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Learning Microsoft Azure

By : Geoff Webber Cross, Geoff Webber-Cross
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Learning Microsoft Azure

By: Geoff Webber Cross, Geoff Webber-Cross

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Learning Microsoft Azure
Geoff Webber Cross | Geoff Webber-Cross
Oct, 2014 | 430 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Azure
Learning Microsoft Azure
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
An overview of cloud computing
Microsoft Azure overview
Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution
Administration of Microsoft Azure systems
Choosing a subscription
Creating a Microsoft Azure account
Adding a subscription
Exploring the portal
Examining Microsoft Azure Services
Summary
Questions
Answers
2
Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
Designing scalable and resilient systems
Systems architecture
A case study of a small business system
A case study of an enterprise system – Azure Bakery
Designing platform environments
Summary
Questions
Answers
3
Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
Preparing our development environment
Checking for Visual Studio updates
Creating a website
Configuring a website in the portal
Creating a Visual Studio Online project
Setting up continuous deployment
Setting up alerts
Summary
Questions
Answers
4
Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
Creating a database using the Azure management portal
Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations
Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases
Backing up and restoring databases
Summary
Questions
Answers
5
Building Azure MVC Websites
Building Azure MVC Websites
Implementing OAuth authentication
Completing the customer sales website
Adding a custom domain name to a website
Implementing an SSL certificate
Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website
Implementing Azure AD group authorization
Completing the admin sales website
Summary
Questions
Answers
6
Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
Enabling diagnostics
Application logging
Site diagnostics
Kudu
Remote debugging
Summary
Questions
Answers
7
Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics
Dead-letter queues
Creating a Service Bus topic
Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic
The messaging simulator
Exploring the topic workspace
Summary
Questions
Answers
8
Building Worker Roles
Building Worker Roles
Introducing cloud services
Exploring worker roles
Running locally
Publishing a worker role
Building the production order processor
Creating a scheduled work activity
Completing the worker role
Testing the production order processor
Deleting idle cloud services
Summary
Questions
Answers
9
Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
Configuring diagnostics
Remote debugging
Debugging with IntelliTrace
Remote desktop connection
Detecting configuration changes in code
Start-up tasks
Summary
Questions
Answers
10
Web API and Client Integration
Web API and Client Integration
Introducing a Web API
Introducing SignalR
Building a Web API service
Creating a SignalR hub
Publishing a Web API
Modifying the Web API AD manifest
Adding a client application to AD
Building a client application
Summary
Questions
Answers
11
Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
Introducing Azure mobile services
Creating the customer Azure mobile service
Exploring the mobile service sample project
Creating a Windows Phone application
Updating the order processor
Updating the admin website
Creating the supply mobile service
Creating the supply Windows Store application
Summary
Questions
Answers
12
Preparing an Azure System for Production
Preparing an Azure System for Production
Project configurations for multiple environments
Building website deployment packages
Building cloud service deployment packages
Deploying web packages to Azure
Deploying cloud packages to Azure
Creating database scripts from Entity Framework Code First Migrations
The go-live checklist
Monitoring live services
Azure daily service checks
Azure periodic service activities
Azure tool list
Summary
Questions
Answers
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

This chapter introduces Microsoft Azure, the process of implementing it, and the features and services it can offer us. We will cover the following topics:

  • A brief overview of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure

  • Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution

  • Administration of a Microsoft Azure system

  • Choosing a subscription

  • A walk-through of creating a Microsoft Azure account

  • Exploring the Microsoft Azure Management portal

  • Examining all the Microsoft Azure service options

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