As over a thousand of you know (because you signed up for our Webcast series during May and June), my colleague Brian Hitney and I have been working on a Windows Azure project – known as @home With Windows Azure – to demonstrate a number of features of...

Sure Windows Phone 7 is cool, and given its holiday release, it was at the top of my Christmas list… until today. At the Worldwide Partner Conference kicking off today, Bob Muglia , announced the availability of the Windows Azure Platform Appliance (WAPA...

Jim and I are nearly done with the @home with Azure series, but we wanted to document some of the biggest issues we see every week.  As we go through the online workshop, many users are deploying an Azure application for the first time after installing...

In a Windows Azure project, you can specify the Guest OS version for your VM.  This is done by setting the osVersion property inside the ServiceConfiguration file: If you don’t specify a version explicitly, the latest Guest OS is chosen for you. ...

I caught some Flak this weekend at the Charlotte Code Camp when Justin realized my recent Scale Down with Windows Azure post was principally a screencast (aside from the code sample ).   So Justin, I’m documenting the screencast just for you...

Awhile back, Neil Kidd created a great blog post on scaling down in Windows Azure .  The concept is to multithread your Azure worker roles (and web roles, too) – even if you have a single core (small instance) VM, most workloads are network IO blocked...

Most of the people who know me know I’ve invested a lot of my time in Windows Azure.  “I’m all in.”  :)   Last year, we began doing presentations on Azure after it was announced at PDC 2008.  Over the months, from SDS to SQL Azure...

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months working with and talking about Windows Azure to a variety of audiences, but if you’re anything like me, it can be hard to truly ‘get it’ until you touch it.  So to bring it all home (pun intended...

Heard a lot about Windows Azure , Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, but just overwhelmed by it all?  or perhaps haven’t had time to sit down and give it a whirl?   This event is for you! Sponsored by the Boston Azure User Group , the...

This past week, Chris and I finished up our Northeast Roadshow series in Farmington, CT, where we focused on the primary components of Windows Azure.  If you were at that venue or attended New England Code Camp 13 yesterday in Waltham, you might...