#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 27th June 2012

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06/27/2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Breeze

Win Microsoft Worldwide awards - Application Integration Partner of the Year 2012 and finalist in Cloud Partner of the Year 2012

"Microsoft is pleased to recognise Breeze as the Application Integration Partner of the Year and Finalist for Cloud Partner of the Year. Breeze uses Microsoft on-premises and cloud solutions to deliver a service designed for reliability and scalability-a winning combination for their customers." – Bill Hilf

Andrew Coates - Microsoft

Learn Azure and Save a Life

Windows Azure [Intro]- When do I use What?

David Burela

Online source control for your personal projects

Microsoft

Windows 8 app finishing school–Melbourne

PLATFORM FOUNDATION EVENTS

2 day event in Sydney

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	New Announcing One Year of Windows Azure FREE with WebsiteSpark
In the news	Press Microsoft pushes Azure as cloud infrastructure on demand Microsoft Achieves SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 for Cloud and Online Services Infrastructure Related Microsoft’s Nadella: We will democratize big data TWC9: Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8, Azure, Imagine Cup and Pi! Microsoft Connected Car and Windows Azure-Microsoft job posting hints at Connected Car strategy: Azure, Kinect and WP8 -- Engadget Meet Microsoft's New Super Software Cloud Cloud Computing Simply Isn't That Scary Anymore: Survey - Forbes Partner Microsoft Supporting Symantec Cloud Security Elance and Microsoft Create New Microsoft Developers Program
Case Study	City of Regina Calls on the Windows Azure Cloud to Launch Open Data Initiative

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Contribute to the Training Kit An HTML-Based Windows Azure Management Portal My 10 favourite new/improved #WindowsAzure Features! Azure UG - June 2012 Overview Episode 40 of Visual Studio Toolbox: What's New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release is now live
Architecture	Cloud Cover Live: Windows Azure with Scott Guthrie
Security	Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Cybersecurity, Trojan Horse
DevOps	Managing the Cloud from the Command Line
Open Development	Mongo DB Release Notes - Azure - Version 0.5 WindowsAzure / azure-sdk-for-php Creating a PHP Web Role in Windows Azure
ACTIVE DIRECTORY	With Azure Active Directory, Microsoft wants to be the meta ID hub A Lap Around Windows Azure Active Directory
VIRTUAL MACHINES	Infrastructure as a Service Series: Virtual Machines and Windows Installing Node.js on a CentOS Linux Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
WEB SITES	Deploying Windows Azure Website using Visual Studio Web Publish wizard WorkFlow (XAMLX) Service Activity with WCF Service in Windows Azure Websites Web Sites Series: Create PHP and MySQL sites with Windows Azure Web Sites and WebMatrix Web Sites Series: Experience Windows Azure Web Sites from beyond Windows Azure Web Sites-Web Deploy Windows # Azure Web Sites – Intro Windows Azure Evolution – Deploy Web Sites (WAWS Part 3)
CLOUD SERVICES	256 Windows Azure Worker Roles, Windows Kinect and a 90's Text-Based Ray-Tracer
STORAGE	Designing for Scale with Windows Azure Storage The Common Use Cases for Windows Azure storage
SQL DATABASE	Data Series: SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machine vs. SQL Database Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012
SERVICE BUS	Visual Studio Service Bus Explorer versus Standalone Service Bus Explorer Azure–Service Bus Queues in Worker Roles
CACHING	Cloud Services Series: What's new in Windows Azure Caching
MARKETPLACE	How to Create your Eye on Earth web maps using ArcGIS Online
Big Data	Processing Azure Storage analytics logs with Hadoop on Azure A few tips for Big Data projects
Office	SharePoint and Windows Azure: Data Sync, Media Services & Virtual Machines
Tools	Windows Azure command-line tool for Mac and Linux

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Watch What You Missed at TechEd North America 2012 Learn Windows Azure at TechEd Europe
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 (to be move to Azure Web Sites!) 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 – 27th June 2012

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