Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 18th November 2013


Windows Azure Platform	Visual Studio 2013 Launch: Announcing Visual Studio Online
In the news	Press Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Adds Visual Studio 2013, Integrated Sign-in and Filter Support Microsoft Will Use Fuel Cells to Create Self-Powered Racks << Data Center power generation inside the rack Visual Studio goes online, kind-of Microsoft reinvents Visual Studio as an Azure cloud service Cloud PaaS isn't what it used to be Microsoft Video: One Microsoft with Windows Azure The best cloud platform: Windows Azure vs. Amazon Web Services Partner Introducing Opsgility – my new venture << good luck Michael
Case Study	Windows Azure Stories: XML Travelgate processing more than 20 million booking requests per day in the cloud

TECHNOLOGY


	Video: Tuesdays with Corey - Dev/Test Part 2 Tracing with the Management Libraries Microsoft: A Most Compelling Hybrid Cloud Vision IamA (we are) Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools Team (and Azure) AMA!
	Official Site Ipeer Selected by Microsoft and Parallels to Test New Windows Azure Pack Services Windows Azure Pack: Service Management API Samples - Nov 2013
	Windows Azure code samples Getting to grips with the Cloud – FREE Azure Webinar Series for educators and researchers
	Video: Setting up a Ruby stack on Windows Azure using Bitnami, VM Depot Installing Ubuntu VM in Azure
	All You Need to Know About Windows Firewall and Cloud Computing Services

	Using ASP.NET App Suspend in your Windows Azure Web Roles (OS Family 4)
	From the MVPs: “New in Visual Studio 2013 – Windows Azure Mobile Services Integration” Authenticate to Azure Mobile Services With Titanium Mobile
	SQL Server on IaaS VM – Azure Disks and Images Availability Sets Monitoring Windows Azure VM Disk Performance << quality
	Visual Studio Online “Monaco” Visual Studio Online for Windows Azure Web Sites The #windowsazure story continuous … in integration and delivery … TFS + VS online Introduction to WebSockets on Windows Azure Web Sites Remote Debugging a Window Azure Web Site with Visual Studio 2013 Creating and Editing a simple website using Visual Studio Online Trying out the Monaco product What is Kudu? - Azure Web Sites Deployment with David Ebbo First Steps \| Visual Studio Online "Monaco"

	November Update of Power Query Preview is Now Available Getting Started with the Windows Azure HDInsight Emulator Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data SQL Client Tool for Big Data - Hive, MongoDB, Azure, Cassandra
	T-SQL Tuesday: Head in the Clouds

	Configure Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication with Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Rights Management Licensing Terms (for Orgs and ISVs)
	Windows Azure Scheduler Service – Part I: Introduction Windows Azure Scheduler Service – Part II: Managing Cloud Services
	Throttling and Availability over Windows Azure Service Bus Windows Store App Notifications, the Notification Hub and Background tasks Connecting Windows Azure Web Sites to On-Premises Databases Using Windows Azure Service Bus

	Manage Windows Azure AD using Windows PowerShell Using Publish Settings Files to Authenticate the Management Libraries Automation–Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell (Part 1): Introduction and Table of Contents SMART - SMA Runbook Toolkit for Import and Export
	Running a Remote Desktop on a Windows Azure Linux VM (video) Remote desktop connection to Ubuntu VM in the Azure cloud using an SSH tunnel Video: RDS on Windows Azure - IaaS
	eVault - Turnkey data protection designed for laptops, desktops and Windows Azure Installing Azure Explorer or Azure Management Studio on a Windows Azure VM Sencha - Bringing the Mobile Web to the Cloud

COMMUNITY

Global Events	Windows Azure Dev Camp Online November 20 & 21, 2013 \| 9am – 12pm PST Azure @ Your Doorstep – Partner Sales Training for Windows Azure Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:00 AM PST Webinar Series: Discover the Value of the Cloud, on Your Terms, with Windows Azure Tuesday, December 17, 2013 PST
Local Events
User Groups	Sydney (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, June, 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

Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 18th November 2013

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