What you shouldn't have missed in the last few weeks

In September, Microsoft did so many announcements it’s difficult to keep tracks of all. This short post he just to list the most important and to give you the opportunity to watch them again or the first time.

AzureCon 2015

The AzureCon was a virtual event on September 29 that was focusing on Microsoft Azure. Many View Party around the global was watching this even rich in announcements. You can watch here the AzureCon keynotes online.
But AzureCon was not only keynotes, it was more than 50 technical sessions covering every Azure’s feature. Get the the full list on Channel9 here.

Windows 10 Devices

At the beginning of October the Windows 10 Devices was a really amazing event. Microsoft was showing us all is new devices, and they were a lot! Don’t trust me, go see by yourself on this blog post by Terry Myerson.

 

What’s new

Get Started and deploy your first cloud solution in under 5 minutes. Find tons of short videos online that teach you how to quicky enjoy the power of Azure.



~Frank

Reading Notes #205

Cloud

• Introduction to Azure Search (Gunnar Peipman) - This post clarifies things about what Azure Search is and what is not.
  
• New capabilities for Logic Apps in Azure portal - Great new features that will facilitate the edition.
  
• Why the Azure Cloud? (Nicole Herskowitz) - Wonderful post that explains all the news announced in AzureCon, but with very simple words.
  
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn't need 64-bit (Scott Hanselman) - The devil is in the details, well this post explains one of them.
  
• Azure Redis Cache: Public preview of premium tier (Pranav Rastogi) - This is really a good summary about Redis cache; road map, documentation, etc.
  
• Getting started with Azure Data Factory and Azure Machine Learning (Wee Hyong Tok) - It really the post to get started with Azure Data factory.
  
• Automating Azure Resource Group deployment using a Service Principal in Visual Studio Online: Build/Release Management (Roopesh Nair) - Great tutorial that step by step explains how to setup a continous deployment in Azure.

Programming

• Case Study: Adding Application Insights to a website (Beckylin Orooji) - Really interesting post that explains all the steps done by Glimpse's team to optimize their website.

Miscellaneous

• Savoir-faire Linux and Microsoft Canada announce a close partnership in the open source field - That an impressive news, a Linux open source shop partner with Microsoft... I like it.
  
• Presentation Tips – It’s all about timing (marc) - Interesting post that gives essential tips to prepare our next presentation.

~Frank

Reading Notes #204

Suggestion of the week

• AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center - This post summarizes all the AzureCon announcements. If you have more time, I suggest you to watch the keynotes.

Cloud

• View and analyze Azure Audit Logs in Power BI and more (Ashwin Kamath) - This post explains witch to use to get the maximum of our logs.

• Meet the new OneDrive for Business - Good post that explains all the advantages of the new OneDrive for business.

• Download Microsoft AzureCon Sept. 2015 Sessions Using PowerShell - The perfect script for all of us that want to see everything from AzureCon.

• How To Resize an AWS Volume Using The AWS Console or PowerShell (John Grover) - Great tutorial that explain how to get our self out of a difficult situation when things didn't go as planned.

• Introduction to Azure Search - | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog - This post clarifies things about what Azure Search is and what is not.

Programming

• 31 Days of Visual Studio 2015 Tricks and Treats (Steve Smith) - Very promising and interesting series, more to come...

• Kanban Updates, new Branch Policies, and more... – Sep 18 - All the details about the last VSO features release.

Databastes

• Create and Edit DocumentDB Server Side Scripts in the Azure Preview Portal (Stephen Baron) - Great tutorial that shows how to use that new functions of DocumentDB.

Miscellaneous

• Going Back to One (Alexandre Brisebois) - Organize our work to become a performer, could be easily done in Windows 10.

• Introducing Digital Triage - Interesting thoughts about how we should structure our resources to triage the priorities.

• Static Site or CMS? - (Brian Rinaldi) - Nice post that gives insights to answer one of the most frequent questions when people start a blog/website.

What is an AzureCon View Party?

First what is AzureCon?

In less than a week Microsoft is doing a great event called AzureCon. This event is a virtual conference that will focus on Microsoft Azure. It is a virtual event because it's happening online. Even more, it will be available to watch it live for free! The lineup as been published and four great speaker will share with us the latest news about Azure.

What is a View Party?

A View Party is the chance to watch live the same content of all other, but in a group. It's an opportunity to ask your question while it's happening and gets answers from the MVPs or other viewers.

Where are those View Party?

By the time I'm writing this post, I don't know all of them, but please sharing is good, so if you know a view party is happening in your area share the info using the comment session. You could also send me an e-mail, and I will update this post. I will be at Ottawa, looking forward to meeting you there!

• Montreal
  MsDevMtl Community
  2000 McGill College, 5e étage, Montréal, QC, Montréal, QC
  Meetup
  
• Ottawa
  Ottawa IT Community
  100 Queen Street, Suite 500 , Ottawa, ON
  Meetup