It’s Really Awesome to Help Microsoft on the #MSTechSummit in Amsterdam for the community doing Q&A on the Microsoft Experts Center Booth and talking with customers on real scenarios about moving to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Questions like What are the best practices, and what can I do with Microsoft Azure Stack in my own datacenter. Where can I get more information ? Solving problems for the customer by giving them directions where they can find the solution. Supporting customers with the On-Demand LABS and answering the questions they have, It’s just Great to be a Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management and support the Community in this way on the Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 in Amsterdam 🙂
Here you see some impressions of the two days Event :
The Entrance in Amsterdam RAI on the Day before the Event
Getting registered as a Speaker on the Day before the MSTechSummit begins.
The Azure Keynote with Tad Brockway
Impressive Virtual Machine on Azure Cloud Services
Supporting the Community on the Experts Booth doing Q&A
And of course you can meet Great Microsoft employees from Redmond 🙂
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The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more detail on assets that reside within their current environment. MAP also provides server utilization data for Hyper-V server virtualization planning; identifying server placements, and performing virtualization candidate assessments. More information about MAP Toolkit can you find here
Software Requirements:
Operating system. Any of the following:
Windows 10 (Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions only)
Windows 8.1 (Professional and Enterprise editions only)
Windows 8 (Professional and Enterprise editions only)
Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only)
Installation of all updates for the operating system. Note: In some cases updates may not install automatically. To download updates for your computer manually, go to http://update.microsoft.com/.
By default, the MAP Toolkit will install SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB during setup. You may also use an existing installation of SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server 2012 if you create an instance named “MAPS” before running the MAP Toolkit installer. The MAP Toolkit requires the collation order of the database engine to be set to “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”.
Notes:
Some of these prerequisites require restarting your computer. You may have to restart multiple times if all the prerequisites are not met prior to running Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit setup.
Scenario-dependent requirements:
For machines that will be used to run the Forefront Endpoint Protection Usage Tracking, Lync Usage Tracking, Exchange Server Usage Tracking, or Volume Licensing scenarios, please note: PowerShell 2.0 or higher must be installed.
For machines that will be used to collect Oracle schema information, please note: The 64 bit Oracle client must be installed on the MAP machine to collect the schema information. If the 64 bit client is not installed, MAP will only be able to collect instance information. MAP will not collect schema information if the 32 bit Oracle client is installed.
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Sizing Example in Excel
Identity management, provisioning, role management, and authentication are key services both on-premises and through the (hybrid) cloud. With:
The Bring Your Own Apps (BYOA) for the cloud and the Software as a Service (SaaS) applications,
The desire to better collaborate a la Facebook with the “social” enterprise,
The need to support and integrate with social networks, which lead to a Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI) trend,
Identity becomes a service where identity “bridges” in the cloud talk to on-premises directories or the directories themselves move and/or are located in the cloud.
Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity related capabilities. Within on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). Azure AD is AD reimagined for the cloud, designed to help you solving the new identity and access challenges that come with the shift to a cloud-centric, multi-tenant world.
Azure AD is the identity foundation for many Microsoft services like Office 365, Intune, Dynamics CRM, and others. Azure AD is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution, utilizing the enterprise-grade quality and proven capabilities of Windows AD on-premises. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security and application access management.
This series of whitepapers on Windows Azure AD offerings comprises:
Active Directory from the on-premises to the cloud.
An overview of Azure AD.
An overview of Azure AD B2C.
Introducing Azure AD B2B collaboration.
Azure AD & Windows 10: Better together for Work or School.
Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with AD FS in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with Shibboleth 2.
Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication with Azure AD.
Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication Server on your premises.
Leverage Azure AD for modern Business Applications.
The Active Directory from the on-premises to the cloud whitepaper (AD-from-on-premises-to-the-cloud.docx) introduces the trends that sustains a new identity model, the role of Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) and presents in this context the Microsoft’s identity offerings in the hybrid era.
