Umbraco and Azure workshop
Friday, June 24, 2011

Download:

Umbraco Azure Workshop - Step by step guide.pdf
This pdf describes the installation and migration of an existing Umbraco website to Windows Azure using the new accelerator by Microsoft.
Umbraco and Azure workshop - Slides
The presentation on SlideShare

Speakers

Kurt Claeys - Microsoft

Kurt Claeys is a Technology Solution Professional Windows Azure and coach in Architecting Cloud oriented solutions.

Wim De Coninck - Orbit One

Wim De Coninck has been a developing .Net applications since 2003. Before that he was programming in various other languages such as C++, Java and VB.

He started working at Orbit One in 2009 as a .Net Developer and is now the Development Team Lead.

Olivier Mangelschots - Orbit One

Olivier Mangelschots, Managing Director of the company Orbit One Internet Solutions, located in Ghent, Belgium.

Our company was founded at the end of 1995. Since then, we've distinguished ourselves from the majority of our competitors by looking at 'the big picture' and working from a long-term vision.

Second edition of this popular interactive workshop, this time we will focus on the new "Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco" CodePlex project.

Schedule

Time	Programme
9:00	Welcome & coffee
9:30-11:00	Kurt Claeys - Technical dive into Azure
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:30	Umbraco CMS and Azure
12:30-13:30	lunch break
13:30-13:45	Azure Development Program (how can it help you)
13:45-16:30	hands-on workshop, setup your Umbraco website in Azure

Topics

Azure

Web & Worker Role
Virtual Machine sizes & performance
Storage Types: Blobs, Tables, Azure SQL, queues
No local persistant storage
Network Load Balancing (round robin)
Scale out to multiple instances
Multiples websites in one Azure account
Azure Content Delivery Network
Swap between development & production environments
Typical monthly costs to host Umbraco site
Q&A