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This morning we released another great set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:

• Web Sites: Staged Publishing Support and Always On Support
• Monitoring Improvements: Web Sites + SQL Database Alerts
• Hyper-V Recovery Manager: General Availability Release
• Mobile Services: Support for SenchaTouch
• PCI Compliance: Windows Azure Now Validated for PCI DSS Compliance

All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note that some features are still in preview).  Below are more details about them:

This morning we released another nice set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities include:

• Scheduler: New Windows Azure Scheduler Service
• Storage: New Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage Option
• Monitoring: Enhancements to Monitoring and Diagnostics for Azure services

All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note that some features are still in preview).  Below are more details about them:

I’ll be in Ireland and the UK next week presenting at several events.  Below are details on the talks I’ll be doing if you want to come along and hear them:

Dublin: Monday Dec 2nd

I’m doing two separate free events in Dublin on Monday:

• Windows Azure and the Cloud at Mon 1-3pm.  This event is free to attend, and I’ll be doing a two hour keynote/overview session on Windows Azure as part of it.  This will be a great talk to attend if you are new to Windows Azure and are interested in learning more about what you can do with it.  Later sessions at the event also cover VS 2013, building iOS/Android apps with C# using Xamarin, and F# with Data and the Cloud.  Lean more here and sign-up for free.

• Building Real World Application using Windows Azure at Mon 6:00-9:00pm.  This event is also free to attend, and during it I’ll walkthrough building a real world application using Windows Azure and discuss patterns and best practice techniques for building real world apps along the way.  The content is intermediate/advanced level (my goal is to melt your brain by the end) but doesn’t assume prior knowledge of Windows Azure.  Learn more here and sign-up for free.

There is no content overlap between the two talks – so feel free to attend both if you want to!

This morning we released another great set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities include:

• BizTalk Services: General Availability Release
• Traffic Manager: General Availability Release
• Active Directory: General Availability Release of Application Access Support
• Mobile Services: Active Directory Support, Xamarin support for iOS and Android with C#, Optimistic concurrency
• Notification Hubs: Price Reduction + Debug Send Support
• Web Sites: Diagnostics Support for Automatic Logging to Blob Storage
• Storage: Support for alerting based on storage metrics
• Monitoring: Preview release of Windows Azure Monitoring Service Library

All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note that some features are still in preview).  Below are more details about them:

Two weeks ago we released a giant set of improvements to Windows Azure, as well as a significant update of the Windows Azure SDK.

This morning we released another massive set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities include:

• Storage: Import/Export Hard Disk Drives to your Storage Accounts
• HDInsight: General Availability of our Hadoop Service in the cloud
• Virtual Machines: New VM Gallery, ACL support for VIPs
• Web Sites: WebSocket and Remote Debugging Support
• Notification Hubs: Segmented customer push notification support with tag expressions
• TFS & GIT: Continuous Delivery Support for Web Sites + Cloud Services
• Developer Analytics: New Relic support for Web Sites + Mobile Services
• Service Bus: Support for partitioned queues and topics
• Billing: New Billing Alert Service that sends emails notifications when your bill hits a threshold you define

All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note that some features are still in preview).  Below are more details about them.

Earlier today I blogged about a big update we made today to Windows Azure, and some of the great new features it provides.

Today I’m also excited to also announce the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.2. Today’s SDK release adds even more great features including:

• Visual Studio 2013 Support
• Integrated Windows Azure Sign-In support within Visual Studio
• Remote Debugging Cloud Services with Visual Studio
• Firewall Management support within Visual Studio for SQL Databases
• Visual Studio 2013 RTM VM Images for MSDN Subscribers
• Windows Azure Management Libraries for .NET
• Updated Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets and ScriptCenter

The below post has more details on what’s available in today’s Windows Azure SDK 2.2 release.  Also head over to Channel 9 to see the new episode of the Visual Studio Toolbox show that will be available shortly, and which highlights these features in a video demonstration.

This morning we released a huge set of updates to Windows Azure.  These new capabilities include:

• Backup Services: General Availability of Windows Azure Backup Services
• Hyper-V Recovery Manager: Public preview of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
• Virtual Machines: Delete Attached Disks, Availability Set Warnings, SQL AlwaysOn Configuration
• Active Directory: Securely manage hundreds of SaaS applications
• Enterprise Management: Use Active Directory to Better Manage Windows Azure
• Windows Azure SDK 2.2: A massive update of our SDK + Visual Studio tooling support

All of these improvements are now available to use immediately.  Below are more details about them.

Today we released some great updates to Windows Azure:

• Virtual Machines: Support for Windows Server 2012 R2
• Cloud Services: Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and .NET 4.5.1
• Windows Azure Pack: Use Windows Azure features on-premises using Windows Server 2012 R2
• Price Cuts: Up to 22% Price Reduction on Memory-Intensive Instances

Below are more details about each of the improvements: