Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights for this week.

Articles, Videos and Blog Posts

• Azure CDN: A Valuable Lesson Learned (posted October 22^nd)
• Windows Azure Management Certificates (posted October 14^th)
• Take it Back! Use Windows Azure Diagnostics (posted October 13^th)
• Backup WordPress Site to Windows Azure Storage using “BackupToAzure” Plugin (posted August 20^th)
• How to Connect a Juniper SRX Firewall to Windows Azure Virtual Network Gateway the Easy Way (posted October 16^th)
• Where the heck do I host my… cloud database? (posted October 14^th)
• Windows Azure Migration cheat-sheet (posted October 15^th)
• Windows Azure VMs Remote Management (posted October 22^nd)
• TRIM Support comes to Windows Azure Virtual Machines (posted October 14^th)
• Making Windows Azure Caching Work in Compute Emulator (posted August 7^th)
• Windows Azure Storage Queues VS Windows Azure Service Bus Queues (posted October 20^th)
• Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API In Java (posted August 25^th)
• Part 1. Updating from Orchard CMS 1.6 to Orchard CMS 1.7.1 and deploying to Windows Azure (posted October 16^th)
• A New version of Windows Azure Service Management API is Available with Delete Specific Role Instances and More Goodies (posted October 16^th)
• Site Now Hosted on Windows Azure (posted October 13^th)
• What Does it Cost to Backup a Windows Azure SQL Database? (posted October 21^st)
• It’s Another Release of #WindowsAzure Tools Galore… Or How Teams Can Excel in Continuous Delivery Mode! (posted October 22^nd)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings

North America

• October 27^th – 31^st: DevIntersection – Las Vegas, NV
• November 17^th – 22^nd: Live! 360 – Orlando, FL

Europe

• December 10^th: Azug – A Lap Around Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Ghent, Belgium
• October 25^th: La rentrée ZeCloud 2013 – Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• October 28^th: Trondheim Developer Conference – Trondheim, Norway
• October 31^st: Azug – Nuno brings two: Windows Azure Activity Directory and Real-Time Applications – Heverlee, Belgium
• November 5^th – 7^th: WPC 2013 – Milan, Italy
• November 12^th – 13^th: SharePoint Days 2013 – Slovenia
• December 7^th: CloudBrew – A Full-Day of Windows Azure – Mechelen, Belgium

Rest of World/Virtual

• Ongoing:  Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand

Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• Azure Management Portal Security – 3 votes, 2 answers
• Including Installers in Azure Cloudservice Bloats Resulting Package –  2 votes, 2 answers
• Error When Trying to Publish Database to Azure Without Clustered Indexes” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>rror When Trying to Publish Database to Azure Without Clustered Indexes – 4 votes, 1 answer
• How Long Does a Message Stay Hidden in an Azure Queue Before it gets Made Visible Again? – 3 votes, 2 answers
• Windows Azure Websites HTTPS – 1 vote, 1 answer
• Global Variables in Windows Azure Cloud Service – 2 votes, 1 answer
• Reading Windows Azure Performance Metrics – PHP – 0 votes, 2 answers
• Create Azure Task Scheduler – 2 votes, 1 answer
• Bad Outgoing Connection in Azure VM – 1 vote, 1 answer
• Windows Azure Free Tier Background Processing? – 2 votes, 1 answer
• Is it Possible to Recover an Azure Blog Storage File that was Overwritten? – 2 votes, 1 answer
• Can Windows Azure SQL Database Handle Large Connection Surges? – 0 votes, 1 answer