We’ve been working during the last couple of months with Ryan Dunn and David Aiken on various things related to Windows Azure management API. One of them, released yesterday was the Windows Azure MMC v2 (read Ryan’s post about it) This version provides a significant amount of features compared to the first version. Ryan covered... read more
Wow, 3 months since my last post… Lots of things happened. We’ve been working with James Conard’s team from Microsoft DPE on the PDC09 keynote demos, specifically the Platform Converge demo (Doug Pourdy) and the VS2010, AppFabric, NET4, WIF demo (by Cameron Skinner, read more in his post). We also helped delivering the training kits... read more
Today was holiday in Argentina but I had to work on some pending stuff (yeah, lucky me). I didn’t want to travel to the office but I had to access a SQL Server that was hosted at Southworks LAN and we don’t have inbound ports open to connect to our workstations through RDP (port 3389).... read more
A typical scenario for an ISV that wants to create the "next application in the cloud" will be how to support identity federation with their customers (tenants). A common requirement I’ve heard is: "I want to enable single sign on and allow enterprises that have their own STS to integrate with us. For companies that... read more
Published by Matias Woloski on February 13th, 2009 7:25 am under ASP.Net, Azure, Cloud Computing, Federation, Geneva, Identity, LiveID, MVC, PDC08, WCF
Couple of weeks ago Ryan Dunn announced Azure Issue Tracker. From this post: "This sample application is a simple issue tracking service and website that pulls together a couple of the Azure services: SQL Data Services and .NET Access Control Service." I’ve been working with Ryan and other guys at DPE and Southworks to put... read more
It’s been two weeks already that we’ve got back from LA after attending PDC. Lots of things announced there. Microsoft Argentina organized the local-mini version of PDC. I will be there showing Windows Azure with Edgardo. The talk will be mainly demos (as usual and explain some concepts around Windows Azure. You can register here... read more
In the previous post I introduced a scenario where you can use .NET Services Access Control and Windows LiveID to delegate authentication and authorization. In this post we will go through the different pieces needed in the application to perform authorization checks. First thing will be configure the passive federation using Geneva on the application... read more
The last couple of months together with other people at Southworks we’ve been working with the DPE team on samples, demos, hands on labs for PDC all related to the cloud computing services Microsoft announced at PDC, the Azure Services Platform. During the week, I attended Kim Cameron‘s and Vittorio Bertocci session where they talked... read more
The work we did through the last couple of months is materialized now. James Conard and the DPE team (Nigel Watling, Ryan Dunn, Vittorio Bertocci, Drew Robbins, et al) were able to hit the road before anyone else at Microsoft by releasing the Azure Services Training Kit. I was walking through the Hands On Labs... read more
