Windows Azure features a very powerful, yet simple deployment model.  By focusing on your application and abstracting away the infrastructure details, you can deploy almost any app with minimal fuss.[more ]

Just what is Windows Azure?  Join me in this brief video for an introduction to Windows Azure.  We'll explore its components, the key features, and discuss why you should care.…[more ]

A key component of any cloud computing offering is durable storage.  Windows Azure provides 3 forms of durable storage: tables, blobs, and queues.  Join me as we explore the highlights of these 3 important implementations.[more ]

In this video, Ryan sits down with Marc Hoeppner, the Managing Director of NeoGeo and a Regional Director out of Germany.  NeoGeo builds a media asset management system to coordinate things like versioning, searching, and storage of digital media assets called neoMediaCenter.NET.[more ]

In this screencast, Ryan visits a couple of the lead developers on the SQL Data Services team (formerly called SQL Server Data Services) to find out what the new PDC CTP build of the service brings for developers.[more ]

In this screencast, we configure our IIS7 server for remote administration and delegation.  The remote administration service in IIS7 is a new and powerful feature that allows us to connect securely to our remote IIS server using a firewall-friendly SSL connection.  Additionally, we can choose to use traditional Windows accounts for authentication or choose the new IIS Manager user accounts instead.

We will walk through the steps you must perform as the IIS administrator as well…[more ]

In this screencast, we see how to configure our IIS7 server for Failed Request Tracing (sometimes called FREB).  Failed Request Tracing is a powerful new capability in IIS7 that allows us to easily set rules on our web applications, that once triggered will log that request to disk and pull in all the relevant trace information.  This feature is immensely useful for troubleshooting running applications where attaching a debugger is impractical.
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In this screencast, discover how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on your IIS7 webserver using FastCGI.  The popular PHP-based blogging application, Wordpress, is used to demonstrate.

Additionally, we see how quickly and easily we can integrate a PHP app with IIS7's integrated pipeline as we convert Wordpress to use IIS7's built-in Forms Authentication.
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