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

Cale and Sujit discuss the new Billing API and why this is such a significant API for large enterprises that use Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode83.mp3

Announcement http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-azure-billing-apis-available

Details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/

Sample code: https://github.com/Azure/BillingCodeSamples

Updates:

Azure Key Vault generally available http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault

Azure Active Directory Connect generally available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect

Azure SQL Data Warehouse in public preview http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse

P3 Performance level for SQL Azure to be renamed to P6

Operation Insights versus Application Insights

Evan, Cale and Sujit discuss these hot topics and how they relate to Azure and cloud computing in general.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode82.mp3

SDK for Service Fabric: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric/

Updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/application-gateway-introduction/

Evan and Sujit talk to Krishnachytanya Ayyagari (KC) who is an Azure consultant with the Global Delivery division of Microsoft. He talks to us about his Mobile app All About Azure (currently on Windows Phone) and how he was able to leverage various Azure services to make his app more productive and provide a valuable Azure Status notification service to users of the app. He talks about future plans including an Android and iOS version as well as a Universal App for the various Windows devices.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode81.mp3

https://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=9bf73d00-1b57-41ca-b679-072bd0b7d1b0 

myself@akrishnachytanya.com

Cale and Evan talk to Jason Johnson from the Azure Customer Response Team - they monitor the @AzureSupport Twitter alias in Azure Engineering and respond to customer questions.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode80.mp3  

http://twitter.com/AzureSupport

News:

Importing data to DocumentDb just got faster and easier

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/02/importing-data-to-documentdb-just-got-faster-and-easier/

Jelastic on Azure 

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/03/jelastic-on-azure-2/

Intermediate TLS certificates for Azure App Service Web Apps

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/01/intermediate-tls-certificates-for-azure-app-service-web-apps/