Ah, one of the Azure exams. Since Azure is kinda new I guess it is hard to find something put together since it is ever changing. Been on some Cert forums but others have been asking the same questions apparently.
Heh. There really is nothing. In fact, the dev exams are actually being beta tested as we speak. The hard part with the current Azure videos from Microsoft is they have too much of a sales pitch or heavily mixed in with developer talk.
MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com great place to start if you want to jump right in to Windows Server 2012 R2 or other Microsoft based products. I will warn you though. You will never look back. Microsoft has taken some great strides in making their products awesome. I really wish I could dump all hypervisors and just use Hyper-V but still need modules for WHMCS and a control panel for such public usability. I've more or less become a Microsoft fanboy these days but somethings I still prefer in just plain Linux but every Os has their jobs and tasks
I like Azure...but admittedly because I get MSDN credits through a work-paid subscription. People are usually surprised to learn you can run Linux there. In fact, if you go to VMdepot you can even find FreeBSD images
No OpenBSD yet, alas...
Haha one of my main focus is to try and setup those virtual desktops. Not really a roaming profile but simply having people connect to the server via RDP and using it as if they do a normal computer. I may or may not have a Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition running on a KVM on a node just for this occasionMicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com great place to start if you want to jump right in to Windows Server 2012 R2 or other Microsoft based products. I will warn you though. You will never look back. Microsoft has taken some great strides in making their products awesome. I really wish I could dump all hypervisors and just use Hyper-V but still need modules for WHMCS and a control panel for such public usability. I've more or less become a Microsoft fanboy these days but somethings I still prefer in just plain Linux but every Os has their jobs and tasks
(legit license of course through Dreamspark!)
Nice article!I like Azure...but admittedly because I get MSDN credits through a work-paid subscription. People are usually surprised to learn you can run Linux there. In fact, if you go to VMdepot you can even find FreeBSD images
It's not my favorite place to host a VPS, honestly, but it's certainly comparable to Amazon EC2. Besides the pricing model (which makes bandwidth expensive), lack of a console irritates me. Also, their Linux templates are goofy...e.g., the CentOS one has a swap partition but doesn't turn it on, etc. Still, mine there have been bulletproof. I do like the external firewall, which is like Amazon's, and the portal is very pretty.
Their PaaS idea (the original pre-VM Azure) was interesting but never caught on. I'm not sure how much any of the PaaS models (Google's, etc.) have caught on, unless it's someone buying a SaaS they want to extend (like Salesforce).
I wrote an article for LinuxJournal on Azure:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-azure%E2%80%94-strange-place-find-penguin
DreamSpark is a great way to get lots of decent tech for free. I've noticed even outside DS Microsoft is starting to give away their products to get more people to dev their stuff.Haha one of my main focus is to try and setup those virtual desktops. Not really a roaming profile but simply having people connect to the server via RDP and using it as if they do a normal computer. I may or may not have a Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition running on a KVM on a node just for this occasion
I guess I'll hit up the Virtual Academy then. Thanks!
Haha yeah in a sense. But I mean full desktop. I love working with X2Go and on a Linux desktop when I'm all remote, but there's a ton of specialized software that I need working that doesn't work under wine (Scientific software that I'd rather not risk messing up with third party libraries). So I was hoping kind of like a RDP solution would be around.