Join us March 15th for the first Azure Blockchain AMA

Join us Wednesday, March 15th at 9am PST/12pm EST for the first Azure Blockchain-hosted Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Microsoft Tech Community. We receive great feedback and input about blockchain through customer engagements and other channels, but we haven’t interacted broadly in real-time, until now. You’ll be able to connect directly with the Blockchain team, who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.

Add the AMA to your calendar!

When:

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from 09:00 am to 10:00 am Pacific Time

Where:

The Azure Blockchain Community

What’s an AMA session?

We’ll have folks from the Azure Blockchain engineering team available to answer any questions you have. You can ask us anything about our products, services, or even our team!

Why are we doing an AMA?

Connect directly with customers and hear your feedback and answer your questions, such as:

What is Microsoft’s strategy around blockchain?
Why have blockchain on Azure?
What are the most common blockchain scenarios for industry X or vertical Y?
How do I submit blockchain feature requests?

Who will be at the AMA?

We’ll have PMs, developers, and technical thought leaders from the Azure Blockchain engineering team.

We’re looking forward to this AMA and to connect with you directly.
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Azure Data Lake Analytics and Data Lake Store now available in Europe

Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Data Lake Store are now available in the North Europe region. For more information about pricing, please visit the Data Lake Analytics Pricing and Data Lake Store Pricing webpages. Data Lake Analytics is a cloud analytics service for developing and running massively parallel data transformation and processing programs in U-SQL, R, Python, and .NET over petabytes of data. Data Lake Store is a no-limit cloud data lake built so enterprises can unlock value from unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data. To learn more about these services, please visit the Data Lake Analytics and Data Lake Store webpages.
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Leverage the Azure CLI with these examples

Customer response to our CLI has been great since the preview release last September and the GA announcement in February. This has been a great opportunity for us to work with customers and learn what is working well and what is still needed. Some of the feedback we’ve received is that we need to provide more documentation and examples to fully leverage all the new features.

Based on this feedback, we’re delivering samples for Linux and Windows VMs, Web Apps, and Azure SQL Database, all of which can be found on this overview page. For Linux VMs, we’re highlighting best practices for creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting, with similar scripts for Windows VMs. For Microsoft SQL Azure, we get you started with scripts for creating single and pooled databases. For Web Apps, we show you how to create a Web App with integration to your favorite deployment method (git, GitHub, Docker, etc.) as well as configure, scale, connect to resources, and monitor your Web Apps, all from the command line. Here’s an example that creates an Azure Web App that is ready to deploy code from GitHub:

All of the example scripts can be used in the CLI “as is”, and also as documentation to help you understand how to develop your own scripts.

You can also get started with the CLI using the rest of our updated docs and samples, including installing and updating the CLI, working with Virtual Machines, creating a complete Linux environment including VMs, Scale Sets, Storage, and network. The Azure CLI is open source and on GitHub.

We’re continuing to provide updates based on your ongoing feedback, so please share any suggestions you may have. Reach out with suggestions or questions via StackOverflow using the azure-cli tag, or email us directly at azfeedback@microsoft.com.
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