Windows Azure Boot Camp–6/22 and 6/23

Here’s a quick a reminder that Boston Azure Cloud User Group is putting on a FREE two-day, hands-on Windows Azure Boot Camp TOMORROW and Saturday at Microsoft’s New England Research & Development Center (NERD).  There are a few spots still open.

This is a great opportunity to learn from MVPs, evangelists, and other cloud-erati via a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. Bring your laptop; prerequisites include:

• Windows Azure account (free, no-risk 90-day trial or MSDN accounts can be provisioned easily before you get there)
• Windows 7 (Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate) OR Windows Server 2008 OR Windows Server 2008 R2 OR Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise or Ultimate) with Service Pack 1 or 2. Note that Windows XP does NOT support the Windows Azure .NET SDK.
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher OR Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (free download)
• Windows Azure .NET SDK 
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js

The agenda for the two days follows, note you can sign up for either or both days.

Day 1 – Register Here

Day 2 – Register Here

9:00-9:30 Breakfast (coffee/breakfast provided) & registration 9:30-9:45 Welcome, overview 9:45-noon Intro to Cloud and key Windows Azure technologies noon-1:00 Lunch (provided) / socialize 1:00-3:00 Web/Worker Roles/Queues/Tables + Lab 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-4:00 Node generic overview (Intro to Node.js since we will use it in following lab) 4:00-5:30 Intro to Node.js SDK for Azure/Service Bus + Lab 5:30-6:00 More about Service Bus 6:00 – ? Group Dinner (at your own expense) at local bar

9:00-9:30 Breakfast (coffee/breakfast provided) & registration 9:30-11:30 Mobile Notification Services + Lab 11:30-noon Secure Applications on Insecure Devices: ACS, SAS noon-1:00 Lunch (provided) / socialize 1:00-5:00 SELECTING AMONG MANY INTERESTING OPTIONS 5:00-6:00 Recap, what's next, and give-aways