With the ever changing Azure space, chances are you’ve had services working a treat and then one day just fail. “Can’t connect…" etc. This has happened to me twice this week – with over 14 IP Address ranges defined in the client’s firewall rules. It appears that my service bus services were spun up or assigned another IP outside the ‘allowed range’. It gets frustrating at times as generally the process goes as follows: 1) fill out a form to request firewall changes. Include as much detail as possible. 2) hand to the client and they delegate to their security/ops team to implement. 3) confirmation comes back. 4) start up ServiceBus service 5) could work?? may fail – due to *another* IP address allocated in Windows Azure not on the ‘allowed list of ranges’. 6) fill out another form asking for another IP Address…
…
By the 3rd iteration of this process it all is beginning to look very unprofessional. (in comparison, these guys are used to tasks such as ‘Access to SQL Server XXX – here’s the ports, there’s the machine and done’. Azure on the other hand – ‘What IP Addresses do you need? What ports?’… we need better information in this area) Anyway – here’s the most update to date list 10/02/2011. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabricannounce/archive/2010/01/28/additional-data-centers-for-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx
Scotty & myself have had this error going for over 2 weeks now, and have tried many options, settings, registry keys, reboots and so on.
(we have had this on 2 boxes now, that are *not* directly connected to the internet. They are locked down servers with only required services accessible through the firewall) Generally you’ll encounter this error is you install Azure SDK v1.6 – there has been people that have revert back to Azure v1.5 SDK when this error has been encountered and this seems to fix most of their problems. Here I’m using netTcpRelayBinding, BizTalk 2010 but this could just have easily have been IIS or your own app. Finding the outbound ports and Azure datacenter address space is always the challenge. Ports 80,443,9351 and 9352 are the main ones with the remote addresses being the network segments of your Azure Datacenter. The problem: “Oh it’s a chain validation thing, I’ll just go and turn off Certificate checking…” let me see the options.
(this is what we thought 2+ weeks ago) 
Here I have a BizTalk shot of the transportClientEndpointBehaviour with Authentication node set to NoCheck and None (you would set these from code or a config file outside of biztalk)
We found that these currently have NO BEARING whatsoever…2 weeks we’ll never get back.
Don’t be drawn into here, it’s a long windy path and you’ll most likely end up short. I am currently waiting to hear back from the folks on the product team to see what the answer is on this – BUT for now as a workaround we sat down with a network sniffer to see the characteristics. Work around: 1. Add some Host Entries 2. Create a dummy site so the checker is fooled into grabbing local CRLs. Add these Entries to your HOSTs file. 127.0.0.1 www.public-trust.com
127.0.0.1 mscrl.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 crl.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 corppki Download and extract these directories to your DEFAULT WEB SITE (i.e. the one that answers to http://127.0.0.1/…..)
This is usually under C:\inetpub\wwwroot (even if you have sharepoint installed)
-------------------- The nasty error ------------------- The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location "<receive location>" with URL "sb://<rec url>" to the adapter "WCF-Custom". Reason: "System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException: The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline.
