#Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 20th May 2011

	Local Overview :
	Australian ISVs: The little guys taking on the world Azure and Silverlight expert Aussie previews new book @DavidBurela "Microsoft #Silverlight and Windows #Azure Enterprise Integration" Japaense Nuclear monitoring site from Azure Technical Specialist Haruo Shibuya

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2
SQL Azure:	SQL Azure May 2011 Update
AppFabric:	ACS Sample Code & CmdLets Adding a Custom OpenID Provider to ACS. with JUST ONE LINE of PowerShell Code
Watch:	Building Scalable Database Solutions Using Microsoft SQL Azure Database Federations
Case Study:	Travelocity case study and video on their cloud travel analytics system.
Tools:	Cloud Computing: Quest Software Released Tools for Microsoft Azure

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	How to Deploy a Hadoop Cluster on Windows Azure
Architecture:

	In the news:
General:	Why definitions of cloud are creating 'false' debates DARPA wants weapons-grade military cloud computing
Microsoft:	Salesforce and Microsoft named top platform-as-a-service vendors
Windows Azure:	Windows Azure ISV Business Economics Package The Windows Azure Team Wants Your Feedback

	Events:
Local:	I registered for the free Microsoft REMIX keynote. You should too here. Here the finalists of the Windows Azure My Concept Rules! Tim Buntel presents at: Yow conference- Java developer conference - Cloud Nights 7/8/14th June Australian Computer Society - 23rd June  Melbourne: Introducing Jasco 2SQL - Data migration faster and easier Well worth checking out RHoK #3 Fri, 06/03/2011 - Sun, 06/05/2011
Global:	TechEd (US) Windows Azure sessions available here
Webinar:

	Community:
Like Azure?	Mailing list for OzAzure
	Become a fan: www.facebook.com/windowsazure (using the Azure Facebook Toolkit) Add yourself to my Azure Australia Twitter list Watch CloudCast - episode 4 coming soon Coming soon: Azure meet up / 1st Windows Azure user group.

	Questions:
Q:	What happens when you VIP Swap on existing production instance?
A:	A VIP swap enables you to swap the staging and production deployments. If you in production and have no staging you cannot VIP swap Both deployments remain online during the swap process https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee517253.aspx Windows Azure will stop and upgrade the services contained in each upgrade domain, so if you have distributed your roles in several upgrade domains your service will be responsive in a upgrade process.
Q:	Can you use SSIS to extract data from Windows Azure Diagnostic Table storage?
	Yes but Diagnostic Tools may be better than using SSIS and generating a report. There are some old articles on SSIS or you could use some storage to extract data first Example tools include Cloud Storage Studio Azure Storage Explorer MyAzureStorage