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Tricks for Deleting Windows Azure Virtual Machines via the REST API

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 7, 2013 | Azure Integration Thoughts

While I call this post “tricks” for deleting a Windows Azure Virtual Machine it really is not a trick.  It does require a little deeper understanding of how Windows Azure creates and hosts Virtual Machines in order to use the REST API to delete them. Let us start...

BizTalk Server 2013 Image Available on Windows Azure Virtual Machines

by Stephen Thomas | Dec 12, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Windows Azure Virtual Machines now has a pre-built image for BizTalk Server 2013.  This will enable you to get up and running with BizTalk 2013 in just a few minutes.  Configuration is needed once you create a new virtual machine using this image. The...

October Images of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Available for Windows Azure Virtual Machines

by Stephen Thomas | Nov 14, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

I noticed today that the Platform Images for Windows Azure Virtual Machines has been updated to include a Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Image for October. The great news is I re-tested installing BizTalk Server 2013 Beta on the new Windows Server 2012...

Setting Up BizTalk Server 2013 Beta on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine

by Stephen Thomas | Nov 12, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

A few days ago BizTalk 2013 Beta was announced and released for download.  The plan is to make this available as a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Image just like the CTP but it has not yet been released.  Since the prebuilt image is not available, I wanted to...

November 11th – International Check Your Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret Key Day

by Stephen Thomas | Nov 11, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Let this go down in the record books that today marks the First Annual Celebration of International Check Your Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret Key Day! Picture this, it is 2 AM and you are sound asleep.  All of a sudden your work pager goes off.  The...

Vote for “The Story of Your Life – Mr. Virtual Machine” in the Windows Azure Makes Me FAST Contest

by Stephen Thomas | Nov 6, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Over the past few months I have been blogging a lot about the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines.  That is because I can see the huge impact on projects for having this type of infrastructure available literally at your fingertips – for pennies an...
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