Hi folks, you’ve probably heard a fair bit about the make over of Azure into ‘Azure
2.0’ (the SDK is still 1.7)

There’s some great new tools within VS.NET to manage your environment better, even
a Service Bus ‘explorer’ which was much needed.

I’ve collected a few links to start with for you guys to read up on when you’ve got
a moment:

Azure 2.0 Details on:

  • Virtual Machines – FAQs etc – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156003

  • Windows Azure Virtual Network – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156007

    • Get slides from my previous presentation here – Azure
      Virtual Network 2.0
  • Windows Azure Media Services – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh973629

  • Create and Deploying WebSite walk through – https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/web-sites/how-to-create-websites/

    • (like we need this one – seriously takes 3 minutes! – well done MS!)
  • Azure Chalk Talk Videos – http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/DigitalChalkTalks

    • Azure Virtual Machines – Part
      I & Part
      II

    • Web
      Sites with ASP.NET (NB: SSL
      is not supported, but it will arrive when Win Server 2012)

    • Web
      Sites with node.js

    • Web
      Sites with OSS Apps & Web Matrix

    • Azure
      Cross Platform Command Line Tools

    • Cloud
      Services (aka perviously web+worker roles)

    • Apache
      Hadoop Based Services On Windows Azure

    • TFS
      Service Preview Intro

    • Azure
      Websites – Continuous Integration with TFS.

    • Azure
      SQL Databases Intro

    • Azure
      Storage Introduction

Blog Post by: Mick Badran