#Azure in Action – Community Newsletter – 2nd August 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

Windows Azure Platform

• Introducing a New Capability in the Windows Azure AD Developer Preview: the Windows Azure Authentication Library
• Microsoft Offers Customers and Partners a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Marketplace Update: New Features, Availability in 12 New Countries
• Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management Preview now available

• Microsoft pins Azure outage on network miscue
• Microsoft opens up Office 365 and Azure single sign-on for developers
• Windows Azure Quietly Puts Its Pieces Into Place
• Microsoft Azure cloud grows four-fold in a year
• Price Drops on the Azure Cloud

Cloud

• What considerations must a CIO make when moving to the cloud
• Persistent Threat Management
• DoD Cloud Computing Strategy
• Innovate with Cloud Computing

How to Survive in the Cloud (Infographic)

Partner           

           
• KU Leuven benchmarks Machine Learning in the cloud
• iVoteSports Scales its Baseball-Focused Mobile Game App with Windows Azure
• MLS Using Windows Azure in Education
• Sports New Media
• Social Media Tool Helps Sports Stars and Organisations Engage with Fans
• ”Site Selector” Enhanced with Microsoft Windows Azure (integrates commercial real estate with community and market analysis )

TECHNOLOGY

• How to Assess Costs of using Windows Azure for your Applications
• How to choose the right Cloud service in Windows Azure
• Azure Data and Databases - When to use what

• The “traffic cop” pattern
• Great management tools can be a catalyst for Azure adoption
• Windows Azure Visio Shapes

• "I want to program my firewall using IP ranges to allow outbound access only to my cloud apps"
• Running WIF Relying parties in Windows Azure      

• Cloud driving DevOps transformation, importance

• Configuring Windows Azure Services for Windows Server
• Service Bus [for Windows Server] Symmetry
• Service Bus for Windows Server, the New Features
• Windows Azure Services for Windows Server - Part 2
• Hands-on Windows Azure Services for Windows

General

• OSCON 2012

Node.JS         

• Node.js script for releasing a Windows Azure blob lease

JAVA

• Cool cloud stuff for Java programmers
• Java Applications in Windows Azure Cloud Services using Eclipse

• How to install Windows Azure Toolkit (v1.3.2) for Windows Phone

• The Power of the Worker Role: Windows Azure + Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Better Together, Part Three
• Configure IIS websites on Windows Azure with startup tasks and AppCmd

• Getting started with Windows Azure Media Services

• Windows Azure Web Sites
• Windows Azure Web Sites Modern Application Sample – Cloud Survey
• Facebook Apps and Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 1 – Getting Started)
• Windows Azure for IT Pros Series: “Web Site” Feature
• Running multiple wordpress blogs on Azure Websites

• Building a Multi-Server SharePoint Farm in Windows Azure
• Connecting Windows Azure Virtual Machines with PowerShell
• Data Series: How To Setup SQL Server on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Hosting SQL Reporting Service on Azure Virtual Machine

• Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010
• Creating a Windows Azure virtual network with site-to-site VPN to SonicWALL
• Introduction to Windows Azure - IaaS Virtual Network

• The issues you may have with the Azure co-located cache 1.7 and other caching gems

• Transactions in Windows Azure (with Service Bus) – An Email Discussion
• Installing and Testing the New Service Bus for Windows
• Service Bus and “pushing” notifications

SQL DATABASE

• Fault-tolerance in Windows Azure SQL Database
• SQL Azure’s Journey from Inception in Year 2008 to June 2012!

STORAGE

• Extending ELMAH on Windows Azure Table Storage
• Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database - Compared and Contrasted
• How to create a custom blob manager using Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012 RC, and the Azure SDK 1.7
• CloudCover Episode 84 - Windows Azure Storage Updates and a Preview of the Client Storage Library vNext
• Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and Counting
• Upload to Shared Access Signature blob using WebClient (REST API)
• Windows Azure: Effective use of the Storage and SQL Azure

TRAFFIC MANAGER

• How Azure Traffic Manager Makes Cloud Networking Easier

ACCESS CONTROL SERVICES

• Oauth2 delegation through Windows Azure Access Control Service for ASP.NET Web API

ACTIVE DIRECTORY

• Windows Azure Authentication Library: a Deep Dive
• Identity & Windows Azure AD at TechEd EU Channel9 Live
• Windows Azure Active Directory enables single sign-on with cloud apps
• Inside the Windows Azure Active Directory Web SSO Sample for Java
• Adding Your Domain to a Windows Azure Active Directory in Office 365 Preview Enterprise (E3) Edition
• Get Started with Windows Azure Active Directory (Developer Preview)
• A Guided Tour of the Windows Azure Active Directory Developer Preview Sample Application
• Single Sign On with Windows Azure Active Directory: a Deep Dive
• Enabling Windows Azure AD Rights Management in Office 365 Enterprise Preview

• Check your Windows Azure Datamarket remaining quota
• New Bing SERP checker using Windows Azure Datamarket

• Hadoop on Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Recipe: Big Data
• Big Data in the Cloud

• Windows Azure auto provisioned apps for SharePoint 2013
• Power View Tip: Scatter Chart over Time on the X-Axis and Play Axis
• Windows Azure and Office 365
• Configure SharePoint Online Preview to use Windows Azure AD Rights Management

• Building Connected Windows 8 Apps with Windows Azure

• Azure Tools Belt: Application Auto-scaling Bloc – WASABi            
• Windows Azure Performance Management, Monitoring Using AppDynamics
  RightScale Supports Windows Azure Eyeing Greater Market Share
• An Independent Review of Explorer Tools for Windows Azure Blob Storage

COMMUNITY

• Hortonworks and Microsoft Bring Apache Hadoop to Windows 

• Compuware Presents Live Customer Webcast Featuring Time Cockpit: "How timecockpit.com Made Azure Work for Them"

• Announcing BUILD 2012

User Groups

• Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari)
• 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 (still 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