#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th June 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
No local updates this week, too much going on in general in Windows Azure		Bill Chesnut - Mexia New Server Explorer Azure Bus bits in Azure SDK 1.7   Mick Badran - Breeze Azure: Azure 1.7 SDK tid bits LifeHacker   There’s Still One Nokia Lumia 710 To Be Won… Just do the Azure challenges		Microsoft   MEET WINDOWS AZURE DEV CAMPS All day event in Sydney on the 19th June Register here   Windows 8 app finishing school–Melbourne   PLATFORM FOUNDATION EVENTS 2 day event in Sydney Windows Azure Event in Auckland 21st of June

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	New Security, Privacy & Compliance Update: Availability of SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 Attestation Updated: Windows Azure Training Kit - June 2012 - labs updated for new portal plus VM training! New Blob Lease Features: Infinite Leases, Smaller Lease Times, and More Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature), Queue SAS and update to Blob SAS Microsoft Updates Windows Azure Pricing Calculator With New Offering Retired The WindowsAzure PowerShell Cmdlets codeplex project is now retired
In the news	Press Microsoft pushes Azure as cloud infrastructure on demand Related 5 important considerations for an organization to use Windows Azure IaaS Blogs about and Other Web Resources for the Windows Azure “Spring Wave” Preview by Windows Azure MVPs Cloud Is ROI the Right Measure of Cloud Success? Characters I've Met in the Cloud Partner Microsoft, Symantec team on future disaster recovery solutions for Azure Numerix Teams with GreenButton
Case Study	Windows Azure - Pernod Ricard USA Windows Azure - Huddle Group GoldMail and Windows Azure Car Site Switches to Windows Azure to Gain Instant Business Scalability, Halve IT Costs

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure Sign-up Problem Ridiculously Fast and Easy Migration to the Cloud with Windows Azure Windows Azure – Write, Run or Use Software What is the new Windows Azure? – with cool semi-infographics Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal
Architecture	Building Connected Windows 8 Apps with Windows Azure Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise (Part 2) Windows Azure Solution Cookbook Provides Cloud Architecture Recipes for Common Scenarios Inside Windows Azure with Mark Russinovich
Security	Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Cybersecurity, Trojan Horse
DevOps	High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow Importing and Exporting Virtual Machine Settings What’s the big deal with AppDynamics Azure Monitoring?
Open Development	Three ways of deploying node.js apps to Windows Azure
ACTIVE DIRECTORY	What is Windows Azure Active Directory?
VIRTUAL MACHINES	Setting up a webfarm using Windows Azure Virtual Machines Infrastructure as a Service Series: Support for Linux Virtual Machines on Windows Azure Create a Virtual Machine on Windows Azure Installing and Running vsftpd in CentOS Gallery image available at Windows Azure Virtual Machines for Linux Rebuilding a Deleted Virtual Machine Building a CRM 2011 dev box using a Windows Azure Virtual Machine
VIRTUAL NETWORK	Infrastructure as a Service Series: An Overview of Windows Azure Virtual Network Configuring a Windows Azure Virtual Network with a Cisco ASA 5505-BUN-K9 Adaptive Security Appliance
WEB SITES	Video: Web Sites - .NET Development Web Sites Series: Windows Azure Web Sites Experience on .NET and Visual Studio Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Windows Azure Web Site and SQL Database How to migrate and run your WordPress blog on Windows Azure WebSites Using Git to deploy an ASP.NET website shows Windows Azure Blob Storage list at Windows Azure Websites Windows Azure Website: Uploading/Downloading files over FTP and collecting Diagnostics logs
MEDIA SERVICES	Azure Media Services - Part 1 Democratizing Video Content with Windows Azure Media Services
CLOUD SERVICES	Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 5: Cloud Services
STORAGE	The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) explained How To Copy an Object from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob” Updates To Windows Azure Storage–Summary Of New Features
SQL DATABASE	Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012
SERVICE BUS	Release Notes for the Service Bus June 2012 Release Application Integration Futures – The Road Map and what's next on Windows Azure Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges
CACHING	Difference between Windows Azure Cache(Preview) and Windows Azure Shared Cache
MARKETPLACE	Geminare Expands Patented CORE Platform to Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Tools	Azure Storage Explorer 5 Preview 1 Now Available with Logging & Monitoring Support Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure Get the tools you need fast AppDynamics for Azure Version 3.5

 

                            

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Apprenda - Pure symmetry between your on premise Windows infrastructure and Windows Azure
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 (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