The monthly news roundup as presented by Damien Berry to the Brisbane Azure User Group on 10 December 2014.

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. Windows Azure News
December 2014

3. sponsorship

6. • Management Portal
• Service Management API
• Web Sites service
• Virtual Machines service and Virtual Networking
• Service Bus
• Database

9. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/azure-hdinsight-now-generally-available-in-china-australia-and-japan-east/

12. - Up to 112 GB memory
- Up to 800 GB SSD Drives
Coming soon G-Series VM’s
- Up to 448 GB memory
- Up to 6.5 TB SSD
- Additionally high performance “Premium storage” allows for 32TB of storage per VM

13. Integrates the visual studio release management extension with portal
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/18/visual-studio-release-manager-for-azure-vms
Octopus Deploy
Octopus extension is now available as a VM extension.
This makes it much easier to set up an environment managed by Octopus Deploy
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/11/octopus-on-azure
Multiple NIC VM’s
With powershell simply add additional NIC
SAP NetWeaver
SAP support increased from A5 to larger A and D series VM’s

18. Windows Azure Area on
http://channel9.msdn.com/WindowsAzure

19. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV

20. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/videos/windows-azure-friday/
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Windows-Azure-Friday