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#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 30th May 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:51:57 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Veda

Financial Services firm builds introductory services on Windows Azure. See Geocoder - Real-time address verification for Australia

Expanz

Platform update for the Azure portable framework fro fast apps, quick clients

LifeHacker

Learn Windows Azure And Win A Nokia Lumia 710 Smartphone. Easy and fun Windows Azure challenges !

Oh, and Lifehacker Meetups Are Back!

David Burela

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration Book reviewed by Neil Mackenzie

Microsoft

MEET WINDOWS AZURE DEV CAMPS

All day event in Sydney on the 19th June

Melbourne Azure User Group

Thu, 31 May, 2012

Building Node.js applications on Windows Azure

Microsoft and Breeze

Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network

June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise", Datacenter Expansion and Capacity Planning Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on the planet in 1999… Full Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges Published!
In the news	Azure Microsoft To Announce New Cloud Application Platform, Linux VMs for Azure Microsoft finally goes public with Windows Azure Active Directory details Microsoft to take the wraps off 'Antares' hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure Microsoft to battle Amazon with Azure improvements and services Microsoft Server and Tool Upgrades Demand CIOs' Attention Test your Windows Azure IQ Related Interest in Cloud Computing Has Peaked Searches down significantly from its previous highs set back in June 2011 Microsoft Microsoft Announces Worldwide Finalists for Imagine Cup 2012 Partner Bit-Wizards Selected by Microsoft as Windows Azure Circle Partner
Case Study	Full Scale 180 Tackles Database Scaling with Windows Azure Herbalife Hosts Independent Distributors’ Custom Websites on Windows Azure

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	How to calculate what to move to the Windows Azure cloud, with Wade Wegner
Architecture	Architectural Patterns for the Cloud WordPress: How to migrate from local development to Windows Azure Windows Azure Recipe: Enterprise LOBs
Security	Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: Data Center Security
DevOps	Interpreting Windows Azure Diagnostics Data and Making Adjustments Video: The most common issues support sees for Windows Azure Get CloudNinja for Help Developing Java Apps on Windows Azure Related: How Cloud Solves the IT Maintenance Dilemma – Part 2 Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Manage Your Windows Azure Deployments
Open	Node.js Developing and Deploying Node.js Express Web App on Windows Azure Beginner’s Guide to Node.js on Windows Azure Node.js in the cloud Java Windows Azure and Java: Working with Service Runtime Configuration Other: Develop on Mac, host on GitHub, and deploy to Windows Azure Lucene/Solr on Azure Windows Azure Mythbuster: Open Source
STORAGE	Does a Blob Exist?
SQL DATABASE	Configuring Azure Storage Emulator SQL Server Instance
MEDIA SERVICES	Cloud Cover - Episode 81 - Windows Azure Media Services
Office	Integrating LinkedIn to Mobile Apps and SharePoint using Azure Azure Data Center Performance for CRM Online
HPC	Big Data Big Data, Predictive Analytics, and Self-Service BI Customer Stories
Tools	End to end examples QoS dashboard from Opstera Glassboard 2.0 Private Boards - The app focuses on sharing among private groups, especially businesses, using Windows Azure-based services Introducing the Azure Plugin Library Sending email from Azure – 25,000 free messages per month Related: 50 New Resources and Tools for Web Developers

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Get ready to meet Windows Azure on June 7th MSDN Live Meeting: Windows 8 Notifications From Windows Azure - Tuesday, June 05, 2012 2:00 PM (GMT+1) Windows 8 Developer Camp – On Demand
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 23rd May 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:05:27 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

to follow

LaLaNinja

Using the Cloud as a security boundary…? No way!

Microsoft NZ

Azure slides from the NZ System Center 2012 launch event are online, great content

Microsoft

MEET AZURE DEV CAMPS

All day event in Sydney on the 19th June

Switched on Briefings

Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.

Sydney Azure User Group

'Building Hybrid Applications on Azure & CDN lightening talk'

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Melbourne Azure User Group

Thu, 31 May, 2012

Building Node.js applications on Windows Azure

Microsoft and Breeze

Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network

June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
In the news	Azure Microsoft Courts Azure Developers in Bangalore Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools CloudTip #15 - MEET Windows Azure Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again Microsoft Corporate VP Hadba urges app designers to think of cloud design before anything else Related Cloud computing in healthcare – turn here for answers Innovation isn’t dead, it just moved to the cloud Infographic: What is Private Cloud Computing? Microsoft Microsoft breaks big data sorting record Partner Hanu Software Selected to Join the Microsoft Windows Azure Circle Program
Case Study	ISV Guest Post Series: Softlibrary and Kern4Cloud on Windows Azure

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	CloudTip #13-What do you need to know to get started? Windows Azure Myths MC108-overview of Windows Azure Série – Windows Azure
Architecture	What are the Options for Managing Message State in Windows Azure? Design Guidelines for Cloud Computing Azure Performance Tips, Part 2: Cloud Checks (part 1) Data in Motion: The Other side of the Cloud Encryption Coin
STORAGE	Windows Azure and Java: Metering multi-tenant resource usage with Storage Analytics Windows Azure: Working with Blob Storage in an ASP.NET Application Managing Structured Data using Windows Azure Table Service Windows Azure tables: partitioning guid row keys
SQL DATABASE	CloudTip #14-How do I get SQL Profiler info from SQL Azure? ID Generation in Federations in Azure SQL Database: Identity, Sequences, Timestamp and GUIDs (Uniqueidentifier) Writing a small application to manipulate the [Windows Azure] SQL Database [a.k.a., SQL Azure] firewall
ACCESS CONTROL	Using a Security Token Service with an ASP.NET Application
SERVICE BUS	More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus Getting Started with the Service Bus Samples for Windows 8 Window Azure Service Bus: Use read-only credentials for your Service Bus clients
MEDIA SERVICES	Diving in Deep with Digital Rapids Kayak and Azure Media Services - Streaming Media Magazine
Office	Project VBA and Azure: Better Together
HPC	Numerix Analytics Portfolio Now Available on Windows Azure
Tools	Opstera Eases Transition to the Cloud With New Dashboard for Monitoring Windows Azure Azure on Codeplex CloudBerry Backup version 2.8.

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Get ready to meet Windows Azure on June 7th
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action –Community Newsletter – 16th May 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:32:39 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

AppPoint Software Solutions

Regional – Indian Azure company recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendors in Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers

MediaCorp

Regional - The recent concluded Star Awards 2012 voting portal was built on Windows Azure. Link.

Richard Seroter's Interview Series

Four Questions With … Dean Robertson

Microsoft

Switched on Briefings - Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.

Mexia

Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May

Sydney Azure User Group

'Building Hybrid Applications on Azure & CDN lightening talk'

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Melbourne Azure User Group

Thu, 31 May, 2012 *planned

Microsoft and Breeze

Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network

June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Get ready to meet Windows Azure on June 7th Windows Azure SDK for Node.js 0.5.4 Released
In the news	Azure Microsoft Touts ‘High Tens of Thousands’ of Windows Azure Customers Is SAP Dissing Windows Azure — And Favoring Amazon? What’s in a Name? Change in Windows Azure Billing Portal Causes Confusion Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Gaining in Popularity Related Research Shows Cloud Computing Reduces Time and Money Spent Managing Security HOW TO: Monetize ($$$) PaaS and its Implementation Models Cloud Computing Security Benefits Dispel Adoption Barrier for Small to Midsize Businesses Future of Cloud Security Assessments: Microsoft Leads with Public Registrations on CSA Microsoft 10 Cool Projects from Microsoft's Research Arm Why Microsoft’s Open Data Protocol matters Inside Microsoft’s New Azure Accelerator — Will Redmond Get The Startup Mojo? How Microsoft Is Going Carbon Neutral Microsoft Plans to 'Cloud Optimize Every Business' Partner Microsoft Azure provides platform for Epicor Cloud ERP
Case Study	Family-Friendly Online Organizer Released on Windows Azure Tagetik Cloud Runs on Microsoft Windows Azure

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	What is Windows Azure? Essential Windows Azure (Microsoft Cloud) Knowledge : Part 1: Web roles, Worker Roles Get Acquainted with the Finer Details of Azure Services (Part 2) An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 2)
Architecture	Integration with 911 dispatch center using Azure and SignalR (part 1) CQRS -V1 Pseudo-Production Release Installing Third Party Software on Windows Azure – What are the options? Getting Started with Windows Azure and DotNetNuke
Security	Leveraging Microsoft Azure security features for PaaS security
Open	Language Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F# Open Source Azure – Discussion Group on LinkedIn Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud
CLOUD SERVICES	Determine Web page paths of a Windows azure Web role The VM Role
STORAGE	Blob Parallel Upload and Download
SQL DATABASE	Cloud Cover Episode 80 - Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync Preview How to Create an Incremental SQL Azure Data Source for U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delays Dataset How to Shard with SQL Azure SQL Azure Engine Throttling
MARKETPLACE	Accessing US Air Carrier Flight Delay DataSets on Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket and “DataHub”
Labs	Free Private Data from Silos for Internal Use with Microsoft CodeName “Data Hub”
Big Data	Hadoop on Azure and importing data from the Windows Azure Marketplace Quickstart with Hadoop & Hadoop on Azure
Tools	OneNimbus® 2SQL v 4 – Access to Sql Database Cloud Copy – copy storage files with this command line tool

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Building Windows Phone Applications Using the Fast Lane: Using RIA Services on Azure as Your Backend 05/16/12, 9:15am - 10:30am Architectural patterns for the cloud Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:00 PM (GMT +1)
Other Local Events	Free two day workshop on the Microsoft Private Cloud next week in Sydney. Register here
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 9th May 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:51:02 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Regional - India

ICICI Bank adopts Icertis Contract Lifecycle Management Product on Windows Azure

Mick Badran

Is Windows Azure–being renamed?

