OakLeaf Systems: Windows Azure Breakout Sessions and Hands-On Labs at TechEd North America and Europe 2012

Friday, April 20, 2012

Windows Azure Breakout Sessions and Hands-On Labs at TechEd North America and Europe 2012

Contents:

Breakout Sessions
Hands-On Labs
Learning Center Demos
Pre-Conference Session (TechEd Europe only)

Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 (@TechEd_NA) will feature 21 Windows Azure and SQL Azure related breakout sessions, 15 hands-on labs and 2 Learning Center sessions as of 4/20/2012. Following is a list of these sessions and labs as of that date.

The 14 breakout and pre-conference sessions included in TechEd Europe 2012 (@teched_europe) are marked •.

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Breakout Sessions

DEV306: Developing on Windows Azure: Cloud-Enable Your Microsoft ASP.NET Applications

Speaker(s): Sayed Hashimi
Monday, June 11 at 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Cloud enabling your ASP.NET applications is more than simply hosting your app on Azure. Azure provides many services that applications can leverage to ensure they can scale with the demands of your customers. This session discusses how you can develop ASP.NET applications for the cloud and recent changes in Azure that make developing for the cloud easier and better than ever. And finally, learn what you need to know in order to publish your ASP.NET application to Azure. We walk you through services such as BLOB (binary large object) storage, SQL Azure, Service Bus, Caching, and more.

Speaker(s): Paul Yuknewicz
Tuesday, June 12 at 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Now that you’ve published your cloud app, your delivery process should be automated and hands free. In this session, learn how to automate the build, packaging and deployment process from pure script and optionally, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS). We cover creating the cloud app package using built-in MSBuild arguments. We then push the package to Windows Azure using a fully customizable PowerShell script. Last, we show how to bring this process together using Team Build in TFS with Azure, so that every check-in can result in a continuous improvement running in Windows Azure.

Speaker(s): Wenming Ye
Tuesday, June 12 at 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Web 2.0 companies have been fully taking advantage of Hadoop based open source tools to tackle Big Data needs. Microsoft now offers the best of both worlds with its own Hadoop solution on Windows Azure with full compatibility and additional rich toolsets. This session is a "getting-started" tutorial on developing Big Data applications on Windows Azure. We cover application scenarios, Hadoop on Azure, tools, and applied data analytics. More importantly, we show you how to put everything together with a couple of sample applications.

Speaker(s): Nathan Totten
Tuesday, June 12 at 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Windows Azure isn't just for Microsoft .NET developers. Come learn about the investments Microsoft has made that make Node.js a first-class citizen on Windows Azure. We have opened up the Windows Azure platform to allow developers to build their applications using their favorite languages and preferred tools. Whether you are using Mac OS, Windows, TFS, or Git, learn how Windows Azure is the best environment for building great Node.js applications. We cover the basics such as deploying to Windows Azure, to the more advanced such as scaling your Node.js application to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. Regardless of the app you are building you will learn how to make it great with Windows Azure and Node.js.

Speaker(s): Jai Haridas
Tuesday, June 12 at 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Most applications need to store files, content, and data in unstructured and semi-structured storage along with the relational data you would store in a database such as Microsoft SQL Azure. Windows Azure Storage provides a highly resilient and scalable storage service along with other capabilities like content delivery/distribution and content upload capabilities. In this session we cover what the capabilities are, when and how you should use these capabilities in your applications, and what tools and techniques you should use to manage your content. Finally, we take a look at new capabilities that will be delivered in upcoming releases of Windows Azure.

• AZR308: Overview and Roadmap of Windows Azure Service Bus

Speaker(s): Clemens Vasters
Tuesday, June 12 at 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the Windows Azure Service Bus and the current and upcoming capabilities including EAI and B2B/EDI capabilities that are being added. Learn what the capabilities are, how they work, how you use them, and what scenarios and problems they are useful for. This session is for attendees who are new to Service Bus.

Speaker(s): John Craddock
Tuesday, June 12 at 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

As an IT Pro, Cloud Computing in general, is a great opportunity to do more strategic things in your job. To be strategic, you need to know what Windows Azure is and you need to know about your new role in the application lifecyle. At the same time, there are new skills to learn, new technologies and new approaches to building, deployment and maintaining applications. In this session we cover all of these things, show you how to perform some ITPro tasks, and really focus in specifically on those area that you need to master.

Speaker(s): Steve Fox
Wednesday, June 13 at 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Office, Office 365 & SharePoint | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

In a world where SharePoint is a dominant collaboration platform, a common question is how do Windows Azure and SharePoint play together? You’d be surprised at the number of ways in which you can tie these two technologies together. And in this demo-heavy session, learn how you can integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure through Azure Connect, streaming cloud-based media, developing and deploying code to Windows Azure, and leveraging relational data from Microsoft SQL Azure. If you’d like to understand the different paths to integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure, then you can’t miss this session!

