No application is an island. To get the most from the software you build or buy, you need to connect it to other software. This means that effective application integration is essential for just about every organization
Whitepaper with a good overview of Azure integration services:
https://aka.ms/integrationpaper
All around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing!
On April 27, 2019, all communities will come together once again in the sixth great Global Azure Bootcamp event! Each user group will organize their own one day deep dive class on Azure the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of people get to learn about Azure and join together online under the social hashtag
Check your location at: https://global.azurebootcamp.net/locations
See you there !!!
I found this webcast is very interesting. It is short about 30’ but it gives you an idea how Azure marketplace is an important concept. It is going to be a dominant way that that people look for and find solutions around AX. Microsoft is really moving toward having ISVs get their solution to Azure market place. If you are an ISV, you can get your visibility by publishing your solution. It is an easy way that people can come in do some inquires, read some descriptions, etc to know about your solution. Check it out here:
Join Ryan Battle, principle program manager and Winston Hait, senior marketing manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX, to learn about deploying Dynamics AX on the Microsoft Azure cloud. In this webcast they will talk about why you should consider an ERP solution in the cloud, its benefits and how you can use services like Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle services (LCS) to easily develop, test, and deploy Dynamics AX in the cloud. They will also share customer examples and talk about how businesses are using Dynamics AX in the cloud today, why they made the decision to move to the cloud and the results of these deployments.
In order to connect to AX using mobile apps, one way or another you will end up create service bus on Azure. You will need the ability to access ACS Management Portal. However, if a service bus is created directly in Azure portal, ACS management portal will not be enabled. See examples below
Create the service bus should not be done via Azure portal anymore, it must done via PowerShell commands
Go to the Azure Downloads page and click the link to install the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
This will launch the Web Platform Installer. Click the Install button in the Web Platform Installer to install the cmdlets.
1> Run the command “Add-AzureAccount” and provide Live ID user name/password to connect to a default Azure subscription.
New-AzureSBNamespace -Name mynamespace -Location “Central US” -CreateACSNamespace $true -NamespaceType Messaging
Example:
New-AzureSBNamespace -name axatozMobileConnector -location ‘central us’ -createACSNamespace $true -namespacetype Messaging
Log to Azure portal and verify ACS Management Portal enabled
My favorite team Real Madrid is using Microsoft Cloud (Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, Microsoft Visual Studio, Office 365) to bring the stadium closer to 450 million fans around the globe.
Check out Customer Story at http://meme.ms/d5q16z9
Case study: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/Download.aspx?id=20523
First, you need to install Azure PowerShell
Go to the Azure Downloads page and click the link to install the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
Step 1: Get-AzureVM to find out all your VMs hosted on Azure. In my case i have one VM for AX2012 which was deployed through LCS
Make sure to copy ServiceName and Name
Step 2: How to start
Syntax: Start-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f”
Refresh Azure Portal > VM > Status , you will see eventually the status will become “Running”
Step 3: How to stop
Syntax: Stop-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” -Force
Bonus:
How to get RDP file
Syntax: Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” -LocalPath “c:\temp\AzureAX.rdp”
How to launch RDP from command line directly
Syntax: Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName –Launch
A session will pop up and prompt to connect to the VM
How to delete a virtual machine
Syntax: Remove-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” –DeleteVHD
Before you go to the Cloud , let’s learn from Guang Yang about how to manage Azure from the PowerShell command line!
There are tons of content at Convergence 2015 this year. If you could not make to Atlanta , the content is available to watch online.
I noticed that Microsoft is sending a very clear message at this convergence “Mobile first, Cloud First”. Therefore, get familiar with LCS and Azure if you don’t want to fall behind
Cloud is the future and if you are still confused about what it is, please watch this
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