Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 21st November 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

Windows Azure Platform

• More Great Improvements to the Windows Azure Management Portal

• Microsoft's Server and Tools unit now includes six $1 billion businesses
• Microsoft Finalizes StorSimple Acquisition
• Microsoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant
• Microsoft Is Beating Google For Big Cloud Deals Because It's Hungrier

Microsoft

• Microsoft Acquires StorSimple

• Gartner: PaaS revenue to touch $2.9bn in 2016, from $900m in 2011

• Real World Windows Azure: IT Firm Improves Its Flagship Product and Reaches More Customers with Cloud Solution
• Nomaders migrates its online travel to Windows Azure platform and save 70% on your costs
• Windows Azure in Education

TECHNOLOGY

• Understanding Application Tenancy with Windows Azure – Part 2
• The cloud keeps it Simple – Meet Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Training Kit - November 2012

• Windows Azure Code Samples
• Upgrading to Azure SDK 1.8
• Windows Azure and Embedded Devices

• Get Up to Speed with Azure Command-Line Tools for Mac and Linux V0.6.7
• JavaScript, Meet Cloud: Node.js on Windows Azure
• MongoDB on Windows Azure for .NET Developers
• Using LucidWorks on Windows Azure (Part 1 of a multi-part MS Open Tech series)

• Windows Azure Services for Windows Server

Features

• Complete walkthrough: Setting up a ADFS 2.0 Server on Windows Azure IaaS and Configuring it as an Identity Provider in Windows Azure ACS
• A Refresh of the Windows Azure Authentication Library Developer Preview

• Supercomputing on Demand with Windows Azure
• Hadoop on Azure : Introduction

• Building Rich Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services

• Lifting Mobile Apps Into the Cloud with Windows Azure Mobile Service
• Mobile Service on Windows Azure (part1)

• PHP 5.4 Now Native in Windows Azure Web Sites
• Continuous Deployment in Windows Azure Web Sites - Windows Azure Web Sites now allows Continuous Deployment from Private Repositories
• Composer on Azure Websites

• Passive FTP and dynamic ports in IIS8 and Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Running RavenDB on Windows Azure using a Virtual Machine
• Running EPiServer on Windows Azure

• Windows network virtualization is not enabled on a host NIC available for placement
• Deploying DirectAccess in Azure

Core Services

• New tutorials for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Scale out with Windows Azure SQL Database
• The Good, Bad and Ugly of Cloud Reporting
• WANT MY DB_NAMEs BACK! - How to get database names for federation members from your federations and federated databases...

• Storage Client Library 2.0 – Migrating Table Storage Code
• Wazproxy: an HTTP Proxy That Signs Windows Azure Storage
• Authorization request signing for Windows Azure Storage REST API from PowerShell
• Microsoft AppFabric CAT Best Practices- Storage Service Smart Client
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil–Why do we need Drives?

Other

• How does Windows Azure PowerShell import publishsettings using Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile command?
• Configuring Online Backup for Windows Server 2012

• SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure

• Digital Folio to Deliver Real-time Retail Pricing Data through Windows Azure Marketplace

• Walkthrough: Using New Relic to monitor your Windows Azure Cloud Services            
• Book: Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure - Book Download

COMMUNITY

• Best of Build 2012  | Michael Washam | Channel 9 

• Java fast food for thought: running Java code on Windows Azure - Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:30 PM GMT+1

User Groups

• Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari)
• Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
• Brisbane (Dean Robertson)
• Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
• Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung)

Regional

• NZ: Follow @technetnz @msdnnz
• Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

• Check in on what MVPs around Australia & New Zealand are up to

Social

• Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
• FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
• Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia