Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Windows Azure Application Development Sessions at TechEd North America 2013

imageFollowing is a list of 43 sessions about or related to Windows Azure at TechEd North America 2013 in chronological order. This post is based on Channel9’s initial list published 4/3/2013.

I’ll expand truncated abstracts as I have time available and add speaker names as Microsoft provides them.

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Build Your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure

imageLeverage Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks to build your SharePoint 2013 server lab in the cloud! During this hands on lab, lget a technical overview of Windows Azure virtual machines and virtual networks and then proceed to build a SharePoint 2013 cloud lab that you can leverage post-TechEd...

Lap Around Workflow Manager

Come learn about Workflow Manager! Workflow Manager provides the capability to host Microsoft .NET workflows in a high scale, highly available environment, both on-premises using Windows Server and in the cloud using Windows Azure.

Great Ways of Hosting a Web Application in Windows Azure

Windows Azure has a range of somewhat overlapping options for hosting a web application, all with different pricing models and technological backgrounds. These also vary from the possibilities available in local datacenters. During this session we clarify these options, then present a range of real-world...


June 2, 2013 (Pre-Conference)

How to Be a Successful DBA in the Changing World of Cloud and On-Premise Data with Thomas LaRock, Grant Fritchey

In the world of Hybrid IT, with data residing on premise and in the cloud, Database Administrators play an important role in application architecture and design. In this pre-conference we cover the changing DBA tasks to support on-premise and cloud-based performance tuning and monitoring, as well as...

Extending Your Apps and Infrastructure Into the Cloud with David Aiken

You’re in charge of reconciling the on-premise datacenter with the cloud and you have to execute flawlessly. What should go in the cloud? What should stay on premise? How do you decide? Once you’ve made your decision, how do you actually make it happen? After all, enterprise apps are complex and often...


Day 1, June 3, 2013

Introduction to Windows Azure Active Directory

Windows Azure Active Directory provides easy-to-use, multi-tenant identity management services for applications running in the cloud and on any device and any platform. In this session, developers, administrators, and architects take an end-to-end tour of Windows Azure Active Directory to learn about...

Maximum Performance: Accelerate Your Cloud Services Applications with Windows Azure Caching

Abstract coming soon

An Introduction to the Web Workload on Windows Azure

Building, deploying, scaling, and managing resilient web applications has never been easy—there are many moving parts, lots of infrastructure and a number of different software components. Windows Azure aims to make this just really simple, with technologies such as Windows Azure Web Sites, SQL...

Designing Cloud Architectures

Come and learn best practices and common patterns you can apply to your Windows Azure Cloud Service solutions. In this session you're introduced to practical solutions to common tasks and scenarios you may face in your projects, including dealing with long-running tasks, failovers, federated security...

Build Your First Cloud App: An Introduction to Windows Azure Cloud Services

So you're a Microsoft .NET developer who is ready to see what cloud has to offer. Come take a peek at Windows Azure Cloud Services, the fastest and most productive way to capture the benefits of cloud without leaving .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio—and without calling your IT department!

Day 2 - June 4, 2013

Developing Connected Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Service: Overview

Join us for a demo-packed session as we demonstrate how to bring your Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 apps to life with the connected power of Windows Azure Mobile Services. We look at Mobile Services end-to-end and how easy it is to add authentication, secure structured storage, send push notifications...

Microsoft Integration Strategy: On-Premises and Cloud, Today and Tomorrow

In this session, learn about the latest integration technologies from Microsoft (including BizTalk Server 2013, Windows Azure, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Azure Service Bus, etc.) Learn the core scenarios each technology targets, how they work together to address complex scenarios, and the future...

Understanding ESB in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a common architectural pattern for coordinating across multiple loosely-coupled services. Learn about the ESB capabilities in BizTalk Server 2013 and how you use them to build scalable and flexible integration solutions.

Key Ingredients for Building Hybrid (Cross-Premises) Cloud Applications

One of the key challenges for organizations wanting to move to the public cloud is determining which applications or services can be moved externally and which services are required to remain internal. The challenge frequently comes from not being able to determine how their application can leverage...

Building Media Workflows in the Cloud with Windows Azure Media Services

Come and learn how to build media workflows for encoding, encrypting, and delivering media to multiple formats and devices. Learn how to ingest content securely into the cloud using the Media Services SDK for .NET and partner applications from Aspera. Watch as the Media Services team encodes content...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure IaaS

This session looks at the architecture of three new integration infrastructure scenarios that are made possible with BizTalk Server 2013 on Windows Azure IaaS. These scenarios include: Small Scale All Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Burst, and Near-Infinite Scale All Cloud. This session walks through each...

Building Rich Media Applications with Windows Azure Media Services

In this session we introduce client ecosystem of Windows Azure Media Services. With this set of video services built on top of the Windows Azure platform, you could create and deliver rich media with a high-quality viewing experience on a global scale, to various platform and devices. We emphasize how...

Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure Workflow Roadmap

Come hear about the latest investments in Microsoft’s Workflow platform, both for Azure and Windows Server. Learn more about where we’re headed, and the new scenarios and capabilities we’ll be delivering.

Windows Azure Web Sites and On-Premises Connectivity

Windows Azure Web Sites is a great platform for hosting web applications and APIs written in Microsoft ASP.NET, Node.js, PHP, and Python. Customers who want to move into cloud technology a step at a time find great success when initiating their move to cloud by standing up their website presence using...

Getting to Know Windows Azure IaaS, Part 1 with Matt Hester

Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...

Messaging with Windows Azure Service Bus

Windows Azure Service Bus offers a rich set of messaging capabilities in the cloud as well as on-premises. This session discusses some of the advanced messaging capabilities in Service Bus. Join us to learn about publish-subscribe patterns, Using the Service Bus sessions, interoperability with AMQP,...

Design for Operations, Solution Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

Operating a cloud-based application at web scale is one of the most challenging transitions that customers and cloud service vendors have to implement when moving from on-premises to the cloud. In this sessions we describe how to orchestrate a new or existing solution, and create a Telemetry system that...

Getting to Know Windows Azure IaaS, Part 2 with Matt Hester

Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...


Day 3 - June 5, 2013

Developing Hybrid Solutions with Windows Azure Service Bus and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013

The Service Bus is part of Windows Azure and is designed to provide connectivity, queuing, and routing capabilities not only for the cloud applications but also to on-premises applications. Microsoft BizTalk Server enables organizations to connect and extend heterogeneous systems across the enterprise...

Using Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS and Android Apps

Learn how Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it quick and easy to develop scalable iOS and Android apps. We go over how you can take advantage of storing structured data in the cloud, sending APNS and GCM push notifications with a single line of code, authenticating users, and much more. We discuss...

IaaS + PaaS = < 3

This session covers the best of IaaS and PaaS, providing you with recipes for building highly scalable Microsoft .NET-connected applications on Windows Server using Cloud Services and Virtual Machines.

Getting the Most out of Windows Azure Storage

In a world increasingly dominated by mobile and cloud computing, application developers require durable, scalable, reliable, and fast storage solutions like Windows Azure Storage.  In this session, learn how to get the most out of storage, patterns and best practices for developing performant solutions...

Windows Azure Store

The Windows Azure Store allows developers who are building applications using the Windows Azure open cloud platform to easily discover, purchase, and use app services and data sets which enhance their Windows Azure development experience.

Building Elastic, Autoscalable Solutions with Windows Azure

In this session, learn how to implement true elasticity for your Windows Azure solutions. See how to automate the scaling of your Worker/Web Role instances depending on predictable usage patterns. Whether you expect high load during business hours and low load during the nights, or have different resource...

Getting to Know Windows Azure IaaS, Part 1 with Matt Hester (Repeat)

Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...

Developing Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

In this session, learn how to use Mobile Services to develop a rich, cross-platform experience through your choice of Xamarin or PhoneGap. First, see how to easily add a scalable backend hosted in Windows Azure to your Xamarin-powered applications. We start from a cross-platform, but local-only, application...

Windows Azure Internals with Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich goes under the hood of the Microsoft datacenter operating system. 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 the Windows Azure compute platform....

Getting to Know Windows Azure IaaS, Part 2 with Matt Hester (Repeat)

Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...


Day 4 - June 6, 2013

Windows Azure Web Sites: An Architecture and Technical Deep Dive

Windows Azure Web Sites is one of the largest hosted services on Windows Azure spanning over thousands of VMs. It is also one of the most used and fastest growing service on the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure Web Sites is built on top of Windows Azure and is deployed as a regular hosted service,...

Connected Clients and Continuous Services with Windows Azure Service Bus with Abhishek Lal

Applications today run on connected clients (mobile, devices) and rely on continuous services to provide rich and current content to users. Come learn about Windows Azure Service Bus that support building these applications by providing several features, from notification on mobile to connecting embedded...

Deep Dive into the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API: Data Model, Schema, Query, and More

Would you like to build applications that can potentially be used by thousands of Microsoft Cloud Customers? This session shows how to develop applications that integrate with Windows Azure Active Directory using the Graph API, a new RESTful interface for accessing directory data hosted in Windows Azure...

Securing Cloud Line-of-Business and SaaS Web Applications Using Windows Azure Active Directory

Active Directory enabled generations of developers to focus on their business applications’ features rather than worrying about identity management. Windows Azure Active Directory is Active Directory re-imagined for the cloud, designed to solve for you the new identity and access challenges that...

Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Services and Windows Azure Websites

Windows Azure Websites and Team Foundation Services are a match made in heaven. In this demo-heavy session, learn how to connect your Azure Website with Team Foundation Services and setup continuous integration. Rainer Stropek, Azure MVP, shows how you customize your build process in the cloud. Get practical...

Designing and Building Disaster Recovery Enabled Solutions in Windows Azure

One of the biggest problems we have in an application and its data is the fact that we need it to be able to survive a disaster of any kind, from a Natural Disaster to a Vendor Disaster. In the cloud this is even more important because we need to understand how to prepare ourselves for that, since in...

Building Private Clouds Using Windows Azure Services for Windows Server

Abstract coming soon.

Take Control of the Cloud with the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets

In this session, learn how to tame the simplest to most advanced Windows Azure deployments with the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets. Automate repetitive tasks and learn how build advanced reproducible deployments so you can save time and money while working in the cloud. The presenter covers dev-ops...

Patterns and Practices for Running Large Multi-Tenant SaaS Service on Windows Azure

Ever wonder how some applications are built, or how to combine some components of the Windows Azure platform? Stop wondering and learn how we’ve built MyGet.org, a multi-tenant software-as-a-service. In this session we discuss architecture, commands, events, access control, multi-tenancy and how to mix...


 

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