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Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that Microsoft Windows Azure will be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, coming ‘shortly’. As an Azure MVP & from Breeze (a leading Microsoft Cloud Partner) perspective we invest heavily in cloud technologies. What does this mean and why...

*** THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON WORLD WIDE even as we speak! *** The wrap up of the day: Saturday morning was nothing short of sensational in Sydney today, early morning sun, bright blue skies, smell of coffee and a city that felt like it was snoozing and waking for some playtime. I walked into...

Something that you’ve always wanted at your finger tips all the public IP ranges for the Azure Data Centers. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29840 <!--Below address ranges are represented using CIDR notation--> <!--For detail on how to interpert CIDR notation refer http...

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally there. Windows Azure Infrastructure Services reached the General Availability milestone today. Read more in this blog post.

There’s a great Centrebet case study http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Centrebet/Microsoft-Windows-Azure-a-safe-bet-for-sports-bookmaker-s-website/710000000390 Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Recently Microsoft added Backup Services (Preview) in which you can invoke the cloud as part of your backup strategy, whether it be offsite secondaries etc. You may have heard of Microsoft’s StorSimple which involved dropping a 2RU or 4RU Hardware device into a customer’s rack in a Datacenter somewhere...

Part 2 of a full example on how to configure Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) together with Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) for Web and Windows Store Applications.

Part 1 of a full example on how to configure Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) together with Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) for Web and Windows Store Applications.

The slides from my big data session at Microsoft TechDays can be found below. During the session, we discussed a lot of the fundamental technologies of the most popular Hadopp distributions including HDFS, Map-Reduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Sqoop and others...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Folks – we’re into week 2 of the 6 weeks of Azure program and as I was planning these sessions out with Christian last year, I thought I’d like to bring some fun into the mix . There’s many possibilities that you can do in Azure, but none other than building a bit of h/w, programming it & having...

Scott’s team of teams have been busy and have come out with a few changes: Some of the improvements include: Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev content SQL Reporting Services: Support in the management portal Active Directory: Support in the azure management portal, user...

Overview The following is a “brain-dump” of my experiences configuring ESB Toolkit 2.2 on a Windows Azure VM using the BizTalk Server 2013 beta (February 15th 2013 revision) on Windows Server 2012. What’s New There have been some enhancements made to the ESB Configuration Tool. Default...

Day #1 has been officially launched for the 6 weeks of Azure Program. Rocky & Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with help from myself & Mahesh, Bill Chesnut and others to bring together a great 6 week program about a Journey through Azure (above and beyond technical...

When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on an Azure VM, you might come across the error: Rule "FusionActive Template Library (ATL)" failed. There are two corrupt manifest files blocking the installation.

Once again, Cnext is proud to announce the renewal of the gold partnership with Microsoft, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s...

The BizTalk Server 2013 Beta release comes with the SB-Messaging adapter. This adapter allows our on-premise BizTalk environment to integrate seamlessly with the Windows Azure Service Bus queues, topics and subscriptions. Together with my colleague Mathieu, I had a look at these new capabilities.

128 attendees, more than 70 different companies across 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA), more than 10 Microsoft Integration MVP’s present (speakers, Q&A members and attendees...

Microsoft just released a new useful poster. This one describes all Windows Azure bricks. All developers, architects or anyone else who work on Microsoft Azure must download it :   Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

hi folks, while at the BizTalk 2012 Summit enjoying the great hospitality, we have been hard at work forming an alliance with other brilliant integrators. What it means for you is better service and support from us and our alliance partners. Cheers, Mick. Here's the official blurb.... ---- Breeze...

As many of you know, the BizTalk Team is putting on a BizTalk Summit. The BizTalk Summit 2012 is a 2 day pre-release event to prepare for the launch of the next version of BizTalk Server. Activities at the summit will include a Keynote by Scott Guthrie, product roadmap, and technical sessions by the...

Hi guys, while planning for an Azure Based Event (ABE) coming soooon….or at least after Santa has come and gone & given me a birthday pressie, I was directed to a new site in the wings. Coatsy and his DPE crew have been busy creating a site just for us. One that accepts our slang and other Aussie...

This is an extension to Part 3 in the IPASBR series, see also: Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise service Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 2: Anonymous full-trust .NET consumer Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part...

You may have heard about ClickFrenzy where last night they launched a site with bargains for a few hours. Unfortunately there were far too many Error 500 – Server Too Busy errors and hence the site lost many many potential customers. Breeze has a great article on it - http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk...

First of all, I would like to thank all of my regular reader and hope you've al enjoyed my blog posts for almost 2 years now. I already announced in one of my previous posts some time ago that I would join the contributors of the biztalk admin blog at http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/ . Today...

Folks with the unforeseen skill from Christian Longstaff , we could be unveiling something great….. kicking around a few ideas and Christian’s talent for such things shone. As with all amazing shiny new things it needed a place in the blog-sphere… Could the be a book….a show….a movie….or something more...