TechNet How-to Videos

A collection of how-to videos highlighting new features and capabilities of Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and other new Microsoft technologies.

• How Do I: Configure SQL Azure Security?

  In this video, Max Adams introduces security within SQL Azure. The creation of Logins, Databases and Users is discussed and demonstrated. The views sys.sql_logins and sys.databases which allow the display of logins and databases from the master database are also discussed.

• How Do I: Managing SSL Certificates With Azure ?

  In this video, Max Adams describes how to create and deploy SSL certificates to Windows Azure applications. An x509 certificate is also deployed to the Azure account for use with the Windows Azure Management API.

• How Do I: Deploying With CS Pack ?

  There are times when using command line utilities instead of an IDE to deploy Azure applications just make sense. In this video, Max Adams introduces the Azure SDK’s command line utilities – CSPack and CSRun to do this type of packaging and deployment.

• How Do I: Azure Deployment State Errors ?

  In this video, Max Adams discusses the most common errors that cause a deployment of a Windows Azure application to cycle between the Initializing, Busy, and Stopped statuses. The discussion includes assembly errors, configuration errors, and unhandled exceptions.

• How Do I: Use Powershell to Manage My Azure Services?

  Managing Azure deployments has been made infinitely easier with the advent of the Azure Management API. In this video, Max Adams introduces the next step in efficiency – managing your Azure deployments with the use of Powershell commandlets that wrap the management API and allow scripting of all Azure management tasks.