Azure Friday (Audio)

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Chris Sanders. Chris goes deeper and talks about the "Resumability" and resilience of texts. You can save the stack of your scripts, pause them, wait for things, wake up and keep going. He also talks about how you can keep from creating too many resources, if for example, you stop a script and run it again. We cover: Workflow in Azure Automation with Windows Workflow and PowerShell Creating Resources Suspending or stopping automation runs

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Eamon O'Reilly. You might be using PowerShell or local scripts today but are running them locally from your office. Why not move those into the reliable Azure Automation Service? We cover: Basics of Azure Automation Runbooks Starting and Stopping VMs Scheduling Runbooks

In this solo Azure Friday, Scott shares his new side-project, a startup he's working on with his buddy Greg Shackles. The app and services were written entirely in C# and run on Azure. Not only that, but the services are globally load balanced by Traffic Manager. Scott shares this unique view into how your small startup can have make global moves with Azure.

Scott and Becky Ochs dig into what settings you need to enforce to make sure your Azure instances are collecting the correct Security and Audit logs. We'll learn about logging for Cloud Services, VMs and configuration for both. Areas covered in this video: Azure Diagnostics Agent Auditing in Azure Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) Useful topics and links: How to Monitor Cloud Services Collect Azure Operation Events Azure Active Directory - View your access and usage reports

Jack Richins teaches Scott how to easily encrypt his SQL Server databases on Virtual Machine Azure instances. It's easier than you'd think! Areas covered in this video: Understanding encryption and SQL Server Understanding the Data Protection API, master keys, and certificates Using SQL commands to create the master key and certificates, and encrypt the database Useful topics and links: SQL Server on Azure

Scott learns how to secure Azure SQL Database with Jack Richins. We cover getting started and best practices for a more secure database. Areas covered in this video: Azure security and compliance Understanding Azure role (hardware, network, OS, and SQL Server) Understanding Network SSL/TLS, IP Restrictions, and Least Privilege Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center - Compliance

Scott talks with Saurabh Pant about the new Azure Managed Redis Cache. In this more advanced session we learn about failover and monitoring. How to Use Azure Redis Cache Azure Redis Cache

All this talk about REST and RESTful Web Services can be overwhelming. There's also terms like "HATEOAS," which sounds scary but actually means "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State." Scott talks to Mat Velloso about all these topics and get s a nice primer on REST as it relates to hosting Web Services in the Azure Cloud.

Scott talks with Saurabh Pant about the new Azure Managed Redis Cache. In this episode Scott learns about generalized application patterns for Redis. What kinds of problems does Redis solve well? How should queries and caches be structured? How to Use Azure Redis Cache Azure Redis Cache

Scott talks with Saurabh Pant about the new Azure Managed Redis Cache. We'll cover a basic introduction to Redis and Redis on Windows. What kinds of things is Redis good for? How do you talk to Redis from the command line, and what does Azure's hosting of Redis bring to the table? How to Use Azure Redis Cache Azure Redis Cache