The An overview of Azure AD whitepaper (An-overview-of-AAD.docx) further presents the capabilities that can be leveraged to centralize the identity management needs of your modern business applications, and your SaaS subscriptions, whether they are cloud-based, hybrid, or even on-premises. The free edition of Azure AD is a complete offering that can help you take advantage of your on-premises existing investment, fully outsource to the cloud your users (and devices) management and anything in between. For enterprises with more demanding needs an advanced offering, Azure AD Basic and Azure AD Premium help complete the set of capabilities that this identity and access management solution delivers.
In addition, the An overview of Azure AD B2C whitepaper (An-overview-of-AAD-B2C.docx) presents the new service for Business-to-Consumer: Azure AD B2C to embrace identity management (IDM) of individual consumers.
Similarly, the Introducing Azure AD B2B collaboration whitepaper (Introduce-AAD-B2B-collaboration.docx) presents the new feature Azure AD B2B collaboration that can be used with on the above editions to embrace identity management (IDM) of partner and supply chains, and manage Business-to-Business collaboration.
The Azure AD & Windows 10: Better together for Work or School whitepaper (Azure-AD-Windows-10-better-together.docx) introduces how Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 Education editions will enable a device to connect to your Azure AD tenancy to seamlessly access SaaS applications in the cloud and traditional applications on-premises, and all of that without needing the traditional WSAD domains on-premises if you want to. It depicts the related experiences whether you are cloud-only, hybrid or have an on-premises AD infrastructure as well as how to enable them.
The Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with AD FS in Windows Server 2012 R2 whitepaper in two parts (AAD-Office-365-Single-Sign-On-with-ADFS-in-Windows-Server-2012-R2-Part-1.docx, and AAD-Office-365-Single-Sign-On-with-ADFS-in-Windows-Server-2012-R2-Part-2.docx/AAD-Office-365-Single-Sign-On-with-ADFS-in-Windows-Server-2012-R2-Part-2bis.docx) provides an understanding of the different single sign-on deployment options with Azure AD/Office 365, how to enable single sign-on using corporate AD credentials and AD FS to Azure AD/Office 365, and the different configuration elements to be aware of for such deployment. It also provides an end-to-end walkthrough to setup an Azure-based lab environment to further familiarize yourself with both the installation and configuration of the related infrastructure. It notably features in this context Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Health now in GA.
The AAD-Office-365-Single-Sign-On-with-ADFS-in-Windows-Server-2012-R2-(PS-Scripts) archive file contains the script New-TestLabEnvironment.ps1 referred in the whitepaper for building the Azure-based lab environment. This script illustrates how to leverage the remote Windows PowerShell capabilities along with the Windows Server automation with Windows PowerShell to setup the required virtual machines.
Likewise, the Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with Shibboleth 2 whitepaper (AAD-Office-365-Single-Sign-On-with-Shibboleth-2.docx) provides an understanding of how to enable single sign-on using corporate LDAP-based directory credentials and Shibboleth 2 with the SAML 2.0 protocol to Azure AD/Office 365, and the different configuration elements to be aware of for such deployment. It also provides an end-to-end walkthrough of the related setup and configuration.
The Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication with Azure AD whitepaper (Leverage-Multi-Factor-Authentication-with-AAD.docx) covers the Azure Multi-Factor Authentication paid offering and how to leverage it with Azure AD (Premium).
As an addition, the Leverage Multi-Factor Authentication Server on your premises whitepaper (Leverage-Multi-Factor-Authentication-Server-on-your-premises.docx) describes how to use Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server and to configure it to secure cloud resources such as Office 365 so that so that federated users will be prompted to set up additional verification the next time they sign in on-premises. In order not to “reinvent the wheels”, this document leverages the instrumented walkthrough provided in the second part of the above whitepaper Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with AD FS in Windows Server 2012.