---> System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityTokenValidationException: The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline. at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.Security.RetriableCertificateValidator.Validate(X509Certificate2 certificate)
at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.X509SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateTokenCore(SecurityToken token)
at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateToken(SecurityToken token)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.ValidateRemoteCertificate(Object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
at System.Net.Security.SecureChannel.VerifyRemoteCertificate(RemoteCertValidationCallback remoteCertValidationCallback)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.CompleteHandshake()
at System.Net.Security.SslState.CheckCompletionBeforeNextReceive(ProtocolToken message, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.ForceAuthentication(Boolean receiveFirst, Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)
at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessAuthentication(LazyAsyncResult lazyResult)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.OnInitiateUpgrade(Stream stream, SecurityMessageProperty& remoteSecurity)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.OnInitiateUpgrade(Stream stream, SecurityMessageProperty& remoteSecurity)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.StreamSecurityUpgradeInitiatorBase.InitiateUpgrade(Stream stream)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionUpgradeHelper.InitiateUpgrade(StreamUpgradeInitiator upgradeInitiator, IConnection& connection, ClientFramingDecoder decoder, IDefaultCommunicationTimeouts defaultTimeouts, TimeoutHelper& timeoutHelper)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.SendPreamble(IConnection connection, ArraySegment`1 preamble, TimeoutHelper& timeoutHelper)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.DuplexConnectionPoolHelper.AcceptPooledConnection(IConnection connection, TimeoutHelper& timeoutHelper)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionPoolHelper.EstablishConnection(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.RelayedOnewayChannel.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.GetChannel(Uri via, TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.ConnectRequestReplyContext.Send(Message message, TimeSpan timeout, IDuplexChannel& channel)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpListener.RelayedOnewayTcpListenerClient.Connect(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.EnsureConnected(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.RefcountedCommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayChannelListener.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ChannelDispatcher.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.SocketConnectionTransportManager.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.TransportManager.Open(TimeSpan timeout, TransportChannelListener channelListener)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.TransportManagerContainer.Open(TimeSpan timeout, SelectTransportManagersCallback selectTransportManagerCallback)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.SocketConnectionChannelListener`2.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ChannelDispatcher.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiveEndpoint.Enable()
at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiveEndpoint..ctor(BizTalkEndpointContext endpointContext, IBTTransportProxy transportProxy, ControlledTermination control)
at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiver`2.AddReceiveEndpoint(String url, IPropertyBag adapterConfig, IPropertyBag bizTalkConfig)".
Windows Azure cannot perform a VIP swap between deployments that have a different number of endpoints. Which begs the question – what happens as part of an upgrade if you add-endpoints??? So clearly the VIP Swap operation is not a simple process. Now off to delete some production instances so I can get the changes through… 
Recently there’s been an update to the ‘on-premise’ AppFabric for Windows Server. Grab the update here - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27115 (runs on win7, 2008, 2008R2) What’s new I’m in the process of updating my components, but the majority of updates seems to be around caching and performance. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh351389.aspx | Read-Through/Write-Behind | This allows a backend provider to be used on the cache servers to assist with retrieving and storing data to a backend, such as a database. Read-through enables the cache to "read-through" to a backend in the context of a Get request. Write-behind enables updates to cached data to be saved asynchronously to the backend. For more information, see Creating a Read-Through / Write-Behind Provider (AppFabric 1.1 Caching). | | Graceful Shutdown | This is useful for moving data from a single cache hosts to rest of the servers in the cache cluster before shutting down the cache host for maintenance. This helps to prevent unexpected loss of cached data in a running cache cluster. This can be accomplished with the Graceful parameter of the Stop-CacheHost Windows PowerShell command. | | Domain Accounts | In addition to running the AppFabric Caching Service with the NETWORK SERVICE account, you can now run the service as a domain account. For more information, see Change the Caching Service Account (AppFabric 1.1 Caching). | | New ASP.NET Session State and Output Caching Provider | New ASP.NET session state and output caching providers are available. The new session state provider has support for the lazy-loading of individual session state items using AppFabric Caching as a backing store. This makes sites that have a mix of small and large session state data more efficient, because pages that don't need large session state items won't incur the cost of sending this data over the network. For more information, see Using the ASP.NET 4 Caching Providers for AppFabric 1.1. | | Compression | You can now enable compression for cache clients. For more information, see Application Configuration Settings (AppFabric 1.1 Caching). | | Multiple Cache Client Application Configuration Sections | A new dataCacheClients section is available that allows you to specify multiple named dataCacheClient sections in an application configuration file. You can then programmatically specify which group of cache client settings to use at runtime. For more information, see Application Configuration Settings (AppFabric 1.1 Caching). |
Hi folks, we’ve set a cracking pace into 2012 and are in need of an additional team member. If you love technology, we love technology and I’d love to hear from you to be part of my team. You will be stimulated, constantly thinking and challenged – azure, integration, biztlak, sql, windows phone 7 and many other technology areas you’ll be exposed to. Integration is all about the glue we use to achieve the result. If you’re keen for a chat check out the blurb - http://www.breeze.net/about/jobs.aspx Cheers, Mick.
Thought I’d start off the year with a bang around Azure and what’s been happening in the land of Integration. So I contacted a Conor Brady to see what was cooking. The user group is meeting next Thursday 19th Jan 2012. Here’s the blurb….. ----------------------------------------- 'Integration using Windows Azure Application Integration Services' Local Integration & Training guru Mick Badran CTO at Breeze Training & Consulting and veteran BizTalk Server MVP will present on 'Integration using Windows Azure Application Integration Services' The presentation will show how to use Microsoft Windows Azure to be the cornerstone of your integration strategy, whether it’s a small piece or larger deployment. Find out what new tools you can use to extend your existing toolbox and the best way to use them. This session will cover: - Strategies on complementing your on-premise <-> cloud integration and what tool to use when. - High availability solutions with a demo of fault tolerance. - Casting an eye what’s around the corner to new features coming out of Azure Labs such as EAI, EAI Bridges, EDI – azure style and new XML over HTTP endpoints. ------------------------------------------ Here’s the link to REGISTER - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2739308345 See you there! Mick.
The Azure team has been busy and what a nice email for a Friday. So that means no inbound charges (ServiceBus could be the exception) and they’ve just dropped the outbound charges. Bewdy! ----- snip -----  Dear Customer,
We are pleased to announce, effective today, that we are reducing our price to you for
Windows Azure Storage from $0.15 per GB to $0.14 per GB stored per month.
You will see this price decrease on your next invoice.
Today's price reduction is part of our commitment to realize cloud efficiencies through economies of scale and
share these cost savings with our valued customers. We appreciate your continued interest in the Windows Azure platform.
Windows Azure Platform Team
| Azure: How the “Cloud" can help you integrate–we’re doing another session–come along. 
| | | How the “Cloud” can help you Integrate Microsoft Australia & Breeze are pleased to invite you to a breakfast Seminar on Cloud Integration Sydney – November 16, 2011 8:30 - 11:00am Venue: Breeze Office, 5a/2 New McLean Street, Edgecliff, NSW 2027 (Adjacent to Edgecliff Station) With the excitement of technology moving towards “the Cloud” come and learn exactly what this means to your business and how your development projects can leverage the Windows Azure Platform without re-architecting your environment. Should you invest in private cloud, move your application to the public cloud, choose a hybrid approach or keep the application on-premise? Hear from Microsoft about their cloud strategy and computing platform ‘Azure’ and what this provides with scalable computing power and storage, as well as a number of other online services hosted on Microsoft datacentres. Hear from Breeze how to make this happen in the real world with measurable results. Breeze Integration Specialists will share with you some of their experiences in the field with helping customers maximise their existing investments as well as future scalability by utilizing the Azure platform with their integration development projects to date. This seminar is an opportunity to gain insight with the Windows Azure Platform including Windows Azure AppFabric, SQL Azure, Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk AppFabric Connect as well as meet the industry experts. This seminar is for all Integration enthusiasts from IT Professionals, Developers to Business Decision Makers. Bring along your questions! Seats are limited. Register NOW !!!! For more information and to register contact emmav{at}breeze{dot}net |
Hi folks, from a previous set of posts, we’ve been running a series of Azure Training Sessions. Here’s the online links to the recordings that many of you have asked me about. Enjoy. The links below should take you to the landing page, from the click on the View Online button. 
Hi folks we’re delivering Azure sessions on behalf of Microsoft over the next coming weeks… Here’s the official timetable, come along they’re free for you!! 
(All times are in Australian Eastern Standard Time)
A recent project my team has worked hard on has come to fruition . This was a challenging project in these key areas: - High volume – benchmarks of 20000 concurrent requests/sec through the system.
- Low latency – time is critical as price and market changes going through.
- Scalable – different data centers, different regions in the world.
Seemed like a great challenge…. and we built some great componentry through it, utilising the best of many worlds. Centrebet have released a press release about their Microsoft Azure Cloud, Application Integration solution. This is a tremendous success story for such a well-known Australian brand. Centrebet deploys app integration platform http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/11380
Hi folks, I’m starting off a series Azure training sessions for Microsoft via Live Meeting – yesterday Scotty & I delivered a great presentation with all the main pillars on show. This session is more about what is inside the Azure ‘Fabric’ and how is this space managed. In the coming sessions we will delve into creating/configuring applications, deployments etc. For now – here is the fundamental ‘what’s under the hood’ (Recording will be made available shortly) You can download from here - http://bit.ly/qEiqLC (UPDATED LINK: Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System - Mick Badran thanks Mikael.) 
We had an action packed 2 days hammering ‘Azurey’ (Azure) discovering all the concepts and most importantly I was trying to get the Why point across. Why?? Why should we use Azure? When should we use it? Do I *need* to use it? Where can it help me for little effort… etc.. etc.. The students walked out with a trial Azure account which enabled them to continue working on their environment as and when they could. We had some great discussions and some good fun was had by all. 
I thought I would make my slides available – http://bit.ly/oQ0Zcv UPDATED - (case sensitive) – ENJOY! 
What a place…the Gold Coast!!!
 Any chance to get back there… and this year is looking to be a fantastic 2 day pre-conference training together. In the training there’ll be no MS speak!! I promise “We’re all in…” …(washing mouth out with soap). First things first – everyone you speak to will pronounce ‘Azure’ differently (I once had 3 martial arts instructors all speak their own flavour of ‘Korean’ to me).
You’ll get:
1) ‘Aaaaaazzzzre’
2) ‘Azzzz-cloud’
Now here in Australia we’re standardising (our English-Australian) to Azurey!
Azurey is our official term, which fits alongside ‘Timmy’, ‘Barbie’ and ‘Daveo’… but not Shazza. What I want to explore with you are all the different options and components that you could utilise. Having been through several cloud based solutions and building a cloud based solution over the last 2 years. 
So we can use a combination of the available technologies to alleviate some of the in-house problems (e.g. firewall settings, h/w order and provisioning, server space) while still maintaining *very* good ownership over it. One thing is clear right now – with this new landscape the focus has returned to the Developer to be mindful of what resources they use and HOW they use them. The price of your solution starts right now from the ground up with the Developer!
(Previously we’ve had limitless memory, disk, cpu, connections, sockets, select * from customers… – developers rarely care) So the cost model – What do you get charged for?
(short answer – nearly everything) If you can design a solution with:
1) no use for SQL Azure –as it currently costs a bomb to host a DB.
You could use – SQLCE locally or Azure Storage (Table, Queue, blob) which is cheap as chips. 2) limit your Service Bus Connections – both client and server count as a connection. The connections are averaged out over a day/month and are sampled every 5 mins, but you certainly don’t want to rack up 100s of connections. A cheaper alternative is to expose a WCF Endpoint (via a worker role) and have a process communicate with the Servicebus endpoint handling the requests. This counts for 2 connections (1 client, 1 server) and is well within the 5 pack. 3) Only data out is charged – not in. 4) Compute VM sizes limit bandwith – across all your compute VMs e.g. small, there is bandwidth limitations that is enforced whether you have 1 or 10 VMs. Be mindful of that. 5) We can ‘monitor’ our cloud machines and even get back perf counters on each – just to give you that feel good feeling.
Well anyway I must go tweak some F# (best thing I’ve seen in a long while…another story) Here’s the official story @ TechEd – hope to see you there folks! http://australia.msteched.com/preconferencetraining Official Blurb! How “the Cloud” can help you integrate – Microsoft for Developers With the excitement of technology moving towards “the Cloud” come and learn exactly what this means to your business and how your development projects can leverage the Windows Azure Platform without re-architecting your environment. Should you invest in private cloud, move your application to the public cloud, choose a hybrid approach or keep the application on-premise? This two-day development workshop led by renowned Integration Experts provides delegates with an early opportunity to gain insight and hands-on experience with the Windows Azure Platform including Windows Azure AppFabric, SQL Azure, Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk AppFabric Connect. This developer workshop focuses on maximising your existing integration technology investment for an on-premise solution, including architectural design considerations, real world tips and techniques and hands-on experience with using the integration tools available today. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, this technology focused pre conference training will assist with designing and developing your company roadmap to the Cloud.
So you've got an on-premise WCF Service and you're going to expose the endpoint to the Cloud via ServiceBus. I'm with a client excited about the prospect of Azure and using ServiceBus for connectivity for our local WCF Services. Remember ServiceBus is touted as the firewall friend communications mechanism. Should be pretty easy right? - just follow an article like - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee732535.aspx If you are on a Secure Server - i.e. one that doesn't have default open slather access to the internet by default you will fall well short. (nb: the Azure ServiceBus documentation is a little thin here also. ie no mention whatsoever) You will get 'can't contact watchdog.servicebus.windows.net' and many others....So.... After much head banging Scotty sat down one rainy day and looked at the full conversation to establish a connection to the cloud via Service Bus NB: XXXX is your ServiceBus endpoint name you configured in the Azure Management Portal earlier. This endpoint lives in the Azure Singapore Data Center When ConnectionMode = TCP (Hybrid)
1. CNAME lookup for
watchdog.servicebus.windows.net > returns ns-sb-prod-sn1-001.cloudapp.net
2. Connect to ns-sb-prod-sn1-001.cloudapp.net
(port 9350)
3. CNAME lookup for XXXX-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net returns ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
4. Connect to ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(port 443)
5. CNAME lookup for XXXX.servicebus.windows.net returns ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
6. Connect to ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(port 9351)
When ConnectionMode = Http
1. CNAME lookup for XXXX-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net returns ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
2. Connect to ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(port 443)
3. CNAME lookup for XXXX.servicebus.windows.net returns ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
4. Connect to ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(port 80)
Also, when we lock this down to https endpoint step 4 above will be over 443
So the complete firewall rules to support both modes should be:
· watchdog.servicebus.windows.net
(9350-9353)
· ns-sb-prod-sn1-001.cloudapp.net
(9350-9353)
· XXXX-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net
(443)
· ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(443)
· XXXX.servicebus.windows.net
(80, 443, 9350-9353)
· ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net
(80, 443, 9350-9353)
Note the difference between ns-sb-prod-sn1-001.cloudapp.net
and the others ns-ac-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net,
ns-sb-prod-sin-001.cloudapp.net Hopefully you won't get caught out at a client site asking for firewall changes, one at a time as you discover them. Enjoy, Mick + big thanks Scotty for the details.
Well as TechEd 2010 draws to a close this year in Australia, I had a great time getting away from it all and certainly experiencing a couple of firsts. For me this was one of the better TechEd’s I had been to – the sessions were a little light on, but the labs + exams made up for that big time. So Scotty and I developed an Integration Pre Conference Training Session aimed at working out which MS Integration technology to run where – unscrambling the mess. We got a great turn out for the training in terms of numbers – we beat SharePoint 2010 dev + admin!!! :) For all of you whom I had the pleasure of training this week – well done! I hope you enjoyed it and it was great sharing that time with you. The sun, sand, BizTalk and Azure…what could be better?? :) As promised – here are the slides from those two days. Keep smiling,
Mick.
Keeping the raging iCant do a thing; iCant fwd a txt msg or voice mail iPhone debate… the new Windows Phone 7 Tools are in here all its Silverlight glory. Imagine being able to play a FLASH movie on the phone! shock horror. So grab the next big thing and look out phone world….the way phones were meant to be ;) 
Windows Phone Developer Tools
Folks I recently came across this site on codeplex - http://btsazureadapters.codeplex.com Where a hard working Danny(not sure of further details) has created a send and receive adapter for the cloud. The adapter surface and publish the required information into the cloud so for e.g. your endpoints show up publically in the .NET Servicebus domain – we can do this through the apis, but it’s nice to have them all wrapped up. There’s even some great piccys as well (just over look the ‘Microsoft Confidential’ at the bottom :-| - I did ping him over this.)  
The adapters are WCF based adapters, meaning they will run in or outside of BizTalk using the .NET LOB Adapter SDK Framework. As a Plan B to this – you can always use a Custom WCF Adapter with the basicHttpRelayBinding or netTcpRelayBinding to punch through to the cloud. I reckon this will be a very exciting area going forward…keep your eyes peeled. Go and grab the bits and start playing… :)
Hi guys,
If you're looking to get into how to host WCF Services on Azure, showing some cool graphics, then these samples are for you.
Silverlight v3.0 (beta), and important samples showing how to take your existing WCF Services and hosting/housing them in Auze (there's a few gotchas - and these samples have work arounds :) )
Grab them here -
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure
BizTalk ‘Cloud’ Services – BizTalk in the Cloud
With recent developments and BizTalk 2009 on the horizon, I thought we’d look at just what all these ‘cloud services’ mean and understand the term ‘cloud computing’ What’s cooking this month for the group?
This month we have Scott Scovell (BizTalk Virtual TS) presenting on a very exciting new shift in computing – Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.
You might be thinking – “What does this do for me?”
Well....(far too much for me dictate here)...but imagine if you can: - Connect seamlessly between clients and yourself (including firewalls etc) - Switch and deploy in house processes dynamically to ‘the cloud’ - Point to Point and Multicast messaging in the cloud between clients + server processes (i.e. similar to BTS filter messaging) - Push Workflows up in to the cloud....moving off premises and take advantage of the Cloud’s computing power. Alot of all this is based on the WCF Framework – you can start taking advantage of this today! For e.g. in BTS (R2 or 2009), you can create a ‘httpContextRelayBinding’ bound Receive Location, and you’ve now got an endpoint that can be called from anywhere (security permitting), from client’s networks and your own. There’s a huge amounts of smarts around all of this, but I look at them in the light that alot of ISPs offer Virtual Hosting – “Here’s a box and do what you will with it”. You’re then responsible for O/S, Web Setup, maybe DNS, etc etc etc.
In the Cloud – MS give a very granular degree of control by electing WCF Services, Workflows, Endpoints, Security, ServiceBus etc etc – that we can dedicate 1 or 100 CPUs to (at ‘the flick of a switch’). Redundancy, fault tolerance and even Geographic redundancy (e.g. engage some nodes in Greenland to run your apps – maybe closer to your clients) Main Event on the night:
Utilising Microsoft Azure from BizTalk 2006 R2 (+ beyond) Scott will cover: 1. Building blocks of Azure Cloud Computing. 2. Getting Started with Azure 3. BizTalk talking to the Cloud 4. Lots of demos! Meeting details: When: Nov 26, Food at 6pm, kick off 6.30pm. Finish up around 8.30pm.
Where: Microsoft
1 Epping Road
Riverside Corporate Park
North Ryde NSW 2113 Australia. (parking available)
Speaker: Scott Scovell
What’s happening in the BizTalk Community:
The combined user group leaders & I are setting up a Shared Folder in the ‘Mesh’, where we’ll be holding all the presentations across the User Groups (& other files). I’ll let you know when our testing is done. (BTW – this lets you have a local folder on your machine that automatically gets synced up to the ‘Mesh’. Easy peasy...I’m hoping)
Share the User Group Soap Box:
I always welcome a new voice and ideas at our group – if you want to share your experiences, thoughts, “I wish I can do..... for my solution...”. Then contact me and I’ll be more than happy to slot you in.
Q. Do you need to have presentation skills: No (just look at me) – can you tell a story in the office or at the pub? Or at a 3 yr old b.day party? – then I want you.
Q. Do I need a PowerPoint Slide Deck? – no!!! *death by powerpoint* is a painful way to go......
Q. Can you capture my ‘best’ side? We take you whichever way you are. J We’re up for a great night – come along and learn how to make your BizTalk solutions go a long way. See you there and let me know your coming
Mick (mb: 0404 842 833)
http://sydbiz.org
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