Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th August 2013

TECHNOLOGY

• Windows Azure Auto-scaling Options Side-by-Side Comparison
• TWC9: Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET, VS 2012.4, Web Essentials 2013 Preview and more
• Database Availability Groups and Windows Azure
• Edge Show 72 - Windows Azure Auto Scale

• What’s New in 2012 R2: Service Provider & Tenant IaaS Experience << comprehensive
• Microsoft #WindowsAzure Pack for Windows Server
• Microsoft Windows Azure Pack Enables Modern App Development
• What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Modern Apps with the Windows Azure Pack
• Getting started with Gallery Items in Windows Azure Pack (WAP)

• Visual Studio – Working With Multiple Windows Azure Subscriptions
• Article - Create a WordPress Site using Windows Azure .. Read On….
• Book: Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure        

• Configuring Windows Azure Diagnostics in Eclipse
• Updated Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – Kepler, new Windows Azure SDK, and less is more for deployment options
• Running Java Jetty server on Azure with AzureRunMe
• Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API In Java

• Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB)
• Video: Introducing Semantic Logging

• Video:Using Windows Azure Mobile Services and Web Sites for a Mobile Application
• Windows Azure Mobile Services in Visual Studio 2013
• How to handle WNS Response codes and Expired Channels in your Windows Azure Mobile Service
• Video: Tuesdays with Corey What is Mobile Services
• New Mobile Services Samples
• Getting Started with Mobility, Part 1: Understanding the Landscape
• How to implement Periodic Notifications in Windows Store apps with Azure Mobile Services Custom API

• An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure
• Using Microsoft SQL Server security features in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• SWAP space in Linux VM’s on Windows Azure – Part 2 /Part 1
• The Case of the Latest Windows Azure VM Image
• Creating Highly Available Workloads with Windows Azure

• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense
• Migrating a Blog to Windows Azure Web Sites
• Enabling Zend®Guard Extension in Windows Azure Web Sites
• Video: Installing DotNetAge on Windows Azure Web Sites
• Add Authentication Options to Your Windows Azure Website

• Microsoft Data Management Gateway for #Cloud Services #WindowsAzure

• What’s New in 2012 R2: Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery             
• Step-by-Step: Protect Private Clouds with Orchestrated Fail Over

• Free 20MB SQL Database in Azure
• Windows Azure SQL Database VS SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines VS Alternatives
• Get Started with Windows Azure SQL Database
• Simple Trick to Backup Azure Database with SkyDrive

• Save Money by Setting Cache-Control on Windows Azure Blobs
• NoSQL Now! talk summary and links: Polyglot Persistence in Windows Azure

• What’s New in 2012 R2: Identity Management for Hybrid IT
• Getting started with App Access enhancements for Windows Azure AD
• Managing Identity in the Cloud with ADFS and Windows Azure

RMS

• Information Rights Management: Microsoft gives it a new push – just in time to succeed

• Pay-As-You-Go Windows Azure BizTalk Services Changes EAI and EDI

• Making Windows Azure Caching Work in Compute Emulator

• Building a YouTube like Media Portal using ASP.NET MVC and Azure Media Services
• New NuGet package available with extensions for Windows Azure Media Services .NET SDK
• Windows Azure Powershell for Media Services

• How to create the Service Bus Relay Messaging on Windows Azure           
• Windows Azure Notification Hub – General Availability
• Integrating with Windows Azure BizTalk Services
• Video: Priority Queues

• Cloud Service Fundamentals: Telemetry – Data Acquisition Pipeline
• How to backup and restore a Windows system disk in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine
• The Operating Systems of Windows Azure
• Episode 111: New Windows Azure Diagnostics enhancements in SDK 2.0 and above
• Episode 112 - Portal Enhancements, Monitoring, AutoScale, SDK 2.1, and More New Features
• Create a Dev & Test Environment in Minutes!
• Windows Azure PaaS Compute Diagnostics Data
• Azure Production Issues: Not a Nice Thing to Share with Your Friends
• Windows Server 2012 #HyperV – #SCVMM Design – Best Practices

• MSDN Subscribers can run Software Licensed Under MSDN on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure MSDN Subscription Intro
• Windows Azure no longer needs a credit card for MSDN subscribers

• Windows Azure Marketplace is available in 50 additional countries and features new exciting content including our own Bing Optical Character Recognition service

• Why you shouldn’t deploy XD7 on Azure just yet.

• AppZero - Application Migration to Windows Azure
• AzureTools – The Diagnostic Utility used by the Windows Azure Developer Support Team << Excellent
• 10 tools of the trade for your #windowsazure environment 
• Kemp announces FREE software load balancer for Windows Azure!
• Training:Up and running with Azure
• Windows Azure Speed Test << Smart MVP work from Richard Astbury

COMMUNITY

Global Events

• Webinar: Unleashing the Power of Windows Azure BizTalk Services
• CloudBurst 2013 - streamed online from Stockholm Sweden on September 19-20 2013

Local Events

User Groups

• Sydney (Conor Brady handing over to Simon Waight)
• Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
• Brisbane (Dean Robertson and 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