May 25, 2010

Agenda - Azure Boot Camp SLC

As I stated in my last post we are holding a day of Windows Azure training and hands-on labs in Salt Lake City on June 11th. Here is the link to register:

Register for Salt Lake City Azure Boot Camp

And here is the agenda:

Welcome and Introduction to Windows Azure
Lab: "Hello, Cloud"
Presentation: Windows Azure Hosting
Presentation: Windows Azure Storage
Lab: Hosting and Storage
Presentation: SQL Azure
Lab: SQL Azure
Presentation: AppFabric
Wrap-up

The day will be a pretty even split of presentations and actual hands-on work. You will be given 2 days of access to the Windows Azure platform allowing you to work through the labs and have a little more time to explore yourself.

Please let me know if you have any questions mike.erickson@neudesic.com - I'm hoping to see the event fill up!

May 20, 2010

Azure Boot Camp - Salt Lake City

We will be hosting a 1 day version of the Azure Boot Camp (www.azurebootcamp.com) in Salt Lake City on June 11th. This will be a free event, and it will be a combination of presentations and hands-on experience with the Windows Azure platform. Here is the information you will need (I hope!) to make this a fun and worthwhile experience for you! Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help you prepare for the event! You can contact me here, or send an email to mike.erickson@neudesic.com.

First, to register for the Salt Lake City event please follow this link:

Register for Salt Lake City Azure Boot Camp

I will post our agenda in the next couple of days.

For the hands-on work that all attendees will be doing we are requesting that you come with your laptop setup ready to go. There are a couple of different lists of required software depending on where you look and this has led to some questions about how a machine should be configured to enable the hands-on work that will be done. The following is the configuration that I plan on using for the presentation - I will, in the next few days, verify that it will work for the presentations and the hands-on work that we will be doing. If there are any issues I will post them here and I will be sure to send a tweet about them as well (@mgerickson).

I'm looking forward to the event! Watch for updated information and please let me know of any questions you may have!