by Sujit D'Mello
February 19, 2014
- What is ADFS?
- Scenarios for using ADFS
- How to deploy it and how NOT to deploy it!
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode17.mp3
Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh694271
Eclipse toolkit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn574746.aspx
An article providing guidance on patterns to use for SQL Server based applications in Windows Azure environment.
Power BI for Office 365 is now commercially available
by Sujit D'Mello
February 5, 2014
- My VM disappeared!
- I've been pwned!
- My VM won't work!
- I cannot access my VM!
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode16.mp3
Links: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/01/24/storage-price-match.aspx
Two new compute-intensive instances are now generally available for use with Windows Azure Cloud Services:
- A8: 8 virtual cores with 56 GB of RAM
- A9: 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of RAM
Configuring of MIME types for dynamic and static content compression is now enabledfor Windows Azure Web Sites.
A great resource Script Centerat Windows Azure site.
Some of the scripts the library currently includes:
- Create/Deploy a Windows Azure Virtual Machine with Two Data Disks
- Quickly create dev-test VM on Azure running Visual Studio 2013 Pro|Premium|Ultimate, SQL Server 2012 Developer edition SP1 and SharePoint 2013 trial (MSDN subscription required).
- Deploy Windows Azure VMs to an Availability Set and Load Balanced on an Endpoint
- Create Two Windows Azure VMs (IIS Frontend and SQL Backend) & Deploy a Web App
- Create Windows Azure VMs & Deploy in the Same Windows Azure Virtual Network
- Stop Windows Azure Virtual Machines on a Schedule
WAAD White Papers:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36391&ocid=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886&WT.mc_id=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn547038.aspx
Endpoints and ACLs - Scripting
Endpoint and ACLs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/08/31/weekend-scripter-creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints-part-1-of-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/08/31/weekend-scripter-creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints-part-2-of-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/09/18/creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints.aspx
Powershell
Export-AzureVM - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj152899.aspx
Get-AzureVNetConfig - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn495309.aspx
by Sujit D'Mello
January 30, 2014
by Sujit D'Mello
January 22, 2014
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
9:50 is approximately when Ariel starts getting really excited. J
by Sujit D'Mello
December 19, 2013
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December 12, 2013
by Sujit D'Mello
December 6, 2013