Azure Helper

Functionality include managing and viewing MS Windows Azure infra elements

This is an app designed to designed to manage Microsoft Azure virtual machines from Android. A must have for infrastructure administrators how use Microsoft Azure or have a Windows Azure account.

Following features are provided in this version of this app:

1. List Cloud Services in account

2. List virtual machines (in all deployments) in each cloud service.

3. Perform following virtual machine operations:

a) View Details (Includes Role and RoleInstance details)

b) Start

c) Shutdown

d) Shutdown and deallocate (to stop billing)

e) Restart

f) View details of Virtual machines

g) Download and email RDP file for taking MSTSC (Remote desktop)

4. Create cloud service (based on Azure Geographical Location or Subscription Affinity Groups)

5. Create Windows Virtual Machine

6. View details of virtual machine

7. Display recent Azure news, so that you can stay updated with latest enhancements in Azure by Microsoft.

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud by Tech giant Microsoft, which gives users facility to manage cloud

services, virtual machines, virtual networks, cloud data center, storage and much more.

Pre-requisite of this app is a Microsoft Azure account, which is available as 1 month trial with $200

credit as evaluation.

This app is useful for people, who manage virtual machines (Infrastructure as a Service, aka, IaaS) or

developers or people managing dev environments and need to shutdown machines to save cost on the go.

This application would keep on improving with a lot of Azure functionalities. For now I have plans to

incorporate following functionalities in further versions:

* Create and delete Cloud services

* Create and delete virtual machines

* Manage Virtual networks

* Assign static IPs

* Resize etc operations on VMs

* Azure Storage explorer (blog storage management)

* Traffic manager operations

* etc

Version History:

2.0: Option provided to create virtual machines. It is first release of creating VMs and support Windows only. Subsequent releases will contain more support.

1.7: Create Cloud service based on Azure Geographical locations or Subscription's Affinity Groups. Option added to send suggestions/bugs directly to developer.

1.5: Long press cloud service to see options.

1.5: Option provided to get details about cloud service. Long press cloud service to see options.

1.4: Option provided to create cloud services based on Azure geographical locations.

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