Episode 50 - Tech Ed Europe Announcements

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/