Azure is a whole new way for Microsoft partners to offer applications and services to customers. For those of you who have not experienced Windows Azure, we've created a simple, step-by-step tutorial.
IMPORTANT: To get ready to work on the tutorial, obtain your own Azure account. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers/ and click on "Get Your Account". The tutorial will hand hold you through creating and uploading your own "hello world" single Web page Azure application. The whole process takes only 45 minutes, including installing a couple of pieces of required software.
Take the Windows Azure step-by-step tutorial and host a simple website on Windows Azure Platform.
IMPORTANT: To get ready to work on the tutorial, obtain your own Azure account. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers/ and click on "Get Your Account". This tutorial will hand hold you through hosting your simple website on the Windows Azure Platform.
Check out Microsoft Gold Certified Partner & Front Runner for Windows Azure, Full Armor® and their story of how they are leveraging the Windows Azure Platform across the globe.
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This high level overview for TDM & BDM's, will provide an introduction to Windows Azure.
This video will take pieces from the Worldwide Partner Conference held in July that focuses on Azure from a Partner perspective.
Part 2 of this video will take pieces from the Worldwide Partner Conference held in July that focuses on Azure from a Partner perspective.
This high level overview will give you an introduction to Windows Azure platform AppFabric.
This session covers developing a Windows Azure application from File>New.
This session covers how to use Windows Azure storage to store blobs and tables.
This session covers Windows Azure queue storage for Web-Worker role communication.
In this high level overview, attendees will learn what the Windows Azure platform AppFabric and what it offers Microsoft’s cloud customers.
This session is designed to introduce the Windows Azure platform AppFabric from a developer’s point of view. Through a series of coding examples attendees will see how to take a simple WCF client/service application, expose it on the Internet using the AppFabric Service Bus and then secure it using the Access Control Service.
The Service Bus is one of the two main components of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric. In this demonstration-heavy session, attendees will see multiple ways in which the Service Bus can be leveraged to provide connectivity solutions for cloud-aware and cloud-based applications.
The Access Control Service is one of the two main components of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric. In this demonstration-heavy session, attendees will examine the setup and code required to leverage the Access Control Service from an ASP.NET application.
In this session a screencast will step you thru account sign up and some of the nuances you will want to know.
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http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Abe+Pachikara/MSDN-Azure-Benefits-How-To-Part-3-of-3-Tips-and-Training-Resources-8-mins/