Wrap up this series of courses with a "thank you" from Bob to several individuals who were instrumental in making it happen. Get encouragement to continue learning, and hear a few other…

See how Azure API Management allows you to wrap a management layer around Web APIs to manage developer accounts, add security, monitoring, and more.

Take a closer look at the Azure Scheduler, the technology behind WebJobs and Azure Mobile Services Scheduler. It allows you to create intricate schedules for operations that can be called from HTTP or…

Azure Automation allows you to use Powershell scripts, called runbooks, to automate common administrative tasks. See how to use runbooks created by the community, or create your own.

Take a closer look at BizTalk Services. When enterprises need to connect two disparate systems, they can write custom software to handle this, or they can utilize middleware (like BizTalk services) to…

Explore Azure Service Bus, which allows you to create bidirectional communication, pub-sub style communication, and massive message ingress.

Tour Media Services, which allows organizations to encode/transcode, stream, add rights management, and index the text from speech inside of video and audio files.

Learn about StorSimple, a hardware and software product that allows companies to create file shares in corporate networks that easily extend into the cloud and maximize the available space on premise.…

Find out how Azure Recovery Services allow companies to back up entire datacenters to the cloud or to other on-premises datacenters, all managed from the cloud.

Check out Azure Machine Learning, an exciting new service from Microsoft that promises to give everyone access to the kind of data analysis up to now was reserved for data scientists.

Begin a whirlwind tour of other Azure technologies, looking at HDInsight, the Microsoft hosted Hadoop implementation. Bob talks about Hadoop and Big Data at a high level, along with the ecosystem of…

See how to set up and use the Azure Storage File service.

Conclude this brief tour of Azure Mobile Services by creating scheduled jobs and seeing how they allow you to create JavaScript functions that run on a timed basis. These JavaScript functions have…

See how Azure Mobile Services allow you to create and test Web APIs that enforce business rules, security, and more.

See how to create a new application that demonstrates how to use a JavaScript back-end service and an HTML/JavaScript front-end application that uses all four data types, along with the…

​Find out how to create an Azure Mobile Service, and tour the basics on the Azure Portal. Plus, see Bob download a sample TODO app and tour its code.

Turning to another platform as a service (PaaS) from Azure, explore Microsoft Azure Mobile Services and see how it allows developers and designers a means of creating back-end services for their…

Watch Bob join his local computer to the Vnet via the gateway and then share files with a VM on the Vnet.

See how to create a management and client certificate so that the local computer can communicate over the gateway with the Vnet securely.

Begin the process of creating a point-to-site Vnet and a gateway, and then connect a local computer to the Vnet to share files with a VM in Azure.

Add two VMs to the new cloud-only Vnet, and then share files between the two VMs over the network.

See how simple it is to set up a cloud-only Vnet to allow Azure VMs to communicate securely.

Learn how VMs work, the difference between cloud-only, site-to-site, point-to-site Vnets, the ExpressRoute product, and advanced Vnet topologies.

In the previous module, we talked about adding two more more VMs into the same Cloud Service and we saw that those VMs had network access to each other. In this module, see how to set that up.

Although we've avoided talking about Cloud Services in this series of courses, we could not avoid it forever! Get more of the full story about VMs, as we look at their relationship with Cloud…

Explore Virtual (public), Private, Reserved, and Static IP addresses. When provisioning new VMs, two IP addresses are assigned to the VM; however, these IP addresses are not bound to the subscription…

Take a look at setting up Load Balanced Sets, and see how they work. Although Availability Sets focus on resiliency, Load Balanced Sets focus on performance.

Examine the Load Balancer, how traffic is load balanced at the network level, the function of the Internal Load Balancer, and more.

In the spirit of scaling out rather than scaling up, see how to create an Availability set and then allow VMs to join it.

Explore configuring a VM and using it as a template from which new VMs can be provisioned. Find out what you really get when you create an image and a new VM from that image.

Following on the heels of the previous module, watch Bob take the demo one more step as he initializes and formats the new VHDs.

See a demo on how to add new virtual hard drives (VHDs) to a VM from the Azure Portal.

See how to configure network endpoints to allow communication with the new VM through other network ports, like HTTP or FTP. Plus, learn how to connect a local copy of SQL Server Management Studio to…

Watch Bob create a VM and connect to its desktop via the Remote Desktop Connection utility.

Get conceptual background information about IaaS, VMs, available features, product variations, costs, and more.

Get ready to learn about virtual machines, other platform as a service (PaaS) services, and more.