Windows Azure Mobile Services enables authentication scenarios with popular social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter.  In this video Chris Risner demonstrates how you can authenticate users of your Android apps using their Google account and then how you can restrict access to insert/update/read and delete permissions on the tables within your Mobile service to authenticated users.  

Windows Azure Mobile Services provides an easy to use API for sending notifications to your Android apps.  In this video Chris Risner demonstrates step by step how you can add Push Notifications to send alerts, toasts and sound notifications to your app.  The demo includes: 

• Provisioning a Mobile Service 

• Registering your Android app for push notifications with Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and receiving a registration ID 

• Setting the GCM API key in your Mobile Service 

• Sending your registration ID to  your Mobile Services  

• Sending notifications as Inserts occur on your Mobile Service  

Get started with 10 Mobile Services for FREE and try this scenario using the step-by-step tutorial.

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• [0:52] How can developers capitalize on making apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone?
• [6:37] How can developers get started making apps?
• [10:09] How do I sign up for the App Builder Program?
• [10:28] What is the App Builder Virtual Summit?
• [11:41] Who should attend the Summit? Is it just for developers?
• [14:32] How do I sign up? How much does it cost?

App Builder Virtual Summit, May 2^nd There’s never been a better time to build for Windows!  Attend the Virtual Summit and learn about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers. Don’t miss this FREE online event, REGISTER today!

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“ How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps”
Michael Palermo welcomes Kevin Ashley to the show as they discuss how Kevin has made over $100k on his Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss some tips and tricks for how you can improve your app revenue like  how to properly price your app and various monetization options that are available to you such as in-app purchase, pay-per download and advertising.

Resources:

• Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation
• Windows 8 Enterprise
• Windows 8 Licensing
• The Springboard Series Blog
• Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard
• Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps
• Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

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• [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen)
• [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira)
• [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being used? (Lee Stott)
• [03:47] Three Essential Tips For Async - Introduction (Charles, Lucian Wischik)
• [05:07] Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI (Peter Kellner)
• [05:45] HTML Game Dev with Construct 2
• [06:49] Using Phone Resources in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany, Andy Wigley)
• [07:47] Web Development Goodies in Visual Studio 2012 (Adil Mughal)
• [08:47] A new resource for your icons… (ROUSSEAU Michel )
• [09:07] JavaScript API for Office (wall poster)
• [10:13] New Unit Test functionality in VS2012 Update 2: Test Playlist (Ricci Gian Maria)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:42] Tech Fails in film (Scott Hanselman)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[12:57] Battery powered Kinect on wheels!

Android developers can use Windows Azure Mobile Services to:

• Accelerate mobile app development. Store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications in minutes.
• Add a scalable and secure backend to an Android application.
• Spend the time you save on configuring infrastructure to build an experience users will love.

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• [1:58] What has improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to support new devices running Windows 8?
• [3:38] Can Configuration Manager manage non-Windows based devices as well?
• [4:25] How does System Center 2012 better support the mobile user?

Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications, hardware and deployment strategies with Windows 8.

Resources:

• Windows 8 Enterprise
• Windows 8 Licensing
• The Springboard Series Blog
• Windows 8 Resources for IT Pros on Springboard
• Resources for Developers to Build Windows 8 Apps
• Windows 8 resources for partners on Microsoft Partner Network

Fast forward to the present day, and Iguazu has become a real thing, thanks to an enormously engaged team who built a brand new service from scratch and plugged it into the Service Bus infrastructure. Today we're taking the wraps off the Service Bus Notification Hubs preview.

Service Bus Notification Hubs are an intrinsic feature of Windows Azure Service Bus and are different from other push notification services in four key areas:

• Complete client registration management. Your backend application does not need to worry at all about device-ids or channels or other particulars of push notifications and doesn't need to cooperate in management. It doesn't even have to be a web app that's publicly accessible.  
• Platform independence. Service Bus Notification Hubs allow cross-platform push notifications so that iOS Alerts and Windows Live Tiles can be targeted with a single event message. 
• Broadcast and tag-based Multicast - Service Bus Notification Hubs are optimized around automatic notification broadcast to many thousand devices with low latency. One message in, thousands of notifications out.
• Mass customization - Notification Hub notification templates allow for customization of notification delivery for each individual registration, allowing each instance of a client App to choose how it wants to receive events.

In this preview, Notification Hubs are able to push notifications to Windows Store apps and iOS apps from .NET back-ends. Support for Android and Windows Phone, along with additional back-end technologies (including Windows Azure Mobile Services) will be added soon.

If you can't wait to see teh codez check out the docs and bits below or watch my walkthrough.

And here are all the key links (if they're not yet active/current they will soon be)....