Microsoft

Switched on Briefings - Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.

Mexia

Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May

Microsoft and Breeze

Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network

June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity
In the news	Azure The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! : Windows Azure Service Name Update Windows Azure Devs Get Telephony and Text Messaging APIs Related Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data Cloud Can Do Anything – But Can It Do Better? Announcing V1 Pseudo-Production Release - Project "a CQRS Journey" Partner Twilio Brings Cloud Communications to Windows Azure Sage partners with Microsoft Azure to target cloud market Epicor Moving Its Applications to Microsoft's Azure Cloud
Case Study	MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform Icertis launches contract lifecycle management product on Windows Azure TechNet Radio: Inside Microsoft IT - Using Windows Azure to Build Scalable Applications and Reduce Costs Soluto, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt for 2009, has switched from Amazon to Azure to deliver its consumer app to more than 3 million PCs worldwide.

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Brent Stineman on Azure as a Financial Institution Four Different Ways to Get Windows Azure Accounts and Services Recent Windows Azure Project Highlights: Media, Ws-fed and More…
Architecture	Cloud Cover Episode 79 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure
Security	The easy way of collecting Security Logs from your Windows Azure Roles
Open	Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure Enabling a Node.js Server-Side App on Windows Azure Privacy Central Protecting Your Data Using Ruby on Windows Azure Node.js and Azure on .NET Rocks!
SQL DATABASE	Automating SQL Azure Backup using Worker role
SERVICE BUS	Windows Azure Service Bus EAI Doesn’t Support Multicast Messaging. Should It? Overview of Service Bus messaging Geo-replication with Service Bus Relayed Messages
ACCESS CONTROL	Add Authentication Options to Your Windows Azure Website
TRAFFIC MANAGER	Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell
CDN	Vodeclic migrates on the Windows Azure CDN (with open source Ruby on Rails libraries)
MARKETPLACE	Two Months of U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delay Data Available on the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
DevOps	How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012 How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012 (Part 2) Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure
Big Data	Using SQOOP for moving data between HADOOP and SQL Server
Tools	ATrak - Push files from Windows Azure Blob Storage, to Amazon S3 or Windows Folders SSDT - Makes SQL Azure Development Easy BlobShare: Corporate Filesharing with Security and Control waz-storage1.1.2 - A simple implementation of Windows Azure Storage API for Ruby

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Using Mobile and Cloud to Increase Nonprofit Involvement and Donations Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm Building Windows Phone Applications Using the Fast Lane: Using RIA Services on Azure as Your Backend 05/16/12, 9:15am - 10:30am Architectural patterns for the cloud Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:00 PM (GMT +1)
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 2nd May 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:38:51 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Microsoft Australia

How 20 great Australian ISVs are using Windows Azure to build new products and businesses

Essar

Essar [India] unleashes cloud power with Windows Azure

{no updates this week}

Microsoft

Switched on Briefings - Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.

Microsoft and Breeze

Managing Windows Azure Applications

May 4th 2012 @ 2-4 pm AEST

Mexia

Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	*Cloud Ninja Multi-Tenant Metering Block (CNMB)*. Live Demo here and download full source code from CodePlex. Windows Azure Guest OS 1.18 (Release 201202-01) : Windows #Azure Guest OS 2.10 (Release 201202-01) : Windows Azure Achievements for Visual Studio Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++ Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers
In the news	Azure Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World’s Most Misunderstood Cloud Related National glory in Microsoft Imagine Cup for StethoCloud Environment Energy efficient Data Center ≠ Green Data Center Cloud computing has a substantial footprint
Case Study	Spotlight: Vishwas Lele on Getting Started with Azure Development MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft's Cloud Platform Israel based startup Soluto.switched from Amazon to Azure to deliver its consumer app to more than 3 million PCs worldwide

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 12 – Your Customers are my Customers
Compute	Adding SMS notifications to your Windows Azure projects
Storage	Simple Capped Exponential Back-Off for Queues CloudDrive: Possible Data Loss when calling Create() or CreateIfNotExist() on existing drives CloudDrive::Mount() API takes a long time when the drive has millions of files Windows Azure Storage for the ASP.NET Developer
Architecture	Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure
Security	Cloud Cover Episode 78 - Windows #Azure Security and Compliance :
Open	Introducing CloudNinja for Java - a multi-tenant reference application designed to help the Java community develop Java applications for Windows Azure IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET)
SQL Azure	How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) SQL Azure Backup Infrastructure
Service Bus	Fun with the Service Bus (Part 1) Implementing Pub/Sub Applications with SignalR PowerShell: Automate Windows Azure Service Bus queue creation
ACS	Windows Azure Access Control Service-Understanding the Security Buzzwords Automatic Migration of Access Control Service Version 1.
Traffic Manager	Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell
Marketplace	Creating a Private Data Marketplace with Microsoft Codename “Data Hub”
DevOps	Manage Staging Deployments in Microsoft Windows Azure
Big Data	Apache Hadoop for Windows azure - MapReduce using c#
Labs	Tour of “Cloud Numerics” Linear Algebra Library
Tools	Scale to Cloud Reporting with Azure and Syncfusion's RDL Report Viewer

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Using Mobile and Cloud to Increase Nonprofit Involvement and Donations Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 25th April 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:27:27 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Connect2Field

Aussie Field Service and Job Management Software Vendor on Windows Azure get a boost from Reckon Limited (ASX listed: RKN) making a strategic investment in Connect2Field.

Switch Automation

Sydney based Software Vendor uses Windows Azure as part of their solution to provide for automation and energy management in homes, apartments and commercial buildings

See there videos here, here and here.

CIO – CentreBet

The return on investment for us was that we didn’t have to invest in any capital expenditure outlays

Kordia

Kordia launches lowest latency link to Microsoft from NZ to Asia

Romiko Derbynew

Automate Windows Azure snapshot restores

David Burela

Finally got a printed copy of my Silverlight & Azure book!

Christian Longstaff

Australian Windows Azure Innovation

Microsoft and Breeze

Managing Windows Azure Applications

May 4th 2012 @ 2-4 pm AEST

Mexia

Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Media Services Preview for Developers
In the news	Azure Microsoft Waives Windows Azure Bandwidth Fees for University Researchers Microsoft’s Huge Investment to Support You Launch Your SaaS Business 30 to Launch – Your app, your idea, 30 days Related Windows 8 Release Preview will be publicly available first week in June. Partner: Avanade Cloud Services Manager: Private, Public Cloud Management? Steve Marx welcomes Wade Wegner as Aditi’s new CTO
Case Study	How Retail Manager Solutions changed their business Aidmatrix Expands to the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud to Enhance Its Disaster Response Platform

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure basics (part 1 of n )Windows Azure Overview Part 4: Security Get You Some Azure, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 Sample Apps
Compute	Take the Rock Paper Azure Challenge: Spring Fling Edition How to Create an ODBC Data Source Name (DSN) on Windows Azure Web/Worker Role
Storage	Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB Azure Storage Services Asynchronously in Java Windows Azure - Planning Architecture Compute, Database and Storage
Architecture	p&p Symposium 2012 Online - Hybrid Cloud Applications Five ways to reduce Azure Costs Business Continuity and Windows Azure FTP in Azure? Send email from your Windows Azure -receive a special offer of 25,000 free emails per month from SendGrid
Open	Persistent Systems Takes to Windows Azure– Delivers CloudNinja for Java p&P Symposium 2012 Online - node.js on Azure Using Windows Azure and Node.js
SQL Azure	Tips for deploying SQL Azure Federations
Office	“You Complete Me” Says SharePoint to Windows Azure
Service Bus	Hosting WCF Services with Service Bus Endpoints on IIS
Marketplace	Datamarket: Quick Followup Using jQuery & Windows Azure Marketplace
DevOps	Cloud Cover Episode 77 - Windows Azure Powershell Updates p&p Symposium 2012 Online – WasAbi - Windows Azure App Scaling to Need Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell Windows Azure Diagnostics–From the Ground Up
Big Data	Not seeing your hive data after importing from the marketplace? Microsoft Codename “Data Transfer” and “Data Hub” Previews Don’t Appear Ready for BigData Big Data making a ‘big entrance’ on the worldwide public sector stage
Labs	Tour of “Cloud Numerics” Linear Algebra Library
Tools	Red Gate Cloud Services Layer 2 - Cloud Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	7 Steps to going live on Windows Azure Date: April 26th ( Thursday ) Time : 1 pm EDT, 10 am PDT, 6 pm UTC
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 19th April 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:57:47 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Avancert

Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure – Avancert = new awesome assessment software

