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Slides and links from ISV Windows Azure briefing on the 13th Dec 2010

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A big thank you to everyone who attended yesterdays “informal” briefing on the Windows Azure Platform. There were lots of great discussions during the day and I know we al certainly enjoyed it.

This post contains (ultimately) the slides and links from yesterday.

Slides:

• Davids on Windows Azure all up
• Eric on SQL Azure (which fyi is hosted on Windows Azure Blob Storage)

Links and Notes

• Start following the UK ISV technical team (our blog and twitter accounts) http://bit.ly/firststopuk 
• Sign up to Microsoft Platform Ready (MPR) to get access to the Cloud Essential benefit in January http://bit.ly/ukmprhome
  • Profile you company, profile your app – in time self-verify or test it against Azure.
  • Cloud Essentials is not yet mentioned on the MPR site but is explained at http://www.microsoftcloudpartner.com/ 
• SQL Azure team http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlazure
  • and http://www.sqlqzurelabs.com for futures
• Davids blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_gristwood 
• Steve Planks blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx 
  • The Windows Azure XS instance
• ISV Silver Competency – requires a MPR tested app. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Azure, SQL Azure.
  • Those Azure ones are straightforward :-)
• The complete list of unsupported TSQL operations is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ee336253.aspx
• For partners with MSDN Premium or Ultimate I highly recommend you turn on this benefit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx (and take advantage of Cloud Essentials in due course)
• The main pricing page is http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/