The Leverage Azure AD for modern Business Applications whitepaper (Leverage-AAD-for-modern-business-apps.docx) further presents the aspects that relates to the development of solutions. Azure AD offers to developers and cloud ISVs an identity management platform to deliver access control to their modern business applications, based on centralized policy and rules.
Join Microsoft for a free two-day technical training event for IT professionals and developers that provides best practices and insight directly from the experts who build and run the cloud services across Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Windows 10 and more. Whether you know your way around the cloud or are just getting started, you’ll learn something new and walk away ready to apply your new skills.
Use Uservoicefor getting features into Microsoft Productsand give the Developer Teams your feedback.
It’s based on a voting system, the feature or special feedback with the most votes from users around the world will be picked out by the product team 🙂
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This session introduces the concept of user defined routes and IP Forwarding and illustrates how this can used to build sophisticated scenarios involving network virtual appliances. There will also be a code walkthrough of the template used to set up the scenario end to end in Azure Resource Manager.
Learn the core concepts of containers on Azure. Find out what containers are and what Docker is. We’ll look at both Linux containers and Windows Server containers (including Hyper-V containers). Finally, we’ll take a brief look at Azure Container Service.
Learn how Microsoft Azure IoT Suite lets you capture and analyze untapped device data to improve results across your business. Built on the flexible and innovative Azure cloud platform, Azure IoT Suite integrates with your company’s existing processes, devices, and systems to let you make the best use of existing and new data sources. With these preconfigured solutions, you can quickly and confidently get started with a solution that’s tailored to your business needs, then scale IoT projects across your company.
Join this session to find out about the networking features that let you build large multi-tier applications in Azure. We’ll walk you through setting up virtual networks, securing them with network security groups, setting up application gateways for front-end connectivity, and setting up VPN gateways for cross-premises connectivity.
GPUs are coming to Azure. This session will be the public announcement that Azure is working hard to bring these to market in the form of a Private Preview with a target of December 2015. Through our partnership with NVidia, we will be offering state-of-the-art GPU Visualization Infrastructure and GPU Compute Infrastructure. Join this session to learn about the technology, see demos, and hear customer stories.
In this session, we will introduce a new Azure service that helps you prevent, detect and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources and advanced analytics to identify attacks that might otherwise go undetected. Stay ahead of current and emerging threats with cloud security policies that enable you to recommend and monitor security configurations, easy deployment of integrated Microsoft and partner security solutions, and real-time security alerts that enable you to respond and recover from security incidents more quickly.
In this session you’ll learn the core concepts of Docker on Azure with initial focus on development through production workflows that are portable from the desktop to the cloud. Take a look at the forthcoming Azure Container Service with Mesos, focusing on how it simplifies the creation and management of Azure environments for these workflows.
Azure IoT Hub is a scalable, multi-tenant cloud platform (IoT PaaS) that includes an IoT device registry, data storage, and security. It also provides a service interface to support IoT application development. Learn how Azure IoT Suite helps you securely connect millions of Linux, iOS, Android, Windows, and real-time operating system (RTOS) devices to reliably send telemetry and receive commands from your application back-end in the cloud.
Learn about Azure Files Storage, including the new SMB 3.0-based capabilities that are now available at GA. The session includes a review of Files Storage scenarios and an introduction to exciting new
Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 is a premium alternative to the public Internet for connecting your users to Office 365 servers. If you want premium networking or see network connectivity as a competitive advantage, join this session and learn how ExpressRoute provides data privacy, predictable performance, and guaranteed availability for network connectivity to Office 365. You will also discover common usage scenarios for ExpressRoute with Office 365 and learn how to get started.
Optimized content delivery is key to a stable and reliable user experience for modern solutions that are delivered over the Internet. Join this session and learn about our expanded partnership announcements, discover the latest offer tiers, and discuss the value of multi Content Delivery Network scenarios for large deployments.
