Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th February 2013

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02/13/2013

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Microsoft

6 Weeks of Windows Azure - a self-paced 6 Weeks of Azure course

Greg Low

Has the term "big data" completely lost meaning yet?

Microsoft

Appfest Sydney

“Build a connected Windows Phone 8 & a Windows 8 application in one day, using Windows Azure Mobile Services.”

February 15th – 17th 2013

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Guest OS Updates 3.2, 2.14 and 1.22 roll out begun
In the news	Press Microsoft cloud computing: Windows Azure cloud data privacy explained (making smoke and fire) Microsoft and Symantec disrupt cyber crime ring Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15 Billion Cloud Data lines: the backbone of the cloud How to spot a cloud bluffer - the ten tell-tale giveaways Microsoft Microsoft cloud now compliant with EU, US standards Partner Avanade adds to cloud managed services; acquires Opstera software
Case Study	Making waves uses Mobile Services to power their media app.

	TECHNOLOGY
	Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Databases An Introduction to Windows Azure Features
	Autoscaling in Windows Azure
	Ready, set, go download the latest release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java PHP Troubleshooting in Windows Azure Web Sites
	Securing Azure Virtual Machines Good security guidance for WindowsAzure Virtual Machines
Features
	Simple, responsive sign-in to Microsoft services driven by Windows Azure AD
	Submitting Hadoop MapReduce Jobs using PowerShell
	Azure Worker Role - Exiting Safely Workaround for IIS Express Crashing When Running Windows Azure Cloud Service Web Role with Multiple Instances in Windows Azure SDK 1.8 Compute Emulator
	Player Framework for Windows 8 and WP8 (v1.1)
	Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps Retrieving more data from Azure Mobile Services using paging and LoadAllAsync extension
	Two Complaints About Moving My Blog to Azure nopCommerce and Windows Azure Web Sites Set up Your Windows 8 Privacy Policy in Five Minutes (or Less)
	Windows Azure SQL Server 2012 VM Connectivity Lab Running Cassandra on Azure — step-by-step, gotcha-by-gotcha Running Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure using a VM Depot image
	Azure Virtual Network Preview (using DrayTek 2830 ADSL2 Router)
Core Services
	Episode 100 - Introduction to the Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs Data/Contract Coupling in Messaging
	Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Databases Windows Azure SQL Database Management with PowerShell
	How to copy VHD and blobs between different subscriptions Windows Azure Windows Azure Table Storage, all the Predefined Functions (.Net) Hosting progressive download videos on Azure Blobs
Other
	Windows Azure? What's in It for IT Professionals Can you really backup Windows Server 2012 to Windows Azure? cross platform command line tool for managing Windows Azure Websites and Virtual Machines Where do System Center 2012 and Azure interact? Powershell script to detect the Windows Azure SDK in Azure Cloud Service VM and fix the Powershell execution issue
	Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 Cloud Edition - My First Azure Target {m}brace on Windows Azure - A distributed GREP algorithm

COMMUNITY

Events

Global Windows Azure Bootcamp! On April 27th, 2013

Imagine Cup - Top Ten Reasons to Compete in the Windows Azure Challenge!

LOCAL GENERAL
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)
MVPs	Check in on what MVPs around Australia & New Zealand are up to David, Steve and Mick are MVPs for Australia
Social	Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia

Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th February 2013

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