During the last couple of years I worked quite a lot with Windows Azure. There is no other choice if you work with the Microsoft DPE team, like we do at Southworks The thing is that we usually have to deal with last minute deployments to Azure that can take more than a minute <grin>.... read more
Yesterday Nathan announced the release of the Windows Azure Accelerators for Web Roles. If you are using Windows Azure today, this can be a pain relief if you’ve got used to wait 15 minutes (or more) every time you deploy to Windows Azure (and hope nothing was wrong in the package to realize after then... read more
This is a series of posts, read the introduction to FabrikamShipping for more information about this sample application and Vittorio’s blog for latest updates. One of the first challenges we had to solve in FabrikamShipping was the provisioning/on boarding of new customers. If you look at FabrikamShipping subscription page you can see there are 3... read more
A year ago I wrote a blog post about how to use the Windows Identity Foundation with OpenID. Essentially the idea was writing an STS that can speak both protocol WS-Federation and OpenID, so your apps can keep using WIF as the claims framework, no matter what your Identity Provider is. WS-Fed == enterprise, OpenID... read more
UPDATE: After reading this post you can read about the scalability of this solution, posted based on some comments. Part of working with the Windows Azure guidance team is not only about writing but it’s also about helping customers and understanding real life problems. This help us validate and enrich the content. One of the... read more
Travis wrote an interesting blog post about mixing the new dynamic feature in C# 4 and claims. His idea was to use a User class derived from DynamicObject as a proxy to get claims. Here is some of the code he shows: var claims = new[] { new Claim("foo", "3"), new Claim("foo_bar",... read more
I’ve seen a few questions on identity federation with SharePoint before, so I thought about sharing this more broadly. I recorded a 9 minutes screencast showing the capabilities of ADFSv2 + SharePoint 2010. This is using Microsoft STS, LiveID and our own company STS allowing the following usecases: Manage access to employees that belong to... read more
