[WinPartners] Microsoft Azure Hands on labs October 7th 1-4PM in Cambridge MA

[Alexander Kozlov]

Greetings Winpartners,

As was announced at our last meeting Matt Hickey is sponsoring a free Windows Azure<http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/> hands on-labs in Cambridge Tuesday October 7th from 1-4PM.

Please reply to Matt Hickey matthic at microsoft.com<mailto:matthic at microsoft.com> directly if you would like to attend.


What: Windows Azure Hands-on labs
Where: Microsoft Office 1 Cambridge Center
When: Oct 7th 1-4PM

Agenda:

-          Introductions

-          Overview of Azure IaaS - main components and key features we'll use today

-          How to leverage MSDN or a trial subscription

-          Setting up IaaS - all the initial steps

o   Storage - planning and utilization

o   Networking (and all the tricks)

o   Planning for resiliency

o   Services, affinity, and other key concepts in Azure

-          Creating Windows VMs

o   Choosing an Image / Uploading your images

o   Sizing and Storage choices

o   Networking & Services

o   Ongoing management of VMs

-          Next Steps

o   Setting up the site-to-site VPN in Azure

o   Where other EDU customers have had success with Azure / case studies

o   Uploading your standard images

o   Planning for non-Windows OS's

o   Using Azure for  more - Backup & Recovery
Q&A - Wrap up


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Alexander Kozlov
Windows Platform Coordinator
Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
W92 - 229H
(617) 253-5103