TechNet Edge Show Episode 3

This week in the news for TechNet Edge Show Episode 3 we cover three updated tools from the folks over in the Solutions Accelerators team:

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 1
• Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2.0
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Beta

Download these tools at:

MDT 2012 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/mdt

SCM 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/scm

MAP 6.5 Beta: http://www.microsoft.com/map

Starting at [10:34] – we interview Sr. Technical Evangelist Michael Washam on the new 2.0 version of the PowerShell CMDLets for Windows Azure . More specifically, we cover:

• What has changed from Version 1.0 to Version 2.0
• The consolidation of the Access Control CMDLets and the Windows Azure Management CMDLets into a single package
• New CMDLets to do end to end creation of Windows Azure Services including Hosted Service Accounts and Storage Accounts
• Updates to the CMDLets for Monitoring including native export of Perfmon Counters
• New CMDLets that enable the end to end creation of SQL Azure Databases