One of the challenges to developing an IoT solution is getting devices connected to the cloud. Join this session, to learn how Microsoft is helping our partners and customers to accelerate time-to-deployment through client offerings that connect to both Azure IoT Suite and Azure IoT Hub.
One in 4 virtual machines in Azure run on Linux, and that means several customers are already running enterprise-grade Linux solutions on Azure. In this session, you’ll see a demonstration of the key features you use and need, like Azure Resource Manager and Linux virtual machine extensions, and best practices for running Linux and open-source software solutions based on several customer deployments.
Azure Content Delivery Network Premium provides a rich set of advanced features for controlling and monitoring your content. In this session, learn how to use custom controls, monitoring, and analytics features in Azure Content Delivery Network Premium.
This session is about migrating an existing Azure Cloud Services based application to Azure Service Fabric. We will begin with a quick discussion on different motivations for such a migration. The rest of the talk will be focused on walking through the migrated application code and discussing the available design choices.
Cortana Analytics Suite is the fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that enables you to transform your data into intelligent action. Join this session and learn about the suite, see end-to-end scenario demos, and hear customer success stories.
Azure App Service combines three formerly separate development platforms—Azure Websites, Mobile Services, and BizTalk Services, into one simplified application development and delivery platform.
Azure offers a variety of data services for relational, schema-free NoSQL and streaming for your applications. In this session you will learn how to combine Azure SQL Database, DocumentDB, Storm, and Search to ingest, process, and store documents, social data, and structured transaction data to build application with different data needs.
Running enterprise applications requires significant hardware from your datacenter. Can a cloud provider support these critical applications? Can the cloud offer the connectivity that is needed for th
Azure Premium Storage now supports the most powerful Azure virtual machine size, the GS-series. In this session, you will learn about the capabilities of the GS-Series virtual machine with Azure Premium Storage. We will demonstrate the GS-Series virtual machine performance by running a benchmarking tool, and will also demonstrate the performance of SQL Server running on a GS-Series virtual machine.
So, you’ve heard the news, containers are a big thing. But what’s all the fuss about really? In this session you’ll get a quick overview of containers and learn why you should care about them. Learn when to use containers and when to use full virtualization, and then see them in action on Azure.
Machine Learning (ML) has proven to be quite effective in a variety of application domains, including speech recognition, object recognition, image retrieval etc. In each of these aforementioned application domains, ML based “programs” must adapt to changing conditions, handle large data sets often with irregularities, and come up with algorithms with little / incomplete knowledge. Sounds similar to software development? Turns out that ML is being applied to the field of software development including reverse engineering legacy code, software fault detection, and requirement analysis. In this session we will look at various examples of Azure ML being applied to software development.
In this session, learn how to use disk encryption management for IaaS virtual machines and Azure Key Vault to help protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. Key Vault lets you store and control the keys and secrets that you use in your cloud application. Backed by FIPS 140-2 validated HSMs, it helps you reduce risks to your most important assets and achieve your compliance objectives, while balancing those needs with the scalability, availability, and agility benefits of the cloud. The Azure disk encryption solution lets you encrypt your IaaS virtual machine disks, including boot and data disks. The solution is integrated with Key Vault to help you control and manage the disk encryption keys in your Key Vault subscription, while ensuring that all data in the virtual machine disks are encrypted at rest in your Azure storage.
From live streaming large scale sporting events such as Formula One car racing, Premier League soccer, and the Super Bowl, to the wide distribution of Hollywood and Bollywood premium movie and television content, customers are using Azure to power their most exciting and lucrative entertainment services. Come hear how companies—from broadcasters and network operators to today’s next generation of Internet companies—are increasingly using Azure Media Services for their web and mobile video applications.
Your employees need mobile apps to work wherever they are, whether they have connectivity or not. Azure App Service offers cross-platform data sync capability that enables apps to work offline and sync with variety of databases and enterprise data sources, in the cloud and on-premises. In this talk we distill several common patterns for offline data sync used by real-life App Service customers dealing with various data models, network configurations, conflict handling, and more.
