Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Starting this week, we are moving this Community Roundup series to Thursdays, so as to provide you highlights from the past and current week, and give you some useful fodder for your late-week and weekend reading. Does this new posting day work better for you? Let me know via comments below, or on Twitter @WindowsAzure. Meanwhile, here are the highlights from last week.
Articles and Blog Posts
- What I Learned Building A Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services Part 6 – Securing the Service and Building Trust by Liam Cavanagh (posted Feb. 28)
- Setting Up Diagnostics Monitoring in Windows Azure by Ryan Dunn (posted Feb. 27)
- Everything you Need to Know About Windows Azure Caching Service to Improve Performance for Your Cloud Services by Robbin Cremers (posted Feb. 23)
- Piyush Lumba Discusses Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace by Paul Miller (posted Feb. 23)
- Migrating a SQL Server Database to SQL Azure by Tim Heuer (posted Feb. 20)
Upcoming Events, User Group Meetings
- March 6: UK Windows Azure User Group Meeting – London
- March 8: Windows Azure: Focus on the Application, Not Your Infrastructure – Waltham, MA
- March 13-14: Windows Azure Boot Camp – Schiphol, Netherlands
- March 21: RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure – Edina, MN
- March 24: Detroit Day of Windows Azure – Detroit, MI
- March 27: I Gotta Get Me Some of That! (Windows Azure Event) – Charlotte, NC
- March 29: Boston (Windows) Azure Cloud User Meeting – Boston, MA
- April 4: Houston Cloud Tech Symposium – Houston, TX
- Ongoing: Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts – Online
Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads
- (Windows) Azure REST WCF service (webHttpBinding) with client certification authentication – 4,158 views, 5 replies
- Unable to download connect.rdp from windows.azure.com – 3,767 views, 3 replies
- Secure Web Service on Windows Azure – 3,506 views, 5 replies
- How to receive a message from Azure Service Bus Queue without polling a queue – 557 views, 3 replies
- What AV products work in (Windows) Azure? How do I scan Blob Storage for viruses? – 430 views, 5 replies
Please feel free to send us any articles you come across that you think we should 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.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Himanshu