Microsoft Australia

Tech industry's best graduate program – hiring now

Romiko Derbynew

Automate Azure Blob Snapshot backups with Cerebrata

David Burela

My first book has been published Azure & Silverlight integration

Mexia

Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure – 1st May

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Microsoft Announces Comprehensive Media Services Platform and Architectural Guidance for the Cloud Updated Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
In the news	Azure Microsoft's answer to Amazon's CloudSearch: Bing on Azure Marketplace - Moving the Bing Search application programming interface (API) to the Windows Azure Marketplace. Microsoft delivers preview of its Windows Azure-hosted media services platform Microsoft ‘Data Plants’ to Combine Servers & Power - bring together data centers and renewable power generation Will Open Source Clouds Surround Microsoft Windows Related One more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities - a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Cloud computing skills shortage forces CIOs to grow their own Partner: Hitachi and Microsoft collaborate to enhance global cloud business Wowza Announces Inaugural Support for Windows Azure Media Services TechStars, Microsoft ally on new Windows Azure start-up incubator The GridGain Ecosystem expands to include Windows Azure
Case Study	Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure - cWyze

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Video: Bytes by TechNet - Scott Guthrie and Harold Wong Introducing Windows Azure – Creating your first ASP.NET Web Role Project New Cloud Learning Path - 100 to 400 Level Classes for Free Windows Azure Overview Part 3: All About Azure Pricing Experiencing Windows Azure 0
Compute	Increase ASP.NET temp folder size in Windows Azure Synchronous, Async and Parallel Programming Performance in Windows Azure
Storage	Return Empty Set Instead of ResourceNotFound from Table Storage
Architecture	33 Windows Azure Best Practices Cloud Cover Episode 76 - Meet our new additions to the Windows Azure Technical Evangelist Team Projects and packages ready to be deployed on Windows Azure How to handle impact of Auto-scaling down your Worker Role instances REST API” or “HTTP API”? P&P: CQRS Journey
Open	Azure Real World: Managing and Monitoring Drupal Sites on Windows Azure
Security	How to request/buy a certificate and use it in Windows Azure Automating the generation of service certificates in Windows Azure
SQL Azure	Synchronize SQL Server and SQL Azure using Sync Framework Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 2 – Annotating and Deploying Schema for Federations
ACS	Cloud Tip #9-Add Microsoft.IdentityModel to the GAC with a Startup Task
Service Bus	Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus–Part II
Marketplace	Importing UK Weather Data from Azure Marketplace into PowerPivot
DevOps	Windows Azure Custom Monitor in C# System Center App Controller and Windows Azure Sessions at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing Getting Diagnostics Data From Windows Azure
Big Data	Using Excel 2010 and the Hive ODBC Driver to Query Hive Data Sources in Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Running Apache Mahout at Hadoop on Windows Azure (www.hadooponazure.com) Hadoop en Windows Azure (VI): Sqoop Processing [a] Million Songs Dataset with Pig scripts on Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
Tools	Paraleap’s free tool AzurePing now provides monitoring and alerts for Windows Azure AppFabric Cache accounts Windows Azure tools for SharePoint–announcing Cloud Meta Man DAC SQL Azure Import Export Service Client v 1.5 AzureWatch for Monitoring Federated Databases in SQL Azure Neudesic Releases Neuron-ESB 2.6, Enterprise Service Bus Windows Azure compatible
Book	Windows Azure Step by Step for free! (details here)

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How timecockpit.com made Azure work for them 25 April @ 2pm UK / 9am Eastern
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 11th April 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:58:42 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Easter = Holidays in Australia!

…

Brisbane User Group

Using the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) 18th April 2012

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure – 1st May

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Trust Center Launched New Datacenter Options for Windows Azure What’s new in the April Refresh of Service Bus EAI/EDI Labs SQL Azure Data Sync Service Update 4 Now Live!
In the news	Azure Microsoft building new data center in Wyoming Microsoft adds two new U.S. Windows Azure datacenters Related The Complex Transition to the Cloud Microsoft’s Certifications Reinvented for the Cloud Why is Big Data Revolutionary? Cloud Infographic: Survey Reveals A Reliance On Cloud Services Partner: Accenture to Become First Global Technology Services Provider to Deliver End-to-End Public Cloud Solution on Windows Azure
Case Study	Caedium-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) service products running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform.

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure Learning Path
Compute	Increase ASP.NET temp folder size in Windows Azure Synchronous, Async and Parallel Programming Performance in Windows Azure
Storage	Using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network Getting Acquainted with NoSQL on Windows Azure
Architecture	Building Azure Applications using Agile Methodologies and Continuous Integration DocShare: Illustrating the CQRS Pattern with Windows Azure and MVC4 Web API Exceeding the SLA–Its about resilience WorldSheet: A Shared Spreadsheet in the Cloud based on SignalR and Windows Azure Quantifying and Avoiding Risk on the Windows Azure platform CQRS on Windows Azure: A discussion of implementing Command Query Responsibility Segregation on Windows Azure in .NET. Sample included.
Security	Windows Azure Trust Center How to stop a 'Denial Of Service' (DoS) attack on your ASP.NET web site, aka "Using the 'Dynamic IP Restrictions' IIS Extension on Windows Azure with a Startup task" Understanding Windows Azure Security
SQL Azure	MSDN Webcast: Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 8): Get Started with SQL Azure Reporting Services (Level 100) Using Data from Windows Azure Blobs with Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP
Service Bus	Building Windows 8 Metro Apps using Windows Azure Service Bus Azure Service Bus Tester Windows Azure Service Bus Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator
DevOps	Configure the Diagnostic Monitor from within an Windows Azure Role
Big Data	On Demand: Windows Azure Webcast: Hadoop on Windows Azure Using Data from Windows Azure Blobs with Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP TechNet Radio Community Corner: Microsoft MVP Kevin Kline and Guy Harrison on Big Data and Hadoop
Tools	Neudesic Neuron-ESB 2.6 now provides full support for Microsoft Azure Fluent Azure Management v0.3 including Sql Azure management Paraleap’s Azurewatch introduces monitoring of SQL Azure Federations Three cool projects based on Azure by Microsoft Research Azure Cloud Director 1.0.0.61 - cloud administration software which can manage complex cloud managment operations including Single Click Azure Deployment Radarc – Formula Azure - lets you create an application ready for deploying in Windows Azure, just from a class diagram model
Book	Free eBook: Moving Applications to the Cloud

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How timecockpit.com made Azure work for them 25 April @ 2pm UK / 9am Eastern
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy, Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 4th April 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:28:18 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

CIO Australia

Carriers make their play in the cloud

Microsoft Australia

Hybrid Cloud Switched on briefings in your city 15th –24th May

One Nimbus

Australia CSV OneNimbus^® 2SQL^TM Limited Offer - convert any Access database, no matter how complex, to SQL Server (on-premise or to SQL Azure) for one flat price

Melbourne User Group

April 10th 5.30pm

Listen to @grahamelliott speak about Windows Azure Security

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure – 1st May

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Announcing a Build Service for Team Foundation Service Back up Windows Server 8 to the Cloud SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update Important Pre-Announcement for upcoming “Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs
In the news	Azure Microsoft User Research: Azure Users Wanted! Related Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 Cloud Computing. SMBs secret weapon Partner: Invensys announces alliance with Microsoft to accelerate Azure development Infogroup Targeting Solution's Infoconnect Moves to the Cloud With Windows Azure
Case Study	Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure - TranscribeMe

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Cloud Tip #3–Find good examples Cloud Tip #4-How to migrate an existing ASP.NET App to the Cloud Watch @home with Windows Azure” on Channel 9 and Learn About Windows Azure While Contributing to Scientific Research
Storage	Blob Drop: Sync Local Files to Windows Azure Blob Storage Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments
Architecture	Episode 74 - Auto scaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure Identifying the Tenant in Multi-Tenant Azure Applications - Part 1
Security	Standard Response to Request for Information – Security and Privacy
SQL Azure	AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure Backup strategies for Sql Azure Federations
Service Bus	Formatting the content for Service Bus messages
Cache	A very simple Windows Azure AppFabric Cache Class
DevOps	Web Funnel 101: 24 Metrics You Need to Measure Right Now
Big Data	Listing current running Hadoop Jobs and Killing running Jobs MapReduce, streaming beyond Java How to troubleshoot MapReduce jobs in Hadoop How to chain multiple MapReduce jobs in Hadoop
Tools	Azure Fluent Management including Sql Azure management 0.2 Azure User Management Console – AUMC
Book	Free eBook: Moving Applications to the Cloud

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	Webinar: SQL Azure Reporting
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th March 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:30:07 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Open Text

Opens up for business in Australia

Stealth

Secure Sharepoint storage packs now available for Australia in 41 and 63TB sizes.

