Table of Contents

Foreword .................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 12

Who should read this ebook...................................................................................................................... 12

Assumptions ............................................................................................................................................... 12

This ebook might not be for you if… ...................................................................................................... 13

Organization of this ebook ......................................................................................................................... 13

Conventions and features in this ebook ............................................................................................... 14

System requirements..................................................................................................................................... 14

Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................................................... 15

Errata, updates, & support .......................................................................................................................... 16

Free ebooks from Microsoft Press ........................................................................................................... 16

We want to hear from you ......................................................................................................................... 16

Stay in touch ..................................................................................................................................................... 16

Chapter 1 Getting started with Azure .......................................................................................................... 17

What is Azure? ................................................................................................................................................. 17

Overview of cloud computing ............................................................................................................ 17

Comparison of on-premises versus Azure ............................................................................... 18

Cloud offering............................................................................................................................................ 19

SaaS: Software as a Service ............................................................................................................. 19

PaaS: Platform as a Service ............................................................................................................. 19

IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service .................................................................................................... 19

Azure services ............................................................................................................................................ 20

Introduction to portals ................................................................................................................................. 20

Azure Preview Portal ............................................................................................................................... 21

Blades and journeys .......................................................................................................................... 22

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Customizing the Startboard .......................................................................................................... 27

Azure Management Portal ................................................................................................................... 28

Subscription management and billing ................................................................................................... 32

Available subscriptions ........................................................................................................................... 32

Share administrative privileges for your Azure subscription .................................................. 33

Add administrative privileges in the Azure Preview Portal ............................................... 34

Add a co-administrator in Azure Management Portal ....................................................... 38

Pricing calculator ...................................................................................................................................... 39

Billing ............................................................................................................................................................ 41

Chapter 2 Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services ............................................................................ 46

Creating and configuring websites ......................................................................................................... 46

What is Azure Websites? ....................................................................................................................... 46

Creating a new website.......................................................................................................................... 47

Using the portal .................................................................................................................................. 47

Websites gallery .................................................................................................................................. 51

Configure and scale a website ...................................................................................................... 53

Configuration....................................................................................................................................... 53

Scaling .................................................................................................................................................... 59

Deploying and monitoring websites ...................................................................................................... 61

Options for creating websites ............................................................................................................. 61

Notepad or an HTML editor .......................................................................................................... 61

WebMatrix ............................................................................................................................................ 62

Visual Studio ........................................................................................................................................ 62

Publishing a website from Visual Studio ........................................................................................ 63

Monitoring a website ............................................................................................................................. 65

PaaS Cloud Services ....................................................................................................................................... 66

Creating a cloud service ........................................................................................................................ 66

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Publishing a cloud service .................................................................................................................... 69

Scaling and monitoring a cloud service .......................................................................................... 72

SCALE options ............................................................................................................................................ 72

Monitoring .................................................................................................................................................. 74

Miscellaneous points ..................................................................................................................................... 77

Configuration in the portal .................................................................................................................. 77

Production and staging slots in the portal .................................................................................... 77

Worker roles ............................................................................................................................................... 77

Chapter 3 Azure Virtual Machines ................................................................................................................. 78

What is Azure Virtual Machines?.............................................................................................................. 78

VM status ..................................................................................................................................................... 79

IP address .................................................................................................................................................... 80

Billing............................................................................................................................................................. 80

Create and configure virtual machines .................................................................................................. 80

Create a virtual machine with the Azure Preview Portal .......................................................... 81

Connect to a virtual machine .............................................................................................................. 84

Configure disks ................................................................................................................................................ 84

Caching......................................................................................................................................................... 85

Attach a disk ............................................................................................................................................... 85

Formatting disks ....................................................................................................................................... 87

Disk performance ..................................................................................................................................... 89

Endpoints ..................................................................................................................................................... 89

Virtual machine management ................................................................................................................... 91

Availability set ............................................................................................................................................ 92

Service level agreement ......................................................................................................................... 93

Scalability ..................................................................................................................................................... 94

Image capture............................................................................................................................................ 97

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Chapter 4 Azure Storage ................................................................................................................................ 101

Blob storage ................................................................................................................................................... 101

Azure Files (preview) .................................................................................................................................. 102

Table storage ................................................................................................................................................. 103

Queues ............................................................................................................................................................. 104

Redundancy ................................................................................................................................................... 106

Creating and managing storage ........................................................................................................... 107

Create a storage account ................................................................................................................... 107

Create a container and add blobs .................................................................................................. 112

Create a table and add records ....................................................................................................... 116

Chapter 5 Azure Virtual Networks .............................................................................................................. 119

What is a virtual network ......................................................................................................................... 119

Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 119

Definitions ................................................................................................................................................ 120

Virtual network address spaces ................................................................................................. 120

Subnets ................................................................................................................................................ 120

DNS servers........................................................................................................................................ 121

Creating a virtual network ....................................................................................................................... 121

Quick Create ............................................................................................................................................ 122

