Implementing Windows Azure Retry Logic
• Windows Azure Planning – A Post-decision Guide to Integrate Windows Azure in Your Environment

• “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" now released

• Is it legal to send your data overseas?
• Stop complaining: NBN will save you money
• Enterprise Clouds: The last gasp of the old gaurd
• The cloud infographic - Powering the cloud

• Emerson to build NBN facilities
• How the Private Cloud affects your IT department
• Data is like gold
• 13 Common problems cloud computing does not solve

• Windows 8 hands on labs available
• Microsoft has agreed to lease its water treatment plant to the city of Quincy, Washington
• Microsoft Expands Data Platform to Help Customers Manage the ‘New Currency of the Cloud’

          
• Platform:
• Microsoft to develop Hadoop distributions for Windows Server and Azure

• Upcoming SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release
• SQL Azure Data Sync Gets Point-And-Click Management, Filtered Synchronization
• Upcoming Increased Database Limits, for SQL Azure Federation
• A New SQL Azure Reporting CTP Release
• Other
• Updated Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block beta release with an RI (sample app)
• The Windows Azure Team now offers Real-World Guidance and Live Help for the Windows Azure Platform
• Reported
• First Azure-hosted Microsoft ERP service due in Fall 2012
• SQL Server 2012: Microsoft's Case for Structured Data in the Cloud Era        

• Sydney Windows Azure User Group meeting on 2nd Nov
• MSFT Switched ON – LightSwitch and Azure around AU

ADELAIDE – 18 Oct
BRISBANE – 19 Oct
CANBERRA – 25 Oct
MELBOURNE – 26 Oct
PERTH – 2 Nov
SYDNEY – 10 Nov

• Readify Dev Day 25/10- Whats new: Windows 8 & Visual Studio 11- Click here for more details and registration

• Using Windows Azure Storage Securely
  Tue, Oct 11, 2011 8:00 AM PST
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Don’t forget the Windows Azure Feature Voting

User groups:

• Sydney (Conor Brady)
• Melbourne (coming soon)
• Brisbane (in planning – talk to Steve Nagy)
• Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)

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