The 1.4 version of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes several new features: Multiple Service Configurations Profiling a WAZ application when it runs in Windows Azure Package Validation MVC 3 Web Role Support MSDN Link: New in...

The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform, including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure...

On one of the discussions on Slashdot.org regarding Windows Automation there was some quite useful comments that I had to collect  for my own selfish purposes: By: thalakan (14668)   on Friday May 06, @07:42PM PowerShell. The only tool that...

Most Excellent news! Starting July 1st 2011, Azure inbound traffic to our customers is Free! Quoting the Windows Azure Blog Post: “…For billing periods that begin on or after July 1, 2011, all inbound data transfers for both peak and off-peak times will...

The Azure Management API Cmdlets enable you to use PowerShell Cmdlets to manage your Azure projects.  You can access this project from the following link: http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/   Working with the Azure Management API Cmdlets 1....

Exciting news on the Azure HPC space. With the new release of the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) you can now run MPI Workloads in Azure (in addition to Batch and Parametric sweeps) Post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowshpc/archive/2011/06/29...

We have made available Windows Azure toolkits for mobile development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone: Link to announcement: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/05/09/microsoft-announces-windows-azure-toolkits-for-ios-android-and...

Great table that provides a comparison of the Windows Azure Offers: Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/popup/popup.aspx?lang=en&locale=en-US&offer=COMPARE_PUBLIC

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ACDE41C6-153A-4181-912E-78024FCC86DA&displaylang=en Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 enables administrators to increase the power of the on-premises cluster by adding computational...

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966...

Link: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/ Hello, I am pleased to announce the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. The toolkit is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure...

Jason Sherron has a great post regarding Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Best practices: Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/03/18/best-practices-for-the-windows-azure-content-delivery-network.aspx Enjoy, Patrick

Hello, My good friend Walter Myers has published some great blog posts regarding how to properly implement the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 to monitor Windows Azure Applications: Setting Up Performance Counters in your Web and...

Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee924680.aspx   The following guest operating systems have been released on Windows Azure: Windows Guest OS Family 2 which is substantially compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Guest OS Family...

For all the .NET developers working on Azure, here is the latest .NET 4.0 Training Kit. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en Today we released the March 2011 version...

This is the list of Windows Azure Platform How-to that appear on the windows Azure SDK 1.4 How to: Build a Windows Azure Application How to Configure Virtual Machine Sizes How to Configure Connection Strings How to Configure Operating System Versions...

Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff934690.aspx   The following lists of papers, articles, blogs, videos, and webcasts provide a multitude of resources for learning how to handle security when developing applications for the Windows Azure...

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a1089b6-4050-4307-86c4-9dadaa5ed018&displaylang=en   Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Released Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service...

Interesting article about performance comparison of PaaS and IaaS providers around the globe Article on InformationWeek: http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229300184&pgno=1&queryText...

Great Article in how to setup Linked Servers on SQL Azure Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlcat/archive/2011/03/08/linked-servers-to-sql-azure.aspx   Abstract Connecting directly to a SQL Azure database from a reporting tool (like Microsoft Excel...

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en   The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations...

This is a compilation of the Windows Azure Jumpstart Videos on Channel 9: Session 01: Windows Azure Overview Session 02: Introduction to Compute Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1 Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2 Session 05: Windows...

We have just release the 1.3 version of the Azure SDK, Azure Tools for Visual Studio and the Training Kit. This is the information and links for them:   Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.3: Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details...

This is a list of Azure Security Paper published by the Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS), the team that manages and supports the Azure Data Centers.   Information Security Management System for Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure (November 2010...

The fact of migrating or developing new applications on Azure provides the opportunity to review architectures, refactor code and apply best practices that we may have missed.  This is most current documentation available from the MS Patterns and...