Speaker(s): Cihan Biyikoglu
Wednesday, June 13 at 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Database & Business Intelligence | Breakout Session | 400 - Expert

In 2011, we introduced SQL Azure Federations to enable building application-aware scale-out solutions. In order to build applications that can deal with aspects such as analyzing data across federation members, dealing with hierarchical, multi-key partitioning schemes etc. we need to provide best practices and examples, since the platform does not yet provide built-in support. This presentation shows you how to build such functionality, like a Map-Reduce process over SQL Azure federations, using HierarchyID to provide hierarchical sharding keys, etc.

Speaker(s): Yousef Khalidi
Wednesday, June 13 at 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 200 - Intermediate

This talk discusses the cloud impact on business continuity. In this session, learn about the platform services you can leverage to make your application resilient to major failures. We discuss ways you can architect your application for high availability. We also show how you can use Windows Azure for backup and disaster recovery for your on-premises applications. The presentation also describes how we protect the Windows Azure platform itself from major disasters.

Speaker(s): Maarten Goet
Wednesday, June 13 at 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Management | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

The applications to empower our businesses are what we should focus on. We should choose the platform to host the application that best meets the needs, whether it's a public cloud (Windows Azure) or a private cloud (Hyper-V). In this session Maarten Goet, five-year Microsoft System Center MVP, shows how System Center can help you make those choices and provides integrated management for all cloud worlds. He demonstrates Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and System Center App Controller 2012 with Azure and provides you with a practical approach to embracing the right cloud for your application.

Speaker(s): Peter Puszkiewicz, Roger Mall
Wednesday, June 13 at 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Database & Business Intelligence | Breakout Session | 200 - Intermediate

The Data Market on the Windows Azure Marketplace is a global online marketplace for premium datasets, Data Quality Service (DQS) providers, and Data Services. The Azure DataMarket is now available with commerce support in 26 countries and transacts in 17 currencies. In this session we provide an overview of the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket, and share real examples of how users are leveraging Azure DataMarket to monetize and/or consume data and data services. We discuss the business and pricing model supported by the Azure DataMarket, as well as future directions.

Speaker(s): Mark Russinovich
Wednesday, June 13 at 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Mark Russinovich goes under the hood of Microsoft’s cloud OS, Windows Azure. Intended for developers who have already gotten their hands dirty with Windows Azure and understand its basic concepts, this session gives an inside look at the architectural design of Windows Azure’s compute platform. Learn about Microsoft’s data center architecture, what goes on behind the scenes when you deploy and update a Windows Azure app, and how it monitors and responds to the health of machines, its own components and the apps it hosts. Mark also highlights recent enhancements and how the platform implements some of the latest features.

Speaker(s): Yousef Khalidi
Wednesday, June 13 at 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 200 - Intermediate

What are the scenarios and the options when you need to connect on-premise applications, data, and infrastructure with Windows Azure. How can you treat Windows Azure as an extension of your data center and how should you think about applications themselves that have multiple components spanning these worlds. Yousef Khalidi, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, walks you through the options and gives you the information you need to create a hybrid strategy for your company.

Speaker(s): Clemens Vasters
Thursday, June 14 at 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Windows Azure Service Bus is an application communication and messaging platform that enables integration and orchestration of continuous services and connected devices across boundaries. Core Scenarios enabled with Service Bus include building hybrid applications, intra-app communication, message enrichment, transformation and rich connected client experiences, and broad reach from platforms. In this session, see how to implement common integration patterns using Service Bus capabilities including new capabilities that are being delivered in the coming months.

Speaker(s): Paul Yuknewicz
Thursday, June 14 at 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Windows Azure and Microsoft Visual Studio enable you to build the most demanding cloud applications. This session focuses on the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio for constructing, debugging, deploying, and diagnosing cloud apps. We take a deep dive into constructing multi-tier cloud projects and making the most of the local emulator to test and debug. Then we show how it is easier than ever to connect your environment to Windows Azure and publish, leveraging in-place deployment upgrades, configuring multiple profiles for each target deployment environment, and tips and tricks for diagnostics like enabling Remote Desktop. Last, we show how to use Visual Studio to diagnose and fix real issues in the cloud, whether that is runtime errors or performance hot spots. Learn how to make the most of the productivity enhancements direct from the Azure tools team.

Speaker(s): Steve Marx
Thursday, June 14 at 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

This session covers some of the technical aspects of developing and running software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions on Windows Azure, with an emphasis on architecture and implementation. Specific topics include identity, multi-tenancy, and billing.

Speaker(s): Wade Wegner
Thursday, June 14 at 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

So, you're building apps that span multiple devices and you're curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable web apps and services on Windows Azure? How about storing data in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? In this session, learn how to build Windows Phone, Android and even iOS apps that are backed by scalable cloud services with the Windows Azure platform.

