The Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 release is out (Think &quot;VS2012, Win8, whole bunch of demos and speaker notes&quot; release)

NotSoTrivial - Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release

The Windows Azure Technical Evangelism team have been busy bees lately and we want to share with you what they’ve been working on. As you know we release the Windows Azure Training Kit on a regular cadence, so I’m pleased to announce the Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release.

This update of the training kit includes 47 hands-on labs, 24 demos and 38 presentations designed to help you learn how to build applications that use Windows Azure services, including updated hands-on labs to use the latest version of Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8, new demos and presentations.

Essential Links:

Windows Azure Training Kit Download

Windows Azure Training Kit Github [Issues]

Updated Presentations With Speaker Notes

Your voices were heard loud and clear! I am excited to announce Speaker Notes have been added to a the majority of the content we have available. Find the new updated decks which contain speaker notes below:

Foundation

SQL Federation

Virtual Machine Overview

Virtual Networks

Windows 8 and Windows Azure Web Sites

Windows Azure Cloud Services

Windows Azure Overview

Windows Azure Service Bus

Deploying Active Directory

Building Apps With IaaS and PaaS

Identity and Access Control

Linux Virtual Machines

Managing Virtual Machines PowerShell

Migrating Apps and Workloads

Scalable Global and Highly Available Apps

Security and Identity

SQL Database

SQL Database Migration

Cloud Service Life Cycle

DevCamps

Cloud Services

iOS, Android and Windows Azure

Windows 8 and Windows Azure Web Sites

Windows 8 and Windows Azure Mobile Services

Added Localized Content

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Updated Hands-On Labs

To support those who have upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 or those trying out the Visual Studio 2012 Express Editions, we have made sure that the content is available and supported (selected labs only) in Visual Studio 2012 Express and up.

Visual Studio 2012

Windows Azure Traffic Manager

Introduction to Cloud Services

Service Bus Messaging

Introduction to Access Control Service

This adds a significant amount of additional content, so we have revamped the Hands-On Lab Navigation page to include subsections for Visual Studio 2012 Labs, Visual Studio 2010 Labs, Open Source Labs, Scenario Labs, All Labs. ...

Added Demos

Demos are available for a number of presentations which are available in Foundation, DevCamp, ITPro Event & Device + Service DevCamps. You can browse through the demos on the respective Demo Navigation page or on Github (links provided in Demo listing below).

HelloASP

Connecting Cloud Services

Service Bus Relay

Windows 8 and Mobile Services

URL Shortener iOS Client

Migrating a Web Farm

Deploying Active Directory

URL Shortener Service (PHP)

Geo-Location Service (PHP)

Geo-Location Android Client

Getting Started with VMs

Load Balancing Availability

Deploying Hybrid Apps

Migrate VM AppController

Geo-Location iOS Client

Scale Up/Down

Using CSUpload

URL Shortener Android Client

Imaging Virtual Machines

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Look, if you're trying to learn what Azure is, try to grok a part of it, given Azure sessions to others or are just look for something to do this weekend, this is the Training Kit for you...