#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 4th April 2012

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04/04/2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

CIO Australia

Carriers make their play in the cloud

Microsoft Australia

Hybrid Cloud Switched on briefings in your city 15th –24th May

One Nimbus

Australia CSV OneNimbus^® 2SQL^TM Limited Offer - convert any Access database, no matter how complex, to SQL Server (on-premise or to SQL Azure) for one flat price

Melbourne User Group

April 10th 5.30pm

Listen to @grahamelliott speak about Windows Azure Security

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure – 1st May

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Announcing a Build Service for Team Foundation Service Back up Windows Server 8 to the Cloud SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update Important Pre-Announcement for upcoming “Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs
In the news	Azure Microsoft User Research: Azure Users Wanted! Related Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 Cloud Computing. SMBs secret weapon Partner: Invensys announces alliance with Microsoft to accelerate Azure development Infogroup Targeting Solution's Infoconnect Moves to the Cloud With Windows Azure
Case Study	Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure - TranscribeMe

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Cloud Tip #3–Find good examples Cloud Tip #4-How to migrate an existing ASP.NET App to the Cloud Watch @home with Windows Azure” on Channel 9 and Learn About Windows Azure While Contributing to Scientific Research
Storage	Blob Drop: Sync Local Files to Windows Azure Blob Storage Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments
Architecture	Episode 74 - Auto scaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure Identifying the Tenant in Multi-Tenant Azure Applications - Part 1
Security	Standard Response to Request for Information – Security and Privacy
SQL Azure	AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure Backup strategies for Sql Azure Federations
Service Bus	Formatting the content for Service Bus messages
Cache	A very simple Windows Azure AppFabric Cache Class
DevOps	Web Funnel 101: 24 Metrics You Need to Measure Right Now
Big Data	Listing current running Hadoop Jobs and Killing running Jobs MapReduce, streaming beyond Java How to troubleshoot MapReduce jobs in Hadoop How to chain multiple MapReduce jobs in Hadoop
Tools	Azure Fluent Management including Sql Azure management 0.2 Azure User Management Console – AUMC
Book	Free eBook: Moving Applications to the Cloud

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	Webinar: SQL Azure Reporting
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social	Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure

#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 4th April 2012

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