Azure Friday

Staying ahead of current and emerging threats requires an integrated, analytics-driven approach. By combining Microsoft global threat intelligence and expertise with insights into security-related events across your Azure deployments, Security Center helps you detect actual threats early, and it reduces false positives. Scott talks to Sara Fender who breaks down the details.

Scott talks to Den Delimarschi about Azure Notification Hubs for Mobile apps and devices! Sending notifications to your users and their devices is WAY easier than you think. You can get notifications running in minutes! Check out this demo-packed episode.

The Azure Scheduler has been brought into the new Azure Portal with an all new UI and great new functionality. Kevin Lam brings the scoop. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some...

Kevin Lam joins Scott to give an update and overview of the Azure Scheduler. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some point in the future.

This week on Azure Friday Scott talks to Mingfei Yang about how Azure Media Services can use DRM to protect your streaming media content. You can protect your content on any platform and it's a lot easier than you'd think!

This week Scott talks to Brady Gaster about some of the new Azure App Service features in Visual Studio. We've got all new Azure Resource Manager Tools in Visual Studio and there's a number of cool tricks that make working easier and more powerful than ever.

Scott talks to Anton Kucer about the powerful new Premium Features that are available in the Azure CDN. There's a bunch of new features that have been added lately and there's a custom dashboard that controls it all.

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 103, where Karthik creates an app from an existing data source.

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 102, where Karthik creates an application from a template, then adds new functionality from there.

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement to target specific users and send them notifications! This is a great way to really connect to small slices of users and give them information and notifications that they care about. Notifications are also a powerful way to remind your users about your apps and keep them coming back for more!

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement and capture information and events about how users user your mobile apps. You can then take this big data collection and process it to better understand WHY users do what they do and come up with specific ways you can improve a user's experience and engage with your audience more deeply.

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement. Combine big data collection with real-time processing to trigger engagement scenarios according to app-user behavior and demographics. Azure Mobile Engagement answers nearly any question relevant to your business needs and it includes SDKs for all major platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone.

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 101.

Scott talks to Bill Staples about Power Apps. Why did we make it and what can you accomplish with Power Apps and Azure App Service?

Visual Studio 2015 now includes remote profiling of your web applications running within Azure App Service! That means you can actually profile a live running application inside Azure. Scott talks to Hamid Safi about this powerful new feature that you can use today!

David Ebbo has created an amazing tool at https://resources.azure.com. You can explore the RESTful APIs that Azure exposes in this rich tree view! A fantastic resource for developers, you can see generated Powershell, Documentation, even POST to a live API from within the browser!

Moinak Bandyopadhyay stops by Azure Friday to show that Azure in fact has rich Billing and Rate Card APIs! In fact, the same Azure Resource Manager APIs that the Azure Portal uses can be used by you in your own applications. If you're a small organization or a large one, you can get detailed usage and billing data directly from Azure and keep track of your bills. Tag resources and control usage da...

Matthew Henderson shows Scott the open source Field Engineer" sample application that shows how to create Azure Mobile Applications. We'll go through how TableControllers support ASP.NET MVC Applications and Web APIs, and how you can consume data from applications on your mobile device.

There's a lot more to Azure Logic Apps than just a nice visual editor. There's a whole JSON-based language grammar in this episode of Azure Friday Jeff Hollan explains the internals of Logic Apps and gives us the tools to explore more.

Jeff Hollan stops by Azure Friday and he's brought a Raspberry Pi. Jeff shows Scott how to turn on his sprinklers using a Raspberry Pi and the automation power of your own Logic App running in Azure App Service.

Guang Yang continues to educate Scott on Azure API Apps. In this episode, we add authentication and an understanding of identity to an Azure API App.

In this episode Brady Gaster schools Scott on how to customize the "Swagger" descriptive metadata format for Web APIs. You'll be able to craft your Web APIs and how they present themselves to customers with some of these advanced techniques within ASP.NET Web API.

Brady extends on his Swagger 101 talk and takes an existing Azure API App and plugs it into Azure API Management. Once APIM (API Management) knows about our app, we get a whole world of reach analytics as well as new powers like subscriber management and much more.

Brady Gaster comes by Azure Friday and explains "Swagger" to Scott. Swagger is kind of like WSDL for RESTful Web Services. If you've got a Web API running in the cloud, you'll want to know about Swagger. Azure API Apps speak Swagger at their core. We'll use Swagger AND Swashbuckle to light up some Web APIs!

Kirill Gavrylyuk comes to Azure Friday to show the latest Azure App Service updates as of August of 2015 and beyond. Mobile Services features are now integrated into Azure App Service and are available to subscribers are at no additional cost! We'll see how to add Push Notifications to a Web Site running in Azure and push down to an iPad in this episode. And all the code is on GitHub!