Windows Azure Community News Roundup #76

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

• Updating SQL Server AlwaysOn IP in Windows Azure (posted November 4^th)
• Queries in the Windows Azure Storage Client Library v2.1 (posted November 3^rd)
• My List of Windows Azure Podcasts (Posted November 7^th)
• Part 3: Publishing your Orchard 1.7.1 Website to Windows Azure Cloud Services (posted November 6^th)
• Cloud Adoption Challenges (posted November 7^th)
• More Azure Goodies (posted November 5^th)
• #Codevember (posted November 11^th)

Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings

North America

• November 17^th – 22^nd: Live! 360 – Orlando, FL

Europe

• November 13^th – 15^th: DevConFu – Jurmala, Latvia
• December 5^th – 6^th: IG2013 Conference – Crewe Hall, UK
• November 12^th – 13^th: SharePoint Days 2013 – Slovenia
• December 4^th: Architecture Forum in the North – Tong, UK
• December 7^th: CloudBrew – A Full-Day of Windows Azure – Mechelen, Belgium
• December 10^th: Azug – A Lap Around Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Ghent, Belgium

Rest of World/Virtual

• Ongoing:  Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand

Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow

• Windows Azure Scheduler (Preview) – 4 votes, 1 answer
• Is There a Way to Set ScheduledTransferPeriod to less than one minute? – 2 votes, 1 answer
• Need to Download Files Into Azure Web Role On Startup, and On Demand – 3 votes, 2 answers
• Cloud Hosting for a Small Internal Application – 1 vote, 3 answers

Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.