Wrapping up this course, hear Bob suggest some ways to gain mastery with Azure Websites and how you should proceed to the next course in this series on the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure.
Find out how Bob integrated Redis, a powerful open source centralized caching server hosted by Microsoft Azure, into the HeroVsRobot code for an expensive database operation to improve performance and to reduce the strain on the database.
Following up on the previous module, see a demo on how to point a custom domain to the Azure Traffic Manager that ultimately routes traffic regionally to two or more Azure Website instances hosted in different regions. Watch as Bob then creates
See how to set up the Azure Traffic Manager, which routes traffic in one of three ways: to improve performance by routing traffic regionally to a nearby Azure Websites instance, as a load balancer, or as a means of failing over when one Azure W
Find out why a good backup strategy is a critical requirement for your hosting platform, and explore the tightly integrated solution in Microsoft Azure Websites. See how to set it up, create a backup, and then restore it.
Find out how to set up a preview option on the Configure tab to make basic changes and check in code to Git directly from Visual Studio Online. Get an overview of the Visual Studio Online tools, along with potential issues you might encounter (
Get a follow-up to the previous model, and see a demo on how to use the System.Diagnostics.Trace class to send messages (from verbose to critical error messages) from your application to the application logs.
Find out the difference between site diagnostics and application diagnostics, and see Bob demonstrate how to set up log file storage and how to locate the various logs that are created at the web server level. Get a demo of the installation of
Learn to configure and monitor Azure Website metrics via the Management Portal and how to set up email alerts when those metrics exceed a given threshold for a specified amount of time.
Get the details on deployment slots, which allow you to create a staging environment to test your changes before pushing them into production and which let you roll back botched deployments. See how to set up and use this feature, and explore i
Watch Bob demo how to set a breakpoint in your desktop Visual Studio, deploy the application to Azure Websites with the appropriate settings, and then use Azure tooling in the Visual Studio Server Explorer to connect a debugger to step through
Find out how WebJobs allow you to create applications that run on a schedule or in response to incoming storage files or queue messages. Check out Bob's demonstration on how he used WebJobs in the HeroVsRobot example project, plus see how to cr
See Bob demonstrate how to use Filezilla to connect and work with Azure Websites, and get a look at how to set the deployment credentials in the Management Portal. Walk through how to find the FTP URLs, and then watch Bob deploy both a simple P
See Bob demonstrate how to use Filezilla to connect and work with Azure Websites, and get a look at how to set the deployment credentials in the Management Portal. Walk through how to find the FTP URLs, and then watch Bob deploy both a simple P
Watch as Bob connects his Azure Websites account to his VisualStudio.com account to add a project to Team Foundation Services Source control. Explore the differences between Git and TFS Source Control, and see how to perform a deployment direct
Get an overview of each of the options available in the Configuration tab, including platform versions, custom domain and SSL, app settings and configuration strings, and other website configuration options.
Peek under the hood, as Bob explains how websites are related to Resource Groups and Plans, how the free and shared plans work, and how Azure provisions resources necessary to provide these high-tenancy options while making sure that sufficient
Get the details on credentials-based authentication versus certificate-based authentication, as Bob discusses the preview of Role Based Authentication Control for managing services. Learn about the use of management certificates and find out ho
Take a look at the three ways you could host a website on the Azure platform. Bob discusses the features of each, along with their pros and cons, and he makes a case for selecting Microsoft Azure Websites over the other options.
Get started with a simple scenario, as Bob demonstrates how to deploy a simple "Hello World" style application using Azure tooling inside of Visual Studio.
Get a course intro from Bob, as he explains this session's role in the series of Microsoft Azure Fundamentals courses. He introduces you to his pet project, which helped him learn how to utilize Microsoft Azure Fundamentals in a real scenario,