Breeze

Continues its Windows Azure Airlift 1 day training

Microsoft Asustalia

Switched On Briefing coming to a city near you in May

David Burela

Much anticipated book from Aussie Azure early adopter Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

Romiko Derbynew

address performance issues with Neo4j in combination with Windows Azure

Melbourne User Group

April – exact date to be announced

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure

April 3rd, 2-4 pm

Sydney User Group

Slides from March meeting

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure CTP an anti-malware anti-virus module for your roles
In the news	Azure Free Techila to Azure Universities (get in before June) Microsoft Plans Q4 Debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure Cloud Klout is making its bed with Hadoop and … Microsoft Microsoft tosses Simpana Azure salad, feeds it to cloud punters The Future of Microsoft Windows Azure Related Windows Server 8: Microsoft Online Backup Service Git support on Codeplex Microsoft extends app building to the cloud – An Extension to Team Foundation Service Microsoft! scoops! Yahoo!'s big! data! brain! Partner: Invensys announces alliance with Microsoft to accelerate Azure development Infogroup Targeting Solution's Infoconnect Moves to the Cloud With Windows Azure
Case Study	Movideo Undertakes a Large Scale Java Transition to Windows Azure Invensys’ Alliance with Microsoft to Help Accelerate Windows Azure Development

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Cloud Computing Technology with BPOS and Windows Azure Choosing a Billing System Moving applications to the cloud: Part 1 – What are the considerations? Learn The Cloud, Make A Difference, @home with Windows Azure
Storage	Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments Windows Azure Storage Emulator or Service? Cloud Automation with Windows Azure Storage
Architecture	Episode 73 - Nick Harris on Push Notifications for Windows 8 Learn Best Practices for Building Secure Applications in Windows Azure in New Blog Series, “Windows Azure Security Best Practices”
SQL Azure	SQL Azure Federation Poster Inside SQL Azure – Self-healing, Self-governing, Massively Scalable Database service in the Cloud SQL Azure and Trust Services
Service Bus	Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer
Open	Debugging Node.js applications for Windows #Azure Beginners' Guide to MongoDB With Node.js on Windows Azure Aplicaciones PHP en Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source
DevOps	Think you’re not using the cloud? Your sys admin may know differently
Big Data	Microsoft does Hadoop, and JavaScript’s the glue Examining the state of PaaS in the year of ‘big data’ A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community perspective)
Tools	Cotega - Web based monitoring for SQL Azure and cloud hosted SQL Server

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	Hands on: Windows Azure Diagnostics [Mar 29]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th March 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:59:34 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Microsoft Australia

Windows 8 Developer Camps across Australia

Switched On Briefing coming to a city near you in May

Mexia

Guidance for integration architecture on the Microsoft Business Platform

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' 22nd March at 6pm

Brisbane Azure User Group

Introduction to SQL Azure

21st March 2012

Melbourne User Group

April – details to follow

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure

April 3rd, 2-4 pm

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview Windows Azure Guest OS 1.17 (Release 201112-03) Windows Azure Guest OS 2.9 (Release 201112-03) We're hiring strong developers on the Azure app platform team - Node.js, http://ASP.NET, PHP, Java...
In the news	Azure Microsoft Plans Q4 Debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure Cloud Klout is making its bed with Hadoop and … Microsoft Microsoft tosses Simpana Azure salad, feeds it to cloud punters The Future of Microsoft Windows Azure Related Microsoft exec: 'Cloud a half-trillion dollar biz by 2020' Microsoft Launches Company's First-Ever Startup Accelerator Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in March, 2012 Building the Internet of Things Partner: Locate Windows Azure partners with Microsoft Pinpoint directory HP Cloud and Microsoft Windows Azure: On A Collision Course?
Case Study	Customers Talk About How Windows Azure Helps Them Run and Grow Their Business in Three New Videos HIPAA-Compliant Document Management Solution Expands Into Global Market by Migrating to Windows Azure Cloud Platform AssureSign Selects Windows Azure to Provide Cloud-based Electronic Signature Windows Azure Showcase Apps for Governments, Healthcare and Education

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Azure Training Playlist.
Architecture	Video: A glimpse inside Microsoft’s high-tech Global Security Operations Center Sending Email Notifications from Windows Azure Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure Retry Azure Cache Operations (CSAzureRetryCache) Windows 8 Developer How To: 4. Troubleshoot Apps Using Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8
SQL Azure	March Madness – SQL Azure – sys.sql_logins Nice New SQL Azure Integrations in SQL Server 2012 Connecting SQL Azure with Android
ACS	Episode 72 - New Tools for Windows Identify Foundation and ACS Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part IV: Get an F5 Experience with ACS2
Service Bus	AMQP and Windows Azure Service Bus
Open	Windows Azure PowerShell for Node.js - Shiju Varghese's Blog Azure Real World: Migrating a Drupal Site from LAMP to Windows Azure anode: An Experimental node.js Platform for Windows Azure
DevOps	Applying Config Transformation app.config in Windows Azure Worker Role Programmatically finding Deployment Slot from code running in Windows Azure Automated Performance Counter Injection in Windows Azure Roles
Big Data	Expanded Hadoop Preview for Big Data Customers Trying out Hadoop on Azure Screencast Series
Book	Review: Patterns & Practices Books on Windows Azure

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	Hands on: Windows Azure Diagnostics [Mar 29]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th March 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:08:21 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

CommVault

Simpana 9 for Windows Azure. Simplified dedup, backup, archive, eDiscovery and much more. Joint solutions available now in Australia

Microsoft Australia

Windows Azure Platform Product Marketing Manager (PMM) Sydney Job

Switched On Briefing coming to a city near you in May

Mexia

Creating TMG Firewall Rules for Azure Service Bus

(missed in February)

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' 22nd March at 6pm

Brisbane Azure User Group

Introduction to SQL Azure

21st March 2012

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure

April 3rd, 2-4 pm

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Reduced Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and Compute Summary of Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012 Windows Azure toolkit for Windows 8
In the news	Azure Microsoft bringing Dynamic ERP to Azure How Windows Azure changes vendor, reseller relationships To Boost Windows Azure, Microsoft Launches Company’s First-Ever Startup Accelerator Hybrid Cloud Combine Windows Azure, Private Clouds Related Let’s Build Clouds with Windows Server “8” Partner: HP Cloud and Microsoft Windows Azure: On A Collision Course?
Case Study	Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Nathan Brouwer, Global Partner Support Manager at Figlo

	TECHNOLOGY
Architecture	Windows Azure for Developers – Building Block Services Reference Windows Azure Architectural Guide’s (WAAG) –updated Part 1 (Adatum) and Part 2 (Tailspin) Security Windows Azure Security Best Practices -- Part 1: The Challenges, Defense in Depth Windows Azure Security Best Practices -- Part 2: What Azure Provides Out-of-the-Box Windows Azure Security Best Practices – Part 3: Identifying Your Security Frame Windows Azure Security Best Practices – Part 4: What Else You Need to Do Windows Azure Security Best Practices – Part 5: Claims-Based Identity, Single Sign On
Storage	Everything you need to know about Windows Azure queue storage to build disconnected and reliable systems
SQL Azure	Cloud Numerics Support added for Cloud Numerics format “Cloud Numerics” Example: Analyzing Air Traffic “On-Time” Data Sync Synchronizing Data “From On-Prem to Cloud” or “Cloud to Cloud” Using SQL Azure Data Sync General Fast Time to Solution: Introduction to SQL Azure and Cloud Database Solutions Moving SQL Azure Servers Between Subscriptions Federations Introduction to SQL Azure Federations Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 1 – Picking Federations and Picking the Federation Key
ACS	Access Control Service – Why not to rely on the nameidentifier claim? How to find Azure ‘Management Key’ with ACSV2? Using Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service in an iPhone App to Integrate with Facebook
Open	Node.js Web Application with Storage on MongoDB
DevOps	Cloud Cover Episode 71 - Using Cloud9 IDE to Deploy to Windows Azure
Big Data	Big Data Hadoop Preview Comes to Windows Azure Video: Big Data Analytics with Apache Hadoop and SQL Server 2012
Tools	Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.2
Demo	Contoso Construction - LightSwitch Advanced Sample (Visual Studio 11 Beta)

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure [Mar 21]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th March 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:55:05 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Harvey Norman

Another launch of a speciality store – Get your Travel Gear – enabled with Windows Azure

Microsoft Australia

Windows Azure Platform Product Marketing Manager (PMM) Sydney Job

Breeze

Feature Decision Making with Hybrid IT Solutions

Romiko Derbynew

Appfabric Topics–Pub/Sub Messaging Service Bus

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

12th March 2012, 2-4pm

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' 22nd March at 6pm

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Service Disruption Update/ Windows Azure Service Disruption Resolved Microsoft Codename "Data Hub" - An Online Service for Data Discovery, Distribution and Curation
Microsoft	Azure Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure Microsoft Broadens Apache Hadoop Contributions Windows Azure Challenge - What its all about. Microsoft flies high on Indian clouds with Windows Azure Datameer to Bring Hadoop Analytics to Windows Azure Outage Gartner: Another Cloud Outage: Insight and Reactions Microsoft's Azure cloud leap-day meltdown On the Recent Windows Azure Leap Day Outage Azure Cloud Outage: it’s not unique, it will happen again, how to protect from it Microsoft Azure Leap Day Outage Questions Persist Windows Azure Compute Availability Logs: North and South Central US Data Centers, 2/29 and 3/1/2012 Related Cloud Computing to Enable Global Job Growth, According to IDC Study New Cloud Accounting Survey General: No joke: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 debuts on April Fools' Day
Case Study	Sundance Looks to StorSimple to Simplify Its Massive Storage Needs