• Feature guide (Windows Store Apps) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=275828
• Feature guide (iOS) -  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=275829
• Fundamentals - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277072
• Tutorial (Windows Store Apps) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277073
• Tutorial (iOS) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=277074

 SDKs:

• Windows 8 Managed Client Library - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=277160
• iOS Client Library - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=277161
• Preview client NuGet - http://nuget.org/packages/ServiceBus.Preview

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In this interview, which starts at [03:18], we cover:

• [05:43] Enhancements to the December 2012 release of Windows Intune
• [06:41] Demo - Windows Intune connector to SCCM 2012 SP1
• [07:18] Demo - Android and iOS iPad/iPhone management
• [07:38] Advantages of direct iOS management over Exchange Active Sync (EAS)
• [08:10] Demo - Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 Management
• [09:35] Demo - Application provisioning and deployment of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone applications  and "deep links"
• [11:06] Demo - How to enroll Windows RT device to be managed by Windows Intune
• [11:30] Demo - Company portal application on Windows RT
• [12:59] Where are applications stored for distribution
• [13:29] Additional resources

News:

• SharePoint 2013 - http://aka.ms/sp2013eval
• Exchange 2013 GA + Eval - http://aka.ms/exch2013 
• Lync 2013 Eval - http://aka.ms/lync2013 
• Windows 8 for business - hardware decisions
• Windows Intune Trial - http://aka.ms/wintune

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Web based Win 8 app creator  [03:41]

After watching this video, follow these next steps:

Step #1 – Download Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Software
Step #2 – Download Windows Server 2012
Step #3 – Download Your FREE Copy of Hyper-V Server 2012

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Resources:

• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform website

Websites & Blogs:

• Keith Mayer’s Blog

Videos:

• New Features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
• Site Hierarchy and Role Enhancements with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
• Supporting Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
• Supporting Linux, Unix and Mac clients with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1

Virtual Labs:

• TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012

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In this interview that starts at [05:20] , we cover:

• [07:30] Demo - Adding iOS, Android, Windows 8 Applications to SCCM 2012
• [08:33] Demo - Deploying Windows 8 Application in SCCM 2012
• [10:08] Demo - Client install of Windows 8 Enterprise App via self-service app portal
• [11:43] Demo - Windows 8 management for User data and profiles in SCCM 2012

• [14:23]- Windows 8 enhancements with power management, metered connections, deployment
• [16:04]- Demo - Windows 8 deployment enhancements: bitlocker, data migration
• [18:25] - Windows to Go management using SCCM 2012 SP1

Download a copy of SCCM 2012 SP1 Beta: http://aka.ms/sccmsp1

News:

• Acquisition of StorSimple and available Windows Azure Online Backup
• Windows Surface RT available for pre-order!
• Windows 8 Launch / general available Oct 26th
• Xbox Music

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• Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have reached RTM milestone!  Also, GA announced.
• Build conference announced
• IPv6 version 3 book out

Technical Interview: At [01:38] David met with Dan Zarzar, a Senior Program Manager for Office Web Apps, to discuss the new enhancements to Office Web apps in 2013. More specifically, we covered the following:

• [07:55] Demo - Enhancements to Word web app editing experience
• [09:53] Demo - Creating a new PPT in Office 365 and advanced editing capabilities in web app
• [11:23] Demo - Co-authoring across PPT web apps and Office 2013 client offline and online mode
• [15:00] Demo - Web Apps inside of Outlook Web Access
• [16:45] Slide - Changes made to back-end infrastructure to Office Web Apps and enabling support on Lync, Exchange, Office Web Apps, and File Shares.

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• on{X}
• Frugral Dad on Windows 8
• ESPN on Xbox
• This is the type of stuff that Paul builds in his free time: SuperSadTrombone.com.  If there were ever a need for a sad trombone sound, it would be now after making a statement like that .  In his defense, he claims it was an experiment to build something using HTML5 and JavaScript.

Walker Fenton and Brian Reischl of Sepial Labs talk with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about why they chose Windows Azure to connect to the various phones. Brian explains how they used WCF using REST on Windows Azure. They do a demo of each phone using Azure to process messages across phone platforms using notifications. They show how you can sharie photos, videos, and locations.

For more information about the technologies used by Sepia Labs, see:

• Azure Table Encryption via Attribute
• REST on WCF
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone

About Glassboard

Glassboard is an app for sharing privately with groups (or 'boards' as we call them). With Glassboard you can message a group of people quickly & easily (looks like a text on your phone but it isn't!), share photos and videos, and even show your location when appropriate. Everything within a board is _completely_ private. Only the board chair can invite you to a board, and there is no way for someone not invited to search or discover a board. It's your own private corner of the Internet. 

Sepia Labs is a spinoff from NewsGator, from SharePoint partner of Social Sites.

In this episode, Steve and Wade cover the recent release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android, along with updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS. Additionally, Steve discusses some tips for managing topology changes with the RoleEnvironment Changing event.

In the news:

• Just Released:  Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.0
• Checking Your SQL Azure Server Connection
• Memcached in Windows Azure
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Android
• Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure

• Windows Phone
• iOS (iPhone & iPad)
• Android

The purpose of these toolkits is to make it easier for mobile device developers across device platforms to build applications that use Windows Azure to host services.

The initial release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android includes native libraries (for storage and authentication), a sample application, and unit tests. The updates for Windows Phone include support for SQL Azure in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone, full support for Windows Azure Toolkits for Visual Studio 1.4 and Windows Developer Phone Tools 7.1 RC, and the full source code to the sample BabelCam which is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

For more details, please see the following posts:

• The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft Releases the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android
• Windows Phone Developer Blog: Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Team Blog: NOW AVAILABLE - Windows Azure Toolkit for Android