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What a massive year it's been for Microsoft's Azure public cloud platform.

Starting Tuesday November 18 Microsoft started rolling out Office 365 Video to customers who have opted in to the First Release programme (if you haven't you will need to wait a little longer!)

For those of you who didn't get a chance to come along to my presentation on Azure API Management at TechEd...

For those of you who didn't get a chance to come along to my presentation on Azure API Management at TechEd...

I've been busy through October writing...

I'm having fun playing with the new Azure Resource Manager Tags feature.

In this post I share some of the cool configuration and analytics that Azure API Management provides to API Publishers.

I'll be speaking in Melbourne on 7 October on the topic 'Microsoft Azure API Management: Win Friends and Make Money'.

In doing my prep for my upcoming talk at TechEd Australia I came across this gem from April 2004...

I had some interesting challenges last week in managing Azure SQL Database from inside of Visual Studio 2013.

See how in less than 30 lines of code you can enumerate all virtual machines in a subscription and then power them off.

Learn how to unblock someone who has a personal email address that matches an Azure AD organisational account.

I've been working hard the last couple of weeks getting things ready for my session ...

I am proposing a new metric for use in cloud autoscale.

See how to build out the history of a Work Item so it displays "Discussion Only" items and excludes all others.

What happens when you remove a user's account from Visual Studio Online?

One of the least used and understood features of SharePoint Online is the Partner Access License or PAL...

Autoscale is one of the facets of the cloud that I see often misunderstood by developers and IT Pros alike, so let's take a look at it in more detail.

How do you keep applications running in Azure?

It's another session with your Dad, this time looking at messaging and eventing in Microsoft Azure.

Your dad has more questions on big data, so let's get a look at data in Microsoft Azure.

Your dad still has questions, so here's the second in my series of posts looking at Microsoft Azure.

There's a lot to Microsoft Azure.

Having just returned from holiday, the need to provide Family IT support over the Christmas period is top of my mind.

I pulled together some of the best free tech videos I've watched and learned from during the year.

A walk through of to convet an existing ASP.NET 2.0 WebForms application that's using Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with Membership and Role Provider support and update it to utilise a more modern Claims Based Authentication

See how you can use cloud-based media services to shorten time-to-market for video-based ideas.

Access the code and watch the demonstration video from my talk at TechEd Australia 2013.

See how you can use tags on work items in TFS to filter what work you see and make it easier to manage.

A really quick and easy tip for those starting out doing mobile development with Xamarin...

A really quick and easy tip for those starting out doing iOS development with Xamarin...

A really quick and easy tip for those starting out doing iOS development with Xamarin...

I've been working hard the last couple of weeks getting things ready for my session ...

Why not generate PowerShell scriptlets from actions completed within the Azure Mangement Portal?

If you have ever provisioned a SQL Server instance running on Azure IaaS and not used a VPN solution you will find...

In this post we cover how you can utilise Windows Azure Access Control Services (ACS) as a Security Token Service (STS) to centralise and simplify authentication.

A quick link to a blog on connecting a website on Azure PaaS to a database running on an Azure VM.

Unsurprisingly, I think the way Cloud Computing is transforming the IT industry is also leading to easier ways to learn and develop skills about the Cloud.

SharePoint has always been a bit a challenge when it comes to structured ALM and developer practices which is something Microsoft partially addressed...

The increasing adoption of Office 365 is driving a lot of traditional development on the SharePoint platform online.

I think that as technology professionals and as citizens in a very tech-savvy world we assume the detail of what we do for a job can be explained...

In this day of elastic on-demand compute resource it can be easy to lose focus on how best to leverage a smaller footprint when it's so easy to add capacity.

I think that as technology professionals and as citizens in a very tech-savvy world we assume the detail of what we do for a job can be explained...

Every once in a while you come across a tool that really fits its purpose and delivers good value for not a whole lot of effort.

One of the powerful features of AWS is the ability to snapshot any EBS volume you have operating.

I've just burnt a couple of hours trying to figure out how to get Hyper-V and Windows 8 to play nicely with one another at a networking level.

After what seems like ages we finally managed to get to the bottom of the weird issues we were having with a load balanced instance of Umbraco hosted at AWS.

Having worked with every version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) since its inception I was keen to see what API support "TFSPreview.com" has...

I did a session today with the team at work around how Agile Requirements fit into the bigger picture of Agile project delivery.