After doing some more analysis on the big Azure service outage from last week, Cale talks to us about a new service he's been playing around with - Azure Batch.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode54.mp3

Batch documentation - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/batch/

Resources:

Azure Storage Performance Guidance/Checklist

We talk to Jeff Lyttle, a Principal Consultant with Microsoft, on how he setup a self-service BI infrastructure in Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode53.mp3

Azure outage details: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/19/update-on-azure-storage-service-interruption

We talk to Edwina Revell, a Senior Delivery Manager with Microsoft, New Zealand, about a large Azure migration she just completed with a global customer. She tells us about some of the things customers need to keep in mind before attempting large-scale migrations.

Media file:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode52.mp3

We run through all the latest Networking feature updates to Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode51.mp3

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-scale-get-started/

• AzCopy 3.0 is now GA:
• AzCopy 4.0.0-preview also includes copying Azure Files, exporting table entities to local files or to azure storage block blobs, and importing the data back to a storage table. 

Full-length Tech Ed Europe Session on Networking updates with demos etc.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B227

We discuss all the newest Azure services announced at Tech Ed Europe this week.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode50.mp3

Red Blue testing? http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Red-vs-Blue-Internal-security-penetration-testing-of-Microsoft-Azure

Tips and Tricks:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2014/10/27/document-everything-you-want-to-know-about-your-azure-iaas-vms-in-one-line-of-powershell.aspx

Setting non-UTC time zone in Azure VMs

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformationRealTimeIsUniversal = 1

TechEd announcements - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-new-marketplace-network-improvements-new-batch-service-automation-service-more

• Marketplace: Announcing Azure Marketplace and partnerships with key technology partners
• Networking: Network Security Groups, Multi-NIC, Forced Tunneling, Source IP Affinity, and much more
• Batch Computing: Public Preview of the new Azure Batch Computing Service
• Automation: General Availability of the Azure Automation Service
• Anti-malware: General Availability of Microsoft Anti-malware for Virtual Machines and Cloud Services
• Virtual Machines: General Availability of many more VM extensions – PowerShell DSC, Octopus, VS Release Management

List of AzureConf 2014 Sessions:

• Search Like a Pro with Azure Search
• Performance Tuning Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Reducing latency on the web with the Azure CDN
• Build Your Virtual Conference with Windows Azure
• Caching in Azure, there’s more to that than Azure Caching Services
• Meet Azure Files, your new Swiss Army Knife
• Being Efficient with Azure Automation
• Migrate SQL Federation to the new Data Elasticity framework
• Game Services and Telemetry Processing in Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Azure Web Jobs - the new way to run your workloads in the Cloud
• Azure Services for Big Data

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-factory/

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/batch/ 

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream-analytics/

Anti-malware for VMs:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=398023&clcid=0x409

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/automation/

Cale recently did a live Microsoft Virtual Academy session on DevOps and we talk to him about the importance of this when it comes to Azure. You can watch the entire 1-day session at the link below (may be a couple of days before the video recording is produced and posted).

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/dev-test-scenarios-in-the-devops-world

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode49.mp3

The latest Azure news out of San Francisco by the Microsoft Azure leadership team:

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/20/azures-getting-bigger-faster-and-more-open/

We talk to Saquib Rashid, a Microsoft App Dev Consultant and Mobile Developer who has developed the very popular NJ Train Helper app which leverages various features in Azure. We talk to Saquib about the evolution of this app and how he leveraged various Azure features to provide additional functionality in the Phone app.

Saquib's popular NJ Train Helper app: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/nj-train-helper/878e2210-5e4b-4256-ba2c-65b11f6c94ee

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode48.mp3

Apache Storm now on Azure

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-adds-apache-storm-analytics-processing-support-to-hadoop-on-azure-7000034711/

Reddogdowntime app for Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=fafc8f4c-c4d5-47af-8b63-788119f750b0

Microsoft Virtual Academy one-day session on Dev/Test in a Dev Ops world n October 20th - our very own Cale Teeter is one of the speakers.

Free registration http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/dev-test-scenarios-in-the-devops-world

We talk to Ryan CrawCour, a Senior PM on the DocumentDB team about ... well DocumentDB! This is a new NoSQL database-as-a-service that is currently in Preview on Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode47.mp3

Getting started with DocumentDB - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/documentdb/

Evan and Sujit talk to Andrew Connell, a renowned independent SharePoint consultant (who also has his own Podcast).  Andrew has leveraged Azure to extend SharePoint via the new App model and he shares his experiences with us.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode46.mp3

Andrew's Podcast website: http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com/

Some of his work with the Microsoft SharePoint team: github.com/officedev

And he has his own Azure-related startup too http://www.kerrb.com/

The guys talk about the new 'D' series VMs, Mark Russinovich's promotion to CTO of Azure, Redis Cache and penetration testing your apps on Azure.

Media file:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode45.mp3