Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65)

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 

• Windows Azure Cloud Services, Extensions and Service Management API – Fun with Remote Desktop (posted May 6)
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 and Tools (posted May 5)
• Windows Azure Basics–Compute Emulator (posted May 8)
• How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved (posted May 7)
• The Identity and Access tool was updated (posted  May 7)
• Building the Next YouTube: Windows Azure Media Services (posted May 7)
• Virtual Machines Are The New Processes (posted May 9)
• Sample databases for SQL Azure that support Entity Framework (posted May 6)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings     

North America

• October – June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
• 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

Europe

• May 2-4, 2013: SQLBits XI – Nottingham, United Kingdom
• May 3, 2013: Windows Azure Security and Compliance Workshop – London
• May 6, 2013: Alan Smith talks twice: migrating to the cloud & web site authentication – Belgium
• May 14, 2013: Node.js and Windows Azure – Manchester
• May 14, 2013: Building Zudio: Websites, Storage, Typescript and Traffic Manager – London
• May 27, 2013: WAZUGNL 14: Info Support in Veenendaal – Veenendaal, Netherlands
• June 18, 2013: Scott Klein – All things Azure – Manchester
• June 19, 2013: High Availability and Disaster Recovery in a SQL VM – London

Rest of World/Virtual

• April 27, 2013: Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – Various Locations
• April 27, 2013: SQL Saturday Brisbane – Brisbane, Australia
• April 28, 2013: SharePoint 2013 Developer Boot Camp – Khobar, Saudi Arabia
• May 5, 2013: SharePoint 2013 Developer Boot Camp – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• May 5-9, 2013: SELA Developer Practice – Israel 
• May 15, 2013 Why you’ll love Windows Azure SDK 2.0 – Brisbane, Australia  
• May 25, 2013: Welcome to SQLSaturday #224 – Sydney, Australia

Code:

https://github.com/bitcrazed/PowerRazzle

Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• How does Windows Azure Mobile Services differ from Azure Cloud Services?– 2 answers, 2 votes
• Federated authentication (single-sign-on) for a WCF REST/HTML-service on Azure– 1 answer, 1 vote
• How to setup Azure Connect?– 1 answer, 1 vote
• How to deploy application in windows azure with text file? – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Deploying a sql server based webservice on azure virtual machine – 2 answers, 0 votes
• azure mobileservice proxy authentication required – 1 answer, 0 votes
• View Results of Simple Query – 2 answers, 0 votes
• Creating a Cloud Service in Windows Azure gives the error The Specified URL is already in use – 1 answer, 0 votes
• Maximum concurrent connections Azure Django – 1 answer, 0 votes

Decks:

• Migrating to SQL Azure