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure on Windows 8 Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure
Architecture	Importance of Affinity Groups in Windows Azure Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application Exploring Cloud Architecture Security Windows Azure Security Best Practices
Storage	Enableing gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Table Storage to use a scalable non-relational structured data store Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, …
SQL Azure	Create a SQL Azure database Tips, Resources For Moving Your Database to SQL Azure Federations Introduction to SQL Azure Federations Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 1 – Picking Federations and Picking the Federation Key
ACS	Cross-post: The Windows Azure Claim Provider for SharePoint Project (Three Part Series)
Service Bus	WindowsAzure Appfabric Topics Pub/Sub messaging demo Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries
Open	Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Overview Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive
DevOps	TFS Beta Build Service on Windows Azure Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud – Part 3 – Administer Security
Big Data	Running Apache Mahout at Hadoop on Windows Azure(www.hadooponazure.com)
CRM	Windows Azure + MS CRM 2011 better together (part one)

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8] RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure [Mar 21]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th February 2012

drmcghee — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:48:12 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

BizSpark Plus

Microsoft gives Aussie startups a boost to the cloud

Australian Developers in Action

Adrian Brenton of Janison

Steve Orenstein at My Casting Net

James Coenen-Eyre from Bondi Geek

Dean Robertson at Mexia

Mick Badran

Azure: Useful bits and Pieces

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

How the Cloud can help you integrate. 29th February 2012

Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

12th March 2012, 2-4pm

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' dates to be confirmed.

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	StreamInsight in Windows Azure: Austin February CTP Updated Windows Azure SDK & Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK SQL Azure MP CTP is now available
Microsoft	Microsoft is building a new datacenter in Dublin (Irish Times) Related Microsoft Gives Devs a Glance at Visual Studio 11 Microsoft Agile Tools Team doing Agile Beware the Googlighting Stranger Steve Sinofsky: will 'Spock-meets-Spartan' be Microsoft's next CEO?
Case Study	Film Industry Selects Windows Azure for High-Capacity Business Needs
General	Moore’s (Traffic) Law – data grows linearly with processing power

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Step by Step Guide to Create First Windows Azure Application How can you make money with Azure and make your users sign up with no hesitation? Azure Datacenter IP Ranges Auto-Scale Windows Azure Cloud Apps Using the Autoscaling Application Block
Architecture	CQRS BUS and Windows Azure technologies Multi-Tenant Data Strategies for Windows Azure – Part 2 Windows Azure using CNAME DNS records for multiple sites and SSL Auto updating webrole (IDynamicWebRole) Security Securing the service and building trust Configure SSL for specific pages in Windows Azure Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure: New Best Practices Documentation Now Available
Storage	Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, … Windows Azure Storage and Concurrent Access Windows Azure Blob Upload Scenarios Cloud Storage Choices on Windows Azure In the Windows azure BLOB storage blocks store files
SQL Azure	“Inside SQL Azure: Self Governing, Self-Healing, Massively Scalable Database Service in the Cloud” 12 Hours of SQL Server Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure Federations Teach the old dog new tricks: How to work with Federations in Legacy Tools and Utilities?
ACS	Using Windows Azure Access Control Service to provide a single sign-on experience with popular identity providers Request a token from ADFS using WS-Trust from iOS, Objective-C, IPhone, IPad, Android, Java, Node.js or any platform or language
Cache	Using Windows Azure caching service to improve performance for your cloud services
Marketplace	Data Market Chat: Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace
Open	SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io) Windows Azure Storage for PHP Developers
DevOps	How to use Diagnostics.wadcfg to configure Windows Azure diagnostics collection Setting Up Diagnostics Monitoring In Windows Azure Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud Advanced (and flexible) Configuration for Windows Azure .NET Applications(configure .Net applications running in Windows Azure in the same way you do with traditional On-Premise applications)
Big Data	Microsoft's Hadoop roadmap reveals new big data deliverables Big Data, Hadoop and StreamInsight™
Office	Why isn’t it possible to run a Sharepoint server instance in an Azure VM role?
Social	Track Consumer Engagement and Sentiment with Microsoft Codename “Social Analytics”
Tools	Using ArcGIS Server in Windows Azure CA ARCserve D2D On Demand service - A Hybrid Approach to Backup and Recovery in the Cloud ManageEngine Azure Performance Monitor Tool 1.0 freeware Windows Azure File Backup Service CloudNetCare, a solution to test the performance of Web sites Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, hosted on Windows Azure (Beta free)

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8] RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure [Mar 21]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 21st February 2012

drmcghee — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:29:42 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Demo Asia 2012

Two Aussie Startups Represent at Demo Asia 2012: Congrats Style Rocks and Tapit

Breeze Training & Consultancy

Receiving Messages from Windows Azure Service Bus Queues in BizTalk

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

How the Cloud can help you integrate. Register here . 29th February 2012

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' dates to be confirmed.

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Guest OS 1.17 (Release 201112-02) Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option
Partners	FUJITSU SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED releases “AppRegion” for United States of America market
Microsoft	Microsoft's Windows Azure Active Directory plans takes shape Don’t look now but Microsoft Azure is a kick-butt cloud
Case Study	Users Share Privately With Groups on Glassboard over Windows Azure StyleRocks Takes Part in the 2012 Mass Customisation Trend
General	UK Government launches CloudStore and names G-Cloud suppliers The store was built by UK SME Solidsoft and is hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud Cloud Computing Has Become a Dominant Force in Financial Services PaaS is the word on everyone’s mind Cloud computing fueling global economic growth: London School of Economics study Why Platform-First Approach to the Cloud ?

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Tutorial: Going Live with Your First Application on Windows Azure – Part I Going Live with Your First Application on Windows Azure – Part 2
Architecture	Continuous Delivery for Cloud Applications in Windows Azure Deploying a Windows Azure & SQL Azure Solution with Visual Studio Team Build
Storage	'Manipulating data in Windows Azure Table using PowerPivot' What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 5 – Migrating to Windows Azure Queues
SQL Azure	Implementing MERGE command using SQL Azure Migration Wizard The New Pricing Model for SQL Azure Explained! Info on Latest Data Sync Update Full Version of AdventureWorks database for SQL Azure and and SQL Azure Federations Moving a SQL Azure database to another data center Federations Managing Federations in SQL Azure with the SQL Server Management Studio of SQL Server 2012 RC0 Want to demo or show federations to your boss? Here is the full package Federations: Building Scalable, Elastic, and Multi-tenant Database Solutions with SQL Azure
ACS	Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010 The Azure Custom Claim Provider for SharePoint Project Part 3 Your own lightweight & robust STS in Windows Azure Implementing Windows Azure ACS with everyauth
Service Bus	Implementing Azure AppFabric Service Bus - Part 5 Windows Azure service bus messaging with publish/subscribe pattern using topics and subscriptions
Marketplace	Selling Data in the Windows Azure Marketplace
Open	Developing a Hello World Java Application and Deploying it in Windows Azure - Part I
DevOps	Choosing What To Monitor In Windows Azure Monitoring in Windows Azure SCOM 2007 R2: MP to monitor SQL Azure
Big Data	HPC Building and Running HPC Applications in Windows Azure Hadoop Hadoop JavaScript– Microsoft’s VB shift for Big Data
Office	SharePoint Online & CRM Online using BCS & Windows Azure
Mobile	Phone developers should use the cloud Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure
Tools	Opstera - manage your Cloud solutions

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th February 2012

drmcghee — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:29 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus

launching soon with @BlueChilliGroup @pushstart @AngelCubeMelb @FishBurners

Romiko Derbynew

Windows Azure configuration transformations

Windows Azure–Pre Role Start up Tasks

UndeployAzure script

Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting

First date on 15th February 2011

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	SQL Azure - Announcing Reduced Pricing (48% to 75% savings) and New 100MB DB Option New Service Update Released for Microsoft Codename "Data Transfer"
Microsoft	Windows 8 is not all about Tablets, it’s about the future Microsoft's plan to bring its ERP users slowly but surely to the cloud Microsoft Private Cloud Book Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software
Case Study	ReedRex CMS sociobridge Microsoft, CJ Fallon introduce cloud service for textbooks (Ireland) Cloudera and Tableau Empower Business Intelligence With Apache Hadoop
General	3 secrets to creating a business case for cloud computing The Path to the Intelligent Cloud Thanks to the cloud, integration is back -- with a twist Tips for Replicating Data in The Cloud

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 2)
Architecture	Cloud based software architecture lessons from the field What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 3 – Choosing a Hybrid of Services SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections in the Cloud A Custom High-Availability Cache Solution MSDN: Real World: Considerations When Choosing a Web Role Instance Size: How small should I go? Windows Azure Deployment Domains
Storage	How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage?
SQL Azure	Ways To Load Data In SQL Azure How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database Federations Connection Pool Fragmentation: Use Federations and you won’t need to learn about these nasty problems that come with sharding!
ACS	Azure webrole federated by ACS ASP.NET: Authentication With SWT Token Using Windows Azure ACS and WIF Custom Token Handler ADFS and ACS: Slides from Jan 10th Jan UKWAUG meeting
Service Bus	Azure Service Bus: Connectivity at a Cloud Scale Service Bus support in azure npm 0.5.2 Try, Try, and Try Again Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper Enterprise Integration Patterns with Service Bus (Part 1)
Open	MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role
DevOps	Cloud Applications and Application Lifecycle Management (Includes Azure)
Big Data	HPC Windows Azure and High Performance Compute Hadoop Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Connecting Power View to Hadoop on Azure–An #awesomesauce way to view Big Data in the Cloud Analyzing 1 TB of IIS logs with Hadoop Map/Reduce on Azure with JavaScript \| Analyse d’1 To de journaux IIS avec Hadoop Map/Reduce en JavaScript
Office	Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010
Demos	Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx
Tools	Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8]
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

Windows #Azure Caching – Performance considerations

drmcghee — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:36 GMT

Windows Azure Caching can help your application access state, store SQL Azure database data and serialize/deserialize objects regardless of location. Some of the key benefits of caching is to increase application performance, data distribution and data resiliency. Windows Azure Caching guarantees dedicated memory, easy setup and configured from the portal, is automatically distributed, and has a promised uptime and availability (SLA)

When deciding if you should use caching its worth considering how your application manages its data. If your application frequently requests data that should be constant across all your application instances (e.g. Windows Azure web/worker roles) then caching is a worthy investment of your time.

