#Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 19th April 2012

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