20 Bloggers Writing About Azure

Mark Sorensen, a Senior Product Planner on the Windows Azure team, put together a list of blog posts by Windows Azure MVPs about the “Spring Wave” of upgrades to Windows Azure. The list was compiled originally by Magnus Mårtensson as a series of messages in a thread on the Azure Insiders NDA mailing list. The following information is public and not under NDA.

• Updated 6/18/2012 with links to MVP profiles and removed e-mail addresses at the request of Magnus Mårtensson.

Windows Azure MVP Blog Summary

Blog support for “Meet Windows Azure” event, June 7, 2012. Last Update: Thursday, June 14, 2012 (40 Blog posts total)

Listed in alphabetical order by MVP surname, click name to open MVP profile:

Maarten Balliauw:

• Use NuGet Package Restore to avoid pushing assemblies to Windows Azure Websites
• GitHub for Windows Azure Websites
• Setting up a webfarm using Windows Azure Virtual Machines

Dennis Burton:

• Developing Single Page, Real Time Websites on Windows Azure

Michael Collier:

• Windows Azure Web Sites – A First Look

Jeff Chu:

• [Windows Azure] Spring Release 快速預覽
• [Windows Azure] Windows Azure SDK June 2012 發表
• [Windows Azure] Spring Release 新功能首部曲－全新的 Management Portal 入口網站

Nuno Filipe Godinho:

• Side-by-Side support in Windows Azure SDK 1.7
• IIS Express support for local development in Windows Azure SDK 1.7
• What's new in Windows Azure June Release - SDK 1.7

Roger Jennings:

• Windows Azure updates create full-service cloud
• Running Visual Studio 2012 RC with Windows Azure SDK 1.7 under Windows Server 2012 on a Windows Azure VM
• Adding Windows Azure Preview Features to Your Subscription
• A WordPress Clone of the OakLeaf Systems Blog on Windows Azure Web Sites
• Standing Up a Windows Server 2012 RC Virtual Machine in the New Windows Azure Management Portal Preview

Panagiotis Kefalidis:

• How to migrate and run your WordPress blog on Windows Azure WebSites

Gaurav Mantri:

• Updates To Windows Azure Storage – Summary Of New Features
• Updates to Windows Azure Storage – Reduced Transaction Pricing and Geo Replication
• Updates to Windows Azure Service Management REST API
• How To Copy an Object from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob”

Magnus Mårtensson:

• And Windows Azure Takes The Lead…

Marcel Meijer:

• Windows Azure Renewed! English
• Windows Azure Renewed! Dutch

David Pallmann:

• 10 Reasons to Take a Fresh Look at Windows Azure
• Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 1: The New Management Portal
• Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 2: Windows Azure Web Sites
• Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 3: Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 4: Linux Virtual Machines
• Reintroducing Windows Azure, Part 5: Cloud Services

Herve Roggero:

• Microsoft Lowers Cloud Barrier To Entry

Richard Seroter:

• Microsoft Beefs Up Windows Azure Connectivity and Interoperability In Massive Update

Anton Staykov:

• Windows Azure v.Next–Azure Websites, Linux on Azure, Persistent VM and much more …

Brent Stineman:

• Meet Windows Azure–Christmas in June

Rainer Stropek:

• Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Solutions on Windows Azure

Aymeric Weinbach:

• Le nouveau Windows Azure est arrivé

Wilfried Woivré:

• Déployer Wordpress sur Azure en 3 clics et un café !
• Windows Azure SDK 1.7 et un nouveau portail d’administration

Michael Wood:

• Why is Windows Azure Deployment Now Comparable to Heroku?

Shaun Ziyan Xu:

• Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal
• Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012
• Windows Azure Evolution - Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1