Tutorials and How-to resources

Tutorials and resources on how to leverage your chosen technologies on Windows Azure

Scenario based tutorials

  • How to deploy a website using MongoDB on Windows Azure

    Overview This tutorial shows you how to create a PHP application using a MongoDB replica set. At the end of this tutorial you will have a basic application that reads data from the replica set and...

  • How to deploy a website using CouchDB on Windows Azure

    This tutorial shows you how to create a web site and connect it to a CouchDB replica set, all hosted within Windows Azure. To do this, you use Microsoft WebMatrix 2 to create and publish your code...

  • Solr Installer for Windows Azure

    Solr for Windows Azure is only available in a platform as a service (PaaS) configuration. When you have completed this tutorial, you will have a Solr dashboard ready to import data into your replic...

  • CouchDB Installer for Windows Azure

    The CouchDB Installer for Windows Azure is a tool that simplifies the creation, configuration, and deployment of CouchDB clusters hosted in Windows Azure virtual machines (for IaaS) or Windows Azur...

  • How to deploy Magento on Windows Azure

    Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that provides front-end functionality for managing online stores and promotions as well as back-end functionality for handling transactions and...