Azure Friday

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

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that an authenticate again Azure AD. How do you access data "on behalf of" a user in a secure way. Let's make apps that access a users' calendar or mailbox in the cloud! We'll do it for real, using C# and Visual Studio, but talking JSON and REST over HTTPS. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud context: HATEOAS, REST, and Hypermedia Primer with Mat Velloso

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Topics, Queues and Relays. In this 102 episode, Dan expands on the concept of Topics Areas covered in this video: What are topics and why do you need them? How does PubSub work? How do you create Brokered Messages? Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Dead Letter Messaging and Properties, and extends on the PubSeb example in the 102 video. Areas covered in this video: Properties Dead Letter Handling TTL - Time to Live Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Scott digs into PowerShell and the Azure Automation service with Joe Levy. PowerShell is great, but what if you manage a lot of Linux machines? Joe shows how to use Azure Automation to automate a Linux machine over SSH We cover: Creating a C# Module and using it from PowerShell in Azure Automation Creating a module manifest Extending automation to control Linux machines

Scott learns even more about Azure Automation from Beth Cooper. Beth shows some advanced internals with some useful PowerShell scripts that show you exactly how to use Automation in a secure way. She shows how to next runbooks, share functions and variables, and mange your connection to Azure correctly. We cover: Certification and Subscription Management Runbook libraries Architecting your jobs by collecting and nesting Runbooks

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