#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 13th August 2011

	Local Overview :
	Westpac bursts risk analysis to Azure Harvey Norman's big bargains [Channel 9 – A current Affair] talks about Windows Azure helping Gerry join the online revolution [Channel 7 – Today Tonight]

	Readiness & Resources:
Windows Azure:	Photo Mosaics application Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features Introduction to Azure Storage Analytics (YOA Week 6) Windows Azure Tools & SDK Summary Redirecting to HTTPS in Windows Azure: Two Methods “Command Line Access to Azure VMs – PowerShell Remoting” focuses on enabling remote access in PowerShell. "Command Line Access to Azure VMs – SSH" explains how to enable access in SecureShell.
SQL Azure:	Migrating your SQL Server data to the cloud Connecting to SQL Azure from Ruby Applications How to Manage SQL Azure Servers using Windows PowerShell
AppFabric:	Running .NET4 Windows Workflows in Azure Improve performance of your SharePoint 2010 application using Server #AppFabric caching' https://t.co/xku5OTp
MarketPlace:	More Windows Azure Marketplace Content & Hands On Lab Hands-on lab: Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications
Listen:	Windows Azure Boot Camp: Under the Hood
Case Study:	Quark – Desktop publishing software – use Windows Azure for Quark Promote service
Tools:	WAZUp application from your Windows 7 Phone Manages Windows Azure Subscription from your phone Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 – August 2011 update

	Guidance:
Walkthrough:	[Tutorial] Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS 1.1. Integrating iOS apps with Windows Azure Dive Into the Cloud with Getting Started, In Depth Tutorial on Windows Azure Site How to set Windows Azure Storage Provider for Commvault Enterprise Backup Solution
Architecture:	Hybrid Reference Implementation Using BizTalk Server, Windows Azure & SQL Azure
Book:	Plug for book reviewed by my colleague Shashank Pawar - MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services Shashank is also reading Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

	In the news:
General:	Consumers Don't Know What "Cloud Computing" Is, Even Though They Use it All the Time Outages Happen: Disaster Recovery, the Cloud and a Lesson From Cycling Time to think about cloud governance Regulation, automation, and cloud computing
Microsoft:	Microsoft's Cloud hardware What is the ‘cloud’? Take a video tour of Microsoft data centers
Windows Azure:	Azure Cloud to Capture RenderMan Intuit and Microsoft Expand Partnership with Latest Windows Azure SDK for Intuit Partner Platform

	Events:
Local:	Sydney Azure User Group First Meeting - 8th September. WIN tickets to TechEd Australia Pre-Conference Cloud Technical Training (PCTT) @ TechEd Australia 2011 Code Smash event @ QUT on Sunday 28th August
Webinar:	How does Windows Azure AutoScaling work? Wed. August 17 Kentico Technical Learning: Installing and Management on Windows Azure  -Thu, Aug 25, 2011 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM AEST

	Community:
Social:	Become a Facebook fan Add yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Keep up to date with our monthly CloudCast Mailing list for OzAzure

	Questions
Q:	How you could list hosted services inside your subscription through code ? ?
A:	Windows Azure Management API is REST based API and allows you to perform almost all management level tasks with Azure subscription. here