Azure Friday

Ben Ridgway schools Scott about Azure Security 101. What are the best practices when designing for a cloud platform? What is Azure's responsibility and what is mine? Areas covered in this video: Application architecture helps define the security measures offered and needed The scope of security is different based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Hybrid deployments adds different vectors to security Underst...

Scott hears from John Walton all about the full time security testers that attack Azure and find (and plug!) security holes, keeping our sites safe. Areas covered in this video: Methods of improving Azure security How Azure security operates Understanding emerging threats Red team and blue team roles Model real-world attacks, identify gaps, and demonstrate impact Detect and respond, enhance awaren...

Scott and Chandrika add the new Analytics JavaScript to one of Scott's production sites running within Azure and then explore the resulting data within the new Azure Portal. Areas covered in this video: Analytics on the Azure Portal Add JavaScript to set up analytics View analytics from Scott's web site Drill down into specific issues exposed by analytics Monitoring verses analytics Alert rules Us...

Scott learns about the new Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Azure. This video includes how to install, update, and configure it to constantly scan for viruses and malware within our Azure instances. Areas covered in this video: Capabilities provided by Endpoint Protection Endpoint Protection features available for Azure Cloud Services platform and Azure Virtual Machines Basic configuration and mo...

Chandrika Shankarnarayan teaches Scott about how Azure Web Hosting Plans are now exposed in the new Azure portal. We'll see how they can save me money, show me exactly how much money my sites are costing me, and enable finer grain control than we ever had before. Areas covered in this video: Understanding the available web hosting plans Creating a new web hosting plan Understanding different prici...

Scott and Chandrika adds a Web Test to one of Scott's existing production websites. Web Tests enable regular monitoring of your sites' uptime, and you can even pin the web tests within the new Azure Portal. Areas covered in this video: Web Tests – Explore issues, occurrences, and errors. Create tests, add success criteria, and enable alerts. Useful topics and links: Web Tests topic - Tests your we...

Scott learns how to create and share a Linux Image on Windows Azure with Eduard Koller within Ubuntu using the Azure Command Line Tools

Scott talks to Eduard Koller about the Microsoft Open Tech "VMDepot," a collection of hundreds of open virtual machine images you can install in Azure today! Areas covered in this video: The VMDepot portal – A community-driven VM image catalog. Images contain the OS, applications, and development stack. Deployment to Azure is easy. How to modify the command line to create the VM in Azure...

Josh shows Scott how to set up hybrid connections through the new Azure portal. Hybrid connections are an excellent alternative to an on-site VPN for talking to local resources from Azure. Areas covered in this video: Use the Azure Preview Portal to add a Hybrid Connection Hybrid Connection Listener Setup See that an MVC app's Web.config is used to connect to the database Verify data changes made...

Vishal and Scott create a new Team Project, create a Web Site with SQL, setup continuous integration from a Git repository, and then browse the deployed code in the new Azure portal. Areas covered in this video: Creating a new Team Project after choosing version control, process template, etc. Create a web site + SQL and configure it Create new database and configure it Open the repository in Visu...

Scott talks to Gautam Thapar about Resource Manager in the new Azure Portal enables you to group and manage resources more easily.

Scott sits down with Gautam Thapar from the Azure Application Platform team and explores Azure Templates as a way to expand on the concept of File New. Azure Templates allow you to create large groups of resources with descriptive JSON files and a single gesture. Areas covered in this video: Use Azure Templates to provision and deploy Azure resources in seconds An Azure Template is a description o...

In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Vishal Joshi from the Windows Azure team. Scott and Vishal dig into the new Azure Portal and explore how best to save money and be aware of your bill and resources. Areas covered in this video: Azure Portal Billing Hub Subscriptions Cost by resource Dashboard Useful topics and posts: The Azure Preview Portal Introducing Web Hosting Plans for...

In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Vishal Joshi from the Windows Azure team. Vishal gives Scott a tour around the new Azure Portal and talks about blades, hubs, journeys, lenses and more. Areas covered in this video: Azure Portal Azure hubs, blades, lenses, journeys Customizing the Azure UI Azure console Azure templates Useful topics and posts: The Azure Preview Portal Introd...

In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Mark Russinovich from the Windows Azure Group. Scott talks with Mark and asks - How does Windows Azure use Software Defined Networking? Areas covered in this video: Software Defined Networking Hardware load balancers Software Load Balancing Useful topics: Load Balancing Virtual Machines Azure Networking Related Videos: Configuring Virtual Ma...

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.