Evan and Sujit talk about the launch of Windows 10 and how it works nicely with Azure.

Picture below shows how to find the Windows 10 image in the Azure in case you want to spin up your own instance for testing.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode87.mp3

http://joshheffner.com/how-to-upload-and-run-a-windows-10-enterprise-vm-in-azure/

https://remote.modern.ie/ (to test your apps in the new IE browser hosted in RemoteApp)

Evan and Cale who are both in direct contact with the Azure customers, discuss their experiences and observations with Azure usage from the field.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode86.mp3

The guys talk to David Giard who is a Technical Evangelist in the Developer Experience (DX) group at Microsoft. He talks about how we are engaging Students and Startups to leverage Azure even though they are not using Microsoft technologies.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode85.mp3

David's own Podcast: http://technologyandfriends.com

His blog: http://davidgiard.com/

Twitter handle: @DavidGiard

The guys talk about an old friend, Azure AD and how that is the cornerstone of all services built in the cloud.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode84.mp3

Azure AD Connect: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect-how-it-works/

ADAL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj573266.aspx

Cale and Sujit discuss the new Billing API and why this is such a significant API for large enterprises that use Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode83.mp3

Announcement http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-azure-billing-apis-available

Details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/

Sample code: https://github.com/Azure/BillingCodeSamples

Updates:

Azure Key Vault generally available http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault

Azure Active Directory Connect generally available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect

Azure SQL Data Warehouse in public preview http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse

P3 Performance level for SQL Azure to be renamed to P6

Operation Insights versus Application Insights

Evan, Cale and Sujit discuss these hot topics and how they relate to Azure and cloud computing in general.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode82.mp3

SDK for Service Fabric: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric/

Updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/application-gateway-introduction/

Evan and Sujit talk to Krishnachytanya Ayyagari (KC) who is an Azure consultant with the Global Delivery division of Microsoft. He talks to us about his Mobile app All About Azure (currently on Windows Phone) and how he was able to leverage various Azure services to make his app more productive and provide a valuable Azure Status notification service to users of the app. He talks about future plans including an Android and iOS version as well as a Universal App for the various Windows devices.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode81.mp3

https://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=9bf73d00-1b57-41ca-b679-072bd0b7d1b0 

myself@akrishnachytanya.com

Cale and Evan talk to Jason Johnson from the Azure Customer Response Team - they monitor the @AzureSupport Twitter alias in Azure Engineering and respond to customer questions.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode80.mp3  

http://twitter.com/AzureSupport

News:

Importing data to DocumentDb just got faster and easier

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/02/importing-data-to-documentdb-just-got-faster-and-easier/

Jelastic on Azure 

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/03/jelastic-on-azure-2/

Intermediate TLS certificates for Azure App Service Web Apps

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/01/intermediate-tls-certificates-for-azure-app-service-web-apps/

