This document provides an agenda for a Windows Azure training session covering Azure Overview, Governance, Deploying Azure Solutions, Managing Azure Solutions, Monitoring Azure Solutions, and Extending to and from Azure. It includes demos and discusses topics such as deployment through the management portal and PowerShell, managing what components in Azure require administration, monitoring through diagnostics and System Center Operations Manager, and challenges of extending solutions beyond Azure.

1. Windows Azure Enrique Lima
Principal Consultant
for the IT Pro ThinkALM
October 19–21, 2011

2. Agenda
• Azure Overview
• Governance
• Deploying Azure Solutions
• Managing Azure Solutions
• Monitoring Azure Solutions
• Extending to and from Azure
OCT
19-21

3. Azure Overview
Developer Experience
Use existing skills and tools.
AppFabric
Compute Storage Management Relational data Management Connectivity Access control
Composite applications ON-PREMISES LOB Applications
OCT
19-21

4. Governance
• What on earth does this mean?
• Corporate Governance for Azure?
• Are you kidding me?!?
OCT
19-21

5. Deploying Azure Solutions
• Deployment through the Management
Portal
• Deployment using PowerShell
• Working with VM Role
OCT
19-21

6. Deployment through the
Management Portal
demo
OCT
19-21

7. Deployment using PowerShell
• Windows Azure Service Management
CmdLets
OCT
19-21

8. Working with VM Role
Image Preparation
Install integration components
Install software applications
Build adapter Upload Image to
Configure firewall Repository
Generalize image
Define VM role
Deploy
Design Service Model
Reference image
Specify certificates and
destination store Upload Service
Configure number of server Package and
instances Configuration File
Configure certificate
thumbprints
Specify configuration settings
Upload Certificates
to Certificate Store
OCT
19-21

9. Managing Azure Solutions
Packaged Infrastructure Platform Software
(as a Service) (as a Service)
Software (as a Service)
Applications Applications Applications Applications
You manage
Data You manage Data Data Data
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Managed by vendor
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
Managed by vendor
You manage
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Managed by vendor
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking Networking
OCT
19-21

10. Managing Azure Solutions
• What do we Manage?
• Windows Azure MMC
• 3rd Party Tools
OCT
19-21

11. What do we Manage?
• Storage
• Compute
• Access
OCT
19-21

12. Windows Azure MMC
demo
OCT
19-21

13. Monitoring Azure Solutions
• Windows Azure Diagnostics
• Windows Azure Monitoring MP for SCOM
• Using RDP
OCT
19-21

14. Windows Azure Diagnostics
• Know the volume of data
• Define Transfers
• Monitor Storage!
OCT
19-21

15. Windows Azure Monitoring MP for
SCOM
Discovers Windows Azure Provides status of each Collects and monitors
applications. role instances performance information.
Grooms
Collects and monitors the
performance, event, and
Collects and monitors .NET Framework trace
the .NET Framework trace
Windows events. messages from each role
data from Windows Azure
instance.
storage account.
Changes the number of
role instances via a task
OCT
19-21

16. Using RDP
• IIS Manager
• Windows Explorer
• Performance and Reliability Monitor
• Event Viewer
OCT
19-21

17. Extending to and from Azure
• Challenges
• Access Control
OCT
19-21

18. Challenges
• How do you integrate with components outside your corporate
network?
• How do you expose your software to users outside of your
organization?
– Can they use their existing identities? Social identities?
– What about smaller, non-enterprise customers?
• How do you reduce latency and increase performance?
• <the list goes on…>
Access Control Service Bus Caching*
OCT
19-21

19. Access Control
• Identity Federation - ACS
• Azure Connect
OCT
19-21

20. Identity Federation - ACS
• Used to authenticate and authorize users
• Integration Single Sign On and centralized authorization
into your web applications
• Standards-based identity providers
– Enterprise directories (e.g. Active Directory Federation
Server v2.0)
– Web identities (e.g. Windows Live
ID, Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook)
OCT
19-21

21. Azure Connect
OCT
19-21

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