The new Windows Azure pricing calculator lets you pick compute, database, storage, bandwidth, CDN and Service Bus capacity based on your needs. Along with predicting your expected monthly costs, the pricing calculator then recommends the most cost effective offer for you to purchase Windows Azure platform services. You can access the pricing calculator here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
Good summary of techniques to backup and restore SQL Azure databases, as well as some thoughts on features that future tools will provide. Click here to open link…
Installing SQL Server on a VM Role is not a pattern that Microsoft recommends for different reasons (including local storage scalability), but this article exposes some interesting ways of using this approach for cost saving purposes. Click here to open link…
If you are interested in accessing the SQL Server Reporting CTP, follow the link. Click here to open link…
Samples on how to use ACS with different identity providers, including ADFS2, Windows Live ID, Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Click here to open link…
A patch to fix the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability is being released tomorrow. Scott Gu just blogged details: http://bit.ly/axbzw4
As it is explained by Steve Marx on this article, startup tasks are actions that can be set before the Azure roles start, and a powerful resource to configure IIS and other role components. Click here to open link…
