Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.

Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback:

Articles, Videos and Blog Posts 

• Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (posted Apr. 28)
• What is new in Service Bus 2.0? (posted May 1)
• Manually configure Point-To-Site VPN (posted May 1)
• Understanding Windows Azure Fabric Controller error handling model (posted May 2)
• Introducing Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .Net (posted Apr. 30)
• Clash of the Clouds Followup (posted May 1)
• Zudio is now in “Free Trial” phase (posted Apr. 27)
• Building a simple custom STS using VS2012 & ASP.NET MVC (posted Apr. 9)

Global Windows Azure Boot Camp Recaps: (In local languages, use a modern browser to translate)

• Singapore
• Amsterdam
• Tokyo
• Brazil
• France
• Berlin
• Istanbul

Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0

The Service Bus Explorer is a tool developed available on MSDN Code Gallery that allows developers and system administrators to manage, test, debug and monitor queues, topics, subscriptions and relay services running in a Windows Azure Service Bus namespace. The new version of the tool gets advantage of the new features introduced by Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0:

• Shared Access Signatures at the connection and entity level
• Authorization Rules
• Metrics and monitoring support
• Message browsing from queues, subscriptions and dead letter queues
• Repairing and resubmitting messages
• AutoDeleteOnIdle support for brokered messaging entities

See the notes on the MSDN Code Gallery page for more information on the new features.

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings     

North America

• May 15, 2013: Chicago Azure User Group Meetup – Downers Grove, IL
• May 16, 2013: Scott Guthrie, AZGroups day of Azure – Scottsdale, AZ
• May 17, 2013: Stir Trek: Darkness Edition – Columbus, OH
• June 1, 2013: Pittsburgh TechFest 2013 – Pittsburgh, PA
• August 16-18: Code on the Beach 2013 – Atlantic Beach, FL

Europe

• May 6, 2013: Alan Smith talks twice: migrating to the cloud & web site authentication – Belgium
• May 27, 2013: Dutch Windows Azure user group meeting (#14)—Veenendaal, Netherlands

Rest of World/Virtual

• May 5, 2013: SharePoint 2013 Developer Boot Camp – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• May 5-9, 2013: SELA Developer Practice – Israel 
• May 25, 2013: SQL Saturday Sydney – Sydney, Australia
• June 5, 2013: Windows Azure Community in Israel June Meeting: Windows Azure Service Bus – Israel

Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• Locking Azure SQL record only when accessed by a specific call – 1 answer, 0 votes
• How to set up Web Role to A Record DNS – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Can’t authenticate with token – 1 answer, 0 votes
• WAAD Tools for ASP.NET – Exception – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Does service bus have Task bases API – 2 answers, 0 votes
• Scale out senarios with Azure Sql (geolocation) – 1 answer, 0 votes