Azure Friday

Matt talks about Azure HDInsight - Hadoop running on Azure, that allows customers process big data. Areas covered in this video: Understanding examples of using Hadoop in Azure Understanding big data Using Azure to create a data cluster Writing a hive query Useful topics and links: Introduction to Hadoop in HDInsight Learning map for HDInsight HDInsight (Hadoop) Documentation

Donna Malayeri demos how to integrate Push Notifications on both the client and the .NET backend with Azure Mobile Services. Areas covered in this video: Adding a Pushing Notification to a Window Universal project Selecting a mobile service Understanding the client and backend push notification code Sending a Push Notification Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentatio...

Donna and Scott having fun talking about Azure Mobile Services Offline Sync, and how to make apps offline enabled. Areas covered in this video: Making a Windows Quick Start app offline-enabled Using NuGet to add Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore Understanding the Sync code Running the service Handling conflicts Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentation

Donna Malayeri shows Scott how to build an Azure Mobile Service with .NET backend, and talks about the Visual Studio integration and debugging capabilities. Areas covered in this video: Creating a Mobile Service Using the Quick Start Understanding the API Understanding the functionality available through Azure Running locally Publishing and debugging in Azure Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azu...

Santosh Balasubramanian talks about how Azure Stream Analytics helps to address data that is always in motion. Areas covered in this video: Examples of moving data Defining Azure Stream Analytics and what it provides Writing your stream processing in SQL How to create a Stream Analytics solution Useful topics and links: Azure Stream Analytics Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics Get started usin...

Santosh Balasubramanian shows the Live dashboard and Notifications in Azure Stream Analytics, and talks about how to operationalize streamed data. Areas covered in this video: Making real-time decisions based on live data Augmenting static data with stream data Streaming notifications Using a SQL query to determine when to take action Scaling using streaming units Useful topics and links: Introduc...

Kundana Palagiri talks about Octopus VM Extension - a third party automated deployment tool that simplifies deployment across multiple machines. Areas covered in this video: Explaining the purpose of the Octopus VM Extension Explaining deployments across multiple machine Adding Octopus on the VM Viewing the Octopus portal Understanding environments and projects Using PowerShell to install Octopus...

Kundana Palagiri shows Scott how to extend the VM functionality with VM Extensions. Kundana explains the following in this video: VM Extensions is software provided by either Microsoft or by trusted third-party providers for Azure VMs to extend the functionality of the VM. Windows and Linux are supported by VM Extensions. Deploy to a running VM or a new VM. Programmability support. Update life cyc...

Dan Rosanova talks more deeply about Azure Service Bus techniques with common patterns in Distributed Messaging Areas covered in this video: Correlation IDs Read Receipts ReplyTo Queues Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Christine Avanessians tells Scott all about the new VM Marketplace in Azure and shows what it takes for him to get there and sell his VMs. Areas covered in this video: Stepping through the Azure ecosystem Viewing the available VMs on the Azure Marketplace Reviewing the Microsoft Certification Test Tool Reviewing the Microsoft Azure Publishing portal Useful topics and links: Azure Virtual Machines

Guy Bowerman shows Scott how easy it is to run LAMP on Azure VMs. Areas covered in this video: Creating a VM with a LAMP Stack using Microsoft Azure Logging in to the VM Reviewing and running the control script for the LAMP stack Verifying that Apache, PHP, and MySQL are running Accessing and viewing the Web server page Installing the LAMP stack manually Useful topics and links: How to create a LA...

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that an authenticate again Azure AD. How do you access data "on behalf of" a user in a secure way. Let's make apps that access a users' calendar or mailbox in the cloud! We'll do it for real, using C# and Visual Studio, but talking JSON and REST over HTTPS. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud...

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that get permission to access OTHER applications like SharePoint! We'll dig into the URL Structure of these services, see how to get events when things are updated, and figure out how ODATA and REST fit into these cloud building blocks. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud context: HATEOAS, REST, and Hy...

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Dead Letter Messaging and Properties, and extends on the PubSeb example in the 102 video. Areas covered in this video: Properties Dead Letter Handling TTL - Time to Live Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Topics, Queues and Relays. In this 102 episode, Dan expands on the concept of Topics Areas covered in this video: What are topics and why do you need them? How does PubSub work? How do you create Brokered Messages? Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Scott learns even more about Azure Automation from Beth Cooper. Beth shows some advanced internals with some useful PowerShell scripts that show you exactly how to use Automation in a secure way. She shows how to next runbooks, share functions and variables, and mange your connection to Azure correctly. We cover: Certification and Subscription Management Runbook libraries Architecting your jobs by...

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Joe Levy. PowerShell is great, but what if you manage a lot of Linux machines? Joe shows how to use Azure Automation to automate a Linux machine over SSH We cover: Creating a C# Module and using it from PowerShell in Azure Automation Creating a module manifest Extending automation to control Linux machines

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Eamon O'Reilly. You might be using PowerShell or local scripts today but are running them locally from your office. Why not move those into the reliable Azure Automation Service? We cover: Basics of Azure Automation Runbooks Starting and Stopping VMs Scheduling Runbooks

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Chris Sanders. Chris goes deeper and talks about the "Resumability" and resilience of texts. You can save the stack of your scripts, pause them, wait for things, wake up and keep going. He also talks about how you can keep from creating too many resources, if for example, you stop a script and run it again. We cover: Workfl...

In this solo Azure Friday, Scott shares his new side-project, a startup he's working on with his buddy Greg Shackles. The app and services were written entirely in C# and run on Azure. Not only that, but the services are globally load balanced by Traffic Manager. Scott shares this unique view into how your small startup can have make global moves with Azure.

Scott learns how to secure Azure SQL Database with Jack Richins. We cover getting started and best practices for a more secure database. Areas covered in this video: Azure security and compliance Understanding Azure role (hardware, network, OS, and SQL Server) Understanding Network SSL/TLS, IP Restrictions, and Least Privilege Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center - Compliance

Jack Richins teaches Scott how to easily encrypt his SQL Server databases on Virtual Machine Azure instances. It's easier than you'd think! Areas covered in this video: Understanding encryption and SQL Server Understanding the Data Protection API, master keys, and certificates Using SQL commands to create the master key and certificates, and encrypt the database Useful topics and links: SQL Server...

Scott and Becky Ochs dig into what settings you need to enforce to make sure your Azure instances are collecting the correct Security and Audit logs. We'll learn about logging for Cloud Services, VMs and configuration for both. Areas covered in this video: Azure Diagnostics Agent Auditing in Azure Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) Useful topics and links: How to Monitor Cloud Services Collect Azure O...

Scott talks with Saurabh Pant about the new Azure Managed Redis Cache. In this more advanced session we learn about failover and monitoring. How to Use Azure Redis Cache Azure Redis Cache

All this talk about REST and RESTful Web Services can be overwhelming. There's also terms like "HATEOAS," which sounds scary but actually means "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State." Scott talks to Mat Velloso about all these topics and get s a nice primer on REST as it relates to hosting Web Services in the Azure Cloud.