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Learning Microsoft Azure

Learning Microsoft Azure

By : Geoff Webber Cross
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Learning Microsoft Azure

Learning Microsoft Azure

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By: Geoff Webber Cross
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer interested in building systems for Microsoft Azure, with an understanding of efficient cloud-based application development, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
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1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
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An overview of cloud computing
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Microsoft Azure overview
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Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution
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Administration of Microsoft Azure systems
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Choosing a subscription
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Creating a Microsoft Azure account
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Adding a subscription
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Exploring the portal
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Examining Microsoft Azure Services
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Summary
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2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
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2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
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Designing scalable and resilient systems
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Systems architecture
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A case study of a small business system
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A case study of an enterprise system – Azure Bakery
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Designing platform environments
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Summary
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3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
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3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
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Preparing our development environment
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Checking for Visual Studio updates
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Creating a website
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Configuring a website in the portal
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Creating a Visual Studio Online project
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Setting up continuous deployment
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Setting up alerts
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Summary
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Questions
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4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
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4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
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Creating a database using the Azure management portal
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Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations
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Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases
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Backing up and restoring databases
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Summary
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5. Building Azure MVC Websites
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5. Building Azure MVC Websites
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Implementing OAuth authentication
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Completing the customer sales website
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Adding a custom domain name to a website
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Implementing an SSL certificate
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Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website
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Implementing Azure AD group authorization
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Completing the admin sales website
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6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
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6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
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Enabling diagnostics
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Application logging
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Site diagnostics
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Kudu
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Remote debugging
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Summary
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7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
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7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
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Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics
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Dead-letter queues
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Creating a Service Bus topic
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Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic
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The messaging simulator
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Exploring the topic workspace
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Summary
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8. Building Worker Roles
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8. Building Worker Roles
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Introducing cloud services
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Exploring worker roles
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Running locally
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Publishing a worker role
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Building the production order processor
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Creating a scheduled work activity
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Completing the worker role
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Testing the production order processor
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Deleting idle cloud services
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9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
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9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
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Configuring diagnostics
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Remote debugging
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Debugging with IntelliTrace
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Remote desktop connection
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Detecting configuration changes in code
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Start-up tasks
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10. Web API and Client Integration
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10. Web API and Client Integration
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Introducing a Web API
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Introducing SignalR
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Building a Web API service
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Creating a SignalR hub
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Publishing a Web API
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Modifying the Web API AD manifest
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Adding a client application to AD
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Building a client application
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11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
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11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
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Introducing Azure mobile services
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Creating the customer Azure mobile service
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Exploring the mobile service sample project
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Creating a Windows Phone application
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Updating the order processor
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Updating the admin website
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Creating the supply mobile service
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Creating the supply Windows Store application
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12. Preparing an Azure System for Production
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12. Preparing an Azure System for Production
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Project configurations for multiple environments
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Building website deployment packages
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Building cloud service deployment packages
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Deploying web packages to Azure
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Deploying cloud packages to Azure
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Creating database scripts from Entity Framework Code First Migrations
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The go-live checklist
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Monitoring live services
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Azure daily service checks
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Azure periodic service activities
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Azure tool list
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Remote desktop connection

As cloud services run on dedicated virtual machines (per deployment environment), it's possible to remote desktop to them to perform advanced diagnostics and configuration, although generally, it's not the best practice to do manual modifications to the environment as these will not be applied to roles when they are initially created during a scale out or re-imaged on a guest-OS upgrade, which happens every few months (there's a great article about OS upgrades here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2012/09/19/role-instance-restarts-due-to-os-upgrades.aspx). To implement environment customizations, it's recommended that you use start-up tasks, which we will be covering shortly.

In the previous chapter, we configured remote desktop during the publish step with a username and password. We can connect using a .rdp file downloaded from the portal, which is useful for system administrators or via the Visual Studio Server Explorer window, which can be more convenient...

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