Speaker(s): Wenming Ye
Thursday, June 14 at 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Windows Azure is an ideal environment for deploying existing, and new compute-intensive apps that take advantage of the scale-on-demand capability of the cloud. The Windows Azure HPC Job Scheduler provides a cluster resource manager and a set of runtimes for developing parallel and scale-out apps. This session presents how to create and deploy a High Performance Compute Cluster on Azure, and converting HPC applications in media rendering, engineering, finance, weather forecast to scalable compute services on Windows Azure. Programming models include parallel apps using MPI, scale-out parameter sweep, and other reliable techniques.

Speaker(s): Javed Sikander
Thursday, June 14 at 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 200 - Intermediate

Enterprise Application Integration or EAI solutions bridge systems with disparate data formats and communication protocols. Solutions increasingly need to connect on-premise systems with applications and infrastructure in the Cloud. What investments is Microsoft making in this space, both to on-premise servers such as Microsoft BizTalk Server as well as investments in cloud-based technologies and where is this all headed? Come to this session to find out. We demonstrate working capabilities on Windows Azure that will significantly lower the developement effort required to build EAI as well as B2B solutions using standards such as EDI. We also demonstrate how you can even run BizTalk Server on Windows Azure itself.

Speaker(s): Rama Ramani, Zoiner Tejada
Thursday, June 14 at 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

In this session we share some of the key learnings from running OSS software (Drupal, Ruby) on Windows Azure through real-life customer projects. We discuss the use case, the candidate architecture patterns, and showcase their implementation on Windows Azure. Relevant tips and tricks to manage and monitor applications along with the set of best practices are provided. Demos include load testing and performance analysis. This talk is based on real-life customer projects that were executed by Microsoft.

Speaker(s): Avkash Chauhan, Eric Mattingly
Thursday, June 14 at 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

Are you working with customers ready to deploy enterprise Windows Azure applications? Microsoft IT is running a revenue-impacting Windows Azure application and the team has gained valuable insights into what it takes to support it. Together with Customer Service & Support (CSS), MSIT goes deep in this session on the challenges of supporting a Windows Azure enterprise application and how they can be managed. Specific topics include: designing supportability from the start, troubleshooting issues, and recognizing application versus platform issues.

Speaker(s): Rainer Stropek
Thursday, June 14 at 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Windows Azure | Breakout Session | 300 - Advanced

If you have built or are building a commercial SaaS application on Windows Azure then you also need to understand the operations side of this picture. It's not all plain sailing and your ITPros are a vital link to making sure that the applications you build can be operated at scale and that you can meet the SLA needs of your tenants in a reliable and cost effective way. Rainer Stropek, MVP for Windows Azure, has been running SaaS applications and he presents his perspective on the key decisions you need to make, how to optimize for cost, resilience and tenant isolation/management. Rainer shows you what tools and best practices you need to employ and he proves that the ITPro is your new strategic weapon.

WSV44-HOL: Online Backup Service for Windows Server

Windows Server | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate

Come learn how to use Windows Server Backup to backup your critical data to Windows Azure. This lab teaches you the entire set of workflows around backing up and recovering your data to Azure.

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR54-HOL: Getting Started with Windows Azure and Mobile Applications

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR73-HOL: Windows Azure Traffic Manager

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR71-HOL: Advanced Web and Worker Role Management

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR41-HOL: Introduction to the Access Control Service

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR52-HOL: Building Windows Azure Applications with Caching Service

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR55-HOL: Deploying Applications in Windows Azure

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR21-HOL: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR22-HOL: Exploring Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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AZR11-HOL: Introduction to Windows Azure

Windows Azure | Hands-on Lab | 200 - Intermediate
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Learning Center Demo Stations

AZR01-TLC: Windows Azure for ISV's

Windows Azure | TLC Demo Station | 200 - Intermediate

For ISV's, Windows Azure is a compelling platform to deliver your software as a service but how to you do it, what ar ethe technical barriers, how should you think about tenancy and architecture on Windows Azure. This is the station to have these technical discussions.
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Speaker(s): Fabian Williams
Windows Azure | TLC Demo Station | 200 - Intermediate

How do you extend your on-premise world to the cloud, how do you use the Cloud strategically but safely. How do you manage applications across public and private clouds. Get the answers here.
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Pre-Conference Session (TechEd Europe only)

• Real-World Cloud Computing on Windows Azure

PRC10, a Pre-Conference Seminar in Windows Azure
Danny Garber,
Dennis Mulder,
Mark Nichols,
Matt Long,
Paul Stubbs,
N Schnettler and
Steve Fox

in the Emerald Room on Mon, Jun 25 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. But taking advantage of this shift requires understanding this new approach and how to exploit it. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, which can be applied in many different ways to build next generation cloud-based solutions. This seminar drives beyond the basic platform guidance to discuss key design and development principles, lessons, and patterns that apply to building real-world cloud solutions. If you’ve started (or are about to start) your cloud development with Windows Azure, then you can’t miss this all-day, fast-paced seminar.

Prerequisite: To optimize your time in this seminar, ensure you are familiar with the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit, which can be found here. (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8396)