Cloudy Thoughts by SyntaxC4

Today, My team has released a new drop of the Windows Azure Training Kit, it’s available for download now!

What is the Windows Azure Training Kit?

The Windows Azure Training Kit (WATK) is one of the best ways to learn, practice or teach how to leverage Windows Azure and it’s supporting services.

Official Description

Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure.

What’s new in the Windows Azure Training Kit?

This release [August 2012] of WATK includes 41 hands-on labs and 35 presentations.

Hands-on Labs

We have pulled in some changes from our GitHub Repository and addressed a number of bug fixes for our hands-on labs for this release. Feel free to Report Issues if you run across a problem in a hands-on lab or presentation.

Presentations

This release introduces a new agenda for Windows Azure DevCamps which contains 7 new presentations:

• DevCamps Keynote
• DevCamps Websites
• DevCamps Cloud Services
• DevCamps Virtual Machines
• DevCamps Data
• DevCamps Windows 8 + Windows Azure
• DevCamps Windows Phone + Windows Azure

In addition to the new agenda, the following presentations were added to the foundation agenda:

• Security & Identity
• Building Scalable, Global and Highly Available  Web Apps
• Windows Azure SQL Database
• Windows Azure SQL Federations
• Windows Azure Reporting
• Windows Azure Data Sync

Have any feedback?

I’d love to hear any feedback that you have in regards to our training kit. Please leave a comment below.

Stay Cloudy my Friends…