by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 12, 2013 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Did you know you are charged for a Windows Azure Virtual Machine every hour it is deployed even if it is not running? I would guess many people are not using their Virtual Machines at night when they sleep so shouldn’t we have a simple way to take them...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
