Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 26th September 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
m4r Time to Roster now live www.time2roster.com Microsoft New Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia   Lots of other #auteched session videos appearing at Channel 9. Also presentations e.g. Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks – TechEd Australia Recording		Nick Randolph Visual Studio Magazine Getting Started with Windows Azure Mobile Services   Aiden Casey   Bench marking node.js on Windows Azure   Chris Auld   SQL Azure Federations Deep Dive–TechEd ANZ		Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup   TechEd Australia 2012 Encores Thu Sep 27, 5.30pm   Sydney Windows Azure User Group   NServiceBus & Windows Azure Web Sites Thursday, 4th October 2012 5:45PM - 8:00PM - (inc Pizza) Jimmy Pelletier/ Tatham Oddie City Hotel (Emperor Lounge) 347 Kent Street (Corner of King Street) Switched on Briefings Interactive briefings demonstrating Private to Public Cloud using existing familiar infrastructure, tools, and skills Adelaide 10th October Canberra 27th September

         

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Announcing: Great Improvements to Windows Azure Web Sites “Shared” Scaling Tier Improved Custom Domain Support Continuous Deployment Support with Git and CodePlex or GitHub Announcing Updates to Windows Azure SQL Database Linked Server and Distributed Queries for Windows Azure SQL Database Recursive Triggers DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS Configure SQL Database Firewall Rules at the Database Level Announcing Open Sourcing of Windows Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub, and Partnership with Xamarin
In the news	Press                   Azure Beats Amazon in Cloud Development Survey Another Microsoft Developer Division leader moves to Windows Azure - Jason Zander Microsoft updates Windows Azure Web Sites, Active Directory previews Cloud Will Microsoft’s data centers be backed up by Bloom fuel cells? Book Review: Cloudonomics–The Business Value of Cloud Computing Partner Towers Watson, Risk based solutions in Financial Services adapted for Windows Azure Xamarin partners with Microsoft to support Windows Azure Mobile Services on Android and iOS
Case Study	Waapy - Game Developer Uses Scalable Cloud Solution to Reduce Costs, Meet Demand Proximex Announces Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) Solution Implemented on the Windows Azure Platform Big Red Book launches Big Red Cloud on Windows Azure

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Video: Getting Started with Windows Azure
Architecture	Windows Azure Interactive Feature Map WazMonkey: Chaos Monkey for Windows Azure Windows Azure Cloud Service on One A4 Page Migrating TailspinSpyworks Web Forms to Windows Azure Moving a website to Azure while adding Continuous Deployment from Git How to choose the right Relational Database Service you should use in Windows Azure
Open Development	Bench marking node.js on Windows Azure
-- Features
MOBILE SERVICES	Getting Started with Windows Azure Mobile Services Storing per user data in Azure Mobile Services Experimenting with Windows Azure Mobile Services Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough–Part 5: Distributing Your App From the Windows Store Visual Basic Version of the Get started with data in Mobile Services Tutorial Playing with the query object in Read operations on Azure Mobile Services Adding Notifications to Your Windows 8 Game Storing Images from iOS in Windows Azure Mobile Services Azure Mobile Services - Admin Table Viewer Sample Using AZURE for a Mobility Strategy in the Cloud Windows Azure Mobile Services Aim to Simplify App Development
VIRTUAL MACHINES	Step by Step creating Virtual Machine in Windows Azure Create a Virtual Machine on Windows Azure Up and Running with Meteor in a Linux VM in Windows Azure in 10 minutes
WEB SITES	Deploying Azure Websites with Git Announcing the New Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Scaling Tier Using Custom PHP Extensions in Windows Azure Web Sites Enabling PHP 5.4 in Windows Azure Web Sites GitHub Integration in Windows Azure Web Site Episode 90 - Windows Azure Web Sites Update Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 5: Adding New Points of Interest in Android
--- Core Services
ACCESS CONTROL SERVICES	Federating Windows Azure Service Bus Access Control Service with a custom STS: thinktecture IdentityServer helps with more real-world-ish Relay and Brokered Messaging Agile path ways into the Azure Universe – Access Control Service [ACS] Discover Identity Providers from ACS
ACTIVE DIRECTORY	Windows Azure AD Rights Management Administration Tools and Utilities More Features for Azure Active Directory
CACHING	From HttpRuntime.Cache to Windows Azure Caching (Preview)
STORAGE	A review of the Windows Azure Blob Storage tools Deleting a storage account used by a VM Upload Image from Silverlight to Azure BLOB using WCF Where can I store my Data on Windows Azure? Windows Azure Table Storage
SQL DATABASE	Cross-Device Mobile Apps Powered by Azure and SQL Azure Retry Logic for transient errors in Windows Azure SQL Database (SQL Azure)-Part 3
-- Other
Big Data	Introduction to Microsoft’s Big Data Platform and Hadoop Primer
DevOps	About Windows Azure Publish Settings File and how to create your own Publish Settings File Continuous Deployment from GitHub to Windows Azure
SaaS	Enabling Orchard CMS Multi-Tenancy on Windows Azure
Tools	Premier Web-Based Oil & Gas Software on the Cloud Guest Post: What’s the Big Deal with AppDynamics Windows Azure Monitoring?
Windows Server	Windows Azure Online Backup and Windows Server 2012 Essentials

                                                         

	COMMUNITY
Imagine Cup	Windows Azure Challenge opens for 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series (being migrated) Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia