Migrating Azure services to new regions
Monday, June 30, 2014
An insight into a customer's experience of moving their Azure Services between regions. Learn how they achieved the migration in a smooth and simple way.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Web Deploy as a site extension
Monday, June 30, 2014
In the latest version of Azure Websites, we have enabled a new Web Deploy endpoint which lives as a site extension on each customer’s site. If you’re not familiar with site extensions, they’re…
Azure Automation: Your SQL Agent in the Cloud
Thursday, June 26, 2014
In this blog, I’ll show you how to leverage the Azure Automation service to accomplish a customer requested scenario of truncating tables when a particular database approaches its maximum size capacity. Although targeted towards a specific scenario, the highlighted example provides the framework to enable one to accomplish countless Azure SQL DB scenarios that one would normally need a SQL Server Agent to perform.
Azure Traffic Manager External Endpoints and Weighted Round Robin via PowerShell
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Announcing external endpoint and weighted load balancing in Azure Traffic Manager, and how to administer these features via our new PowerShell cmdlets for Traffic Manager service management.
Uniting the World with Cloud Computing
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Microsoft Azure enables multiscreen viewing in live sports
Exposing MongoDB collections on the node.js backend
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Unlike in the .NET backend, the node.js backend of Azure Mobile Services doesn't have native support for MongoDB collections. We can, however, implement it in a node.js mobile service by using table scripts. This post shows how to add basic support for CRUD operations from a Mongo database to your mobile service.
The future of cloud is hybrid
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Results of the 2014 Future of Cloud Computing Survey are in; I’m excited to share what you said is next for cloud computing.
Cloud Expo Event Recap: The Evolution of the Cloud
Friday, June 20, 2014
This week I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote at CloudExpo New York. It was amazing to be back to be in the great city of New York with thousands of cloud enthusiasts eager to learn…
Azure Web Sites Extensions
Friday, June 20, 2014
Site Extensions are management endpoints allows extending your site management tools. You can create new site extensions for use with your websites and also submit new site extensions through the Site Extension Gallery submission portal.
New and improved Azure Status
Thursday, June 19, 2014
With the new health dashboard you are able to personalize to display the services and regions that you care about, and subscribe to RSS feeds for all services or only those that interest you.