Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 15th November 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Breeze   50 shades of Azure?		No blog posts this week		Windows Azure Dev Camps Brisbane 19th November 2012 Training Workshops Sydney – 26th-28th November 2012 Brisbane – 10-12th December 2012 New Zealand – Open Source   Running Open Source? Consider Windows Azure at this event in Wellington on November 27th New Zealand Training Spend Two Days with Windows Azure Wellington 3rd and 4th December 2012 Auckland 5th and 6th December 2012 Cory Fowler   Coming to Sydney Monday 3rd December. More details to follow

                                  

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Announcing: Comprehensive Updates to Windows Azure Customer Support Offerings, and Free Standard Support till Dec 31, 2012 Windows Azure Benchmarks Show Top Performance for Big Compute
In the news	Press                   Microsoft Outfits Azure Cloud for Big Compute Microsoft Demos A Star Trek-Style Universal Translator [Video] Microsoft picks city [Shanghai] for cloud computing Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database named an Enterprise Cloud Database Leader by Forrester Research Cloud                   To Understand Just How Much The Cloud Will Change The World, Look At Toyota Evolving security standards a challenge for cloud computing, expert says Partners Compario adopts new IaaS version of Windows Azure New Application Development competency simplifies MPN membership for ISVs, Application Providers, and Developers
Case Study	Urban Airship Unveils Beta Push Messaging Service for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Powered by Windows Azure

 

	TECHNOLOGY
	Understanding Application Tenancy with Windows Azure Microsoft Windows Azure Data Centers, the ‘Long Tour’ video 10min.
	Enterprise Library 6.0 - Vision/Scope
	Tutorial: Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Command Line Tools for Linux on Ubuntu
	Windows Azure Services for Windows Server
Features
	Big Data with SQL Server, part 2: Sqoop Supercomputing on Demand with Windows Azure Getting Started with Microsoft HDInsight
	A phone call from the cloud: Windows Azure, SignalR & Twilio
	Building Rich Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services
	How to upload an Image to Windows Azure Storage using Mobile Services Webmatrix “The Site has Stopped” Fix Azure Mobile Services Now Supports Windows 8 Azure as backend storage for Windows Apps and the power of the Mobile Services
	Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 3) Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5 The Simplest Thing Possible: Windows Azure Web Site Deployment with TFS 2012
	Customer Evaluation Guide for Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) Windows Azure Virtual Machine: A look at Windows Azure IaaS Offerings (Part 1) Is Windows Azure Virtual Machines (WAVM) a true IaaS plattform? Microsoft drops SLA on single role instances SharePoint – Windows Azure IaaS Deep Dive for SharePoint IT Professionals MAP Toolkit 8 - Windows Azure Virtual Machine Readiness and Capacity Assessment Bootstrapping a Virtual Machine with Windows Azure
Core Services
	Service Bus WinRT and Mobile Services integration - Lottery
	Backup [and Restore] SQL Database Federation[s] Windows Azure Virtual Machine Readiness and Capacity Assessment for SQL Server
	WAS StartCopyFromBlob operation and Transaction Compensation Practical Azure #2: What About Blob?
Other
	Configuring Online Backup for Windows Server 2012 Windows Azure Support program Kicking the tires: Using the Azure management pack in OpsMgr 2012 Managing Windows Azure using Windows PowerShell
	Sending e-mail from Windows Azure BOOK: Book Review: Cloud Architecture Patterns by Bill Wilder – O’Reilly

                                                                                  

	COMMUNITY
WindowsAzureConf	Windows AzureConf is Tomorrow! Free online Windows AzureConf this Wednesday
SharePoint Conference 2012	Windows Azure-Related Sessions at the SharePoint Conference 2012
Webinar	Java fast food for thought: running Java code on Windows Azure - Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:30 PM GMT+1

LOCAL GENERAL
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth 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
Social	Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia