This is the Part 4 of Azure Websites/Azure Web Apps session. In this session I discuss the various Azure Website settings that are available to be configured. Particular attention is given to to how database connection strings and application settings are configured. A brief demo is provided on the location of the settings in the Azure Preview Portal. The session ens with an overview of how all the concepts addressed in this session are done through Windows PowerShell.

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This is the Part 3 of Azure Websites/Azure Web Apps session. In this session I discuss how a task can be run in the back-end on VM where the Azure Website is created and hosted. With a demo in this session I go through discussing how scripts can be zipped to create a webjob file and uploaded in Management Portal to later run it as a scheduled task. I also go through the relevant PowerShell cmdlets to perform the Webjobs related tasks.

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This is the Part 1 of Azure Websites/Azure Web Apps session. In this session I provide an introduction to Azure PaaS in general and get into specifics of what Azure Websites are. Also in this session I provide an introduction on what Azure Resource Groups are and how they are created and then move onto creating an Azure Website. After the Azure Website is created, I show website publishing with Visual Studio 2013 and also provide a quick demo on how webpages can be uploaded with a FTP client.

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This is the Part 10 and final session of the Azure Virtual Machines topic. In this session I talk about the basic built-in monitoring capabilities of Azure. There is demonstration on the various metrics of Azure and how alerts can be set on these metrics so one can be notified if any metric goes over a predefined threshold. There is further discussion on the Endpoint monitoring preview feature where the status of a web site can be monitored by Azure. Finally I discuss about Azure Diagnostics extension which has higher capability of monitoring Azure VMs and storing the data in a predefined Storage Account.

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This is the Part 9 of the Azure Virtual Machines session. In this session I talk about some storage related concepts that are directly related to Azure Virtual Machines. I discuss host caching concepts of Azure VMs and how they can be set. Next I provide a bonus tutorial on how Azure Data Disk IOPS can be tested for performance and how the IOPS can be increased in production environment by creating Storage Pool feature of Server 2012/R2/2016 where multiple data disks are used to increase the capacity and performance. Finally, I provide a demo of the Azure Files that can be used to create a file share that is accessible from any VM.

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This is the Part 8 of the Azure Virtual Machines session. In this session I talk about Azure High Availability concepts and provide demonstration on how Azure Virtual Machines can be joined to High Availability sets. The discussion further divulges into Azure scaling feature, both up and down and in and out and ends with demonstration of Azure Autoscaling feature.

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This is the Part 7 of the Azure Virtual Machines session. In this session I talk about Azure VM Endpoints, how to create them from Management Portal and PowerShell. Further discussion is done on the very important topic of Load Balancing sets in Azure and the endpoint probes. Lastly, I provide basic introduction to Azure VM ACLs and once again creating them through Management Portal and PowerShell.

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This is the Part 6 of the Azure Virtual Machines session. In this session I talk about Azure VM Agents and VM Extensions. This session is heavy on demos. I go over details on VM Agents and then provide information on how they are installed during VM creation as well as when they are uploaded as VHD from on-premise environment. Next the session moves on to what Extensions are and how to view all the extensions provided by Azure. Several demos are provide on the Azure provided extensions. The session ends with Custom Script Extension and how it can be used to run any script during the provisioning of a VM in Azure.

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This is the Part 5 of the Azure Virtual Machines session. In this session I discuss Azure images. First there are discussions about the type of VM images. Then I provide demo on capturing Azure VMs for creating generic images. Next there is a demonstration of creating specialized VMs in Azure. Further the session progresses with uploading a VHD from on-premise to Azure and then creating an Image based on the uploaded VHD. To wrap the session up I show a nice trick on how to bring a Windows client operating system and use it as an image on Azure to deploy client VMs.

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