Steve Fox's OBA Ramblings

If Part 1 of this blog series, I created a simple Provider-hosted app to SharePoint. The “Provider” part of the SharePoint app was Windows Azure. If you’d like to read more on this, check out Part 1 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2013...

If you’ve been tracking on this blog, you’ve seen me write a few posts about SharePoint and Windows Azure. For those of you that have explored SharePoint 2013, you’ll also know that Windows Azure is natively supported with this new release. There are...

The last time I finished writing a book, I swore up and down never again—yet it appears it’s happened once again! For those of you who are beginning SharePoint 2013 developers (or are looking to refresh your knowledge around SharePoint 2013), we recently...

In one of our SharePoint and Azure workshops the other day, a couple of the students asked me how to set up one’s development environment if you’d like to start building Cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint or Office 365. Since, we had been mainly teaching...

Back in Seattle… Wow, a whirlwind week in Vegas meeting with customers, colleagues, the community and of course conference-goers. If you didn’t catch the conference, last week was the SharePoint Conference 2012 . It was a great week full of new areas...

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been just over a year since the last SPC, and as we close in on the SharePoint Conference (SPC) some interesting things are a brewing. You know that I’ve been mainly addressing this space of SharePoint and Windows Azure convergence...

One of the cool new kids on the block for Windows Azure is Media Services . Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) is currently in Beta, and as I dig in more I personally feel there’s a ton of potential here—especially when it comes to SharePoint. For those...

Overview I’ve recently been looking into the different ways in which you can integrate SharePoint Online (SPO) with Windows Azure—especially around integrating client-side code and services deployed in Azure as this tends to be a more prominent pattern...

Have been spending time here at TechEd EMEA and one of the topics I presented on this week was how you can built hybrid applications using SharePoint Online and Windows Azure. I think there’s an incredible amount of power here for building cloud apps;...

At TechEd this week, there was a lot of activity around the new Windows Azure Spring Preview. As a part of this release was the announcement of the new Virtual Machine. This is an important advancement for Microsoft and Windows Azure because it brings...

Introduction Today at TechEd, I had the opportunity to talk with a number of developers and IT Pros about some of the new ways in which you can use Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure, to build some very compelling solutions. I covered four areas...

I’m here at the TE NA keynote, the 20th anniversary of TE and a sold-out show, and am very excited to the week ahead. Opening the keynote was Satya Nadella, President of Server and Tools at Microsoft. Satya talked to ‘reinvention’ and ‘generational shifts...

My team is running a Windows Azure workshop today, and one of the questions that came up during the first session was: “what are a sampling of sessions this week that will discuss the new Spring Preview features. With that in mind, I put together a sampling...

I’ve been writing a lot about how these two technologies intersect, and if you saw Scott’s keynote yesterday you heard him talk at a very high level about some of the new features that are shipping with the Spring Preview. For those that are attending...

Wow, what a day yesterday was. If you didn’t catch it, Scott Guthrie revealed some of the new features that are coming with the Windows Azure Spring Preview. And there’s a ton. First, in case you missed it check out http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/ and...

If you’ve been following my recent blog-posts, I’ve been talking more about how to integrate SharePoint Online and Windows Azure—as a key part of the customization story for SharePoint Online. It’s good to see some other folks beginning to post on this...

  SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections in the Cloud Introduction Over the Christmas vacation, a few of us got together and started down the path of how to not only secure external data connections to SharePoint Online...

As many of you know, I’ve been playing in the SharePoint and Cloud sandbox for quite some time now. In my latest book adventure, I managed to find 3 friends to come along for the ride: Paul Stubbs, Donovan Follette and Girish Raja. The book, Professional...

Introduction You might have read an earlier post of mine where I discussed the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) functionality in SharePoint Online (SP-O) and walked through how you can leverage jQuery and JavaScript to interact with an external...

This morning I had the pleasure of opening up the SharePoint Live Virtual Conference . I had about 1,500 of my closest SharePoint friends on the line to discuss ‘the cloud,’ a topic that I’m evermore involved with. As promised, I am providing those of...

I’ve been on the road this week attending the SharePoint Conference 2011 , but Donovan Follette, Paul Stubbs and I took a detour on the way back to Seattle to join ~3,000 developers at the Silicon Valley Code Camp (10/8-9). The code camp was held at the...

What’s New at SPC 2011 I’ve been hanging out here at the SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2011 in Anaheim, CA this week, and it’s been a blast. Earlier in the week, Jeff Teper announced a key innovation for the cloud: support for Business Connectivity Services...

For those of you SharePoint enthusiasts, you know that next week’s SharePoint Conference 2011 (or SPC) is the key conference for all of you SharePoint professionals out there—from the business, to the IT Pro, to the developer. It’s where you want to be...

This is pretty cool. You can use Windows Azure to build Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS applications! Given some of the conversations around extending LOB into the cloud (e.g. across multiple devices and Office 365), this is pretty appealing and cross...

While the summer here in Seattle has been short, we managed to ship an updated version of the SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit for all of you wanting to explore how these two technologies come together. Below, you can find the updated...