Register for Global Azure Bootcamp 2018–from Ahmedabad User Group

Friends, We are back with new events again. We are going to host Global Azure Bootcamp 2018.

About Global Azure Bootcamp:

If you don’t know what is Global Azure Bootcamp then it is a worldwide Event for Azure.  All around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing!

On April 21, 2018, 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 #GlobalAzure!

Ahmedabad User Group is also organizing the same. This time we want to put it on a bigger level. So there will be lots more to learn, A great opportunity to network with like-minded people. Best Part you will get a chance to meet lots of awesome speakers. It has also got lunch included!.

I am also one of the speakers and will be presenting About Azure Active Directory.

So what you are waiting for go Grab a chance to meet and learn about Azure Cloud Platform.
Here is a link from where you can register for Global Azure Bootcamp 2018.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-azure-bootcamp-2018-by-ahmedabadusergroup-tickets-40757803688


I am hoping to see you everybody there!!. Go Grab before it gets full!.

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Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 by Ahmedabad User Group, Ahmedabad–A great event

The last Sunday on 22nd April 2017, We had great event 5th Annual Global Azure Bootcamp.

What is Global Azure Bootcamp:

If you have not heard about Global Azure Boot. It is the great event for learning and understanding Microsoft Cloud Platform Azure. There were more than 250 locations in the world where this event took place. Each user group or community has organized their own one day deep dive seminars on Azure to see how it can be useful to develop great applications.

You can find more about Particular event on the following location-
https://global.azurebootcamp.net/

About Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 Organized By Ahmedabad User Group:

First of all, I would like to thank our local sponsor Aptus who provided us the Venue for organizing the event. Thank you so much!

The Day was started by Keynote presentation from Mahesh Dhola by introducing what is Global Azure Bootcamp and how any developer can get benefited from this. He explained how great azure is and what is Agenda for this event.



Then It’s my time to be on stage. I have taken session about Introduction to BOT Framework. It is the latest offering from Microsoft. I have explained all the bits of BOTS evolution and How easily we can create a great BOT in minutes. Even I have shown How we can make our BOT intelligent via adding LUIS which is a language understanding service from Microsoft.





Following is my presentation about events.

Introduction to BOT Framework- Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 from Jalpesh Vadgama

I had a great time presenting this topic and Audience was quite interested in this topic. We had some great question and answers.

 

You can find source code that particular session at https://github.com/dotnetjalps/GAB2017

After that, There was a Session from Nirav Madariya. He has taken a session about Logic Apps and Azure Functions. Here he has explained how we can easily create logic apps. Then he has explained Azure functions. He explained how we can create a server-less architecture with Azure Functions.




After that, there was a session from Kalpesh Satasiya. He has taken session about Microsoft Cognitive Services. Where he explained various services provided by Microsoft Cognitive services i.e. Vision, Language, Knowledge, Speech, and Search.




And here you can find his presentation

Microsoft cognitive services Global AzureBootCamp 2017 from Kalpesh Satasiya

After that there was a time for Lunch and we had great opportunity to have networked with each other.






We had great fun doing networking with each other. Also enjoyed lunch. Thank you, Microsoft for sponsoring it.

After that, there was a session from well known Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Prabjhot Baxi. He explained about Azure IOT suite. How we can add devices into Azure IOT hub. He also explained Azure IOT hub and stream analytics and how to store data in Azure Document DB.



Then we had a great session from Kaushal Bhavsar about Log Analytics. It is not a popular feature of Azure But after attending his session I found it is quite useful. He explained about how we can enable various kind of logs with Logs analytics. Even he showcased a demo with adding agent in Linux server and seeing what logs are there.




After that Ahmedabad User Group president Mahesh Dhola. He had taken session about Open Source Technology at Microsoft, Azure Virtual Machines. He also showed a demo how we can host elastic search on Azure Linux Virtual machine.




Overall, It was a great event and Audience was also good.




It was one of the successful events we have. Thank your all the sponsors and Audience.
If you want to be part of such event or want to be a speaker at the event please contact me or AhemdabadUserGroup twitter handle.

https://twitter.com/AhmedabadUsrGrp

We are soon going to organize the Visual Studio community launch stay tuned for the same. #GlobalAzure

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How to enable remote desktop on Azure Linux VM

In Windows Azure Linux VM there is no direct way to remote desktop Azure VM. So in this blog post, We are going to learn how we can enable the remote desktop on Azure Linux VM.  If you don’t know how to create a Linux VM then there is a ton of articles available that how you can create a Linux VM.  Following a Microsoft, Docs links for creating an Azure Linux VM.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-quick-create-portal

After creating a new Linux VM, the first thing you need to have SSH Client to connect the Azure VM. I have windows machine and Putty is one of most well known SSH client for the windows. So If you don’t have SSH Client download Putty from the following link.

http://www.putty.org/

Once you create a VM you will get any public IP like following.



So copy that public IP and then open Putty and paste the public IP like following.



