I just published a video I made on to Channel 9 describing the major features of Azure AD Administrative Units as part of the slew of stuff that was released today. It’s in the “cartoony” style which seems to be the way a lot of people like to consume...

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A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio would be a free development tool. A special version, called the Community Edition (Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition) which is roughly equivalent to the current Visual Studio Professional...

Mark Renoden, one of my colleagues from Microsoft Australia/New Zealand has come up with this great single line of powershell that spits out everything you want to know about your VMs … Get-AzureVM | ForEach-Object { $vm = $_.name ; Write-Output "...

    Building Cloud Applications Track – register on the website. 13:50 – 14:30 Why the Cloud; Why Azure? Steve Plank (Planky) It’s no longer the guy with the most money who can be successful at writing software. With the advent of cloud computing...

Our first live Microsoft Virtual Academy event on July 14 th , Microsoft Cloud Day 2014 with Q&A from Mark Russinovich where registrants will have an opportunity to: · Hear the latest from Azure experts and startups at the recent Azure User Group...

The Azure Weekly runs every Tuesday from 12:30 – 14:00 (UK timezone) and is aimed at the techie who has not yet had any/much exposure to Azure but who just wants a leg-up to get started. This is a more practically focused session than a theoretical/architectural...

This question seems to have come up a lot at a few events I’ve been at recently. Lots of folks know the theory: Azure AD is the Office 365 directory. You can use that Office 365 directory for more than just your Office 365 services like email, collaboration...

James Governor’s (@monkchips) observations ( Red Hat’s entirely rational position on OpenStack ) on recent moves by Red Hat to put additional processes in place to restrict the support they offer is very interesting. It’s an almost fly-on-the-wall observation...

If you don’t know what Azure AD is in the first place – watch my cartoon video . You can either build your own LOB app and integrate it in to Azure AD. Or if you already have one of 1,763 that have already been integrated, you can use that too. Integrating...

The world of the cloud is changing fairly rapidly. I blogged about a week and a half ago about how the Microsoft cloud would be supporting SAP software by the end of June. Well can you believe the pace of change? It was announced a couple of days ago...

I guess it all started to come together with the public cloud and the Enterprise back in June last year when Microsoft and Oracle announced a partnership . I remember a few months later being at IPEXPO 2013 in London and introducing myself to a guy on...

This is a deepzoom of the world’s largest known prime number. Click to watch the DeepZoom in action. Almost 17 and a half million digits. There are only 2 numbers that will divide in to it. One and itself. It’s incredible to think, that within the sheer...

A lot of new features were announced at TechEd. Here they are – straight from the horse’s mouth…     At TechEd North America 2014, we announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive...

Creating a WordPress Website using Azure Websites Creating an ASP.NET website using Azure Websites Creating a Virtual Server in Windows Azure Creating a Mobile Service in Windows Azure Creating a Cloud Service in Windows Azure Signing up for a free Windows...

I made a video about this some time ago because of the prevalence of confusion over what you can and can’t do with Azure AD vs. on-premises AD. It’s a regularly recurring theme and it came up with a customer again this morning, so I thought I’d re-blog...

I’d say there’s a greater than 50:50 chance you’re confused about cloud-computing unless you’re already involved. Terms like “public cloud”, “hybrid cloud”, “Infrastructure as a Service”, “Platform as a Service” add to an apparent mystique. Maybe you...

It’s the app that provides the “business value”. The Operating System is just a necessary evil to provide the supporting infrastructure. It’s an utterly captivating and absorbing evil necessity and it keeps a whole load of us in employment, provides us...

In the late 70s/early 80s there was a sudden rash of 8-bit microcomputers on the consumer market. They were all based on either the Zilog Z80 or the MOST 6502 microprocessors. I made a mistake – I bought the Commodore VIC20 which said it had 8k of RAM...

I’ve finally caved in after a webinar yesterday in which this question came up for what seems like the 100th time. So I thought I’d blog it and send people here for the full explanation in the future. Back in the good old bad old days when Microsoft Azure...

I just published a video I made on to Channel 9 describing the major features of Azure AD Premium.     Hope you like it. Planky - @plankytronixx

Just spotted a few tweets that say words along the lines of “AWS has five times the power of its nearest 14 rivals combined”. And it’s all validated and indisputable because it's from a Gartner Report. So do I really have to believe that Amazon has datacenters...

The Prime Challenge , including Shoothill’s fantastic Deep Zoom Visualisation of the world’s largest known prime number (17.5 million digits) was covered on BBC Click. If you get iPlayer in your country – find BBC Click as broadcast on 15th March and...