In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Vishal Joshi from the Windows Azure team. Scott and Vishal dig into the new Azure Portal and explore how best to save money and be aware of your bill and resources. Areas covered in this video: Azure Portal Billing Hub Subscriptions Cost by resource Dashboard Useful topics and posts: The Azure Preview Portal Introducing Web Hosting Plans for Azure Web Sites Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal Related Videos: Overview of the new Azure Portal with Vishal Joshi Exploring the New Azure Portal

In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Vishal Joshi from the Windows Azure team. Vishal gives Scott a tour around the new Azure Portal and talks about blades, hubs, journeys, lenses and more. Areas covered in this video: Azure Portal Azure hubs, blades, lenses, journeys Customizing the Azure UI Azure console Azure templates Useful topics and posts: The Azure Preview Portal Introducing Web Hosting Plans for Azure Web Sites Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal Related Videos: Exploring the New Azure Portal Enabling DevOps with Azure and Visual Studio Online

In this Azure Friday video, Scott Hanselman is joined by Mark Russinovich from the Windows Azure Group. Scott talks with Mark and asks - How does Windows Azure use Software Defined Networking? Areas covered in this video: Software Defined Networking Hardware load balancers Software Load Balancing Useful topics: Load Balancing Virtual Machines Azure Networking Related Videos: Configuring Virtual Machine endpoints and load balancing a Linux VM Web Farm FAQ with Mark Russinovich - Does Windows Azure run Windows?

Scott Hanselman is joined by Mark Russinovich from the Windows Azure Group in this Azure Friday video. Scott talks to Mark Russinovich and asks him - Does Windows Azure run Windows? Areas covered in this video: Azure History and Project "Red Dog" Azure updates and how it works Azure and Interesting hardware errors Related Videos: FAQ with Mark Russinovich - How does Windows Azure heal? Avoiding Cloud Fail: Learning from the Mistakes of Azure with Mark Russinovich

Pranav shows Scott how to process Queues and Blobs with the Azure WebJob SDK. For more information about the WebJobs SDK, see Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK.

Pranav takes a HelloWorld Console and turns it into an Azure WebJob with the WebJobs SDK. For more information about the WebJobs SDK, see Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK.

Jamie Espinosa explains how WebJobs via into Azure Web Sites.

We dive into more complex WebJobs and the WebJobs diagnostics dashboard.

Now Vittorio and Scott create a Windows WinForms application that authenticates against Azure Active Directory

Vittorio extends our existing application to retrieve custom profile information from Windows Azure Active Directory usign the WAAD SDK.