Azure Friday (Audio)

Scott Hanselman is joined by Mark Russinovich from the Windows Azure Group in this Azure Friday video. Scott talks to Mark Russinovich and asks him - Does Windows Azure run Windows? Areas covered in this video: Azure History and Project "Red Dog" Azure updates and how it works Azure and Interesting hardware errors Related Videos: FAQ with Mark Russinovich - How does Windows Azure heal? A...

Pranav shows Scott how to process Queues and Blobs with the Azure WebJob SDK. For more information about the WebJobs SDK, see Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK.

Pranav takes a HelloWorld Console and turns it into an Azure WebJob with the WebJobs SDK. For more information about the WebJobs SDK, see Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK.

Jamie Espinosa explains how WebJobs via into Azure Web Sites.

We dive into more complex WebJobs and the WebJobs diagnostics dashboard.

Now Vittorio and Scott create a Windows WinForms application that authenticates against Azure Active Directory

Vittorio extends our existing application to retrieve custom profile information from Windows Azure Active Directory usign the WAAD SDK.

Vittorio talks about the Windows Azure Active Directory endpoints and why they matter. We also make an interesting mistake and learn more about the system in the process!

We start by registering an application with WAAD in the Portal and authenticate against Azure Active Directory.

We create a Windows Azure Active Directory in Azure and talk about our options for populating it and synchronization.

Vittorio gives Scott a clear overview of where Windows Azure Active Directory fits into the world, what federation means, and how our application interacts with Azure.

Kevin Lam digs into the Azure Scheduler and its history and logging capabilities.

Kevin Lam expands on how the Azure Scheduler can handle even unusual scheduled jobs.

Kevin Lam explains how the Azure Scheduler works and how you can use it in your applications.

Scott talks to Mark Russinovich and asks the burning question - How does Azure heal when it's sick?

What if your queue has a "bad actor" that messes up processing for everyone else? Mark shows us the pitfalls of poor queue processing and how to manage queues correctly.

Now Mark and Scott add batch processing to their Azure Queue worker role, beginning to scale the capabilities of their system.

Mark Simms moves queue processing to the background as we start moving from a demo to a correct solution.

Azure expert Mark Simms starts at Step 0 with Azure Queues...what are they and why are they important in a distributed app?

Elio Damaggio adds device templates and language preferrences to his growing Azure Notification Hubs application.

Elio and Scott add in user-specific notifications and talk about more sophisticated alerting with Notification Hubs.

Elio Damaggio digs into Azure Notification Hubs and adds topic filtering.

Elio Damaggio teaches Scott about Azure Notification Hubs and how you can send alerts to any device.

Scott messes up a node.js demo then spends the next 30 minutes debugging it, learning more about Azure in the process!

Corey shows Scott how to deprovision a Virtual Machine to make a template, then create "n" more VMs of sys-prepped images.