#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th February 2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus

launching soon with @BlueChilliGroup @pushstart @AngelCubeMelb @FishBurners

Romiko Derbynew

Windows Azure configuration transformations

Windows Azure–Pre Role Start up Tasks

UndeployAzure script

Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting

First date on 15th February 2011

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	SQL Azure - Announcing Reduced Pricing (48% to 75% savings) and New 100MB DB Option New Service Update Released for Microsoft Codename "Data Transfer"
Microsoft	Windows 8 is not all about Tablets, it’s about the future Microsoft's plan to bring its ERP users slowly but surely to the cloud Microsoft Private Cloud Book Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software
Case Study	ReedRex CMS sociobridge Microsoft, CJ Fallon introduce cloud service for textbooks (Ireland) Cloudera and Tableau Empower Business Intelligence With Apache Hadoop
General	3 secrets to creating a business case for cloud computing The Path to the Intelligent Cloud Thanks to the cloud, integration is back -- with a twist Tips for Replicating Data in The Cloud

TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

• An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 2)

Architecture

• Cloud based software architecture lessons from the field
• What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 3 – Choosing a Hybrid of Services
• SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections in the Cloud
• A Custom High-Availability Cache Solution
• MSDN: Real World: Considerations When Choosing a Web Role Instance Size: How small should I go?
• Windows Azure Deployment Domains

Storage

• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage?

SQL Azure

• Ways To Load Data In SQL Azure
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database

Federations

• Connection Pool Fragmentation: Use Federations and you won’t need to learn about these nasty problems that come with sharding!

ACS

• Azure webrole federated by ACS
• ASP.NET: Authentication With SWT Token Using Windows Azure ACS and WIF Custom Token Handler
• ADFS and ACS: Slides from Jan 10th Jan UKWAUG meeting

Service Bus

• Azure Service Bus: Connectivity at a Cloud Scale
• Service Bus support in azure npm 0.5.2
• Try, Try, and Try Again
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper
• Enterprise Integration Patterns with Service Bus (Part 1)

Open

• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role

DevOps

• Cloud Applications and Application Lifecycle Management (Includes Azure)

Big Data

HPC

• Windows Azure and High Performance Compute

Hadoop

• Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
• Connecting Power View to Hadoop on Azure–An #awesomesauce way to view Big Data in the Cloud
• Analyzing 1 TB of IIS logs with Hadoop Map/Reduce on Azure with JavaScript | Analyse d’1 To de journaux IIS avec Hadoop Map/Reduce en JavaScript

Office

• Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010

Demos

• Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx

Tools

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8]
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 FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure