Windows Azure Friday (HD) - Channel 9

Jamie Espinosa explains how WebJobs via into Azure Web Sites.

We dive into more complex WebJobs and the WebJobs diagnostics dashboard.

Now Vittorio and Scott create a Windows WinForms application that authenticates against Azure Active Directory

 Vittorio extends our existing application to retrieve custom profile information from Windows Azure Active Directory usign the WAAD SDK.

Vittorio talks about the Windows Azure Active Directory endpoints and why they matter. We also make an interesting mistake and learn more about the system in the process!

We start by registering an application with WAAD in the Portal and authenticate against Azure Active Directory.

We create a Windows Azure Active Directory in Azure and talk about our options for populating it and synchronization.

Vittorio gives Scott a clear overview of where Windows Azure Active Directory fits into the world, what federation means, and how our application interacts with Azure.

Kevin Lam digs into the Azure Scheduler and its history and logging capabilities.

Kevin Lam expands on how the Azure Scheduler can handle even unusual scheduled jobs.

Scott talks to Mark Russinovich and asks the burning question - How does Azure heal when it's sick?

Kevin Lam explains how the Azure Scheduler works and how you can use it in your applications.

Now Mark and Scott add batch processing to their Azure Queue worker role, beginning to scale the capabilities of their system.

What if your queue has a "bad actor" that messes up processing for everyone else? Mark shows us the pitfalls of poor queue processing and how to manage queues correctly.

Mark Simms moves queue processing to the background as we start moving from a demo to a correct solution.