Custom Create ........................................................................................................................................ 122

Using a network configuration file ....................................................................................................... 125

Export the network configuration file ........................................................................................... 125

Import the network configuration file .......................................................................................... 126

What ifs ..................................................................................................................................................... 127

What if you add a network? ............................................................................................................. 127

What if you remove a network? ...................................................................................................... 127

What if you change a network? ...................................................................................................... 128

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Cross-premises connection options ..................................................................................................... 129

Site-to-site connectivity ...................................................................................................................... 129

Point-to-site connectivity .................................................................................................................. 129

Comparing site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity .......................................................... 130

Private site-to-site connectivity (ExpressRoute) ........................................................................ 130

Point-to-site network ................................................................................................................................. 131

Overview of setup process ................................................................................................................. 131

Configuring point-to-site VPN ........................................................................................................ 132

Create a virtual network ............................................................................................................... 132

Deploy a virtual machine into the virtual network ............................................................ 133

Create the VPN gateway .............................................................................................................. 136

Create an authentication certificate for your virtual network ...................................... 137

Upload the self-signed root certificate .................................................................................. 140

Install the client certificate (.pfx) to authenticate the virtual network ...................... 140

Install the client VPN package ................................................................................................... 141

Connect to the virtual network through the VPN client ................................................. 141

Connect to the VM using the internal IP address .............................................................. 143

Test the VPN connection ............................................................................................................. 145

Chapter 6 Databases ........................................................................................................................................ 146

Azure SQL Database ................................................................................................................................... 146

Administration ........................................................................................................................................ 149

Firewall settings ............................................................................................................................... 149

Connect using SQL Server Management Studio ................................................................ 153

Billing.......................................................................................................................................................... 154

Business continuity ............................................................................................................................... 154

Database Copy ................................................................................................................................. 158

Import and Export .......................................................................................................................... 158

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Standard Geo-Replication ........................................................................................................... 162

Active Geo-Replication ................................................................................................................. 162

Geo-Restore ...................................................................................................................................... 165

Service Level Agreement .............................................................................................................. 167

Applications connecting to Azure SQL Database ........................................................................... 168

SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines ................................................................................................. 169

Billing.......................................................................................................................................................... 169

Virtual machine configuration ......................................................................................................... 170

Business continuity ............................................................................................................................... 170

Comparing Azure SQL Database with SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines .................... 171

Database alternatives ................................................................................................................................. 173

MySQL ........................................................................................................................................................ 173

NoSQL options ....................................................................................................................................... 175

DocumentDB .................................................................................................................................... 175

Table storage .................................................................................................................................... 175

Chapter 7 Azure Active Directory................................................................................................................ 176

Overview of Azure Active Directory ..................................................................................................... 176

What is Azure Active Directory? ...................................................................................................... 176

Active Directory editions .................................................................................................................... 177

Creating a directory .................................................................................................................................... 178

Custom domains .................................................................................................................................... 180

Delete a directory .................................................................................................................................. 186

Users and groups ......................................................................................................................................... 186

Add users .................................................................................................................................................. 187

Add groups .............................................................................................................................................. 194

Multi-Factor Authentication ............................................................................................................. 196

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication .......................................................................................... 197

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Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure administrators .................................................... 199

Application gallery ...................................................................................................................................... 201

Adding gallery applications .................................................................................................................... 201

Assigning users to applications ............................................................................................................. 204

MyApps ........................................................................................................................................................... 206

Chapter 8 Management Tools ...................................................................................................................... 208

Management tool overview .................................................................................................................... 208

Visual Studio 2013 and the Azure SDK ............................................................................................... 209

Install the Azure SDK............................................................................................................................ 210

Manage resources with Server Explorer ....................................................................................... 212

Create an Azure resource ................................................................................................................... 218

Windows PowerShell .................................................................................................................................. 219

Azure PowerShell cmdlet installation ............................................................................................ 220

Connecting to Azure ............................................................................................................................ 223

Connecting using a Microsoft account .................................................................................. 223

Connect using a management certificate ............................................................................. 224

Azure PowerShell modes .................................................................................................................... 226

Usage ................................................................................................................................................... 227

Cross-Platform Command-Line Interface .......................................................................................... 228

Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 228

Installing on Windows ................................................................................................................... 228

Installing on Linux ........................................................................................................................... 231

Connecting to Azure ............................................................................................................................ 232

Connect using a management certificate ............................................................................. 232

Connect using a work or school account .............................................................................. 233

Usage ................................................................................................................................................... 233

Chapter 9 Business Cases ................................................................................................................................ 236

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Development and test scenarios ........................................................................................................... 236

Hybrid scenarios........................................................................................................................................... 238

Network connectivity ........................................................................................................................... 238

Internet connectivity ............................................................................................................................ 239

Application and infrastructure modernization and migration .................................................. 240

Azure Mobile Services................................................................................................................................ 241

About the Authors ............................................................................................................................................. 243

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