On the WQL Azure Federations hands-on lab, Exercise 1: Working with Federations, Task 3 – Performing Federation Split Operations, the query used to find the starting point of the new federation member has a off-by-one error. Currently, the first federation member will be created with 4 customers and the second with 6 customers, instead of splittint equally (5 customers each). The correct code would be: SELECT CustomerId FROM #tmp WHERE Id = @count / 2 + 1

I'm currently trying to reach out to the Java Community to have them look at Windows Azure as a hosting platform for Java EE applications. I'm having a hard time, though, finding relevant samples or tutorials. I found the tutorials about deployment and about the Storage API, but how do I interact with the Diagnostics API and how do I access the RoleEnvironment class, etc...? This I would like to see as a lab in the training kit or, if this isn't possible yet, I would like to see the API to be extended with these features.

Examples on simple and advances idempotency scenarios

Integration of Sharepoint and Exchange with Azure apps (Silverlight and asp.net)