#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 29th November 2011

Local Overview :

 

•           
• Marketing your Restaurant made easy – Windows Azure helps Marketing4Restaurants focus on its customers and think global [FinReview 29th November]

 

“To the cloud”: Microsoft hosts weekend startup camp to promote Azure

Readiness & Resources:

Windows Azure:

General

• Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample
• Perform Tasks at Different Intervals in Azure Worker Role
• Resources to run Open Source Stacks on Windows Azure

Storage

• Long Running Queue Processing
• Windows Azure Cloud Drive and Snapshots limit

SQL Azure:

• How to upload your Excel and CSV data to the Cloud
• SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide
• Read and write data from SQL Azure using SQL Server Integration Services 2008 R2
• SQL Azure Reporting Server
• Federation Metadata in SQL Azure Part 3 – Monitoring Ongoing Federation Operations
• Notification and Job Scheduling Service for SQL Azure (Cotega)
• SQL Azure Data Sync Service Update

AppFabric:

Caching

• Azure App Fabric Caching Intro and Tips

Service Bus:

• Handling Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool

ACS

• Supported Token Formats and Protocols in ACS
• The Belgian eID in Windows Azure

HPC:

• Project Daytona: Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure

Watch:

• An HTML5-Windows Azure Dashboard, Part 2: HTML5 Video
• Cloud Cover - New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie

Case Study:

• Interactive Agency Helps Mobile Carrier Speed App Distribution to 20 Million Phones

Tools:

• Examine - is a provider based, config driven search and indexer framework
• A blob storage hive provider for Umbraco 5
• Sesame Data Browser

Guidance:

Walkthrough:

• 10-Minute AX 2012 App: Windows Azure (Cloud)
• Finding Top Message Threads for a Filter
• Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure

Architecture:

• An interesting Windows Azure architectural discussion – synchronizing multiple nodes
• Load Testing In The Cloud

Best practice:

• Handy Library for Dealing with Transient Connectivity in the Cloud

Book:

• OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Apps: Ebook

In the news:

General:

• NIST to expand cloud computing circle
• NBN oversight Committee to consider privatisation

Microsoft:

• Turn On the Server. It’s Cold Inside.

Windows Azure:

• Platform:
  • Windows Azure Guest OS 2.8 (Release 201109-02)
  • Microsoft Codename “Data Transfer” Tutorial
• Partner
  • Microsoft Brings Cloud Integrator Nimbo into Azure’s Inner Circle 
  • Cogent Selected by Microsoft to Join Azure Circle Program
• Other
  • The Kinectonitor

Events:

Local:

Australia

• The Big Picture: Don't tell me, SHOW ME! (Sydney)?

  Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp – Brisbane

Global

• Top Cloud Computing Events

Webinar:

• Windows Azure Developer Webcast Series

First up Windows Azure Storage

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

• Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer

January 4th, 2012, 10 am PDT

• Unit Testing for Windows Phone

December 14th 2011 10am PDT

Six Weeks of Windows Azure will start on … Monday 23rd January 2012

Training

• Free Visual Studio LightSwitch Training

Community:

Social:

Keep up to date by:

• Becoming a Facebook fan
• Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
• Watch our regular CloudCast (service being moved)
• Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

Suggest new ideas by using the Windows Azure Feature Voting

Attend a User Group:

• Sydney (Conor Brady)
• Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
• Brisbane (register your interest #baug“ thanks to Steve Nagy)
• Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
• Perth (details to follow)

Other - Regional:

• If you want to keep up with IT Pro news in NZ follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz
• Singapore Azure User Group (official website)

Questions

Windows Azure

Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated?

Is there a way to know in what environment my webrole runs?

How to execute a startup task delayed?

Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account?