Donna and Scott having fun talking about Azure Mobile Services Offline Sync, and how to make apps offline enabled. Areas covered in this video: Making a Windows Quick Start app offline-enabled Using NuGet to add Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore Understanding the Sync code Running the service Handling conflicts Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentation

Donna Malayeri demos how to integrate Push Notifications on both the client and the .NET backend with Azure Mobile Services. Areas covered in this video: Adding a Pushing Notification to a Window Universal project Selecting a mobile service Understanding the client and backend push notification code Sending a Push Notification Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentation Get started with Mobile Services Add Mobile Services to an existing app How to use the iOS client library for Mobile Services

Santosh Balasubramanian shows the Live dashboard and Notifications in Azure Stream Analytics, and talks about how to operationalize streamed data. Areas covered in this video: Making real-time decisions based on live data Augmenting static data with stream data Streaming notifications Using a SQL query to determine when to take action Scaling using streaming units Useful topics and links: Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics Get started using Azure Stream Analytics Azure Stream Analytics - Tutorials and Guides

Santosh Balasubramanian talks about how Azure Stream Analytics helps to address data that is always in motion. Areas covered in this video: Examples of moving data Defining Azure Stream Analytics and what it provides Writing your stream processing in SQL How to create a Stream Analytics solution Useful topics and links: Azure Stream Analytics Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics Get started using Azure Stream Analytics Azure Stream Analytics - Tutorials and Guides

Kundana Palagiri shows Scott how to extend the VM functionality with VM Extensions. Kundana explains the following in this video: VM Extensions is software provided by either Microsoft or by trusted third-party providers for Azure VMs to extend the functionality of the VM. Windows and Linux are supported by VM Extensions. Deploy to a running VM or a new VM. Programmability support. Update life cycle that is independent from the VM. Enables dynamic composition on a VM. Useful topics and links: Virtual Machines

Kundana Palagiri talks about Octopus VM Extension - a third party automated deployment tool that simplifies deployment across multiple machines. Areas covered in this video: Explaining the purpose of the Octopus VM Extension Explaining deployments across multiple machine Adding Octopus on the VM Viewing the Octopus portal Understanding environments and projects Using PowerShell to install Octopus Useful topics and links: Azure Virtual Machines

Guy Bowerman shows Scott how easy it is to run LAMP on Azure VMs. Areas covered in this video: Creating a VM with a LAMP Stack using Microsoft Azure Logging in to the VM Reviewing and running the control script for the LAMP stack Verifying that Apache, PHP, and MySQL are running Accessing and viewing the Web server page Installing the LAMP stack manually Useful topics and links: How to create a LAMP Stack with Microsoft Azure LAMP Stack 5.6.0RC (as shown in the video) Virtual Machines

Christine Avanessians tells Scott all about the new VM Marketplace in Azure and shows what it takes for him to get there and sell his VMs. Areas covered in this video: Stepping through the Azure ecosystem Viewing the available VMs on the Azure Marketplace Reviewing the Microsoft Certification Test Tool Reviewing the Microsoft Azure Publishing portal Useful topics and links: Azure Virtual Machines

Dan Rosanova talks more deeply about Azure Service Bus techniques with common patterns in Distributed Messaging Areas covered in this video: Correlation IDs Read Receipts ReplyTo Queues Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that get permission to access OTHER applications like SharePoint! We'll dig into the URL Structure of these services, see how to get events when things are updated, and figure out how ODATA and REST fit into these cloud building blocks. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud context: HATEOAS, REST, and Hypermedia Primer with Mat Velloso