Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 23rd June 2013

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

 

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
PPTV Live China   PPTV Builds World's Largest TV Cloud Platform Based on Microsoft Windows Azure		Rocky Heckman   Whitepaper: Disaster Recovery and High Availability for Windows Azure Applications		Melbourne Meetup Thursday 27th June - A Deep Dive into Windows Azure Virtual Machines

 

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development Now Available - Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics GP on Windows Azure!
In the news	Press Will The Xbox One’s Cloud Computing Work In Australia? - Entrepreneur News Microsoft adds two-factor authentication to Windows Azure Microsoft Adds Support For Google Cloud Messaging, Git And Custom APIs To Azure Mobile Services 50% of Fortune 500 uses Windows Azure, Microsoft says Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday Which Microsoft apps are supported (and not) on Windows Azure? Cloud Steve Wozniak interview: cloud computing compared to communism 10 Cloud Computing Game Changers NIST draws up a security architecture for cloud computing Mobile device backup might be impossible Cloud computing: how can companies reduce the security risk? 96% of SMBs shifting to cloud see security as benefit Cloud computing saves energy on huge scale, says new study – but how? Microsoft The Future of the Cloud Looks Sunny Indeed!
Case Study	Windows Azure Service Bus Drives High Availability, Scalability for Financial Services Portal

TECHNOLOGY
	Microsoft Research Orleans- A Framework for Cloud Computing Building Modern Business Applications Architecting Multi-tenant Applications in Windows Azure Video: Advanced development with Windows Azure Building Blocks of Great Cloud Applications
	The Infrastructure as a Service Technical Guidance for Hosting Service Providers white paper is now available!
	Installing CakePHP from the Windows Azure App Gallery
	Microsoft Woos Developers with New Range of Windows Azure Cloud Services
	Creating a great mashup using Windows Azure Mobile Services updates and Android support for Notification Hubs Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 7) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Authentication Tips and Tricks
	Windows Azure Media Services .NET SDK 2.2.0.1
	Taking the best out of Windows Azure Virtual Machines Video: Setting up BizTalk360 On Windows Azure (BizTalk IaaS) in One Click Windows Azure VMs - New "Stopped" VM Options Provide Cost-effective Flexibility for On-Demand Workloads Add registry entries to Windows Azure VM’s programatically
	Video: Use Excel Hive Add-in to Access Hive on Windows Azure Practical Azure #21 - HDInsight
	Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner- Released #WindowsAzure Hyper-V Recovery Manager #azure #Hyperv #recovery #msteched #TEE13 #DRaaS
	How to Perform SQL Azure Performance & Diagnostics Analysis
	Maintain Azure Diagnostics messages
	It’s Raining Big Numbers with Windows Azure Active Directory Video: Authenticating a Windows Azure Web Site against an Office 365 Domain Get Azure ACS work[ing] together with Live Connect
	BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part II Some PowerShell commands for Windows Azure BizTalk Services BizTalk PaaS: BizTalk Services Windows Azure BizTalk Services & BizTalk 2013 - comparing the mapper Windows Azure Service Bus Drives High Availability, Scalability for Financial Services Portal
	How to send a large message to a Service Bus Relay Service using Streamed mode Scaling Node.js Real-time Apps with Windows Azure Service Bus Windows Azure Service Bus Drives High Availability, Scalability for Financial Services Portal
	Windows Azure Management Portal background color themes
	Windows Azure App Store: Services for Your Cloud Applications How to use latest Azure Table Storage SDK in Windows Store app
	Point-Click Deploy Alfresco on Windows Azure

COMMUNITY
Global Events	MSDN benefit before September 30th, 2013 are also automatically entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win an Aston Martin V8 Vantage sports car!

Local Events
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Dean Robertson/Paul Bouwer) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth MS Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz@msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
MVPs	Check in on what MVPs around Australia & New Zealand are up to - David, Steve, Mahesh and Mick are MVPs for Australia
Social	Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Facebook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure Australian Developer Community