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.…
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 and Blog Posts
- Role Instance Restarts Due to OS Upgrades by Kevin Williamson (posted Sept 19)
- Getting Started with Windows Azure (VIDEO) Visual Studio Toolbox, Channel 9 (posted Sept 19)
- Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Web Sites Part 2: Displaying Points of Interest in iOS by @chrisrisner (posted Sept 19)
- From Server to Service: How Microsoft Moved TFS to Windows Azure by Grant Holliday (posted Sept 18)
- Continuous Deployment from GitHub to Windows Azure by @VishalRJoshi (posted Sept 18)
- Announcing the New Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Scaling Tier by @clinted (posted Sept 18)
- Migrating TailspinSpyworks Web Forms to Windows Azure by @benjguin (posted Sept 18)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- August 20 – October 11: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (20+ North American cities)
- September 6-October 11: Cloud OS Signature Event Series – Various (16 cities)
- October 4: Vancouver Windows Azure Meetup – Vancouver, British Columbia
- October 10-14: Cloud & Virtualization LIVE – Orlando, FL
- October 30-November 2: Microsoft BUILD 2012 – Redmond, WA
- November 12: (Satory Global) Windows Azure Developer Camp – Mtn. View, CA
Europe
- September 25: Windows Azure Web Sites Deep Dive with Brady Gaster – Mechelen, Belgium
- September 27: Windows Azure IT Pro Camp – London, UK
- September 27: An Evening in the Cloud: The Old, The New and The Big – Kontich, Belgium
- September 27-28: CloudBurst 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden
- October 11: UK Windows Azure User Group – London, UK
- October 25: Catching the Long Tail with SaaS and Windows Azure – Leuven, Belgium
Rest of World/Virtual
- September 26-27: Windows Azure Camp – Hyderabad, India
- October 12,16,19: TechDays 2012 – South Africa (three cities)
- Ongoing: Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand
Recent Windows Azure MSDN Forums Discussion Threads
- SQL Azure – On Premise Backup/Restore – 1,801 views, 5 replies
- How Can I Leverage On-premise Domain User Credentials for a Remote Desktop Client – 614 views, 7 replies
- Service Bus Authentication At Subnamespace Level – 361 views, 5 replies
Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- Is There Any Open Source Folder/Browser/Creator for (Windows) Azure Blob Storage? – 3 answers, 1 vote
- Clustered Index and Distributed Databases – 2 answers, 1 vote
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.
Have a great weekend!
Himanshu