by community-syndication | Mar 6, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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 it talk to Azure! Monitored, controlled
– how good is that.
Enter the FEZ Kits – www.ghielectronics.com
(There’s also the Raspberry PI’s that run a flavour of Linux with a deployment of
Mono – that let’s you run C# code straight onto a $35 computer! – I’ll save that for
another post)
FEZ Kits
These are the ’mans lego’ kit as I like to think of them as.
What makes these kits cool:
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they run a flavour of .NET – .NET Microframework. So yes you can write C# etc that
runs on the device.
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you can get many many additional modules for
these to plug into your masterpiece – things like temperature sensors, light sensors,
colour sensors etc.
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they run off USB power, even a set of 4 AAA batteries would do it.
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you program them via USB cable from Visual Studio.
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*rich* community and developer support – http://www.ghielectronics.com/support/.net-micro-framework
FYI – my kit I’ve added to over time and I’ve also got a Raspberry PI that
I play with (good NFC reader).
My FEZ KIT on the left, with the PI on the right in my beautiful Lego box
Now the best thing is that the FEZ Hydra kit (above) will
be available to you (as a prize and the like) on the BOOTCAMPS as part of the 6 weeks
of Azure.
Let me know how you get on and if you’ve got any questions about these guys – they’re
great and good for developers.
— from the official blurb —-
6 Weeks of Azure
Need in-person Azure Training? DevCamps are for you
Register for a DevCamp in Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane to
learn how to use the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure
Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Visual Studio 2012 to build and move a variety of
apps to the cloud. You will see how to build web sites, mobile
applications, and enterprise-class applications.
Need help with your app? Register for a Boot Camp
Register for a Boot Camp near you: Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane. Our
Industry and Microsoft experts will be available to help complete your
Windows Azure app as part of the 6 Weeks of Windows Azure course.
There will be a FEZ Hydra
Kit or two to win not to mention some t-shirts and mice to
giveaway.
6 Weeks
Forum
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Mar 6, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently we tried to make a simple change to a SSIS package and got stuck with this error. After must angst we tracked the problem to the way that the SQL agent running the SSIS package had been configured. Under the logging tab the SSIS log provider had not been specified.
Blog Post by: mbrimble
by community-syndication | Mar 6, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
It’s a good practice to make static send ports dynamic, by changing the OutboundTransportLocation property in the send pipeline. However, when using this mechanism on WCF send ports, there’s a caveat. Let’s have a look!
by community-syndication | Mar 6, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
While implementing an EDI exchange using BizTalk Server 2010 I ran into a rather perplexing problem. There was a requirement that the system should be able tosupport any identification qualifiers (in the UNB2.2 / UNB3.2 segments) that our trading partners prescribed, even if they were non-standard values. The grief-inducing scenario was that some of the […]
Blog Post by: Johann
by community-syndication | Mar 5, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This post is for the BizTalk Portuguese Community! Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day %u00e9 um evento de um dia focado exclusivamente em Microsoft BizTalk Server e t%u00f3picos relacionados. Ir%u00e1 ocorrer no dia 14 de Mar%u00e7o de 2013 na Ribeira do Porto (Casa do Infante) e contar%u00e1 com a presen%u00e7a de um membro da equipa de produto […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
by community-syndication | Mar 5, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
There has been some news about Windows Azure Active Directory recently. Yesterday an announce has been made about a deeper integration between Windows Azure portal and Windows Azure Active Directory (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/04/more-identity-and-access-management-improvements-in-windows-azure.aspx).
I had created a Windows Azure Active Directory standalone tenant a few weeks ago. You can do this yourself; it is available at https://activedirectory.windowsazure.com/Signup/QuickSignup.aspx?ru=https://activedirectory.windowsazure.com/default.aspx&ali=1.
In order to access Windows Azure resources from a Windows Azure Active Directory (from now on WAAD) account, it is possible to go the Windows Azure Management portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) and connect like an Office 365 user. In this case we’ll see how to create a free subscription with this account.
Browse to https://manage.windowsazure.com
you receive a text message on your phone that you can enter:
You can then fill the following form. Note that the e-mail can be changed to an e-mail address where you prefer to receive messages (this may not be the same as your WAAD account).
Click Next, and the subscription will be created
before you are redirected to the following page:
click on the Portal link in the upper right corner. You get a few welcome screens that show how the portal works:
then you get the usual experience:
In the Active Directory part of the portal, you can access your WAAD domain and manage users. In particular, you can create a co-admin account and ensure this account connects only with 2 factor authentication:
Add the user as a co-admin
Then, this user can connect thru https://activedirectory.windowsazure.com
you receive an SMS on your phone and you are asked to answer it with a code
Type the code on the phone and answer the SMS
Then this user can connect to the management portal
Benjamin
Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE
by community-syndication | Mar 5, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Scott’s team of teams have been busy and have come out with a few changes:
Some of the improvements include:
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Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev content
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SQL Reporting Services: Support in the management portal
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Active Directory: Support in the azure management portal, user and domain management
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Availability Monitoring for Cloud Services. Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Mobile
Services
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Service Bus: New configuration tab and metrics
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Storage: Ability to download blobs directly in management portal
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Media Services: New monitoring metrics and quickstart experience
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Cloud Services: Support for .cer certificate files upload
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Localization support for five new languages
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Windows Azure Store Support in 22 Additional Countries
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/03/04/windows-azure-updates-android-support-sql-reporting-services-active-directory-more.aspx
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Mar 5, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Version 6.0 : New Feature (Search and Action on BizTalk Artifacts) One of the major functionality we are bringing in v6.0 is the ability to "Search and Action" on BizTalk artifacts like Applications, receive locations etc. The standard BizTalk administration console provided search functionality only for run time service instances (orchestration instances, pipeline instances with […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
by community-syndication | Mar 4, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
First of all I would like to thank Porto Convention Bureau for kindly given us the venue for the event. The event will take place in Casa do Infante (Ribeira do Porto) and besides being extremely well located is a place full of history and culture! Located in the heart of Porto’s UNESCO Heritage Site, […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
by community-syndication | Mar 4, 2013 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In the past couple weeks there was an uproar in the tech community after it was learned that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer was halting the “work from home” program and telling staff to get to the office. The response among techies was swift and mostly negative as the prevailing opinion was that this sort of […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
