Cynthia, Evan and Sujit discuss some recent work with various Azure services that are noteworthy and interesting.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode383.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/VqrntUY1FXQ

• My VM disappeared!
• I've been pwned!
• My VM won't work!
• I cannot access my VM!

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode16.mp3

Links: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/01/24/storage-price-match.aspx

Two new compute-intensive instances are now generally available for use with Windows Azure Cloud Services: 

• A8: 8 virtual cores with 56 GB of RAM
• A9: 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of RAM

Configuring of MIME types for dynamic and static content compression is now enabledfor Windows Azure Web Sites.

A great resource Script Centerat Windows Azure site.

Some of the scripts the library currently includes:

• Create/Deploy a Windows Azure Virtual Machine with Two Data Disks
• Quickly create dev-test VM on Azure running Visual Studio 2013 Pro|Premium|Ultimate, SQL Server 2012 Developer edition SP1 and SharePoint 2013 trial (MSDN subscription required).
• Deploy Windows Azure VMs to an Availability Set and Load Balanced on an Endpoint
• Create Two Windows Azure VMs (IIS Frontend and SQL Backend) & Deploy a Web App
• Create Windows Azure VMs & Deploy in the Same Windows Azure Virtual Network
• Stop Windows Azure Virtual Machines on a Schedule

WAAD White Papers: 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36391&ocid=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886&WT.mc_id=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn547038.aspx

Endpoints and ACLs - Scripting
Endpoint and ACLs:
 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/08/31/weekend-scripter-creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints-part-1-of-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/08/31/weekend-scripter-creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints-part-2-of-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/09/18/creating-acls-for-windows-azure-endpoints.aspx

Powershell
Export-AzureVM - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj152899.aspx
Get-AzureVNetConfig - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn495309.aspx