Employee apps need enterprise single-sign on, push notifications, and access to existing enterprise systems on premises. Learn how to use built-in capabilities in Azure App Service to quickly build and host a .NET Web API in the cloud and connect it to your mobile app. You will also learn how to enable your app users work with data offline, sync with the backend, and deal with conflict resolutions using Azure App Service. Xamarin allows you to build apps in C# cross platform, preserving the native experience. See a live demonstration of Azure App Service and Xamarin together making it faster and easier than ever to build cross-platform, occasionally-connected, enterprise mobile apps.
With modern development, more than ever both applications and environments require frequent changes. But, obtaining and modifying dev and test environments often involves significant effort and long delays. In this session we will discuss how to use Azure DevTest Lab to create and manage environments. Learn how to create a lab, share reusable templates and artifacts to quickly compose environments, set quotas and policies to optimize costs, and integrate with your existing toolchains for continuous delivery.
The scale, speed, and enterprise-readiness of Azure SQL Data Warehouse address concerns about migrating large workloads to Azure. This session gives you the strategies you need to migrate enterprise,
Azure Service Fabric, announced at Build this year, is a state-of-the-art distributed system that allows developers to easily build and manage Internet scale services. It is used to build services such as Azure DB, Azure Document DB, Bing Cortana, Windows Intune, and core Azure services. Join this session and get an introduction to the types of problems you can solve with Service Fabric and why you should consider Service Fabric when designing a service in Azure, and see demos on building services using Visual Studio. You will also understand the microservices approach to application development where every part of the application is deployed as a self-contained component that can be individually scaled and updated, providing development agility.
Modernization of on-premises infrastructure, hybrid approaches, and new models for application delivery all make it possible for IT to help drive business value and transformation. Learn how, with the recently announced Microsoft Azure Stack, to bring the innovation from Microsoft’s hyper-scale datacenters into yours, enabling agility and productivity for application owners, with flexibility and control for IT.
Azure SQL Database is a robust relational database platform for developing, deploying, and managing the data tier in a wide range of cloud-based applications. In this session, you’ll learn how to increase the performance and scale of SQL Database according to your business needs.
The rapid growth of mobile devices combined with ubiquitous access to cloud services is changing the way people use devices to get work done. In this session, learn how to deliver enterprise mobility with consistent experiences that enable users to work on the devices they choose, while providing a unified infrastructure for managing applications and protecting corporate data.
Azure Web Apps provides a great way of building and scale Web Apps. Adding a Redis Cache allows you serve data much faster to the user which increases the performance a lot. Redis Cache is an open source engine which has consistent low latency and high throughput. This session will demonstrate how you can integrate Redis Cache into a Web App and scale your workload to server data faster.
There’s a never-ending stream of cloud innovation that developers must know about, but at the same time there’s confusion about all of the different ways to build apps for the cloud. It’s not easy to put all of these pieces together and see the big picture. When do you use PaaS versus IaaS? How should you handle all of the data associated with your apps? Should you consider a microservices architecture or stick with something more traditional? Well, this session will help you make sense of Azure without drilling into any specific service. Gain a thorough understanding of the components of Azure and how you can take advantage of them as a developer.
As the world of APIs, SaaS, and IoT continues to grow, the need to integrate and automate across all of your ”things” has never been greater. Join this session to learn how Azure Logic Apps can help you integrate across services and devices quickly and simply—with the scale and power of the Azure cloud.
As the cloud platform with the largest compliance portfolio in the industry, Azure is committed to partnering with customers in their risk-management efforts through investments in trust and transparency. Driven by these principles, we are announcing today two new compliance programs tailored to the financial services industry.