When considering caching performance is usually top of mind and usage will be dependant on your applications:

Number of objects
Size of each object
Frequency of access of each object
Pattern for accessing these objects

Clearly caching everything would be great but will involve some cost. If you cache locally you need the local resources to support your cache size. If you use a distributed cache you will need to consider network transfer (latency) and bandwidth. With Windows Azure Caching you will have a guaranteed cache without the management overhead, but you will need to bear in mind costs (cost of the service and cost of access*). To get a better picture of costs have a look at the Windows Azure advanced pricing calculator (caching section) noting of course that data transfer out from the data centers (*egress), if required, adds additional costs.

Further more specific guidance on performance is available here:

Test cache performance – Application (notes from CAT Team)
Windows Azure Caching Strategies
Data Classification (Windows Server AppFabric Caching)

Local vs remote?

The Windows Azure Caching service is run on remote set of servers, to your application. If your application is within the same Data Center then you will undoubtedly get better performance. At times its worth taking this a step further and combining local and remote cached data. Consider if you have some data that doesn't change that often but is asked frequently by your web application. The quickest way of getting, typically a subset of, data is going to be in memory to the process running.

The Windows Azure Caching client, a the proxy that lives within your application, has the ability to cache a subset of the data that resides in the distributed cache servers (local cache). The client can cache any managed object—no object size limits, no serialization costs for local caching. As soon as you need more memory than your local machine can give you or you need to externalize the data from your compute tier (either for shared state or for more durability), the minimum price you pay is for the network hop

So, local caching is great, but now you may have a logical headache and planning around how distributed and local caches work together. Windows Azure Cache, whilst close to the Windows Server AppFabric Caching, doesn't support all the same features as its server superset. Particularly its worth noting that there are no notifications for local caching (DataCacheLocalCacheInvalidationPolicy)

The best of getting to grips with Windows Azure Caching is to try it for yourself. I’d start with the Windows Azure Training Course and the lab example of Caching Data with Windows Azure Caching

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th February 2012

drmcghee — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:15:21 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus

coming soon to Australia

Romiko Derbynew

Windows Azure–Diagnosing Role Start-ups

Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting

First date on 15th February 2011

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Introducing Microsoft Research’s Excel Cloud Data Analytics Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates
Microsoft	Microsoft Ramps Up Fight to Be Cloud Leader
Case Study	Need to Change Your Go-To-Market for SaaS? Here’s How One ISV Did It with Windows Azure SendGrid Launches on Windows Azure Enterprise Cloud Platform Pixar Ventures in Cloud Computing Animation
General	Azure Microsoft coaches NoSQL options for Azure cloud Azure: 10 Things You Need to Know Can Microsoft Save Windows Azure? Cloud Why Platform-First Approach to the Cloud ? Super Bowl XLVI and the Cloud Gartner Reveals Platform as a Service (PaaS) Forecast

	TECHNOLOGY
Architecture	Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure
Storage	Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API Windows Azure Storage Emulator Account Name and Key Browsing Blobs within a container using the Windows Azure Node SDK
Troubleshooting	Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove!
Mobile	Windows Azure as a Mobile Backend Platform Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7
SQL Azure	SQL Azure Migration Wizard: Fantastic tool for moving data between SQL Azure Federations and SQL Server and scale out single SQL Azure DBs Use SSIS to push data to SQL Azure Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure Federations Cloud Cover Episode 69 - SQL Azure Federations with George Huey :
Open	Using Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) from a node express app Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 NougakuDoCompanion: A “Ruby on Rails” companion for Windows Azure
DevOps	Change AppPool identity programmatically
Big Data	HPC License Link for Windows Azure and Windows HPC Hadoop Introducing Apache Hadoop Services for Windows Azure
Office	Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010
Labs	New on SQLAzure Labs. Codename Trust Services. Encrypt your data when using the public cloud.
Tools	Viscount Freedom Bridge security software now powered by Windows Azure IFS 360 Scheduling – Always Optimal on Windows Azure Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.2 is Now Available

COMMUNITY

User Groups

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

Regional

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

Social

Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series
FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 27th January 2012

drmcghee — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:24:24 GMT

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Adelaide City Council

Adelaide 247 City Sourced Providing citizens with a way to log incidents to the council

Mexia receive Windows Azure CAT Award

@deanrobertson & @benjaminify, recognised as world experts in BizTalk integration with the Windows Azure ServiceBus

Imagine Cup

Azure Powers Winning Solutions at Imagine Cup

Cloud Trading Technologies

Expands into Asia to support demand for Cloud delivery of Trading and Risk Applications

Expanz

expanzPLATFORM Architecture Video Released

Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup

6 PM on Monday, 30 January

Webinar: SQLCAT: Let's Move to the Cloud - How to Leverage Microsoft SQL Azure

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 2:00 PM AEST

Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting

Hold the date for 15th February 2011

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure	SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh SQL Azure Import/Export Service now in production Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Programmatic geo-redundancy for your cloud deployment Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2 Released
Partners	Geminare, a leader in the Recovery as a Service (RaaS) industry, announces Windows Azure strategic alliance OpenText Brings Business Process Solutions to Windows Azure SendGrid Launches on Windows Azure Enterprise Cloud Platform
Microsoft	Dell and Microsoft Deliver a Foundation for Private Cloud Young People Will Change the World
Case Study	Azure Storage Blobs Service Working with Directories Using Windows Azure to create MicroFinance Windows Azure App Helps Americans Living Abroad Vote in U. S. Elections
General	Why you can't afford to resist the cloud The Patriot Act is No Excuse To Avoid Cloud Computing Whitepaper: Seven Habits of successful cloud architects

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Getting Started with Windows Azure Taking a Fresh Look at the Windows Azure Development Experience Creating a Windows Azure Application: A Step-by-Step Guide
Storage	Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent Cannot create database DevelopmentStorageDb20110816 for the Windows Azure Storage Emulator 8 Essential Best Practices in WindowsAzure Blob Storage Azure
Troubleshooting	Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications Windows Azure Troubleshooting - Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline
Open	Creating Hello World Windows Azure Node.js Web Application Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1
SQL Azure	The Cloud Numerics Programming and runtime execution model Cloud Cover Episode 68 - Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein Federations How much overcapacity are you running with today? I bet SQL Azure Federations can trim that! Fan-out Querying for Federations in SQL Azure (Part 2)
Service Bus	How to Choose Between Windows Azure Queues, Windows Azure Service Bus Queues New Azure ServiceBus Demo Available
Big Data	HPC Deploying Cloud Numerics Sample Applications to Windows Azure HPC Clusters Hadoop Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account Setting Windows Amazon S3 (s3n://) as data source directly at Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data Microsoft cloud service lets citizen developers crunch big data
DevOps	Automating Builds for Windows Azure Packages Accessing Windows Azure REST APIs with cURL NuGet Packages for Windows Azure and Windows Phone Developers
Labs	Microsoft Codename "SQL Azure Security Services"
Tools	Windows Azure on Cloud9! - online environment for development of JavaScript and HTML5 applications Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers

COMMUNITY

User Groups

Sydney (Conor Brady)
Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson dean@mexia.com.au)
Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung)

Regional

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

Social

Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series
FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 20th January 2012

drmcghee — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:44 GMT

[A new year a new format - I hope this is cleaner and welcome your comments! -David]

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Harvey Norman

Harvey Norman peddles GST-free computer games with Windows Azure commerce engine

Japan: Mixi

Top Social Networking Site Taps Windows Azure To Run Its Annual Online Christmas Event

Romiko Derbynew

Profiling Azure applications

Mick Badran

Azure AppFabric Labs -EAI, Service Bus in the Cloud

Tom Hollander

Building and Deploying with Azure 1.6 SDK

Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup

6 PM on Monday, 30 January

Webinar: SQLCAT: Let's Move to the Cloud -How to Leverage Microsoft SQL Azure

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 2:00 PM AEST

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure	Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012? Eye on Earth network goes live Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs Released - Sign up for the labs Technology Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows Azure Now Available CTP access
General	Feds Refine Cloud Security Standards Cloud Storage Providers Industry Benchmark Report PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud

