Azure Friday (Audio)

Mingfei Yan from the Azure Media Services team shows Scott how easy it is to get video into Azure at scale, then view from any device. Areas covered in this video: Azure Media Services portal Creating a Media Service Reviewing media content in Azure Available Azure Media Encoding (Portal and APIs) Publishing Media On-Demand Streaming Useful topics and links: Tutorial - Get started with Media Services Azure Media Services Tutorials and Resources Azure Media Services .NET SDK Azure Media Services REST API Reference

Going beyond the basics, Scott hears from Ashwin Palekar about how to lock down an Azure installation with multiple layers of firewalls and many layers of defense. Areas covered in this video: Layers of Firewalls – Defense in depth Cloud Access Layer – Input Endpoints, Inbound IP ACLs Guest OS Firewall – Inbound/Outbound IP ACLs 3rd party Proxy Firewall Appliance – Inbound/Outbound IP ACLs (and more) Useful topics and links: Azure Security Guidance Azure Network Security Whitepaper Setting up Virtual Private Networks in Azure (video)

Scott learns how to setup a Virtual Private Network within Azure to keep Virtual Machines off the public network completely. Areas covered in this video: Keeping data, network, and infrastructure separate Isolating Virtual Private Networks Cloud Access Layer Running intranet applications in a secure way Useful topics and links: New Windows Azure Network Security Whitepaper Azure Security Guidance

Scott hears from John Walton all about the full time security testers that attack Azure and find (and plug!) security holes, keeping our sites safe. Areas covered in this video: Methods of improving Azure security How Azure security operates Understanding emerging threats Red team and blue team roles Model real-world attacks, identify gaps, and demonstrate impact Detect and respond, enhance awareness, and measure readiness and impact Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center Azure Security Guidance

Ben Ridgway schools Scott about Azure Security 101. What are the best practices when designing for a cloud platform? What is Azure's responsibility and what is mine? Areas covered in this video: Application architecture helps define the security measures offered and needed The scope of security is different based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Hybrid deployments adds different vectors to security Understand the division between your security responsibility and the platform capability Security key thoughts that you should follow Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center Security Best Practices for Developing Azure Solutions (DOC)

Scott and Chandrika adds a Web Test to one of Scott's existing production websites. Web Tests enable regular monitoring of your sites' uptime, and you can even pin the web tests within the new Azure Portal. Areas covered in this video: Web Tests – Explore issues, occurrences, and errors. Create tests, add success criteria, and enable alerts. Useful topics and links: Web Tests topic - Tests your website at regular intervals by configuring a Web test. The Azure Preview Portal – Tour and learn more about the Azure portal.

Chandrika Shankarnarayan teaches Scott about how Azure Web Hosting Plans are now exposed in the new Azure portal. We'll see how they can save me money, show me exactly how much money my sites are costing me, and enable finer grain control than we ever had before. Areas covered in this video: Understanding the available web hosting plans Creating a new web hosting plan Understanding different pricing tiers Useful topics and links: What is a Web Hosting Plan? Azure Web Sites Web Hosting Plans In-Depth Overview The Azure Preview Portal – Tour and learn more about the Azure portal.

Scott learns about the new Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Azure. This video includes how to install, update, and configure it to constantly scan for viruses and malware within our Azure instances. Areas covered in this video: Capabilities provided by Endpoint Protection Endpoint Protection features available for Azure Cloud Services platform and Azure Virtual Machines Basic configuration and monitoring available programmatically Endpoint Protection is Off by Default Real-time and scheduled protection available

Scott and Chandrika add the new Analytics JavaScript to one of Scott's production sites running within Azure and then explore the resulting data within the new Azure Portal. Areas covered in this video: Analytics on the Azure Portal Add JavaScript to set up analytics View analytics from Scott's web site Drill down into specific issues exposed by analytics Monitoring verses analytics Alert rules Useful topics and links: Analytics for Web sites

Scott talks to Eduard Koller about the Microsoft Open Tech "VMDepot," a collection of hundreds of open virtual machine images you can install in Azure today! Areas covered in this video: The VMDepot portal – A community-driven VM image catalog. Images contain the OS, applications, and development stack. Deployment to Azure is easy. How to modify the command line to create the VM in Azure. Viewing the Azure VM commands (azure vm –help). Useful links: VMDepot - A community-driven VM image catalog. The Azure Preview Portal – Tour and learn more about the Azure portal. Related Videos: Overview of the new Azure Portal with Vishal Joshi Exploring the New Azure Portal