Mobile push notifications are essential for any mobile app, whether for your customers or employees. Azure Notification Hubs is a cross-platform push notification capability you need to deliver push notifications at scale to iOS, OSX, Android, Chrome, Windows, Windows Phone, or Kindle Fire clients. In this session, we distill best practices of “good push” for employee and consumer apps based on thousands of real customer apps and billions of push notifications served by Azure Notification Hubs every week. Hear real-world examples from customers who are providing large scale, engaging, dynamic, and timely mobile experiences for consumers, as well as secure, reliable, enterprise messaging to employees with Azure Notification Hubs and Azure App Service.
Like spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations before, video has taken over how employers and employees educate, inform, and collaborate with each other. Come hear how our global enterprise customers are using the latest business video features in Azure Media Services to improve communication with their internal and external audiences. Explore practical deployment scenarios, such as how to stream live employee town halls, capture and distribute industry events, and provide employee and partner training. Discover powerful tools to better share internally-generated product and customer-focused video content.
Employees today use several devices and apps across a variety of locations to access a constantly changing set of resources. Not only do they use several SaaS applications, but they would like to have single sign-on to the cloud and on-premises. This complex activity creates a blind spot in identity and security, opening up your network to malicious attackers. Today, more than 75% of security breaches stem from compromised user credentials. In this session, learn how Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics help you to secure and manage user identity in your business, identify security breaches before they cause damage, and give your users a single identity for accessing all corporate resources. We will discuss the technologies used to discover Shadow IT, manage application access, and monitor suspicious activity through advanced security reporting, user behavioral analytics, auditing, and alerting.
Two of the most frequently asked questions about moving to Azure IaaS are “How do I size it?” and “What will it cost me?” These questions aren’t easy to answer. Many tools will tell you how to move an on-premises computer to an Azure virtual machine assuming that what you have now is exactly what you need in Azure. In this session, you’ll learn that it is possible to accurately determine what size Azure virtual machines you need and how to calculate the most cost-effective way to move to Azure. You’re moving to better, faster hardware, so why would you need the exact same number of virtual machines with the exact same memory and CPUs? Servers can be consolidated and sized appropriately when the recommendations are based on analysis of the actual performance of the existing servers with a mind for consolidation using very precise calculations of the performance capabilities of the Azure environment. In addition to performance, you can accurately determine your best options based on costs for Azure in terms of storage, storage transactions, networking, and Microsoft SQL Server licensing. Would you be better off moving 5 on-premises servers on a standard A7 virtual machine or would 3 servers on a standard A5 and the other 2 on a basic A3 be more cost effective? This can be calculated.
Azure SQL Database is a robust relational database platform for developing, deploying, and managing the data tier in a wide range of cloud-based applications. In this session, you’ll learn about our latest investments in SQL Database in the area of service tiers, performance, scale out, business continuity, security, and experiences for data developers and data management.
APIs represent a significant business growth opportunity for organizations of all sizes. APIs are being used to monetize existing data and services, open new channels to new customers, and improve business agility. However, opening APIs to partners and developers has many challenges—creating consistent and modern API facades for existing backend services, protecting APIs form misuse and overuse, on-boarding developers, and getting insight into API usage and health, just to name a few. In this hands-on presentation you’ll learn how Azure API Management can help overcome these challenges and accelerate your API programs.
See how one customer discovered what DevOps really means with Azure Resource Manager. See how a little time invested to migrate from classic IaaS management to Resource Manager transformed the way they worked with Azure and achieved an impressive return on investment. See how we planned, designed, and deployed three SharePoint environments for development, QA, and production, through an Azure Enterprise Agreement.
By now you will have heard of Azure and probably have been lost in a plethora of terminology: virtual networks, web apps, worker roles, virtual machines, Azure Active Directory, compute, REST APIs, blobs—the list goes on and on. Doesn’t it just make your head hurt? Come to this session and understand what Azure is, what can be done with it, and what role you can take as an IT pro. Gain a thorough understanding of the components of Azure. Learn how you can integrate on-premises and cloud services, creating solutions for the future. The session is packed with demos.