Now once you are done with it click on open button. It will ask for your username/password. The key thing to remember here when you create Linux VM you have selected username and password. If you have a public key then you need to supply that key to Putty.



Once we got connected, We need to enable the gnome desktop in our Ubuntu Server first we need to get the latest update of it and for that, we need the following command.

sudo apt-get update

Once the update is done.  Now It’s time to run install ubuntu-desktop command.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

It will enable the Remote Desktop and Desktop UI to Ubuntu Server VM.

Note: Here I have created a Ubuntu server in Azure Linux VM. But you can use any flavour of  Linux available in Azure VM. There will be different command for each flavour you can find the complete list at following location- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-classic-remote-desktop

Once you run the command it will take some time for running and installing desktop for the server.



Now its time to install remote desktop in the server for that you need to run the following command.

sudo apt-get install xrdp

Once done with that try to remote login with Windows Remote Client.

Note: Sometime you  now allow the remote connection that is because with Azure VM default port is not allowed for remote desktop. So for that goto the following page and do as said to allow remote tcp ip port- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-troubleshoot-rdp-connection

And I am able to login to my Azure Linux VM.

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DocumentDB data in Visual Studio with cloud explorer

Recently, During Global Azure Boot camp presentation , One offline question was asked that how we can see and browse the data from DocumentDB. So I thought there will be lots of developers who might have the same question that where I can see data from DocumentDB in visual studio.

Yes you can see your DocumentDB data into visual studio. There is an extension called Cloud explorer from where you can browse all the services of Azure. With Visual Studio community edition its comes inbuilt But If you have not that installed then you can install via following steps.

How to install Cloud explorer in Visual Studio:

Open visual studio and go to Extensions and updates like below.

Once you click on that it open a window loading all the extensions select online and type cloud in the search box and you will able to see cloud explorer like below.



I have Cloud explorer installed in my Visual studio that’s its showing Green tick otherwise it will show download button there and you can download and install it.

You can also download manually from the following link.

For Visual Studio 2015:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/84e83a7c-9606-4f9f-83dd-0f6182f13add

For Visual Studio 2013:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d3896fc2-109b-4420-9c38-b6ab1cfa9fe5

How to use Cloud explorer to see data of DocumentDB:

One you are done with installing Cloud explorer, You can load that from View Menu-> Cloud explorer in Visual Studio. It will load like below.



Here I have already given my Azure Credentials If you have not given that it will ask for credentials and then will load this screen.

Here it will show the list of all services available for storage. To see what is there in our DocumentDB account click on DocumentDB Account.  It will show your account name lie below.



One you click on the database name it will show all the collection and record below.



One you select records(JSON documents) and right click. It asks for you to open in the editor like below.



Once you click on open editor, It will ask open that JSON document like below.



So you can see that it's very easy to browse data of DocumentDB in cloud explorer in Visual Studio itself. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!.

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Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 Ahmedabad–Awesome event recap

Yesterday, Ahmedabad User group has organized the Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 event. It was a fun to be there. The event was very well received and attended by the group of people excited about Azure cloud platform.  Thanks for hosting is Ahmedabad User Group.

Event Recap:

In the morning, Event is started around 10:00 am. Mahesh had made all attendees comfortable and given some insights about Azure platform.



After that, It was my time to present some. I have shared my knowledge about DocumentDB with my presentation about Introduction to DocumentDB.




There well lots of interest in the audience and we had lots of conversation about it. Here is the presentation link for the same.

Here was the agenda for my presentation.

• What is document databases?
• What is DocumentDB?
• Why we should use DocumentDB?
• How we can use DocumentDB?

You can also find demo code for the presentation at the following location.
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/gab16augdemo

Due to the huge interest in people, We promise them to have some advanced level sessions about DocumentDB in forthcoming months.

After that Jagdish has taken over the stage and had presented about Azure mobile services. He presented how we can leverage Azure mobile services with Windows Phone Application and some other cool insights for Azure mobiles services.



Then we had lunch and we had some great interaction and conversation about cloud technologies during lunch.



After lunch, there was post lunch session. It was time for Sanket Shah to rock the stage. He has presented about Architecting Modern solution on Azure.  He had some cool demo and audience was amazed about his demo.




After that, we had another back to back session from Kaushal Bhavsar. He had presented about how we can create a secure two factors authentications with  Azure technologies. He had some given some cool demo using Azure Active directory and Office 365 account authentication about it.




After that we had tea and It’s time for Ahmedabad User group president Mahesh Dhola to rock the stage. Instead of giving demo he chooses to use WhiteBoard and given presentation DevOps and Microsoft Azure. It was fun watching is him presenting the topic that we all love.




After the presentation, it was the time where everybody wants to get some prize. We had the lucky draw and almost everybody gets price.





And this guy was an inspiration for all us.



Then we has some photos of all the speakers. We missed Jagdish here as he needs to go home for some personal work.



Overall, It was a fun event. We had some much fun hacking and learning something new. Thank you, Microsoft and Ahmedabad user group for hosting such a nice event.

Keep rocking!.

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