by Sujit D'Mello
January 15, 2014
- Using ServiceBus Relay to bridge Azure and the Datacenter
- ADFS for security
- Windows Azure Pack
- Systems Center management
- The Paas model is the future
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode13.mp3
Windows Azure Pack - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx
Cloud OS commentary - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/02/microsoft_cloud_os_analysis
by Sujit D'Mello
January 9, 2014
- Use cases
- Portal
- Service Management API
- Client libraries (Service Management)
- Native library (C++ devs)
- Power Shell
- Operations Logs
- Alert and Monitoring
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode12.mp3
LINKS:
The Windows Azure Pack Web Sites Easy Deploy tool:
- Creates a Windows Azure Pack Web Sites instance with Portal, databases, service plan and Web Sites
- Supports deployment through Hyper-V
- Not meant to be a production deployment tool.
Prime Challenge http://www.primechallenge.org/all-about-prime-numbers/
The Prime Challenge is the currently running competition to find huge multi-thousand digit prime numbers using Windows Azure. The biggest number that has been submitted so far is 3,200 digits. Feel free to enter to find a new undiscovered prime :) Leveraging Windows Azure Big Data
Storage Library (C++) for Windows Azure (preview)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2013/12/20/windows-azure-storage-client-library-for-cplusplus-preview.aspx
Copying blobs between storage accounts (Michael Washam)
http://michaelwasham.com/windows-azure-powershell-reference-guide/copying-vhds-blobs-between-storage-accounts/
Sample script for deploying a full SharePoint environment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn175489.aspx#bkmk_createvm_ps1
http://www.cerebrata.com/products/azure-management-studio/introduction
by Sujit D'Mello
December 25, 2013
- Episode 11Basics of Hadoop
- Definition of what "Big Data" it.
- How to provision a Hadoop Cluster
- What are jobs and why are they important?
- What is MS bringing that is different?
Media: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode11.mp3
LINKS
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdinsight/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsa-5LGx_IY
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by Sujit D'Mello
December 19, 2013
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by Sujit D'Mello
November 21, 2013
- Multi-tenant versus Dedicated.
- What are the differences?
- Are there differences from on-premise SQL Server?
- Troubleshooting
- Scale Out vs. Scale Up
- What about "other" database platforms
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode6.mp3
Links:
10 tools for Windows Azure
by Sujit D'Mello
November 14, 2013
- What is IAAS
- Basics of why IAAS is available/what gaps do they fill
- How much does this cost?
- How are these useful (scenarios)
- Management tools
- Tips/Tricks to using VMs effectively?
- Special guest Evan Basalik - Azure Support Specialist from Microsoft!
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode5.mp3
Links
Hot off the press - announced today - Visual Studio Online lets you edit an Azure Website directly from any modern browser (on any platform).
1) Go to the Azure Portal.
2) Pick a Site and click on the Configure tab.
3) Open the Dashboard - you will have the Edit in Visual Studio Online option.
WAAD - http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2013/11/08/creating-and-managing-multiple-windows-azure-active-directories.aspx
'Capturing' Windows Server VMs - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/windows/how-to-guides/capture-an-image/
by Sujit D'Mello
November 7, 2013
We talk about some of the Storage options available in Windows Azure, specifically Blobs and Tables. We will cover Queues at a later episode when talking about the Service Bus.
- Blob Containers
- Programming
- Page/Block blobs
- Upload tools
- Local and Geo Replication
- Redundancy
- Security
- Tables - basic structure
- How to create your own table structures
- LINQ syntax for querying tables.
- REST API for storage access
- Current challenges using storage and some workarounds.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode4.mp3
Updates
- Storage: Import/Export Hard Disk Drives to your Storage Accounts - securely ship hard disk drives to move data.
- VMs: New VM Gallery UI, ACL support for VIPs via portal;
- Web Sites: WebSocket and Remote Debugging Support
- Notification Hubs: Segmented customer push notification support with tag expressions
- TFS & GIT: Continuous Delivery Support for Web Sites + Cloud Services
- Developer Analytics and Monitoring: New Relic support for Web Sites + Mobile Services in partnership with New Relic with Windows Azure Management Portal making it really easy to configure.
- Service Bus: Support for partitioned queues and topics.
- Billing: New Billing Alert Service that sends emails notifications when your bill hits a threshold you define
- New Windows Azure Cache Service http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/cache/
Links
Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj152841.aspx
Announcing the preview of a new Windows Azure service: Windows Azure Scheduler
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/scheduler/
http://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/create-database-diagrams-of-your-windows-azure-sql-databases/