Join this session for an overview of one of the newest Azure services, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and get answers to your questions. What is SQL Data Warehouse? When should I choose SQL Data Warehouse instead of SQL Database or HDInsight? How does SQL Data Warehouse integrate with other Azure services? What can I do with third-party tooling, such as Tableau, Informatica, and even SQL Sentry)?
Azure SQL Database is a robust relational database platform for developing, deploying, and managing the data tier in a wide range of cloud-based applications. Join this session and learn how to use this platform to develop SaaS applications that achieve near limitless scale and elasticity with high availability and geo-redundancy.
Get a high-level overview of key network security features in Azure, see three examples of how these features can be layered to build secure networks in Azure and across hybrid connections to your on-premises network, and finally get a brief introduction to PowerShell commands for Network Security Groups and User Defined Routing.
We are frequently asked, “How do I design a multi-tenant application on top of Azure DocumentDB?” In this session, we will answer that question. Join us to learn how to shard your data using DocumentDB to horizontally scale-out a multi-tenant application. You will also learn about common sharding patterns, as well as how to manage your storage and throughput.
Learn how to invoke complex orchestrated processes in the cloud by scanning an NFC tag on a mobile device. Join this session and explore a mobile app that can read NFC tags embedded in conference badges, and then translate those to sales leads in popular SaaS CRM solutions. See how to build a custom Azure App Service API app-push trigger for an App Service Logic App, and then how to invoke a callback from a mobile device. We will configure a Logic App to receive device events and then integrate with applications, such as SugarCRM and Salesforce. We will begin the session with a demo of the functionality, and immediately transition to a deep dive into the concepts and code behind it.
Learn how Microsoft Operations Management Suite leverages Azure hyper-scale cloud resources, extending System Center capabilities to unleash new, modern IT management scenarios, delivering faster ways to troubleshoot issues with streamlined operations. Operations Management Suite delivers a rich set of ready-made solutions that help you manage and protect your Windows and Linux workloads across your datacenter, Azure, AWS, OpenStack, and VMware environments. Get started in minutes, and quickly gain operational insights from any machine data in your environment through log analytics solutions, while seamlessly protecting any workload with robust backup and recovery solutions.
Join this session for an overview of Azure security, including the strategy and the approach to meet the needs of highly-scalable, enterprise-class and hybrid workloads. It covers all of the key areas
Join this session to learn how to use Azure Storage to support your applications monitoring, diagnosis, and troubleshooting strategy. You will learn how to use end-to-end monitoring capabilities, including Storage service, client libraries, and network monitoring. And, you’ll get a hands-on demonstration of how to enable Storage analytics, monitor metrics for potential issues, and troubleshoot using log files and Message Analyzer.
Web Apps on Azure App Service provide a rich platform-as-a service environment for hosting your enterprise-grade web applications, but as we know, hosting your application is only half of the battle. In this session you’ll see how to manage code changes with ease by using the DevOps features of Azure App Service while enlisting the help of Visual Studio Release Management.
Azure Resource Manager lets you work with the resources in your solution as a group. You can deploy, update, or delete all of the resources for your solution in a single, coordinated operation. You use a template for deployment, and that template can work for different environments, such as testing, staging, and production. Resource Manager provides security, auditing, and tagging features to help you manage your resources after deployment. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Resource Manager templates to group resources and build and manage applications.
Discover an approach for using the Web Apps feature in Azure App Service to provide secured Salesforce and payment processors in on-premises services. In this session, you’ll learn how to move your security boundary to the external edge of your environment minimizing any surface area of attack. Use Salesforce in a HIPAA-compliant manner to reach your existing on-premises applications. This approach is also a solution that extends to help ensure PCI compliance with payment processing systems like Bluefin.
