The Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 release is out (Think "VS2012, Win8, whole bunch of demos and speaker notes" release)

NotSoTrivial - Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release

The Windows Azure Technical Evangelism team have been busy bees lately and we want to share with you what they’ve been working on. As you know we release the Windows Azure Training Kit on a regular cadence, so I’m pleased to announce the Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release.

This update of the training kit includes 47 hands-on labs, 24 demos and 38 presentations designed to help you learn how to build applications that use Windows Azure services, including updated hands-on labs to use the latest version of Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8, new demos and presentations.

Essential Links:

• Windows Azure Training Kit Download
• Windows Azure Training Kit Github [Issues]

Updated Presentations With Speaker Notes

Your voices were heard loud and clear! I am excited to announce Speaker Notes have been added to a the majority of the content we have available. Find the new updated decks which contain speaker notes below:

Foundation

• SQL Federation
• Virtual Machine Overview
• Virtual Networks
• Windows 8 and Windows Azure Web Sites
• Windows Azure Cloud Services
• Windows Azure Overview
• Windows Azure Service Bus
• Deploying Active Directory
• Building Apps With IaaS and PaaS

• Identity and Access Control
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Managing Virtual Machines PowerShell
• Migrating Apps and Workloads
• Scalable Global and Highly Available Apps
• Security and Identity
• SQL Database
• SQL Database Migration
• Cloud Service Life Cycle

DevCamps

• Cloud Services
• iOS, Android and Windows Azure
• Windows 8 and Windows Azure Web Sites
• Windows 8 and Windows Azure Mobile Services

Added Localized Content

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Updated Hands-On Labs

To support those who have upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 or those trying out the Visual Studio 2012 Express Editions, we have made sure that the content is available and supported (selected labs only) in Visual Studio 2012 Express and up.

Visual Studio 2012

• Windows Azure Traffic Manager
• Introduction to Cloud Services
• Service Bus Messaging
• Introduction to Access Control Service

This adds a significant amount of additional content, so we have revamped the Hands-On Lab Navigation page to include subsections for Visual Studio 2012 Labs, Visual Studio 2010 Labs, Open Source Labs, Scenario Labs, All Labs. ...

Added Demos

Demos are available for a number of presentations which are available in Foundation, DevCamp, ITPro Event & Device + Service DevCamps. You can browse through the demos on the respective Demo Navigation page or on Github (links provided in Demo listing below).

• HelloASP
• Connecting Cloud Services
• Service Bus Relay
• Windows 8 and Mobile Services
• URL Shortener iOS Client
• Migrating a Web Farm
• Deploying Active Directory
• URL Shortener Service  (PHP)
• Geo-Location Service (PHP)
• Geo-Location Android Client
• Getting Started with VMs
• Load Balancing Availability
• Deploying Hybrid Apps
• Migrate VM AppController
• Geo-Location iOS Client
• Scale Up/Down
• Using CSUpload
• URL Shortener Android Client
• Imaging Virtual Machines

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Look, if you're trying to learn what Azure is, try to grok a part of it, given Azure sessions to others or are just look for something to do this weekend, this is the Training Kit for you...

 

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