	TECHNOLOGY
Architecture	One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites Deploy a Windows Azure Geographical Failover Solution
Open	How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure Open Source Updates for Windows Azure
SQL Azure	SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide Accessing Federations in SQL Azure using Entity Framework Upload Big Data to SQL Azure Federated Databases with BCP Automatically
Service Bus	Trying Out Azure Service Bus Relay Load Balancing
Cache	Windows Azure Caching Strategies
Big Data	Cloud Numerics Example: Distributed Numerics on Azure with F# Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure
Operations	SCOM Resolving Windows Azure Diagnostics Connection String Issues with SCOM 2007 R2 Testing Windows Azure Web Apps with Synthetic Transactions in SCOM 2007 R2 Grooming Collected Diagnostics Data from Windows Azure Storage in SCOM 2007 R2 Diagnostics With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default
Labs	Data Explorer samples Social Analytics - Finding Top Handles
Tools	"SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment" Tutorial Cerebrata Azure Diagnostics Manager 2 (2.0.1.200) ACS 1.0 Migration Tool Azure Monitor for Windows Phone 7
Book	"To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise"

COMMUNITY

User Groups

Sydney (Conor Brady)
Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
Brisbane (register your interest #baug contact Steve Nagy)
Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
Perth (details to follow)

Regional

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

Social

Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series
FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter - December 20th 2011

drmcghee — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:42 GMT

	Local Overview :
	ETSA Utilities get agile with Azure delivering “Power at my Place” Power@MyPlace™ is a free message service which provides timely and accurate information regarding power at your property. Registered users can choose to receive information (via SMS or email) relating to when ETSA Utilities Former Harvey Norman CIO bets on Big Buys

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	General: Use the Kinect and your PC to interact with the Windows Azure Service Management API 7 Steps [that] will help you to write or migrate your application to Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Camp - Windows Azure Storage Windows Azure Storage (WAS) Internals - Achieving Consistency
Open:	Installing the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java Open in the Cloud: Windows Azure Update Node.js in Windows Azure, To the Cloud and Beyond!Windows Azure & PHP (for nubs)–Part 1 of 4 Openness Update for Windows Azure
SQL Azure:	General SQL Azure Management Portal Tips and Tricks: Part II Reporting Take BI up a notch with SQL Azure Reporting Federations SQL Database Federations: Enhancing SQL to enable Data Sharding for Scalability in the Cloud Building Large Scale Elastic Database Tiers with SQL Azure: Introducing Federations Billing Model for Federations in SQL Azure Explained! UI for SQL Azure Federations
Service Bus:	Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions in Windows Phone How to Use Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub: Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Subscriptions in iOS with MonoTouch
EAI:	An Introduction to EAI Bridges
ACS:	Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service Using Facebook with ACS and Windows Azure iOS Toolkit
Marketplace:
HPC:	Hadoop: Trying out Hadoop on Azure An Azure Elephant Never Forgets… Helping to make Hadoop easier by going Metro! Introduction to the Hadoop on Azure Interactive Hive Console Microsoft Tries Hadoop on Azure Availability of Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Hadoop based Service on Windows Azure MATLAB and Windows Azure
Watch:	Windows Azure Technical Chats
Case Study:	Brand Manager Goes Global in the Cloud on Windows Azure \| Bruce Kyle's Channel 9 Blog Online Game Studio Minimizes Costs, Enhances Margin with Cloud Technology
Tools:	New December Windows Azure Developer Training Tools, Kits Shows How to Get Started

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	The Cloud on Your Terms: 30 Part Series Deploying Drupal 7 on Windows Azure Brand New ACS Walkthrough on the New Windows Azure Developer Center Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough Video Tutorial - How to install and run Node.js on Windows
Architecture:	Responsive cloud design Windows Azure Prescriptive Guidance [for SQL Azure] Released
Labs:	Azure AppFabric Labs–EAI, Service Bus in the Cloud

	In the news:
General:	Can Cancer Treatment be Found in the Cloud? The Imminent Rise of Social Cloud Computing ‘Any business can use cloud computing'
Microsoft:	Apps Are Not Enough: Putting People First Microsoft, Nissan in cloud partnership Microsoft signs EU accords on data privacy Microsoft will beat Linux clouds at their own game
Windows Azure:	Platform: Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI December 2011 CTP Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java, December 2011 CTP Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Version 1.1.0 CTP Released Windows Azure Field Notes Windows Azure Achieves IS0 27001 Certification from the British Standards Institute Partner GreenButton opening Seattle office after Azure alliance deal Other Microsoft Windows Azure's New Open Source, Other Options Enhance Developer Experience SharePoint Trends for 2012; What’s In Azure Cloud Updates?; Microsoft Meets the iPad Microsoft Codename "Data Transfer" Lab Refresh

	Events:
Local:	Australia Architect training in January (details to follow) Global Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course.
Webinar:	Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012
Training	Free Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Slides and Links from Windows Azure Discovery Workshop Dec 13th

Community:

Social:

Keep up to date by:

Becoming a Facebook fan
Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Watch our regular CloudCast (service now on Windows Azure thanks to Scaffolding kit for PHP)
Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

Suggest new ideas by using the Windows Azure Feature Voting

Attend a User Group:

Sydney (Conor Brady)
Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
Brisbane (register your interest #baug“ contact Steve Nagy)
Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
Perth (details to follow)

Other - Regional:

If you want to keep up with IT Pro news in NZ follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz
Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

	Questions
Windows Azure:	How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage?
SQL Azure:	SQL Azure Limitations …So Isn’t the Root Database a Bottleneck for Federations in SQL Azure?

#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 13th December 2011

drmcghee — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:15:51 GMT

	Local Overview :
	Local Australian Cloud Software Vendor (CSV) ibCOM release developer productivity tools on Azure at http://mydigitalstructure.com/ Two new Windows Azure Virtual Technical Speicalists in Australia Conor Brady and Andy Hitchman (CONGRATS!)

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	PackAndDeploy - packaging a Windows Azure app that just runs an executable Fixes blogged for SDK 1.6 and Automated build with TeamCity located here Create the service model for a Windows Azure virtual machine
SQL Azure:	SQL Azure Delivery Guide SQL Azure Labs
AppFabric:	Access control to Windows Azure services
Marketplace:	New Self-Service Publishing Wizard Eases Distribution of New Datasets on the Windows Azure Marketplace
Watch:	Cloud Cover Episode 67 - Episode 67 - Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye 'Node.js - a Windows Azure Introduction
Case Study:	Organizations Solving the World’s Toughest Problems Turn to Windows Azure
Tools:	Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.0 (beta) Released

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	Working With Web Data in Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure
Architecture:	Automated Build and Deployment with Windows #Azure SDK 1.6

	In the news:
General:	How Has Cloud Computing Changed Business- [INFOGRAPHIC] The Year of Cloud Acceleration Companies Shifting to Cloud Computing Save Energy & Cut Waste Move to cloud makes DevOps even more important
Microsoft:	Team Foundation Service gets first major update Lync 2010 client is available in the WP7 marketplace Microsoft Discloses BizTalk Server 2010 R2 Plans --
Windows Azure:	Platform: Improved Developer Experience, Interoperability, and Scalability on Windows Azure The SQL Azure Team Unveils a New Server Management UI Microsoft Azure Embraces Open Source Technologies Windows Azure Updated To Support Hadoop and Node.js Windows Azure Training Kit - December Update Partner 9 Huge Opportunities for Microsoft Partners in 2012 Other Windows Azure Access Control Service is now called Windows Azure Active Directory MICROSOFT: Azure "Hits A Sweet Spot" With More And More Customers

	Events:
Local:	Australia Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp – Brisbane Microsoft Australia hiring a Product Marketing Manager to lead the charge in Private Cloud Architect training in January (details to follow) Global Learn Windows #Azure! - Register today
Webinar:	Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT Unit Testing for Windows Phone December 14th 2011 10am PDT Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012
Training	Free Visual Studio LightSwitch Training

Community:

Social:

Keep up to date by:

Becoming a Facebook fan
Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Watch our regular CloudCast (service now on Windows Azure thanks to Scaffolding kit for PHP)
Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

Suggest new ideas by using the Windows Azure Feature Voting

Attend a User Group:

Sydney (Conor Brady)
Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
Brisbane (register your interest #baug“ thanks to Steve Nagy)
Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
Perth (details to follow)

Other - Regional:

If you want to keep up with IT Pro news in NZ follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz
Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

	Questions
Windows Azure:	Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator How to upload image in Windows Azure platform: best approach

#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter - 6th December 2011

drmcghee — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:52:54 GMT

Local Overview :

Harvey Norman launched a new speciality eCommerce Kitchenware store running on Windows Azure

