Microsoft Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud solution with much anticipated release in early 2017, it is currently in Technical Preview 2.  In this article I will highlight important aspects of Azure Stack TP2 Installation and gotchas we ran into during installation.

Provisioning and managing VMware vCenter Virtual Machines from Microsofts Azure Stack TP1 release using Cloud Assert VConnect for Azure Stack TP1.

Create and manage new Virtual Machines from Windows Azure Pack in public Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Here is a step-by-step guide to configure pricing profiles using the Metered Resource Pricing setup wizard.

Enable provisioning and management of resources in Microsoft Azure public cloud from private or hosted Windows Azure Pack

Usage and Billing Update 7 release enables key new scenarios and features such as configuring user level credits to support pre-paid plans, view usage by grouping subscriptions at the user level, support for custom formula for computing usage of metered resources, generating invoice PDF documents, and the *hot new* capability to implement custom usage collectors using C# extensions.

Does your business have Windows Azure Pack based private or hybrid Cloud deployed, but was limited by the set of Usage details captured by it for billing? Here is hot release with new feature additions to our 'Usage & Billing' solution, which enables simple C# code and Powershell script extensions to capture and inject custom Usage details into our Cloud Assert Billing pipeline, provide visibility in Windows Azure Pack Tenant Portal and leverage all the goodness of Cloud Assert Usage and Billing Solution.

While it is obvious for most of us who dealt with Azure Pack or Azure in the past, for some it may be puzzling how to give access to resources created by one user to another user. In Azure Pack and in traditional Azure the way to accomplish this is by adding someone as co-admins to the existing user subscription. This help center article in support.cloudassert.com shows where and how to accomplish it from Windows Azure Pack admin portal.