Windows Azure Training

I have just attended a 2-day partner training @ Saxons training centre in Sydney.
Instructor: Ryan CrawCour - Intergen NZ
@RyanCrawCour

The course was taken from presentations and labs within the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The kit includes a lot of Labs, Presentations, Videos and Demos. It also has a dependency checker to ensure local environment has all it needs to do Azure development.

The following powerpoint presentations were shown over the two days (they were 95% the same as the ones in the training kit)

1. Windows Azure Platform
2. Windows Azure Compute
3. Windows Azure Storage
4. Intro to SQL Azure
5. Windows Azure App Fabric
6. Storage Strategies
7. High Performance Applications
8. Advanced Web and Worker Roles and the Windows Azure VM Role
9. Windows Azure connect

Links - mentioned during course

• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit

Two recommended blogs

• Steve Marx
• Wade Wegner

Azure management links

• Azure Management Portal
• Azure database management
• Developer preview of App Fabric Labs
• App Fabric Labs

Other sites/articles

• Azure tools from LOKAD
• LOKAD on codeplex
• Windows Azure Market place - DataMarket
• Windows Azure Market place - Applications
• Azure Pricing
• Differences Between the Storage Emulator and Windows Azure Storage Services
• Smarx on Channel 9
• Sync Framework - SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization
• Ground to SQL Azure migration using MS SQL Server Integration Services
• Azure tools (Not free) - Cerebrata.com
• Windows Azure Table Storage – Not Your Father’s Database
• Partitioning Scheme (Azure Table Service)
• Shared Access Signatures Are Easy These Days
• Using the New Windows Azure CDN with a Custom Domain
• Programmatically Changing the AppPool Identity in a Windows Azure Web Role
• Windows Azure Connect from scratch video
• Windows Azure Virtual Network
• Channel 9 - Cloud Cover