ARM (Azure Resource Manager) - declarative definition for Azure resources
IaaS Virtual Machines - Durable VMs, ideal for migrating workloads with little coding or modifications
Cloud Services (PaaS) -  Platform as a Service offering for hosting web and service (worker) applications.
Azure Batch - Cloud enabling batch and cluster type workloads; bring your exe and we can scale it.
Remote App - Run you apps remotely on virtual machines hosted in Azure, via RDP.
App Service - Underlying service that will host web,api,logic and mobile apps.
Web App - Formerly called websites, these are designed simply to host web applications, with the benefits of PaaS.
API App - Host api type application backends, expose these with automated versioning and deployment built in.
Mobile App - Building the backend for mobile clients, with support for push notifications, auto scale, and sync services.
Logic App - Think biz talk integration in the cloud; this service allows connecting different data source and clients with just a browser.
API Management - Wrap existing web services and api type applications, and get throttling, rate limits, and developer key support.
Notification Hubs - Think push notifications without having to write specific code for each platform on mobile.
Mobile Engagement - Real time mobile monitoring with targeted push notifications with scheduling support.
Azure SQL Database - Platform as a service version of Sql databases.
DocumentDB - NoSql database, great for storing semi-structured data with key difference from Azure tables being multiple indexes.
Redis Cache - High performance, cache as a service with clients for all major vendors.
Azure Storage - Blob storage, table storage and queue storage with virtual unlimited storage.
StorSimple - Think cache to allow files to be served to local, on premises users, managing keeping most frequently used files on premise and archiving less used files to Azure.
Azure Search - Search as a service, bring you index, and scale the search components to enable applications to add search with the need to write the core search functions.
HD Insight - Hadoop clusters in the cloud supporting both windows and linux with clients for all major platforms.
Machine Learning - Predictive analytics in the cloud, build a model, bring your algorithm, and surface you engine with a web service.
Stream Analytics - Bring events into event hubs (on top of service bus) and query these with stream analytics.
Data Factory - Orchestration of data from various data sources including relational database and azure blob storage, and transform with only a browser.
Event Hubs - Working with concert with Service Bus to provide scaled out input to allow massive scale to ingest data from MM of devices.
Service Bus - Enterprise grade messaging bus to provide service to decouple applications from backend processing.
SQL Data Warehouse - Elastic data warehousing  as a service with integration to PowerBI, ML, HDInsight and data factory.
Virtual Networks - Software defined networking, routing control, and hybrid options
Express Route - Private connection, increased speed, lower latency MPLS network
Traffic Manager - Global load balancing, providing both increased performance and failover options
Azure Load Balancer - Internal and external software defined load balancing
Azure DNS - Host your DNS records in Azure to centralize management, hosted DNS services
VPN Gateway - IP Sec in 2 flavors (Site to Site and Point to Site) for flexible hybrid connectivity
Media Services - Bring your video, media services can encode, transcode, stream, and store video and audio at incredible scale.
Encoding - Encode via jobs to multiple formats, scale out for greater performance, with advanced thumbnail, and clip generation.
Azure Media Player - Single player for all your needs, with automatic detection to provide the best playback experience and integrated content protection.
Media Intelligence - Automatic caption generation, extract and index metadata using MSRs DNN (deep neural network) with multi language support!
Content Protection - Full blown key/license service in minutes, dynamic on the fly encryption using AES or PlayReady, support for EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) HTML5
On-Demand Streaming - Simplifies workflow of streaming video (packaging and encryption) with elastic scale, full DVR capabilities, and dynamic manifests for one encode for all.
CDN - Global content delivery network, integrated into Azure, to support massive scalability of user bases and support capacity on demand.
BizTalk Services - Use Hybrid connections to connect on premises servers to Azure, with no firewall changes and out of the box support for EDI,B2B, Partner, EAI, and IOT.
Azure Backup - Reliable offsite backup, with support for incremental backups, encryption in-transit and at rest with geo replication backup store
Azure Site Recovery - Automated protection and replication of VMs from on premises to Azure, with orchestration of failover
Azure Active Directory - Premier Identity and Access management solution for the cloud, SSO, integration with on premises AD, multifactor with enterprise scale.
Multi-Factor Authentication - Deploy on premises or in cloud, realtime fraud monitoring, access via SMS, phone call, or mobile app.
Visual Studio Online - TFS in the cloud…quite simply with support 5 users for free and unlimited private repos.
Visual Studio App Insights - Telemetry collection support both client and server side with support for all popular platforms.
Scheduler - Call services inside and outside Azure on schedules with support for Azure queues.  Great for daily maintenance and developers!
Automation - Process automation leveraging existing PowerShell workflows or create new ones via a highly available engine
Operational Insights - Management for Azure datacenters, with in sight to capacity, updates, and tracking for server configuration changes.
Key Vault - Vault used to secure cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud services, ensuring apps don't have direct access to keys
Service Fabric - Rapidly develop and update microservice-based applications
Data Lake - A hyper scale repository for big data analytic workloads
Portal - (newer) Ibiza portal and existing version.
SQL DB Elastic Tools - The elastic database features of Azure SQL DB are designed to simplify data tier development and management especially for Software as a Service (SaaS) developers
Premium Storage - delivers high-performance, low-latency disk support for I/O intensive workloads running on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Files - SMB file shares on top of Azure Store
Azure Government - is a government-community cloud that offers hyperscale compute, storage, networking, and identity management services, with world-class security.
WebJobs -  Azure WebJobs provide an easy way to run scripts or programs as background processes on App Service Web Apps.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode79.mp3

Updates:

IaaS just got easier?

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/29/iaas-just-got-easier-again/

ARM templates

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

Cale and Sujit talk to Stuart Ozer, a Partner Group Program Manager with the Azure DB group about the new preview of the Azure SQL DB Elastic Tools which allows developers to build SaaS scenarios easily.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode78.mp3

Resources:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-pool/