Identity management as a service (IDaaS) is an emerging capability to help developers and organizations manage access to modern applications. Integrating with Azure Active Directory can save you time from coding your own sign-in logic and trying to protect your user’s passwords, and it has many security and user experience benefits. Used by more than 4 million organizations and containing more than 430 million identities, Azure Active Directory is the gateway to accessing the Office 365 API and other Microsoft cloud service APIs. In the session, learn the most common scenarios for integrating with Azure Active Directory, get an overview of the Azure Active Directory feature set, and find out what’s coming next.
A great search experience is a key to success for many mobile and web applications. From real estate and used car marketplaces to ecommerce catalogs, fast search and relevant results will affect the customer experience. Join this session and discover best practices for how to get the most out of Azure Search, especially for advanced scenarios with sophisticated requirements for scalability, multi-language support, or custom ranking. In addition, we will touch on internals and cover approaches that work effectively in real-world customer apps.
Discover how a consulting firm with around 100 mobile workers implemented Enterprise Mobility Suite to get rid of password problems that cluttered their Level 1 call center and managed a fleet of mobile devices that are not in Active Directory.
Keeping mobile app users interested and active requires not only a great app, but also an engagement strategy. Join this session and see how customers are using Azure Mobile Engagement to use the cust
Join this session and learn how to quickly and easily achieve high scale apps by using a combination of Azure Traffic Manager and multiple App Service Environment deployments within a single Azure region. See how App Service Environments support a layered security approach using virtual networks and network security groups. Learn how to control direct Internet access to apps, while providing secure high-speed connectivity to back-end resources located in the same virtual network topology.
Apps are key to transforming and growing your business. Apps define your customers’ experience, empower employees’ success and underpin critical business processes but can take time to show results. Hear from organizations how building on the Azure application platform is accelerating their business transformation and driving rapid results.
Microsoft Azure is built on a hyper-scale, hybrid and trustworthy infrastructure platform that helps organizations add scale to their applications, be agile and enjoy cost savings. Learn how businesses are transforming themselves by evolving their IT strategy to take advantage of Azure’s infrastructure platform.
Cloud is helping business and technical leaders worldwide turn the digital disruption into their advantage. How can you do the same? Gain insights from organizations successfully transforming using cloud, hear best practices first hand from customers and learn about some of the latest Microsoft innovations to enable your journey to the cloud.
Data is everywhere. It is generated by applications, by sensors, and by devices at a rapidly increasing rate. Capturing all of this data and transforming it into intelligent action can differentiate and change an organization. Learn how companies are taking advantage of data through the latest innovations in Microsoft’s Data Platform in areas such as Modern Apps, Internet of Things, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and Hybrid solutions.
Azure provides a wide range of virtual machine sizes for any workload that you might want to run. Trying to decide which size is right for your workload can seem challenging. Join this session to find out about some of the considerations for selecting virtual machine sizes and learn the differences between different virtual machine size families and their regional availability.
Join this session for an introduction to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS). In this demo-packed session see how to use Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Networks to run virtually any workload in the cloud. You’ll learn about capabilities for hybrid connectivity and see how Azure can lower the total cost of ownership of infrastructure workloads while making your organization more agile and lean.
Join us for a free 2 two-day technical training event for IT professionals and developers that provides best practices and insight directly from the experts who build and run the cloud services across Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Windows 10 and more. Whether you know your way around the cloud or are just getting started, you’ll learn something new and walk away ready to apply your new skills.
Space is limited so reserve your free seat today.
Microsoft is bringing top engineers from Redmond to cities around the world. They’ll share expert tips and techniques, with over 80 technical training sessions covering:
Productivity
Security
Networking
Big data
Storage
Unified communications
Identity
Web
Mobile
Collaboration
Hybrid Cloud
Containers
Devops
Open source
Management
Internet of things
You’ll learn something new and walk away ready to apply your new skills. Space is limited so reserve your free seat today.
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