We are fortunate to have Charles Joy on the show who is a Senior PM from the Azure Stack team and he gives us the low-down on the product and the exciting scenarios that it enables.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode93.mp3

http://aka.ms/AzureStack

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/dsc-extension-azure-automation-pullserver/

Other updates:

AzureCon - September 29th https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/

SIGCOMM keynote by Albert Greenberg

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/19/microsoft-showcases-software-defined-networking-innovation-at-sigcomm-v2
 
Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis

Network-Aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Jobs: Plan When You Can

Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics

Silo: Predictable Message Latency in the Cloud

Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at Scale

Packet-Level Telemetry in Large Datacenter Networks

Enabling End-Host Network Functions

Congestion Control for Large-Scale RDMA deployments

R2C2: A Network Stack for Rack-scale Computers

Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors

As part of our Engineer Series, the guys talk to Tomas Talius who is an architect in the Azure SQL team and gives us some insight into the product.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode92.mp3

Updates: 

Announcing the GS-Series: Adding Premium Storage Support to the Largest VMs in the Public Cloud

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-has-the-most-powerful-vms-in-the-public-cloud/

 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/logic-apps-net-sdk-available/

where you can download the SDK and check out this week’s Logic Apps video https://youtu.be/N-ZDaKsH6BY?list=PLfyqq4V4zxGGkBHcts3vpPohtyKYZ7UiQ

You can use the following script to convert an Active Directory object GUID to an Azure Active Directory Immutable ID….  

Convert DirSync/MS Online Directory Immutable ID to AD GUID (and vice versa)

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Covert-DirSyncMS-Online-5f3563b1

The guys talk to David Crawford who is an Azure Architect at Microsoft helping customers create innovative solutions with Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode91.mp3

Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 Now Available

Mark shares his perspective on containerization

Microsoft Azure Government Adds New Certifications

We are excited to announce the availability of Azure Machine Learning in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region in Singapore. 

Azure PowerShell 0.9.7 is available

Stay up-to-date with Evan's script: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mast/archive/2015/04/12/keeping-azure-powershell-current.aspx

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/do-until-looping-in-logic-apps/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly 

High-Availability Line of Business Application content set

Announcing Geospatial support in Azure DocumentDB

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Internet-of-Things-Blog/Using-the-AllJoyn--Studio-Extension

The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn to empower the Internet of Things. Windows 10 has AllJoyn built natively into its platform, allowing developers to easily take advantage of AllJoyn to "IoT-enable" your Windows 10 apps. This article will outline the steps required to build apps for Windows 10 using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) AllJoyn APIs and the Visual Studio 2015 AllJoyn® Studio Extension.

Cale and Evan discuss this new Azure technology called the Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode90.mp3

More information:

Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/17/containers-docker-windows-and-trends/

Azure Government Achieves Significant Compliance Milestones

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/18/azure-government-achieves-significant-compliance-milestones/

Announcing Backup of Windows 10 machines using Azure Backup

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/18/announcing-backup-of-windows-10-machines-using-azure-backup/

Dependency call stack and Application Insights SDK labs

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/17/dependency-call-stack-and-application-insights-sdk-labs/

ARMExplorer

http://resources.azure.com

Evan talks about his experience integrating Application Insights into a couple of apps that he's worked on recently.

Application Insights - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/application-insights/

Media file:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode89.mp3

News:

Azure Data Factory is GA!

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/12/azure-data-factory-is-generally-available/

Bigger backups with Azure Backup

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/12/azure-backup-enables-backup-of-large-volumes-vms-databases-and-more/

CDN enhancements

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/12/new-cdn-features-country-filtering-compression-and-analytics/

Azure Files (more features)!

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/12/azure-files-preview-update-2/

Storage Goodness!

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/10/azure-storage-release-append-blob-new-azure-file-service-features-and-client-side-encryption-ga/

Azure Premium Storage now available in Japan

Cale just got back from the mothership and he gives us a few juicy updates on the Azure scene.

Media file:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode88.mp3

Evan and Sujit talk about the launch of Windows 10 and how it works nicely with Azure.

Picture below shows how to find the Windows 10 image in the Azure in case you want to spin up your own instance for testing.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode87.mp3

http://joshheffner.com/how-to-upload-and-run-a-windows-10-enterprise-vm-in-azure/

https://remote.modern.ie/ (to test your apps in the new IE browser hosted in RemoteApp)

Evan and Cale who are both in direct contact with the Azure customers, discuss their experiences and observations with Azure usage from the field.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode86.mp3

The guys talk to David Giard who is a Technical Evangelist in the Developer Experience (DX) group at Microsoft. He talks about how we are engaging Students and Startups to leverage Azure even though they are not using Microsoft technologies.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode85.mp3

David's own Podcast: http://technologyandfriends.com

His blog: http://davidgiard.com/

Twitter handle: @DavidGiard

The guys talk about an old friend, Azure AD and how that is the cornerstone of all services built in the cloud.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode84.mp3

Azure AD Connect: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect-how-it-works/

ADAL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj573266.aspx