Cloud Cast Australia back up – Now on Windows Azure

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	General Controlling Application Pool Idle Timeouts in Windows Azure Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone v1.3.2 Been diagnosed with Acute Windows Azure Diagnostics Understanding Syndrome Storage How content delivery networks (CDNs) work How Microsoft helps you NOT break your Windows Azure Application: Storage Services Versioning Windows Azure Storage Transaction \| Unveiling the Unforeseen Cost and Tips to Cost Effective Usage
SQL Azure:	What’s new in SQL Azure Microsoft Codename “Data Transfer” Lab Backing Up SQL Azure Databases Microsoft Codename “Social Analytics” WinForms Client Sample
AppFabric:	Caching Successfully tried Windows Azure AppFabric Caching in Azure environment Service Bus: Testing Out the New AppFabric Service Bus Relay Load Balancing Relayed and Brokered Messaging ACS SharePoint 2010 and Azure Access Control Services – Part 2 Adding WCF custom service behaviors in config X509 Certificate flow in Windows Azure Access Control Service
Marketplace:	New Windows Azure Marketplace Data Delivers the Latest Weather and Stock Information New Self-Service Publishing Wizard Eases Distribution of New Datasets on the Windows Azure Marketplace
Watch:	Synchronize Data from Cloud to Cloud (C2C) using SQL Azure Data Sync Cloud Cover Episode 66 - Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone
Case Study:	Microsoft cloud to power environmental big data
Tools:	Managing and Monitoring Windows Azure applications with System Center 2012 MongoDB on Azure Monitoring SQL Azure with Quest Software’s new SQL Azure cartridge for its Foglight product Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	Deploying LightSwitch Applications to Windows Azure How much will Azure cost?
Architecture:	PRO Exam 70-583 Preparation Windows Azure: P & P Enterprise Integration Pack with failure/retry and fine-grained autoscaling APIs (among others) Part 3 - Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deployment
Best practice:	Automated Build and Deployment with Windows Azure SDK 1.6
Books:	Announcing our new ebook "OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Apps" + a small bonus Windows Azure Platform by Tony Guidici and Tejaswi Redkar

	In the news:
General:	Cloud computing has yet to eliminate IT infrastructure jobs C# wins developers, but Java still reigns Why governments are making big moves to the cloud Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for 2012 and Beyond
Microsoft:	Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange Try Windows Phone on your phone Office 365 - How Microsoft Does IT
Windows Azure:	Platform: Windows Azure is ISO 27001 Announcing the Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure with Autoscaling, Transient Fault Handling and more The Transient Fault Handling Application Block Partner Bring apps to market more quickly with [HP] Cloud Applications Services for Microsoft Windows Azure Azure Hybrids Gain Fujitsu Backing Other Accelerating scientific computing with Windows Azure 4 Azure milestones Microsoft must hit — and soon

	Events:
Local:	Australia Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp – Brisbane Microsoft Australia hiring a Product Marketing Manager to lead the charge in Private Cloud Global Top Cloud Computing Events
Webinar:	Windows Azure Developer Webcast Series First up Windows Azure Storage Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT Unit Testing for Windows Phone December 14th 2011 10am PDT Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012
Training	Free Visual Studio LightSwitch Training

Community:

Social:

Keep up to date by:

Becoming a Facebook fan
Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
Watch our regular CloudCast (service now on Windows Azure thanks to Scaffolding kit for PHP)
Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

Suggest new ideas by using the Windows Azure Feature Voting

Attend a User Group:

Sydney (Conor Brady)
Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
Brisbane (register your interest #baug“ thanks to Steve Nagy)
Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
Perth (details to follow)

Other - Regional:

If you want to keep up with IT Pro news in NZ follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz
Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

	Questions
Windows Azure:	Microsoft Answers Your Azure Questions Four Questions With … Clemens Vasters Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost?

#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 29th November 2011

drmcghee — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:08:30 GMT

Local Overview :

Marketing your Restaurant made easy – Windows Azure helps Marketing4Restaurants focus on its customers and think global [FinReview 29th November]

“To the cloud”: Microsoft hosts weekend startup camp to promote Azure

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	General Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample Perform Tasks at Different Intervals in Azure Worker Role Resources to run Open Source Stacks on Windows Azure Storage Long Running Queue Processing Windows Azure Cloud Drive and Snapshots limit
SQL Azure:	How to upload your Excel and CSV data to the Cloud SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide Read and write data from SQL Azure using SQL Server Integration Services 2008 R2 SQL Azure Reporting Server Federation Metadata in SQL Azure Part 3 – Monitoring Ongoing Federation Operations Notification and Job Scheduling Service for SQL Azure (Cotega) SQL Azure Data Sync Service Update
AppFabric:	Caching Azure App Fabric Caching Intro and Tips Service Bus: Handling Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool ACS Supported Token Formats and Protocols in ACS The Belgian eID in Windows Azure
HPC:	Project Daytona: Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure
Watch:	An HTML5-Windows Azure Dashboard, Part 2: HTML5 Video Cloud Cover - New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie
Case Study:	Interactive Agency Helps Mobile Carrier Speed App Distribution to 20 Million Phones
Tools:	Examine - is a provider based, config driven search and indexer framework A blob storage hive provider for Umbraco 5 Sesame Data Browser

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	10-Minute AX 2012 App: Windows Azure (Cloud) Finding Top Message Threads for a Filter Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure
Architecture:	An interesting Windows Azure architectural discussion – synchronizing multiple nodes Load Testing In The Cloud
Best practice:	Handy Library for Dealing with Transient Connectivity in the Cloud
Book:	OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Apps: Ebook

	In the news:
General:	NIST to expand cloud computing circle NBN oversight Committee to consider privatisation
Microsoft:	Turn On the Server. It’s Cold Inside.
Windows Azure:	Platform: Windows Azure Guest OS 2.8 (Release 201109-02) Microsoft Codename “Data Transfer” Tutorial Partner Microsoft Brings Cloud Integrator Nimbo into Azure’s Inner Circle Cogent Selected by Microsoft to Join Azure Circle Program Other The Kinectonitor

	Events:
Local:	Australia The Big Picture: Don't tell me, SHOW ME! (Sydney) Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp – Brisbane Global Top Cloud Computing Events
Webinar:	Windows Azure Developer Webcast Series First up Windows Azure Storage Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT Unit Testing for Windows Phone December 14th 2011 10am PDT Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012
Training	Free Visual Studio LightSwitch Training

Community:

Social:

Keep up to date by:

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Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list

Watch our regular CloudCast (service being moved)

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Attend a User Group:

Sydney (Conor Brady)

Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)

Brisbane (register your interest #baug“ thanks to Steve Nagy)

Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)

Perth (details to follow)

Other - Regional:

If you want to keep up with IT Pro news in NZ follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz

Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

Questions

Windows Azure

Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated?

Is there a way to know in what environment my webrole runs?

How to execute a startup task delayed?

Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account?

#Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 22nd November 2011

drmcghee — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:19:57 GMT

Local Overview :

Microsofts Bizspark's StyleRocks - the world's first jewellery website that lets visitors design their own jewellery - built on Windows Azure

Customised products are then hand made in Australia and shipped directly to the customer. At the heart of StyleRocks is a .NET application built using the MVC framework on the Azure platform developed the start-up incubator and software company, BlueChilli.

Janison's eCafe visualizes the ESSA school test live

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	General Windows Azure for Social Applications Azure Authoring Tools - Enhanced Visual Studio Publishing (Year of AzureâWeek 19) Â« Brent's Notepad Programmatically Installing and Using Your Management Certificate with the New .publishsettings File Ten Basic Troubleshooting Tips for Windows Azure Multiple domains with HTTP and HTTPS endpoint and UCC SSL Certificate in Windows Azure Web Role Finding Top Keywords with the Social Analytics API Storage A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
SQL Azure:	More SQL Azure Data Sync Webcasts on Channel 9
AppFabric:	Service Bus: Azure Service Bus Tester ACS Outsourcing user authentication in a Windows Phone application
HPC:	MATLAB and R on Windows Azure via Techila
Watch:	Cloud Cover Episode 65 - New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie Your Three Winning Numbers of Cloud Computing Federated Authentication in Windows Azure Web Role using Windows Azure App
Case Study:	Travelocity and Neudesic Talk About the Advantages of Moving to the Cloud with Windows Azure
Tools:	Cerebrata public beta of Cloud Studio v2 Aditi Technologies acquires Cumulux

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	How to create a mobile BI report hosted on Azure Adding Push Notification Support to Your Windows Phone Application Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Build 1.6.41103.1601) installation Walkthrough
Architecture:	Deploy your cloud applications to Windows Azure from TFS Automated Build Synchronizing Multiple Nodes in Windows Azure
Best practice:	Handy Library for Dealing with Transient Connectivity in the Cloud NuGet Packages for Windows Azure and Windows Phone Developers
Book:	Professional SharePoint Cloud-Based Solutions

	In the news:
General:	Cloud Security Standards How to introduce Cloud and Mobile Development
Microsoft:	Cloud part of Microsoft's business is much smaller than the server part and that's going to continue in the foreseeable future Microsoft ready to unveil new public-private cloud-migration tools, strategy Microsoft Japan celebrated the birthday of Claudia Madobe, the official mascot character of its Windows Azure cloud services, by offering a Windows system sound and wallpaper pack
Windows Azure:	Platform: New Release for Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.1.1 Partner Fujitsu Launches Hybrid Cloud Services for Microsoft Windows Azure Customers Other The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back and you could win big!

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Windows Azure Developer Webcast Series

First up Windows Azure Storage

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer

January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT

Unit Testing for Windows Phone

December 14th 2011 10am PDT

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